Intelligent Fingerprinting Ltd in Norwich has raised £2 million funding from a consortium of private US-based investors.

It’s 10 years since Ubisense spun out of Cambridge University’s Computer Laboratory – such fertile territory for technology greats.

Cambridge Consultants arguably founded the Cambridge technology cluster in 1960 when Tim Eiloart, while studying at Trinity College, amassed £400 to start an enterprise to “put the brains of Cambridge University at the disposal of the problems of British industry.”

A young Cambridge company is set to fire another telling shot in the healthcare revolution that is gathering force in the UK.

An intelligent prescription support system, a smart device that ensures valuable samples for clinical trials arrive in peak condition, a drug detection device that uniquely links the specimen to the person, and a method of providing scientific evidence for a new generation of medicines were all presented to angel investors at an event designed to show the technologies and business opportunities emerging from Norwich Research Park.

Screens at Work Limited  has secured a £200,000 loan from the Regional Growth Loan Scheme, managed by Finance East and financed by the East of England Development Agency.

Business partners Stefan Weniger and John Sweeney have been named as the first entrepreneurs to receive funding from Anglia Ruskin University’s Enterprise Fellowship Scheme.

Eighty companies in the East of England have raised a total of £10m with help from the Free ‘Understanding Finance for Business’ (UF4B) programme, but time is running out for others to benefit.

A global roll-out of cutting-edge Cambridge technology that fights respiratory illness has been triggered by PneumaCare’s £2m funding round.

Cambridge UK medical materials company Camstent has reportedly raised £350k from business angels in Cambridge, London and Yorkshire.

The RealVNC story is one of international success. The original developer of VNC remote access technology was recognised for its continued contribution to Innovation and International Trade when it received two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise – the only double winner this year.

Owlstone Nanotech was born to be a transatlantic business. With the original concept devised on the back of a beermat, it always looked a heady brew.

Two local entrepreneurs behind Peterborough’s ground-breaking social network, Plugin2Peterborough, plan to roll-out their innovation across the UK having secured the backing of two angel investors with the help of a free business support programme.

Cambridge App developer, MagicSolver is on the path to rapid growth, thanks in part to the input of an independent coach via the Coaching for High Growth programme.

Lumora Ltd, the Cambridge based molecular diagnostics company, has secured £1.5 million from the completion of the company’s latest funding round, led by Catapult Venture Managers Ltd.

Private shareholdings have reached a post-financial crisis high of £237bn following the most sustained period of net buying since the research began over five years ago, and as investors regain appetite for risk.