Deals

	SQW Group set to expand Innovation Centres business following acquisition SQW Group today announced that through its subsidiary, Oxford Innovation, a leading operator of innovation centres, it has completed the purchase of the business development operation of Fasset, a specialist operator of regional technology parks. more..	02/03/10
	Marshall agrees deal to acquire Francis Group Marshall Motor Group, the fast-growing, family-owned dealer group has just announced a further acquisition as part of its stated objective to grow beyond its traditional boundaries with its chosen partners. more..	18/02/10
	Amino will provide IPTV for Costa Rica Amino Communications, the world leading independent IPTV specialist, has won the Costa Rican licitation (bid process) to provide set-top boxes (STBs) to support a major IPTV rollout by the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE - Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad). more..	16/02/10
	PA Consulting announces collaboration with 4D Biomedical to explore and develop growing field of Experimental Medicine PA Consulting Group has entered into a strategic agreement with 4D Biomedical Ltd to support the establishment of new collaborations between NHS Trusts, leading biomedical research Universities and industry partners to accelerate medical advances, both clinical and value-based. more..	16/02/10
	Charles Russell advises Galapagos NV on its acquisition of UK-based drug discovery company Charles Russell has advised Euronext-listed Galapagos NV in connection with the acquisition by its Saffron Walden based subsidiary, BioFocus DPI (Holdings) Limited of Argenta Discovery 2009 Limited (“Argenta 2009”), a privately held contract research drug discovery company with 140 employees. more..	15/02/10
	Bespoke Polythene Packaging makes the best of Paperfeel MBO of Peterborough packaging company strengthens customer responsiveness. more..	08/02/10
	Cambridge Financial Partners assist Qonnectis PLC to secure funding and imminent reverse takeover deal Cambridge Financial Partners LLP (CFP), has had a pivotal role as CEO/CFO of AIM listed Qonnectis PLC securing bridge funding and an anticipated reverse takeover deal with US company, American Leak Detection, Inc (ALD). more..	27/01/10
	Prism Corporate Broking facilitate the sale of local security specialists Successful network and end point security specialists Metadigm Limited, based just outside Cambridge, has been sold to a management buy in team for an undisclosed sum. The sale was facilitated by local company Prism Corporate Broking. more..	13/01/10
	Cambridge Consultants assists Consort Medical plc’s £16.8m acquisition of the Medical House plc Expert appraisal of technology portfolio and due diligence supports significant acquisition as Consort Medical plc enters the fast-growing auto-injection sector. more..	13/01/10
	Horizon Discovery signs multi-year technology access agreement with Genentech Inc. Through an additional agreement, Horizon Discovery has provided open access to its 150+ strong X-MAN™ cell-line library to Genentech, Inc., a wholly-owned member of the Roche Group, for a period of up to three years. more..	22/12/09
	Horizon Discovery and University of Washington expand gene-targeting licences to include bioproduction & stem cell applications Horizon Discovery and the University of Washington (UW) today announced they have entered into two additional exclusive licensing agreements in the area of human gene-targeting. more..	15/12/09
	TiGenix successfully completes private placement raising EUR 7.7million TiGenix NV (NYSE Euronext Brussels: TIG) - the Belgian company that recently acquired Cambridge-based Orthomimetics - announces that it has successfully raised EUR 7.7 million through a private placement. more..	14/12/09
	TiGenix announces private placement Leuven (BELGIUM) - December 10, 2009 – TiGenix NV (NYSE Euronext Brussels: TIG) announces its intention to raise an indicative amount of EUR 7.5 million in a private placement. The proceeds will be used to fund TiGenix’ commercial launch of ChondroCelect and ChondroMimetic and to accelerate the clinical pipeline development. more..	10/12/09
	PEM Corporate Finance advises Bourn Hall on acquisition of ISIS Fertility Centre Mike Macnamee, Chief Executive of Bourn Hall Limited, is delighted to announce that the company has acquired Essex based ISIS Fertility Centre from its founding shareholders. more..	03/12/09
	Plextek to develop light aircraft for Malaysian aviation industry Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy, today announced a technical agreement with Aremeca Sendirian Berhad and Universiti Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Institute of Aviation Technology (UniKL MIAT), signalling commencement of the first phase of a USD 14 million programme to develop a Malaysian light aircraft. more..	02/12/09
	TiGenix closes Orthomimetics acquisition TiGenix announces the successful closing of the acquisition of Orthomimetics Limited, a privately held medical technology company based in Cambridge, UK. TiGenix now announces that it has acquired all of the 3,286,438 shares in Orthomimetics at a value of EUR 16,262,338. more..	02/12/09
	Horizon Discovery signs four-year collaboration with world-leading pharma to develop X-MAN cell-lines Horizon Discovery today announced it has entered into a four-year strategic collaboration with Novartis. more..	18/11/09
	TiGenix to acquire Orthomimetics Leuven (BELGIUM) - November 16, 2009 - TiGenix strengthens its product portfolio and biomaterials platform through the acquisition of Orthomimetics, a privately held medical technology company based in Cambridge, the United Kingdom. more..	16/11/09
	Ubisense and Atlas Copco Industrial Technique enter development partnership Cambridge, UK / Stockholm, Sweden Nov 6th 2009... Ubisense, the world Leader in precise Real-time Location Systems, and Atlas Copco Industrial Technique, the world-leading provider of industrial productivity solutions, are collaborating in the research and development of real-time locations systems for industrial tooling. more..	06/11/09
	Datanomic Management leads buyout of 3i’s stake in Datanomic Datanomic Management and other previous investors, supported by investor DN Capital, have acquired 3i’s shares and loans in Datanomic Ltd, the UK’s leading compliance screening and data management software solutions provider. more..	04/11/09
	Liquavista receives strategic investment from Applied Materials Liquavista B.V., a developer of breakthrough display manufacturing technology, announced that it has received a strategic investment by Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMAT). The investment will enable Liquavista to further the commercialization of its unique display technology for future electronic products. more..	27/10/09
	Horizon Discovery signs technology evaluation agreement relating to X-MAN cell-lines with Array BioPharma Horizon Discovery today announced it has signed a non-exclusive commercial agreement with Array BioPharma Inc. to evaluate a novel target for its activity and selectivity on a specific cancer pathway using its X-MAN technology. more..	27/10/09
	Discovery Fund's first investment is into PneumaCare It was announced today that Cambridge Enterprise, the University of Cambridge commercialisation office has completed the first investment from its Discovery Fund into PneumaCare Limited. more..	15/10/09
	Horizon Discovery signs cancer metabolomics service agreement with GlaxoSmithKline Horizon Discovery today announced it has signed a commercial service agreement with global pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline relating to its X-MAN technology. more..	14/10/09
	Charles Russell acts for Green Energy Options Limited and WH Ireland Limited in private placing Charles Russell LLP has advised Cambridge company Green Energy Options Ltd (‘GEO’) and stock-broking house WH Ireland Limited (‘WHI’) in the context of a private placing of new shares in GEO. WHI sourced the placees who together invested £1,500,000 into GEO in return for new shares in GEO. more..	13/10/09
	Johnson Matthey buys Applied Utility Systems Johnson Matthey announced that it has purchased the assets of Applied Utility Systems Inc. from Catalytic Solutions Inc. for US $8.5 million in cash plus US $1.5 million subject to certain contingencies. more..	12/10/09
	ACIS win real time information system for Greater Wellington Greater Wellington Regional Council has today awarded to ACIS the contract to deliver a cutting-edge, multi-modal real time information system for Wellington. more..	06/10/09
	Innova Biosciences receives investment to increase sales activities Innova Biosciences, a pioneer in the field of antibody labeling and inventor of the world’s easiest to use antibody labeling kit- Lightning-Link™, is pleased to announce a further cash investment into the business. Recently appointed Board member, Tim Bernard (formerly Managing Director of AbD Serotec and CEO of Pivotal Scientific) has invested an undisclosed sum in the company. more..	01/10/09
	Shumbi announces collaboration with Carrot Search Carrot Search develop .NET clustering engine for integration into Shumbi products more..	28/09/09
	Liquavista receives €2.5 million innovation loan from the Dutch Government Liquavista has received a €2.5 million innovation loan (“Innovatiekrediet”) from SenterNovem, the innovation agency of the Dutch Government, to accelerate the development of its highly innovative electrowetting based display technology for the eReader market. more..	24/09/09
	Antenova’s antennas and M10214 GPS RADIONOVA® selected by Quantum Antenova announced its antennas and M10214 GPS RADIONOVA® RF Antenna Modules have been selected by Quantum for its iconic handheld multimedia devices with always-on, anywhere and anytime connectivity. more..	16/09/09
	Amino and beeTV team up for a revolutionary personalised TV experience Amino Communications, the world’s leading independent IPTV specialists, has partnered with beeTV, the pioneer and inventor of the PCC™ (Personal Content Channel™), to develop and deliver a recommendation-based personalised TV experience, via Amino’s award-winning range of set-top boxes (STBs). more..	10/09/09
	In-store music provider Imagesound selects signagelive Imagesound, a leading provider of in-store music services for retail, hospitality and leisure has selected Remote Media’s signagelive digital signage platform to deliver visual solutions to their customers throughout the UK, Middle East and North America. more..	27/08/09
	Horizon Discovery signs commercial screening agreement with Silicos NV Horizon Discovery today announced it has signed a commercial agreement with Belgian computational fragment based drug discovery biotech Silicos NV relating to its X-MAN technology. more..	25/08/09
	What a good ID:EA Inspiring Deals: East Anglia (ID:EA), a new bi-monthly networking event aimed at generating deal flow for the region’s corporate finance community, is set to launch in Cambridge in early September. more..	25/08/09
	Newcastle University scientists to develop x-ray vision for Horizon’s X-MAN Horizon Discovery and Newcastle University have entered a new research collaboration to be headed by Cancer Research UK scientists Professor Herbie Newell and Dr Ross Maxwell. This work will be focused on identifying novel biomarkers that can be used in non-invasive cancer-imaging applications. more..	11/08/09
	Horizon Discovery signs worldwide exclusive licence to new inventions from leading translational medicine researchers Horizon Discovery (Horizon) today announced it has entered into a world-wide exclusive patent licensing agreement with the University of Torino relating to the novel use of human isogenic cell-lines in predicting the response of drugs targeted at the genetic make-up of individual cancer patient populations. more..	06/08/09
	Horizon Discovery signs license agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV. Horizon Discovery today announced it has signed a commercial agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, relating to its X-MAN technology. more..	04/08/09
	Datanomic signs global partnership agreement with Initiate Systems to deliver enterprise data quality and MDM solutions Data Management and Compliance Screening specialists, Datanomic, today announced a global partner alliance with Initiate Systems, Inc., a leading provider in multi-domain master data management (MDM) solutions that enable information sharing and improved data quality. more..	29/07/09
	Ball and Tonejet sign long-term technology agreement Tonejet, producer of advanced electrostatic drop-on-demand digital print engines, announces that after a joint development programme and following prototype and pilot phases in Germany it has signed a strategic technology purchase and intellectual property rights licence agreement with Ball Packaging Europe (Ball). more..	27/07/09
	Mills & Reeve helps Oxford spinout secure £1.1 million investment Leading law firm Mills & Reeve LLP has advised Zyoxel Limited on a £1.1 million investment from Hong Kong multinational CN Innovations Holdings Limited and the University of Oxford, through the University Challenge Seed Fund. more..	24/07/09
	Horizon Discovery and DxS to lead the way in setting standards for companion diagnostic tests Horizon Discovery (Horizon) and DxS Limited announced a strategic collaboration that will see the companies collaborate to develop standards and controls for cancer companion diagnostics. more..	22/07/09
	Augmentra launches ViewRanger USA with National Geographic Augmentra has signed a deal with National Geographic Maps that brings National Geographic's topographic mapping for the entire United States to a smartphone for the first time. The award-winning TOPO! maps are now available via ViewRanger, an easy-to-use 'off-road Sat nav' with GPS navigation and tracking features. more..	22/07/09
	Arab Media Corporation to pioneer new service with ANT Arab Media Corporation, the major Arab satellite TV operator and owner of Arab Radio and Television (ART), has announced that it will use the ANT Galio Browser and ANT Galio Core Applications for its new service which is set to roll out across 26 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. more..	22/07/09
	Optibrium acquires StarDrop software platform for guiding decisions in drug discovery Optibrium Limited is pleased to announce its acquisition of the StarDrop business from BioFocus DPI, a subsidiary of Galapagos NV. StarDrop is a software platform, used by pharmaceutical and biotech companies and research establishments globally, to guide compound selection and design decisions in drug discovery. more..	21/07/09
	Horizon Discovery signs screening agreement with SuperGen Inc. Horizon Discovery today announced it has signed a commercial agreement with US Pharmaceutical company SuperGen, Inc., relating to its X-MAN technology. more..	16/07/09
	CRFS announces investment from Succès Europe Investment Fund CRFS, the developer and manufacturer of innovative RFeye® real-time spectral monitoring and management tools, has announced an investment by Succès Europe, a Sophia Antipolis based European investment holding created by and for entrepreneurs. more..	02/07/09
	Mills & Reeve acts in £5 million deal for Metalysis Leading law firm, Mills & Reeve has advised Cambridge University spinout Metalysis on its venture capital fundraising of more than £5 million for its ground-breaking metals winning technology. more..	23/06/09
	Mills & Reeve advises Azellon on £1.6 million fundraising Leading law firm Mills & Reeve LLP has helped ground-breaking biomedical research company Azellon Limited successfully close a funding round of up to £700,000. This, together with grant and other funding, took the total raised by the company to £1.6 million. more..	22/06/09
	AlertMe secures £8m in Series B funding round AlertMe.com, the award- winning Cambridge provider of smart energy saving systems for homes, has secured £8 million in Series B funding by investors Good Energies, Index Ventures, SET Venture Partners and VantagePoint Venture Partners. more..	19/06/09
	Inotec AMD receives further funding to develop chronic wound treatments Inotec AMD Ltd. has reached the technical milestones necessary to trigger the second tranche of investment from the Cambridge Capital Group of business angels. The company, which has also received funding from the Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds, has been developing a new way to provide topical oxygen therapy for use in healing chronic wounds. more..	28/05/09
	Population Genetics Technologies Ltd secures £2 million in Series A funding Population Genetics technologies (PGT) Ltd, a privately owned company based in Cambridge, UK today announced that it had successfully met the commercial and development milestones set by its principal investors, thereby securing its final £2 million of Series A funding. more..	22/05/09
	RFID Global Solution, Inc. and Ubisense launch precise real time location solutions for aerospace and defence RFID Global Solution, Inc., the leader in real-time asset visibility solutions, together with Ubisense, the global leader in precise real time location systems, announce a partnership and immediate availability of applications for the aerospace and defence markets using Visi-Trac™ and Ubisense technology. more..	22/05/09
	Datanomic signs alliance partnership with Webtech Software Isle of Man-based software development specialists Webtech Software are to provide integration and service delivery around Datanomic’s Sanctions & PEP Screening platform. more..	21/05/09
	Discovery Fund raises first £1 million The new University of Cambridge Discovery Fund has raised its first £1million of a £5 million target to help bring researchers’ and academics’ science-based ideas to life. more..	19/05/09
	Funding gap will lead to further consolidation of biotech industry... while the UK and Europe could lose out in a US biotech revival The depth and virulence of the financial crisis means that the funding model for the biotechnology industry will have to change, leading to a period of increased consolidation, according to the latest annual biotechnology report issued by Marks & Clerk, one of the worlds leading intellectual property firms. more..	19/05/09
	Innova Biosciences and Cancer Research Technology form an alliance for a portfolio of conjugated oncology antibodies Innova Biosciences, the inventor of the world’s easiest to use conjugation kit and Cancer Research Technology (CRT), the commercialisation arm of Cancer Research UK have signed a licence agreement to develop a portfolio of conjugated antibodies against novel oncology targets. more..	13/05/09
	ARKeX win long term contract in Algeria On Monday (May 4th), ARKeX signed a long term agreement in Algiers with Sonatrach, the state oil company of Algeria, in the presence of Monsieur Chakib Khelil, the Minister of Energy and Mines. Sonatrach has awarded ARKeX a three year contract for a series of BlueQube airborne gravity gradient surveys across Algeria. more..	07/05/09
	Tessella and Berry Consultants partner to produce a tool for trial designers Companies announce availability of fixed and adaptive clinical trial simulator – Tessella Berry FACTS™ - that allows trial designers to evaluate, compare and optimize adaptive designs. more..	06/05/09
	India to open its mobile frontiers with UK innovation India is counting on wireless broadband to bring the Internet to rural India and foster economic growth and opportunity for its people, according to Mr NK Goyal, President of the Communications & Manufacturing Association of India (CMAI). more..	06/05/09
	InforSense and Tessella forge strategic partnership Companies partner to deliver scientific intelligence for improved drug discovery, disease understanding and productivity. more..	05/05/09
	Cmed and Tessella partner on adaptive clinical trials Companies partner to reduce risk and time in design and execution of adaptive clinical trials for bio-tech and pharmaceutical companies more..	01/05/09
	Technology sector stays strong through the recession Cobalt, the Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) Corporate Finance specialist, has today announced the findings from its second quarterly Technology Barometer, produced in partnership with 'Computing'. The results from the barometer indicate that vendors’ confidence has improved, while IT buyers are slightly more cautious. more..	29/04/09
	Packaging recycling company Enval completes Series 'A' funding round Enval Limited, the environmental technology company, is pleased to announce the closing of its series ‘A’ funding round. The funding round was led by the East of England Co-Investment Fund (COIN) which is managed by IQ Capital Partners, and supported by Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds, Cambridge Angels and Cambridge Capital Group. more..	24/04/09
	Linguamatics integrates ChemAxon technology to provide enhanced chemical text mining capabilities Linguamatics, a leader in enterprise text mining for the life science and other markets, today announced a partnership with ChemAxon, a leading provider of cheminformatics software, which has seen the integration of ChemAxon's substructure and structure similarity search capabilities into the I2E semantic knowledge-discovery platform. more..	23/04/09
	Anglia Business Solutions acquires Supply Chain Systems from Agriwise Inc Cambridge-based Anglia Business Solutions Ltd. (Anglia) has acquired Norwich-based Supply Chain Systems Ltd (SCS) from its US parent AgriWise Inc. more..	15/04/09
	Optibase EZ TV System enhances its support of Amino IP set-top-boxes Optibase, a leading provider of video solutions, and Amino Communications, the world leading IPTV entertainment solutions provider, announced they have partnered to integrate the Optibase EZ TV System with Amino AmiNET™ set-top boxes (STB). more..	15/04/09
	Horizon Discovery sign three-year collaboration with world-leading cancer pharma Genentech Horizon Discovery today announced it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Genentech Inc. The renewable three-year relationship builds on the previous four business agreements between the companies. more..	02/04/09
	Detroit Newspapers partner with Plastic Logic to help transform daily news delivery Plastic Logic has announced a strategic partnership agreement with the 'Detroit Free Press' and 'The Detroit News', the largest and award-winning metro daily newspapers in Michigan, USA, to offer an innovative digital content delivery and distribution programme with its forthcoming Plastic Logic Reader. more..	02/04/09
	AVEVA acquires best-in-class instrumentation engineering software AVEVA today announced the acquisition of iDesignOffice Pty Ltd, a technology company based in Melbourne, Australia. more..	30/03/09
	Horizon secures world-wide exclusive licence from University of Maryland, Baltimore on new X-MAN cell lines Horizon Discovery today announced it has secured world-wide exclusive rights to a panel of new patient-relevant human isogenic disease models developed by University of Maryland, Baltimore using its proprietary GENESIS platform. more..	26/03/09
	Amino and ZTE sign global agreement for IPTV deployments Amino Communications, the world leading IPTV entertainment solutions provider, announced today that it has signed a global co-operation agreement with ZTE, the global provider of telecoms equipment and network solutions. more..	25/03/09
	Beanstalk Management works with Scyron Limited in significant funding round Beanstalk Management, the leading corporate finance house specialising in the small and mid-market, has been working with Scyron Limited on an important round of funding that will underpin further commercialisation of their technology and drive sales growth. more..	24/03/09
	Mariner sets sail for the European IPTV market Mariner, a leading provider of innovative IPTV solutions and technologies, today announced a partnership with UK-based Endurance Technology, marking Mariner’s official launch into Europe. more..	18/03/09
	Cobalt advises on US strategic investment in Qedis Cobalt Corporate Finance LLP is pleased to announce the strategic investment in Qedis by The North Highland Company. Qedis is a high end IT consultancy focusing on key verticals including Financial Services, Media & Telecoms and Public Sector. more..	16/03/09