Auralis
Pharmaceutical firm, and Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus company, Auralis announced on 9th April that it has received a £1.4m investment boost from Aquarius Equity Partners. Auralis, which supplies critical care drugs to the NHS, is projecting sales of £5m for this financial year. This is the first investment for Aquarius following the closure of its £20m Northern Entrepreneurs Fund, which targets equity investments of between £750,000 and £2m in fast-growing companies across the North of England.
edocr
Daresbury-based web 2.0 start-up, edocr, has recently returned from a showcase of UK internet talent visiting California to meet potential US funders.
Dubbed the new ‘YouTube for pdfs’, edocr allows users to upload and share documents online. It is one of just 20 UK companies picked to attend the seven-day Web Mission 2008 – and the only one to make the cut from the North West of England.
Web Mission 2008 took place between 19th and 25th April in San Francisco and is designed to put start-up companies in front of Silicon Valley’s leading innovators, funders and backers and help them secure US publicity.
edocr creator and entrepreneur, Manoj Ranaweera, who is originally from Sri Lanka, set up his company 12 months ago as a way for businesses to post, share and search for pdf documents.
Once uploaded, edocr generates a thumbnail and flash document that can be embedded onto corporate websites, blogs or e-zines. Other users can then interact with documents through commenting, ranking, tagging or book marking. edocr's trip was also featured in the Daily Telegraph at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/04/27/ccsil1...
IDT
In a deal worth around £1million, Daresbury SIC based company Instrument Design Technology (IDT) has beaten international competition to supply systems to the STFC’s Diamond Light Source synchrotron at Harwell, Oxfordshire.
IDT will be providing five x-ray mirror systems to the I20-X-ray spectroscopy beamline at Diamond.
The company, which has also recently secured a deal with the Australian Synchrotron Project, will take mirrors manufactured in the US and integrate them with precision engineered components in the North West, producing the mirror systems.
IDT Managing Director, Paul Murray, said 'We are delighted with this deal because it establishes IDT as a leading X ray mirror system supplier to Diamond'.
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Auralis
Pharmaceutical firm, and Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus company, Auralis announced on 9th April that it has received a £1.4m investment boost from Aquarius Equity Partners. Auralis, which supplies critical care drugs to the NHS, is projecting sales of £5m for this financial year. This is the first investment for Aquarius following the closure of its £20m Northern Entrepreneurs Fund, which targets equity investments of between £750,000 and £2m in fast-growing companies across the North of England.
edocr
Daresbury-based web 2.0 start-up, edocr, has recently returned from a showcase of UK internet talent visiting California to meet potential US funders.
Dubbed the new ‘YouTube for pdfs’, edocr allows users to upload and share documents online. It is one of just 20 UK companies picked to attend the seven-day Web Mission 2008 – and the only one to make the cut from the North West of England.
Web Mission 2008 took place between 19th and 25th April in San Francisco and is designed to put start-up companies in front of Silicon Valley’s leading innovators, funders and backers and help them secure US publicity.
edocr creator and entrepreneur, Manoj Ranaweera, who is originally from Sri Lanka, set up his company 12 months ago as a way for businesses to post, share and search for pdf documents.
Once uploaded, edocr generates a thumbnail and flash document that can be embedded onto corporate websites, blogs or e-zines. Other users can then interact with documents through commenting, ranking, tagging or book marking. edocr's trip was also featured in the Daily Telegraph at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/04/27/ccsil1...
IDT
In a deal worth around £1million, Daresbury SIC based company Instrument Design Technology (IDT) has beaten international competition to supply systems to the STFC’s Diamond Light Source synchrotron at Harwell, Oxfordshire.
IDT will be providing five x-ray mirror systems to the I20-X-ray spectroscopy beamline at Diamond.
The company, which has also recently secured a deal with the Australian Synchrotron Project, will take mirrors manufactured in the US and integrate them with precision engineered components in the North West, producing the mirror systems.
IDT Managing Director, Paul Murray, said 'We are delighted with this deal because it establishes IDT as a leading X ray mirror system supplier to Diamond'.
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