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The lowdown on Oxford Quantum Circuits, the innovative Reading-based startup that's on a mission to make quantum computing accessible to all. Quantum physics is bizarre and fascinating. To look deeply into the subject is, we suspect, to invite madness. It’s like looking into a whole other world with different physics to our own. How can the cat be alive and dead? The almost literally incr...
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The lowdown on Oxford-based biotech startup Moa Technology and its mission to tackle the growing problem of herbicide resistance. Herbicide is a contentious thing. It keeps food safe from pests and keeps away weeds that would use up crops’ nutrients, etc., but it also has a pretty bad impact on the environment. Herbicides contaminate the soil and water, they can kill animals and insects ...
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The lowdown on Oxwash, the Oxford-based green-tech startup that's on a mission to reinvent laundry services as we know them. We have almost everything delivered these days. Whether it’s the weekly shop, a takeaway, or your nephew’s birthday present (shop local!), the ease with which we can have everything brought to us is too tempting to pass up. Just recently, one of the Startacus ...
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  Funding secured by Oxford Medical Products to further develop its innovative non-surgical and non-pharmaceutical weight-loss solution Innovations in weight loss technology took a step further with the news that Oxford Medical Products (OMP) has raised £1.2M in seed investment to develop a safe and affordable weight loss capsule, which uses the same mechanism of action as a gastric b...
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The Oxford-based tech startup that's created an innovative tracking solution that can be used to help mitigate the impact of COVID-19 It can often be useful to be able to keep track of where people are inside a building, but one of the most obvious places for this need is in hospitals. Knowing where doctors and nurses are at all time can be of great value to ensuring that people are being trea...
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Mouldbox, the startup that's on a mission to disrupt the manufacture of composite tooling using applied AI Creating carbon fibre and fibreglass parts are crucial for all sorts of markets and uses, from Formula 1 to aerospace to yacht building. And crucial to that process is the creation of a good mould, with the perfect design and the perfect materials. Oxford-based startup Mouldbox are spe...
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Oxford based early-stage startups and entrepreneurs take note - here's the lowdown on key startup support and help available where you are... Away from the established startup hubs like London, the support for setting up a business isn’t always so clear. It’s not a lack of support, just a quieter ecosystem that takes a little more work to unearth. We want to help with this by highligh...
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Cycle.land, the bike sharing marketplace unlocking the assets of unused bikes, has raised over £200k thanks to its highly successful 2nd equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs and now prepares to bring 1000's of bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters to Europe. Cycle.land is on a mission to disrupt urban transport. Founded in 2016 by Agne Milukaite and Peter Ebsen in Oxford, Cycle.land operates tho...
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