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Camnexus & The St John’s Projects Team

Camnexus has gone from strength to strength since starting with The St John’s Innovation Centre Projects Team, breaking international barriers, attracting positive publicity and expanding their team both in the UK and South America. Camnexus is an IoT technology company for water management and environmental monitoring which promotes sustainable development and responsible production and consumption. […]

Pitchfest start-up launches sales of the first truly flushable wet wipes

Pitchfest finalists and founders of Twipes, a chemical-free ‘biodegradable’ wet wipes, which disperse in water within three hours, have launched their new subscription platform in time for Christmas. Traditional wipes are behind the 90% of sewer blockages, fatbergs and the river and ocean pollution releasing micro-plastics into our ecosystems. Twipes has the potential to disrupt […]

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 […]

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, […]

Next gen of female entrepreneurs’ look at Pitchfest 2018

We were delighted to be joined by Simon Thorpe of Delta2020 and three work experience students during the Pitchfest Showcase Day at St John’s Innovation Centre.   Pitchfest Showcase is a culmination of a highly focused training and showcase programme delivered by Enterprise Europe Network in partnership with the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) and designed […]

Pitchfest Autumn Dates Announced

We are delighted to announce the dates for the Pitchfest 2018 Autumn Edition!   Delivered by Enterprise Europe Network in partnership with the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) and held at St John’s Innovation Centre, Pitchfest 2018 is a highly focused training and showcase programme designed to help ambitious business founders develop the necessary skills to […]

Pitchfest finalist teams with extreme explorer in quest for sustainability

Water-to-Go, a developer of a sustainable solution to single-use plastic bottles, hosted the official launch of Ash Dykes’ next expedition, Mission Yangtze, and the Mandarin version of his new book, Mission Possible, in Shanghai.   Water-to-Go, a developer of a sustainable solution to single-use plastic bottles, hosted the official launch of Ash Dykes’ next expedition, […]

Pitchfest food start-up protein drinks available at the Centre

We’re delighted to introduce PECK to the Centre, the UK’s first and only protein drink to use real egg and ingredients, developed by the Pitchfest finalist, Matt Havers.   Matt Havers, a Suffolk free range egg farmer, is one of the successful finalists of the Pitchfest series delivered by Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) in partnership […]