5G-ENCODE is a pioneering project looking to make the benefits of 5G technology a reality for UK manufacturers. The project is one of the UK government’s biggest investments in 5G for manufacturing to date and has been set up to establish clear business cases and value propositions for the application of 5G technology in manufacturing.

Led by Zeetta Networks, activity started in early 2020 and will run until March 2022. The key objective is to design and deliver a private 5G network within the National Composites Centre. 

See full article here: https://techround.co.uk/interviews/interview-with-vassilis-seferidis-co-founder-at-zeetta-networks-a-leading-partner-of-5g-encode/

Paytia, a telephone payment compliance service, has closed its pre-Series A funding round on £1.2m, which was led by Bloc Ventures.

With the capital injection, Paytia will increase its operational capability, increase the size of its team and build new products which will complement its existing offering.

Founded in 2016, the FinTech leverages technology to ensure customers are protected and remain in control of their card data throughout any customer not present payment transactions. The cloud-native platform provides businesses with scalable means to take card not present payments from customers and meet compliance with PCI-DSS standards, without breaching regulations.

See full article here: https://member.fintech.global/2020/10/27/paytia-closes-its-pre-series-a-as-it-looks-to-boost-telephone-payment-compliance/

Today, 5G-ENCODE, a pioneering project that aims to make the benefits of 5G a reality for UK manufacturers, announces the switch on of its Phase One Industrial Private 4G Network at the world leading National Composites Centre (NCC), to establish a baseline for existing technology. This comes ahead of its Phase Two Industrial Private 5G Network, which will go live in 2021.

See full article here: https://www.5g-encode.com/government-backed-5g-encode-launches-phase-one-network

 EVRYTHNG, the Product Cloud managing digital identities for the world’s consumer products, today announced it has partnered with Result Group of Companies, Australia’s premier supplier of innovative product packaging solutions, to help brands deliver on consumer expectations for transparency, authenticity and personalized consumer experiences. 

Teaming to accelerate the digitization of products in Australia, the EVRYTHNG Product Cloud™ links every product item to its Active Digital Identity™ on the web—joining up item-level data at every point in a product’s journey from manufacturing to consumer interaction. Digitized products provide visibility, validation and real-time intelligence as well as connect directly with people.

See full article here: https://evrythng.com/evrythng-gets-result-in-australia/

 EVRYTHNG, the Product Cloud managing digital identities for the world’s consumer products, today announced it has closed a $10 million further funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $60 million. EVRYTHNG will use the new investment to accelerate its global growth, expand its product capabilities that provide end-to-end supply chain traceability and visibility and machine-learning applications for brand integrity, and add to its team. A pioneer of the internet of things for consumer products and a World Economic Forum Global Innovator, EVRYTHNG works with global consumer brands that include Ralph Lauren, PUMA, P&G, Moët Hennessy and Anheuser-Busch InBev, among many others.

See full article here: https://evrythng.com/evrythng-raises-10-million-bringing-total-funding-to-60-million/

AccelerComm – The Southampton University spinout supercharging 5G, satellite and other wireless communications with IP which increases spectrum efficiency and reduces latency – has raised £5.8m in Series A funding in a round led by IQ Capital alongside existing investors Bloc Ventures and the IP Group. The funding will be used to expand the current team, drive US and global expansion, and develop the technology further as demand for the company’s cutting-edge digital signal processing IP grows among mobile operators, telecoms equipment vendors, satellite operators and connected device manufacturers.

See full article here: https://www.accelercomm.com/news/accelercomm-secures-5.8m-series-a-funding-from-iq-capital-bloc-ventures-and-ip-group

 EVRYTHNG, the Product Cloud managing digital identities for the world’s consumer products, today announced it has partnered with Minet Technologies, Israel’s procurement and supply chain leader, to bring the EVRYTHNG Product Cloud™ to consumer goods manufacturers and brands in the region. EVRYTHNG makes it possible for manufacturers and brands to deliver end-to-end supply chain visibility and transparency into every product’s journey from the factory to the consumer to re-sale or recycle.

The first partnership of its kind in Israel, together EVRYTHNG and Minet Technologies offer Israeli consumer goods companies an end-to-end product identity solution for supply chain, product authenticity and marketing applications. 

See full article here: https://evrythng.com/evrythng-minet-partnership/

OMass Therapeutics are an Oxford biotechnology company spun out of Oxford University harnessing native mass spectrometry and other biophysical technologies to drive drug discovery in high definition. The company’s suite of proprietary technologies delivers superior resolution to traditional pharmacology assays enabling a clearer, more detailed picture of how a putative ligand engages a protein target, assessing binding and function in parallel. The company is building a pipeline of small molecule therapeutics to bring life-changing benefits to patients suffering from immunology and genetic disorders. OMass is backed by Syncona Ltd, Oxford Sciences Innovation and Oxford University.

See full article here: https://yellowdog.co/case_studies/accelerating-drug-discovery-omass-therapeutics/

Small Cell Forum grows at pace, welcoming new members from across the eco-system to support ambitious 2021 industry work program.

New members from three continents include: Celling5G, ETRI, Interdigital, Sercomm, Sterlite Technologies Ltd, and Zeetta Networks.

Small Cell Forum (SCF) today welcomes six new members from across the wireless and software ecosystems as it continues to show growing momentum in mobilizing the enterprise and driving network densification worldwide. These new additions add to the organization’s depth of specialist knowledge and resources – particularly from key Asian markets such as China, India and Korea – and strengthen the Forum’s collaborative efforts to develop foundations for robust and interoperable 5G-era networks.

See full article here: https://www.realwire.com/releases/Small-Cell-Forum-grows-at-pace-welcoming-new-members