Here is a list of Cambridge incubators, funding groups and centers for supporting new ventures.
According to a lecture that I heard this week, 44% of companies in the UK were started in incubators, and these companies received 63% of all funding. This suggests that investors prefer companies that are started in incubators and linked to "clusters" or even "virtual-clusters". Legal costs can be a compelling reason to join a supportive incubator where legal costs are included (often for free). Legal costs for Bio-science companies runs around 300,000 Pounds/Month per country! A common EU patent regime, in legislation now, may reduce the IP legal services cost.
The first Cambridge cluster grew out of Trinity College in the 1960's, shortly after Stanford had successfully pioneered one. Today, few pharma-investors rarely fund infrastructure in any way -- they prefer funding individual "projects".
- Babraham
- Cambridge Angels (aprox. 40 Angels)
- Cambridge Capital Group (CCG) (aprox. 40 Angels)
- Center for Entrepreneurial Learning (Cfel)
- Ideaspace
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