DiffBlue is a software company that develops AI-powered automated testing and code automation tools. It automates coding tasks such as generating unit tests, bug fixing, refactoring, translating code between languages, and producing original code to meet specifications. Its automated testing software for Java creates fully autonomous unit tests, maintains regression tests, and provides insights into test coverage, code testability, complexity and dependencies. The technology uses reinforcement learning to write tests that compile, run, and detect bugs, reducing manual testing effort and accelerating software development. In addition to test generation, DiffBlue offers security testing capabilities to identify and fix exploits. DiffBlue originated as a spin-out of the University of Oxford's AI research group and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Oxford Quantum Circuits
Series B in 2023
Oxford Quantum Circuits develops quantum computing technology, aiming to tackle complex challenges such as climate change and drug discovery. Their fully functional quantum computer system enables businesses to explore innovative solutions and address global issues.
Caristo Diagnostics
Series A in 2023
Founded in 2018 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, Caristo Diagnostics develops artificial intelligence-based software for measuring coronary artery inflammation to predict heart attacks. Its flagship product, CaRi-Heart, applies advanced AI algorithms to routine cardiac CT scans, visualizing and quantifying coronary inflammation, which is the root cause of coronary artery disease. The company's patented Fat Attenuation Index (FAI) biomarker indicates a patient's risk relative to peers, while CaRi-Heart Risk assesses absolute 8-year fatal heart attack risk. Caristo Diagnostics has attracted over £23 million in venture capital investment and its technology is CE Mark certified.
DiffBlue is a software company that develops AI-powered automated testing and code automation tools. It automates coding tasks such as generating unit tests, bug fixing, refactoring, translating code between languages, and producing original code to meet specifications. Its automated testing software for Java creates fully autonomous unit tests, maintains regression tests, and provides insights into test coverage, code testability, complexity and dependencies. The technology uses reinforcement learning to write tests that compile, run, and detect bugs, reducing manual testing effort and accelerating software development. In addition to test generation, DiffBlue offers security testing capabilities to identify and fix exploits. DiffBlue originated as a spin-out of the University of Oxford's AI research group and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Living Optics
Series A in 2022
Living Optics designs and develops a compact hyperspectral imaging camera and accompanying software to provide spectral imaging data across industrial, consumer, medical, and manufacturing applications. The system captures information beyond the capabilities of ordinary cameras, delivering accessible, portable hyperspectral imaging for use in research and product development. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Brill Power
Series A in 2022
Brill Power Ltd. is a clean-tech company based in Oxford, United Kingdom, that specializes in energy storage solutions using lithium-ion battery cells. Established in 2016, Brill Power develops an innovative battery management system designed to enhance the performance and longevity of battery packs. Its advanced control concepts and monitoring technology provide significant improvements in battery performance, while also reducing overall ownership costs. The company's solutions cater to both stationary energy storage and electric vehicle applications, contributing to the advancement of sustainable technology within communities.
Oxford Quantum Circuits
Series A in 2022
Oxford Quantum Circuits develops quantum computing technology, aiming to tackle complex challenges such as climate change and drug discovery. Their fully functional quantum computer system enables businesses to explore innovative solutions and address global issues.
Salience Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Salience Labs develops hybrid photonic-electronic chips for AI applications. Founded on over a decade of research from Oxford and Münster universities, they specialize in silicon photonics to address AI data center infrastructure demands. Their flagship product is an optical switch designed to facilitate low-latency, high-bandwidth networking between compute nodes, accelerating job completion while reducing power consumption.
Orthox Ltd. is a medical implant company based in Abingdon, United Kingdom, that specializes in developing tissue regenerative implants for knee cartilage injuries. Founded to commercialize technology from Oxford University, Orthox aims to transform the treatment of cartilage damage, addressing the needs of over 300 million patients worldwide affected by osteoarthritis. The company's flagship product, FibroFix, is a hydrogel implant designed to emulate human knee cartilage, enabling effective repair and regeneration of damaged tissues. Orthox offers several variations of FibroFix, including FibroFix Meniscus for meniscal cartilage repair and FibroFix Cartilage for articular cartilage damage. The implants promote integration with the body's cells, facilitating a return to active, pain-free living. With plans to expand its technology to other joints and additional applications beyond orthopaedics, Orthox is positioned to capitalize on the rapidly growing biomaterials market, projected to exceed $250 billion by 2025.
Navenio
Venture Round in 2021
Navenio Limited is a software technology company based in Oxford, United Kingdom, specializing in location-based services for indoor environments through mobile applications. Established in 2015, Navenio's innovative platform enhances indoor localization without the need for additional hardware, such as beacons or Wi-Fi. By utilizing advanced techniques like fingerprinting of the electromagnetic spectrum and indoor mapping, Navenio's solutions enable clients across various sectors, including retail, transportation, venues, and healthcare, to efficiently locate individuals and improve workforce productivity. The company's intelligent workforce solution automates processes based on established best practices, leading to significant enhancements in staff efficiency and operational workflows.
Oxford Endovascular
Series A in 2021
Oxford Endovascular develops a neurovascular device to treat brain aneurysms. The device uses origami-inspired engineering with a laser-cut metal alloy that has shape-memory, enabling a catheter-delivered implant to expand into a tiny mesh tube that conforms to the vessel. By diverting blood flow away from the aneurysm, it promotes healing and reduces the risk of rupture.
Caristo Diagnostics
Venture Round in 2021
Founded in 2018 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, Caristo Diagnostics develops artificial intelligence-based software for measuring coronary artery inflammation to predict heart attacks. Its flagship product, CaRi-Heart, applies advanced AI algorithms to routine cardiac CT scans, visualizing and quantifying coronary inflammation, which is the root cause of coronary artery disease. The company's patented Fat Attenuation Index (FAI) biomarker indicates a patient's risk relative to peers, while CaRi-Heart Risk assesses absolute 8-year fatal heart attack risk. Caristo Diagnostics has attracted over £23 million in venture capital investment and its technology is CE Mark certified.
SpyBiotech Limited
Series A in 2021
SpyBiotech Limited is a biotechnology company headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom, founded in 2017. It develops a proprietary protein superglue technology that bonds antigens to viral or other particle carriers, creating what the company calls bonding vaccines. This platform enables research institutions and medical facilities to design and produce vaccines against infectious diseases and cancer more rapidly and with potentially improved efficacy. By simplifying the assembly of vaccine components, SpyBiotech aims to accelerate the development cycle and reduce time to clinical application.
ONI specializes in super-resolution microscopy, making advanced imaging technology accessible to researchers worldwide. Its flagship product, the Nanoimager, offers easy access to techniques like dSTORM and PALM, enabling users to visualize molecules within living cells for enhanced biological research.
Oxford Flow
Venture Round in 2020
Oxford Flow designs, manufactures, and supplies pressure control equipment, including gas and fluid pressure regulators, water PRVs, silencers, and pilots, serving water, gas, marine, oil and gas, process, power, building services, and specialty applications. The company develops small, light, and reliable conventional valves that simplify systems and ensure continual potable water supplies while meeting standards for water quality and leakage control. It combines academic and industry expertise to develop practical, rigorously tested solutions that perform under harsh conditions, aiming to reduce total cost of ownership and environmental impact while improving reliability and energy efficiency. Based in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Navenio Limited is a software technology company based in Oxford, United Kingdom, specializing in location-based services for indoor environments through mobile applications. Established in 2015, Navenio's innovative platform enhances indoor localization without the need for additional hardware, such as beacons or Wi-Fi. By utilizing advanced techniques like fingerprinting of the electromagnetic spectrum and indoor mapping, Navenio's solutions enable clients across various sectors, including retail, transportation, venues, and healthcare, to efficiently locate individuals and improve workforce productivity. The company's intelligent workforce solution automates processes based on established best practices, leading to significant enhancements in staff efficiency and operational workflows.
Zegami Limited is a company that specializes in visual data exploration, offering a platform designed to assist in analyzing both scientific and medical imaging. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom, Zegami's solution integrates media, data, and artificial intelligence to transform visual data into actionable information. The platform enables users to efficiently search, sort, filter, and group large collections of images and associated metadata in real time, facilitating the identification of patterns, correlations, and anomalies within the data. Its applications span various fields, including heating, ventilation, and air conditioning management, microscopy, genomics, plant phenotyping, and cultural heritage institutions such as galleries and museums. Additionally, Zegami's plugin API allows developers to create custom visualizations, enhancing the versatility of their offerings.
Zegami Limited is a company that specializes in visual data exploration, offering a platform designed to assist in analyzing both scientific and medical imaging. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom, Zegami's solution integrates media, data, and artificial intelligence to transform visual data into actionable information. The platform enables users to efficiently search, sort, filter, and group large collections of images and associated metadata in real time, facilitating the identification of patterns, correlations, and anomalies within the data. Its applications span various fields, including heating, ventilation, and air conditioning management, microscopy, genomics, plant phenotyping, and cultural heritage institutions such as galleries and museums. Additionally, Zegami's plugin API allows developers to create custom visualizations, enhancing the versatility of their offerings.
Sphere Fluidics
Venture Round in 2019
Sphere Fluidics Limited is a life sciences company focused on developing innovative technologies for single-cell analysis and characterization. The company offers unique products and collaborative research and development services that aid in the discovery of new cell strains and molecules. Its cell analysis systems facilitate the screening and isolation of rare and valuable biological variants, catering to various applications in research, therapeutic development, bioproduction, and diagnostics. By streamlining these processes, Sphere Fluidics enables clients to reduce costs and time, thereby accelerating advancements in biological and biopharmaceutical discovery.
OrthoSon
Seed Round in 2019
OrthoSon develops a minimally invasive, incision-free, motion-preserving medical device for chronic low back pain. The core technology is an injectable bio-structural gel implant delivered into the nucleus pulposus of the degenerating intervertebral disc, where it gels to support mechanical function and slow degeneration, aiming to provide a micro-invasive alternative to spinal fusion. The system seeks to restore spine function and alleviate discogenic pain, targeting patients with persistent back pain. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Caristo Diagnostics
Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2018 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, Caristo Diagnostics develops artificial intelligence-based software for measuring coronary artery inflammation to predict heart attacks. Its flagship product, CaRi-Heart, applies advanced AI algorithms to routine cardiac CT scans, visualizing and quantifying coronary inflammation, which is the root cause of coronary artery disease. The company's patented Fat Attenuation Index (FAI) biomarker indicates a patient's risk relative to peers, while CaRi-Heart Risk assesses absolute 8-year fatal heart attack risk. Caristo Diagnostics has attracted over £23 million in venture capital investment and its technology is CE Mark certified.
ONI specializes in super-resolution microscopy, making advanced imaging technology accessible to researchers worldwide. Its flagship product, the Nanoimager, offers easy access to techniques like dSTORM and PALM, enabling users to visualize molecules within living cells for enhanced biological research.
Navenio
Seed Round in 2017
Navenio Limited is a software technology company based in Oxford, United Kingdom, specializing in location-based services for indoor environments through mobile applications. Established in 2015, Navenio's innovative platform enhances indoor localization without the need for additional hardware, such as beacons or Wi-Fi. By utilizing advanced techniques like fingerprinting of the electromagnetic spectrum and indoor mapping, Navenio's solutions enable clients across various sectors, including retail, transportation, venues, and healthcare, to efficiently locate individuals and improve workforce productivity. The company's intelligent workforce solution automates processes based on established best practices, leading to significant enhancements in staff efficiency and operational workflows.
Oxford Biotrans
Series B in 2017
Oxford Biotrans Limited is a biotechnology company based in Abingdon, United Kingdom, that specializes in the development and commercialization of high-value chemical compounds through enzyme technology. Founded in 2013, the company leverages patented cytochrome P450 enzyme technology to create natural-grade products from readily available feedstocks. Its flagship product, Nootkatone, is a grapefruit-flavored and scented compound derived from the biotransformation of Valencene, a citrus extract. Oxford Biotrans is focused on producing flavors and fragrances, while its technology also holds potential for applications in pheromones, pharmaceuticals, and other specialty chemicals. The company's innovations are grounded in over 15 years of research from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, emphasizing environmentally friendly practices that reduce chemical waste and energy consumption in production processes.
DiffBlue is a software company that develops AI-powered automated testing and code automation tools. It automates coding tasks such as generating unit tests, bug fixing, refactoring, translating code between languages, and producing original code to meet specifications. Its automated testing software for Java creates fully autonomous unit tests, maintains regression tests, and provides insights into test coverage, code testability, complexity and dependencies. The technology uses reinforcement learning to write tests that compile, run, and detect bugs, reducing manual testing effort and accelerating software development. In addition to test generation, DiffBlue offers security testing capabilities to identify and fix exploits. DiffBlue originated as a spin-out of the University of Oxford's AI research group and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Orthox Ltd. is a medical implant company based in Abingdon, United Kingdom, that specializes in developing tissue regenerative implants for knee cartilage injuries. Founded to commercialize technology from Oxford University, Orthox aims to transform the treatment of cartilage damage, addressing the needs of over 300 million patients worldwide affected by osteoarthritis. The company's flagship product, FibroFix, is a hydrogel implant designed to emulate human knee cartilage, enabling effective repair and regeneration of damaged tissues. Orthox offers several variations of FibroFix, including FibroFix Meniscus for meniscal cartilage repair and FibroFix Cartilage for articular cartilage damage. The implants promote integration with the body's cells, facilitating a return to active, pain-free living. With plans to expand its technology to other joints and additional applications beyond orthopaedics, Orthox is positioned to capitalize on the rapidly growing biomaterials market, projected to exceed $250 billion by 2025.
Agilent Raman Spectroscopy
Seed Round in 2008
Agilent Raman Spectroscopy’s proprietary technologies use novel variants of Raman spectroscopy. Their instruments can rapidly and accurately identify materials hidden inside objects or through opaque barriers such as plastic, coloured glass, paper and skin, or can measure the concentrations of materials in mixtures, with a high degree of accuracy.
Agilent Raman Spectroscopy is formerly known as Cobalt Light Systems and is part of Agilent.