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GeoSpock announces additional $5.4 million in strategic investment

GeoSpock has announced $5.4m in additional funding to accelerate the development and adoption of the fastest, most scalable database on the market. This strategic investment round brings the total GeoSpock has raised to date to over $32 million.

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Playing video games helps stroke recovery

A genius game controller helping stroke patients get back hand and arm movement by playing on the computer is set to start tests in a stroke unit.

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Graphene Hall effect sensors are ready for high-radiation applications

Paragraf has demonstrated the capability of its graphene Hall Effect sensors to resist high levels of radiation. The discovery, based on testing from the NPL, proves that ‘unpackaged’ Hall Effect sensors can be employed in high-radiation environments such as space. The project was funded by Innovate UK.

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Cambridge Network companies win 'Business Weekly' awards

Nearly every winning company named in this year's prestigious Business Weekly Awards programme is a member of Cambridge Network, while Dr Hermann Hauser, one of Cambridge Network's Founder Directors, has won the Cambridge Enterprise Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Frontier Developments named Business of the Year

Frontier Developments, Cambridge’s world-leading video games developer is today unveiled as Business of the Year in the toughest competition in 30 years of the Business Weekly Awards.

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Paymentology & Thought Machine to develop model digital banking platform

UK-based payment processor Paymentology has teamed up with digital banking platform Thought Machine in a bid to bring rapid integration solutions to established and challenger banks. The companies stated that the partnership would deliver a direct payment processing integration into Thought Machine’s Vault and develop a future banking module that removes the need for middleware.

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Royal Academy awards celebrate engineering pioneers

The awards also honour the contributions made by engineers nearer the start of their careers, and this year’s Sir George Macfarlane Medal – a trophy established to celebrate just that – went to Sorin Popa, CEO of Pathfinder Medical, for the development of a novel device that allows haemodialysis and even arterial bypasses to be performed without invasive surgery.

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PhoreMost signs AI-based pharma drug discovery agreement

PhoreMost, the Cambridge biopharma company dedicated to drugging ‘undruggable’ disease targets, and XtalPi Inc., a leading algorithm-driven artificial intelligence (AI)-based pharmaceutical technology company, have entered into a drug discovery collaboration agreement. Financial details are not disclosed.

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NHSx unveils first winners of £50m AI in Health and Care Award

Among the companies earmarked for funding are Kheiron Medical Technologies, which has developed an algorithm to analyse breast cancer scans, Ibex Medical Analytics, the developer of an AI system to review prostate scans, and Xim Limited, which has built software that uses smartphone cameras to monitor vital signs.

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Featurespace makes FinTech hall of fame

Featurespace, the Cambridge UK-based provider of fraud-busting technology, has been named by CB Insights in its third annual Fintech 250 – an A-list of emerging private companies working on groundbreaking financial technology.


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