Companies formed
Since 1987, Oxford University Innovation has been responsible for creating spinout companies based on academic research generated within and owned by the University of Oxford, and in recent years has spun out 15-20 new companies every year.
Over £2.5bn in external investment has been raised by Oxford University Innovation spinouts since 2010, and ten of our current portfolio are currently listed in London and New York.
The creation of new spinout companies, most of which are listed below, also channels millions of pounds back into University research, benefits local economic development and has created many new jobs in the region.
Aistetic
A B2B tech platform for clothing retailers to make fit & style accessible to more people, leveraging computer vision, and deep learning. AISTETIC is aiming to reduce online returns and increase conversion for retailers.
Origin: Oxford University, Department of Computer Science
Contact: Sandeep Singh
OxLOD
To bring the tools developed for heritage to the management of healthcare data.
Incorporated in September 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Department of Engineering Science
OxVent


OxVent Limited is a joint-venture social enterprise that will license the OxVent ventilator design for international deployment in Covid19 and beyond, and provide consultancy on its testing, regulatory approval and manufacturing.
Incorporated in September 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Department of Engineering Science
Blue Field Labs
Oxford Simcell


Produce non-replicating bacterial cells for a variety of healthcare applications.
Incorporated in August 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Department of Engineering Science
OXDH


Oxford Digital Innovation encompasses three different products. Two of them are online health records platform which aim to integrate NHS data (Zygote – IVF platform – and Simba – maternity platform). The 3rd platform is a virtual hospital which is aimed at scheduling appointments for patients and enable online consultations in specific specialisations, starting with eye care, skin care, pathology and dental medicine.
Incorporated in August 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Nuffield Dept of Women's and Reproductive Health
Open Clinical
PhishAR


Augmented reality cybersecurity assistant.
Incorporated in July 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Department of Computer Science
Contact: David Howells
Dark Blue Therapeutics
Global Health Research Accelerator CIC
Oxsed


A lean spin-out, social enterprise focusing on developing a fast rapid COVID-19 test. Joint Oxford University and OSCAR company.
Incorporated in June 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Department of Engineering Science
Base Genomics (acquired by Exact Sciences)


DNA methylation detection using this TAPS technology. Base Genomics was acquired by Exact Sciences in October 2020.
Incorporated in June 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Qdot


High heat flux technology. The company will provide advanced engineering solutions to challenging thermal problems such as those that occur in fusion reactors, or high power density electronic systems.
Incorporated in April 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Thermofluids Institute
Contact: Adrian Coles
OxEd

GaitQ


Improving the lives of people living with Parkinson’s.
Incorporated in March 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Contact: Richard Auburn
Spintex Engineering


To develop commercially scalable manufacturing process for spinning spider silk.
Incorporated in January 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Department of Zoology
Contact: Adam Workman
Living Optics
3D laser spectrometer and single shot hyperspectral imaging.
Incorporated in January 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Department of Physics
Contact: Steve Silvey
2019
ORCA Computing


building a scalable, modular and flexible quantum computing platform.
Incorporated in December 2019
Origin: Oxford University
Ground Truth Labs
Mining large digital pathology datasets through a web platform that can manage a crowd sourced approach to annotation.
Incorporated in December 2019
Origin: Oxford University, IBME and NDM
Ivy Farm


First commercial producer of sustainable, guilt-free meat.
Incorporated in December 2019
Origin: Oxford University, Institute of Biomedical Engineering