Tech Trail
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Cambridge wins £1m new biomed funding
The University of Cambridge and four companies in the UK and Europe’s leading BioMedTech cluster have shared more than £1 million in the first... Read More
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Transport business expands with Barclays’ help
Barclays has supported Bretts Storage and Bretts Transport Limited with banking facilities to enable the Cambridgeshire company to consolidate its... Read More
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Wellcome Trust revamps key research fund
Academic groups, technology companies and not-for-profit organisations in Cambridge UK have the chance of applying for new funding in a revised... Read More
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Imperial pumps £17m into Cell Medica
Imperial Innovations, the technology transfer and investment specialist with a base in Cambridge UK, has invested in a £17 million funding round in... Read More
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Lab21 raises £5m growth funding
Clydesdale Bank has provided a new £5 million package for Lab21, the Cambridge UK-based global specialist in personalised medicine and clinical... Read More
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VCs face crisis of trust
UK entrepreneurs deeply mistrust Venture Capitalists, it emerged in a report launched in Cambridge last night. The damning survey was unveiled by... Read More
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Enval shares £7.2m angel windfall
Cambridge University spin-out Enval, has won a share of a £7.2m windfall via the Angel CoFund for UK-basedSMEs. It is one of the first five... Read More
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Eye disease cash for TAP Biosystems
TAP Biosystems, which supplies cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, has received further funding from the UK’s... Read More
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F1 boss backs health portal’s £1m Series A
Technology VC and motor sport entrepreneur Gerard Lopez has become a major new backer of Cambridge Healthcare Ltd and its health information portal,... Read More
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£2m US funding for Intelligent Fingerprinting
Intelligent Fingerprinting Ltd in Norwich has raised £2 million funding from a consortium of private US-based investors. The funding will allow the... Read More
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Ubisense on course to be Cambridge’s next £1bn company
It’s 10 years since Ubisense spun out of Cambridge University’s Computer Laboratory – such fertile territory for technology greats. The rich... Read More
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Cambridge Consultants the kings of spin-outs
Cambridge Consultants arguably founded the Cambridge technology cluster in 1960 when Tim Eiloart, while studying at Trinity College, amassed £400 to... Read More
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Angels close in on 11 new investments
A fresh surge of investments is about to be unveiled by Martlet, the Cambridge angel investment group founded nine months ago by UK industrial giant... Read More
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China overtakes UK for VC funding
China surpassed the UK to become the second-largest recipient of venture capital equity financing in 2011. According to Dow Jones VentureSource,... Read More
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An App a day to keep the doctor away!
A young Cambridge company is set to fire another telling shot in the healthcare revolution that is gathering force in the UK. Cambridge Healthcare... Read More
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Norwich Research Park launches angel initiative
An intelligent prescription support system, a smart device that ensures valuable samples for clinical trials arrive in peak condition, a drug... Read More
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Screens at Work uses £200k loan to pay off VC
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... Read More
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Cambridge entrepreneurs scoop £10k prize
Business partners Stefan Weniger and John Sweeney have been named as the first entrepreneurs to receive funding from Anglia Ruskin University’s... Read More
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New £40m solar VCT launched
East of England renewable energy companies – particularly solar plays – have been handed the chance to tilt at a new £40 million Venture Capital... Read More
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Companies cash in on free mentoring
Eighty companies in the East of England have raised a total of £10m with help from the Free ‘Understanding Finance for Business’ (UF4B) programme,... Read More