It’s not many businesses that can be built on the back of a single app, particularly when you count Google and major global electronics corporations as the competition. Continue reading

Real Status was born of two very different Cambridge firms, IT consultancy Intergence and games developer Geomerics. Continue reading

Open source enterprise search specialist, Flax was born out of the wreckage of another startup story that went wrong. Having experienced first hand some of the excesses of the dotcom bubble, Flax founders Charlie Hull (CEO) and Tom Mortimer (CTO) decided to pursue a more studied and sustainable approach to building a business. Continue reading

There’s a man who stands in a room at ideaSpace shouting. It’s part of the job. Occasionally he’ll get someone to smash windows, fire guns, anything that sounds like trouble, he’s interested. Continue reading

Named after the eight minutes and 19 seconds it takes for light to travel from the sun to the Earth, Eight19 emerged from the white hot foundries that are Cambridge University's research laboratories with the help of a well funded and focused government project looking to engineer a world lead in advanced photovoltaics (PV). Continue reading

"We don't do ebooks," asserts Sam Loose, just in case anyone out there thinks the company he founded a little over a year ago with Paulo Castro is a simple software play offering nothing more than a digitisation service for publishers. Continue reading

Through Abcam, an online seller of antibodies, Jonathan Milner dragged his corner of the biotech industry into the 21st century, ditching a dated supply chain model for slick, web and data-centric efficiency which has left competitors gasping for breath and created Cambridge's tenth billion dollar company. Continue reading

As you might expect from a founding team that previously spent decades helping to build the ‘architecture for the digital world’ at ARM, power electronics startup, Amantys is intent on securing virgin ground for digital technology. Continue reading

David 'Borris' Fell never went to university, never studied business and never showed any early entrepreneurial flair outside of selling a bag of grow your own mushrooms to his mum. Like so many of the Acorn era, he did all his learning as he went along. Continue reading

David Cebon doesn't consider himself a natural entrepreneur, but he does like to see his research get 'out there' and through Granta Design, the company he and Mike Ashby spun out of Cambridge University, it seems to have gotten pretty much everywhere. Continue reading

Michael Evans has been innovating from his earliest working days, mixing design flair with manufacturing know-how. Continue reading

It has been a big week for Cambridge Science Centre (CSC), a not-for-profit startup working to develop a permanent, hands-on science discovery centre in the centre of Cambridge. Continue reading

Cambridge Temperature Concepts (CTC) is one of the most exciting medical device companies seen in Cambridge, unusual in that it makes almost instant sense to the general public, particularly anyone that's ever considered having a family. Continue reading

Professor Derek Fray has referred to Cambridge Carbon Capture's (CCC) mineralisation process as one of those very rare lab-proven technologies searching for industrial uses that the more you delve into it, the better it gets. Continue reading

As an endeavour that in its first iteration was “hacked together” and “shipped as soon as possible”, according to its original co-founder, Neil Davidson, startup accelerator Springboard looked at Friday’s Investor Day a polished and mature product. Continue reading

For many Cambridge hardtech companies the struggle is to find the right application for the latest groundbreaking technology. Continue reading

First arriving in Cambridge in 1995 as ill-fated telecoms company Ionica’s 200th employee, Cognidox co-founder and CEO, Paul Walsh has experienced most of the highs and lows associated with high-growth technology businesses. Continue reading

The term sheet was on the table, waiting for the signatures that would deliver Mixcloud its first venture capital funding. Continue reading

Having spent seven years at the University of Cambridge’s Computer Lab using his wireless sensor expertise to help athletes improve their performance, among other projects, Marcelo Pias decided to found Globosense to investigate the commercial applications of his vision of a ‘web of things’, where everyday objects are fitted with sensors and actuators and web-enabled, meaning they can meaningfully interact with each other and we can get in on the conversation too. Continue reading

Red Gate Software makes the screwdrivers, tape measures, wrenches, drills, hammers and saws that software developers and systems administrators need to keep many of the world's databases in tip top condition. Continue reading

It's so obvious you'd take it for granted that it had already been done, done well and done to death. Continue reading

For something that started out as a pet project, Running with Crayons’ Alfred app has comprehensively exceeded expectations. Especially as developer, Andrew Pepperrell only took up Mac development not much more than a year ago and initially took some persuading to even own a Mac. Continue reading