Cambridge Torchbearers
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First class delivery as Anderson stamps his class on tech innovation
Ray Anderson co-founded Bango in 1999 after realising that the convergence of the internet with the ubiquity of mobile phones could open-up huge... Read More
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Cambridge companies not scaling up to maximum potential
Business Weekly CEO Tony Quested talks to Martin Frost CBE, co-founder and former CEO of CMR Surgical in Business Weekly’s latest Cambridge... Read More
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Stan’s the man for Cambridge technology innovation
One of Cambridge’s celebrated serial entrepreneurs is Stan Boland, whose hands-on involvement in the technology cluster began when he joined Acorn... Read More
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From sheep shed to Golden Fleece as Cambridge leads UK life science surge
Life science pioneer, Sir Christopher Evans – founding father of Cambridge’s biotechnology cluster around 35 years ago – well recalls the threadbare... Read More
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Cambridge bio cluster has talent – now we need more ambition, says Chiswell
Dr David Chiswell, who recently retired as CEO of Kymab, has an enviable record in the bioscience industry having worked at Amersham, founded... Read More
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CAT founder purring over prospects for new kitten
More than a quarter of a century has passed since John McCafferty, Sir Greg Winter and David Chiswell founded Cambridge Antibody Technology whose... Read More
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CAT got the cream but it almost turned sour
The inside story of Cambridge Antibody Technology’s often turbulent journey from biotech baby to drug discovery blockbuster – as told by former CAT... Read More
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String of hits for Ives after Microsoft near-miss
Ever since he charged for tickets to a puppet show in his garage at the age of six, Steve Ives has been pulling the strings of some iconic Cambridge... Read More
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Fitzgerald breathing new life into building design
American comedy actor Steve Martin tells a joke about the benefit of standing in another man’s shoes. “Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his... Read More
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When Seattle-based Microsoft bought into ‘Sleepless in Suffolk’
The deal remains a rarity - an East of England acquisition by Microsoft. And at that, an acquisition of a software company headquartered in a town in... Read More
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New business, similar competition: It really is a small world for Richard Green
It’s ironic that Richard Green’s first venture into business involved scrapping old bangers, given that his company Ubisense is noted for helping to... Read More
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Modest Massarella content to keep his RFeye on the long-term prize
Wireless industry entrepreneur Alistair Massarella is not the type to walk the streets bawling his accomplishments through a loud hailer. He... Read More
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From farm to fame, Cambridge’s ‘cereal’ life science entrepreneur
Brought up on a farm in Yorkshire, Chris Abell has proved true to his stock by ploughing fertile territory as one of Britain’s most successful life... Read More
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ARM and the Man: Hauser’s A-list legacy stands test of time
It was founding Acorn Computers and the company’s legacy in computer engineering that earned Cambridge entrepreneur and VC Hermann Hauser a place... Read More
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Cleevely plumbs Cambridge into superstar status
Serial entrepreneur, investor and influencer David Cleevely was inspired to start his own consultancy by the Cambridge Phenomenon – now he is a... Read More
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Jackson thrives as scientist composes another thriller!
Raising Venture Capital for his first company – KuDOS Pharmaceuticals – took such a strain on eminent Cambridge scientist Professor Steve Jackson... Read More
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Net profit as Twiss scores with Panini stickers and Zeus
As a child Adam Twiss was always entrepreneurial – although he is not sure where he got this from “as I don’t see my parents being that way inclined... Read More
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Cream of life science entrepreneurs’ first venture was selling doughnuts
Andy Richards is arguably Cambridge’s most prolific currently active life science entrepreneur and his expertise is much sought after as chair of... Read More
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Lynch turns £2,000 cash into $10.2bn US sale
Chipmaker ARM launched with less than £3 million funding and today has a market cap of $25 billion. £3m! Such riches! Cambridge’s second most... Read More
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Rocket Science: the Cambridge way
Success breeds success and what we are seeing in Cambridge now is the coming of age of a regional hi-tech cluster that has become one of the best... Read More