This Man Makes The World's Best Face Masks. And Right Now, They're Like Gold Dust
How the surgical mask became a symbol of modern anxiety, privilege, greed, innovation and selflessness
Bango nets almost £10m from Korean Big Data powerhouse
South Korean Big Data business NHN Corp is investing almost £10 million in Cambridge UK mobile payments technology specialist Bango to strengthen the companies’ global partnership.
Rovco grows executive team by five
New appointments and hires include chief financial, technology and scientific officer roles
Patient record software offered free to healthcare sector
Waterbeach-based PatientSource is offering an adapted version of its electronic patient record software to healthcare organisations across the globe, “completely free of charge with minimal cloud hosting costs”, to help combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Encore’s musical messages let you commission a video performance to send to loved ones
Encore, the U.K. marketplace that lets you find and book a musician or band online for your event, is launching a new online product to help musicians find an additional revenue stream during the coronavirus pandemic, and bring a little joy to all of us.
Undo aims to be a big cheese with Gouda tech solution
Cambridge and San Francisco debugging software pioneer Undo has launched a new technology solution codenamed Gouda and encouraged developers globally to carve off a slice.
AI 'can speed up drug discovery by a decade'
CEO says HealthTech firm using AI to speed up the creation of treatments for rare diseases is to move into next phase of clinical trials
Coronavirus: NHS uses tech giants to plan crisis response
Cambridge Angels' backed company Faculty is part of the effort to help predict where ventilators, hospital beds, and medical staff will be most in need
Thought Machine’s Paul Taylor: ‘Events like this will push banking into the cloud’
How coronavirus is leading to an overhaul in the very foundations of banking.
Cambridge Mask Company’s military grade masks sell out amid coronavirus pandemic
One of the few success stories to come out of the coronavirus outbreak is a small business in Cambridge that is supplying more than 70 countries with military grade face masks that can filter out the virus.
Is 5G really worth developing?
Is developing a 5G network viable in a world reeling from the effects of coronavirus?
Bango boost as online spending platforms boom
Bango has published a tremendous set of 2019 figures – and is enjoying a huge hike in growth in 2020 as people spend more time online.
Arecor extends multi-product collaboration with clinical stage biotech
Arecor Limited, the biopharmaceutical company advancing today’s therapies to enable healthier lives, announces that it has extended its multi-product collaboration with a US-based clinical stage biotechnology company.
Cambridge sees a 35% increase in VC investment in 2019 as Healx and BenevolentAI join Tech Nation’s Future Fifty 8.0 programme
Healx and BenevolentAI join Tech Nation’s Future Fifty 8.0 programme, for late-stage tech companies in the UK - Europe’s longest serving and most successful programme for late-stage tech companies, with 9 IPOs and 30 mergers and acquisitions.
The Access Platform delivers boost to universities stricken by #Coronavirus
TAPlatform platform being used by some of the world’s leading universities is being rolled out as a front line tool in the fight to maintain control of admissions amid the Coronavirus pandemic.
IQ Capital growth fund invests in first two companies
Thought Machine and Consirus are first two fast-growth tech businesses to access IQ Capital £100m growth fund.
Kalium Health secures £950k investment
Kalium Health, which aims to transform the lives of patients with kidney disease, today announces the completion of a seed investment round. The over-subscribed round was led by Cambridge Enterprise with participation from Kidney Research UK, Cambridge Angels and Martlet Capital, the investment arm of Marshall of Cambridge Group.
Redcar company signs first international commercial contract
A CLEANTECH company based in Teesside which converts unwanted plant biomass into natural platform chemicals and biofuel, has signed a partnership contract with a Pakistan-based industrial and investment conglomerate.
Nova Pangaea partners with Pakistan’s JS Group to licence biofuel technology
Teeside, UK-based Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT) has signed a partnership contract with Pakistan’s JS Group to licence NPT’s technology, which converts waste plant biomass into natural platform chemicals and biofuels.
10 promising European medtech startups to watch in 2020
As medical developments zoom ahead, it’s increasingly the startups that are leading the charge.