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Cambridge product innovator working in new China hi-tech zone
Cambridge Design Partnership has carved a potentially lucrative niche to provide product design and innovation capabilities to companies in the new high technology zone in the Chinese city of Wuhan. It...
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Happy birthday Alexa, a brainchild born in Cambridge
Tomorrow marks the fourth birthday of Amazon’s Alexa – IP born in Cambridge via the fertile brain of True Knowledge and Evi Technologies founder William Tunstall-Pedoe.The entrepreneur sold voice...
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The Budget and business taxes
The Chancellor, possibly buoyed by an unexpected improvement in the public finances, delivered a Budget that was broadly favourable to business – writes Tim Shaw, Associate partner, Ensors Chartered...
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Autumn Budget 2018 – the Brexit caveat
In my pre-Budget commentary I made the point that Phillip Hammond was facing two major problems in deciding what measures to implement in his Autumn Budget; the looming threat of Brexit, and the need...
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Google chips in as Raspberry Pi consortium secures £78m for STEM initiative
The Raspberry Pi Foundation in Cambridge is part of a consortium that has secured more than £78 million in government funding to make sure every child in every school in England has access to a...
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Another year of deep tech
The Cambridge Cluster has seen another year of growth in both the number and value of deals completed, with over £700 million invested in more than 120 deals in the year to October 2018, according to...
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Cambridge Capital Group seeing double as investment volume soars
In the last 18 months Cambridge Capital Group (CCG) members have invested more than £5 million into a new portfolio of exciting technology ventures, writes Struan McDougall, chairman of Cambridge...
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Tech gazelles Darktrace and Ieso fly flag for Cambridge in Deloitte UK Fast 50
Darktrace and Ieso Digital Health are the only two Cambridge companies to make Deloitte’s 2018 UK Technology Fast 50.Darktrace is fourth and Ieso 42nd. The rankings show the 50 fastest-growing...
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Managers now face personal liability for whistleblowing claims
Last month the Court of Appeal confirmed that two directors were liable for over £2 million in compensation after the dismissal of a whistleblower in their organisation, writes David Mills, partner at...
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Ubisense disposal gives birth to potential new global software giant
Executives at Cambridge location technology business Ubisense believe they have lit the touchpaper to creating a potential new global leader in geospatial software after a £35 million disposal of the...
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Abcam hails China as ‘greatest life science opportunity in our lifetime’
BioMedTech figureheads have spelled out the potential payback power of an expertly curated Cambridge UK-China life science axis.Alan Hirzel, CEO of quoted Cambridge life science business Abcam – one of...
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Draper Esprit powers $31m Fluidic Analytics expansion
Cambridge proteins pioneer Fluidic Analytics has raised $31 million to continue developing its transformational products for characterising proteins and their behaviour. The cash will underpin the...
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Show me the numbers: Deals environment thrives
The deals environment continues to be the best seller’s market we have seen for some time, writes Chris Wilson, Corporate Finance director, KPMG Cambridge.This is borne out in the numbers, with...
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Møller Institute wins six-figure deal with largest bank in China
Executive education and research business Møller Institute, based in Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, has secured a six-figure annual contract with China’s largest bank, ICBC.The deal...
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Marshall wins £100m-plus Dutch defence deal
Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group in Cambridge has won a contract worth more than £100 million to deliver nextgen containers for the Dutch Armed Forces.The deal has been awarded by the Dutch...
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Seven Cambridge companies in UK gazelles hot 100
Seven technology businesses born or rooted in Cambridge have made a new elite of Britain’s fastest growing businesses – the Top 100, created by Cambridge equity crowdfunder SyndicateRoom.CMR Surgical,...
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Cancer Research UK and AstraZeneca unveil world-class functional genomics hub...
Cancer Research UK and AstraZeneca are opening a new innovation hothouse in the Cambridge science & technology cluster to maximise the potential of functional genomics in the discovery and...
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Cambridge startup secures £1m for AI-powered expert finder
Cambridge startup techspert.io has secured £1 million in second round funding for its pioneering expert-finding and evaluating technology.The round was led by Cambridge angel Simon Thorpe who has...
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Cambridge trio in alliance to drive autonomous vehicle technology
The relentless search for holy grail technologies for safe autonomous and nextgen vehicles has been bolstered by Cambridge trio Linaro, Arm and Huawei.Linaro, an open source collaborative engineering...
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Protecting your estate
As Cambridge’s business sector continues to grow, significant new wealth is being generated in the city, writes Lucinda Brown, partner and head of Contentious Trusts and Probate at law firm Hewitsons....
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