Photography at the Cambridge Wireless Discovering Start-Ups 2011 Competition

1. 18 BUSINESSWEEKLY December 8-15, 2011
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Cambridge Wireless’ Discovering Start-Ups 2011
Revealed – Wireless winners that can change the world
Five wireless companies regarded as global game-
changers emerged as winners of the Cambridge The Golden Generation
Wireless Discovering Start-Ups 2011 competition
in the UK.
in association with
The quality quintet to emerge from a world-
class day of judgement were Mindings, Advanced
Balance Systems, Blu wireless, Qiqqa and
Proxama. They were chosen from 23 shortlisted
companies that pitched to investors and judges
at Queens’ College Cambridge today.
Walkasins, the invention of Advanced Balance www.arm.com
Systems’ – (advancedbalancesystems.com) –
majored in a Business Weekly preview of the specialist in developing near-field communication
finalists last month. Walkasins is a wearable and contactless technology.
medical device that helps reduce the risk of falls With the recent acquisition of proximity
in people with balance problems by up to 50 per marketing company, Hypertag in Cambridge,
cent. One in three over 65s will sustain a fall- Proxama is now in a unique position to offer
related injury at great personal and economic expertise in all areas of proximity and mobile
cost. Walkasins works by providing vibrotactile marketing.
biofeedback to augment or replace impaired Proxama worked alongside MasterCard
balance sensation and is a new approach to Worldwide to create an end-to-end payment
solving this serious problem. solution and has recently signed a partnership
Mindings (www.mindings.com) connects agreement with Nokia to develop NFC
families by enabling rich connections; anyone with applications for the new generation of
a mobile phone can share meaningful moments smartphones.
with their family members. Personal captioned Senior representatives from companies
photos, text messages, calendar reminders, including Microsoft, RIM, Nokia, Qualcomm
Facebook content and much more appear Ventures, Innovacom, Broadcom, Orange, O2
instantly on a digital photo frame they don’t even Telefonica and ARM were on hand to judge the
need to touch. Mindings is an Android App that finalists and provide expert advice.
can run on a number of often-inexpensive In addition to trophies, the winners each
internet-connected digital tablets and devices. received £2,000 along with free business and
The content – perhaps a holiday photograph, Stuart Arnott from Mindings pitching to the judges at Discovering Start-Ups 2011.
consultancy services. They also have the
a reminder of a doctor’s appointment, or a just a opportunity to present their new technologies and
spontaneous “Thinking about you!” SMS text manufacturability when compared to the Jimme Jardine, the company has had a brilliant business visions to 300+ leading wireless industry
message message – cycles through without the anticipated competing products. The product will run of success in local entrepreneurship delegates from over 20 countries at the 2012
recipient ever having to touch the device. allow mobile operators to offload cloud based competitions this year, including Cambridge Future of Wireless International Conference next
Blu Wireless Technology Ltd – video data from their networks by the near University Entrepreneurs’ grand finals. June.
(www.bluwirelesstechnology.com) – is a fabless instantaneous syncing to portable platforms with Combining innovative tools with powerful “The quality of entrants shows that
semiconductor company developing low cost very low battery usage. Demonstrations of natural language processing, Qiqqa lets innovation and entrepreneurship is clearly very
multi-Gigabit WiFi products set to become a core >2Gbps data transfers have already been made to researchers cope with the avalanche of papers and much alive,” said Clennell Collingwood,
component of all tomorrow’s consumer a now ‘highly excited’ Japanese customer base. information that their research involves. Investment Director at TTP Ventures. “We are
electronics devices. The unique single chip 60 GHz Qiqqa (www.qiqqa.com)– is a software that Qiqqa helps them focus on the important confident that the winners and many of the other
transceiver being developed will be of significantly helps researchers manage and extract maximum facts, discover related material and improve recall. finalists will go on to make important
reduced cost and power with emphasis on value from their research materials. Headed up by Proxama Ltd (www.proxama.com) is a contributions to the wireless industry.”

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Carl Davis from app damon pitching to the Discovering Start-Ups 2011 judges Cambridge Wireless chairman, David Cleevely
Dr Soraya Jones, CEO of Cambridge Wireless,
said: “All the finalists had a unique opportunity
to pitch to a dream line up of business angels, VCs
and corporate investors with years of experience
of spotting winners.
“The support from the judges, sponsors,
Cambridge Wireless members and entrants has
been excellent and reflects the level of expertise,
encouragement and business infrastructure that
exists to nurture and help drive the success of
innovative start ups.”
Now in its second year, Discovering Start-Ups
was supported by the East of England
Development Agency and sponsored by
Microlease, Neondrum, Rohde and Schwarz, S-
Tech Insurance Services, Dorsey and Whitney and
Alliantus.
Other organisations backing the Cambridge
Wireless Discovering Start-Ups initiative include:
Avidity IP, Business Link, Cambridge Network,
Cambridge University, CamtechNet, Connected
Cambridge, Enterprise Europe Network, Google,
IdeaSpace, Innovation Martlesham, Nesta, One
Nucleus, St John’s Innovation Centre and Survive
& Thrive.
Leo Poll, co-champion of Cambridge
Dr Rosemary Francis from Ellexus Ltd pitching to the judges Benjamin Wirtz from Handy Elephant Ltd
Wireless’s Business SIG, told judges and guests
that it was impressive how the East of England across multiple channels (e.g. Phone, SMS, Email, mixture which is based on at least 5 pending games for health difficulties; testing of new
managed to produce such an enormous number Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook). Handy Elephant is patents, TeqniHome aims to target three major brainwaves for assessing non-motor or
of startups on a yearly basis. like a Personal Assistant that tells users who multi-billion pound markets. speech based patients has led to the
Cambridge Wireless chairman David Cleevely they need to follow up with, when the best time prototype of a Brain Typewriter.
added that the standard of presentations was of is to get in touch, and which channels will be AppSherpas (www.appsherpas.com) – Using Collaborative projects in telehealth, medical
such a high level from the start that it had made most effective. image discovery, illumiEye™ connects the real applications & robotics are underway – plus
the judges’ job very difficult. and on-line worlds through your mobile. the UK’s first attention-memory training iLab.
App Damon (www.appdamon.com) focuses on Reading a favourite magazine? Scan an article’s
mobile application discovery. As the number of illustrations making the images come alive on Eeve (geteeve.com) – A mobile app, allowing
The finalists: mobile applications increase, there is an your mobile. Window shopping and see a must users to take pictures together and
increasing need for smart technology to have item? Scan the window for more details collaboratively tell a story when having a
Talking Eye Limited (www.talkingeye.net) – its disseminate, review and recommend apps to and buy. Watching the TV and want to call that dinner, being at a party or simply hanging
‘My Butler’ technology allows consumers consumers. With the user’s permission, the app number being shown on the advertisement? out with friends. Users can start or join an
wherever they are in the world to communicate discovery platform scans the user’s interaction Scan the screen with your mobile and make that Eeve to share pictures with their close
with people on their doorstep.'MyButler’ is the on social networks to determine their interests. call. A bus is passing: Snap a picture of the proximity. People at the same location, their
world’s first and only mobile telecoms Once interests have been determined, suitable movie advert displayed on it’s side and be taken friends at home and others in the area will be
intercom/doorbell monitoring device that apps are recommended to the user. Users can to the movie trailer/cinema’s ticket office. able to experience who is there and what’s
includes two-way talk. MyButler enables also share, review and recommend apps to their going on from many perspectives, in real
consumers (while anywhere in the world) to friends. Games for Life/BioDigitalHealth time.
communicate with visitors to their home front (www.gamesforlife.co.uk) – has been involved
door and enhance security using real time voice- Ellexus Ltd (www.ellexus.com) – Many processes in applying wireless brain sensing computer >>> Continued on page 20
to-voice and visual communication through in the hardware and software industry require
mobile networks. tasks to be automated using scripts. These are
small modifiable programs that control more
LeapLog (leaplog.com) – a web application for complicated software. Many scripts can work
travel planning which allows friends to together to form complex flows. Ellexus’
collaboratively plan, create and share trips. software, Breeze, helps engineers design,
LeapLog provides a common interface for understand and debug these flows.
members of a travelling group to discover and
share information, and facilitate important TeqniHome Ltd (www.teqnihome.com) – Rolling
decisions such as travel dates, destinations and out a completely new next-generation
activities. communication product along with a key service
targeting residential and business users while
Handy Elephant Ltd (handyelephant.com) – a making sure that their intelligence is not
productivity app for business professionals who unnecessarily increased to affect their
have to maintain a large number of relationships affordability. With this product and service
Photographs by Alan Bennett, Media Imaging Solutions
www.mediaimagingsolutions.com/

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Cambridge Wireless’ Discovering Start-Ups 2011
>>> From page 19 The Golden Generation
TribalOS (www.tribalos.com) – A web based in association with
collaboration suite that gets together the best
from offline and online, offering to user a
friendly environment to work.
Voyage Manager Travel Manager
(www.voyagemanager.com) – A web based travel
tracking, management and security service that
provides businesses with an easy to use and www.arm.com
cost efficient platform for managing and
monitoring employee travel. Voyage Manager is with anyone else - they pay a penny to listen to
a highly automated system accessible from any each track. Create a playlist and gift it to anyone
location by web, SMS and mobile phone. else – you've paid for them to listen. Psonar is
good for music – every time a track is played
Job Hop (www.jobhop.co.u) – With 80 per cent artists and rights holders get paid and sharing and
of employers now searching on line for gifting music on Psonar helps spread new music.
candidates to keep costs down, Job Hop is the
way. Job Hop offers the jobseeker both active GoSense Wireless Ltd (www.gosense-
and passive a window to showcase their skills wireless.com) – Is developing ultra-low power
and expertise and facilities to share this across sensor nodes for industrial, scientific and
the networks enticing employers that are not consumer markets. Its Stat-ID™ range of
already browsing on Job Hop to look. For the contactless sensor/logger products includes
employer Job Hop offers facilities to attract the sensors for temperature, pressure, light, humidity,
right employee, reducing recruitment costs motion, carbon monoxide and force as well as
dramatically. Also has the ability to engage and application specific products and OEM modules.
forge relationships with candidates suitable for Photograph by Alan Bennett, Media Imaging Solutions. www.mediaimagingsolutions.com Every sensor node has a unique ID, operates from
future vacancies. a coin-cell or energy harvesting device, and
high efficiencies without the need for feed in developed FUTS™ a smartphone trial consumes an ultra-low 5 uW in standby. The
Skrybot (skrybot.pl/en) – Providing a whole tariffs. The groundbreaking modular technology management software that realises the potential wireless interface has a read range of up to 2
spectrum of speech recognition products for harnesses the very latest in advanced solar cell and solves the pain of Friendly User Test (FUT) metres and is compatible with ISO15693. Nodes
customers. They range from specialist dictation design, low cost optics, heat extraction, fast field programs at operators and manufacturers. can additionally operate passively (without
software for legal and medical purposes, assembly and efficient transportation. Fully Specifically, FUTS: 1. Organises trial devices and batteries) by scavenging energy from the EM field
through general dictation, automated telephone scalable for utility, industrial and commercial users, 2. Measures user engagement, 3. Assesses of the reader.
call centres, to complex server ASR systems. It installations such as hotels, factories, mine sites device performance, 4. Judges software reliability
has developed support for two languages: Polish and remote communities, Sunfish solar plants and 5. Captures user feedback accurately. Jasper Apps Ltd (www.jasperapps.com) –
and English and seeks to enter to other EU will generate electricity across multiple locations Produced My Vacation, a travel app for the iPhone
countries. below local grid supply costs and easily Psonar (www.psonar.com) – This is about helping and iPad that allows the user to create a
undercut the cost of electricity from diesel music fans to find, enjoy and share great music. travelogue on their device. It assists in the
Sunfish Energy Ltd (www.sunfish.eu) – Its new generator systems. Listen to any track once for one penny (a cent, a planning and journalling of trips. The travel
unique concentrated solar power plants UK penny or a Eurocent or equivalent depending journals can then be viewed in an interactive
generate process heat and electricity at very Savage Minds Limited (savageminds.org) – Has on where you are). Create a playlist and share it presentation and shared in multiple ways.
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