Innovators & Investors Forum 2016

Exhibitors

  • Abzena (ABZA)

    Abzena provides proprietary technologies and complementary services in the UK and US to enable the development and manufacture of biopharmaceutical products. The development of biopharmaceuticals is a growing area and requires specialist technology and expertise. 
    The Group comprises Antitope, PacificGMP, PolyTherics and TCRS, which between them have built a global customer base including the majority of the top 20 biopharmaceutical companies as well as large and small biotech companies and academic groups. 

    Antitope provides immunogenicity assessment, protein engineering to create humanized antibodies and deimmunised therapeutic proteins, and cell line development for manufacture. 

    PacificGMP provides contract process development and manufacture of biopharmaceuticals, including monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins, vaccines, and gene therapy and cell therapy products, for preclinical and clinical studies. 

    PolyTherics specializes in proprietary site-specific conjugation technologies for antibody drug conjugate development and solutions for optimizing the therapeutic properties of biopharmaceuticals.
     
    TCRS is a contract chemistry and bioconjugation business focused on ADCs and is establishing the capability to manufacture ADCs to GMP standards. 

    Abzena (AIM: ABZA) has its main operations in Cambridge, UK, San Diego, CA, US and Bristol, Pennsylvania, US . For more information, please see www.abzena.com

  • Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO)

    Advanced Oncotherapy plc is a UK-based company focused on delivering a more affordable proton-based radiotherapy called LIGHT. Based on  ground-breaking technology developed and tested at world renowned CERN in Switzerland, the LIGHT system allows the  delivery of protons with far greater precision. The first LIGHT system is expected to be installed in Harley Street, London in 2017.

    AVO’s technology – validated by the LIBO prototype developed at CERN and its relationship with established operators such as Circle Health in the UK, Sinophi in China, SUNY Upstate Medical University Hospital in the US – is expected to revolutionise the treatment paradigm for cancer.

  • ANGLE (AGL)

    ANGLE Plc (AGL) is a world-leading liquid biopsy company commercialising a platform technology that can capture cells circulating in blood, such as CTCs, intact living cancer cells, even when they are as rare in number as one cell in one billion blood cells, and harvest the cells for analysis. ANGLE’s cell separation technology is called the Parsortix system and is the subject of granted patents in multiple jurisdictions. The system is based on a microfluidic device that captures cells based on a combination of their size and compressibility.

  • Brady (BRY)

    Brady Plc is the largest European-headquartered provider of trading and risk management software to the global commodity, energy and recycling markets. Following our listing on AIM, Brady has entered new markets, developed new software solutions, and added global industry leaders as clients. Our growth has resulted from our strategy of combining organic growth with acquisitions, supported by Cenkos, our nomad and broker. Brady is the only UK stock exchange listed company active in the intersection of technology and commodities. Listed on AIM Brady is ranked number one globally in metals, and US recycling, and are the Energy Trading and Risk Management solution provider with the most energy installations in Europe.

  • CityFibre

    CityFibre is the national builder of Gigabit Cities and the largest alternative provider of wholesale fibre network infrastructure in the UK. It has major metro duct and fibre footprints in 40 cities across the UK and a national long distance network that connects these cities to major data-centres across the UK and to key peering points in London.

    The company has an extensive customer base spanning service integrators, enterprise and consumer service providers and mobile operators. Providing a portfolio of active and dark fibre services, CityFibre's networks address 28,000 public sites, 7,800 mobile masts, 280,000 businesses and 4 million homes.

  • Collagen Solutions

    Collagen Solutions Plc (AIM:COS) is a global supplier, developer, and manufacturer of medical grade collagen, tissues, and other biomaterials for use in regenerative medicine, medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics and research. The company's expertise includes development and manufacturing of engineered tissue scaffolds and other biomaterials-based medical devices. These products are used in a wide variety of applications including orthopaedics, cardiovascular, dental, plastic surgery, wound healing, neurology and urology. Collagen Solutions also is developing several finished medical devices based on its internal and acquired biomaterials intellectual property for commercialisation with partners via licensing and distribution arrangements.

  • Cyan (CYAN)

    Cyan is an integrated system design company headquartered in Cambridge, with customers, staff and partners across many of the world’s largest emerging markets. It provides a communication platform that enables the measurement and control of energy consumption for smart metering and lighting. Cyan is focused on emerging markets, where its low cost, low power solution provides significant customer benefits. It delivers integrated solutions to utilities, municipalities and local authorities, with customer wins to date in India, Brazil and China.

  • Eckoh (ECK)

    Eckoh is a global provider of secure payment products and customer contact solutions, working with blue-chip organisations in over 10 countries worldwide. Our range of secure payment products enables organisations to take card payments from customers over the phone, web and mobile devices without risk of fraud, by removing customer card data from contact centres and IT environments. Through the use of DTMF masking and tokenisation, our products are designed to help merchants become compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). We have been a PCI DSS Level One accredited Service Provider since 2010 and process over $1 billion in card payments annually.

    www.eckoh.com

  • eg solutions (EGS)

    eg solutions is a back office workforce optimisation software company. eg pioneered this new market space and developed the most complete, purpose built workforce optimisation software for back offices – the only solution that manages work, people and end-to-end processes wherever they are undertaken, anywhere in the world.

    Our software is used by leading UK, international and global companies in multiple industry sectors.

    Using our forecasting, scheduling, real-time work management and operational analytics capabilities we deliver measureable improvements in service, quality, productivity and regulatory compliance. When supported by our implementation and training services we guarantee return on investment.

  • Flowgroup (FLOW)

    Flowgroup is building a global energy innovation and services business.  It combines a successful and rapidly growing domestic energy supply business, delivering year on year customer growth of 51%, with a ground-breaking microgeneration technology platform in the shape of the Flow boiler, the world’s first affordable electricity-generating boiler.  Operating under its ‘Energy for Life’ concept, Flowgroup creates long term customer relationships by delivering a multi-product and service strategy - energy supply, heating and microgeneration innovation, and the connected home. It intends on becoming a go-to brand for energy and energy related products and services.   

  • Harriman House

    Harriman House (www.harriman-house.com) is the UK's leading independent publisher of trading & investing books including titles such as The Naked Trader (Robbie Burns), The Future is Small (Gervais Williams), The Art of Exection (Lee Freeman-Shor) and How to Become a Business Angel (Richard Hargreaves). 

    It is also the creator of Volow (https://volow.co) and Volow Monthly - a browser-based eBook reader and subscription service. With Volow you can read pre-owned eBooks, buy new eBooks or subscribe to a Collection of titles for a fixed monthly fee. There are no new apps or software to download as Volow works in a web browser on a phone, tablet, laptop or desktop PC. It's quick, simple and delivers a great reading experience.

  • Ilika (IKA)

    Ilika is a pioneer in solid-state battery technology and has developed ground-breaking miniature batteries for powering your wireless sensors in applications ranging from hostile industrial environments to medical implants and is working on larger scale batteries for automotive and consumer electronic devices.

    Solid state batteries have the benefits over convention lithium ion batteries of:

    • High energy and power density
    • Fast charge rates
    • Long cycle and storage life
    • Safe and non-flammable
  • Instem

    Instem is a robust and profitable provider of IT applications and technology enabled services to life sciences R&D.  Instem helps clients to bring life enhancing products to market faster, with the potential for significant return on their investment.

    Instem’s solutions are essential to over 500 clients worldwide in areas such as:

    · Collection, analysis and reporting of complex scientific data
    · Compliance with regulatory submission requirements, including the FDA-mandated SEND initiative
    · Improving quality, consistency and efficiency of critical R&D processes and corresponding information             reporting
    · Generating new scientific insights through identification, extraction and analysis of actionable information

    Instem anticipates continued organic and acquisitive growth in a buoyant life sciences industry.

  • Kromek (KMK)

    With operations in the UK and US, Kromek is a leading developer of radiation detection solutions based on high performance sensor materials for applications within the medical imaging, civil nuclear and security screening markets. Its patented digital colour x-ray and gamma ray detection and imaging solutions provide high resolution information enabling materials identification.

    Its vertically integrated technology offering provides an end-to-end solution from the production of advanced sensor materials to the design and manufacturing of finished detector products. 

    Kromek sells to a global customer base including the world’s largest medical equipment groups, government agencies, international airports and major energy providers.

  • Lombard Risk (LRM)

    Lombard Risk is a leading provider of regulatory reporting and collateral management solutions – enabling firms in the financial services industry to significantly improve their approach to managing the risk in their businesses.

    Founded in 1989 and headquartered in London, Lombard Risk has offices in New York in the US; Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo in Asia Pacific, and service centres in Atlanta, Cape Town, Luxembourg and Miami.  Our clients include banking businesses - over 30 of the world's "Top 50" financial institutions - as well as investment firms, asset managers, hedge funds, fund administrators, insurance firms and large corporations worldwide.

  • Mercia Asset Management (MERC)

    Mercia is a proactive, specialist asset manager focused on supporting regional SMEs to achieve their growth aspirations. Mercia provides capital across its four asset classes of balance sheet, venture, private equity and debt capital; the Group's 'Complete Capital Solution'. The Group initially nurtures businesses via its third-party funds under management, then over time Mercia can provide further funding to the most promising companies, by deploying direct investment follow-on capital from its own balance sheet.

     

     

  • Mirada (MIRA)

    Mirada is a leading provider of products and services for Digital TV Operators and Broadcasters. Founded in 2000 and led by CEO José Luis Vázquez, the company prides itself on having spent almost 20 years as a pioneer in the Digital TV market. Mirada's core focus is on the ever-growing demand for TV Everywhere for which it offers a complete suite of end-to-end modular products across multiple devices, all with innovative state-of-the-art UI designs.

  • Plastics Capital

    Plastics Capital is a niche manufacturer of specialist plastic products.  Applications for these products vary widely and examples include:
    - Packaging for the food manufacturing and distribution – films, sacks and pouches
    - Steering columns and instrument control knobs in the automotive industry –  plastic ball bearings
    - Hydraulic and industrial rubber hose manufacture – various types of plastic mandrel
    - Cardboard box manufacture – plastic creasing matrices
     
    Plastics Capital’s business model is based on understanding customers’ problems in depth, and then developing and mass producing proprietary, technical solutions for these problems.
     
    The business operates through two divisions, Films and Industrial, and has the majority of its production in six UK based factories, with a further three factories in Asia.  Approximately 45% of its £66 million sales are made outside the UK to more than 80 countries.
     
     
     
  • Quantum Pharma (QP.)

    Quantum Pharma Plc is a growing service-led niche pharmaceutical manufacturer, developer and supplier to the health and care sectors.

    Since its inception in 2004, the Group has expanded from its operation of manufacturing, procuring and supplying unlicensed medicines (specials) and special obtains, via a series of synergistic acquisitions.  The Group now operates within growth markets including licensed medicines and innovative telemonitoring, alongside its original operations.

    A year after its flotation on AIM, Quantum Pharma now operates through three divisions – Specials, Niche Pharmaceuticals, and Medication Adherance.  Within these divisions, the Group operates via nine subsidiaries, offering a portfolio of innovative and complementary products and services.

    For more information, visit www.quantumpharmaplc.com

  • Research Tree

    Research Tree - Making professional investment research accessible to private investors for the first time:

    • Real-time Investment research. Used by fund managers, written by the experts.
    • Up to date analyst forecasts and multiples.
    • Real-time company announcements and RNS.
    • Additional content from listed companies and Management Q&A from quoted companies.
    • Aggregated investment research from top Banks, Brokers and Independent Research Providers.
    • 17 Research Providers onboard, many more in pipeline.
    • Affordable subscription: £40/month, equivalent cost of 1 typical trade/month (inc stamp duty).
  • REX Bionics (RXB)

    Rex Bionics (AIM: RXB) is the pioneer of the REX Robot that enhances the mobility of wheelchair users. 

    REX lifts patients from a sitting position into a robot-supported standing position, allowing them to take part in a set of supported exercises; and in the home, allows users to walk and stand with their hands free - providing more work and recreation options. 

    REX is most commonly used by wheelchair users with a spinal cord injury, as well as patients who have experienced a Stroke or other Traumatic Brain Injury; and patients with Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy and Cerebral Palsy.

  • Rosslyn Data Technologies (RDT)

    Rosslyn Data Technologies plc, (AIM: RDT), a leading provider of a Cloud-based enterprise data analytics platform, was founded in 2005 by Charles Clark and Hugh Cox. Business Intelligence was ranked first in the top ten technology priorities for Chief Information Officers in 2012 by Gartner. The Company provides analytical services by combining four key technologies: data extraction; cleansing; enrichment; and visualisation, through a single cloud platform enabling users with detailed data to make more informed decisions. Rosslyn's RAPid platform is the Group's primary product available to its multinational customers, including Aberdeen Asset Management plc, Babcock Corporate Services plc, Xerox Business Services and Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. Rosslyn Data Technologies plc is the ultimate holding company of the Group and owns 100 percent of Rosslyn Analytics Limited.

    Further information can also be found on the Company's website at:  www.rosslynanalytics.com

  • Satellite Solutions Worldwide (SAT)

    SSW Group PLC is Europe’s largest pure play satellite broadband provider. SSW takes satellite capacity and turns it into super-fast broadband services for homes and businesses that can’t get fast broadband over wires. SSW delivers speeds of up to 30 Mb to any home or business in the UK using a small set-top box and mini-dish. Through its Europasat brand SSW connects around 25,000 homes and businesses across 31 European countries. SSW was founded in 2008, growing quickly via organic sales, listing on AIM in May 2015, and is currently pursuing a roll-up strategy consolidating the satellite broadband ISP industry.

  • Selftrade

    Selftrade is one of the UK's largest execution-only stockbrokers with a reputation for operating on the basis of open, transparent pricing.  We provide our service to thousands of customers and help them invest and trade shares, funds, ETFs and other assets from a range of 8,000 available spanning UK and international markets.

    Our advanced online platform offers access to UK and international markets and means customers can manage day-to-day trading, tax-efficient investing or investment planning through a wide range of accounts including a Shares ISA and a SIPP Dealing Account.

  • Shares

    Shares is the leading online resource for private investors and is read by tens of thousands of individuals managing their own money as well as analysts, fund managers, stockbrokers and company directors who value our market insight.
     
    Launched in 1999, we publish a weekly digital magazine every Thursday and provide daily online comment about stocks, funds, investment trusts, ETFs, ISAs, SIPPs, savings and personal finance.
     
    Our weekly digital magazine is full of ideas for filling your portfolio, whether you are saving for something like a new house or car, or if you are investing to fund your child's university fees or even your grandchild's Junior ISA.
     
    Subscribers to our digital magazine also have free access to a wide range of tools and services including live share prices, charts and financial information on companies.
     
    www.sharesmagazine.co.uk

     

  • Strat Aero (AERO)

    Strat Aero is an international aerospace services company focused on providing fully integrated global solutions to the rapidly growing UAV market, covering all aspects of the value chain including software, hardware and services. 

    UAVs promise to revolutionise business practices across multiple commercial sectors.  Offering enhanced functionality and significant cost savings, UAVs are already being adopted across the industrial, governmental and military spectrum and there remains significant growth potential. 

    With an extensive network of employees and consultants across offices worldwide, a management team with significant commercial experience and a defined development strategy which uniquely aims to provide fully integrated solutions.

  • Summit Therapeutics (SUMM)

    Summit Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing innovative therapies to significantly advance the current standard of treatment for serious unmet medical needs.  Summit is seeking to treat all boys affected by Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy by investigating and developing our pioneering utrophin modulation technology.  DMD is a fatal muscle wasting disease and is classified as an orphan disease.  Summit is also advancing a novel class antibiotic to treat Clostridium difficile infection.  Summit is headquartered in the UK and its shares are listed on AIM (symbol: SUMM) and NASDAQ (symbol: SMMT).

  • TP Group

    TP Group is a UK based specialist services and engineering group. It designs and develops advanced technologies, engineers complex equipment and systems, and provides support throughout their operations life. Focusing on the equipment lifecycle, from design and development through integration, maintenance and support throughout life.  The company has built a strong reputation for quality, design and engineering and has developed a number of successful long-term relationships, including recent contract wins from the Ministry of Defence, Army HQ, ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems and GE Oil and Gas. 

  • TyraTech (TYR)

    TyraTech, Inc. was established in 2004 and has developed a unique patented technology to enhance the activity of plant-based ingredients against insects and parasites.

    In 2014, TyraTech launched Vamousse® head lice treatment and shampoo, now stocked in 20,000 stores in the USA & 7,000 stores in the UK. With Vamousse, TyraTech has unlocked the value of its technology platform and shown that its products can be a commercial success.

    The commercial success of the Vamousse head lice range can be reproduced in significantly larger markets eg insect control in livestock premises.

    TyraTech, Inc. made its Initial Public Offering in June 2007 on AIM, where it trades under two separate common stock share listings (TYR and TYRU). 

  • XLMedia (XLM)

    XLMedia is a market-leading provider of performance marketing services. The Group uses proprietary tools and methodologies to generate high value users for our customers, in return for a revenue share and other performance marketing models. We operate across a number of verticals including online gambling, social gaming, financials, applications and more. The group’s clients include more than 200 gambling operators, social games studios, financial betting firms and software / app distributors.