The Cluster

News about the development of the Cambridge technology cluster

Hauser tells Parliament to increase science spend: “it’s the only game in town”

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 23 May 2013. Posted in The Cluster

Hermann Hauser and John Pethica sat in the House of Lords

Serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Hermann Hauser, told Parliament that science is “the only game in town” for Western countries and that the science budget should not just be ring-fenced, but increased in June's government spending review.

Discovering Start-ups dips into Tech City for 2013 launch

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 10 May 2013. Posted in The Cluster

Cambridge Wireless today launched its annual startup talent finding competition and revealed it now had the official backing of London's own technology cluster champion, the Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO).

Q&A: Chris Chapman on My Business FD's new recruitment service

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 09 May 2013. Posted in The Cluster

My Business FD, a company carving out a niche as a supplier of part-time FDs to tech startups, is expanding with the launch of its own finance recruitment service as it targets larger companies and greater growth.

BlueGnome VC dodge pays off for Cambridge Enterprise

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 07 May 2013. Posted in The Cluster

BlueGnome's microarrays

£1 billion. That's the amount of money raised by all the companies in Cambridge University's equity portfolio since it started making seed investments 18 years ago. It's a big number, a worthy milestone and the headline figure in the most recent annual report from the university's commercialisation arm, Cambridge Enterprise.

Spin-outs not sneak-outs: Hopper and Hauser push for free uni IP

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 01 May 2013. Posted in The Cluster

From time to time Professor Andy Hopper likes to roll out a six foot tall wooden scroll on wheels. Upon it are proudly emblazoned the names of dozens of companies that have emerged from Cambridge University’s Computer Laboratory, the ‘Hall of Fame’.

MMO games engine takes £15k prize at Big Pitch

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 29 April 2013. Posted in The Cluster

Still of animation for MMO Big Pitch entry, a young looking cartoon man

A game creation ‘engine’ that simplifies the process of building online multiplayer video games has won the top prize at Anglia Ruskin University’s student business plan competition, The Big Pitch, together with £15,000 of seed funding.

Intel acquires Amadeus-backed Aepona in £80m deal

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 25 April 2013. Posted in The Cluster

Intel has acquired network apps company, Aepona, for a price believed to be around $120m (£78m).

Student startups make their Big Pitch for £30k

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 25 April 2013. Posted in The Cluster

video windows of six finalists

Six very different student business ideas including a fetish clothing designer and an online gaming platform will face off tonight for a cut of £30,000 seed funding at the final of Anglia Ruskin University's business competition, The Big Pitch.

1 innovation, 5 international trade: Cambridge Queen's Awards

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 22 April 2013. Posted in The Cluster

The 2013 Queen's Awards for Enterprise has decided to decorate one Cambridge company with an award for Innovation and five for International Trade.

ARM EVP selected chairman of Cambridge Network

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 22 April 2013. Posted in The Cluster

ARM's outgoing Human Resources EVP, Bill Parsons, has been selected as the replacement for Neil Davidson as Cambridge Network chairman.

2012, the year IoT and M2M broke through

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 19 April 2013. Posted in The Cluster

This article first appeared in the Cambridge Tech Quarter 2012 Review.

Innovation is great, but adoption is better. When it comes to machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and the Internet of Things (IoT), Cambridge is at the heart of both, a healthy place to be for an industry that promises to erupt into something very big very soon.

Everyone's talking IoT devices, but what about the business model?

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 19 April 2013. Posted in The Cluster

Nasa's shot of Earth at night. This one mainly Europe, a dark and deep blue where the countries are shaped by a glittering gold of lights

The recurring theme in almost any conversation about the Internet of Things is devices, what will be the breakthrough product, which will be the dominant protocols, 50 billion M2M devices by 2020, but in all of this, where's the discussion about what will be the winning business models?

Cambridge IPOs like buses, wait ages then three arrive at once

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 18 April 2013. Posted in The Cluster

A lofty short of the LSE's paternoster square

Cambridge Cognition today kick-started the first of three new stock market listings expected to take place this year for Cambridge based technology companies following a barren 2012.

Biotech and telecoms lead big money deals as over $1 billion spent on Cambridge M&As in 2012

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 12 April 2013. Posted in The Cluster

Slanted petri dishes with a pipette adding substance to one of them

Domino Printing Sciences was the busiest acquirer in the Greater Cambridge area's technology and life sciences cluster in 2012, a year which saw a total of 26 publicised acquisitions with an aggregate value of £748 million – over one billion US dollars.

Cambridge VC and angel funding surpasses £65m for 2012

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 05 April 2013. Posted in The Cluster

Looking at Kings Parade from high up on St Marys church, sunny and bright

Over £65 million of early stage funding was invested into the Cambridge technology and life sciences companies in 2012, with the Telecoms sector claiming a narrow victory over Software as the cluster's most investable industry sector.

Springboard IoT: The teams unveiled

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 28 March 2013. Posted in The Cluster

Springboard IoT is go. Seventeen aspiring entrepreneurs working on the Internet of Things are now huddled together at the new ideaSpace Miller’s Yard base for what will be the last ever accelerator under the Springboard brand following its merger with TechStars.

Cambridge Consultants to double workforce under new growth plans

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 26 March 2013. Posted in The Cluster

CCL HQ just after twilight, lights glowing warmly, what a great place to work says the photo

Cambridge Consultants, the company often credited with being the founding father of the Cambridge technology cluster has announced one of the company's most ambitious expansion plans to date, beginning with the creation of 50 new jobs this year and the opening of its first Far East office.

£3.7m available for photonics-based healthcare innovation

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 11 March 2013. Posted in The Cluster

The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) is to oversee the investment of £3.7m into new projects that apply innovative photonics technologies to solve challenges in the health sector.

Computer museum bags Cambridge premises

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 26 February 2013. Posted in The Cluster

A satellite shot of where the computer museum will be located

It has taken almost two years of campaigning, but on Thursday the Centre for Computing History will finally take possession of the keys for its new Cambridge home.

Wanted: Cleantech build innovations for University Technical College Cambridge

Written by Lautaro Vargas on 21 February 2013. Posted in The Cluster

A teenage girl in a lab with the whole science thing going on, out of focus pipette into a flask of sorts

Cambridge Regional College is after innovative, local cleantech solutions to help with the construction of its new three storey University Technical College (UTC) for Cambridge, which will specialise in training for the environmental sectors.

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