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From ARU to Allia to Cambridge Enterprise, this week’s guest, Caroline Hyde of IE Cambridge, shares her long-held passion for supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem and the importance of connectedness.
We talk about the new Innovation and Entrepreneurship report and the investment the University of Cambridge is making to support its students, researchers and alumni.
Did you know that for every £1 the university spends, it creates £11.70 of economic impact? And that out of £30bn of economic impact annually, more than £23bn comes from commercialising University research?
Caroline reiterates that it’s not just economic impact but societal impact where companies like Xampla, Colorifix, T-Therapeutics are making a huge impact in the world.
You can find the link to the report here https://ie.cam.ac.uk/resource/innovation-and-entrepreneurship-at-the-university-of-cambridge-2024/
And check out the new website that Caroline refers to for even more information https://www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk/
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In this special episode of #CamTechPod, recorded with a live audience during #CamTechWeek, we talk to guests Ray Anderson, Executive Chair of Bango, and Marc Rodríguez, CTO of Xampla, about how to scale smarter, not harder.
We talk about two huge components of successfully scaling.
Firstly, we hear about the inflection points that have signalled key points in the scale up journey, how to set targets, adapt structures, and even how to take a company public.
Both Ray and Marc also share thoughtful advice on the second topic - culture and leadership. How do you navigate from startup to scaleup whilst not losing the culture and people dynamics? and, When do you know it’s time for changes to be made in the leadership team?
We have audience questions before challenging Ray and Marc to answer what they are most proud of, and what they’d go back and change if they did it all again – you’ll need to tune in to find out what they said!
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In this episode we talk more about the business than ‘tech’ so get ready for a super interesting conversation with the person behind a successful Cambridge portfolio business. As the founder and now Executive Chair we caught up with Ciaron Dunne who talked to us about:
· Growing up with business in mind
· Doing ‘everything’ in startups
· The importance of luck and good judgement
· Having excitement and passion for what you’re doing (even Bingo!)
· Being inherently commercial, and
· Doing recruitment a little differently.
Ciaron talks to us about Genie Ventures which includes Broadband Genie, Genie Goals and Genie Shopping, and celebrates the importance of team and doing the right thing.
And I think we can all aspire to be the ‘last click’ – you’ll have to tune in to find out more.
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Hot off the press, we have a company soft launching right now with a database approach that is needed by most SMEs to improve their efficiency.
Entrepreneurship started at school for this week’s guest, amplified by family connections in building tech businesses, and we’re thrilled to talk to Jason Mashinchi, Managing Director at Cambridge Kinetics.
Jason talks to us about the rationale for creating Kinabase – and AI alternative to traditional databases how they are using the power of AI to eliminate the cumbersome and costly development previously required with incumbent alternatives.
Jason also shares some of the lessons learnt along the way, including:
· Selling expertise vs going down the funding route
· Leveraging grant funding
· Disrupting a market that hasn’t changed for decades
· Starting a company straight from university and the lessons along the way
· The importance of being well networked, and
· Mentoring and paying it forward.
See it to believe it, and watch a tailored system being built before your eyes! And if you’re in the Creative Industries, there may even be funding available for Jason to help you!
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We can’t let a $75million raise go without a fanfare, so we invited Rebecca Simmons back on to tell us about the latest fundraise, and provide a moment to pause, reflect and celebrate their news.
Tune in as Bek answers:
· What was the process like?
· How long did it take?
· What are the differences between A, B and C rounds (the answer may be a surprise)?
· What does this mean to the board and decision making?
· How do you spend $75m to scale?
· What are some of the new challenges?
And keep listening to be (re)inspired by Bek’s episode from January 2024.
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Cleantech Venture Day searches for the most interesting 16 companies across pre-seed, seed and Series A in a range of cleantech areas. In this week’s episode Sylvie Russell, COO of Cambridge Cleantech shares details of the day, the industry and the new #Cleantech Super Cluster.
We also hear from two of the founders who pitched on the day:
Sarah Blake, Commercial Director and Co-Founder of Minimass – a construction tech company focussed on reproducing beams in a more sustainable way - tells us about her startup experience and the funding journey they have been on.
Chloe So, CEO and Co-Founder of Pulpatronics – a RFID company who are simplifying the production of tags and revolutionizing sustainability with chipless, metal-free, paper RFID tags – shares her rather different experience from Sarah’s.
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It’s our 100th episode!
We thought this episode we’d pick three tech areas that are gaining in traction – do you agree with our choices? What other technologies are the ones to watch?
#FemTech - Stasa Stankovic – talks to us about her goal to crack the code on reproductive genomics. Stasa talks about how #FemTech as a term often remains taboo, and how it was only in 1993 that women started to be included in female clinical trials. We need government, investment and funding, and research and innovation, to increase awareness and interventions around infertility, contraception, menopause, and broader women’s health.
Who do you know in the #FemTech space? Faye referred to two of the recent impulse alumni - Melis Eda Ekinci, Lorna MacLean
#BatteryTech - Dr Simon Engelke, Founder and Chair of Battery Associates joins to talk about the battery industry and the extensive range of batteries not only available but in development. The industry is still driven greatly by cost, but niche applications offer more room for novel improvements which may change future trends for the larger industries.
We have some great showcase companies here in Cambridge in the #Battery space – Nyobolt, Prof Clare Grey, Sai Shivareddy, Ismail Sami, Molyon, Echion Technologies.
#Dementia #Alzheimer #Technology - Andrew Kadis of Cambridge Vision Technology talks through how Alzheimer’s is the leading cause of death with one in three people not even being aware that they have it. Not only does Andrew share some huge statistics, but he also demonstrates the economic impact of not identifying Alzheimer’s early enough. Andrew shares their focus on biomarkers in the eye, iterating a business plan, and being part of future policy.
And having put the overview together, we’ve just realised that our guests, and many of the companies mentioned in the episode are all previous #21toWatch or Trinity Bradfield Prize winners!
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Hear from Forbes 30 under 30 for social impact, and founder Tamzin Lent whose objective is to help people find friends in busy venues.
Using technology, Where You At is essentially a map of a large facility – festivals, conferences, stadiums – which allows users to stay connected when a mobile phone signal or GPS doesn’t typically work. Using a Bluetooth beacon system, and a mesh system between mobile phones users can feel safer and enjoy their experience without worry.
Where you at also provides insights for the providers who can understand more about flow and footfall within their venues, which in turn can result in a better experience for their guests.
Tamzin talks to us about:
· Being a sole founder and the value of the support network
· Using lockdown to reset the venue industry
· Building, and maintaining strong relationships
· The progress with product market fit
· Making the decision to bring tech development inhouse
· Receiving seamless support from Cambridge
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Chris Bruce is back on to talk us through the ‘rich array’ of content planned for Cambridge Tech Week.
Monday - International Day bringing together national and international guests with Cambridge
Tuesday - Innovation and Investment Day showcasing the tech landscape and ecosystem in Cambridge. 50+ #startups and #scaleups in #InnovationAlley where winners will be crowned at the end of the day.
Also a roundtable on Corporate Innovation with Cambridge Consultants and Cambridge Management Consulting who also host a dinner in the evening.
Wednesday - Deep dive #AI and #Quantum. Finishing with big tech debate. Wednesday also sees the annual Business Weekly newspaper dinner #BusinessWeeklyAwards
Thursday - Deep Dive #Semiconductor and #Climate Tech. And also, Scaleup Day kicking off with #CamTechPod live episode, and then hearing from entrepreneurs who have scaled and a series of workshops in the afternoon. Wrapping up with a drink’s reception.
Friday - Tech Futures Day with Form the Future to help the next generation consider a tech role in the future.
Check out the programme and the fringe events at https://cambridgetechweek.co.uk/
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Laura Hood joins us from Anglia Capital Group (ACG) talks to us about the angel investment network and the Halo Programme.
Our guest Mark Merrywest tells us that 84% travellers are influenced by social media and Yond brings together a way to book your holiday and activities all in one place. The programme helped to direct the seed of an idea into something funded and ready to launch.
And from the most recent cohort Alex Howard Founder of AAH Software providing clinical research, shares how his company has morphed from services to technology led.
We talk about
· How the size of opportunities developed in Norwich might not be the same magnitude as some of the #Cambridge #deeptech startups, but there is still applicability and marketability.
· Getting guidance on the valuation of a startup
· The importance of refining your message to the different audiences
· How important pitch practice is and the subsequent constructive discussion post-pitch – is nice feedback ever useful?
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In an episode of two halves, we talk to Amy Weatherup about two decades leading iTeams and her personal journey before and since.
iTeams bridges the gap between students who are experts in their own sector, and entrepreneurs and innovators who are looking to drive commercialisation and turn their ideas to reality.
Amy tells us more including three lessons she’s learnt along the way:
· Technology is far earlier than you think it is
· It’s going to cost you a lot more money
· IP and patents are only part of what you have.
We then talk about Amy’s own career at the start of the commercial internet and supporting schools to startups. We cover:
· Being a young entrepreneur
· Building a company, quickly, and keeping cash flowing
· Contracts with some of the largest electronics companies
· How securing funding has changed over the last decades
· Being open with corporates
· Angel investing
· Paying it forward.
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This week we revisit our interview with Eben Upton of Raspberry Pi from 2022.
Tune in to hear about:
· Eben’s route to Raspberry Pi
· Celebrating the people that have been part of the journey
· Doing business in the pub (a very Cambridge thing)
· From managing a supply chain (please remember numbers and comments are from 2022), to moving into retail
· The weird and wonderful uses of a Raspberry Pi (and a challenge for someone to achieve Eben’s desire to get a Pi beyond low earth orbit? #LEO)
· Stories of breaking websites and thoughts on office-based working
· And of course, floating the company, on which Eben recently said:
“Nearly sixteen years ago, in the autumn of 2008, a handful of us set off on this journey together. We were driven by a shared realisation that something had gone badly wrong in young people’s interaction with technology; a shared conviction that we should do something about it; and the beginnings of a shared idea of what that something might be.
“In the years since, we’ve accomplished amazing things, as a company, as a Foundation, and as a broader movement. We’ve designed PCBs; written software; taped out chips; published magazines; filed patents; trained teachers; run after-school clubs; and seen our products taken to space, to the bottom of the ocean, and to the ends of the earth.
“We’ve sold over sixty million low-cost, high-performance, general-purpose Raspberry Pi computers to the enthusiasts and educators who remain at the heart of the Raspberry Pi movement, and to the industrial and embedded customers who today account for over two-thirds of our sales.
“And thanks to the availability and salience of those computers, and to the curriculum reform and teacher training initiatives championed by the Foundation, we have seen a resurgence in interest in computing among young people. In sixteen years, Computer Science has gone from being the easiest subject to get into at Cambridge to the hardest, a change that has been reflected across the UK higher education sector and beyond. We have engineers working for us today who got their first experience of computing on a Raspberry Pi platform.”
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From a degree in the Netherlands to the first satellite launch in Costa Rica in 2018, to the UK to launch a space company, we talk to Marco Gomes-Jenkins, Co-Founder and CEO of Super-Sharp Space Systems Ltd.
Marco talks about his background, going to MBA at Imperial to learn ‘business’, which led him to Professor Ian Parry at Uni of Cambridge who together with George Hawker became co-founders of SuperSharp.
SuperSharp is an Earth-imaging company developing unfolding space telescopes to capture high-resolution thermal infrared (TIR) images of the Earth.
These images can be used for applications such as tackling climate change, crop monitoring, and maintaining global security, allowing high-quality affordable Earth-imaging solutions to empower the world in responding to global change.
With a space launch mid-2026, SuperSharp will have had just over 15 years of R&D funded by the UK Space Agency, Innovate UK, the European Space Agency, the UK Ministry of Defence Accelerator, plus equity investment from Cambridge Enterprise, and some individual angel investors.
Tune in to find out more about the SuperSharp journey and how the Cambridge ecosystem has helped at all stages of its growth.
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Today we hear about how a business grew from research in the lab, to creating material samples for academic collaborators as customers, to a complete pivot in industry sector.
Post his PhD, Ruizhi Wang then realised he had a hammer, so started looking for a nail! He found a gap in manufacturing where a quick turnaround device was required and where his analytical instrument had a role – and Abselion was born.
Funded through grants and awards, and a bit of bootstrapping we hear about Ruizhi’s own entrepreneurial journey from prototype to the formal launch this month, his fundraising and acquisition goals, and not listening to advice.
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From an academic learning about commercialisation, to a career spanning 25 years working on novel technology, we were thrilled to talk to Ben Brown, CTO at Cambridge Mechatronics this week.
From colloids at the University of Cambridge, to ink at TTP, and jumping into the world’s best loud speaker development at Cambridge Mechatronics, Ben has much experience to share with our listeners.
Now with a focus on actuators, we learn about the magic of Shape Memory Alloy and how Cambridge Mechatronics have cornered that market globally with a list of patents that would rival Arm to Rolls Royce.
We talk to Ben about the company move from ‘hidden gem’ to a much more public profile, triggered by their first external funding round by Atlantic Bridge, Sony and Intel, and what that means to the business model and future portfolio.
Ben also shares useful lessons about building relationships in Japan, Taiwan and China, and the dynamics of doing business is the Far East.
We think you’ll agree that Cambridge Mechatronics is a great representation of a multi-disciplinary tech team of silicon, firmware, software, material scientists, physicists, and more. And with an expansion into new premises on Cambridge Science Park, and a new office in Copenhagen, they are certainly a tech company to watch.
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Did you know that false barriers about studying science and technology can put children off pursuing #STEM from earlier than age 11?
Cambridge Science Centre connects everyone with science - from tots, through school years with teachers and parents, to expert communicators and supporters - in an enjoyable and inspiring way.
Originating out of a conversation between entrepreneurs ten years ago, who wondered why Cambridge didn’t have a science centre, the Cambridge Science Centre was born, and the interconnectedness of Cambridge has kept going within it for the last 10 years.
This week Cambridge Science Centre announced a new home on the iconic Cambridge Science Park, and we can’t think of a better place for it to be based.
With 6,000 square feet of 20 new exhibits showcasing #STEM, and portable exhibits taking STEM on the road, join the excitement and passion as you hear CEO John Bull and Trustee Amy Weatherup talk about their goals and aspirations.
Opening in July 2024, it’s time to galvanise the community to become part of the Cambridge Science Centre’s journey – as a volunteer, an expert, a supporter, a school leader, or as a family with a membership season ticket.
Find out more at https://www.cambridgesciencecentre.org/
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This week’s guest is Hanadi Jabado, co-founder and Managing Partner of Sana Capital, one of the first early-stage funds in Europe focusing on #TechBio. Hanadi founded one of the UK's first Deep Tech accelerator programmes, Accelerate Cambridge, at the University of Cambridge where she supported 180 early-stage ventures over six years, building a portfolio with an estimated collective value of over £2bn with over £250m of risk capital raised.
We talk to Hanadi about so many things, this is not an episode to miss. Tune in to hear about this, and so much more…
· Commercialisation from academia needs constant work
· Turning ‘no’ into ‘yes’
· Making waves for women and entrepreneurship within Cambridge Judge Business School
· The birth of #AccelerateCambridge and the Entrepreneurship Centre – start, scale and grow a business
· Making entrepreneurs relatable
· The role and impact of being a board member, preferably an independent non-exec
· Changing the investment ecosystem with Sana Capital for #healthtech and #climatetech
· Targeting spinouts and ‘sneakouts’ – founders from within and outside of the University of Cambridge
· Investment capital won’t start flowing again until 2025 – quality not quantity
· Personal experiences with DEI – ‘whatever I did, it seemed like I was the only woman in the room’ – ‘it’s not about lowering the bar – it’s about widening the gate’
· The role of Deputy Lieutenant in Cambridgeshire
· Supporting those companies that ‘keep going’ with the #KingsAwards
· Learning not to walk, but to march.
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We don’t think anyone would disagree that it is a global imperative to tackle food waste and address the economic and environmental loss it causes. Let’s face it, people work hard to grow nutrients so why not turn waste into something more useful?
We talk with Miha Pipan, Co-founder and CEO of Better Origin about:
· The size of the problem – food waste generates 4 Gigatons (Gt) of CO2 equivalent (CO2-eq) each year
· The efficiency of using the #Black Soldier Fly, they produce a high quality source of 1:1 fat:protein
· Creating sustainable feed from grain waste for chickens, fish, pets….
· Better Origin’s X1 birth to automate insect farming on farms in the UK, and the growth to X2 the huge potential of the OriginX
· Using #AI and #deeptech to make the X1 fully automated for farmers - it takes care of seeding, feeding, growth, and harvest
· A partnership with Morrisons to create a carbon-neutral egg – the cost of which is an increase of pence, not pounds
· A sustainable feed proposition that brings together performance, health and welfare
· Changing minds and attitudes to alternative food sources
· The start-up journey over the last 8-9 years, and how the bumps in the road make you more resilient.
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Launched in 2017, the Science and Technology Awards has become a key part of the Awards calendar for Cambridge.
Alumni includes life science and biotech - Storm Biotherapeutics, CMR Surgical, Owlstone Medical, Bit.bio, and technology companies – Pragmatic, Featurespace, C2-Ai.
With 16 categories there is something for everyone, but for this episode, we’re focusing on the more #technology categories, where often multiple technologies are pitted against each other – no easy decision for the judges.
Tune in to hear a full roster of innovative science and technology companies and individuals and hold until the end where we’ll also share details of the winners of the tech categories.
Information on all categories can be found on the Cambridge Independent website and social channels.
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Cambridge Wide Open Day (CWOD) will be held on 12th June so to bring everyone up to speed we’re joined by creator Prashant Shah, o2h group and member of the advisory committee Aline Charpentier, Bruntwood SciTech.
Created to bring the broadest possible community together -CWOD is a chance to experience a mix of tours, talks, workshops, clinics, product demos, and pitches from leading individuals, companies, and parks across Cambridge.
It was great to hear about Aline’s experience of connecting with the entire community at Melbourn Science Park. And what a great demonstration of Cambridge at its best with a decentralised and collaborative approach!
Open to everyone, whether you work within or outside of Cambridge, or are a local resident curious to see the science and tech scene - there's something for you. Come and #BeCurious – see, learn and invest, and enjoy the ‘vim’. For more details and to book a general pass to ‘design your own day’, head over to the LinkedIn page or the website www.cambridgewideopenday.com.
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