About Andrew

Dr. Andrew Muir is a Director of Future Planet Capital Ventures, an FCA-authorised fund management company, and is the fund principal for the £102M UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund. He also co-manages the Future Planet Capital Blue Ocean investment vehicle backed by the government of Monaco. 

After an initial scientific career at Zeneca Andrew went on to roles in research and business development at the medical device company Biocompatibles and was then Vice President of Technology for a US start-up in disinfection of medical equipment.

He started his career in venture at NESTA (the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts). Andrew has previously advised the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Edinburgh on their entrepreneurship support programmes and has held a number of portfolio company director. He has a degree and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Oxford.