Portfolio
Amadeus and Angels Seed Fund
Archangel investors have committed £1m to the Amadeus and Angels Seed Fund, which invests in UK based technology opportunities that can revolutionise markets and that need a seed stage investment to prove out the opportunity. With £10m directly under management Amadeus seeks companies with ambitious teams, powerful ideas and a defensible technology or competitive advantage.
Arrayjet
Arrayjet provides microarray scientists worldwide with a unique, scalable, high speed inkjet microarray platform, ideally suited to the production of very high quality microarrays from a range of sample types, including proteins, cell lysates and nucleic acids. The bench-mounted Arrayjet Sprint Inkjet Microarrayer is perfect for array development and optimisation, printing up to 20 microarray slides on-the-fly from up to 4 microtitre plates; alternatively, the floor-standing Marathon Inkjet Microarrayer series offers high throughput microarray production from medium –(Marathon; Super-Marathon) to industrial scale (Ultra-Marathon), all made possible by Arrayjet’s unique, on-the-fly piezoelectric print head and JetSpyder™ technology
ATEEDA
Electronic chips in phones, cars, and many other types of consumer equipment form part of a multibillion dollar global industry. ATEEDA helps multinational chip makers to cut their manufacturing costs and improve quality. Testing the chips work correctly typically takes one fifth of the manufacturing cost. ATEEDA's patented technology and software tools substantially cut this cost by making it much quicker using much simpler equipment. ATEEDA's latest product (LinBIST) even allows the chip to test itself, attracting keen interest from the top chip (also known as ‘semiconductor') corporations.
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Bloxx offers appliance-based Web filtering for medium and large organisations in both the business and public sectors. Bloxx has achieved unrivalled sales growth year-on-year to become the pre-eminent Web-filtering solution provider.
Bloxx patented Tru-View Technology analyzes, categorizes and filters web pages in real time with multi-tiered filtering algorithms. Its cutting-edge intelligence helps organizations proactively manage user access to Web content. Overall, the technology serves to increase productivity, reduce risk and liability and improve network security and use. It is an intuitive solution that is easy to install, manage, and use and dramatically reduces IT management time
Crombie Anderson
Crombie Anderson provides intelligent, targeted and strategic design and streamlines its creativity through two divisions: Product Design: industrial, mechanical, electronic, and optical design & Graphic Communications: corporate and brand identity, sales and marketing literature, exhibition graphics and web design. Crombie Anderson combines design skills to provide a turnkey solution, or uses particular aspects of its creativity to deliver strategic design to key areas. Crombie Anderson works by establishing the best fit development team from its established network of highly skilled individuals.
CXR Biosciences
CXR Biosciences combines proprietary technologies and world-class scientific expertise to deliver customised preclinical and research solutions. Investigative and Mechanistic Toxicology - by understanding the pathways that define the sensitivity of cells to chemicals, CXR evaluates the actual hazard to man of drugs and chemicals. Drug Development Solutions - supporting informed decision making, avoiding potential problems and accelerating the drug discovery process. Since its foundation in 2001 CXR has been working with many of the world’s major pharmaceutical, chemical and agrochemical companies, as well as small biotechnology companies.
Data Discoveries
Data Discoveries supplies businesses easy to use software, which combines access to fourteen databases. This offers the ability to capture names & addresses easily and accurately allowing clients to cleanse and enhance databases; profile new & potential customers and trace individuals.
Used by marketeers, financial institutions, government bodies and debt collectors, capabilities can be installed on users' own systems or accessed across the web for low-cost-of-entry and up to date data. Data Discoveries are specialists in both business to consumer and business to business markets.
Document Outsourcing
As Scotland’s largest independent document management company, Document Outsourcing offers a complete, cost effective one-stop outsourcing solution for personalised ‘business critical’ documents - from creation through the lifecycle of document printing, distribution, postal management and electronic archiving.
Document Outsourcing’s customer base includes many blue chip organisations in public and private sectors across the U.K, where we have extensive specialist knowledge and presence, particularly in servicing Local Government and Debt Recovery organisations.
Flexitricity
Flexitricity, is the first open-market system allowing electricity customers to participate directly in balancing supply and demand in the electricity system. Flexitricity uses advanced networking technology linked to a number of existing standby generators and electricity consuming processes. By starting generators and stopping consumption during periods of stress in the electricity system, Flexitricity helps keeps the system secure and reduces carbon dioxide emissions associated with electricity generation. Flexitricity is being rolled out in the UK, the world's most developed electricity market, but is applicable worldwide.
Indigo Lighthouse
Indigo Lighthouse is an established business process, outsourcing and data management company, based in Glasgow and Jersey employing circa 250 people. Indigo Lighthouse provides a bespoke service,handling business processes such as international financial payment collection, contact centre services and fulfilment operations for a range of U.K and European clients. On behalf of Clients Indigo manages annual sales of circa 100million euros and distributes in excess of 3 million packages each year from its warehouses in Glasgow and Jersey. Through the use of Indigo's bespoke SAP platform database management is a key differentiation factor. Sophisticated management information provides Clients with detailed analysis identifying market trends and market led solutions.
Lab901
With systems now sold across 5 continents, Lab901's revolutionary ScreenTape product automates a traditional bio-analysis process used by thousands of scientists and clinicians around the world. ScreenTape enables diagnostic and life science research labs to achieve rapid and accurate results effortlessly.
LUX Innovate Ltd
LUX Innovate Ltd develops technologies to enable partners in the oil and gas industry to dose production chemicals more effectively and efficiently. The LUX Assure product portfolio helps ensure these chemicals are applied at optimal concentrations; by preventing over-use costs are cut and environmental risks mitigated. By identifying under-dosed systems better chemical regimes can be implemented.
LUX specialises in delivering robust, highly sensitive and simple to use chemical monitoring technologies for both offshore and onshore use. The novelty of approach has been recognised by the industry and more won awards for innovation.
LUX has collaborative partnerships with companies and research groups worldwide.
MGB Biopharma
MGB Biopharma Limited is a private target product profile oriented biopharmaceutical company specifically exclusively established for the development of completely new class of anti-infective medicines based on compounds which are DNA Minor Groove Binders (MGB). With a highly experienced team from pharma and biotech sectors it is dedicating its focus initially to the development of antibacterial small molecules which are effective against resistant bacteria. By selecting a new class in the application of anti-bacterial, the company believes the novel mode of action should prove to be very potent against bacteria as these target organisms will lack any inherent resistance, unlike that typically facing new drugs which are the result of modifications from existing classes of drugs used to treat bacterial infections.
Mpathy
Mpathy Medical is a rapidly growing medical device company which has developed and brought to market a range of surgical solutions used to restore pelvic health to women. Mpathy Medical’s core product lines - Restorelle®, Omnisure™, and Minitape® - are used by surgeons specializing in urogynecology, gynecology, and urology to treat female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP).
Mpathy Medical supplies the only mesh surgical solutions designed specifically for the female anatomy. The mesh - branded Smartmesh® - is a physiologically compatible, ultra lightweight polypropylene mesh which encourages superior collagen growth and works in concert with the patient’s own natural tissue for optimum safety and results.
Optos
Optos' platform technology is the Panoramic200 Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope device, known as the P200. In a quarter of a second the P200 produces a high resolution image of up to 200 degrees or approximately 82% of the retina in a single capture. The image, branded the optomap Retinal Exam, provides eye care practitioners with clinically useful information that facilitates the early detection of disorders and diseases evidenced in the retina, such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. Retinal imaging can also indicate evidence of non-eye or systemic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and certain cancers. Optos' technology provides an unequalled combination of ultra-widefield retinal imaging, speed and convenience for both practitioner and patient and can help save sight and save lives.
Oregon
Oregon Timber Frame is now recognised as one of the UK's largest specialised timber frame suppliers.
PowerPhotonic
PowerPhotonic design and fabricate freeform refractive micro-optics for high-power laser applications. Their unique fabrication process allows the manufacture of micro-optics with a level of customisation and design flexibility that cannot be achieved using other manufacturing processes. Their beam correction process for high power diode lasers will enable a new generation of high-brightness diode laser sources for high-value industrial applications such as laser cutting and hybrid laser welding.
Reactec
Reactec has a reputation for delivering trusted solutions to vibration problems through an innovative approach to challenges. Vast experience and skill has led to the creation of the award-winning HAVmeter system which is now at the forefront of Health and Safety monitoring and management. Reactec apply ingenuity and expertise to issues across a range of industries such as Renewables, Automotive, Civils and Semi-conductor manufacture and are now a valued partner in the design and development of major Renewable energy projects.
Scalar Technologies Ltd
Scalar Technologies specialises in the provision of class leading, state of the art, optical measurement systems that are designed to measure the thickness of transparent thin films, polymers, lacquers or optical coatings. Scalar applies expert knowledge into applications where rigorous and demanding specifications are crucial to product performance. Scalar can offer customers a range of class leading, off the shelf products to solve a wide variety of measurement problems. Scalar excels in the application of core knowledge to provide custom solutions to the most exacting needs of customers, offering a complete service from design, through manufacture to installation.
Sentient Medical
Sentient Medical is developing a miniature Middle Ear Implant (MEI) for the relief of moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss – the type of hearing loss which affects about 90% of all hearing impaired persons.
Seraphim Capital
Seraphim Capital is a £30m venture capital Fund in which Archangel investors have committed £1m. The Fund's primary focus is on UK centric companies looking for equity capital of between £0.75 million and £2.0 million. The Fund's unique strength is its network of private investors, a national group consisting of some of the UK's most successful and influential business leaders. These are typically CEOs, Chairmen, non-exec directors and successful entrepreneurs who are re-cycling returns from their own enterprises.
Touch Bionics
Touch Bionics is the first spin out company from the National Health Service in Scotland. Touch Bionics is a leading developer of advanced upper-limb prosthetics. In 2007, the company brought to market the i-LIMB Hand, a first-to-market prosthetic device with five individually powered digits. Since the launch of the i-LIMB hand, the company has introduced ProDigits for partial hand patients and LIVINGSKIN; an aesthetic restoration solution. In addition, Touch Bionics offers full clinical services and continues to develop leading-edge technologies for the treatment of patients with upper-limb deficiencies.
Trig Avionics
Trig Avionics develop and manufacture communications, navigation and surveillance products for light and general aviation. The company's first products are Mode S transponders. Aircraft carry transponders to assist in identifying them on radar and on other aircraft's collision avoidance systems. The Trig line-up includes the most popular Mode S retrofit solution for GA aircraft, the world's smallest and lightest Mode S transponder, and the first European certified ADS-B Out transponder. Trig is selling their products through a network of dealers across Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region. The company is established as one of the leading brands in their market.
Verisim
Verisim solutions deliver business benefits to its customers by enabling them to successfully roll-out new enterprise software systems on time and with reduced cost and risk by eliminating errors. Verisim’s vision is that, all major companies will regard fully-functional simulations of enterprise systems as fundamental to the process of software design and development, testing, employee training and application deployment. Verisim call this rapid application acceptance. Customers build more for a lot less. Deployment of Verisim solutions will help businesses benefit more, and earlier, from investment in IT.
Vitrology
Vitrology is a Biopharmaceutical Contract Research Organisation (CRO). Vitrology assists clients address regulatory concerns around viral safety and other related biosafety issues, allowing them to enter clinical trials or market a licensed biological product.
By working in close collaboration with clients from the early stages of their new drug discovery and development programs, tailoring advice and extending services to meet the precise requirements of each project. Additionally Vitrology develops, conducts and validates custom studies, devising innovative testing procedures, and addressing the unique test specifications required for novel therapeutics.