These ventures successfully completed the Cambridge Pre-Acceleration programme and were accepted to the Accelerator. Accelerate Cambridge continues to support them for three to six months with mentoring sessions and networking. At the end of the Accelerator programme, selected companies will receive a seed fund.
32
32 is a trusted off-line entrepreneurs’ community in Cambridge, focusing on propping up zero to one (pre-startup and startup) through creating deep connections among diverse entrepreneurs and utilising the network to empower members to iterate ideas. As the community grows organically, 32 will create complementary online service to connect different entrepreneurial communities and create a global entrepreneurial ecosystem for idea iteration.
Academy of Magic and Science
The Academy of Magic and Science is designing and delivering creative learning experiences through lecture shows, corporate workshops, conference public engagements, media formats and interactive exhibitions. We innovate science outreach by using magic as the springboard for scientific applications from chemistry and electronics to physiology and psychology. We are focused on engaging the audience in a tour of continuous education to discover the scientific principles behind illusions, perceptions and biases. This switch between the ‘WOW’ excitement that magic creates with the ‘AHA’ realisation of the science principles, encourages participants to question what they see and empowers them to unlock their creative potential and analytical thinking.
Ambify
Ambify is an environmental health tech company developing wearable devices to reduce the impact of environmental pollutants on our health and wellbeing. Environmental pollution is considered the world’s biggest invisible killer, causing up to 14% of premature deaths globally.
Ambify’s integrated hardware and software solutions allow for individual, real-time and continuous monitoring to known environmental health risk factors. Our mission is to empower individuals, employers, healthcare systems and policy makers with the ability to take actionable steps towards reducing the impact of pollutants on our health.
We are backed by Entrepreneur First, one of Europe’s largest deep-tech investors, and are looking for partners to co-develop our solutions.
AptaCam
AptaCam is a University of Cambridge spin-off company dedicated to being a leading supplier of high quality oligonucleotides. The core of our business is the world’s largest and most comprehensive oligonucleotides database, data-sharing and e-commerce platform.
Oligonucleotides are short, single-stranded DNA, RNA or XNA molecules that can be developed with high affinity and specificity to any desirable targets. They have been widely used in facilitating discoveries in basic research, ensuring food safety, monitoring the environment, and they also play promising roles as clinical diagnostics and therapeutic agents.
Team members at AptaCam are active scientists with passion for entrepreneurship in the biotechnology industry. Comprised of leading academics, our advisory board convenes distinguished professionals united by their passion for utilizing oligonucleotides as diagnostics and therapeutics.
AptaCam sets out to be a world leader in oligonucleotides production, design, and applications.
Article Number 25
Article Number 25 want to start building commercial scale modern farms in underused spaces within the cities, like rooftops. We envision the potential to integrate farms in the design of more efficient cities by connecting them with the flow of energy and materials moving through the city to create a closed loop system, achieving a higher degree of self-sufficiency.
Using controlled environment agriculture (CEA) in combination with hydroponics, we expect to boost yield of a higher quality produce, using less resources than conventional agriculture.
Assembly Networking
At Assembly Networking we build high-quality, customised mobile solutions for universities and their alumni networks. Our native apps combine geolocation technology with information, networking and communication services to produce powerful mobile tools for interaction and strengthening relationships.
CambAir
We are developing the Google Maps for air pollution. Our aim is to inspire everyday citizens to choose cleaner options everyday to living resulting in cleaner environment for all. We use our unique non-intrusive sensor technology developed in-house to integrate air quality monitoring systems in items of everyday use including key rings, backpacks, etc. We enable high-resolution personal exposure monitoring and provide access to real-time air quality data that can also influence your daily travel routes.
Cambridge BioNexus
Cambridge BioNexus builds data tools, analytics systems, and knowledge resources to help biotech investors and drug developers better appraise risk and identify opportunity in the biotech industry. You can think of us as a Bloomberg for Biotech.
Cambridge Coding Academy
The Cambridge Coding Academy is a venture whose mission is to empower the young generation to turn their creative ideas into reality through coding.
Our ethos is simple: learning to code should be fun, experiential and a flexible learning experience tailored to the needs of each learner.
We are developing a blend of face-to-face classes taught by top local university students and a cutting edge online adaptive learning system to do just that.
Cambridge Energy Partners
Cambridge Energy Partners sells renewable energy to large scale industrial operators in underdeveloped areas. As an independent power provider, our energy solutions enable our customers to reduce both operating costs and carbon emissions – immediately – without burdening them with financing and development obstacles. Our team’s breadth of experience enables us to identify and develop unique solutions that improve our customers’ competitive position.
Cambridge ThinkLab
Cambridge ThinkLabTM offers an innovative alternative to traditional consultancy. Our activities centre on the ThinkLab method, developed at the University of Cambridge and designed to help companies think differently to improve business performance. Our unique method offers organisations an intense burst of resource to focus on a live, complex problem – from identifying new revenue streams to aligning company culture during organisational change.
The Cambridge ThinkLabTM experience is concentrated, inspiring and rewarding. Our model builds on evidence that successful solutions arise when different skills and mindsets collide to focus on a single problem. By bringing together the brightest minds from your organisation together with a handpicked group of researchers from the University, Cambridge ThinkLab introduces a new way of problem solving. Combined with the latest insight about understanding the ‘human’ aspects of your business, the structured and facilitated process will change the way your business thinks and performs.
Carbon Reset
Carbon Reset intends to help public and private organisations, NGOs, and individuals achieve their carbon offset targets through biological carbon sequestration – tree planting. We aim to plant millions of trees across Africa in the next few decades, reinvesting significant proportions of our revenue into local communities to improve infrastructure for sanitation, clean water, as well as providing educational resources, and technical advice on sustainable construction techniques and materials.
We are starting the project in Chad and will expand throughout Africa over the next few years. We are currently applying for funding at the Royal Academy of Engineering, and have received significant interest in Africa, and around the globe.
CavPoint
CavPoint develops software tools to reduce the costs of testing automated vehicle technologies. Automated/autonomous vehicles must operate in environments with extremely high levels of variability and it is in practice impossible to test all of these variations before launch. There is the risk that the deployed system will encounter an untested scenario in the field, and not behave appropriately or operate in an unsafe manner. Our machine learning based software actively searches for the combinations of variations where the system has undesirable behaviour so that the issue can be identified and addressed during the development phase. This reduces the overall time and cost of testing, improves the robustness of the deployed system, and accelerates the time to market.
Consone AI
Consone AI a disruptive technology platform targeting how decisions are made in the drug development process. Accelerating new medicines to market, reducing cost, time and environmental footprints. The Consone AI platform will empower user decision making by successfully predicting effects and viability of new drugs.
Crossbridge Scientific
Crossbridge Scientific offers a simple, minimal effort fitness test delivered via a wearable device (KuduSmart) to measure human thermoregulation. Sweating is an essential physiological response to rises in core body temperature triggered by physical activity. KuduSmart is the world’s first wearable, real-time, sweat rate monitor. Combined with its cloud based analytics platform, powered by aggregated tests of a diverse community of users, KuduSmart will help professional sports scientists and coaches to understand the impact of their training programmes and provide personal capability assessment for event day. KuduSmart will further the scientific theory and physical training impact of the thermoregulation process to advance human achievements in a variety of sports.
Diamentech
Diamentech is a research-based healthcare company dedicated to the early detection of dementia. Ideally, people at the risk of dementia should receive medication before the onset of any cognitive symptoms. Yet the tools that can reveal the first expression of the disease were absent. At Diamentech we have developed a computerised task that allows for monitoring the activity of millions of networked neurons in related areas of the brain, and so to detect the disease in its early stages. With the current work we envisage being able to detect the disease even before the onset of memory-loss symptoms.
Edozo
Edozo is an online community for commercial property professionals who wish to share high quality comparable evidence.
e-Luminate Festivals
We created the first ever light festival in Cambridge to entertain the community and highlight the city’s unique architecture and history. Our USP is promoting sustainable lighting and energy efficient products by showcasing light as the basis for both creative artistic work and innovative technology.
ET-traps (formerly EndoTraps)
ET-traps is a biotech venture that aims to develop novel therapeutic intervention in a host of different diseases associated with increased endothelin-1 levels. Numerous research has shown that increased endothelin-1 levels are a critical factor in the pathophysiology of these diseases. Our technology could potentially provide a unique treatment option in several areas of unmet medical need.
Flitter
Flitter is a taxi booking app that lets users choose to share their journey for a lower fare. Flitter is made by Cambridge Transport Solutions, co-founded by Tim Lui and Robin Smid. We are a couple of enthusiastic engineering graduates from the University of Cambridge. We’ve received funding from Downing College to pursue the idea behind Flitter, working on using technology to improve the current methods of personal transport, especially in cities. Flitter is designed to make taxis better for passengers and drivers alike. By allowing passengers to easily book their taxis and arrange shared journeys we hope to make taxis more affordable and convenient, whilst raising revenues for drivers.
Flovoco
We believe that the digital revolution has untapped potential to make learning English faster, more effective and more fun.
That’s why we’re building a portfolio of English language teaching EdTech products designed to solve some of the biggest problems faced by educational publishers and language schools as they make the painful transition from print to digital.
We create innovative products that combine the user-centred approach of the best of EdTech with sound methodology and quality content. We get these to market quickly, validate them, and license them to publishers and language-teaching institutions looking to better serve their customers.
Foodiano
Our product helps people run a food business from their home kitchen and enable branding themselves in their local communities. Vendors get an app and a website that makes running their service and finding customers easy. The consumers get convenient access to locally sourced, niche, and authentic dishes with excellent value for money. We are calling this product Foodiano. It is a product of our company Pioseer Ltd.
FotoStax
FotoStax is developing a camera that lets you capture and print moving images or 3D images in instant print format. Currently it takes weeks to create and receive these prints. By introducing this technology into the instant camera and printing industries we seek to provide individuals and businesses the ability to create these types of images easily and accessibly themselves.
GeneAdviser
GeneAdviser is an online genetic testing marketplace that puts rare disease patients in touch with clinical labs that can perform the sequencing and diagnostics. The tests can be ordered online as part of private genetic testing.
giftgaming
giftgaming is a patent pending in-game advertising service. It allows advertisers to buy in-game power-ups and items for players as gifts as a form of advertising. The player gets an item they might need to progress in the game and the advertiser gets not only brand exposure, but a positive relationship forged with the consumer, because they have helped them achieve their objectives. giftgaming can make gamers LOVE brands and get more in-app purchases for developers.
Go Enrol
Go Enrol is a platform making enrolment easy for students and institutions. We empower students to make an informed choice about where to study through providing them with data, reviews and tapping into their social network. For institutions, we provide a suite of tools which enable them to pro-actively approach students from around the world, receive applications and manage their student recruitment.
goodtalk (formerly eGoodAccess)
goodtalk is a digital health platform which provides accessible, affordable and effective talking therapies, delivered person-to-person and online.
This digital health service solves some key problems: provides users convenient access to timely help; matches users with the right therapist and reduces the cost of private therapy.
This venture seeks to address a vast unmet need: mental health has the highest disease burden in the UK, more than cancer and cardiovascular diseases. It costs the UK £105 billion, including in lost productivity at work. In addition, three out of four people who need help are not getting it and nine out of ten people with mental health issues suffer stigma and discrimination.
H2GO Power
H2GO Power has developed a safe method of hydrogen production and storage for providing power on the move. Mass commercialisation of Fuel Cells (FCs) – efficient energy conversion devices – have been prevented due to difficulty in storing the fuel, hydrogen. Our unique solution allows for the deployment of FCs into new markets, such as portable consumer electronics. The potential outcomes include smartphones that last five times longer than ones that have current battery technology and all-electric vehicles with the same range as combustion engine counterparts. We are looking commercialise our technology either through the manufacture and sale of standardised fuel cartridges or a technology licensing model.
Intact Digital
Intact Digital provides services that sustain the use of software applications and systems beyond their market life-time and ensure that digital content, document, and data can be used in the future. Intact Digital services are delivered through virtualisation of legacy software and through transformation of data and document formats for use with contemporary software. They enable enterprises to future-proof their software and content and to support digital continuity in their business operations and innovation strategy.
INTACT Software platform enables software vendors to host their current and past software in virtual machines and reassure their customers that the software will stay functional and usable beyond its market lifetime.
INTACT Content assurance augments standard storage services by providing legacy software that is needed to access archived data and content. The legacy software is virtualised and provided
INTACT Continuity services reduce the risk of disruption and loss during migration and decommission of legacy systems. They provide comprehensive and long term strategy for retaining value of digital assets.
Intact Digital services can host virtualised legacy software that has been produced and used within the past three decades. The use of virtualized software is enabled remotely, as a cloud service, or locally, as an on-premise installation. Virtualised software applications enable the use of documents, data, and applications in their original form. With Intact Digital conversion services the customer can also extract data and transform document formats for use across different applications and services.
Organisations that need to ensure long term use of digital archives can select Intact Digital Assurance plans to acquire access to the collection of virtualised legacy software required for content access.
Intact Digital services enable enterprises to extend the value of their IT investment, increase the reliability of compliance procedures, and expand opportunities for innovation through the use of data and tools that would, otherwise, be inaccessible and unusable due to the aging of digital technologies.
Jake’s Boost
Jake’s Boost is a socially aware health and fitness food company that looks to promote healthy living and healthy lifestyles while also helping underprivileged children in the UK.
We create gluten-free, low sugar, nutrient-rich spreads and snacks made from the nothing but the best that nature has to offer: nuts, seeds, dried fruit and a little bit of honey, packaged in traditional jars as well as convenient sachets and snack pouches. Our products aim to be 100% natural as well as organic and come in fully recyclable packaging. With every jar or multipack we sell, we’ll provide a breakfast to a child in need in the UK and as we grow, worldwide.
Do good, feel good – changing children’s lives for the better, one breakfast at a time.
JustMilk
JustMilk consists of a US non-profit and a UK for-profit organisation developing the Nipple Shield Delivery System (NSDS), a novel medical device with the potential to improve the safety, efficacy, and access to life-saving medications, vitamins, and nutrients to breastfeeding infants globally.
When worn by a mother during breastfeeding, the NSDS releases active pharmaceutical agents into milk which is then consumed by the infant. A wide range of medications and nutrients could be delivered to infants for treatment or prevention of conditions which may include diarrhoeal disease, HIV, malaria, or malnutrition.
With the NSDS, JustMilk aims to bridge a global drug delivery technology gap for breastfeeding infants, particularly in developing countries where it could overcome conventional administration challenges associated with limited availability of potable water, refrigeration, and medical care. JustMilk is currently seeking pharmaceutical partners.
MediaGamma
The first truly automated futures and options exchange for digital media, MediaGamma is transforming the way digital media is valued, traded, and measured. Established in 2014 at the intersection of London’s tech, advertising, and finance hubs, MediaGamma’s partners include University College London, Accelerate Cambridge, and some of the UK’s leading brands, agencies, and publishers.
MediaGamma provides its partners with greater transparency and control when they buy and sell digital media by offering an accurate, ROI-based view of the immediate and long-term value of inventory. Brands, agencies, and publishers can also engage in programmatic direct or upfront inventory purchases and sales on the MediaGamma platform, mitigating price volatility and ensuring brand safety.
Montec Systems
Montec Systems was founded by Ben Harker in 2010 to develop and provide turnkey solutions for niche applications in the field of remote monitoring. Every aspect of these systems has been designed to save the customer time and money over competitive solutions though simple set-up and installation procedures. The business model is to charge for the hardware plus a subscription for each sensor while it is active. Customers log into the Montec web server where data from their sensors can be easily viewed or downloaded.
Key points regarding cost saving and convenience for the customer are:
- A system can be set up and installed by a non-technical person in a short period of time
- A single base station can handle data from up to eight sensors of different types
Montec’s first sensor is for monitoring crack movement in buildings and structures and is fully developed and ready to go to market. A sensor for vibration event detection has also been developed and is undergoing final testing.
myShape
myShape is looking to revolutionise 3D body scanning by allowing smartphone users the ability to scan themselves using a downloadable app in under five minutes. Once scanned, users will have their own unique 3D avatar and body size details on their phone.
3D body scanning has widespread applications, be it in online retail clothing, fitness or healthcare. However, application growth is limited as there is no 3D body scanning solution that is scalable, affordable and comfortable for consumers to use.
myShape is applying technology developed at the University of Cambridge to create the first mobile phone 3D body scanner that operates at the speed and accuracy required for clothing, fitness and health applications.
Niume
Niume is an interest-based social network that allows individuals to share their ideas in circles of like-minded people and find new things to love. We launched our open platform in July 2014 and so far have reached a monthly active user base of close to 100,000.
Nowomics
Nowomics is a website to help biology researchers keep track of new data and papers relevant to their research. There’s a new biomedical journal article published every 30 seconds, and hundreds of online sources of data. Scientists need to know about the latest information in their field but this is a huge challenge.
Nowomics aims to solve this problem by allowing scientists to ‘follow’ genes, diseases, pathways, etc. to see a news feed of new papers and data. We also help users discover related information based on biological relationships and will learn what an individual finds useful to customise their news feed.
nūfood
Our multidisciplinary team has been hard at work for the past two years perfecting nūfood: a kitchen robot which enables foodies and creative chefs to 3D print ‘flavour bursts’; intense taste sensations to accompany any meal or cocktail on demand. Used in conjunction with pre-mixed sauces the product offers endless possibilities for shape, flavour and texture. Sweet and savoury ‘flavour bursts’ are designed with our easy to use mobile app and printed in a few short minutes. Currently the star of unique pop-up dining events across Europe, we look forward to introducing the possibilities of nūfood to a wider audience.
Oxbridge Clinical
Oxbridge Clinical aims to revolutionise the etiological diagnosis of respiratory infectious diseases, which currently represent one of the main challenges for doctors in the primary care setting. Our technology, based on the emerging field of solid-state nanopores, will be able to discriminate between the multitude of germs responsible for respiratory infections, which are generally characterised by very similar symptoms. Cheap, quick, and capable of being deployed directly at the point of care, Oxbridge Clinical will allow physicians to finally opt for the most appropriate therapy, without having to rely on the indiscriminate prescription of broad-spectrum antibiotics.
PalleTech
PalleTech connects cargo, warehouse and fleet information through smart pallets and an industrial Internet of Things platform.
Powdies
Powdies is a powder drink made directly from farmers’ surplus fruits and vegetables. Using a low temperature dehydration technology, we turn these over-produced and wonky-looking crops into a tasty and nutritional powder drink. Powdies is rich in natural vitamins, minerals, fibre and contains all five of your five-a-day. We hope to make eating vegetables and fruits enjoyable, convenient and hassle-free for everyone. On top of that, we are making a positive environmental impact by reducing food wastage.
Prosoma
At Prosoma we believe that every patient living with and beyond cancer deserves reliable mental healthcare.
Time and time again we hear about emotional issues associated with cancer – whether it is depression, anxiety, PTSD or stress. This not only affects patient’s quality of life and wellbeing, but also has a high correlation with higher mortality, and patients dropping out from chemo or radiotherapy.
Unfortunately, despite a wide research base showing the negative effects of stress and positive outcomes of psychotherapies, access to mental health support is scarce.
To help with this process we’re developing a comprehensive digital therapeutics programme, designed exclusively for cancer patients, including CBT, RBT, mindfulness, relaxation and breathing therapies. Accessible via web, mobile and even VR devices.
As we are reaching the end of a two-year product development cycle, we’re looking for partners, researchers, and advisors who will help us deliver our vision to market, and most importantly – patients.
Push that Button (formerly UView)
Push that Button is an AI-powered social-network and talent discovery platform for the entertainment industry that enables industry professionals, venues and brands to discover, track and sign emerging talent. Artists are provided with tools to bank, reward and monetise their fan base in one centralised hub, and further their careers by unlocking exclusive opportunities.
Founded by University of Cambridge graduate and Google Engineer, Pawel Burzynski, and former Artist managers, UView has already built a highly exciting and experienced team including blue-chip CFO and former CTO TransferWise For Business. Push that Button’s Advisory Board includes the Director of Data & Insights at Warner Music Group, and their registered users inc. major entertainment companies, responsible for 300m+ streams.
Rize
Rize, one thought at a time.
A gamified app that integrates therapeutic concepts into simple exercises to help users to track and improve their mental well-being.
Rota Wrangler
Rota Wrangler is a tool that allows business owners or managers to forecast, schedule and share rotas in a secure and GDPR friendly way. We automatically calculate the staffing cost against the predicted sales while providing a better view of staff members availability without the need of having to leave the interface. Using the emerging technologies, we can provide business owners with an overview of their running costs and suggest changes based on historical data. Our goal is to make the rostering process smarter and more efficient while saving time for business owners so that they can focus on the important thing – running their venture.
ScreenMe
We’re here to empower people to take direct control of their, and their children’s, lifetime health by giving them the best advice available to current science, based on their individual health needs. We’re starting by investing in the nutritional health and wellbeing of couples trying to conceive, as well as pregnant women. We’ll help them to learn more about the importance of improving their reproductive health, as well as their overall health, through nutritious food tailored to their micronutrient, hormonal and microbiome profile.
SeeSpeak
SeeSpeak is a simple videophone for the elderly. Social isolation amongst the elderly is an increasing problem. Over 10 million people in the UK are over 65 and this is expected to increase by 50% over the next 25 years; one third live alone. Some elderly people enjoy using video applications, such as Skype, to keep in touch with friends and family. However, such technology is often too difficult to use for a large proportion of this demographic.
SensorHut
SensorHut was founded in late 2013 by Tanya Hutter and Marc Stettler after they met through Cambridge iTeams. We’re based in Cambridge, UK and have strong links to the University. Our innovative chemical sensing technology is more sensitive and selective to volatile organic compounds than our competitors.
SensorHut aims to provide an innovative solution in a number of areas where more accurate measurement of volatile organic compounds is required. These applications range from monitoring of industrial processes to medical diagnostics. We are focussed on research and development and will exploit our innovations through partnerships and licensing.
SmartGov
SmartGov builds data-driven technologies to improve government. Its award-winning GeoStat product unifies, organises and visualises government public data onto one visual search engine to understand the socio-economics of any location. As the winner of Startup Weekend Cambridge 2012, Silicon Valley comes to the UK (SVC2UK) London 2012, NACUE Varsity Pitch 2013, Startup Weekend Transmedia San Francisco 2013, and LH FORUM Paris 2013 and other competitions, SmartGov is on the fast track to change the way citizens, governments as well as businesses interact with public data.
SmartImmune
SmartImmune provides clinical trials optimisation service to pharma and CROs, making cancer immunotherapies accessible and cost-efficient. We use the power of machine learning (AI) to design multi-dimensional biomarkers based on gene expression from cancer biopsy. Our AI is well suited for clinical application as it is a tractable, “white box” method that allows tracing the linkage between diagnosis, drugs and genes. Our proprietary technology enables:
- clinical trials (CT) optimisation
- precision medicine diagnostic tools.
Spark
Spark is a software system which will enables the electric taxi/courier market to grow from niche to mainstream with drivers saving between £5,000-£8,000 a year from lower running costs and improved environmental benefits. Our software monitors battery life and sends this information wirelessly to a dispatch system, which then allocates a driver based on proximity to customer, remaining battery life, and length and nature of the requested journey using combined datasets. Once the concept and software has been proven, Spark intends to license the software to dispatch system providers and taxi companies, as well as individual drivers, so integrating with ridesharing firms like Uber and Lyft. We believe that the regulatory and media pressure to reduce transport-related emissions in towns and cities creates a substantial commercial opportunity to prove the software locally through Spark Taxi and then license the software globally.
Speechmatics
Speechmatics provides cloud-based speech recognition services that convert speech-to-text. Thousands of hours of audio are created every minute (TV/radio/phone/meetings), information that is difficult to manage, as it is not easily searchable. This challenge is critical for companies that need to know what is happening in the world in real-time. To address this challenge, Speechmatics has built the most efficient and accurate speech recognition system that converts speech-to-text thus making audio searchable and interpretable. This enables companies to find information contained within audio files quickly. The technology can also be used in archiving, transcription, dictation and many other applications.
Super Beans
Super Beans is a health food manufacturer supporting sustainable diets. As one of the best plant-based protein resources, high-quality organic beans are used as our basic ingredient. Our products are packed with dietary fibres as well as many essential vitamins and minerals while also being free of (refined) sugar and artificial sweeteners. Our wide range of products aim to provide specific and balanced nutrients to meet a variety of needs.
Synthetic Data Service
Through our Synthetic Data Service at Health Data Insight, we unlock the power of patient data by enabling researchers and healthcare practitioners to perform research without any risk to patient privacy. Patient data is essential for advancements and innovation in healthcare, however, it cannot be broadly shared due to privacy and confidentiality constraints. The Synthetic Data Service provides an effective solution. It creates a synthetic version of patient data that has useful characteristics of the real data but no patient-identifiable information. This data can be shared without privacy risks and used to gain insights and breakthroughs in healthcare that otherwise would not have been possible.
Think Shaadi
Think Shaadi is a visual search engine and online scrapbook for wedding inspiration, vendor listings and planning tools for South Asian weddings. We will inspire users with images and videos that are easy to search, share, and save on a cloud scrapbook. Our mission is to connect high quality vendors, both small and large to the South Asian market, and provide couples with inspiring content, useful reviews and tools to simplify the planning process.
Tribalingual
Tribalingual is an online language learning platform that teaches only rare and endangered languages. We do this in order to save languages and culture from extinction. We connect people who want to learn endangered languages with those who want to teach them. Our 10-week courses incorporate a blended learning method: through a mixture of online audio and visual course content and personal Skype sessions with the language instructor, you are able to immerse yourself in the language and, just as importantly, the culture.
Virtual Nick (formerly Cambridge Exercise Technology)
Virtual Nick is a fitness technology company that uses emerging technologies to innovate on the fitness experience. Our goal is to create a cultural shift in how the world views and interacts with exercise.
You Okay, Doc?
You Okay, Doc?’s focus is to support the mental health and wellbeing of doctors across the globe. We are a service provider platform that provides support for doctors and have recently extended these services to nurses through You Okay, Nurse? In 2018, 80% of UK doctors were high risk of burnout and were two-four times more likely to die by suicide when compared to the general population. These statistics have been compounded by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and are also echoed throughout the world, with USA and Australia reporting similar figures. Sick days in the NHS due to mental health during the pandemic are estimated to have cost £1.5 billion. The COVID-19 pandemic has facilitated a positive movement towards tackling the mental health issues of healthcare workers.
We take a multifaceted approach addressing this pressing issue and combine evidence-based solutions with practical services that are readily adopted by our end-users and across hospitals nationally.
We provide four flagship programmes underpinned by current research into peer support and trauma support, curated by leading experts and psychotherapists. We have partnered with organisations in the UK and US (including an initiative of Harvard University), a large corporate and are currently piloting our programmes in three NHS trusts and continue to build our network and community worldwide.
