2004/05, £50k Winner

BOPPHY Technologies

A fabless semiconductor company, BOPPHY Technologies will design, develop and market innovative digital integrated circuits for broadband communications over the existing electrical infrastructure. Broadband over powerlines (BOP) gives customers high-speed internet access through the existing power grid network and enables utility companies to add data services to their offering. By exploiting state of the art modulation and coding techniques, our implementation of the physical layer (PHY) will ease competition against other broadband services by increasing current data rates of cable and DSL by up to a factor of 10.


Members: 
Stavros Tsiakkouris
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Inaki Berenguer
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Michele Palazzi

Cambfix

Cambfix is a business prospect that provides innovative, high quality medical devices for use in orthopaedic and trauma surgery. Every year there are 1.5 million ankle and wrist fractures, which costs the healthcare industry $3 billion. Over one third of these cases develop a complication during treatment. Cambfixs first generation products have a patentable technology that addresses these complications in their entirety and can thereby save the healthcare industry $800 million in ankle and wrist fractures alone. The product pipeline also includes fixators for other fractured bones, soft tissue corrections, paediatric, veterinary and military use. Our products are non-invasive, offer a superior mode of treatment and will reduce patient morbidity by decreasing complications to less than 1%.


Members: 
Ali Bajwa
Members: 
Linda Pomeroy

EnvAl

EnvAls novel technology is capable of recycling 100% of the waste obtained from post consumer drink cartons (i.e. Tetra Paks). The process recovers clean aluminium that can be sold to the aluminium industry and generates oils and gases suitable for heat or electricity production. EnvAl will contribute to the sustainable development of society by generating profit and by reducing the amount of materials that are currently being landfilled. EnvAl is seeking the partnership of an early stage investor who will provide financial backing to finish building the first demonstration equipment, and then remain with the company to realise its full potential.


Members: 
Alex Domin
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Howard Chase
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Carlos Ludlow-P...