27 June 2013
Monica Healthcare developing new generation products
Monica Healthcare Ltd, the Nottingham developers of a new breed of fetal monitoring equipment, has secured a further cash injection from investors to commence the development of its ‘next’ generation products. This funding round for the Biocity-based company has been...
12 June 2013
Michelson Diagnostics wins Regulatory Approval for VivoSight OCT Scanner in Australia
Portfolio company Michelson Diagnostics, the UK based medical device company, has been given regulatory approval by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia to start selling its market leading VivoSight OCT Scanner. Australia has the highest incidence of skin...
5 June 2013
Lumora agrees licence and development program for Veterinary applications with Biogal Galed Labs
Portfolio company Lumora, a provider of state-of-the-art molecular diagnostic products for the clinical and industrial market, has entered into a license and development agreement with Biogal Galed Labs ACS Ltd, a provider of veterinary diagnostics, to develop a series of...
3 June 2013
RTS ‘gears up’ to grab larger slice of renewable energy sector
The Catapult Growth Fund has made a follow-up investment into Renewable Technical Services (“RTS”), the rapidly expanding ‘one-stop’ service provider to operators and owners of wind turbines. Kettering-based RTS is using the funding to extend its range of...
30 May 2013
British Gas leads £7m investment in telecoms and data centre efficiency company 4energy
Portfolio company 4energy, the innovative energy efficiency provider to global telecoms and data centre businesses, has raised new investment from British Gas and existing investors Environmental Technologies Fund, Carbon Trust and Catapult Venture Managers. British Gas has led...
23 May 2013
Catapult makes further investment into Kick Sport
Kick Sport Ltd, one of the UK’s leading online martial arts retailers, has received a £250k cash injection to help develop and launch a subsidiary business called Umkiki, which will create partnerships with martial arts clubs and associations. The latest funding...
21 May 2013
Probe Scientific signs a non-exclusive licence with Menarini Diagnostics
Portfolio company Probe Scientific Ltd, an emerging UK medical device developer based at the Warwick University Science Park, has announced an important step forward in the commercialization of its novel blood sampling microdialysis technology, MicroEye®. MicroEye®...
29 April 2013
Oxford BioTherapeutics and Boehringer Ingelheim enter collaboration to discover novel antibody targets in cancer
Oxford BioTherapeutics (OBT) and Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) today announce a new alliance focused on the discovery of novel cancer antibody targets that OBT will identify with the help of its OGAP® discovery platform. Under the collaboration OBT will validate certain targets...
22 April 2013
Lumora to partner with FIND to develop new, high-throughput Malaria molecular diagnostic test for use in the developing world
Lumora, a provider of state-of-the-art molecular diagnostic products for the clinical and industrial market, has partnered with The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) to develop a rapid, high-throughput malaria diagnostic assay for screening patients in the...
19 April 2013
Sight and Sound Technology win BVCA Award
Portfolio company Sight and Sound Technology has won the award for Venture Capital Backed Management Team of the Year at the recent Midlands BVCA Management Team Awards. Sight and Sound Technology is the UK’s leading provider of hardware and software to the blind, visually...