Ian Lane

Partner at Cambridge Innovation Capital

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Jan 2026
BeyondMath is the pioneer of Generative Physics, developing the worlds first foundational AI model trained on the fundamental laws of physics. By delivering a 1,000x acceleration in simulation speed, the platform overcomes the inherent limits of traditional solvers to reveal the physical breakthroughs of tomorrow. This compresses design cycles from months to minutes, redefining what is possible across industries like aerospace, automotive, and energy.
Board Observer
Jun 2025
We make every software product secure and compliant by design — delivering invisible, automatic security for the AI age, empowering teams to innovate freely.
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Jul 2022
Unlikely AI is a deep tech startup working to create a world where highly intelligent automated systems enable humanity to flourish and benefit us all. We are pioneering transformative technology aimed at making Artificial Intelligence more accurate, trustworthy and safe. We are combining the fantastic opportunities created using LLMs with the trust, accuracy and explainability of symbolic/algorithmic methods, which together we call our neurosymbolic platform. Based in London, we were founded by William Tunstall-Pedoe, best known for his role in creating Alexa after Amazon acquired his first startup.
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Dec 2020
Mirakl is the global leader in platform business innovation. Mirakls suite of solutions provides enterprises with a transformative way to drive significant growth and efficiency in their online business. Since 2012, Mirakl has been pioneering the platform economy, empowering retail and b2b enterprises with the most advanced, secure and scalable technology to digitize and expand product assortment through marketplace and dropship, improve efficiency in supplier catalog management and payments, personalize shopping experiences, and boost profits through retail media. Mirakl is trusted by 450+ industry-leading businesses worldwide including Macy’s, Decathlon, Kroger, Airbus, Toyota Material Handling and Sonepar.
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Jun 2019
Aera Technology is the Decision Intelligence company that transforms how enterprises make and execute decisions. Our innovative platform, Aera Decision Cloud™, integrates with existing systems and data sources to enable business decision making in real time, at scale. Trusted by many of the world’s best-known companies and brands, Aera is helping enterprises operate sustainably, intelligently, and efficiently.
Board Observer
Jun 2019
Skupos is the leader in driving business outcomes in the convenience retail industry. Our platform connects CPG brands and stores so that they can better serve their customers, make smarter decisions, and grow revenue. Skupos was named a best place to work by both Forbes & Glassdoor. To learn more, please visit www.skupos.com
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May 2019
Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail capable of sending and accepting digital value at scale. With Runa, companies can pay the people they serve in any form of digital value, anywhere, instantly. Legacy payment mechanisms struggle to adapt to low-volume, high-velocity transactions both locally and globally, such as sending payouts to gig workers, creators, or sending rewards to customers or employees wherever they are. Runa’s infrastructure and network facilitates payouts to these recipients, helping businesses expand their reach, retain their users while modernizing the way in which they manage and transfer money: instantly, internationally, and free of charge for the senders and the recipient. Operating in more than 30 countries and 18 currencies, hundreds of leading companies rely on Runa to power instant, flexible global payouts including Sodexo, TopCashback, Perkbox, Vodafone, Coinbase and Globetopper. We are committed to providing a hiring and working experience in which all people feel they are equally respected and valued regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Mar 2019
CreatorIQ is the operating system for creator-led growth. Trusted by more than 1,300 global brands and agencies—including Burson, Delta Air Lines, Google, LVMH, Nestlé, and Sephora—CreatorIQ unifies creator marketing across paid, owned, earned, commerce, and community into one seamless, enterprise-grade ecosystem. Powered by the Creator Graph™, CreatorIQ’s industry-leading intelligence infrastructure, along with rigorous compliance and security standards, and integrations with Meta, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, and more, CreatorIQ empowers brands and agencies to harness the creator economy as a strategic growth engine.
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Oct 2018
CogX Festival’s mission is to radically improve the understanding of and access to skills and knowledge, accelerate adoption of transformational technologies, help ensure responsible deployment and that the benefits flow through to everyone. CogX is an award-winning Festival with its roots in Artificial Intelligence. The fourth edition June 8th to 10th 2020 adds a Virtual first experience and our Global Leadership Summit. Our 2019 event brought together 20,000 visitors to hear from 687 incredible speakers across 12 stage and 37 side events. We expect 2020 to be over 30,000 participants. CogX Festival aims to radically improve access to expert knowledge inside and outside an organisation.
Board Observer
Feb 2018
Percolate is now part of the Seismic Enablement Cloud. Seismic acquired Percolate in 2019. Give them a follow at @Seismic for the latest and greatest on content management and more!
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Jan 2016
Mirriad is the leader in virtual product placement and in-content advertising. Mirriad’s award-winning solution unleashes new revenue for content producers and distributors by creating new advertising inventory in-content. Our patented, AI and computer vision technology dynamically inserts products and innovative signage formats after content is produced. Mirriad’s market-first solution seamlessly integrates with existing subscription and advertising models, and dramatically improves the viewer experience by limiting commercial interruptions. Our vision is become a key source of revenue for the most progressive content producers and distributors worldwide, with a solution that unites superior viewing experiences and outstanding advertising impact. As the world’s largest content owners, producers and advertisers are faced with unprecedented pressure on their business models, Mirriad’s mission is to provide the most advanced advertising solution to the content industry that is easy to integrate, deploy and the new ad format can be used alone or combined with other media and is aligned with existing media trading.
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2026
Investor
Jan 2026
BeyondMath is the pioneer of Generative Physics, developing the worlds first foundational AI model trained on the fundamental laws of physics. By delivering a 1,000x acceleration in simulation speed, the platform overcomes the inherent limits of traditional solvers to reveal the physical breakthroughs of tomorrow. This compresses design cycles from months to minutes, redefining what is possible across industries like aerospace, automotive, and energy.
2025
Board Observer
Jun 2025
We make every software product secure and compliant by design — delivering invisible, automatic security for the AI age, empowering teams to innovate freely.
2022
Investor
Jul 2022
Unlikely AI is a deep tech startup working to create a world where highly intelligent automated systems enable humanity to flourish and benefit us all. We are pioneering transformative technology aimed at making Artificial Intelligence more accurate, trustworthy and safe. We are combining the fantastic opportunities created using LLMs with the trust, accuracy and explainability of symbolic/algorithmic methods, which together we call our neurosymbolic platform. Based in London, we were founded by William Tunstall-Pedoe, best known for his role in creating Alexa after Amazon acquired his first startup.
2021
Partner
Jun 2021
Cambridge Innovation Capital backs world-leading life sciences and technology companies with an affiliation to Cambridge, Europe’s leading capital for innovation. As a preferred investor for the University of Cambridge, we have unparalleled access to investment opportunities in the ecosystem. CIC currently manages over £500 million and has invested in 30+ companies. We invest in disruptive, deep-tech businesses in sectors including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, internet of things, quantum technologies, autonomous systems, therapeutics, medtech/diagnostics, digital health and genomics/proteomics.
2020
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Dec 2020
Mirakl is the global leader in platform business innovation. Mirakls suite of solutions provides enterprises with a transformative way to drive significant growth and efficiency in their online business. Since 2012, Mirakl has been pioneering the platform economy, empowering retail and b2b enterprises with the most advanced, secure and scalable technology to digitize and expand product assortment through marketplace and dropship, improve efficiency in supplier catalog management and payments, personalize shopping experiences, and boost profits through retail media. Mirakl is trusted by 450+ industry-leading businesses worldwide including Macy’s, Decathlon, Kroger, Airbus, Toyota Material Handling and Sonepar.
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