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.
PhishAR
Augmented reality cybersecurity assistant.
Incorporated in July 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Department of Computer Science
Contact: David Howells
Dark Blue Therapeutics
Research and experimental development on biotechnology.
Incorporated in July 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Oncology
Global Health Research Accelerator CIC
Aim is to accelerate and streamline research through an innovative digital platform for knowledge sharing.
Incorporated in July 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Tropical Medicine
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
Development of a platform for the standardisation of assetments to facility language, reading and arithmetic skills in children.
Incorporated in April 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Department of Education
GaitQ
Improving the lives of people living with Parkinson’s.
Incorporated in March 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
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
Global Malaria Vaccinces
Malaria vaccine development.
Incorporated in September 2019
Origin: Oxford University, Jenner Institute
GyreOx
GryeOx addresses significant unmet need in drug discovery as the IP can make expanded drug libra of macrocycles in the hit to lead stage.
Incorporated in July 2019
Origin: Oxford University
Lime Biosciences
DNA assembly.
Incorporated in July 2019
Origin: Oxford University
Nucleome Therapeutics
Platform technology based on NG capture-c technique computational pipelines and experimental know-how.
Incorporated in July 2019
Origin: Oxford University, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
Contact: Matthew Carpenter
Akrivia Health (Cristal Health)
"CRIS" software that enables submission, de-identification and sharing of mental health patient records using a federated data and information governance model.
Incorporated in May 2019
Origin: Oxford University, Psychiatry
Machine Discovery
Development and commercialisation of quantum physics, acceleration and optimisation software for intelligent computational R&D.
Incorporated in May 2019
Origin: Oxford University, Department of Physics
Oxford Brain Diagnostics
Software and patented approach to differential diagnosis of cognitive diseases
Incorporated in April 2019
Origin: Oxford University, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
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