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Abcam
Biotech & Life Sciences · Cambridge, United Kingdom · Founded 1998 · IPO 2005 Unicorn
Investors
1 investor on Abcam's cap table
Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.
Abcam mafia
Startups founded by Abcam alumni
Former Abcam employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
David CleevelyUnited Kingdom
Umaima Malik AhmadUnited Kingdom
Gavin WoodUnited Kingdom
Jonathan MilnerUnited Kingdom
Tony KouzaridesUnited Kingdom
Catherine EltonUnited Kingdom
Michael WeinerUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Abcam has talent and traffic
(13 of 1,885 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$49M patent portfolio · 31 active families
Where Abcam concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Abcam and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Abcam's 8 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Abcam appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2011–2021. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
8 deals across Abcam's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Abcam deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Abcam's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Abcam
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Abcam on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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