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Cancer Tech Accelerator Funds Six Teams to Develop Cutting-Edge Technology
Nineteen teams from Cancer Tech Accelerator came together at IDEALondon for a pitch day which saw six promising projects selected to move forward to Phase II of the programme. Now in its second year, the consortium, backed by Cancer Research UK, its innovation engine,...
Meet the Founders: Elise Jenkins and Ben Woodington, Opto Biosystems
We caught up with Elise Jenkins and Ben Woodington, alums of our Cancer Tech Accelerator and the founders of Opto Biosystems. A bioelectronics startup, Opto aims to revolutionise healthcare with miniaturised sensors that can be implanted into the brain to deliver a...
Meet the Founders: Claudine Adeyemi, Earlybird
We caught up with Claudine Adeyemi, founder of Earlybird, a voice-based onboarding tool designed specifically for employability providers and a 2019 alum of our OneTech programme. The conversation ranged from Claudine’s background as a lawyer to the single most...
Three Things You Should Consider as an Academic Before Spinning Out
There’s been a lot of discussion around university spinouts recently, and not always for the right reasons. Many of the companies we support at Capital Enterprise through our health and life science programmes are spinouts, and even our non-spinouts tend to include...
Inside a Venture Builder: George Neville-Jones, Cambridge Future Tech
We sat down with George Neville-Jones, a co-founder of venture builder Cambridge Future Tech and CEO of the recently-launched GitLife Biotech, for a conversation about partnering with universities, creating startups, and why he’s excited about working on the GitHub of...
What We Need to Accelerate the UK Life Science Sector: More Labs, More Spinouts, and Virtual Clusters
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt recently told an audience of tech executives that he wants to make Britain “the next Silicon Valley,” with health and life sciences singled out as a priority area. This is an excellent goal, and one we are in some ways already well-positioned to...
Meet the Founders: Adam Amara and Rémy Boutonnet, Turing Biosystems
Turing Biosystems has developed an interpretable AI that allows the integration of multiple layers of data for clinicians and biopharma companies to optimise treatments and therapies. We sat down with Adam Amara and Rémy Boutonnet, the two co-founders, to talk about...
AI is Exploding. What to Do When Opportunity Knocks?
The news that Radical Ventures is raising a new $550 million fund to invest in AI startups, with a London outpost headed by Aaron Rosenberg formerly of DeepMind, is an excellent sign for the UK's startup ecosystem. London’s AI cluster is genuinely a leader in the...
Barclays Eagle Labs Demo Day Showcases Startups with Fintech, AI, CleanTech Focus
We recently hosted a Demo Day for the Barclays Eagle Labs Funding Readiness Programme at our IDEALondon base. With more than 300 companies enrolled in the latest autumn 2022 cohort alone, it was tough to whittle down to a handful to showcase. If you’re interested in...
On Finding Unicorns in Unexpected Places
In the waning days of 2022, a Dealroom report caught our attention. As summarised by UKTN, the UK startup ecosystem remains head and shoulders above its nearest Continental competitors, both in terms of funds raised (£24 billion for 2022, against £11.4 billion for...
Startup Interview: How Jump Built a Better Job-Matching Platform
Andrea Consonni talks to us about how KEEP helped his startup, Jump, build a better job matching platform using AI. https://youtu.be/wlb7QTLC5LY Jump was subsequently acquired by Jobandtalent, a Spanish unicorn. KEEP stands for Knowledge Exchange and Embed...
How Was 2022 For You?
How was 2022 for you? Eventful, most likely, and it's not over yet. Here's hoping the last few weeks of this tumultuous year bring only pleasant surprises. With the year winding down, it's a good time to remember the highlights. For all of us at Capital Enterprise,...
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