79 episodes

Cambridge Tech Podcast covers all things tech from the heart of the UK’s tech capital, and one of the most respected tech and innovation hubs in the world. Hosted every Sunday by James Parton and Faye Holland, the duo talk tech with a full house of experts and personalities exploring this exciting ecosystem, sharing insights and opinions, bringing you the latest on the innovators, the innovations, the game changers and the fundraises.


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Cambridge Tech Podcast James Parton & Faye Holland

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Cambridge Tech Podcast covers all things tech from the heart of the UK’s tech capital, and one of the most respected tech and innovation hubs in the world. Hosted every Sunday by James Parton and Faye Holland, the duo talk tech with a full house of experts and personalities exploring this exciting ecosystem, sharing insights and opinions, bringing you the latest on the innovators, the innovations, the game changers and the fundraises.


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    From radiotherapy to entrepreneur – Sheila Kissane, Boutros Bear

    From radiotherapy to entrepreneur – Sheila Kissane, Boutros Bear

    Boutros Bear is a company founded after an aggressive course of breast cancer where Founder and CEO, Sheila Kissane, saw first-hand a gap in her own treatment and care.
    Boutros Bear delivers comprehensive rehabilitation programs, empowering individuals facing cancer, chronic pain, and mental health challenges.
    This is a very personal and insightful conversation with someone who has taken an issue that affects many, understood it, and created something to improve health and wellness.
    ·       From civil engineering to a healthcare entrepreneur
    ·       An initial 12-week programme to an integrated #employeewellness platform
    ·       From blind naivety to raising initial capital and the move to Series A
    ·       Scoping what ‘tech’ meant in such a people centric programme (and how tech for healthcare / passive apps don’t necessarily have the benefit for the user)
    ·       18-months of persistence to sign up the perfect partner
    ·       How to engage with corporates on #CorporateWellness #WorkplaceHealth
    ·       Scoping out the US market and being ‘in-pursuit- of sales
    ·       A pursuit of asking questions and flowing honesty!



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    • 54 min
    #21toWatch winners announced for 2024

    #21toWatch winners announced for 2024

    A highlight of the annual calendar is the announcement of the #21toWatch Top21 – the seven people, companies and ‘things’ that are leading the way in innovation across the East of England, including from the centre for Science and Innovation, Cambridge.
     
    Running since 2019, now in its 6th year, the programme has seen 1,736 applications and 126 winners. It is recognised as the most independent listing of the who’s who of startups in the region covering every conceivable type of science and technology.
     
    Some of the programmes alumni includes Unitary, VividQ, Paragraf, Riverlane, Broken Strong BioSciences, Xampla, Sano Genetics, SATAVIA, Colorifix, Flusso, Porotech, Cambridge Gan Devices, and in this episode we will find out who the 2024 winners are.
     
    This episode features alumni and the staggering £415m (not including undisclosed amounts, private acquisitions, and the behemoth of CMR Surgical) raised between 2019-2023; interviews with Dr Alicia Showering CEO of BugBiome (People); Mohammad Saghafifar, Co-founder and CEO, Remedium Energy (Company) and Dmitry Khazhdan, CTO, Tenyks (‘Thing’); and much more.


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    • 54 min
    #CamTechWeek 2024 – the launch episode

    #CamTechWeek 2024 – the launch episode

    As official podcast partner to Cambridge Tech Week 2024, we’re delighted to run our first full episode dedicated to the event, starting with the recording of the panel at the Cambridge launch, and an interview with Russ Shaw from the London launch event.
    The Cambridge event really highlighted the desire to bring the outside in – to create a #SXSW for Cambridge and the tech space, where the objective is to bring the outside in. The panellists (Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, CEO, Nu Quantum, David Moore, CEO, Pragmatic, Pam Garside, Chair, Cambridge Angels, and Harriet Fear MBE) had an open discussion about innovation, funding, and challenges of growth, as well as sharing feedback on last year’s event and their wishes for 2024.
    As one of the events ‘ambassadors’, Russ Shaw, Founder of Tech London Advocates, talked about Cambridge’s global reputation for Science and Innovation – “Cambridge punches enormously above its weight in terms of its size and scale”.
    And we also caught up with Douglas MacDonald, Partner who heads up the national tech sector at Mills & Reeve who are also one of the event sponsors (others include Rathbones, Cambridge Management Consulting, UK Telecoms Innovation Network UKTIN, HSBC and Cambridge Consultants).
    And of course, we caught up with the man himself, chair of the organising committee Chris Bruce, to find out which three words are on the top of his mind for 2024. 



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    • 46 min
    An optimistic 2024 with Chris Keen of Mishcon de Reya

    An optimistic 2024 with Chris Keen of Mishcon de Reya

    Providing a snapshot of what it has been like trying to raise and deploy capital over the last year, is Chris Keen, Head of Emerging Companies in Cambridge, at Mishcon de Reya.
    We discuss the more challenging market of 2023, but with a deal level that remained almost the same as previous years, it’s looking rosy for 2024.
    From Pre-seed through to Series D, Private Equity (PE) and Mergers and Acquisition (M&A), we talk about the dynamics of deals locally in Cambridge and throughout the UK. And Chris gives some useful guidance on when to engage with a lawyer, and note, the advice is to bring it further forward than you may think.
    We also find out that many advisors are providing line of sight of investment potential from the Cambridge ecosystem to investors outside of the region – so that’s great news for our homegrown tech and innovation.



    Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV

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    • 40 min
    From fighter pilot to venture builder with Owen Thompson, CFT

    From fighter pilot to venture builder with Owen Thompson, CFT

    This week’s guest shares his career path from military, to a large corporate, to building a startup that supports …start-ups.
    Owen Thompson, CEO and co-founder talks about Cambridge Future Tech’s ethos and how they support technical founders to grow from the pre-ideation phase, commercialise and support the business set-up.



    Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV.

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    • 35 min
    The inner workings of a VC with Cian Hughes, Partner at Sure Valley Ventures

    The inner workings of a VC with Cian Hughes, Partner at Sure Valley Ventures

    This week we talk to Cian Hughes, Partner at Sure Valley Ventures to find out about the inner workings of a VC – of course it’s about providing money to startups, but also about providing a platform to access other investors, partners, and experts. Investing predominantly at mid-seed stage, Sure Valley Ventures helps to identify gaps and fill them at acritical stage of development.
    We talk about
    ·       the different between the tech ecosystem in Silicon valley to Cambridge
    ·       the importance of Universities in tech ecosystems – ideas and spinout
    ·       access to talent
    ·       a can-do mindset
    ·       access to customers
    And Cian showcases some of their portfolio companies including VividQ (see Aleksandra Pedraszewska in episode 53), whilst also giving a quick 101 on how to approach investors.
    Watch out for Cian – he may well just strike up a conversation with you!


    Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV


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    • 43 min

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