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We were thrilled to host Sherry Coutu CBE – serial entrepreneur, angel investor and Co-Chair of AI in Education (AiEd Certified) – at The Perse School this week for our AI in Education networking event.
In our latest In Conversation Academy session we were joined by David Cleevely, a telecoms pioneer, deep tech investor, and one of the driving forces behind the Cambridge tech cluster, as he shares insights from his new book, Serendipity: It Doesn't Happen by Accident.
The Budget offers a golden opportunity for the UK government to reaffirm its commitment to building a world-class technology ecosystem. Successive administrations since the global financial crisis of 2008 have recognised the importance of high-growth companies in reviving the economy. The logic is sound: build an environment where startups can grow into global leaders like the fintech pioneers Monzo, Wise, and Revolut, and Britain will reap the economic benefits.
$32 million new equity injection adds to previously announced $59 million
New investors Tencent and BGF joined by all existing major shareholders
Funds will advance pipeline of novel TCR-CD3 bispecifics in cancer and autoimmune disease
Cambridge’s global reputation for science and technology isn’t just built on invention. Innovation is actively engineered and fine-tuned here in the city - and nowhere is this more evident than on the Impulse programme, the University of Cambridge’s flagship entrepreneurship initiative.
Emmi Nicholl has just been promoted to CEO at Cambridge Angels. Tony Quested posed some key questions.
Big-name companies are piling in as sponsors of the annual Business Weekly Awards to help a united Cambridge gain more traction on the global stage. Innovate Cambridge and Cambridge Innovation Capital are using the Awards to highlight their open gateway promotion to showcase light blue research to the wider world.
Law firm Birketts has advised the shareholders of Sapphire France Holdings Limited on the sale of the main business and its subsidiary companies across both the UK and France to FlexXray in Arlington, Texas – a leading provider of food safety and inspection services.
St John’s College has appointed VolkerFitzpatrick to deliver the next phase of expansion at St John’s Innovation Park in Cambridge.
Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) is pledging mega-money and mentorship to take more spin-outs out of the university and put them on the road to global success.
Anne Glover, co-founder with Cambridge's Hermann Hauser of Amadeus Capital Partners, has been formally recognised for her outstanding contributions to science, engineering, and innovation in the UK and been awarded a Damehood.
Unlock five decades of artificial-intelligence evolution insight in one conversation.
Healthcare Venture Capitalist Vishal Gulati Inducted Into The Academy Of Medical Sciences In Recognition Of His Role In Translational Medicine.
A two-day Ventures Tour featuring a range of portfolio pitch sessions hosted by some of Cambridge’s most prominent venture capital firms, venture builders, incubators, accelerators and business angels, has been introduced to the Cambridge Wide Open Week life science showcase in June.
A longstanding member of Cambridge Angels, James studied engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge before spending his career in investment banking in London & New York. Now an angel investor and non-executive director with his professional advisory days behind him, he is one of our resident experts on exits and exit planning.
Innovate Cambridge has assembled a group of world-class tech and science leaders to steer a novel innovation and growth blueprint the length and breadth of the planet.
Cambridge University is famed worldwide for the entrepreneurship of its academics and for the spin-outs from their brilliant research. There is just one problem – women are vastly underrepresented, writes Dorothy Byrne, President of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. Only four per cent of teams in Cambridge spin-outs are all female while 67 per cent are all male.
We are delighted to share that on Tuesday 4th March at the 2025 UKIE (The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment) awards, Frontier President and Founder David Braben was inducted into the UK Games Industry Hall of Fame.
Cambridge Innovation Capital has launched a new £100 million Opportunity Fund – anchored by Aviva Investors and British Patient Capital – to invest in growing DeepTech and life science companies.
In February 2023, the BVCA brought out their latest set of Series A model investment documents (‘the Model Documents”).
Early in November 2024 Cambridge Angels held one of its externally sponsored dinners; this time on GenAI: “Land Grab or Bubble”. Held at Clare Hall in Cambridge, it brought together 30 prominent academics, investors and corporate leaders active in this space.
It’s the “biggest set of reforms to the pensions market in decades”, says finance minister Rachel Reeves
Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP) is delighted to announce that Lord James O’Shaughnessy will take over from Laurel Powers-Freeling as the new Chair, starting at the beginning of next year.