Cambridge ebike start-up gets 400% funded on Kickstarter
Flit, the company behind a brand new generation of folding electric bike developed in Cambridge by an ex Jaguar Land Rover engineer, has exceeded their crowdfunding campaign target in minutes after launching their campaign on Kickstarter. Penny Lord, our Enterprise Europe Network Innovation Adviser based at St John’s Innovation Centre, has worked closely with […]
PAST EVENT: Investment War Stories
MERLIN ICT Workshop #9: Investment War Stories for Angels and Entrepreneurs Date And Time: Thursday, 19 September 2019; 16:00 – 18:30 BST Venue: St John’s Innovation Centre This interactive afternoon session will provide an insight to The Invested Investor and new rules for start-ups, scale-ups and angel investing.
Pitchfest 2019
“I was incredibly impressed by both the organisation and scale of the event. More importantly from our point of view, the Showcase was very well attended by quality investors who proactively engaged with us.” Nia Dokova, Director of Sutrue and Pitchfest 2019 Spring edition Finalist.
Pitchfest on Tour
Pitchfest returns to St John’s Innovation Centre as part of the national programme rollout. We’re delighted to announce that applications are now open for the 7th Cambridge edition of Pitchfest. APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for the Pitchfest 2019 Autumn cohort of ambitious companies in the East of England with innovative products & services who […]
Directed Systems secure funding
DIRECTED SYSTEMS RECEIVE DIGITAL FUNDING TO DEVELOP PIONEERING SOFTWARE Pioneering software that enables anaesthetists to make better decisions for high risk patients during surgery has been awarded InnovateUK funding. St John’s Innovation Centre based Directed Systems has been allocated a Digital Health Technology Catalyst Round 3 Collaborative R&D grant to develop and market their […]
#SJICSundowners Guest Speaker announced
Paul Bojarski, CEO of a London based media company Sceenic and Pitchfest finalist to share his entrepreneurial journey at SJIC Sundowners. On 6th June 2019, St John’s Innovation Centre will host the 4th event in a SJIC Sundowners series created for companies across the St John’s Innovation Park and the Cambridge tech and enterprise […]
Fetch.AI: $6 million hardcap reached in 22 seconds
Fetch.AI raises $6m in successful token sale on Binance Launchpad Fetch.AI, the decentralised infrastructure for deploying digital representatives ‘Autonomous Economic Agents’ has completed a successful token sale via Binance Launchpad. 69,179,855 FET tokens were sold in just 22 seconds with orders pledged by nearly 20,000 people. Of those orders 2,758 separate contributors successfully bought FET tokens […]
Pitchfest 2019
Applications close on Tuesday, 5th March at noon St John’s Innovation Centre is now accepting applications for the Pitchfest 2019 Spring cohort of ambitious companies with innovative products & services who have the potential to scale or who are already scaling and are looking to raise between £100k – £1m. Delivered by Enterprise Europe Network in partnership with the Knowledge Transfer […]
Pitchfest returns for 2019: Applications are now open
We’re delighted to announce Pitchfest dates for the 2019 edition! Delivered by Enterprise Europe Network in partnership with the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) and held at St John’s Innovation Centre, Pitchfest 2019 is a highly focused training and showcase programme designed to help ambitious business founders develop the necessary skills to become pitch ready. We […]
Invested Investor backs Pitchfest to boost angel-entrepreneur dialogue
St John’s Innovation Centre has teamed up with The Invested Investor for this year’s two editions of Pitchfest, a highly-focused training and showcase programme aimed at ambitious companies with innovative products and services who have the potential to scale and are looking to raise between £100k – £1m. The Invested Investor, a social enterprise project, […]