A team of Cambridge University students in the UK won the McKinsey Innovate 2012 social enterprise competition with a solution to help small tomato farmers in Mexico improve yields.

Cambridge’s brightest student entrepreneurs are having their feet thrust to the flames in a Dragon’s Den-style pitch to international angel investors.

Cambridge education technology startup Knowledge Transmission has completed a seed investment round with various group, angel and publishing industry investors.

Angel investors, principally from Cambridge UK, are helping Norwich Research Park in its aim of creating a world-class technology cluster in its own right.

Entrepreneurs are looking to build their management teams before they seek funding from angels and VCs, a Cambridge UK initiative has discovered.

A biometrics app designed to improve patient care in the developing world, won the first Idea Transform Weekend in Cambridge UK.

Essex entrepreneurs Gavin and Suzanne Naismith have taken children’s luggage brand The Cuties and Pals to global success since being sent packing by Dragons’ Den in 2010 and are now enjoying nationwide retail success.

Cambridge company Red Gate Software has signed up as a major sponsor for its ‘weekend to change the world’ on April 20-22. The event is being run by Idea Transform, the new initiative to support entrepreneurs.

Cambridge based Bromium has won Business Weekly’s inaugural Startup of the Year award.

The importance of social media and online marketing to early stage businesses based on innovation or technology is the focus of the next StartUp Masterclass supported by the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) on March 26.

A Cambridge MBA student has created a hand-drawn ‘wake-up pill’ designed to counter boring PowerPoint presentations that send audiences to sleep.

Cambridge startup, Blendology Ltd, has developed a branded give-away gadget that allows brand managers and event organisers to engage and interact with their customers during and after events.

A new business hub for the Institute of Directors in Cambridgeshire will be provided by ideaSpace, initiating a collaboration of business experience with innovative and inspiring startups.

Cambridge inspired UK start-up SwiftKey was awarded the coveted Most Innovative App at the mobile industry’s Oscars, the Global Mobile Awards 2012.

A revolutionary way of accelerating deals between startups and investors online has been launched in Cambridge UK.

Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, confirmed at Tech Entrepreneurs Week in London  that he was relocating to the UK and said he was keen to get involved in the startup scene.