Miles Kirby, former managing director at Allianz-backed venture capital firm AV8, has set up DeepTech Labs as an accelerator and venture capital fund based in Cambridge, UK.
On his LinkedIn profile, Kirby said DeepTech would be focused on “building the world’s top deeptech companies utilising the unique academic and commercial capabilities offered by the Cambridge ecosystem”.
Until this summer, Kirby had run the UK side of AV8, with George Ugras, former head of IBM Ventures, as the US-based managing director of the $170m fund founded in 2018 with Germany-based insurer Allianz as the sole limited partner.
Kirby had previously been managing director for Europe at Qualcomm Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of US-listed moible chipmaker Qualcomm between 2012 and 2015 before advisory work at semiconductor producer ARM and a director role at VC firm Oxford Capital.
Photo of Miles Kirby courtesy of LinkedIn.
