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Chuck’it takes first prize in Arm AI Developer Challenge
An on-device bookmarking app, Chuck’it, has won first prize in the inaugural Arm AI Developer Challenge. The app uses AI to automatically organise and semantically search anything you save (screenshots, links, text) so users can capture information instantly without breaking their flow or sacrificing privacy.
KluraLabs clinches £8m to globally scale packaging innovation
KluraLabs, a materials science company transforming food packaging from its base at The EpiCentre in Haverhill, has raised £8 million to accelerate the rollout of its pioneering technology across global retail supply chains.
Nxera Pharma rebuild starting to pay off
Nxera Pharma, whose principal operations are directed from Cambridge in the UK and Tokyo in Japan, is making progress with a disciplined new growth strategy, judging by its Q4 and full year 2025 results.
Cambridge and London dominate innovation rankings through patent power
Cambridge and London each provide four of the top 10 in a new UK league table highlighting the power bases for innovation based on the strength of their Intellectual Property assets.
4basebio CEO Heikki Lanckriet quits to steer new venture
The CEO and founder of AIM-quoted 4basebio plc, Dr Heikki Lanckriet, has quit to steer a new startup venture. The Board has appointed Chief Operating Officer Dr Amy Walker as CEO.
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Axol Bioscience makes third acquisition in five years
Axol Bioscience, a life science business headquartered in Edinburgh but with facilities at Babraham Research Campus in Cambridge, has made a key acquisition not long after raising $2.8 million.
Chuck’it takes first prize in Arm AI Developer Challenge
An on-device bookmarking app, Chuck’it, has won first prize in the inaugural Arm AI Developer Challenge. The app uses AI to automatically organise and semantically search anything you save (screenshots, links, text) so users can capture information instantly without breaking their flow or sacrificing privacy.
UK businesses see home market as best place to start, scale and grow
Barclays’ Business Prosperity Index which analyses anonymised data from around one million UK business clients and research from 1,000 business leaders reveals diverging behaviour, with larger firms increasing longer-term lending and smaller companies relying more on shorter-term liquidity financing in the last quarter of 2025.
Cambridge Professor tackles AI issue head on through nous and newly-designed tool
Artificial intelligence poses a threat to academics, because a specific expertise that was once very rare can now be produced through AI. In other words, academic scarcity is no longer quite so scarce.
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KluraLabs clinches £8m to globally scale packaging innovation
KluraLabs, a materials science company transforming food packaging from its base at The EpiCentre in Haverhill, has raised £8 million to accelerate the rollout of its pioneering technology across global retail supply chains.
Amadeus partner Pierre Socha appointed to Royal Society’s Science, Industry and Translation Committee
Pierre Socha of Amadeus Capital Partners has been appointed to the Science, Industry and Translation Committee of the Royal Society. Sir Robin Saxby, founding CEO of Cambridge superchip architect Arm, is Co-Chair of the Science, Industry and Translation Committee.
ET Capital at home with groundbreaking new fund
Cambridge based venture funder ET Capital has revealed the first round close of an innovative £270k fund from which it aims to invest in up to 10 businesses by the end of the financial year.
Axol Bioscience secures $2.8m funding
Axol Bioscience, which has facilities in Cambridge and Edinburgh, has raised $2.8 million (£2.1m) funding to accelerate product development, scale up cell manufacturing and progress US expansion plans.
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Axol Bioscience makes third acquisition in five years
Axol Bioscience, a life science business headquartered in Edinburgh but with facilities at Babraham Research Campus in Cambridge, has made a key acquisition not long after raising $2.8 million.
Avery Dennison and Pragmatic Semiconductor chip into burgeoning tech demand
A transatlantic alliance between Ohio-based giant Avery Dennison and Pragmatic Semiconductor in Cambridge UK is set to revolutionise a key market.
Nuclera and leadXpro provide shot in the arm for membrane protein programmes
Cambridge biotech Nuclera and Swiss company leadXpro have joined forces in a bid to fast-track membrane protein programmes.
Cambridge Cognition conjures gold from Ivory in Indian stunner
AIM-quoted Cambridge Cognition saw its share price shoot to its highest price in almost a year after announcing a potentially game-changing alliance with Ivory in India.
Challenges remain as businesses weigh up M & A next move
The mood is mixed. After a measured 2025 in dealmaking terms – set against a backdrop of challenging economic and geopolitical conditions and softening trading results – the hope this year is that things will be different. The million-dollar question is: will they?
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