Tech companies keeping options open as they face new world of trade
The event, co-sponsored by accountancy practice S&W and law firm Mills & Reeve, is being held at the latter’s Botanic House HQ in Hills Road, Cambridge from 6pm to 8.30pm on Wednesday May 21.
Business Weekly has invited executives of its Killer50 technology cohort to send representatives and other guests will include financiers, professional services and property advisers as well as celebrated technology entrepreneurs.
While the event is an informal catchup within the tech sector, we have introduced a helpful trade element to proceedings. Michal Waszkiewicz of Intralink will briefly outline how tech companies can find new markets in APAC territories - plus India following a new link set up last week.
With finance and new markets on the agenda of tech companies amid Donald Trump’s trade tariff turmoil our desire is to open up a whole new world of trade to interested parties. But the main thrust of the get-together is to chat informally with like-minded operators within the Cambridge Cluster.
The trailblazer event - for our Killer50 life science stars - was an overwhelming success. Again sponsored by S&W and Mills & Reeve, C-level execs were joined by key players in the sector to chat through issues of concern and to share worries and successes stories. Graham Barker, who heads up the MedTech and Life Science effort at Intralink, explained how the organisation could open up new business opportunities in APAC territories for our companies.
Fresh research into Business Weekly’s Killer50 Technology companies shows that awareness is strong among them for the need to keep an open mind on lucrative trade routes and where they establish operational bases. Almost half – 24 to be precise – have a US operation – only just ahead of the 21 that have bases in APAC territories.
Killer50 Technology companies with US, APAC and European (in addition to UK) operations: 1Spatial ; Arm; AVEVA (Schneider Electric); Bango; Cambridge Mechatronics Ltd; Domino;Featurespace; IQGeo; Johnson Matthey; Luminance; Marshall; Quantinuum; Trustonic; Xaar.
Killer50 Technology companies with US and APAC operations: 1Spatial; Arm; AVEVA (Schneider Electric); Bango; Cambridge Consultants; Cambridge Mechatronics ; Darktrace; Domino; Featurespace; IQGeo; Johnson Matthey; Luminance; Marshall ADG; Porotech; Quantinuum; Thermoteknix Systems; Trustonic; Xaar.
Killer50 Technology companies with US operations: 1Spatial; Arm; AVEVA (Schneider Electric); Bango; Cambridge Consultantts; Cambridge Mechatronics; Darktrace; Domino; Featurespace; Gearset; IQGeo; Johnson Matthey; Luminance; Marshall; Nu Quantum; Nyobolt; Paragraf; Porotech; Quantinuum; Riverlane; Speechmatics; Thermoteknix Systems; Trustonic; Xaar.
Killer50 Technology companies with APAC operations: 1Spatial; Arm; AVEVA (Schneider Electric); Bango; Cambridge Consultants; Cambridge GaN Devices; Cambridge Mechatronics; Darktrace; Domino; Featurespace; IQGeo; Johnson Matthey; Luminance; Marshall; Porotech; Quantinuum; Secondment; Thermoteknix Systems; Trustonic; VividQ; Xaar.
Killer50 Technology companies with European operations (in addition to UK): 1Spatial; Arm; AVEVA (Schneider Electric); Bango; Cambridge Mechatronics; Domino; Featurespace; Forefront RF; IQGeo; Johnson Matthey; Luminance; Marshall; Nyobolt; Quantinuum; Redgate; Trustonic; Xaar.
It is also noteworthy that 22 of our cohort aged 10 years or younger have collectively raised $1.275 billion in that time, demonstrating the pulling power of the Cluster’s startups, stayers and growers. In alphabetical order these are: Cambridge GaN Devices - $60.5m; Echion Technologies - $69.53m (£52.1m); FlexEnable - $17m; Flusso - $5.7m; Focal Point Positioning - $44.58m (£33.4m); Forefront RF - $32.3m (£24.2m); Gearset - $55m; Intellegens - $2.1m (£1.6m); IQGeo - $7m (£5.3m); Luminance - $138.2m; Monumo - $15m (£11.3m); Nu Quantum - $15m (£11.3m); Nyobolt - $113.6m; Paragraf - $85.7m; Porotech - $26.1m; Quantinuum – $325m; Riverlane - $120.7m; Secondmind - $76.2m; VividQ - $30.96m (£23.2m); VyperCore - $4.54m (€4m); Xampla - $25.4m.