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Investment will light the way to carbon reduction01 December 2009 (Investment Deal)Energy saving street lamps developed by a Yorkshire company could soon be helping the UK meet its carbon emissions targets, thanks to support from angel investors Ewin Woodward Development (EWD).EWD, members of the Yorkshire Association of Business Angels (YABA), are investing £300k in Carbon Reduction Technology (CRT), a startup based in Sowerby Bridge.  The company has developed the ‘e-lamp’, a LED street lighting system that uses up to 75% less electricity than traditional sodium street lights. Although other LED lights are on the market, the e-lamp has a proprietary microprocessor, patented by CRT, which makes the light more efficient.  The lamps are also among the few LED lights on the market which meet British standards for use on public roads. “LED is commonly used on walkways and car
Recent grant awards01 December 2009 (Investment Deal)YCF focuses primarily on equity investments in early stage high growth ventures, but equity is of course only one aspect of the total funding which companies can secure to drive their growth. We report below a selection of some significant recent grant awards, made to young companies some of which have previously completed equity rounds reported in YCF.
Preston-based Plant Impact (AIM: PIM  www.plantimpact.net ) announced on 22 October that a consortium which it leads, comprising seven organisations across Europe, had been granted a €1 million research grant from the European Union for the development of its nematicide technology and a soil delivery system.  The consortium aims to develop a non-toxic solution to remove the need to handle toxic chemicals and to use large quantities of hazardous chemicals, while eliminating ozone depleting chemicals.  It will do this by developing a nematicide to eliminate parasitic roundworms known as nematodes that have been spreading across
Investment secured for world’s first printed programmable logic circuits01 December 2009 (Investment Deal)Nano ePrint has recently secured further investment to develop its planar printed electronics technology.This technology enables the fabrication of planar electronic devices in a single layer of semiconductor via single step patterning.  This dramatically simplifies the printing of integrated circuits, bringing closer the promise of transparent, flexible, ubiquitous electronics.  And besides being substantially easier to manufacture, Nano ePrint’s nano-scale devices achieve very high speeds while dramatically reducing circuit size and simplifying manufacture – the company’s figures suggest it can achieve over ten times the performance, and over 100 times the density of conventional printed electronics. Nano ePrint has also developed the world’s first printed programmable logic devices that allow the low-cost, high-volume
Venturefest Yorkshire 201001 December 2009 (News)Together with our Yorkshire partner Targeting Innovation Ltd, Young Company Finance is taking an exhibition stand at Venturefest in York on 10 February, where we will be making an announcement about some exciting new developments at YCF.Venturefest Yorkshire is a one day expo which brings together the region's finest science, technology and knowledge entrepreneurs, the professional services who support them, and world-class business speakers.  More than 2,000 delegates visited Venturefest last year, and the event is not to be missed by anyone interested in early stage high growth companies in the North of England.  The Investment Competition, organised by Connect Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Association of Business Angels (YABA), will be of particular interest to those such as YCF’s readers who are interested in the funding aspects of the sector. This will be an ideal
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