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EnsiliTech - innovation in vaccine storage
by: Startacus Admin ~ 7th February 2023
The innovative solution to vaccine wastage - Bristol-based biotech startup EnsiliTech develops tech to enable refrigeration-free vaccine storage.
We heard stories during the pandemic of shipments of the vaccine going to waste because something went wrong with the refrigeration. Typically, vaccines must be kept refrigerated, at sub-zero temperatures, otherwise they will break down and become un...
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Beyondbmi - losing weight and gaining health made easier
by: Startacus Admin ~ 12th January 2023
Dublin-based healthtech startup Beyondbmi tackles weight loss with its science-based programme led by expert clinicians, nutritionists and health coaches.
It’s that time of year when about 98% of all people everywhere make losing weight one of their new year’s resolutions. It’s one of those things that we would like to happen without having to actually make it happen, because ...
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Oxford Quantum Circuits - building a quantum-enabled future
by: Startacus Admin ~ 5th August 2022
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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CATAGEN receives funding to propel Green Hydrogen and E-Fuels as decarbonisation routes for Net Zero
by: Startacus Admin ~ 8th June 2022
CATAGEN, a spin-out from Queen’s University Belfast secures funding to scale its team and develop new net zero technologies in green hydrogen and e-fuel production.
CATAGEN has received two new funding awards from the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), funded through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio, as part of the Red Diesel Replacement Competitio...
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Xtremedy Medical - medtech innovation to tackle infection
by: Startacus Admin ~ 1st December 2021
The lowdown on Xtremedy Medical, the Galway-based medtech startup that's on a mission to improve infection treatments and help prevent unnecessary amputations
No matter how advanced our healthcare becomes, it can still be in many ways pretty barbaric and severely lacking. We’re certainly a long way from the Star Trek world of pointing a bleeping device at someone and they’re magical...
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Glasgow Uni spinout SOLASTA Bio secures £1.3m to support development of eco-friendly insecticides
by: Startacus Admin ~ 16th August 2021
SOLASTA Bio secures major investment to help commercialise its nature-inspired neuropeptide-based insect control products
Fab news to start the week for Glasgow University spinout, SOLASTA Bio, having just secured seed investment of £1.3 million to support ongoing development of its unique nature-inspired pesticides.
Established in May 2020 after 4 years of research funded by UKRI BBSRC ...
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SureWash provides Hand Hygiene innovation
by: Startacus Admin ~ 25th March 2020Hand hygiene training made easy thanks to this MedTech innovation
The current COVID-19 pandemic means that we are having to learn something that those of us outside of medical and food-related professions probably never thought that we would really need to: how to properly wash our hands.
Yes, we wash our hands after going to the bathroom or before making food, etc., but how to really wash them ...
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- Startup Sook Receives Investment from Tobin Capital 24th May 2023 Tobin Capital continues to expand its portfolio by investing in pop-up marketplace Sook, the startup on a mission to revolutionise the high street.
- L Marks Seeking Startups and Scaleups for Sodexo Healthcare and Seniors Accelerator 23rd May 2023 Sodexo and L Marks open call for applications from innovative startups and scaleups to join their inaugural Sodexo Healthcare and Seniors Accelerator.
- United Utilities Innovation Lab launches call-out for innovative ideas for fifth programme 18th May 2023 Now in its fifth year, North West England water firm United Utilities opens call for Innovation Lab, its pioneering ideas incubation programme.
- OneTech Spins Out from Capital Enterprise to Support Underserved Communities in Tech Across the UK 18th May 2023 Not-for-profit OneTech has spunout from Capital Enterprise to expand its offering and continue its mission of creating a more equitable, diverse and supported startup ecosystem.