21 Net

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.

Aeristech Limited

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.

Aitua

Allinea Software

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.

Anaxsys Technology

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 Limited

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.

BHMG

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.

Breaking Free Online

Breaking Free Online Limited has developed a computer based treatment programme for individuals with addiction issues, based on evidence from psychological best practice.  The product will initially be targeted at Drug and Alcohol Action teams and the NHS.

Cellcentric

Cellfacts Limited

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.

Chameleon Biosurfaces

Chameleon Biosurfaces is developing the next generation of polymer coatings for implantable medical devices, such as drug eluting stents.  The polymers provide beneficial features that enhance implants performance.  Beneficial features can include minimising adverse events that can occur in patients after devices have been implanted, and features that help clinicians in the successful deployment of implants during operations.

Cipher Surgical Limited

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.

Claresys Limited

Clearview Systems Limited

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.

Colbalt Light Systems

Colbalt Light Systems provides new and proprietary analysis techniques using Raman spectroscopy for high throughput non-invasive pharmaceutical analysis of tablets, capsules, powders etc. incuding chemical and polymorph/amorphous content.  A second technique involves the rapid non-invasive analysis of materials below layers e.g. materials characterisation through coloured and opaque containers for pharmaceuticals/security uses, tissue analysis through skin and academic research.

Comply Serve

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.

Concurrent Thinking

Connexica Limited

Connexica was formed in 2006 as a spin out from Ardentia Limited. The Company have developed a Business Intelligence tool called Netsearch, software which enables searches of structured and unstructured data, allowing the user to index, enquire, analyse and present large volumes of corporate data in minutes.  The product can be used in any business vertical as Connexica have developed a set of application interfaces allowing its functionality to be embedded into market specific applications.

CPA Limited

Clinical Psychology Associates Liimited (CPA) is a leading independent provider of high quality psychological services to health and social care organisations, corporate clients, legal firms and individual patients.  The Company directly employs psychologists and has a nationwide footprint.

Crescendo Biologics

Crescendo Biologics is developing two proprietary platforms for biological therapeutics from the Babraham Institute: ribosome display for the optimization of antibodies and a transgenic mouse which produces heavy chain only antibodies.

Crowd Technoligies Ltd

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.

Cytox

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.

Diamonds Software Limited

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.

Everyclick Ltd

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.

Fertility Focus Limited

Fertility Focus was established in 2005 to address the problem of infertility.  The Company is developing two key products, the Fertility Monitor and the Fertiloscope.  The Exceed Partnership has co-invested with Norgenix, a leading US distributor of obstetric and gynaecology products, and the investment will be used to fund product trials in the US and Europe.

Gekko Technology Ltd

Gekko Technology design and manufacture LED lighting products for the film, television, photographic and entertainment industries. Gekko products are designed with the user and application foremost in their minds-solving technical and functional shortcomings with robust, durable, professional instruments.

Gemba Solutions

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.

Igloo Vision Limited

Igloo is a provider of immersive 360-degree digital projection environments using graphics, live feed, video or animated audio visuals customised to customer requirements.

Inscentinel

Inscentinel Ltd is a biotechnology company specialising in harnessing the olfactory ability of insects for trace vapour detection. Our primary focus is the development of a new generation of handheld portable detectors, through the use of live honeybees. This unique Inscentinel Technology offers sensitive vapour detection coupled with distinct operational advantages.

Ionic Polymer Solutions

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 Global

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.

L3 Technology

Lontra Limited

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

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.

Microbial Solutions

Microbial Solutions' innovative on-site bacterial process can treat metal working fluids in a much more environmentally friendly manner, producing grey water that is safe to dispose of in the sewerage system, and with no methane production in the process - so lower greenhouse gas impact. Water re-use is also possible, and the Company can offer treatment price certainty and stability to manufacturers, on a non-capital investment 'pay-as-you-treat' per litre basis.

 The technology has been successfully trialled with a leading car manufacturer. Microbial Solutions has now moved to new office and laboratory facilities in Oxfordshire, and following an introduction by Houghton Europe, is also close to completing the first commercial pilot of its patent protected bacterial treatment, known as 'Microcycle^TM Technology' at the site of a major aerospace manufacturer. RSF made a pathfinder investment in 2004 and the Company raised £1.2m towards the end of 2007 from a syndicate including RSF and Oxford Capital Partners.

Microvisk

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.

Midland Industrial Glass

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.

Netmania I.T. Limited

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. 

Novacta

Novel Polymer Solutions

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.

Orbital Optics

For several years CCLRC's Space Science and Technology Department at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has been developing compact, robust, low cost cameras to image Earth from space. The TopSat mission, a collaboration with Surrey Satellites and Technology Ltd and QinetiQ on a BNSC and MoD sponsored project, obtained colour images at a resolution of 2.8m over a 16km field of view. Individual buildings on the ground can be identified at this resolution.

 MDA, the Canadian space and defence company, acquired 50% of the company's share capital in 2007 (including the bulk of RSF's holding) with a view to developing it as its European base.  Rainbow made and IRR of 20% in less than 1 year.

Orthogem Limited

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.

Oxsensis

Oxsensis is pioneering a 'new breed' of optical instrumentation for precision controls in super harsh environments such as highly efficient car and aero engines, and in industrial,electrical,nuclear and space applications.

P2i

P2i's patented technology employs a special pulsed ionised gas (plasma), which is created within a vacuum chamber, to attach a nanometre-thin polymer layer over the entire surface of a product.  Tests show that P2i's patented nano coating technology can deliver performance benefits for a wide range of materials, including polymers, metals, fabrics, leather, ceramics, glass and paper.  Even complex, 3D objects incorporating several different materials can be treated successfully with the P2i process.  P2i has two consumer brands for its technology: ion mask™, for footwear, outdoor clothing and accessories, and Aridion™, for consumer electronics.  For industrial applications, the technology is covered by the corporate P2i brand.

Phasor Solutions

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.

Phoenix Health and Safety(UK) Ltd

Phoenix  provides a range of health and safety training and consultancy services including accredited public courses, in house Company training courses and distance learning courses.

pr2go

pr2go enable businesses of all types and sizes to gain valuable press coverage at an affordable price whenever they need it.  In 24 hours pr2go will guarantee to write professional press releases and then distribute them to all the relevant media required by the customer.  They supply a cost effective online virtual marketing agency.  They will deliver this discipline at a fraction of the cost of traditional PR agencies. pr2go intend to replicate the proposition concentrating on other key marketing services such as creative design and new media.

Procarta Biosystems

ProKyma

Prolojik

Quantum Risk Management

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.

SALT

Subsea Asset Location Technologies Ltd (SALT) is a spin-out company from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), a research agency of the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD).  The company was formed to exploit a new passive sonar reflector technology for the commercial marketplace.  The product SonarBell™ works by focusing the sound energy like a lens to amplify sound levels and reflect them to the sender.  This ability is delivered solely through the mechanical properties of the chosen materials and its construction.

Silver Lining Solutions

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

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.

Simworx Ventures

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

Socially Accepted Games Ltd

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 Limited

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.

Speed Plastics

Streamline Computing

T@lecom

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.

Tokamak Solutions Limited

Tokamak Solutions was founded by leading scientists from the world's leading fusion research establishment at Culham to develop the potential to use fusion neutrons for a variety of applications from material treatments to medical applications or low cost hydrogen production.  The technology is also applicable in the area of nuclear waste, where it has potential to stabilise many of the more hazardous elements.

WalkinWifi Limited

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.

Warwick Effect Polymers

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.

Your Vets (holdings) Ltd

Your Vets Limited operates a group of vet practices set up to provide affordable preventative veterinary care for pet owners. The Group operates five practices in Wythall, Coventry, Nuneaton, Stetchford and Rayleigh and is adding another to it's portfolio Dagenham in January 2012.