Startups
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Cambridge accelerator woos ambitious startups
Startups with ideas to make a positive impact on people, planet or place are invited to join Allia’s next cohort for the Serious Impact Accelerator... Read More
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Pitchfest back at the double to boost region’s startups
St John’s Innovation Centre in Cambridge has announced the return of Pitchfest – a highly-focused training and investor showcase designed to help... Read More
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Startup numbers down by a fifth
The number of new businesses started in the UK has fallen by almost a fifth in the last five years. East of England startups fell by 10,276 – 19.3... Read More
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Vascular disease startup launches in Cambridge
Cambridge Enterprise has exclusively licensed intellectual property relating to the use of PARP inhibitor drugs for treating vascular disease to... Read More
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Wearables startups invited to Cambridge Venture Creation Weekend
Cambridge Judge Business School’s Entrepreneurship Centre is inviting aspiring and early stage entrepreneurs to test their venture ideas, build a... Read More
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LA influential as former Disney animator inspires new wave of startups
As a former Disney animation developer in Los Angeles, John Williams knows the difference between a Mickey Mouse outfit and a Road Runner in terms of... Read More
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15 startups in Pitchfest showdown in Cambridge
Genomics, medical devices, cutting edge technology and a range of innovative products will be on display when 15 startups go head-to-head in a ... Read More
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RFID technology business wins £720k funding
PervasID, a spin-out from the University of Cambridge Engineering Department, has secured £720k investment to progress its RFID reader technology... Read More
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Cambridge on the map as Google scouts tech startups
Innovative Cambridge startups with potential to scale globally are being targeted by US technology giant Google as part of a UK initiative this... Read More
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Deloitte invests £2.5m in startups launchpad
Business advisory firm Deloitte has invested £2.5million to launch Propel by Deloitte (Propel), a cloud-based service that aims to help ambitious... Read More
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Medical technology right on CUE
Novel medical technology scooped the £7.5k Best Life Science Business prize at the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs grand finale. NG-Safe is... Read More
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DevicePilot raises £600k angel cash for IoT scale-up
DevicePilot, whose technology is tipped to accelerate progress in unleashing the full power of IoT, has raised over £600k from an impressive list of... Read More
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Cambridge technology from varsity to the veldt
From varsity to the veldt, a range of life science, high technology, CleanTech and social enterprise ventures are being hatched by young Cambridge... Read More
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Business schools want more VC cash for UK scale-up drive
Cambridge Judge Business School and Oxford’s Saïd Business School have collaborated on a landmark study steered by Barclays to help more UK... Read More
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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