2005/06, Entrant

American Genetic Services Inc.

Company Description

American Genetics Services Inc. (AGS) will be the first global player in the emerging genetic services market. Through the formation of an internationally branded physician-integrated, preferred provider network AGS will be the first to access physician referrals and insurer funding for genetic counselling services. Leading AGS will be Abraham Prabhakar, a Masters candidate at the Judge Business School and president and co-founder of Allied Health Management (AHM), Canada's 6th fastest growing company. Sunil Godse, an engineer by profession, joins the team with over 15 years international management consulting experience and an MBA from the prestigious Ivey School of Business.


Members

Abraham Prabhakar
Sunil Godse

Website

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Biosouth

Company Description

Poverty in Peru increases because of migration of people from rural places to Lima. Our project proposal includes a sustainable biodiesel production industry to enable people to work in their lands also be used to increase health, education and housing conditions.


Members

Francisco Toledo
Andres Maldonado
Rafael Rey

Website

None


Bunot Co.

Company Description

Coconet is a soil erosion control net made from waste coconut husks.  With the Philippines' rich coconut resources, the company aims to become the world's leading producers of coconet with a highly improved production capacity starting with the growing demand of the Chinese market.  This enterprise is environmentally friendly and will benefit the coconut farmers in the poor rural areas of the Philippines by generating revenue in the rural economy and providing new livelihood opportunities.


Members

Reynaldo Garcia
Charles Conrad Uy
Lilybeth Go

Website

None


Coventry Visual Concepts

Company Description

In biology labs and classrooms aroudn the world, teaching aids such as skeletal and gastronintestinal models are a familiar sight. What is conspicuously absent is a realistic and interactive three-dimensional model of our fundamental building block - the cell. The result? A disconnect between theory and reality. We offer a product that can requite this conceptual blind-spot, which has two interdependent components: a realistic gel-based cell model with removable cell parts, and 3D modelling and animation software. User interaction with the physical model will activate animation, images and related information on an analagous 3D virtual cell.


Members

Chin Tah Ang
Johanna Busch
Hedwig Kresse
Ronak Shah
Timothy Broke-Smith

Website

None


CamStent

Company Description

Each day, thousands of people suffer from heart attack scaused by underlying coronary artery disease. The condition can be condition can be corrected by angioplasty, followed by wire-mesh stent to hold the artery open, but protein deposition can occlude the stent. Drug-eluting stents attack the deposits, but do not directly address the underlying attachment process.

We propose to create a novel 'non-stick stent, coated with a non-toxic susbstance that is both hydro- and oleo-phobic. We require £1.5m seed funding to reach Phase 1 clinical trial where we can partner with a device manufacturer to capture 15% of this US$15bn market within five years.


Members

Gerhard Symons
David Hampton
Feras Mahdi
Melinda Griffiths

Copasetic

Company Description

It's a typical, busy day. Meetings, classes, deadlines, too much to do. Customers, colleagues, friends, family, all trying to connect with you. You have a short break. 10 voicemails. Who do you call back? Who's available? Voicemail again. Phonetag. Don't you hate it? There is a simple solution. With Copasetic your mobile phone can show you the status of all your contacts - available, on a call, busy, asleep or ready for business. Copasetic brings the real benefits of instant messaging functionality to your mobile phone, so you can make that connection. Confirm, call, connect! That's Copasetic.


Members

Jamie Wightman
Nik Rouda

Website

None


Developing Drug Delivery

Company Description

Developing Drug Delivery aims to provide low cost, high quality medical devices for manufacture in the developing world.


Members

Ashley Butcher

Website

None


e-lation

Company Description

Low cost, accurate translation of text via the internet is an unsolved problem. Professional translation costs at least US$50 per page, and present computer tranlsation produces poor output with loss of context and meaning. We present a solution based around minimum wage monolingual workers training an adaptive automatic translation algorithm to maintain context and meaning, and provide translations of native speaker quality. Although inappropriate for legal documents, a vast array of business, news and personal material can be targeted. A price-quality trade-off is provided, and the completely automated translation engine itself will quickly become the best in the market.


Members

Gareth Williams
Tom Craig

Website

None


EuroBack

Company Description

The brain drain to the US is a major obstacle to the growth of the European Biotechnology sector.  Many governmental and EU agencies have attempted to tackle this dilemma with limited success.EuroBack provides a unique and revolutionary solution to this problem.

By offering an unbiased assessment of the situation within Europe and access to funding, expertise and networking opportunities - together with a personalised and fully integrated service dedicated to easing the transition and contributing to its success - EuroBack will facilitate the economic growth of the biotech biopoles within the European Union.


Members

David Weingeist
Sian Humphreys
Maxime Riche
Jose Hartasanchez
Olivier Maynard

Website

None


FertilityGuide

Company Description

FertilityGuide is a patent-pending non-hormonal, minimally invasive, passive medical device that allows women to accurately identify ovulation cycles.  FertilityGuide can be used as a family planning device to assist conception as well as to provide ethical (and church-endorsed) family planning guidance.  Competing methods and products (body basal thermometry, urinal hormone testing, calendar counting) are either highly inaccurate, extremely inconvenient, or both.  FertilityGuide will reduce the failure rates of Fertility Awareness family planning methods from ~25% per year to ~1% per year.  Within this heavily underserved market FertilityGuide expects to achieve a turnover of US£15m by year 6.


Members

Shamus Husheer
Scott Mackie
David Naumann
Oriane Chausiaux

Website

None


FishSTIK

Company Description

Scombrotoxic fish poisoning is the most common disease caused by marine toxins. It is characterised by elevated histamine levels in seafood products, caused by bacterial spoilage. There is an unmet need in the fishing industry for an accurate and inexpensive test for toxic histamine levels in fish. We propose a novel dip-stick method based on anti-histamine antibodies for scombrotoxin testing. Our product will be aimed at industrial applications but will not require laboratory resources. It will be cheaper, quicker and easier to use than currently available tests.


Members

Melinda Griffiths
Chin Tah Ang
Johanna Busch
Hedwig Kresse
Ronak Shah
Clemens Huber
Alou Gordon
Timothy Broke-Smith
Aleksandr-Sasa ...

Website

None


Frontiers

Company Description

Frontiers closes the skills gap between the graduate and the employer and between school students and universities.  There is discrepancy between the skills offered by applicants and those required of them.  A lack of transferable skills, such as leadership, team working and communication, leaves people with a fixed skills set, unable to adapt to changing needs and demands.  Frontiers has developed a unique, innovative and profitable method to bridge this skills gap.  Frontiers presentations and workshops will engage with delegates in a fun and experiential way and are tailored to the individuals needs.


Members

Vikram Banerjee
Lydia Carter
Frank Krikhaar

Website

None


Gillet

Company Description

Direct selling is the ideal method of selling because it allows differentiation of the products to customers through personal demonstration and explanation. The future will bring enormous growth to direct sales because of demand pull and technology push. For these reasons, Nu Skin Enterprises is a leader in direct sales. Its biophotonic scanner is technology that will deliver huge gains with enormous potential for profit. The Nu Skin force for good foundation has the pull for social and humanitarian entrepreneurs. Direct sales global revenue approaches $100 billion per year and this business is egalitarian, financially and ethically sound.


Members

Simon Gillet

Website

None


Innovapep

Company Description

It is an implementation, development and marketing of a new technology to synthesise peptides.  It could also be extended to other biopolymers like nucleotide chains, etc.  Production of pure peptides in quantity and quality is a major bottleneck in the field of peptde-based drugs and peptide pharmaceuticals.  The implementation of our patentable technology would effectively address this bottleneck.


Members

Murali Vadivelu
Agnes Jaulent

Website

None


InTouch

Company Description

Many social and professional bodies pride themselves for having broad and deep networks but many of their members fail to realise the full benefit from it.  With the introduction of InTouch platform, the full potential of networks can finally be unleashed.  Anyone with a mobile phone can be in touched anytime, anywhere in the world with local available members of the network/s he/she belongs.  Besides, the platform will also enable mobile users to seek another user anonymously according to their preset criteria.  Thereby, no one will be lonely again with the system in place.


Members

Ping Chian Yeong
Cheeven Tsai
Puay Leng Su

Website

None


iSnatchIT

Company Description

iSnatchIT is a software platform that enables future MP3 or media player devices to emulate your PC.  You simply plug your player into any USB or FireWire port on any computer, anywhere in the world, "snatch" its hardware, and have your entire computer in front of you.  This is a hassle-free, low cost software technology.  Our mission: we want to put a computer snapshot in every pocket with a portable media player.  The laptop, MP3 and PDA market is huge.  Our technology enable future media devices to become the next must-have debice for anyone who is moderately reliant on computers.


Members

Kunal Patel
Steve Lilly

Website

None


Linked Biomarkers Inc.

Company Description

Linked Biomarkers Inc. (LBI) is an innovative diagnostics company which aims to provide kits for early cancer detection and monitoring of disease progression or remission.  Its technology utilises an enhanced and sensitive method for detecting multiple biomarkers in one sample, a vast improvement over existing procedures.  The use of biomarkers expressed almost exclusively in tumours and not in normal tissues combined with improved detection signals will decrease false positive and false negative diagnosis.  LBI aims to market its products here in the UK, the United States and the rest of the world.


Members

Reynaldo Garcia
Charles Conrad Uy
Lilybeth Go
Joseph Lim

Website

None


m-clic

Company Description

m-clic allows customers to use mobile phones as simple point-and-click payment devices.  M-clic offers a secure, standardised and network-independent financial transaction system for mobile devices.  Both consumers and merchants are able to use the service immediately without the need for expensive upgrades.  We are well positioned to exploit the rapid growth in mobile commerce, which is predicted to become an $88 billion industry by 2009.  the m-clic system will run on the majority of current mobile phone handsets and does not require the installation of costly point-of-sale hardware.


Members

Steve Lilly
Oleg Podsechin
Enej Kuscer

MARGO

Company Description

MARGO is a wireless audio high technology and OEM based company based on unique Multi-Channel Audio Restoration technology.  MARGO Communications' technology will lead the way to new wireless audio applications.  Home theatre, portable audio deveices, digital broadcast, medical hearing devices, military communication devices, and streaming internet music are where MARGO's unique, patented (GB0512397.1) multi-channel audio restoration techniques flourish.  MARGO is seeking new investment partners to accelerate the time to bring its superior audio restoration and wireless patent pending prototypes to market as an OEM supplier and to establish additional revenue flow from licenses based on our growing patent portfolio.


Members

Han Lin
Ke-Wei Huang
Fatima Wang

PurseMaid

Company Description

Young professional women - always on the go, in control, and the master of her own destiny. These women live out of her purse or handbag. Mobile phone, Blackberry/palm, tissues, keys, train tickets, paper, pen, and snacks. Handbags accumulate rubbish and young professional women need a way to organise that mess.

The PurseMaid offers a unique, no fuss way of keeping one's handbag tidy and professional without increasing environmental waste.


Members

Julie Papanek
Natalie Kitchen
Jesimini Ambikapathy

Website

None


R Logg

Company Description

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an expanding industry - US$2bn in 2005, projected to grow by 50% within 3 years.  Much of this growth is due to cheap "passive" tags, which require no power supply and hold useful digital information.  More expensive "active" tags utilise a battery to power complicated electronics for the lifetime of the tag.  Until now, data logging applications were only possible either using an active tag, or a passive tag when in the field of an interrogator unit.  RLogg have filed a patent on a hybrid RFID data logging solution that allows several new low cost applications.


Members

Shamus Husheer

Website

None


Tech Solders

Company Description

According to two recent EU directives, lead is soon to be totally banned from electronic equipment because of its toxicity to human health.  Lead-based soldering alloys currently used in certain engineering applications where the operating temperatures of the circuitry exceeds 125° have a very high content of lead in order to keep the melting point high and, on top of this, need to be periodically replaced because failure of the mechanical joint occurs.  Tech Solders offers a novel way of assembling electronic components to circuit boards by means of a lead-free solder alloy that is capable of operating in liquid state, therefore preventing the failure of the assembly.


Members

Carlo Quaglia

Website

None


TheWiseOnes

Company Description

TheWiseOnes.co.uk is a website where anyone can draw on the knowledge of the most experienced sector of the community.  If you've needed information but have struggled to get what you need on the internet then TheWiseOnes is for you.  It will provide accurate and appropriate information in response to direct customer queries.  TheWiseOnes will have a wide range of knowledge and life experience which can be consulted in order to get the specific information you require.  As well as insight into that collective knowledge you are involving a segment of society thereby contributing to their well-being.


Members

Richard Hollway

Website

None


Think India

Company Description

Think India Consulting will provide opportunities and support for businesses to colloborate, thereby increasing knowledge based trade and investment between UK and India.  This model would be expanded to build a "Think Emerging Markets" conept covering other markets.


Members

Arun Muthirulan
Rafi Ahmad

Website

None


Trans-Arts

Company Description

Global companies are faced with increasing communication challenges, as employees are often required to communicate in foreign languages.  In addition many industries use technical sector specific jargon.  As a result, current software fails to successfully translate technical terminology in the right context.

Trans-Art is developing a novel technology that combines a web-based search engine with translation software in order to produce context sensitive high quality translations.  Potential customers include global high tech companies and international organisations, such as the E.U.


Members

Melinda Griffiths
Chin Tah Ang
Johanna Busch
Hedwig Kresse
Ronak Shah
Clemens Huber
Timothy Broke-Smith
Aleksandr-Sasa ...

Website

None


Valentine Group

Company Description

The Valentine Group (VG) is a non-profit organisation focused on funding the proliferation of pro-democratic parties in emerging democracies. By targeting fundraising efforts on donors who have emigrated from fledgling democracies, VG leverages relative currency valuations to influence decisions in the developing world. With over ten years of professional and volunteer experience in electoral methodology VG will be led by Abraham Prabhakar, a Masters candidate at the Judge Business School. Sunil Godse joins the team with over 15 years international management consulting experience and an MBA from the prestigious Ivey School of Business.


Members

Abraham Prabhakar
Sunil Godse

Website

None