Sherry Coutu

Cambridge Cluster

Super-Angel Summit

10 August 2012

Let’s turn to Cambridge

The University of Cambridge

World Class Ranking

QS World University Rankings 2011 (2010)

1. Cambridge (1) 6. Imperial (7)

2. Harvard (2) 7. UCL (4)

3. MIT (5) 8. Chicago (8)

4. Yale (3) 9. Pennsylvania (12)

5. Oxford (6) 10. Columbia (11)

88 affiliates of the University of Cambridge have won Nobel Prizes, more than any other institution

A long history of innovation

Cambridge University Press:Established 1534

Harvard University:Established 1636

1970

1987

A long history of innovation

• More than 180 spin-outs from the Computer Laboratory alone;

• building on the legacy of Babbage and Turing

Cambridge ideas change the world

EDSAC Raspberry Pi

Crick & WatsonSolexa (acquired by

Illumina in 2006)

ARM

CAT (acquired by AstraZeneca (MedImmune))

therapeutic monoclonal antibodiesDNA sequencing

Leading to Europe’s most successful technology cluster

1,400 cluster companies54,000 employees

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Whittle Turing DarwinRutherfordBabbage Sanger……

Watson & Crick

88 Nobel Prize Winners

2 x $10bn companies

10 x $1bn companies

a vibrant Cambridge Cluster Economy

world leading underpinning science

3rd

1,412

53,453

£ 13 billionturnover

And plenty more to come……

Here are the top 50 (of the 1400) that insiders believe are capable of being worth £ 1 Bn in the next 5 years……..

Here are the top 50 by REVENUE GROWTH ……..

Here are the top 50 (of the 1400) in terms of who is hiring fastest……

And a few snapshots…..

This will be a scren-grab of the computer lab alumni companies, when the labeling is correct

Join us in changing the world!

www.cambridgeclustermap.com

Sherry Coutu

Sherry@coutu.com

Cambridge Cluster