Tech Trail
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Z Factor raises £7m to bring lung treatment to clinic
Z Factor, a Cambridge University spin-out, has raised £7 million to discover new drugs to fight liver and lung disease caused by a major gene defect... Read More
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Redux raises $5 million Series B funding
Redux, a world-leading provider of high-fidelity haptics and surface audio technology, has raised $5 million Series B funding. The round was led... Read More
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Cambridge investments help drive Touchstone growth
Touchstone Innovations has leveraged the progress of its Golden Triangle investment portfolio to turn a first-half loss of £5.9 million in 2016 to a... Read More
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Repositive closes £2.5m Series A fundraising
Repositive, a Cambridge company that boasts it has created the world’s largest portal for accessing human genomic research data, has closed a Series... Read More
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Aviva cash takes Owlstone haul to $23.5m
Disease breathalyser inventor Owlstone Medical has received unspecified but significant investment from Aviva Ventures, the venture capital arm of... Read More
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Tech investors back new funding round for Speechmatics
Cambridge speech technology company Speechmatics has received an undisclosed level of investment from multiple backers to accelerate the commercial... Read More
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British Robotics Seed Fund launched
A seed fund has been launched to boost UK robotics startups. The Fund aims to deliver returns to Investors by making targeted investments in... Read More
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Disley injects extra £150k into Cambodia social enterprise project
Cambridge medical technology entrepreneur Dr Darrin Disley has added to a remarkable track record of backing social enterprise globally by donating... Read More
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Eye opener as Exonate raises £1.5 million from angels
An Australian venture fund is among the investors in a near-£1.5 million angel round for Cambridge and Nottingham-based biotech startup Exonate.... Read More
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Phico Therapeutics raises £3.5 million
Phico Therapeutics in Cambridge has raised more than £3.5 million from new and existing investors to support the development of a ground-breaking new... Read More
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Cambridge pioneer flexes its muscle across global markets
It takes special technology to wow a US audience accustomed to being consistently assailed by ‘the next big thing.’ Cambridge company FlexEnable... Read More
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Simprints to launch mobile biometrics in Nepal
Cambridge startup Simprints is part of the ‘Internet-of-People’, one of the emerging high value technology sectors identified in Charles... Read More
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Cambridge Graphene Centre catalysing a UK value-chain
The growing importance of the Cambridge Graphene Centre in catalysing the development of a value chain for this unique material has been highlighted... Read More
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Pitchbook places Cambridge Enterprise on top of the world
Cambridge Enterprise, the university’s commercialisation arm, is global number one for money returned on investments by leading venture firms,... Read More
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DefiniGEN raises $2.29m follow-on funding
Cambridge UK stem cell pioneer DefiniGEN has raised £1.5 million ($2.29m) in follow-on funding. The round was led by Cambridge Enterprise,... Read More
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Making the urban small cell happen
The long-awaited rollout of urban small cells is finally starting to happen. But the deployment challenges mean that a flexible approach to backhaul... Read More
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Transatlantic play raises $21m Series C funding
A California-Cambridge IoT play that promises to revolutionise internet connectivity has raised $21 million in an initial Series C funding.... Read More
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ROADMap Systems clinches $1.7m Series A investment
Cambridge University spin-out ROADMap, which is pioneering wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology, has secured $1.7 million investment from... Read More
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Turning disruption into production
Disruptive technology does not just emerge overnight; it has usually been in incubation for many years previously, although often in a different... Read More
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Woodford wades into $45m funding for Cambridge cancer pioneer
Woodford Patient Capital Trust is backing a Cambridge UK startup pioneering liquid biopsies to improve cancer treatment and outcomes. Globally... Read More