Business Weekly launches 2023-24 Awards competition
Although the presentation banquet will not be held until Wednesday September 11, 2024, we are inviting entries now to ensure we judge companies in contention in the most thorough manner possible.
We want to get to know intimately the best companies in the East of England – whether they are fresh-faced startups or more established businesses seeking to take the next steps in their international scale-up strategies.
The University of Cambridge and partners have launched a series of initiatives designed to optimise opportunities for global expansion; the UK government has unveiled parallel ventures designed to boost key sectors such as AI, semiconductors and the life sciences.
The Business Weekly Awards – launched in 1990 welcome entries from across the six counties of the East of England – Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Bedfordshire, Essex and Hertfordshire.
And the nature of business can embrace all manner of propositions spanning industry in its broadest sense, B2B, EdTech, AgriTech, CleanTech, DeepTech, Genomics, AI, FinTech, Engineering, the Life Sciences, Academia and much more.
One change to the 16 Awards we traditionally make at the Cambridge presentation dinner involves the popular Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Cambridge Judge Business School has kindly allowed Sana Capital in Cambridge to facilitate sponsorship of the category by Murray Edwards College. Judge will continue to sponsor the equally popular Graduate Business Award.
The college has just unveiled the Murray Edwards Enterprising Women initiative to encourage more women entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses and to become serial entrepreneurs and investors in their own right.
Murray Edwards has linked up with AstraZeneca – which also sposnors the Business Weekly Awards along with Arm and other big hitters – to maximise opportunities arising from the Enterprising Women initiative, behind which Hanadi Jabado of Sana Capital is a major driving force.
The Business Weekly Awards banquet held in September was notable not only for recognising world-class companies such as Paragraf, Riverlane, Featurespace, Bicycle Therapeutics, Domainex and VividQ but also parading the gamechangers of the future – the likes of Biofidelity, Immaterial, Evonetix, Opto Biosystems, Semarion, Advanced Infrastructure, Decorte Future Industries, Monumo and Forefront RF.
2024 is already looking to be a milestone year for Cambridge and the East of England and the Business Weekly Awards will again hold up a mirror to the breadth and quality of companies across the region – ventures of all ages and specialisms. You can enter online or by emailing chair of judges Tony Quested.