Cambridge Tech Podcast

Much of our audience is outside Cambridge, so we thought we’d invite the encyclopaedic-knowledgeable David Gill to talk us through the history of innovation in this great city. Tune in to discover more about our city's ‘magic sauce’ - a research base, people with vision, and the ability to build a broad coalition - and much more. Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

Qureight is a digital healthcare company focused on applying AI-enabled lung image analysis in the treatment of severe respiratory diseases CEO and co-founder, Muhunthan Thillai, talks with Faye about the company and how it came about, technology, funding, the recent announcement with Astra Zeneca, and a whole host of other things, including some great tips for entrepreneurs starting their journey...

This week we bring you a live recording from Cambridge Tech Week. James hosted a panel discussion on the Cambridge Tech Ecosystem, that features Henry Whorwood from Beauhurst, Tabitha Goldstaub, Director, Innovate Cambridge and Christine Martin, Head of Seed Funds, Cambridge Enterprise. Produced by Carl Homer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many people, both locally and globally, will know this week’s guest, Peter Cowley, as an international angel investor, but here we dig deeper – much deeper. With permission, we were very privileged to talk to Peter about his personal life – living with cancer, family bereavement, and removing the stigma of suicide. We also celebrate his recent marriage to Lis before talking about his career and th...

If you look at the #EdTech space, the market is awash with solutions that are simple in nature, yet often lacking the power of ‘tech’. But sAInaptic is doing something very different. They have an AI-based web-app that auto-marks descriptive answers in science and provides instant teacher-like feedback. The feedback includes a predictive score and qualitative information on correct and missed...

We were back on the road recently at the One Nucleus #ONHelix23 event where we talked about #biotech trends, the use of #AI #tech in #lifesciences and the importance of the One Nucleus community. We were delighted to talk to Tony Jones, Enhanc3D Genomics, Appleyard Lees, BRAINCURES and Mike Ward – all who shared details of their journey and some of the great opportunities for the industry. Produce...

In this episode we talk to problem solver, Ben Pellegrini, CEO at #MachineLearning company Intellegens. Intellegens’ objective is to use algorithms to get the most out of data, and they do this with a machine leading model and a complimentary enterprise SW platform that enables the tech to be deployed and the results accessible. Ben talks about the journey that he and co-founder Dr Gareth Conduit...

Talking to leading tech entrepreneur Hermann Hauser was always going to cover a variety of topics and we hope you agree it was a really interesting discussion. We talk about… ·       Was it all out war between Sinclair and Acorn Computers? ·       How Intel initially told Arm to ‘get lost’ and how the tables turn, with Intel now...

This week’s guest is Ben Woodington, with fellow co-founder (AKA powerhouse) Elise Jenkins there in spirit! Find out more about how Opto is developing a new generation of neurological interfaces that can read electrical information from inside your body. Ben tells us about making very small interfaces, well-tolerated in the body, and applying it to one of humankind’s most significant health issues...

This week saw the inaugural Cambridge Wide Open Day orchestrated by Prashant Shah at o2h Group. The day offered a unique insight into the city’s world-renowned science and technology, by bringing together visitors from across the Cambridge community - from scientists to school children - to explore what happens on their doorstep. In this week’s episode, we talk about some of the activities and peo...

Rather than writing about the news, this week’s guest, Matt Gooding, editor at Tech Monitor talks to us about how a range of subjects, including the potential for #AI; the Tech Nation move to Barclays Eagle Labs; the UK’s ambitions for the semiconductor and Quantum Computing industries and how we need to take our place in the global ecosystem; and the future of journalism. Tune in to hear more fro...

Did you know that Cambridge is working on autonomous vehicles, intelligent city platforms, and digital twins? Dan Clarke, Head of Innovation and Technology at the Greater Cambridge Partnership, tells us more and gets us thinking about how future cities could work. One of Dan’s first outputs is the creation of an Innovation Prospectus to encourage more tech companies to use Cambridge as a testbed....

In this episode, we are joined by Amelia Armour, partner at global venture capitalist (VC) firm, Amadeus Capital, which holds $1bn assets under management. Amelia shares how Amadeus’s investments are identified, what technologies are getting the team excited, and what are her top tips for early-stage entrepreneurs. Tune in to hear about some of their portfolio, and how as a VC supporting investmen...

Welcome to the Cambridge Tech Week (#CTW23) wrap episode which includes highlights from the core and connect event, our takeaways from some of the sessions and conversations that we had, a selection of the fringe events, and some additional exclusive interviews. Get your cup of coffee, or your shoes on for your walk, and tune in for a condensed view of the inaugural Cambridge Tech Week. This episo...

We did it – our first episode recorded with a live audience. And we loved it! The audience is elected as our new ambassadors, and the job was made even easier with our amazing panel – Jamie Urquhart - Arm, Martina King - Featurespace, Adam Durrant - Satavia, Umaima Malik Ahmad - 52 North Health. We covered so much - How tech companies have changed; How Cambridge is more entrepreneurial now than ev...

We all know that the reality is that we don’t have 95% coverage using our mobile devices, and that ubiquitous coverage simply doesn’t exist. Not to mention half of the population of the world that has zero access. Stratospheric Platforms is intending to solve both issues by replacing a typical infrastructure build. They are working on a “flying 5G cell tower” - an unmanned aerial vehicle powered b...

We talk about it a lot – the Cambridge ‘ecosystem’. This episode is to help people inside and outside Cambridge to navigate all the different companies and resources - from academic and research establishments to funding; from office space to incubators; from professional services to special events, we’ll try to cover it all. We cover four distinct areas: The universities, networks, and special ac...

Cambridge Business Association (CBA) is a Cambridge-born institution that started operations in 2018 to create business opportunities for entrepreneurs, investors, and managers throughout the world. The CBA promotes the presence of Cambridge´s ecosystem and fosters quality decision-making among business leaders in LatAm. Guillermo Ramirez and Pablo Riccheri explain more about their purpose to intr...

Creator Fund is a student-run, pre-seed and seed VC fund providing founders with a unique talent network via their PhD teams on-the-ground across 25+ universities. Backed by leading Venture Capital investors across Europe and the USA, Creator Fund focus on #AI #DeepTech and #LifeScience. Edward Elson Kosasih explains how it works, and how part of the teams’ role is as super-connectors across depar...

Ramsey Faragher, Founder and CTO of FocalPoint shares his journey of identifying the deep tech as a 20-year-old, and solving the challenge as a 40-year-old, and how an interesting sequence of events can put you in a place you never predicted. On a mission to make GPS better, FocalPoint now makes it available and accessible, and more truthful than ever before. But interestingly, this is not a chip...

In this episode, we get the lowdown on the inaugural Cambridge Tech Week running from 8-12 May 2023. Chris Bruce tells us all about the programme of events and how everyone can get involved - including a special international programme, and other streams to engage with the younger generations and a raft of fringe events. Find out more at cambridgetechweek.co.uk Ahead of the news, James and Faye wi...

Sano Genetics is building a software platform that helps pharma, biotech and academics deliver large-scale genetic testing from consent, engagement, testing, and results. In this episode, Co-Founder Patrick Short tells us about the challenge and Sano Genetics role in addressing this challenge and his thoughts on how genetic testing will become more and more accessible in the coming years. He openl...

From a skateboard to millions of downloads, in this episode John Doherty, founder of OrcaSan - a no-code barcode application - talks us through is journey. He shares with us the business need that started the first app, how to commercialise a free download, how to build customer success (versus ‘sales’), defining product development through customers’ needs, growing through revenue vs investment,...

This episode is with Ilyas Khan, Founder of Cambridge Quantum and Chief Product Officer of Quantinuum. It covers a range of topics starting with how Stephen Hawking led Ilyas on a mission to making quantum accessible and understandable resulting in a book published in February 2023 (already a best seller). With country after country committing to a programme to commercialise and industrialise Quan...

#21toWatch is the annual celebration of the up-and-coming people, companies and ‘things’ that they create across Cambridge and the East of England. Now in its fifth year, the programme has recognised businesses that have since raised over £304 million including SATAVIA, Colorifix, Paragraf, Riverlane, Flusso, Sook, Better Origin, Porotech, Cambridge Gan Devices and DiosVax. James talks to Faye abo...