Mike Smeed

Managing Director, InMotion Ventures CVC

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2023
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UNCAGED Innovations is a biomaterials company combining the power of nature and technology to reimagine leather. The quality and performance of traditional leather come from the protein structure of collagen. UNCAGED leverages structural proteins from grains to replace animal collagen, enabling us to create a fiber that looks, feels, and performs like leather.
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UNCAGED Innovations is a biomaterials company combining the power of nature and technology to reimagine leather. The quality and performance of traditional leather come from the protein structure of collagen. UNCAGED leverages structural proteins from grains to replace animal collagen, enabling us to create a fiber that looks, feels, and performs like leather.
2022
Managing Director, InMotion CVC
Oct 2022
InMotion Ventures is the investment arm of JLR. Since 2016 we’ve been one of Europe’s most active corporate investors. Not content with standing still, our thesis and operating model have changed over time, adjusted to ensure we deliver on the promises we make to the exceptional companies we back. Today, we invest globally in climate, industrial and enterprise technologies at the application, infrastructure and deep tech levels. We give founders the greatest chance of success through a unique combination of up to £2M in patient capital, domain expertise, operational experience, strategic resources, and partnership opportunities with one of the world’s leading OEMs.