Earlier this year, when we were still able to hold physical events (remember those!) we hosted an Investment Dinner in London to introduce some of our Scale-Up companies which are currently raising to a select number of investors.
As part of that event, I MC’d a fireside chat between a company founder – Gareth Williams from YellowDog – and their investor David Leftley from Bloc Ventures. It’s not an opportunity that comes along very often so I am indebted to them both for willingness to take part and in helping us to better understand the VC – founder relationship.
See full article here: https://www.setsquared.co.uk/its-like-a-marriage-exploring-the-investor-founder-relationship/
ZEETTA Networks Partners with STORDIS to Distribute their Innovative NetOS Network Management and 5G Solutions Worldwide
- Open Networking Expert STORDIS will partner with Zeetta Networks to deliver Zeetta Enterprise Network Management Software
- Zeetta Enterprise, powered by Zeetta NetOS, simplifies the operation of complex multi-vendor, multi-technology networks
- Zeetta simplifies the deployment and management of 5G technologymaking Private Cellular Networks accessible for the Enterprise and Local Government
See full article here: https://zeetta.com/company-overview/news-and-events/
New York and London, June 2, 2020 – EVRYTHNG, the Product Cloud providing digital identities for the world’s consumer products, today announced a long-term global partnership with HP Inc., the world leader in digital printing for packaging and publishing. The partnership will enable HP’s printing, packaging and enterprise customers, including CPG brands, to digitize their packaging and printed products at scale, enabling enhanced digital capabilities across product authentication, end-to-end traceability, consumer engagement and other functions.
See full article here: https://evrythng.com/evrythng-and-hp-inc/
Crypta Labs in partnership with Applus+ IDIADA and TeskaLabs today completed their Cybersecurity Feasibility study called Project Meili.
Project Meili was part of the UK Government and its partners Zenzic and InnovateUK £1.2 million programme to develop a cohesive understanding of the challenges and potential solutions to addressing digital resilience and cyber security within Connected and Automated Mobility.
See full article here: https://www.journalism.co.uk/press-releases/crypta-labs-applus-idiada-and-teskalabs-set-out-their-vision-for-the-future-of-cybersecurity-in-connected-and-autonomous-automated-mobility/s66/a755707/
Crypta Labs, a specialist in Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) technology, has signed up to the national SPRINT business support programme to develop its QRNGs for space applications.
Crypta Labs will collaborate with SPRINT partner, the University of Southampton, which will conduct environmental and performance testing of the company’s QRNGs to CubeSat level specifications. This will provide high quality random numbers for use in cryptographic tasks, such as encryption of the data that is being sent between satellites and Earth or for securing communication within a CubeSat constellation.
Crypta Labs has developed a compact QRNG prototype, which uses the quantum property of light to generate high-quality randomness. The project will redesign the Crypta Labs’ QRNG using space-qualified materials and components, and test the prototype to standards that match those used by CubeSat primes.
See full article here: https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/quantum-random-number-generators-enhance-encryption-satellite-data
Channel Coding Software Increases Network Power Efficiency and Reduces Latency
AccelerComm, the company supercharging 5G with Optimisation and Latency Reduction IP, today announced they have developed a highly optimised LDPC software decoder in collaboration with Intel.
The solution is integrated into the Intel’s FlexRAN Reference Software resulting in increased throughput by up to 3 times over alternate implementations. The LDPC decoder benefits from a combination of optimised architectural and algorithmic enhancements and use of the powerful Intel Architecture and Intel Advanced Vector Instructions 512 (Intel AVX512) instruction sets. The AccelerComm LDPC implementation takes advantage of these capabilities on Intel Xeon Scalable processor and with fewer cores delivers performance within 0.1 dB of Intel’s SDK module. FlexRAN is a reference architecture developed by Intel to implement virtualised Radio Access Networks which can be deployed on any part of the wireless infrastructure from edge to core.
See full article here: https://www.accelercomm.com/news/highly-optimised-ldpc-decoder-software-intel
Zeetta Networks is announced as the consortium lead for the £9m 5G-ENCODE project that will deliver a private 5G network at the National Composites Centre (NCC). This is the UK government’s biggest investment in 5G for manufacturing to date as part of DCMS’ Industrial 5G Testbeds and Trials programme. The project consortium consists of 11 partners including Telefonica, Toshiba, Siemens, Solvay, and Baker Hughes. 5G-ENCODE project will explore new business models and value propositions for enterprise private 5G networks in an industrial environment and test new 5G technologies such as network splicing and slicing in a real operating setting
See full article here: https://zeetta.com/2020/02/20/zeetta-leads-5g-manufacturing-project/
Every week we talk to a business angel, one of the early-stage investors who collectively inject £1.5bn a year into British start-up companies
Bruce Beckloff is co-founder and chief executive of Bloc Ventures, which is based in Farringdon, on the edge of the City, and backs early-stage technology companies.
Bloc’s investments include YellowDog, which develops software to harness power from underused data centres, and AccelerComm, a Southampton University spinout producing technology that minimises transmission errors in 5G mobile devices.
See full article here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/q-amp-a-with-angel-investor-bruce-beckloff-j9m7f5bbs
Zenzic has revealed that Crypta Labs, IDIADA UK and TeskaLabs are recipients of a share of £1.2 million in funding from a competition focused on cyber security in self-driving vehicles.
View the full article here
Veteran financier Michael Spencer and Rolls-Royce boss Warren East have thrown their backing behind a venture capital business identifying start-ups which provide ” the picks and shovels for the digital world”….
See full article here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/01/27/michael-spencer-gives-backing-early-stage-venture-company/
