Founder members

Anglia Business Solutions is a 25-year-old software and IT consultancy organisation with extensive supply chain expertise. The company is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, holding Microsoft Competencies in Mobility Solutions, Microsoft Business Solutions, Advanced Infrastructure Solutions and Information Worker Solutions.

Anglia serves a national customer base from its offices at Harston Mill, near Cambridge. The company is organised into four specialist business units each targeted at specific technology sectors. Integration Services facilitate the provision and configuration of a stable and secure networking and communications infrastructure. Business Management Solutions design and implement core financial, CRM, manufacturing and distribution solutions based upon the Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV ERP solution. The Software Development Team design and develop client specific applications and implement e-commerce solutions based on Microsoft .NET technologies.

Anglia Ruskin University is the university of choice for students and employers in the East of England and operates principally from campuses in Cambridge and Chelmsford

ARM designs and licenses high performance, low cost, power efficient RISC microprocessors, related technology and software in order to enhance performance, cost-effectiveness and power-efficiency in an extensive range of applications.

ARU's Employment Bureau
ARU's Employment Bureau is a specialised University Recruitment and
Employment Agency that deals predominantly with students and graduates. As well as co-ordinating the recruitment needs for Universities, the
Employment Bureau provides recruitment solutions for local, national
and international businesses.

The District Council for Cambridge. Activities include: building planning and control, leisure services, housing, environmental health, community development, cleansing, car parking, property letting, the market, and local tax and benefit administration.

Cambridge Consultants is a leading technology design, development and consulting company. Since 1960, our focus has been to deliver significant competitive advantage to our clients through the innovative use of technology.

A leading global provider of personal wireless technology whose product portfolio covers Bluetooth, GPS, FM and Wi-Fi (IEEE802.11). CSR offers developed hardware/software solutions, based around its silicon platforms, that incorporate fully integrated radio, baseband and microcontroller elements.

Leading law firm Hewitsons has an extensive company and commercial practice and acts for clients ranging from those with a stock market listing to entrepreneurial owner-managed businesses.

IPSO Ventures creates new technology companies from intellectual property and technology generated by universities and other research institutions.

We are Demand-led: our investment strategy is based on a market-pull approach, rather than the more common technology-push style of the venture capital community.

Johnson Matthey is a speciality chemicals company focused on its core skills in catalysis, precious metals, fine chemicals and process technology.

Marshall Business Aviation Centre
Marshall of Cambridge is proud to present its state of the art Business Aviation Centre, the business aviation gateway to Cambridge and the East of England, at your service.

Founded in 1909 as an automobile company in Cambridge, Marshall entered the aviation business in 1929. The Marshall Group, still a privately owned company, is chaired by Michael Marshall, the third generation of the Marshall family, and has a turnover approaching £650M per annum.

Marshall Aerospace enjoys an international reputation, particularly in 'high technology circles', for its Aircraft Design and Engineering skills, which includes a maintenance and modification centre supporting major airlines and air forces on a worldwide basis. Marshall Aerospace`s complete in-house capability includes Civil and Military Flight Test and Certification. Marshall SV is, today, a world leader in the design and supply of Mobile Military Equipment, Medical Systems,and Homeland Security Vehicles. The Marshall Motor Group is one of the largest motor dealer groups in the UK, and was a pioneer of multi- franchise dealerships. Today, The Marshall Motor Group represents 16 different motor manufacturers through 42 showrooms.

The Group of Companies currently has an employment approaching 4000 working in the fields of Aerospace Engineering, Specialist Vehicle Design and manufacture, Engineering Consutancy Skills for Military Rapid Mobility Solutions and Hospitals, Motor Car Sales and Service, Truck and Refrigerated Transport Sales and Service, and Property Ownership and Management.

Marshall Aerospace runs Cambridge City Airport, one of the best equipped Regional Airports in the UK.

Marshall is very active in the Training arena, and in addition to providing spare capacity to local companies, The Marshall Group provides direct sponsorship of three local schools (Teversham C of E Primary School, Coleridge Community College, and Bottisham Village College) and support to other schools. The company is also the sponsor of The Sir Arthur Marshall Institute of Aeronautics within Cambridge University Engineering Department.

NHS East of England provides strategic leadership for your local NHS.

We are the local headquarters of the NHS and work with 40 local NHS organisations across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.

We are responsible for ensuring that the £8.1 billion spent on health care in the region delivers the best services and value-for-money for over 5.6 million people.

Our mission is to explore and develop technologies that will be available in the marketplace in five to ten years – not just novelties, but technologies that will see mass market demand from consumers and enterprises.

Philips Research is one of the world's largest corporate research organizations. We develop new technologies and investigate potential growth areas for Philips. Our belief is that every innovation should start with an insight. To improve the quality of people's lives, we make a point of understanding what drives them, the dilemmas they face, and how we can help them in the best possible way.

Three billion times a day, P&G brands touch the lives of people around the world. This happens because P&G provides branded products of superior quality and value to improve the lives of the world's consumers. This results in leadership sales, profits and value creation, allowing employees, shareholders and the communities in which we operate to prosper.

Red Gate is a successful software company based in Cambridge. Ranked in The Sunday Times 'Best Small Companies to Work For', we provide award-winning SQL, .NET and email archiving tools for developers, testers, and DBAs working with Microsoft technologies. World-wide, we have over 500,000 technology professionals using our software.

Sagentia is a leading international technology consulting and IP licensing organisation with a reputation for successfully commercialising emerging science and technology. Sagentia creates, develops and delivers business opportunities, products and services for its clients.

Lawyers in Taylor Wessing's Cambridge office specialise in Corporate (particularly Venture Capital matters) and Technology/ Intellectual Property services.

A market leader in these areas, we deliver constructive, commercial advice through a partner-driven service with total commitment to our clients.

In addition, we provide a full range of legal services including finance, corporate, employment, tax, real estate, intellectual property and dispute resolution, both in the UK and across the world.

Taylor Wessing clients include leading financial institutions, major corporations, public sector bodies and wealthy individuals and families.

Ideas are the oxygen of a thriving company and none more so than WL Gore & Associates. Since its inception in 1958, Gore has grown from a wire and cable insulation business, into a $1.5bn a year diverse product leadership company with interests ranging from heart bypass valves, fuel cells, super capacitors, to guitar strings and of course, GORE-TEX®.

What makes Gore successful is its long-term commitment to fostering the creativity and the passion to succeed of all its 6,000+ associates across the globe. That this is more than just an empty boast is evidenced by the impressive record of bringing thousands of ptfe based products to market during the last 45 years. More than 2,000 active patents still protect Gore's manifold applications long after the expiry of the original patent. At the heart of the commitment to new ideas is Gore's lattice structure. An enviably flat management structure and a worldwide five digit communications system allow people of different skill sets to link up quickly and easily. A network of dedicated product specialists and new venture teams are structured to deal positively with the disruption of new ideas, and to ensure that the most promising are commercialised quickly. Remarkable as it may seem, for Gore Associates, this is an everyday adventure.

Gore's primary venturing team of 10 people is based in Munich, though it draws on the company's strengths from across Europe and the US. Its remit is to identify and invest in the acquisition or joint development of complimentary technologies that have the potential to reshape markets and people's expectations of what's possible. The technical and business knowledge available to Gore, accompanied by its global reach, make it possible to quickly explore the potential of business concepts that fall both inside and outside of its current spheres of core competence. These are broadly centred around electronic signal integrity and EMI shielding, medical devices and implants, industrial filtration and controlled permeation systems, and protective fabrics from tip to toe.

Nothing in Gore is shoehorned into a one-size fits all model. Ideas that challenge the status quo are encouraged to find their own size and shape, whatever their origin. Commercial best practice is never overlooked, just because a new idea has the potential to create its own excitement. All of which is summed up in Gore's modus operandi, make money and have fun.

If you want to know more about WL Gore's support for new ideas, we can be contacted through The Cambridge Network, or by ringing Silke Kemmerling-Schoeps in Germany on +49 89 4612 2590, or by e-mail at skemmerl@wlgore.com. For a short summary of Gore's primary business interests, see our web site at www.gore.com or call the number above to receive additional information.

Creative Technologies Worldwide

Xaar, established in 1990, is the world-leading independent supplier of industrial inkjet printheads. We offer the widest product range to deliver industrial strength inkjet performance, which in turn provides our customers with the flexibility and choice required to address the diversity of applications.

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