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Cambridge shares in £226m Cancer Research boom
Cambridge is set to benefit from a £226 million investment by Cancer Research UK – its largest to date – in its network of centres.The funding boom is designed to help Cancer Research UK reach its goal...
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Takeda raises $36m for new Cambridge neuroscience business
Japanese pharma giant Takeda has raised $36 million to launch a new brain disease hothouse in the Cambridge UK life science cluster just four months after a review indicated it would close its...
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Government and councillors need to realise how special Cambridge is
The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, as with the Budget, is always eagerly anticipated by the property industry, particularly among our residential colleagues.In recent years respective governments have...
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The march of the machines
For the avoidance of doubt, I would like to make it clear from the outset that this article has been written by a genuine, bona fide human being and not by a robot. Whilst this comment may appear to be...
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3D touch technology spin-out raises Series A cash
A Cambridge University spin-out driving 3D multi-touch technologies has raised an undisclosed amount in a Series A funding round.Cambridge Touch Technologies (CTT), is developing low cost solutions for...
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Cambridge imaging technology that gets under the skin
Novel Cambridge technology is set to get under the skin of a key area of health & wellbeing research – literally.Product design innovator Cambridge Consultants has developed a multispectral imaging...
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Chinese acquisition values Sepura at £74 million
Cambridge communications technology specialist Sepura has been sold to a subsidiary of Chinese company Hytera Corporation in a deal that values the UK business at £74 million.The boards reached...
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University of Cambridge spin-out acquired by quoted UK group
Cambridge University spin-out Breathing Buildings has been sold to UK ventilation specialist Volution Group for an undisclosed sum.Volution is a market leader in Britain and northern Europe and quoted...
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£8m raised for stratified medicine Sanger Institute spin-out
A new stratified medicine spin-out from the UK’s Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has secured £8 million funding – £4m each from Cambridge Innovation Capital and IP Group.The funds will be used by the...
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Sound as a pound as AI firm hits $5.5m Series A
Audio Analytic, a Cambridge UK Artificial Intelligence business addressing sound recognition technology, has closed a $5.5 million Series A round.Cambridge Innovation Capital led the round, with IQ...
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Owlstone Medical raises $11.55 million
Cambridge, UK-based Owlstone Medical Ltd, a diagnostics company developing a breathalyzer for disease, has raised $11.55 million (£9.3m) in a funding round led by existing investors.The cash will be...
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Gates Foundation $9m to help Kymab accelerate HIV antibody cure
Global philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates are investing $9 million in Cambridge antibody technology in a bid to accelerate development of vaccines and therapeutics to fight HIV and other infectious...
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Darktrace reports ‘phenomenal’ surge in business
A fresh surge of global business in the last quarter of 2016 took Cambridge cyber security business Darktrace to unprecedented trading heights.The UK company said it had a “phenomenal” three months...
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Brexit isn’t the problem. It’s being stuck Betwixit!
Can things possibly get any worse than they did in 2016? No, don’t answer that!The year was full of, mostly, unwelcome surprises: the Referendum outcome and the undiminished in-fighting over its...
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You get more bang for your buck in Cambridge office space market
According to research from our data team, office occupiers who spend three quarters of a million pounds a year on office space in Cambridge can afford more than three times the amount of space than in...
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£500k arrives on Kew for Polypharmakos to tackle emerging AMR crisis
Cambridge Enterprise and the University of Cambridge Enterprise Fund, managed by Parkwalk, have invested £500k in Polypharmakos Limited, a spin-out from the university and the Royal Botanic Gardens,...
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Dogfish shark steroid points to Parkinson’s treatment
Cambridge scientists believe that a steroid discovered in the 1990s in dogfish sharks could lead to potential treatments for Parkinson’s Disease.Initial research suggest that squalamine could be...
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ARM helps Groupe Renault power next-gen smart cars
ARM chips are set to help power technology driving a new generation of smart cars for Groupe Renault.The Cambridge processor architect joined the Renault-Nissan Alliance at CES in Las Vegas to parade...
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CyanConnode revenues up 560 per cent
Cambridge clean technology front runner CyanConnode reports 2016 revenues of around £1.8 million – an increase of 560 per cent over 2015. The smart metering and IoT business also predicted a period of...
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Cambridge University graphene spin-out acquired by UK plc
A majority stake in Cambridge University spin-out Cambridge Graphene Ltd has been acquired by AIM-quoted UK business Versarien plc for £170k – £25k in cash and the rest in shares.Cambridge Graphene...
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