Cambridge Future Tech

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Researchers Professor Yulong Ding and Dr Harriet Kildahl pioneered an in-process carbon recycling method to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from steelmaking. The  University of Birmingham has now partnered with leading global miner Anglo American and venture-builder Cambridge Future Tech to launch PeroCycle, a new venture that is developing and commercializing it, to enable a deep decarbonization of the steel sector, and beyond.   The energy- and carbon-intensive iron and steel sector is one of the hardest-to-decarbonise foundation industries. The sector generates around 8% of total global emissions, but the products are hard to substitute, and it requires process heat at temperatures as high as ~1,600-2000°C in e.g. part of blast furnaces.   Professor Yulong Ding has led the way in foundation industry decarbonization technologies. Working with his then PhD student, Harriet Kildahl, he developed a process to convert CO2 into carbon monoxide, which could then be recycled in a closed loop as a substitute for coal and/or coke currently used in the blast furnace ironmaking process, in turn significantly reducing the carbon dioxide emissions. This technology can be retrofitted to current or new built BFs, with the retrofit options also addressing the stranded asset challenges.   The technology uses a perovskite material, which retains its stability during this process, and operates at considerably lower temperatures than current methods.   Follow PeroCycle for commercial updates.   #WCIW #WCID #Birmingham125

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Ines Almeida and Bethany Bland joined the EnterpriseWOMEN programme at Cambridge Judge Business School recently - sharing practical advice on what early-stage founders really need to know, from building investor-ready financial models to navigating term sheets with confidence. We talk a lot about the importance of founder support in the early stages but often advice can general, vague and not actionable. Sessions like this, led by people who are building ventures every day, are where real value lies. ⚡️ Proud to continue supporting the #EnterpriseWOMEN programme, part of our ongoing partnership with Cambridge Judge Business School, alongside champions like Dr Ghina M. Halabi who continue to push the ecosystem forward. #venturebuilder #ecosystem #cambridge

📣 Shortlisted! CFT has been named a finalist in two categories at this year’s UK Green Business Awards: ⚡Early-Stage Investor of the Year ⚡Owen Thompson for Leader of the Year A big congratulations to Owen and the team for this one 👏 Winners announced 11th June! #UKGBA BusinessGreen #deeptech #venturebuilder

Ines Almeida and Bethany Bland joined the EnterpriseWOMEN programme at Cambridge Judge Business School recently - sharing practical advice on what early-stage founders really need to know, from building investor-ready financial models to navigating term sheets with confidence. We talk a lot about the importance of founder support in the early stages but often advice can general, vague and not actionable. Sessions like this, led by people who are building ventures every day, are where real value lies. ⚡️ Proud to continue supporting the #EnterpriseWOMEN programme, part of our ongoing partnership with Cambridge Judge Business School, alongside champions like Dr Ghina M. Halabi who continue to push the ecosystem forward. #venturebuilder #ecosystem #cambridge

We're organising another deep tech coffee! Alongside, the Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge, Henry Royce Institute, Cambridge Enterprise Ventures and IQ Capital, Cambridge Future Tech is organising a wonderful event to meet anyone interested in deep tech within the Cambridge ecosystem. This time round we will also have pitches from companies across the various portfolios, including: Accelerated Materials, Cambridge Photon Technology, Janus Bioscience and PeroCycle. Come along and we will see you there! Sign up: https://lnkd.in/eCKVNQCN Date: Wednesday 23rd of April, 13:00 – 15:00 Location: Maxwell Centre, Cambridge

🎤 How often does a business school entrepreneurship programme open with Virginia Woolf? 🪄 Not often indeed. So that’s exactly how I chose to open our #EnterpriseWOMEN Cohort II launch. ✨ ".. the resources of the English language would be much put to the stretch [...] before a woman could say what happens when she goes into a room. The rooms differ so completely; they are calm or thunderous; open on to the sea, or [...] a prison yard; they are hard as horsehair or soft as feathers–one has only to go into any room in any street for the whole of that extremely complex force of femininity to fly in one’s face. How should it be otherwise? For women have sat indoors all these millions of years... the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and #business and #politics." ☄️The room was, by turns, thunderous and calm, hard and soft. Charged with the creative force of 21 ambitious, daring women selected through a competitive process — each bringing unique perspective, purpose, and potential. They all made EnterpriseWOMEN a programme of their own. My favourite testimonial from the day: "Thank you for organizing such an inspiring and impactful program. The sessions were not only rich with insight but also incredibly helpful in shaping my thinking as a founder. It was a true privilege to be part of a community filled with so much energy, knowledge, and ambition." Thank you to all the excellent speakers of Module I for setting the tone so powerfully: Dr Michale Bouskila-Chubb PhD, MBA from AstraZeneca, Dr Helena Kim, PhD, Joanne Roberts and Vojislava Cekerevac from Horizon37 Nicky Dibben, Dr Nicole Helwig from Cambridge Judge Business School, Alice Chapple, Dr Joanne M. Hackett, Dr Kirsten Rennie, Dr Mojgan Moddaresi (PhD, FRSB,Cbiol), Ines Almeida and Bethany Bland from Cambridge Future Tech. Modules II and III will run in May and June respectively — and I, along with the team and the incredible women in this cohort, can’t wait. Woolf’s words in "A Room of One’s Own" still echo from her 1928 lectures at women's Newnham College, University of Cambridge and Girton College, University of Cambridge in 1928. It always comes back full circle, you see. Cambridge Judge Entrepreneurship Centre Kudos to the whole (tiny but mighty) team Olivia Cutmore Dr Rebecca Myers ARCS #WomenInBusiness #WomenEntrepreneurs #FemaleFounders #CJBS #CambridgeEntrepreneurs #EntrepreneurshipEducation

Welcome to Silicon Fen – where the University of Cambridge meets £18bn in brainpower, 5,000+ knowledge-driven companies, and a culture of relentless innovation. At #ESGAdria, we cracked open the Cambridge code with the very minds building it: 💥 From AI to biotech, spinouts to scaleups, the Cambridge cluster is the blueprint for turning ideas into impact. 🔍 So what can we could hear on this inspiring panel: ✅ How to build a startup ecosystem that actually works ✅ Why proximity to talent isn’t enough – you need culture & capital ✅ And why the next ‘Cambridge’ won’t look like Cambridge at all 🔥 Moderator Prof. Simon Stockley (Cambridge Judge Business School) led a powerhouse panel: ⚡ Caroline Hyde FRSA – Cambridge Enterprise ⚡ Jeremy Sosabowski, PhD – AlgoDynamix ⚡ Owen Thompson – Cambridge Future Tech ⚡ Katie Underwood – Cambridge Future Tech ⚡ Wojtek Wojaczek, PhD – Adecco & CJBS You don’t copy the Cambridge Phenomenon. You translate it into your own ecosystem, your own culture, your own game-changing future. #SiliconFen #CambridgePhenomenon #StartupEcosystems #ESGAdria #DeepTech #InnovationLeadership #FromLabToMarket #FutureMakers #BuildBetter