Jan 5, 2025 · Law firm Mills & Reeve has advised Hertfordshire-based Eckoh plc, a leader in data security solutions, on the recommended £169 million all-cash offer by a newly formed company owned by investment funds managed by Bridgepoint, one of the world’s leading quoted private asset growth investors.

Oct 29, 2024 · More than $994 million has been raised by Cambridge technology companies in the past 12 months (to October 16, 2024) – helped by Pragmatic, Quantinuum and Raspberry Pi pulling in $731m between them.

Oct 17, 2024 · Drug holidays have also been mooted as a way to reverse addiction and set sufferers on a new and effective path to potential cures. The new large-scale study by researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Open Targets and collaborators used CRISPR gene editing to map the genetic landscape of drug resistance in cancers – focusing on ...

Oct 16, 2024 · Cambridge life science and technology companies have been involved in a dizzying series of acquisitions and fundraisings collectively worth more than $22.558 billion in the last 12 months (to October 16, 2024). Companies in the two sectors have been sold for a combined $14.481bn+ with a staggering 87 per cent of …

Artios has raised $320m to date from investors and strategic partners, including a $153m Series C financing in July 2021. The company has strategic partnerships with Merck KGaA and Novartis and research collaborations with Cancer Research UK, The Institute of Cancer Research, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, and the Crick Institute.

Dec 11, 2024 · PlayFusion CEO and CTO Mark Gerhard is joining Build a Rocket Boy and will share the helm with the Scottish company’s Leslie Benzies as co-chief exec.

Devolution is definitely in the air among so many of the English regions as we end 2024. My own home area of Greater Lincolnshire took a step closer on the formal path to devolution in the early autumn with the announcement by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) that we will see an elected mayor lead a combined authority next May.

Sep 29, 2024 · Cambridge was very much to the fore as the G7 Semiconductors Points of Contact group met at Arm’s HQ in the city. And in an allied initiative Cambridge projects involving Paragraf and the University of Cambridge shared in an £11.5m superchip research haul.

Dec 18, 2024 · One of Cambridge’s most promising biotech startups – Outsee Ltd – is collaborating with an organisation in Finland to advance biomedical research in dementia.

Cambridge-based online fraudbuster Featurespace is to be acquired by San Francisco company Visa – quoted on the New York Stock Exchange – for an undisclosed sum. Business Weekly has fielded reports from California that Visa could pay close to $1 billion.