Startups
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Ex-Techstars MD joins AI startup
Cambridge investor and entrepreneur Jon Bradford has agreed to help an artificial intelligence startup in the UK raise funds and scale globally.... Read More
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Enterprise blooms in the shadow of the killing fields
Hope is the new harvest envisioned by Cambridge entrepreneurs sowing the seeds of enterprise in a Cambodia still bearing the scars of the killing... Read More
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Barclays Eagle Labs soar from Cambridge across UK
A successful three-month pilot in Cambridge has prompted Barclays to open more innovation hubs for pioneering businesses in bank branches around the... Read More
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Back to the future for language teaching business
A Cambridge, UK startup is leveraging memory techniques inspired by Medieval monks to teach languages to an international client base. ... Read More
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US investors back £2.5m Intelligent Fingerprinting round
Intelligent Fingerprinting, a Cambridge UK business developing what is felt to be the world’s first portable fingerprint-based drug screening device... Read More
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Forbes honours Cambridge entrepreneurs
Thrusting young entrepreneurs from the Cambridge UK science & technology cluster have been named in the Forbes 30Under30 rankings for Europe.... Read More
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Hopper holds tech investment masterclass
Andy Hopper, head of Cambridge University’s Computer Laboratory and a successful ‘dontrepreneur’, is holding a masterclass for finance chiefs on how... Read More
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British scale-ups demand centre stage
UK startups are demanding a bigger share of the business limelight and greater exposure would not only speed their global scale-up but also boost the... Read More
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Startup wins £250k for Bangladesh maternity project
Cambridge startup SimPrints has been awarded £250,000 after winning a highly competitive grant from the UK Department for International Development (... Read More
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Cambridge robot car creator smashes Kickstarter funding target
Cannybots, a Cambridge startup that has created an educational robot car, has smashed its funding target on Kickstarter after just one day. It has... Read More
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Cambridge Network expanding its School for Scale-Ups
Cambridge has done brilliantly at scaling up businesses and has gained a reputation for a disproportionate level of success, writes Claire Ruskin,... Read More
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Disley fans flames of entrepreneurial inspiration
As sponsor of Business Weekly’s Cambridge Torchbearers initiative, Horizon Discovery CEO Darrin Disley is determined to fan the flames of... Read More
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Boost for Peterborough startups
Allia has been unveiled as the new operator of the Future Business Centre Peterborough at the Abax Stadium. The centre will encourage... Read More
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Ellexus founder inspires Croatia women entrepreneurs initiative
Dr Rosemary Francis, founder of growing software company Ellexus, recently delivered the keynote address at an event promoting women entrepreneurship... Read More
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Wireless summit reflects power of startups
Cambridge Wireless is putting together a dedicated startup zone at this year’s Future of Wireless International Conference to recognise the growing... Read More
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DNAdigest spin-out raises £300k for genomics platform
Social venture Repositive Ltd – a spin-out from Cambridge-based charity DNAdigest – has raised £300k seed funding to launch a novel genomic data... Read More
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Cambridge startup acquired by Johnson Matthey company
ilumink, a Cambridge University spin-out that commercialises technology for brand authentication and anti-counterfeiting, has been acquired by... Read More
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OpenJamJar lift-off from Cambridge social venture weekend
One of the first social ventures to get a big boost from Social Venture Weekend at Cambridge Judge Business School is a firm called OpenJamJar that... Read More
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Cambridge crowdfunder hits £1m a month milestone
SyndicateRoom, the innovative crowdfunding platform created in Cambridge UK, has reached the £15 million raised barrier in just 15 months – a... Read More
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Cambridge software to manage vast genomics data
IdeaSpace companies in Cambridge are pushing back the frontiers of future technology plays. Fonleap is developing software to improve the... Read More