Cambridge technology that removes wind farm clutter from Air Traffic Control radar screens could be rolled out by the end of the year after startup Aveillant clinched £6.75 million fresh funding.
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CleanTech firm scales up with £6.75m funding
Domainex raising £1.5m
Cambridge drug discovery company Domainex is raising £1.5 million to accelerate research by Big Pharma players in the epigenetics arena.
Imperial adds lather to £3m software round
Imperial Innovations, which has a burgeoning investment portfolio in the Cambridge technology cluster, has injected £1.5 million into Semetric, the firm behind global music analytics specialist, Musicmetric.
Cambridge funds back powertrain technology
Cambridge based innovation investors Martlet, headed by Peter Cowley, and Qi3 (led by Nathan Hill) were part of a syndicate that invested around £500k in a London engineering business developing diesel electric hybrid powertrain technology.
£1 billion Cambridge technology brain gain
Science & technology companies that have their research roots in Cambridge University in the UK have now raised more than £1 billion in funding.
Frontier claims £1.58m crowdfunding record for new game
Cambridge UK games trailblazer Frontier Developments has raised over £1.5 million in a record-breaking crowdfunding campaign via Kickstarter.
Vital cash input for Cambridge technology venture
The Centre for Computing History – one of the most exciting technology ventures in Cambridge UK – has received a significant financial donation from Haverhill Research Park.
Japanese giant invests in Cambridge biotech
Japanese VC giant Astellas Venture Management has pitched into a £3.75 million funding round to boost the global growth plans of Cambridge UK biotherapeutics technology business Bicycle Therapeutics.
Gene genies backed with £0.5m from TSB
Isogenica in Cambridge and Birmingham’s Aston University have secured funding from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) for a £0.5 million project to develop a gene library assembly technology exclusively licensed to Isogenica.
Cambridge ‘fab five’ share £39m biomed funding
Five pioneers from the Cambridge BioMed cluster and a sixth eastern region company based in Norwich are among 32 UK organisations sharing £39 million government funding to accelerate development of new healthcare technology.Polatis secures £4m for global growth
Polatis, the performance leader in all-optical switch technology, has secured $4 million of debt financing through Clydesdale Bank to support the Cambridge UK company's continued global growth.
Clydesdale cash funds Masteroast expansion
An independent coffee roasting and packaging company is full of beans after securing £1million funding from Clydesdale Bank – enabling it to buy its 40,000 sq ft premises in Peterborough.
Debug technology wins £1m investment
Groundbreaking technology company UltraSoC Technologies has received an investment worth £1 million from Octopus Investments to roll out its new debug technology to major semiconductor companies throughout the world.
Angels back bug buster with £1.25m investment
New bug-busting technology from Cambridge UK was launched at a Swiss expo today and the innovator behind the breakthrough – Bactest – is set to close a £1.25 million investment round this month.
Nujira raises $12 million
CleanTech world leader – Nujura in Cambridge UK – has raised a further $12 million to ramp up production of a key technology.
Canute turns tide with £13m bank backing
Barclays has supported supply chain operator Canute Group with banking facilities of £13 million, allowing the company to buy a new warehouse in Great Blakenham, Ipswich.
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