As we take a short break for Christmas, we decided to re-run one of our most popular episodes of 2024, the one with Pam Garside, chair of local angel network, Cambridge Angels.

The episode originally aired in January 2024 and has generated hundreds of downloads, and it's easy to see why.

Pam gave us an introduction to Cambridge Angels, their focus areas, and how their process works - vital information for any founder looking to pitch to Cambridge Angels.

Pam shares her priorities as chair of the Cambridge Angels, which includes navigating a challenging market environment, adding investor diversity, and raising the profile of its members' depth of expertise.

And we learn about Pam’s unique background, and her journey into investing. And we talk about healthcare and how AI and automation is revolutionising the sector but requires caution – it’s not an area to ‘move fast and break things’ as Mark Zuckerberg advises!

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The Cambridge History of Innovation Project (CHIP) is offering Cambridge 'a better memory' and 'self-consciousness' of its own technological and social development.... moving beyond the simple celebration of successes, to deeper understanding and description of what has happened here.

In this episode we talk about the CHIP Project and speak to some of the early protagonists.

Find out more at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/chip

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In this episode we talk about a lifelong passion with tech and ‘trying stuff out’ with founder and chair of Cambridge Spark, Dr. Raoul-Gabriel Urma.

We have a rich conversation about:

· A passion for education and teaching the most spoken language in the world – computer code

· Doing more with less in the startup environment vs the corporate world

· Taking a B2C coding model to a very successful B2B model

· Tapping a market need by developing corporate AI skills, and learning how to ‘sell’

· Building data scientist sandbox environment with EDUKATE.AI

· Being bootstrapped, but with lots of support from people like Hanadi Jabado and non-dilutive funding like from Innovate UK

· The transition from CEO to Chair

· The importance of growth, development and strategic decisions

· Oh, and Raoul has his own podcast – The Data & AI Mastery podcast – check it out!!

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Telling us all about #EnterpriseTuesday #NorwichEnterprise we talk to Sheng Qi, UEA and Roz Bird, Anglia Innovation Partnership who introduce the Innovation Hothouse.

The Innovation Hothouse is an example of co-creation and collaboration between all the agencies in Norwich Research Park who are passionate about working together to achieve further impact and innovation. Dr Soraya Jones, The Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence is supporting this initiative because she is excited about the potential of a vibrant ecosystem working together “so much more can be achieved together than in isolation”.

We talk about some of the 2023 winners – TraitSeq (we also caught up with Joshua Colmer and Felicity Knowles in the episode), Virilitas, Ediform, Opau

And we catch up with two of the finalists for 2024 - Rosaria Campilongo of PfBIO and Safir Jamal of Vida Vodka before hearing all eight finalists pitch – Knee3D, Healthium Platform, iBoxit, PathoProst Detect Test, Bioscopic, Birthview/Birth4cast.

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James Lee, CEO and co-founder of Wave Photonics, talks to us about how they are enabling rapid photonic integrated circuit development for any wavelength or platform.

James explains how the design for integrated photonics uses the same scalable process used to make semiconductor electronics chips to make circuits for light. And he talks about the market opportunity for both tackling energy and bandwidth, and longer term with sensing and quantum.

We gain great insights about:

· Quitting a job maybe too early to start a business

· You don’t have to be impossibly smart and motivated to be an entrepreneur

· Building technology from scratch

· Experiencing different universities and accelerator programmes (both sides of the pond)

· Recruiting the right people

· Experiencing Silicon Valley next-level optimism and vision

· Targeting clients at such an early stage of a company

Watch this space as Wave develops their products and builds their go-to-market outreach.

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It’s not often that you get to talk to someone who has seen every press release and been part of innovation discussions for the last 35 years, not to mention who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the opportunities and challenges for our tech and science businesses.

In this episode we caught up with Tony Quested and Jamie Quested to talk about not just their #BusinessWeeklyAwards, but the much broader impact and reach of Business Weekly since 1990.

Here are some highlights

· Current trends include a rise in genomics, synthetic biology, and quantum computing

· The US will continue to buy up our companies, to access the brain power and innovation across Cambridge and the East of England cluster…

· …but they will now keep the business here - like Featurespace (Visa), IQGeo (KKR), and Darktrace (Thoma Bravo) – rather than lifting and shifting to the US

· The demand for 100,000 engineers by leading tech companies will require different thinking

· The importance of ‘Brain Gain’ and how 70% (£1.65bn) of fundraising in the last year came out of the University of Cambridge…

· … and how overall funding in the last year topped £2.3bn of which £1bn was for tech (remainder life sciences), and 50% of all funding went to Cambridge Science Park tenant companies

· Whether our entrepreneurs are thinking strategically enough, especially when VCs and funders may have different priorities

· And then we finally talk about the Awards, and the ability to spot the successes based on a level of due diligence that is incomparable.

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In the second part of our conversation with David Cleevely, we talk about the Cambridge Cluster, the vital work with government and on policy, and the phenomena of serendipity and paying it forward.

David has been instrumental in the Cambridge Cluster for decades, with the founding of groups like Cambridge Network and Cambridge Wireless; creating a vision for Cambridge (a few times); the importance of marketing and having a logo; and keeping Cambridge competitive.

A charitable contributor, David firmly believes that if you make some money, you should give back to the community – something Sara Allen at The Cambridge Pledge will be delighted to hear. And we hear about David’s pivotal role at Raspberry Pi and the eight years from formulating a plan to a flotation.

We talk about why an active involvement in public policy and government liaison is vital, and how entrepreneurs can help to fill gaps and stop us sleepwalking into growth challenges – locally and globally.

And we finish with a discussion on serendipity – the approach that will determine your path by making chance encounters happen. Tune in for a future episode when we’ll cover David’s Book – ‘Serendipity – it doesn’t happen by accident’.

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We talk with David Cleevely – telecoms, wireless and technology expert, a serial entrepreneur, investor in 55 companies, and an adviser to Government on both a national and local level. David is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and last but by no means least, awarded a CBE, for services to technology and innovation. As an active and respected businessman, David vigorously promotes networking, collaboration and the City of Cambridge.

The episode starts with David giving his views on the 2024 UK budget announcement which included providing “funding for Cambridge to help it reach its growth potential”.

We then take a journey into David’s education, career, and entrepreneurial journey including many of the investments he has made and been involved in. What you will hear as a continuous thread - and what we’ll talk about more in Part 2 - is how serendipity shapes careers.

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