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Cambridge entrepreneurs back £multimillion ‘pay-it- forward’ initiative

Cambridge entrepreneurs back £multimillion ‘pay-it- forward’ initiative

Cambridge entrepreneurs are pledging a percentage of their current or future personal wealth – totally estimated to run into many millions of pounds – to address what is perceived as the city’s growing inequality issue.
Games guru Gerhard rides another rocket to the stars

Games guru Gerhard rides another rocket to the stars

Cambridge gaming industry innovator PlayFusion has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Edinburgh-based international game developer and publisher Build a Rocket Boy.
Fitting image tech from Cambridge boosts ovarian cancer diagnoses

Fitting image tech from Cambridge boosts ovarian cancer diagnoses

An MRI-based imaging technique developed at the University of Cambridge predicts the response of ovarian cancer tumours to treatment and rapidly reveals how well treatment is working in patient-derived cell models.
Merck venture arm backs £6.6m Abselion raise

Merck venture arm backs £6.6m Abselion raise

Cambridge-based Abselion, an innovator in automated analytical instrumentation that simplifies at-line protein quantification, has secured £6.6 million in Series A financing to bring its award-winning Amperia system to market.
Stansted could serve 51 million passengers a year by late 2030s with no physical expansion

Stansted could serve 51 million passengers a year by late 2030s with no physical expansion

Airlines’ plans to onboard bigger planes with room for more passengers may help London Stansted accommodate 48-51 million passengers a year by the late 2030s with no need to physically extend the single runway or airport boundaries.
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Cambridge student’s animal cell invention targets $14bn lab-grown meat market
10 Dec 2024 - 12:00
Fitting image tech from Cambridge boosts ovarian cancer diagnoses
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Form the Future showcase to fulfil opportunities for young people
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Material whirl as Kinabase expands into US software sector with Utah deal

Material whirl as Kinabase expands into US software sector with Utah deal

Cambridge-based software platform Kinabase, developed by startup Cambridge Kinetics, has successfully entered the US market. The move marks a significant milestone in the growth journey of the business which has a team based at St John’s Innovation Centre.
Cambridge entrepreneurs back £multimillion ‘pay-it- forward’ initiative

Cambridge entrepreneurs back £multimillion ‘pay-it- forward’ initiative

Cambridge entrepreneurs are pledging a percentage of their current or future personal wealth – totally estimated to run into many millions of pounds – to address what is perceived as the city’s growing inequality issue.
Stansted set for Christmas cracker as passengers take flight for festive fun

Stansted set for Christmas cracker as passengers take flight for festive fun

Stansted Airport could set another new high this Christmas with a new record for festive flights. The potential Christmas getaway numbers could top the all-time pinnacle – and following a record-breaking November and record-breaking months for every month of 2024 so far.
Cambridge student’s animal cell invention targets $14bn lab-grown meat market

Cambridge student’s animal cell invention targets $14bn lab-grown meat market

University of Cambridge postgraduate student Callan MacDonald is the inaugural cash-award winner of PETA US’s ‘Future Without Speciesism’ contest for an innovation that could revolutionise the lab-grown meat industry.
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Merck venture arm backs £6.6m Abselion raise

Merck venture arm backs £6.6m Abselion raise

Cambridge-based Abselion, an innovator in automated analytical instrumentation that simplifies at-line protein quantification, has secured £6.6 million in Series A financing to bring its award-winning Amperia system to market.
Plenty of ‘Foresight’ as Illumion raises £2.1m

Plenty of ‘Foresight’ as Illumion raises £2.1m

Illumion Ltd, a University of Cambridge spin-out, has closed a £2.1 million Seed investment round led by the Ventures team of Foresight Group with additional participation from Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, Parkwalk Advisors and Cambridge Angels.
Transatlantic MedTech company 52North clinches $6m with novel transaction

Transatlantic MedTech company 52North clinches $6m with novel transaction

Cambridge UK and Los Angeles MedTech company 52North has secured a landmark US-UK hospital VC deal worth $6 million.
Inotec raises $33m Series C to accelerate US expansion

Inotec raises $33m Series C to accelerate US expansion

Cambridge based Inotec AMD, whose product NATROX® O₂ is the leader in continuous topical oxygen therapy for advanced wound care, has closed a $33 million Series C round.
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Games guru Gerhard rides another rocket to the stars

Games guru Gerhard rides another rocket to the stars

Cambridge gaming industry innovator PlayFusion has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Edinburgh-based international game developer and publisher Build a Rocket Boy.
Cup of cheer as Mills & Reeve helps brew Supreme’s £10m swoop for Typhoo Tea

Cup of cheer as Mills & Reeve helps brew Supreme’s £10m swoop for Typhoo Tea

Law firm Mills & Reeve has advised Supreme on a deal to rescue historic brand Typhoo Tea from administration. London-listed Supreme paid £10.2m to buy the business. In the year to September 30, Typhoo generated revenues of around £20m.
Kao Data names CBRE as new data centre partner

Kao Data names CBRE as new data centre partner

Kao Data, a specialist developer and operator of data centres engineered for AI and advanced computing, has named New York-quoted CBRE Group, Inc – the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm – as its new integrated facilities management partner.
cofinitive acquired by global agency Cambridge Management Consulting

cofinitive acquired by global agency Cambridge Management Consulting

PR and Marketing agency cofinitive is preparing to “scale at pace” after being acquired by specialist global consultancy, Cambridge Management Consulting.
Meteor strikes collaboration with Belgian company

Meteor strikes collaboration with Belgian company

Meteor Inkjet in Cambridge, which supplies industrial inkjet printhead drive electronics, and Belgian company AMIS – an Additive Manufacturing software innovator – have joined forces to provide a seamlessly integrated solution for binder and material jetting from ‘DFE to drop’.
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