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E V RY T H N G
www.evrythng.com The EVRYTHNG cloud-based platform connects brands directly with consumers and provides visibility and intelligence in the supply chain. Based in Camden, the company has raised more than £31 million to develop its IoT software platform that talks to any kind of smart product or smart packaging hardware. The solution connects all customer products to the Web, each with its own unique, real-time digital identity, to make them smarter. It simplifies the complexity of different protocols, embedded devices, or packaging, ensuring IoT products get to market faster. The EVRYTHNG team believes that every physical thing around us is coming to life digitally in some shape or form.
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DNANUDGE
www.dnanudge.com DNAnudge is based in Westminster and has raised nearly £13 million in investment. The DNAnudge App provides users with the results of a DNA test and offers information about how their individual body is genetically wired to metabolise food. By clicking on ‘MyDNA report’ in the app, users can find comprehensive explanations of each of the genetic traits that they have been tested for, along with practical tips and tailored advice for them. The simple colour-coded layout helps explain how different dietary components may affect an individual’s health in the long term. By simply scanning the barcode of a food or drink product, users can instantly see whether it is a good match for them or not.
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WAV E O P T I C S
www.enhancedworld.com WaveOptics has raised nearly £12.4 million in investment from its base in South Oxfordshire where they develop high-performance, easily manufacturable waveguides through which people see augmented reality. With a large eye-box and a high field of view, WaveOptics’ diffractive waveguides seamlessly combine real and virtual worlds using a unique and patented optical structure that enables two-dimensional pupil expansion. 2D pupil expansion is the technique that enables the provision of a very large eye-box using a very small light engine. Crisp text and imagery is
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projected by the near-eye displays, presenting computer images that overlay the real world. Augmented and mixed reality headsets can be designed to be small, light and flexible.
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SENSIIA
www.duofertility.com DuoFertility from Sensiia is the only fertility wearable that is accompanied by a personalised service. The sensor and App track and predict ovulation cycles and fertility experts help users make sense of their data and support them through fertility challenges such as low ovarian reserve and sperm motility. Worn under the arm and entirely replacing intrusive devices such as Thermometres, the small, discrete sensor syncs with the user’s mobile device and helps predict fertility days up to ten days in advance. Sensiia is based on Cambridge Science Park and has raised over £7.5 million to develop digital health solutions to better track, manage and improve health. The company is continuously looking at other areas of potential application for its platform.
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A M B I C A R E H E A LT H
www.ambicarehealth.com Ambicare Health is based in West Lothian and has raised nearly £7.4 million to develop a portfolio of wearable light sources for medical and consumer healthcare applications. The concept underpinning all of Ambicare’s technology has been to replicate the science of light therapies already clinically proven and practiced in central medical facilities in wearable form. Ambicare’s patented platform technology allows the user to wear the light delivery device, powered by a rechargeable controller, in daily use, enabling the treatment to be delivered in safe and gentle doses, avoiding the necessity of
Ambicare Health’s Lustre Pure Light is a light therapy for spots and acne
being ‘tied’ to a static light source in a physician’s surgery or hospital environment. This key point of difference not only enhances user convenience but also delivers improved end results through consistency of the light delivery to the skin.
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M O N I C A H E A LT H C A R E
www.monicahealthcare.com Monica Healthcare, Nottingham, has raised over £7.2 million and was acquired by GE Healthcare to expand their offering of digital Maternal-Infant Care in March 2017. The company’s advanced fetal monitors already empower midwives, labor and delivery nurses, and expectant women. The Novii Wireless Patch System is a small, reliable and accurate fetal heart rate monitor that does not require the clinical care team to adjust the transducer or re-position the belts: These were the