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The A-team

Company Description

Our business will fill be the first to offer a 'plug and play' solution to enable organisations to store, search and retrieve historical emails quickly and accurately, at a lower cost than any of the incumbent players in this space, and will be led by two current MBA candidates from the Judge Business School - both of whom have prior start-up experience and more than 16 years' combined business experience between them.


Members

Adrian Calder
Amit Mehrotra

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The Cambridge Tiffin Company

Company Description

The primary market need we are trying to address is the lack of cheap and healthy takeaway food in Cambridge, accessible to members of different faiths and of differing dietary requirements. We will offer students and citizens in central Cambridge an affordable, healthy, homemade Indian meal that can be pre-ordered and collected from a collection van in central Cambridge, as opposed to the overpriced or unhealthy food that is currently available. Our product provides an affordable alternative to the current catering available, with long opening hours allowing flexibility for busy students, and accessibility for all members of the community.


Members

Aseer Akhter
Dhara Thakerar

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The Good Tenant Database

Company Description

The background checks landlords make on prospective tenants form an essential part of the process of letting property, as once a tenancy agreement is entered into, it can often be difficult for landlords to evict troublesome tenants. The money lost during the time taken to evict a tenant causes significant frustration to landlords. My proposal is an online service that allows landlords to submit feedback on tenants, associating this with a profile for each tenant. This allows tenants to build up a highly reliable online record of their previous tenancies, submitted directly by landlords.


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Richard Wood

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The OME Corporation

Company Description

The life-sciences optical microscopy market was $527 million in 2004 ($702 million in 2009).Over a period of five years we have used $1 million of government funding to develop a software tool (OME) for scientists to store, view, annotate, and search their laboratories' microscopy images. OME's simplified image management enables labs to optimize their microscopy investments and their scientists' time. As such, OME is already used in several external laboratories. With $100,000 we would commercialize OME, providing support and consultation to laboratories. We project positive cash-flow in one year and $1 million annual revenue in three years.


Members

Tom Macura
Hannah Cobbett

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Timepeace

Company Description

The use of oyster cards in London is not widespread. Travelers waste valuable time at the ticket gates checking their pockets to find their oyster cards. Cheap watches are abundant in London's street markets but their battery life is not long. These watches are often cheaper to replace than the batteries themselves, wasting resources in the long run. Timepeace converts old watches into kinetic-powered watches with an Oyster chip inside, personalized with a chosen picture or charity logo on the watchface. It will save time, ease the people traffic at train stations, help the environment, and proceeds go to charities.


Members

Ivia Tang

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TouchSight

Company Description

TouchSight are a new startup company based in cambridge who together with help of focus groups for the visually impaired, have developed a new innovative mobility aid. We have pioneered a glove-based system, the TOUCHSIGHT VISION MITT. This enables the user to 'sense' their surroundings using ultransonic sensors and vibration feedback actuators, whilst keeping the palm of the hand free for other tasks.


Members

Karan Keswani
Samaan Rahman
Pete Davies
Jessie Baker

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StudentSure

Company Description

StudentSure is an insurance company that will insure students who are renting accomodation over the course of their degree. Students will be insured so that if in any case they have to leave university whilst still under a renters contract they are not left paying a massive outstanding rental balance.


Members

Kim Grady

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Presario Partners

Company Description

Last year, in the UK, there were 18,170 people injured and 643 people killed as a result of domestic house fires. More than half of these deaths occurred between 10pm and 8am and are a result of fire blocking natural escape routes from the first floor. Current government recommendations in such an event are to jump from the window and cushion the fall using bedding, cushions etc. The Home Evac Slide is an innovative new product that will be fitted under the first-floor windows of a house and be deployed when an emergency evacuation is required.


Members

Paul Haydock
Carl Whitehead

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Pret-A-Photo

Company Description

Due to the photographers' desire to preserve professional quality images as 'artworks', thus only selling them as prints, the potential of innovative dissemination of images remains unexploited. We thus want to offer a new photographic service in a high-resolution format on a customized support. While allowing the customer to take fully advantage of the immediacy and versatility of the digital image, the support can also be used as a powerful advertisement support. This service would be sold as a package to event organisers for a fixed tariff plus a unit price depending on which products they wish to include.


Members

Marc Baguelin
Cong Cong Bo

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PRoB

Company Description

PRoB has developed a novel current sensing technology which implements the Rogowski (air-cored) current sensing technique through an innovative PCB (Printed Circuit Board) design. The product name, PRoB, stands for Printed Rogowski Board. The novel current probe has lower manufacturing costs (by as much as 30%) and weight (by as much as 40%) through significant reduction of copper usage, and higher accuracy as compared to the existing technologies. Since the technology is innovative and critical, there is great market potential.


Members

Ehsan Abdi Jalebi

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