Partners

CIC, formerly Cambridge Innovation Center, runs innovation campuses with workspace, laboratories and event venues in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It also offers ecosystem-building consultancy through its Catalyst programme.

Commplicated is a European communications firm that works with deep tech startups. It provides media relations, branding and content strategy, and was founded in 2023 by former investors and operators.

Winston Taylor is a transatlantic law firm with more than 1,400 lawyers across the Americas, the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Its practice areas are major litigation, critical transactions, strategic IP and private wealth.

Lightbringer is a patent service that pairs AI tooling with patent attorneys to file, manage and protect intellectual property for growing tech companies. It works on fixed pricing aimed at founders.

• Hosts the IP roundtable before the summit

Rivan builds hardware for synthetic fuel production. Its systems turn renewable electricity into synthetic fuels, with the aim of producing them at costs competitive with fossil fuels.

• Speaking: Powering Britain

Cambridge NeuroWorks brings together researchers, engineers, clinicians and industry to develop neurotechnologies for neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions. Its fellowship programmes give scientific entrepreneurs funding, mentorship and a community.

• Hosts the neuro roundtable before the summit

7percent Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology startups. It has backed more than 150 companies across several funds, supporting founders with capital, expertise and its network.

• Moderating: Manufacturing Abundance

Boop is a palm-scanning system for payments, venue access and identity verification. It creates a private cryptographic signature from each user's palm, designed to keep biometric data private.

Adaptyv Bio runs an automated protein validation lab. Protein design teams submit their designs and receive binding, expression and thermostability data in as little as three weeks.

• Speaking: The Biological Interface

Modern Legal is a UK law firm advising on corporate, M&A, commercial, data protection, employment and intellectual property matters. It offers fixed-fee and hourly pricing with direct access to experienced solicitors.

Empirical Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage deep tech and life science companies founded by the scientists behind the research. Its £50 million fund backs 35 companies in areas such as fusion, diagnostics and advanced materials.

• Moderating: Powering Britain

Techscaler is a Scottish Government programme that helps founders build and scale tech startups through education, a peer-led community and flexible workspaces across Scotland. It works with CodeBase.

• Hosts the compute roundtable with CodeBase

Singular is a European early-stage venture capital firm. It invests in founders with global ambitions, from seed to Series B, across all sectors.

• Moderating: The Biological Interface

Weboaf is a design studio that creates brand identities for deep tech companies. It also does web design and pitch decks, helping startups present themselves to investors.