FreshCheck has developed a novel colour change technology to detect bacterial contamination on surfaces. Surface testing technology is required across many industries, and the existing technology is unreliable, slow and expensive. FreshCheck’s technology is affordable, simple, gives rapid and reliable results and can be applied across a wide range of products.
VersedAI, a University of Cambridge spin-out, is developing an advanced supervised deep learning solution that will allow companies to better understand significant business risk associated with their supply chains. The company’s technology uses advanced supervised deep learning methods combined with VersedAI’s own proprietary training data set to extract supply chain information from unstructured text documents.
Machine Discovery is an Oxford University spinout delivering a platform for optimisation, advanced statistical inference, and massive acceleration of computational simulations. The company leverages neural networks technology to replicate and accelerate simulations, thereby obtaining results many orders of magnitude faster than conventional simulation tools.
Carbometrics is a specialist supramolecular chemistry company. Carbometrics’ core technology is a synthetic molecule that was intricately designed to bind to glucose – A Glucose Binding Molecule (GBM) – which is being used to develop a new glucose sensor chemistry that can help patients manage diabetes, via Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM).
HexagonFab is developing a novel approach for process monitoring in the biopharmaceutical industry. The company has developed a portable and affordable instrument: ‘HexagonFab Bolt’, which can very rapidly generate biopharmaceutical data.
Zentraxa is developing and bringing to market a range of high-performance biomaterials. Early applications of its de-bondable adhesive technology are in the areas of advanced wound care and security.
iKVA can index very unstructured data from both internal and external sources and across multiple languages including documents, chat and video and bring all this information together in one place. iKVA ’s technology is founded on research from Cambridge University’s Computer Lab with many of the prime researchers coming together to form the iKVA team.
GripAble is developing an ecosystem of sensor-based devices and a software/data platform to replicate hospital rehabilitation therapy for in-home settings and hence to deliver improved clinical outcomes. GripAble was a spin out from the Department of Medicine and Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College. The company is developing home-based treatment rehabilitation, with the first
TextMine (previously known as Legislate) provides AI powered data extraction. The company has developed a range of products that make business-critical documents, including invoices, payslips, and contracts, machine-readable using AI and knowledge graphs. Its first product, Legislate, enables a new category of smart, open contracts which know what they contain and how they connect with
Charco Neurotech are developing a non-invasive vibrating device called CUE1, to help manage Parkinson’s symptoms. CUE1, a non-invasive wearable device for Parkinson’s, utilises pulsed cueing and focused vibrotactile stimulation to reduce symptoms of slowness and stiffness resulting in improved movement.
Riverlane is a world leading quantum engineering company, on a mission to make quantum computing useful, sooner. Riverlane is comprehensively addressing the challenge of quantum error correction, by building Deltaflow.OS – the operating system for error-corrected quantum computers.
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NoBACZ are pioneering a precision bandage platform to revolutionise wound care management. Their wound care products are sterile, antimicrobial, and biodegradable and can be tailored to suit any wound type.
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1715 Labs is a data labelling platform that allows AI to reach its full potential by structuring the data so that it can be effectively and efficiently analysed
Nyobolt (formerly called CB2 Tech) has developed a proprietary process using niobium-based anode materials to create batteries that deliver record high power, ultrafast charge and high energy. The world-leading charge and discharge rate capability of Nyobolt batteries, extensively recorded in academic journals, presents a huge opportunity to supercharge the electric revolution. The batteries also address
Nu Quantum make quantum devices which can emit and detect single-photons
GaitQ’s product the gaitQ system, a wearable, smart medical device, is looking to improve the lives of people living with Parkinson’s. The company are conducting early-stage consumer usability tests to inform the design of a reliant, discreet, and user-friendly wearable gait measurement device.
