Isis Software Incubator start-up Onfido raises $4.5m Series A
Onfido, a start-up company from the Oxford University Innovation Software Incubator has secured a further $4.5m though Series A funding to help them expand internationally.
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Onfido, a start-up company from the Oxford University Innovation Software Incubator has secured a further $4.5m though Series A funding to help them expand internationally.
Oxbotica - spun out in late 2014 from the University of Oxford's Mobile Robotics Group - will provide control systems for 40 autonomous pods as part of a multi-million pound driverless car challenge.
A new technology which has been trialed at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital will help improve the way babies are monitored.
Nightstar, which was spun out in 2014 raising £12 million from Syncona, the venture arm of the Wellcome Trust, has received additional finance from its key investors to advance the company’s clinical choroideremia programme.
AIM-listed Summit plc has filed for a proposed offering of American Depositary Shares on the NASDAQ Global Market in the United States.
Over twenty new Oxford technologies and ventures received a record £2.6m in proof-of-concept funding in 2014, Oxford University Innovation has reported.
The results of the Research Excellence Framework 2014, a public review used to allocate almost £2 billion in research funding each year, has ranked the University of Oxford first for research.
Oxford Today reports that Oxford is generating demand for new business leaders as never before, and alumni are prime candidates as spin-out CEOs.
The University of Oxford's Prof Harish Bhaskaran and Dr Peiman Hosseini have been awarded the Academic R&D Award at the annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards held in Santa Clara USA.
Oxford University Innovation, the University’s research commercialisation arm, and Parkwalk Advisors today announced the launch of the University of Oxford Isis Fund II, set up to allow private investors to make tax efficient investments in a range of new Oxford technology companies.