Sci-Tech Daresbury has revealed the five businesses who will make up the fourth cohort of Future Club, its exclusive growth scheme.
Providing a range of technical and business support to science and technology start-ups, the programme will help each business in the intake to realise its growth potential. Sci-Tech Daresbury has been handpicking dynamic young businesses to participate in the programme each year since 2021, providing them with access to an invaluable offering of business support and networking opportunities.
This year, the leading Liverpool City Region campus has selected a group in recognition of their significant business potential in developing products and services to meet technological, environmental, health and social needs. They include companies working in machine learning and AI, and HealthTec.
As members of the Future Club, the selected companies will benefit from early access to the business growth programmes, partnerships, and communities at the campus, along with its vibrant working environment with a range of hot desk, office, laboratory and workshop facilities across several buildings.
Through Sci-Tech Daresbury’s networking events and collaboration opportunities, this year’s cohort will also gain greater visibility within the business and scientific communities in the North West and beyond.
Also lending their expertise will be Sci-Tech Daresbury’s Gold Partners – twelve handpicked organisations that offer first-class support for Sci-Tech Daresbury companies in a range of business and research areas. They include Marks and Clerk, Grant Thornton LLP, RTC North – who manage the Innovate UK Edge programme – and the University of Liverpool.
Further, Future Club companies will have access to handpicked mentors from the Sci-Tech Daresbury network. These entrepreneurs, with many years of experience and success, will nurture these promising early-stage companies with their time, knowledge, and expertise, to help them develop and implement positive strategies for their businesses.
The 2024 intake includes AI Sight, a next generation artificial intelligence company that will provide retinal image interpretation for diabetic screening programmes; Currant Care, a health technology start-up developing non-invasive, sensor-based solutions to common healthcare-related
needs; DermaSense, which manufactures sensors that address needs in the diabetes-1 linked Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) market; Digital Language Partners, which creates Generative-AI-enabled software solutions for customer contact services, and Emerging Data Technologies, a data analytics organisation committed to advancing AI and machine learning technologies.
Alex Shakeshaft, founder of 2023 cohort member Enturi Solutions Ltd, who develop off grid wind-powered distributed energy systems to help UK companies decarbonise, said: “Enturi has received fantastic support from Sci-Tech Daresbury as a direct result of being selected as a 2023 Future Club
member. We have benefited from being able to access the facilities and community at Daresbury, including the STFC Hartree Centre for advanced 3D CFD modelling, networking events, and support of several of Sci-Tech Daresbury’s Gold Partners and companies, including Tatton Consultancy and Slater Heelis.
“Being a member of the 2023 Future Club has, without doubt, accelerated our progress and given us competitive advantage as a start-up business. We highly recommend the Future Club.”
