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BoS Europe (Business of Software) 2026
Single-track, founder-focused conference for SaaS and software leaders held in Cambridge. Features deep talks on scaling, product strategy, and company culture from experienced operators. Tickets cost about GBP 995-1495. Intimate format with 300-400 attendees, making it ideal for B2B SaaS founders seeking actionable growth and leadership insights.
Cambridge Mechatronics
Engineering company that designs and licenses precision miniature actuators using patented Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) technology for smartphone camera autofocus/OIS, AR/VR, wearables and medical devices; shipped in 75M+ devices.
Cambridge Tech Week 2026
Built around the Cambridge deep-tech cluster, with a 2026 theme of how deep tech changes the world. It features an Innovation Alley exhibition for deeptech startups and scaleups, plus sessions on scaling, regulation, and access to capital — high value for science-led founders seeking investors and corporate partners.
CuspAI
CuspAI is a frontier AI company building a generative-AI search engine for materials that accelerates the discovery and design of new molecules and engineered materials. Users specify desired properties (for example, selective CO2 binding for carbon capture), and the platform generates, evaluates, and optimises synthesisable candidate structures. It combines generative foundation models, deep learning, and molecular and scientific simulation, targeting applications across carbon capture, water purification, energy storage, catalysis, and industrial chemistry. The company was co-founded in 2024 by Dr Chad Edwards (CEO) and Prof Max Welling (CTO), and is headquartered in Cambridge.
Darktrace
Darktrace is a cybersecurity company founded in 2013 in Cambridge by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge alongside former intelligence professionals. The company pioneered the use of self-learning AI for cyber defense, modeling the immune system to detect novel threats and anomalous behavior across enterprise networks, cloud, email, and operational technology. Darktrace listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2021 and was later acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2024 in a deal valuing the company at approximately $5.3 billion. Its products serve over 8,000 organizations globally.
George Malliaras
George Malliaras is the Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge, a leading researcher in bioelectronics and the use of organic electronic materials for medical devices and neural interfaces. He is a keynote speaker at NANOTEXNOLOGY 2026 in Thessaloniki.
Hermann Hauser
Austrian-British technology entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of the Cambridge-based venture firm Amadeus Capital Partners. He earlier co-founded Acorn Computers, the company whose work led to the ARM processor architecture, and has spent decades backing deep-tech, semiconductor and life-science startups across Europe.
Manish Chhowalla
Manish Chhowalla is the Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge, a leading researcher in two-dimensional materials, nanomaterials and their applications in electronics and energy. He is a plenary speaker at NANOTEXNOLOGY 2026 in Thessaloniki.
Matoha
Matoha Instrumentation is a UK company that makes handheld, desktop and bench devices for fast, non-destructive material identification. Its FabriTell and PlasTell product lines use infrared sensors and AI algorithms to identify textiles, plastics, and carpet or flooring materials on the spot, with a cloud interface for tracking results. The technology targets recycling, sorting and quality-control use cases where knowing material composition quickly matters.
Nicole Eagan
Co-founder of Darktrace and its long-time CEO and later Chief Strategy Officer, helping pioneer the 'immune system' approach to enterprise cybersecurity using machine learning.
Nodes & Links
Nodes & Links is a Cambridge-based AI project controls company for major construction and infrastructure projects, legally Nodes & Links Limited. Its platform, built on years of project controls research, lets schedulers, project managers and executives interrogate live project schedules in natural language to get auditable answers on data integrity, delay and change management, risk, and reporting, grounded in models compatible with Primavera P6. The company is ISO 27001 certified and positions its AI as hallucination-proof because every answer traces back to a source within the customer's own project data.
Nyobolt
Cambridge, UK battery company developing extreme fast-charge technology using tungsten-based anode chemistry. Its cells recharge to 80% in under five minutes, targeting industrial EVs, power tools, and consumer electronics. Raised a $60M Series C in 2024 at a reported $1B valuation.
Poppy Gustafsson
Co-founder and former CEO of Darktrace, the Cambridge cyber-AI company she led to a 2021 London IPO. One of the UK's most prominent tech executives, she was appointed a UK investment minister in 2024.
Sherry Coutu
Sherry Coutu CBE is a prominent angel investor and entrepreneur known for championing the UK’s scale-up ecosystem. Originally from Canada, Coutu moved to the UK and in 1994 founded Interactive Investor, an online brokerage, which she led to an IPO in 2000. After exiting that venture, she became a full-time angel in 2000 and has since invested in 50+ tech companies, focusing on consumer internet, education, and fintech startups. Coutu has been an early backer of notable UK startups like Zoopla and LoveFilm, and holds LP stakes in several venture funds. Beyond investing her own capital, Sherry Coutu is famed for her advocacy of “scale-ups” – mid-stage companies poised for high growth. In 2014, she authored the landmark Scale-Up Report for the UK government, highlighting the economic importance of helping startups grow into larger firms. This led her, alongside LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, to found the ScaleUp Institute in 2015 – a nonprofit that provides resources, mentorship, and policy advocacy for scaling businesses. Coutu also founded Founders4Schools and Digital Boost, initiatives connecting students and small businesses with experienced entrepreneurs. She remains an active non-executive director on multiple boards – past roles include serving on the boards of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), the University of Cambridge Finance Board, and Pearson plc. In the angel community, Sherry Coutu is respected not only for her investments but for her mentorship and network: she often provides board-level guidance and operational mentorship to founders. Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2013 for services to entrepreneurship, Sherry Coutu is a pivotal figure helping UK tech startups navigate the jump from startup to scale-up.
