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.

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