Opteran Technologies is a University of Sheffield spin-out that has re-engineered insect brain patterns to power advances for autonomous machines. This is Northern Gritstone’s first investment since the close of its initial fundraising. Read more
Northern Gritstone, the new investment business focused on university spin-outs in the north of England, today announces a first close of £215m having seen strong interest from investors in its proposition. The company, chaired by Lord Jim O’Neill and Read more…
Sheffield’s Rinri Therapeutics is one of many ‘world-class’ firms in the North to benefit from Northern Gritstone’s new investment programme. Read more here.
Duncan Johnson, chief executive at Northern Gritstone, discusses how there is “a level playing field of science and a totally and utterly uneven level playing field of funding”. Listen here.
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The Government’s Levelling up White Paper is a very important step in outlining the Government’s much discussed strategy and after repeated delays, in my view, is one of first times this government has announced something stronger than anticipated. Given the underlying Read more…
Northern Gritstone, which will name Marion Bernard as its first investment chief, has secured backing from blue-chip funds including Lansdowne Partners and M&G Investments. Read more
The rankings are the only global performance tables that assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Read more.
FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics provides continuous monitoring for CNC machines. The startup’s device-agnostic, low-cost, the plug-and-play platform allows SME manufacturers to automate machine data collection, whereas traditional machine monitoring systems are expensive and complex to install. Read more
Northern Gritstone has found backing for its first £100m with another £300m in discussion, enabling it to back two dozen northern university spinouts a year to support commercialisation of IP at northern universities by Tim Adler at Growth Business. Read more.