Activ8 Intelligence Ltd has developed a range of Business Intelligence tools, which are HR centric, pre built and quick to implement. The software, which is delivered via the cloud, is aimed at the real end users of HR software; the HR team, rather than the IT department who adopt enterprise wide Business Intelligence tools that encompass the HR function. The company has an exciting product roapmap, including an AI engine which can predict good and bad hires, high achievers, rate of attrition, absence, performance, as well as other additional areas of insight.
Aeristech has developed a novel fuel efficient and low-cost hybrid turbocharger technology with applications in the automotive and power generation industries. The traditional turbocharger is decoupled into a turbine and a compressor powered by an electric motor. The electrical storage created provides an opportunity to vastly reduce turbo lag resulting in increased performance and reduced emissions. This enables automotive manufacturers to downsize engines without impacting performance.
Anaxsys Technology, which is based at Keele University in Staffordshire, is a medical technology company developing a suite of devices which allow the diagnosis and monitoring of a variety of respiratory diseases by analysing the humidity profile of human breath. With long term potential to screen for lung cancer and monitoring the treatment of asthma, its first product will be a respiratory rate monitor for use in the care of patients recovering from operations.
Anvil Semiconductors is a spin-out company of Warwick University. It will be used to commercialise a particularly novel manufacturing technique developed and patented by Warwick University that allows for the first commercially and economically viable production of Silicon Carbide (SiC), potentially revolutionising the power electronics industry.
Cellfacts Instruments Ltd specialise in precision analysis systems that provide real-time detection, enumeration and physiological characterisation of microbial cells. Almost all liquids can harbor microbial growth. The Company's novel way of identifying such growth can be utilised in a number of markets including food and beverage production, soluble oils, biocide management and the healthcare sector. The Company offers a range of scalable solutions with the key differentiators of their technology being speed and accuracy of the results.
Cipher Surgical's first product aims to solve a key challenge facing surgeons in the fast growing field of laparoscopy (keyhole surgery through the abdomen), that of maintaining continuous operative visions. A laparoscope transmits an image of the operative site to a screen, acting as the surgeon's eyes but the lens can become soiled by blood, fat, condensation and other contaminants. To clean it, which can happen 6-10 times per hour, the laparoscope is removed from the patient and cleaned manually. As a result the surgeon's work flow and concentration is broken and patient risk in increased. The Laparojet is a patentable disposable which retrofits all laparoscopes and, activated by the surgeon, delivers a jet of carbon dioxide across the lens, to clear instantly. The Laparojet is expected to be launched in Europe in 2012.
Based in Warwick, Concurrent Thinking span-out of Streamline Computing in March 2010. Streamline has successfully built high performance computing clusters for a large number of UK customers over many years. It has developed pre-configured "Appliances" which enable high performance clusters to be built and configured without the need for highly skilled specialists. Concurrent Thinking will further develop and commercialise these Appliances which can also be used in data-centres, where distributed computing systems are rapidly becoming the norm.
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Crowd Technologies Ltd has developed CrowdControlHQ; a social media management tool that allows organisations to manage all their social media accounts effectively and efficiently. The software enables organisations to monitor the content and communications across their social media, manage all their usernames, passwords and access rights ensuring that an organisation protects its reputation online. An organisation can also broadcast its message from one point rather than having to log-in to each and every social media account saving on time and effort. The technology is delivered by a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.
Diamonds Software develops pre packaged, industry specific Business Process Management (BPM) Solutions, with their initial target being the construction industry. Off the shelf solutions may result in companies making compromises. On the same token, bespoke software is often costly and time consuming. Diamonds is a meta-data development framework which can be configured as opposed to coded, meaning it is quick and easy to use with greater agility. The company plans to role it out to other industries once they have penetrated the construction industry.
Based in Evesham in Worcestershire, Everyclick is a platform technology company that has created a number of ways for payments to be made to all 200,000 UK charities. It acts as an enabling technology for partners while still providing the ability to users to give to their chosen charities through searching the internet and shopping online through affiliated shopping sites. Everyclick was voted Website of the Year 2008 and was a Tech Media Top 100 2009.
Lontra is an innovative clean tech business, which is developing a proprietary energy efficient compressor and engine design with applications including waste water treatment, industrial air and automotive superchargers.
LumeJet Ltd is a leading light in the world of photonic imaging and is revolutionising the industry. It has developed ground breaking platform technologies - 'LumeJet®Imaging System' and 'LumeJet®Imaging Engine. These bring to the industry lower costs, an easy way to integrate and operate, across a wide and growing range of applications where light is used to activate. The LumePress™is a range of ultra high quality printers that utilises LumeJet's innovative technology - the LumeJet™Imaging Engine. The LumePress™printer range delivers significant cost and quality advantages especially where documents are image intensive or where output quality is key. LumeJet's revolutionary technology can be used in many applications, including third party integration of the core technology for use across a number of industries including - printing, packaging, plastic logic, polymer imaging, digital pre-press, and pcb marking.
The company has developed comprehensive, yet easy to use software that enables telecommunications businesses to manage customer devices remotely. The software (ACSLite) adheres strictly to the international standard TR069 for managing ADSL (internet enabled) devices, and therefore works with the vast majority of customer devices such as internet routers and gateways without the customers having to spend many tens of thousands of pounds on customisation. ACSLite has been developed to compete in the Auto-Configuration Server (ACS) space against more expensive and difficult to use competitor offerings; these are mostly bought by the big telecoms companies.
Orthogem Ltd is a biomaterials company who have developed a new generation of synthetic bone graft substitute. The platform technology called Tripore consists of granules of hydroxyapatite (material which makes up natural bone) containing pores in a range of three sizes, meaning it is uniquely fully resorbable i.e. replaced by natural bone. The product and production process are patent protected, extending worldwide, allowing the company to develop a range of product extensions for use in a variety of clinical scenarios.
Playmob's Giverboard is a new service designed for Charities and Game Developers, linking them together to provide an optimum gaming experience and aid a charity's fundraising.
Soshi Games develops online social networking games. Their newest game, Music Festivals, is hosted within Facebook and allows the player to design, build and manage their own music festival. The game encourages the discovery of new, emerging talent as the player is rewarded within the game if they book unsigned artists for their concerts. The game also creates new revenue streams for established bands/labels through the sale of band related virtual goods. The company plans to continue the development of the game and associated games on several platforms.
Sparcana offer a range of innovative products and services for the Professional Spa market as well as the Consumer Retail Beauty market. The Company has recently launched 'The Orb'; a pioneering device which heats skincare products to the optimum temperature and then maintaining the temperature for up to an hour; the Orb is also completely portable.
WalkinWiFi™ provides totally free of charge Wi-Fi internet access to members of the public, across a national network, in return for their agreement to be marketed to, via e-mail and text message, by the location at which they first register for use of the system. WalkinWiFi™ then provides a web based marketing message delivery suite for the location to be able to simply and cost effectively send out offers and updates to encourage customers to return to site.
