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Adaptive Venture Managers (Adaptive) is a specialist private trading group with three trading companies that are subsidiaries and three companies that are investments.
Adaptive was established in 1995 with the aim of assisting the development of a small number of medium to high technology businesses run by their own dedicated executive management. Adaptive is now focussed on developing and marketing innovative technology primarily in the recreation and medical device market places. | |
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Adventi is an IT service company, offering corporate-level support to SMEs, Local Authorities and the Education market throughout Scotland. Providing services right across the spectrum, including network support, installations, project management, procurement, consultancy and training, Adventi operates either as an outsourced IT department or works in partnership with existing internal IT teams. Established in 2002, Adventi has completed three acquisitions to date in the rapidly-consolidating IT Services market. | |
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Amoebics is developing a novel, specific, non-antibiotic treatment for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), Enterococcus and Streptococcus infections. | |
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Arrayjet is developing robotic equipment using ink jet print heads to reduce the time and increase the accuracy of preparing biological microarrays. | |
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ATEEDA is a semiconductor Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company. Its OptimATE EDA tool delivers test solutions for analogue circuits embedded within mixed signal devices. Their unique patented approach enhances existing digital Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) to test analogue circuitry at waferprobe or final test. ATEEDA's exciting new approach brings conventional analogue step-testing up to date through leading-edge signal processing techniques.
ATEEDA's customers and partners are blue-chip American and Asian corporations working to ensure OptimATE compatibility with their existing design tool flows.
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Bloxx have developed a range of purpose designed internet filtering appliances aimed at the Corporate and Public sectors. Their technology enables the efficient filtering of inappropriate web sites and enables employers to provide safe and managed web access for staff. Bloxx's APS technology actually blocks inappropriate web sites never previously identified which is ideal in the education marketplace, for example, where there are juvenile computer users. The Bloxx pricing policy offers large network users significant savings over the previous generation sales approach by avoiding "cost per user" charges and instead, proving fixed costs per appliance. Clients include organisations such as JCB, Scottish Radio Holdings Plc, the regional newspapers division of the Daily Mail, Birmingham University, NHS Trusts (including Lothian), Telford College and John Menzies Plc. | |
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Crombie Anderson offers a fully integrated approach to the design process, providing expertise in innovative product design and digital and graphic design communications. It has two divisions: product development and communications. | |
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CXR Biosciences offers clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical and other industries, customised studies for product development evaluation from lead/target identification, human risk assessment through to product advocacy.
CXR Biosciences has developed new technology platforms to accelerate preclinical development, reduce late stage product failure and help companies to develop better small molecule drugs. CXR currently has collaborations with 8 of the global top ten pharmaceutical companies in the field of preclinical development, and has a further 15 biotech and pharma partners. | |
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Data Discoveries supplies accurate high quality data and programs which enable clients to profile, acquire, verify and track existing and potential customers. | |
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eoLogic provide software tools that reduce the cost of finding problems in Enterprise software systems. Their first product, eoSense, is a new kind of testing tool that allows difficult problems to be detected much earlier than currently possible. eoSense combines extensive automated knowledge of the J2EE framework with advanced dynamic visualization - creating a new level of functional checking and performance validation. | |
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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.
Providing outstanding customer service is embedded in Indigo's culture - this focus on service forms the platform for continuing growth
both in the U.K. and throughout Europe. | |
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Lab901 is developing a revolutionary new product called ScreenTape which will miniaturise, integrate and automate analytical tests routinely carried out within the life sciences laboratory. ScreenTape combines a consumable plastic micro-scale device with a compact instrument to provide fast and cost effective analysis. | |
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LUX Innovate Ltd. is a specialist developer of detection technologies based on fluorescence and luminescence. With a track record of working with major industry players and a strong, comprehensive in-house research team the company is geared towards efficient co-development of novel light based technological solutions to unmet needs in several industrial sectors. The company has ongoing co-development projects in the energy, chemical, water quality and life science sectors with potential application development in many more.
A number of light standards and research tools have been developed by LUX, which it distributes globally through partners in Europe, the US and Japan. Its products include Glowell™, a series of novel, high quality light standards for the calibration of scientific equipment.
LUX is a privately owned and funded company established in 2001 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. It has won many awards for innovation, and has partnered with a number of companies and research groups worldwide. | |
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Flexitricity, operated by Martin Energy Limited, 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. | |
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Mpathy has developed a range of lightweight polypropylene meshes for the treatment of abdominal hernia and for female pelvic floor reconstruction and a pelvic drug delivery technology. | |
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Optos is the developer of the Panoramic 200 Ultra Widefield Scanning Laser Opthalmoscope. This Opthalmoscope views up to 80% of the retina and does not require the patients eyes to be dilated or a specialised operative to use it. It is being sold throughout the US and the UK. | |
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Oregon Timber Frame is now recognised as one of the UK's largest specialised timber frame suppliers. | |
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Orkell is a supplier of online legal information. Its comprehensive database of the law is compiled by groups of leading law firms acting collaboratively within separate jurisdictions. The database is updated continuously and is intended to be the best information source of its type anywhere, for use by all. | |
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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. | |
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Reactec provides, designs and develops advanced vibration control technology and consults on vibration related issues. It specialises in working in close collaboration with manufacturers to eliminate unwanted vibrations from their products. | |
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Scalar Technologies Ltd. manufactures innovative optical metrology systems for industrial applications marketed as the ‘ScalarGauge’ product range. The products are used in research, manufacturing and quality control for the measurement of thickness of substrates and coatings. Initial focus has been on polymer film substrates and coatings applied to them such as barrier layers in food packaging and primer layers in flat panel displays/televisions. The company is now extending the range of application areas to include optical coatings such as found on lenses in spectacles and cameras and specialised optics inside lasers. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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Sirius Seven Software specialises in providing geographical mapping software, services and web-based solutions, in both the public and private sectors. These GIS solutions are used in a variaty of applications including the mapping of crime statistics, profiling customers and web-based outlet location. | |
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SCS is actively developing embryonic stem cell technologies of important application in the discovery and development of new therapeutics for human medicine. SCS technologies offer a wide range of highly purified cell types for immediate application in cell-based drug screening assays and for future cell-based therapies. | |
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Stortext provides high quality outsourced document management solutions. It provides imaging services, transactional and personalised printing services and electronic document repository services. | |
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TSL is a medical device company with a proprietary technology that addresses a number of large, rapidly growing markets in the field of human tissue repair. The company is now listed on AIM. | |
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Touch Bionics is the first spin out company from the National Health Service in Scotland. The company's key business is the development and production of state of the art artificial arm prostheses. This work has had wide international acclaim and has produced the world's first all electrical arm prosthesis. | |
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Trig Avionics develop and manufacture communications, navigation and surveillance products for light aviation. The company specialises in power-efficient solutions, embedded processors, and high-reliability software design. The company's first products are Mode S datalink transponders for light aircraft which allow these aircraft to participate in the European ATC radar environment. | |
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VeriSIM is the leading provider of strategic simulation solutions to the financial services sector. VeriSIM’s unique solutions are used throughout the application lifecycle, in the prototyping, training and marketing of large IT projects such as online banking platforms and branch and contact centre systems. Deployment of VeriSIM solutions will help your business benefit more, and earlier, from your investment in IT. | |
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A contract laboratory biosafety testing company serving the global biopharmaceutical industry | |
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