FocalPoint’s new CEO and CXO supercorrelate path to success
Scott Pomerantz says it was a straightforward decision for to accept the offer to become the new chief executive officer of Cambridge-founded FocalPoint Positioning.
Featurespace adds AML expert to US team
Featurespace, the leading provider of Enterprise Crime Prevention software, has added Todd Raque as its leading anti-money laundering (AML) and financial crimes expert in the Americas.
Arecor granted key Canadian patent for proprietary technology enabling highly concentrated biotherapeutics
Arecor Therapeutics plc (AIM: AREC), the biopharmaceutical group advancing today’s therapies to enable healthier lives, continues to build a strong patent portfolio protecting its proprietary Arestat™ technology.
UK tech firm targets £320 billion global insect pest challenge
Spotta Smart Pest Systems is helping the global agricultural sector improve productivity and profitability through remote monitoring technology reducing insect crop damage costs to farmers by 50%.
8power wins share of £2.8M for cutting-edge water sector innovation
8power, as part of a coalition of partners led by Severn Trent Water, has won £2.8 million in Ofwat’s first Water Breakthrough Challenge to build artificial intelligence into connected waste assets, creating a blueprint for autonomous waste catchments that can be scaled up across the UK.
Wazoku Integrates With Microsoft Teams to Enhance Enterprise Innovation
Innovation scale-up Wazoku has announced a new integration with collaboration platform Microsoft Teams, which will see Wazoku embedded within Teams to make innovation part of day-to-day working patterns.
COP26 Spotlight: Eagle Genomics and the New Frontier of Microbiome Data
The microbiome is the collective genetic material of all the microorganisms that inhabit an environment, like the human gut or a particular soil.
Fruit-picking robot-maker Dogtooth harvests backing from prominent investors
Dogtooth Technologies has secured £7m in a Series A funding round led by 24Haymarket and including LocalGlobe and Octopus Ventures, Sky News learns.
Stamp Free launches Digitrack AI-based postal tracking app
The Digitrack app can be downloaded onto an operative’s smartphone or other handheld device to increase the speed, accuracy and easy handling of mail items that use the Stamp Free Digital Postage Solution™ that replaces a stamp or barcode labelling with a handwritten code.
Closed Loop Medicine closes £13 million to finance its personalised drug + digital therapy (DTx) combination products to improve outcomes for patients through precision dosing
Closed Loop Medicine has closed £13 million GBP (c. $17million USD) of new investment from a range of top UK and European venture capital investors. The money has been raised to finance its personalised drug + digital therapy (DTx) combination products which are being developed to improve outcomes for patients and clinicians through precision dosing.
Sphere Fluidics closes $40m investment round to fund international expansion of Cyto-Mine technology
Sphere Fluidics has closed a $40million (around £30m) investment round to expand its international sales activities.
FutureYou Cambridge seeks fresh wellness acquisitions
FutureYou Cambridge, a science-backed nutritional supplement business, is seeking fresh partners in the wellness arena to underpin growth through acquisition going into 2022.
Graphene Hall sensors deliver high-accuracy operation in fields exceeding 30 Tesla and at cryogenic temperatures
Paragraf™ has leveraged its expertise in the manufacturing and implementation of graphene technology to make another major advance in Hall sensor performance.
Andrew Welchman leaves Wellcome Trust to lead impact at Ieso
Dr Andrew Welchman joins ieso today as our first Executive Vice President for Impact.
Psyomics announces Stephanie Martlew as new CEO
Psyomics, a Cambridge University spin-out developing technology to support earlier and improved mental health diagnosis and treatment management, have appointed a new CEO, effective 1st October 2021
Winners hold mirror to Cambridge’s global success
Science & Technology clusters that dare take their foot off the innovation gas have been shown to slide backwards in the global pantheon: Not so Cambridge.
Eagle Genomics and Earlham Institute reveal bioinformatics power play
Cambridge’s Eagle Genomics and the Earlham Institute in Norwich have joined forces to deliver new microbiome multi-omics datasets and tools.
Enval makes history in Mexico’s war on waste
Nestlé Mexico is uniting with UK duo Greenback Recycling Technologies and Cambridge’s Enval to build the first chemical recycling plant in Mexico to achieve full circularity of food-grade plastic packaging.
Paragraf appoints Charles Platts as CFO
Paragraf, the leader in the development and production of graphene electronic devices, has appointed Charles Platts as Chief Finance Officer. Charles will support Paragraf throughout its next phase of rapid growth, and beyond, bringing a strong commercial focus.
BT trials drone and AI technology with the Port of Southampton in association with Associated British Ports and RoboK
BT has successfully completed an automated drone trial at the Port of Southampton in partnership with Associated British Ports (ABP) and RoboK. The trial demonstrated a drone flying over the port’s vehicle inventory lot, with images captured and fed into an artificial intelligence (AI) powered system to track and analyse vehicle occupancy levels.