Cambridge Tech Podcast

The latest episode of the Cambridge Tech Podcast reveals a fascinating trend in the tech ecosystem: some of the most impactful people supporting startups today are themselves former founders who've made the leap into major tech companies. In this week's episode, hosts James Parton and Faye Holland speak with Alexandre Béliard and Kimoon Kim from Google who are transforming how early-stage companie...

This week's show features Salvatore DiMaggio from KPMG, alongside the Tech Innovators East of England’s competition winners Gwen Wyatt Moon (Prospectral) and runner-up Tim Smeda (Hypergen). Prospectral is transforming industrial computer vision by bringing material inference to production lines in real-time - they've already secured paid pilots with Rio Tinto and the Singapore government. Hypergen...

The long-awaited on-the-road-in-a-Polestar episode is finally here! Tune in as normal - but this time, check out our YouTube channel - there's video too.   We took you behind the scenes of CWOD:   Prashant Shah opens the day with us, navigating the Cambridge innovation landscape as we drive through the city. He also reveals the launch of the Cambridge Stock Exchange - find out more about...

This week on Cambridge Tech Podcast, we sit down with Dan Thorp, CEO of Cambridge Ahead, to dig into the freshly published Cambridge Economic Overview (CamEO) Report - and the picture is more complicated than the headlines suggest. The positives are real: 281 equity deals between 2020–2024 (the highest of any UK location outside London), three of the five biggest UK biotech VC deals in Q1 2026 fro...

What happens to your photos, videos, and digital memories when you die? If you're storing them with Apple, Google, or any of the major tech platforms, the answer may surprise, and disturb, you. This week, Faye sits down with Charlotte Ridley, founder and CEO of Memorify Technologies, for one of the most personal and purpose-driven founder stories the Cambridge Tech Podcast has featured. It's a con...

Robin Sterling started his PhD 20 years ago when useful quantum computers were "at least 10 years away." He's seen the field go from academic curiosity to venture-backed race - with companies like Quantinuum and Riverlane demonstrating things that once felt like pipe dreams. But he's candid: today's systems are still orders of magnitude smaller than what's actually useful. Right now, quantum syste...

Prashant Shah co-hosts this week’s episode with Faye Holland talking all things CWOW - and it's going to be a big one. CWOW runs from 11th–19th June 2026 , bringing together the life sciences community across Oxford, London and Cambridge for a week packed with pitches, open days, panels, and networking. Here's a snapshot of what we talked about: 🚀 Ventures Tours (Oxford → London → Cambridge) Kick...

In this week's episode, hosts Faye Holland and James Parton dive deep into the region's thriving FinTech ecosystem with Tim Robinson, CEO of Tech East, and Antony Bellingall, co-founder of Norwich-based compliance software company Idenfo. What emerges is a compelling story about regional tech excellence, female founder leadership, and why London's dominance in FinTech might be masking some genuine...

When Debbie Toms met Chad Edwards at a casual barbecue in early 2024, neither of them could have predicted what would unfold. Two years on, CuspAI has raised over $130 million, assembled a world-class team across Europe, and is tackling some of humanity's most pressing challenges through AI driven materials discovery. It's the kind of origin story that makes you question whether you've been to the...

In the latest episode of the Cambridge Tech Podcast, hosts James Parton and Faye Holland chat with Rafie Faruq, co-founder of Genie AI.   Genie AI is already backed by Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures, operates across 35+ countries, and serves everyone from SMEs to enterprises. But the real story? It's about reimagining an entire industry.   "We're democratizing expertise and what we'...

This episode of the Cambridge Tech Podcast tackled one of the industry's most overlooked crises: electronic waste. We spoke with Sonia Lange Ramontja, founder of Retapp, about building a sustainable business that's as profitable as it is purposeful. Here's a sobering statistic: e-waste constitutes 70% of all toxic waste globally , yet it remains largely invisible in mainstream conversations. Sonia...

Cambridge Tech Podcast latest episode is with Bill Yost talking cement, startups, and the differences in building businesses either side of the Atlantic. Cement is the second most used material on Earth with 4 billion tonnes produced annually, and conventional cement production accounts for 7% of global CO2 emissions. If the cement industry were a country, it would rank behind only the US and Chin...

This week we meet Rob Walden, co-founder of Euthasafe, and discuss his journey from aerospace engineering to the life-saving technology his team is developing right now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The latest episode of the Cambridge Tech Podcast features Tim Ansor, leader of the Intelligent Services Business Unit at Cambridge Consultants, discussing the rapidly evolving world of physical AI and robotics. If you're building in this space or investing in it, this conversation is essential listening. What Is Physical AI, Anyway? Tim cuts through the hype to define physical AI simply: AI that u...

Michael Meeks joins us the week to talk about competing with Microsoft, and why Open Source Wins. Some of the highlights of our conversation include: On organic growth: "Unlike many VC-backed companies, we're organic, we're profitable and we have a mission which is to drive open source." The business model is counterintuitive but brilliant. By giving away free software, Collabora builds massive br...

Welcome to Cambridge Tech Week Kickstarter, the event that's putting Cambridge firmly on the global innovation map. This year's theme? How Deep Tech Changes the World. If you're a founder, investor, or tech enthusiast, tune in to find out more about the week, and to hear the panel discussion at the kickstarter event. The episode starts with updates from Kathryn Chapman (Innovate Cambridge), Rob Br...

The latest Cambridge Tech Podcast episode packed a punch with exciting announcements from the Cambridge ecosystem, followed by an in-depth conversation with Jean Michel Van, founder of Ryse Flow, a company building the next generation of AI-powered sales automation. The real gem of this episode is Jean Michel's journey from corporate product management to founding Ryse Flow. His story is refreshin...

Episode 182 features five of this year's #21toWatch winners - and if you're in the startup ecosystem, this one's unmissable. For those unfamiliar, for the last eight years #21toWatch has been high on the regions innovation showcase, and the numbers speak for themselves. Over eight cohorts, 168 companies have landed on the list and collectively raised a staggering £721 million. This year marks a pa...

In this week’s episode, Nweike Onwuyali founder of Ziphii, suggests that technology companies are "fundamentally flawed" in their approach. They build tools for customers and their employees but often exclude the actual end-users who need to interact with the solution. Nweike proposes that most players either have advertising-centric DNA or remain stuck in the "tool mindset." Nweike wants to...

This episode reveals why quantum computing's next big breakthrough might not be about building better qubits, it's about connecting them together. NuQuantum's journey is a masterclass in pivoting based on market reality. "Quantum computing is reassuringly hard," Ed explains. "Whatever technique you pursue, there are different limits of scale. But pretty much every modality hits a point where you c...

Episode 179 hosts Faye Holland and James Parton sit down with Irina Barbina (CEO) and Matthew Griffiths (CTO) to unpick how Concr is using predictive modelling and digital twins to transform cancer drug development. Cancer data is fragmented. Clinical trials, pre-clinical research, and real-world patient data exist in silos. There's no unified way to predict how individual patients will respond to...

The latest Cambridge Tech Podcast episode tackles one of the most pressing challenges facing the tech industry today: how do we prepare the next generation for a world fundamentally reshaped by artificial intelligence? The Problem Is Real The statistics are sobering. The UK has 700,000 unemployed graduates struggling to gain a foothold in the labour market. Young people aren't just worried about A...

The Trinity Bradfield Prize is back, and this year's cohort of winners is nothing short of brilliant. If you're a founder, investor, or simply someone who gets excited about deep tech solving real problems, this episode is essential listening. We’ll hear from this year's winners: GreenMixes, Maricene and Phase Shift. And also, from Pinepeak – a returning winner who this year won the Angel Prize. T...

When Trinity College decided to transform a former farm - complete with redundant railway sidings and stored US Army tanks - into the UK's first science park in 1970, they took a calculated risk that would reshape Cambridge's entire innovation ecosystem. Fast forward 55 years, and Cambridge Science Park remains a masterclass in how to build thriving communities for deep tech and life science compa...

The latest Cambridge Tech Podcast episode is an absolute masterclass in startup strategy, investment psychology, and navigating the cutthroat world of AI talent. Host James Parton and Faye Holland sit down with Alexander Kardos-Nyheim, whose journey from teenage legal warrior to founding an AI company acquired by Thomson Reuters in just two years, is nothing short of remarkable. This episode cuts...