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Huge congratulations to ideaSpace Alumni, Blecon on their $4.6M seed funding! It's been brilliant seeing you go from strength to strength - we're excited to see what's next!

From Anglia Ruskin University to Allia to Cambridge Enterprise, this week’s guest, Caroline Hyde FRSA of IE Cambridge (Innovation & Entrepreneurship), shares her long-held passion for supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem and the importance of connectedness. We talk about the new Innovation and Entrepreneurship report and the investment the University of Cambridge is making to support its students, researchers and alumni. Did you know that for every £1 the university spends, it creates £11.70 of economic impact? And that out of £30bn of economic impact annually, more than £23bn comes from commercialising University research? Caroline reiterates that it’s not just economic impact but societal impact where companies like Xampla, Colorifix, T-Therapeutics Ltd are making a huge impact in the world. You can find the link to the report here https://lnkd.in/eGx--EV8 And check out the new website that Caroline refers to for even more information https://lnkd.in/dahmAkM Tune in on your chosen podcast platform to subscribe and listen. Apple podcast: https://apple.co/3P9RegV Spotify: https://lnkd.in/enP_4QVr Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3VHqGGs YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eAg5Wv42 Allia, Martin Clark, University Enterprise Network, Riverlane Versed AI Exiger ideaSpace, Steve Brierley, impulse, Maxwell Centre, iTeams, #EnterpriseTECH, Cambridge Enterprise Cambridge Enterprise Ventures Christine Martin, Founders at the University of Cambridge, King's College, Cambridge Trinity College, Cambridge Pembroke College, Cambridge Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Consultants, Diarmuid O'Brien #CambridgeImpact #StartedinCambridge #CambridgeEntrepreneurs #ImpactVenture #CamTechPod In this week’s news and updates: #IdeastoReality #IdeastoReality Amadeus Capital Partners, Amelia Armour, Paragraf®, Simon Thomas FREng, Nu Quantum , Sitehop, Simon French, Panmure Liberum, #CamTechWeek, Poppy Gustafsson, Darktrace, Jill Popelka, Thoma Bravo, Business Weekly newspaper, Jim Glasheen

We loved providing a home for Simprints during those early days - and this episode of The ideaSpace podcast with Tristram Norman remains a favourite!

One week until these free scale-up workshops at Cambridge Tech Week. As proud sponsors of Cambridge Tech Week, if you’re interested in taking your business to the next level, we invite you to sign up for these FREE scale-up workshops taking place on Thursday 12 September. Whether you’re looking to expand internationally, navigate the complexities of scaling up, or leverage AI to grow your business, these workshops will equip you with actionable strategies moving forward. • Scaling Globally: International Expansion and Equity Funding with Team Compass - HSBC UK • The Scale-Up Journey: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies with Mills & Reeve • Maximising Your Grant Funding with MPA • Harnessing AI for Global Business Growth with the Department for Business and Trade For more info and to sign up, visit: https://vist.ly/3hkxs #CamTechWeek #ScaleUp #Workshops

ideaSpace member, Peter Templeton is taking on the Trans-Pyrenees Cycling Challenge in just under a week - check out his justgiving page ⬇️ to support #YoungPeoplesMentalHealth Good luck Peter - from us all at ideaSpace!

Congratulations to ideaSpace Alumni, Riverlane, on their Series C raise of £75m! We'll continue to watch how you progress your mission of making quantum computing useful far sooner than previously imaginable - which now seems closer than ever!

Our annual summer event brings members together from across our three sites - and this year we had another brilliant afternoon of punting and a lovely meal at the Galleria. Always great to see our members mix and get to know those based at a different office - as well as just relax and enjoy some time together… in the sun! ☀️ Thanks all for coming along (especially Ran Xiao on his birthday!)

The Entrepreneurship Clinic is one of our most impactful events for new members. What a privilege to welcome our advisors, Anthony (Tony) Harris, Simon Thorpe and Greg Law and our founders, Dhruv AHUJA, Maximilian Bloomfield and Sulaiman Ahmad to the Hauser Forum yesterday for the two-hour workshop. The clinic gives our founders the opportunity to discuss a challenge that’s impacting the development of their business, one-to-one, with an expert. Thanks to all for coming, especially our advisors for making it, yet again, such a valuable experience for our members!

From a degree in the Netherlands to the first satellite launch in Costa Rica in 2018, to the UK to launch a space company, we talk to Marco Gomez-Jenkins, Co-Founder and CEO of SuperSharp. Marco talks about his background, going to MBA at Imperial College to learn ‘business’, which led him to Professor Ian Parry at the University of Cambridge who together with George Hawker became co-founders of SuperSharp. SuperSharp is an Earth-imaging company developing unfolding space telescopes to capture high-resolution thermal infrared (TIR) images of the Earth. These images can be used for applications such as tackling climate change, crop monitoring, and maintaining global security, allowing high-quality affordable Earth-imaging solutions to empower the world in responding to global change. With a space launch mid-2026, SuperSharp will have had just over 15 years of R&D funded by the UK Space Agency, Innovate UK, the European Space Agency - ESA, the UK Ministry of Defence Accelerator, plus equity investment from Cambridge Enterprise, and some individual angel investors. Tune in to find out more about the SuperSharp journey and how the Cambridge ecosystem has helped at all stages of its growth: Apple podcast: https://apple.co/3P9RegV Google podcast: https://bit.ly/CTPgoogle Spotify: https://lnkd.in/enP_4QVr Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3VHqGGs YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eAg5Wv42 Acast: https://lnkd.in/esg7xgq2 CamTechPod: https://lnkd.in/eB5Aznm6 Delft University of Technology, Planet Labs, SATLANTIS, Cambridge Judge Business School, #AccelerateCambridge, Cambridge Innovation Parks Ltd #Engineering #SuperSharpTeam #ThermalImaging #Technology #SpaceSustainability #GreenTransformation #Innovation #SmallSats #NewSpace #CamTechPod In this week’s news and updates: Michelle Lambrecht, Cambridge Innovation Capital, impulse, Maxwell Centre, Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, #deeptech, ideaSpace, Chris Cleaver, DeepForm, Ismail Sami, Molyon, Molly Haugen, AetoSense, Bill Yost, Cambridge Electric Cement, Jean de La Verpilliere, Echion Technologies, Teja Potocnik, Charlotte Esler, Nanomation, Marc Rodríguez Garcia, Xampla, Christine Martin, Chris Gibbs, #InnovationAlley, Cambridge Tech Week, The Trinity Bradfield Prize, Simon Thorpe, Uber, Bango, Parkwalk Advisors, HutanBio, Paul Beastall 

A very warm welcome to our new members at ideaSpace City - it was great to hear about what you do and officially welcome you to the ideaSpace community during our Welcome Pizza Lunch! Phoenix Mombru is joining SmartAcoustics as an intern over the summer, John Sturdy has joined the Planarific team, Dhruv AHUJA is founder of Chaser Systems and Sulaiman Ahmad is the founder of Honey Therapeutics Ltd. What a pleasure to have you at ideaSpace! #cambridgefounders #coworkingcommunity #startuplife