Initial shortlist announced for Business Weekly Awards
Business Weekly writes...Entries for the Business Weekly Awards are now closed and lead forensic sponsor Mills & Reeve has begun the vetting process with interviews currently taking place between its lawyers and respective entrants.
New Business Weekly Award to honour a special Cambridge Tech Week champion
Tony Quested writes: Cambridge Tech Week, which made its bow in 2023, is being brought back for a second successive year from September 9-14 with a rammed programme highlighting game-changing innovation engendered in the Cluster and impacting the world.
Business Weekly Awards show young guns hitting fresh targets
The presentation of the 2021 Business Weekly Awards at St John’s Innovation Centre last week highlighted a step change in the profile and prospects of the new wave of Cambridge tech and life science game-changers.
Green electronics company Cambridge GaN Devices named Business Weekly’s Tech Scale-Up of the Year
Co-founders of the deep tech company spun-out of Cambridge University, Dr Giorgia Longobardi and Professor Florin Udrea, respectively awarded prestigious Woman Entrepreneur and Academic Entrepreneur titles in unprecedented triple awards win.
Bear necessities as Cambridge digital health venture goes global
Cambridge digital health startup Boutros Bear is raising fresh funds as it targets a push into the US to fight chronic illness – notably cancer – and the mental and physical consequences for patients.
Arecor market cap soars to c$100m after IPO
Cambridge biopharma business Arecor made a stunning bow on London’s AIM market today as its share price immediately grew wings.
Arecor set for UK IPO
Thrusting Cambridge biopharma business Arecor is planning a UK IPO. The company is advancing a robust portfolio of partnered and proprietary treatments from existing therapies to enable healthier lives. Diabetes is a prime area.
Initial shortlist unveiled for 'Business Weekly' Awards
The addition of two particular categories has helped produce a brilliant initial shortlist for the Business Weekly Awards. The DeepTech/AI and Quoted Company of the Year categories have injected an extra pizzazz to the process.
Cambridge Network and 'Business Weekly' push Cluster’s global credentials
Cambridge Network and Business Weekly have strengthened an alliance designed to heighten profile and hopefully win fresh business for local companies within the UK and internationally.
Abcam raises $180m through US IPO
Cambridge-based Abcam, which supplies tools globally for life science research, has had a blockbusting response to its IPO on America’s NASDAQ technology exchange.
Cambridge Network companies win 'Business Weekly' awards
Nearly every winning company named in this year's prestigious Business Weekly Awards programme is a member of Cambridge Network, while Dr Hermann Hauser, one of Cambridge Network's Founder Directors, has won the Cambridge Enterprise Lifetime Achievement Award.
Darktrace primed for huge IPO
Cambridge-based cyber security world leader Darktrace continues to work towards an IPO – possibly in the US and UK – next year after growing its market capitalisation to more than $2 billion, reports Business Weekly today.
Cambridge science and technology cluster leads trade fightback
Cambridge Cluster science and technology companies have started the fightback against a virtual UK lockdown with global deals and strategies collectively worth billions, writes Tony Quested in Business Weekly today.
New date planned for postponed Awards dinner at Queens’ College Cambridge
The escalation of the UK’s battle against COVID-19 has prompted Business Weekly to postpone the 30th Anniversary Awards presentation dinner, due to be held at Queens’ College Cambridge on March 25.
'Business Weekly' Awards shortlist announced
The Business Weekly Awards shortlist, unveiled yesterday (Tuesday), precisely reflects why Cambridge and the East of England innovation cluster is rated so highly on the global stage.
Darktrace becomes Cambridge’s 16th $Bn business and No.17 is looming
Cyber defence technology specialist Darktrace has become the Cambridge UK cluster’s 16th billion dollar company and its fastest to achieve unicorn status, reports Business Weekly.
New science and technology park for Cambridge
Life science innovator o2h is engineering a new science & technology park in Cambridge UK.
Primera Air offers US flights to help raise cash for EACH
Executives attending the Business Weekly Awards presentation dinner in Cambridge on Wednesday (March 21) have the chance to win return flights for two people from Stansted to North America on new services being launched by Primera Air.
Bango raises £5m to buy data management business
Cambridge mobile payment technology business Bango is raising £5 million growth capital which will cover the acquisition of a European data management specialist, reports Business Weekly.
Broadcom proposes to acquire Qualcomm
"Cambridge awaits its fate in $130bn Broadcom-Qualcomm bid showdown," says yesterday's headline in Business Weekly.
AVEVA and Schneider finally create £3bn Cambridge powerhouse
At the third time of asking, software group AVEVA and French business Schneider Electric have agreed a deal that will create a technology powerhouse in Cambridge worth around £3 billion employing some 3,500 people, reports Business Weekly.
ARM Q2 sterling revenues up 17 per cent
Cambridge chip architect ARM Holdings has hoisted Q2 revenues by 17 per cent to £267.6 million and pre-tax profits by five per cent to £130.1m.
Japanese agree $31bn ARM acquisition
Cambridge’s greatest ever technology business – chip architect ARM Holdings – is reportedly being sold to the Japanese for $31 billion (£23.4bn) – the largest deal in the UK cluster’s history by some distance and the biggest in European technology annals, writes Tony Quested of Business Weekly.
Raspberry Pi adds to Cambridge A-list in UK Scale-Up Club
Raspberry Pi Foundation, the Cambridge-based inspiration behind the eponymous micro computer, has been invited to join Silicon Valley Comes to the UK’s 2015 Scale Up Club, reports Business Weekly