Cambridge Startup Stories

Shining a light: The illuminating startup story of solar innovator, Eight19

Eight19 emerged from the white hot foundries that are Cambridge University's research laboratories with the help of well funded and focused government project looking to engineer a world lead in advanced photovoltaics (PV). Posted | 26 jan 2012

Making learning an appy experience: How Knowledge Transmission is educating the educators

This is the story of Knowledge Transmission, a company that's dragging the educational publishing industry into the mobile age by not only providing great online and mobile content that can engage and teach a young audience, but also delivering the clients Posted | 14 jan 2012

How Abcam set out to become the Amazon of biotech: Jonathan Milner's startup story

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. Posted | 18 dec 2011

High voltage: How Amantys plans to plug the world of power electronics into digital

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. Posted | 27 nov 2011

On the button: ANT co-founder, Borris Fell's startup story

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. Posted | 13 nov 2011

Living in a material world - Granta Design's David Cebon

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 Asby spun out of Cambridge University, it seems to have gotten pretty much everywhere. Posted | 30 oct 2011

Stemming the tide - Green-Tide Turbine wants to be cleantech's first big exit

Michael Evans has been innovating from his earliest working days, mixing design flair with manufacturing know how. Now, as CEO and founder of Green-Tide Turbines he must convince the investment community to back cleantech. Posted | 16 oct 2011

Cambridge Science Centre on a roll as it works towards discovery centre

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. Posted | 25 sep 2011

Startup survivors tell tales from the jungle at first Startup Masterclass

One of the four programmes backed to the tune of £40k by ideaSpace to accelerate startup growth launched its inaugural event this week in Cambridge. Posted | 23 sep 2011

Immaculate conception: Cambridge Temperature Concepts

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 anyone that's ever considered having a family. Posted | 11 sep 2011