New Mike Lynch VentureTakes Broers Building

British tech-entrepreneur Mike Lynch’s new venture ICP London (trading as Invoke) is to occupy space in the Broers Building in Cambridge after agreeing a letting from landlord Nafield Properties, the company owned by Turnstone Estates and Burall Developments.

Venture capital vehicle ICP London has signed a lease for 5,868 sq ft on the third floor of the building. ICP London has been set up by Lynch and other directors of his former business Autonomy.

The 41,825 sq ft. Broers Building sits alongside the Hauser Forum, home to IdeaSpace, Cambridge Enterprise and Cambridge Network and the location of the West Café and the Hauser Forum Seminar Centre, at the University of Cambridge’s West Cambridge Site. West Cambridge is home to much development activity at present with construction underway to provide a new University Sports Centre and the Material Science and Metallurgy building. These will be joined next year by a new facility for the Department of Chemical Engineering.

Alongside these and many other University schools, departments and institutes the four-storey Broers building offers a few remaining office suites to let to organisations involved in commercial research and development.

Currently in occupation at the Broers Building are Nokia, genetic sequencing firm Base4 Innovation, engineering parts maker Elecktron, patent attorney Avidity, software provider Andago, simulation software developer Comsol and scientific software developer Enthought.

Januarys and Bidwells acted for Turnstone Estates. Juniper advised ICP London.

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