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Ad.IQ Global is the leading advertising intelligence and response management company in Europe. Ad.IQ provides solutions to advertisers that enable them to interact with consumers through their mobile phone, and to measure the impact of media campaigns. These solutions generate financial savings, improve the cost-effectiveness of media campaigns and provide valuable information and consumer intelligence.
Arieso develops and sells software for mobile telecommunications operators. The software automates network optimisation tasks. It uses proprietary algorithms to determine how network operators should set controls on their base station antennae to give optimal coverage.
Celoxica is an Oxford University spin-out which sells a combined hardware and software product to financial institutions who require extremely fast access to market data.
Concurrent Thinking delivers High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, software for monitoring clusters and tools for debugging HPC cluster software. It operates globally through its two divisions Streamline Computing and Allinea.
InfoBasis, a Microsoft spin-out, offers web hosted enterprise solutions for human capital management (HCM). InfoBasis was acquired by Salary.com Inc in 2008.
MirriAd is pioneering digital “virtual” product placement for television broadcasters and other video content owners.
Rostima develops, markets, implements, and supports software that enables large organisations to deploy and manage their workforces more effectively.
Strategic Communication Laboratories has pioneered a new methodology to enable governments and countries to manage their relationships with their key audience groups through more powerful communication in the areas of defence, foreign affairs, internal security, health, finance and tourism.
Teepix installs a novel digital camera system at premium golf courses and has developed a means to automatically capture ‘action shots’ as the player strikes the ball. Images are processed remotely and souvenir photos are sold at the clubhouse at the end of the round.
Healthcare
g-Nostics is a personalised therapeutic treatment company focused on the smoking cessation market. The company is a spin-out from Oxford University. The founding research was carried out in the University’s Department of Clinical Pharmacology and funded by Cancer Research UK.
Glide Pharma is a specialty pharmaceutical company developing products based on its innovative drug delivery system.
OrthoMimetics is bringing to market a line of products for the regenerative repair of cartilage, ligament and tendon injuries.
Oxford BioTherapeutics applies its integrated proteomics platform for the discovery and development of diagnostic and therapeutic products.
Scancell is a spin-out from Nottingham University which has developed and patented a revolutionary DNA cancer vaccine technology. Its lead product is a therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of melanoma (skin cancer).
Sirigen has developed and commercialised a unique class of materials, conducting polymers, for applications in diagnostics and life sciences.
Sphere Medical is developing a range of products that employ leading edge diagnostics technology to enable real time measurement of blood chemistry parameters and other important clinical indicators.
Tigenix is a late-stage biomedical company providing innovative treatments to repair damaged and arthritic joints using cutting edge regenerative medicine technologies.
Veryan Medical is developing a range of vascular stents and grafts with a design that creates swirling flow, reducing the rate of device failure.
Sustainability
Exosect sells a range of 'mating disruption' pest control products that incorporate its proprietary electrostatic technology in combination with pheromones. Pests are lured to a small quantity of a special powder loaded with pheromone, where they become coated in the material. The insects become confused and unable to find a mate. Pheromone control is emerging as a cornerstone in the strategies recommended by supermarkets to growers of high value crops.
Green Biologics is a biotechnology company engaged in the development of fermentation technologies for the conversion of plant crops and biomass into biochemicals. Its primary focus is on the production of butanol both as a feedstock for the chemical industry and as a biofuel.
Hardide has developed an advanced surface engineering technology combining ultra hardness, low friction and chemical resistance for use primarily with steel and hard alloys. The technology is derived from 25 years of research at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Russian Academy of Sciences near Moscow.
Helveta provides enterprises with software and hardware solutions to monitor and to track physical assets anywhere in the world across extended supply chains. Its primary focus is on sustainable management of timber using its lead product TracElite.
Inetec is a developer of food waste-to-energy projects. The key advantage of its technology is that the waste does not require pre-treatment or segregation before processing. The result of Inetec’s patented process is a stable biofuel which can be burned or converted to gas and combusted to produce heat and renewable electricity.
Microbial Solutions provides an environmentally friendly, fast and effective means of disposing of waste metal working fluids. These fluids are used worldwide to cool and lubricate cutting and grinding surfaces during metal working operations.
Oxitec is applying proprietary technology developed at The University of Oxford to the management of insect pests without the need for environmentally damaging pesticides. Oxitec's approach is being used both for the management of insect carriers of human diseases and agricultural pests.
Oxonica is a leader in nanotechnology. It develops nanomaterials for use in various fields including healthcare, communications, environmental protection, and transport. Existing, commercialised products are Optisol, a photostable UV absorber (used in sun creams), and Envirox, a fuel-borne catalyst which can prolong the life of automotive engines and increase fuel efficiency.
