London Leap

Cambridge Enterprise launched Leaps, starting with the \"London Leap.\" \n\nThe idea is simple: \ntake a few Cambridge deeptech startups and plant them right inside London with direct access to big investors,global customers and scale up talent. Just three companies make the first cohort, backed by heavyweight partners Balderton Capital, Phoenix Court and Denmark's BioInnovation Institute.\n\nThe Cambridge tech cluster is now worth around £176 billion close to a fifth of the entire UK tech economy. its built by a city of just 125,000 people. Per head,only the Bay Area produces more unicorns and the UN has ranked Cambridge the world's most intense science cluster for its size.\n\nThe track record speaks for itself. ARM, whose chip designs sit inside almost every smartphone on earth, came from here. So did Darktrace,later sold for $5.3 billion. also we can name Raspberry Pi and Abcam. Since 1995, Cambridge Enterprise spinouts have raised £4.9 billion in follow on funding and the university's alumni start more companies than any other in Europe.\n\nThis shows that the science is there,the talent is there. The one thing Cambridge can't manufacture is London's gravity: the capital,the operators,the routes to global markets.\n\nThat's the gap Leaps is built to close. Instead of asking founders to pick between the lab and the city, it makes them locals in both.