Cambridge Tech Podcast

What does it take to build a world class innovation ecosystem? More than brilliant research, ambitious founders and a fresh strategy. It takes connections that help ideas, capital and talent move where they can make the biggest difference. In this episode of the Cambridge Tech Podcast, Faye Holland and James Parton introduce a candid panel recorded at The Cambridge x Manchester Partnership Innovat...

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 6 November 2026 The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring University of Cambridge, Illumion, Cambridge Angels, Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, Foresight Group, ZEISS Ventures, Christoph Schnedermann, Echion Technologies, Arm, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Cambridge Pixel, EURONAVAL, Katie Yeo, Inspire 2 Ignite CIC, T...

From Bootstrap to Breakthrough: How VetCT Is Building the Future of Veterinary AI In this episode of the Cambridge Tech Podcast, hosts Faye Holland and James Parton meet Dr Victoria Johnson, founder and CEO of VetCT. Victoria shares how she turned a shortage of veterinary radiology expertise into an international business, why she bootstrapped for around 15 years, and how the company is exploring...

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 30 Oct 2026 The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring Quantinuum, Rajeeb Hazra, Plextek, King’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation, The European Space Agency, Brent Hudson, Victoria Johnson, VetCT.. Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Cambridge Tech Podcast goes inside the Postdoc Venture Creation Challenge (PVCC), to meet seven University of Cambridge teams turning rigorous research into investable ventures. Hosted by Faye Holland and James Parton, this episode is a snapshot of where the next wave of Cambridge innovation is forming: construction intelligence, regenerative medicine, industrial biotech, robotics, grid analyt...

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 23 Oct 2026 The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring University of Cambridge, IonQ The Ray Dolby Centre, The Cavendish Laboratory, Speechmatics, NVIDIA, Anglia Ruskin University, TWI, Innovate UK, Charlotte Ridley, Memorify, Kodak Moments, UKRI, Department for Business and Trade, Innovate Cambridge, Pascal Leven...

What does it take for an established company to create the kind of breakthrough that changes its market? In this episode of the Cambridge Tech Podcast, host James Parton speaks with Joe Corrigan, Chief Technology Officer, and Tim Fowler, Chief Commercial Officer, at Cambridge Consultants about 'Radical Innovation'. The conversation explores the Deep Tech Index and a challenge familiar to f...

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 16 Oct 2026 The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring CMR Surgical, Stryker, Massimiliano Colella, CuspAI, Darktrace, Andy Burnham, Chad Edwards, Ed Jennings, Echion Technologies, Proper Voltage, Alchera Technologies, Maven Capital Partners, British Business Bank, Nyobolt, Agility Robotics, Cambridge Design Partn...

Recorded live at Cambridge Tech Week, this panel brings together a founder who is actively rewriting the economics of drug discovery, two of Europe's most respected deep tech investors, and a sovereign fund deploying capital from Seoul into the UK ecosystem. The result is a substantive conversations on what it actually takes to build a globally consequential company from Cambridge. The moderat...

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 9 October 2026 The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring Reclinker, Adviisa, Zenithon and QPT. Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Cambridge Tech Week 2026: The (UK) Deep Tech Playbook The UK has the research, talent and capital to create category defining deep tech companies. The missing piece is a more connected system that turns breakthrough science into globally scaled businesses while keeping more of the economic value in the UK. In this Cambridge Tech Podcast panel, Joanne Hosker of Northern Gritstone is joined by...

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 2 Oct 2026 The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring Cambrionix, Intralink, Raspberry Pi, Chinese International Economic Cooperation Association, Innovate Cambridge, Cambridge Enterprise, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Paragraf, EPSRC, Hannah Goldsmith, The Centr...

Please note this episode covers some difficult topics, specifically the issue around child sexual abuse, which some listeners may find distressing. Listener discretion is advised. In this episode of the Cambridge Tech Podcast, hosts Faye Holland and James Parton speak with Emma Hardy, Communications Director at the Internet Watch Foundation, about the fast-moving fight to prevent child sexual abus...

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 25 September 2026. The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring Cambridge Vacuum Engineering (CVE), Cambridge Atomworks, Riverlane, Discovery District Maryland, Kendall Square, Boston, University of Maryland, British Business Bank, Andrew Cock-Starkey, Optimisey, Internet Watch Foundation. To submit your own news, v...

Cambridge Tech Week has firmly earned its place as a must-attend moment for the UK innovation community. In the latest Cambridge Tech Podcast, hosts Faye Holland and James Parton are joined by Cambridge Angels Emmi Nicholl to reflect on a packed week of founder conversations, investor insight and the big questions shaping the sector. The Week retained its distinctive Cambridge energy: busy, organi...

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 18 September 2026. The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring Cambridge Tech Week, CWConnected, Echion Technologies, and Cambridge Enterprise. Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

10 Years of the Maxwell Centre: Where Cambridge's Deep Tech Future Is Being Built James heads to the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge to mark its first decade, sitting down with four remarkable people who between them span the full arc from foundational physics research to frontier AI startups. If you want to understand how Cambridge actually turns brilliant science into world-changin...

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 11 September 2026 The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring Quantinuum, OutSee, Innovate UK, Empirical Ventures, Pragmatic Semiconductor, Doctor Paul James, Frontier Developments, Disney, Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge Tech Week, Maxwell Centre. Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod See less Hosted on Acast. Se...

This week we sat down with Jonathan Benton , Founder and CEO of iSanctuary , and it is one of the most remarkable founder stories we have heard. In the episode we cover: Why crypto fraud has reached epidemic scale and why only 0.1% of cases ever reach prosecution How REKTify works and the world-first legal cases that proved it The plan to automate at massive scale and become the blockchain equival...

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 25 September 2026. The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring Pragmatic Semiconductor, Mission Therapeutics and NeuraLight. Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We sat down with Amelia Armour , Partner at Amadeus Capital Partners , for one of the most insightful conversations we've had about the state of UK deep tech investment, and the mood is genuinely optimistic. The headlines? The UK's first half of 2026 has been the strongest for venture since 2022, with $17 billion flowing into UK-backed companies. Cambridge unicorns are arriving with real momentum....

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 28 August 2026 Hear updates from Arm, IBM, and Cambridge Tech Week. Tune in on Tuesday for our interview with Amelia Armour of Amadeus Capital Partners. Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cambridge Tech Week's pitch competition is back, and this year's shortlist might be the strongest yet. James and Faye sit down with four of the five finalists ahead of their head-to-head on the main stage of the Cambridge Corn Exchange on 16 September 2026 . It's a special, quick episode, a reunion of sorts: four of the five companies have featured on the podcast before, many as #21toWatch winners...

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 21 August 2026. Hear updates from Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Qureight, Flit, Mantle Space and TR Property Investment Trust. And next Tuesday - tune in for a preview of the pitching companies at next month’s Cambridge Tech Week. Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if the biggest threat to the world's energy infrastructure is something you can't even look at? Dr Chiraz Ennaceur , CEO and Co-founder of Cambridge-based CorrosionRADAR , joined James and Faye for one of our most compelling conversations to date - a masterclass in deep tech entrepreneurship, customer-led product development, and building a global business from a genuinely unglamorous industr...