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Recorded live at Cambridge Tech Week, this panel brings together a founder who is actively rewriting the economics of drug discovery, two of Europe's most respected deep tech investors, and a sovereign fund deploying capital from Seoul into the UK ecosystem. The result is a substantive conversations on what it actually takes to build a globally consequential company from Cambridge. The moderator is Sherry Coutu CBE a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, LP in five VC funds, and board member at Raspberry Pi, Pearson, Standard Life and Cancer Research UK. The panellists are Dr Tim Guilliams, Co-founder and CEO of Healx; Tom Wilson, Partner at Seedcamp; Amelia Armour, Partner at Amadeus Capital Partners; and Ute Kim, Head of the London Office at Korea Venture Investment Corporation (KVIC). Subscribe on all major podcast platforms or visit cambridgetechpodcast.com. Headline sponsor Holden Polestar Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 9 October 2026 The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring Reclinker, Adviisa, Zenithon and QPT. Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Cambridge Tech Week 2026: The (UK) Deep Tech Playbook The UK has the research, talent and capital to create category defining deep tech companies. The missing piece is a more connected system that turns breakthrough science into globally scaled businesses while keeping more of the economic value in the UK. In this Cambridge Tech Podcast panel, Joanne Hosker of Northern Gritstone is joined by Tom Adeyoola, Executive Chair of Innovate UK, Bradley Jones, founder and CEO of ThatRound, Owen Thompson, CEO of Cambridge Future Tech, and Dr Christina Yan Zhang, CEO of The Metaverse Institute. Together, they unpack the practical shifts needed to make the UK a stronger launchpad for founders building in fields such as quantum, AI, climate technology and advanced engineering. The conversation challenges a familiar assumption: that UK deep tech lacks capital. The panel argues that the issue is less about the total amount of money available and more about how confidently investors understand technical risk, how effectively funding connects with founders, and how incentives keep high value companies rooted in the UK. What you will hear Why the UK’s world class science base needs stronger commercial pathways, not just more research fundingHow founders can adapt their pitch for different markets while keeping a genuinely global ambitionWhy early stage deep tech must be evaluated differently from software businesses with immediate revenueWhat investors look for when product market fit is still emerging, including defensibility, market access, resilience and coachabilityHow government procurement could become a major growth engine for UK innovationWhy employee ownership, exited founders and angel reinvestment can create a more circular capital ecosystemWhere US expansion makes sense, and why a UK research and development base can remain strategically valuable This is a sharp, practical listen for founders, investors and operators who want to help build the next generation of UK deep tech leaders. Headline sponsor Holden Polestar Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 2 Oct 2026 The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring Cambrionix, Intralink, Raspberry Pi, Chinese International Economic Cooperation Association, Innovate Cambridge, Cambridge Enterprise, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Paragraf, EPSRC, Hannah Goldsmith, The Centre for Computing History. Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Please note this episode covers some difficult topics, specifically the issue around child sexual abuse, which some listeners may find distressing. Listener discretion is advised. In this episode of the Cambridge Tech Podcast, hosts Faye Holland and James Parton speak with Emma Hardy, Communications Director at the Internet Watch Foundation, about the fast-moving fight to prevent child sexual abuse online. Emma brings a clear message for founders, investors and product leaders: safety cannot be an afterthought. From generative AI to user generated content, every new capability can create opportunities for harm as well as value. The strongest companies consider both from day one. The Internet Watch Foundation, or IWF, is a UK charity that identifies and works to remove online child sexual abuse imagery. Its teams combine specialist human judgement with technical tools, intelligence and partnerships across industry, government, law enforcement and academia. Emma explains how digital fingerprints, known as hashes, can help prevent previously identified imagery from being uploaded again on participating platforms. “Build it safe from the start. Don’t try and retrofit safety.” For startups and tech companies, the practical takeaway is simple: build safety into the product, the business model and the operating culture. Emma encourages teams to examine how an idea could be misused before it reaches scale, rather than attempting to retrofit protections after harm has occurred. The IWF can support organisations, particularly those handling user generated content, with expertise and services designed to make platforms safer. This is an essential listen for anyone building, backing or governing technology. Subscribe to the Cambridge Tech Podcast for candid conversations with the people shaping safer, smarter innovation across the UK tech ecosystem. Headline sponsor Holden Polestar Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 25 September 2026. The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring Cambridge Vacuum Engineering (CVE), Cambridge Atomworks, Riverlane, Discovery District Maryland, Kendall Square, Boston, University of Maryland, British Business Bank, Andrew C**k-Starkey, Optimisey, Internet Watch Foundation. To submit your own news, visit https://www.cambridgetechpodcast.com and click "Call the Show" Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cambridge Tech Week has firmly earned its place as a must-attend moment for the UK innovation community. In the latest Cambridge Tech Podcast, hosts Faye Holland and James Parton are joined by Cambridge Angels Emmi Nicholl to reflect on a packed week of founder conversations, investor insight and the big questions shaping the sector. The Week retained its distinctive Cambridge energy: busy, organic and full of chance encounters. Alongside familiar faces were new connections across manufacturing, defence, security and international innovation ecosystems. Innovation Alley was once again a phenomenal success with one founder describing the session with Cambridge Angels “the most productive 25 minutes they had spent all year”. The Cambridge x Manchester Partnership offered tangible evidence of cross-cluster momentum, with four joint investments already spanning therapeutics, technology and life sciences. The lesson for founders is that regional networks are becoming increasingly connected, and a broader investor base may be closer than it appears. One of the week’s most compelling discussions examined the increasingly blurred boundary between civilian and military technology. The debate did not offer easy answers, but it made the need for active governance impossible to ignore. For technologists, the challenge is not only what can be built, but what should be built, and how companies set ethical boundaries as dual-use applications emerge. During the rest of 2026, #CamTechPod will be covering some of the key sessions from #CamTechWeek so subscribe on all major podcast platforms or visit cambridgetechpodcast.com to hear more of the conversation. Headline sponsor Holden Polestar Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 18 September 2026. The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring Cambridge Tech Week, CWConnected, Echion Technologies, and Cambridge Enterprise. Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

10 Years of the Maxwell Centre: Where Cambridge's Deep Tech Future Is Being Built James heads to the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge to mark its first decade, sitting down with four remarkable people who between them span the full arc from foundational physics research to frontier AI startups. If you want to understand how Cambridge actually turns brilliant science into world-changing companies, this is the episode to listen to. The Maxwell Centre opened in 2016 as a deliberate act of disruption: a place where academics, industry partners and entrepreneurs could work side by side without walls or barriers. A decade later, it has become one of the most quietly influential spaces in the UK innovation landscape. We hear from: Professor Sir Richard Friend FRS FREng, Founding Director, Maxwell Centre Professor George Malliaras FRS, Prince Philip Professor of Technology and Director, Institute for Biomedical Innovation (IBI) Loubna Bouarfa, Founder, FactTrace, Sterlina Smith, Global Lead for AI and Society, SAS, and Dr Aga Iwasiewicz-Wabnig, Director, Maxwell Centre "You're never going to run out of good challenges to tackle. And if you're in a place like Cambridge where other people are doing their 150% to tackle the problem they're passionate about, it's just impossible to stand still."    Subscribe on all major podcast platforms or visit cambridgetechpodcast.com. 🎧 Headline sponsor Holden Polestar Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 11 September 2026 The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring Quantinuum, OutSee, Innovate UK, Empirical Ventures, Pragmatic Semiconductor, Doctor Paul James, Frontier Developments, Disney, Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge Tech Week, Maxwell Centre. Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod See less Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we sat down with Jonathan Benton, Founder and CEO of iSanctuary, and it is one of the most remarkable founder stories we have heard. In the episode we cover: Why crypto fraud has reached epidemic scale and why only 0.1% of cases ever reach prosecutionHow REKTify works and the world-first legal cases that proved itThe plan to automate at massive scale and become the blockchain equivalent of the banking system's fraud marker infrastructureWhat 30 years of public service actually teaches you about building a company "If you've done 25 years of public service, it never really leaves your blood." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 25 September 2026. The weekly Tech news roundup from in and around the Cambridge Tech cluster. Featuring Pragmatic Semiconductor, Mission Therapeutics and NeuraLight. Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We sat down with Amelia Armour, Partner at Amadeus Capital Partners, for one of the most insightful conversations we've had about the state of UK deep tech investment, and the mood is genuinely optimistic. The headlines? The UK's first half of 2026 has been the strongest for venture since 2022, with $17 billion flowing into UK-backed companies. Cambridge unicorns are arriving with real momentum. And the long-standing complaint about scale-up capital? It's finally being addressed. Amelia covers a lot of ground in this one: Why the value in AI has shifted deep into the stack — and what that means for foundersThe pension fund revolution that could transform UK venture over the next decadeWhy Playground Global setting up in the UK is such a significant signalThe non-dilutive funding strategies that are quietly changing the runway equation for early-stage companiesWhat Amadeus actually looks for when deal flow is at record levels — and how to cut through Whether you're raising, building, or investing, this is essential listening. Subscribe on all major podcast platforms or visit cambridgetechpodcast.com. Headline sponsor Holden Polestar Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cambridge Tech Podcast Weekly News Drop - 28 August 2026 Hear updates from Arm, IBM, and Cambridge Tech Week. Tune in on Tuesday for our interview with Amelia Armour of Amadeus Capital Partners. Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cambridge Tech Week's pitch competition is back, and this year's shortlist might be the strongest yet. James and Faye sit down with four of the five finalists ahead of their head-to-head on the main stage of the Cambridge Corn Exchange on 16 September 2026. It's a special, quick episode, a reunion of sorts: four of the five companies have featured on the podcast before, many as #21toWatch winners. The fifth - an Edinburgh-based AI company - proves that Cambridge Tech Week's reach now stretches well beyond the city. This episode introduces the finalists: Phil Spence, HotHouse Therapeutics (Norwich) - engineering plants to produce entirely new-to-nature vaccine adjuvants. Their target? Replacing QS-21 - with a scalable, less toxic, bioengineered alternative of similar efficacy.Dr Monica Saavedra's, Lambda agri (Cambridge) - an additive embedded into greenhouse paint and polytunnel sheeting that converts damaging UV light into red light, boosting photosynthesis and delivering up to 20% more yield per crop.Sam Kamali, Myonerv (Cambridge) not present on recording - a wearable medical device, to monitor and treat stroke induced paralysis, allowing stroke patients suffering from upper limb paralysis, to regain real-time control of their hand.Ruben Ruiz-Mateos Serrano, Polytecks (Cambridge) - a novel conducting polymer woven into e-textile electrode arrays that map the body's electrical activity in high-density detail - their first product, stages the most common cardiac disease in dogs.George Arden, Xplore Intelligence (Edinburgh) - simulates real operational environments to train and benchmark entire AI agent systems - catching hallucinations and errors before they reach users in regulated sectors like MedTech and logistics. Why Are They Competing? The answer is consistent across all finalists: it's not just about the prize money. Fundraising momentum - multiple founders are mid-round and treating the stage as a high-quality investor touchpointEcosystem reach - Cambridge Tech Week draws a global audience; and creates a deliberate bridge across the UK deep tech community The live final is sponsored by Mills & Reeve, and joined by PwC, and Julius & Clark. Judging on the day: Zickie Lim (Partner & Head of VC & Investments, Mills & Reeve), Marilena Ioannidou (British Business Bank), Richard Lewis (Foresight Group), and Emmi Nicholl (Cambridge Angels). Two prizes are up for grabs: Judges' Award and People's Choice Award. Be there in person: Wednesday 16 September, Cambridge Corn Exchange. Tickets at cambridgetechweek.co.uk   Subscribe on all major podcast platforms or visit cambridgetechpodcast.com. Headline sponsor Holden Polestar Produced by Cambridge TV #CamTechPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.