The Company was formed in 2001 to develop a system to connect high speed trains to the internet utilising advanced satellite technology. The Company secured its first major contract in 2007 to install its system onto 26 trains for Thalys and is now operating a number of contract across Europe and Canada. The company closed its latest funding round in December 2010, raising £5m in a round led by Innovacom a specialist Telecoms investor.
Allinea Software is recognized as a leading vendor of tools for parallel software development and High Performance Computing (HPC). Their tools make a programming parallel and multithreaded software simple. With cross-platform support and a strong focus on ease-of-use, Allinea products heltp to scale cluster applications to new heights. One of the fastest growing companies in HPC, they have been honoured as a Red Herring Top 100 company. Allinea is based in Warwick with offices in the US, as well as network of resellers and partners in most parts of the world.
BHMG was established in August 2005 and provides new ways of distributing tourism data, digital applications, data collection for the travel industry and destinations and other marketing services for the tourism industry. BHMG also runs many tourism websites including www.visittheheart.co.uk, www.visittheheart.com, www.visitadata.com.
Clearview is a leading provider of performance management software for the housing association sector. The software was originally developed in house by Festival Housing Group, realising the commercial potential use of the system to other housing associations the software was span out into a joint venture in 2003. Clearview has a suite of modules that assist housing associations with strategic business planning, performance management and customer service improvement. Clearview now has over 90 registered social landlords using the clearview software managing over half a million homes.
The Company evolved out of the world's leading provider of requirements management solutions, Telelogic AB, where the founding team discovered a significant and largely untapped market opportunity for project supply chain compliance solutions. Comply Serve Limited is a provider of unique, web-based project and product compliance solutions to clients operating in highly regulated industries. Comply Serve's business focus is in markets where there is a need to address complex compliance and assurance goals on high risk, high value programmes of work. The company's most high profile customer is TVE £15bn Crossrail Project.
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.
Funded by the Advantage Growth Fund and the Early Advantage Fund
Cytox is developing a diagnostic test and therapeutic cures for Alzheimer's Disease which is estimated to affect 15 million people worldwide. The company is a university spin-out based on groundbreaking academic research into the role of the cell cycle in neuro-degenerative diseases.
Gemba Solutions develops real time performance management software. The company has three offerings, Lean Impact, OEE IMPACT Manual Entry and OEE IMPACT Connect. Lean Impact comprises a suite of software modules, each of which is a productivity tool in its own right and when combined, provides the user with a comprehensive manufacturing execution system. Manual Entry and Connect are based on a subset of the full Lean Impact suite, enabling the user to move up to a fully automated system as required.
IPS is a spin out from Novel Polymer Solutions Limited (NPS), an existing Advantage Growth Fund investment. NPS has granted to IPS the exclusive right to exploit the intellectual property in the manufacture of proton conducting monomers and polymers using novel UV curable diene systems. The technology has a number of potential applications including water free proton conduction in fuel cells and anion pumping for acid regeneration in the metal finishing processes.
i-Solutions has developed i-nexus a suite of performance improvement and strategy exaction software. The Company have a US sales office and a truly global blue-chip customer base. Following an initial investment from the Advantage Growth Fund significant further investment have been raised by the company from Herald Ventures and Antrak Capital to fund its continued growth development.
Microvisk has a unique approach to the measurement of the viscosity of blood and other fluid, based on CCLRC's considerable expertise in its Central Microfabrication Facility. The patented technology involves the spatial movement of microfabricated thermal bimorohs - bimetallic strips - which is converted into an electric signal using the piezo electric effect. Microvisk's technology can revolutionise the diagnostic market by simplifying the most common coagulation tests (those that are critical to the monitoring of any patient at risk from blood clotting and heart problems) and by providing instant POC and NP testing and analysis.
The company raised £6m in December 2010 to take its product through clinical approvals and launch.
Funded by the Advantage Growth Fund and the Rainbow Seed Fund
Midland Industrial Glass is a precision engineer manufacturing glass components for television stands, shop fitting and leisure equipment as well as for a wide range of other applications. It uses state of the art CNC technology for shape cutting, edging, drilling, bevelling, printing and toughening its products. It specialises in short runs, quick turnarounds and technically difficult products in long runs to set it apart from its competitors.
Novel Polymer Solutions was formed to exploit a new system of producing radiation curable polymers developed by Qinetiq in their Malvern research centre. This introduces the scope to produce polymers with properties that are novel or otherwise difficult to achieve. The method allows the simple production of mimics of conventional polymers and the creation of new and novel polymers via a radiation curable monomer. Other investors include the Environmental Technologies Fund who invested £3.5m in 2008.
Phasor Solutions, formed in July 2005, has developed an innovative approach to the construction of flat panel phased arrays that can achieve a much lower cost per element. This means that an entire phased array antenna can be built for a cost not a lot more than a mechanically steered parabolic reflector antenna of comparable performance. Phased Array Antennas are arrays of small antennas. By adjusting the relative phase of the signal received by (or transmitted from) each antenna element it is possible to electronically steer the beam to point precisely in a given direction and to dynamically adjust the beam direction to compensate for movements of the antenna or satellite.
Funded by the Advantage Growth Fund and the Exceed - Midlands Advantage Fund
Prolojik is a leading lighting management provider. They design, manufacture and deliver lighting controls solutions to a number of leading financial, pharmaceutical, educational, government and commercial property development organisations.
Quantum Risk Management provides tailored, cost effective solutions to risk management problems. They aim to help their clients achieve sustained improvement by providing services ranging from risk assessments, through corporate auditing, to health and safety management systems.
Silver Lining Solutions, formed in 1999, is an online skills assessment specialist. It develops software for training needs analysis, compliance testing, and knowledge assessment. Sales are to both public and private sector and a significant sale to the O2 call centre has opened the call centre market to the Company. Its product 'Discover' automates the processes for testing operatives' skills and embedding the results into switching software. The result for the call centre is that callers are put through to the operative best able to deal with their query.
Simworx are market leaders in 4Dand 5D effects theatres, simulators and other entertainment attractions. 4D and 5D technology takes3D technology a step further by adding seat motion and special effects including leg ticklers, air blast, water spray and vibration to enhance the viewer experience. The Company offers a turnkey solution and its leading edge products can be found in a significant number of high profile amusement parks and museums around the world.
Funded by the Advantage Growth Fund and the Exceed - Midlands Advantage Fund
Simworx Ventures supplies 4D theatres and simulators to smaller tourist attractions, such as museums and zoos on a joint venture basis. The Company bears the cost of the manufacture and supplies the products on a revenue share basis. These family friendly, weatherproof attractions generate significant revenues for both parties
Funded by the Advantage Growth Fund and the Exceed - Midlands Advantage Fund
Streamline Computing installs and maintains super-computer clusters,to form High Performance Computing (HPC)systems. Over the past seven years,Streamline has been responsible for the implementation and support of hundreds of cluster installations,including several Top500 systems. The company's investors include the Advantage Growth Fund,Oxford Capital Partners and Forward Group.
T@lecom is a provider of a range of end to end wireless applications for handheld devices enabling an increasingly mobile workforce to communicate seamlessly with their office. The Company was a start-up in 2003 and has since developed a particularly strong position in providing solutions to the NHS.
Warwick Effect Polymers has developed a new technology, transition metal mediated Living Radical Polymerisation, which allows the production of complex polymers under greater control than conventional polymerisation techniques. The company is looking to exploit its platform technology to become a provider of polymer technology to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.
