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Benito’s Hat opens new site in Leicester

Benito’s Hat has opened the doors to it’s newest restaurant in the Highcross Shopping Centre, Leicester. This represents Benito’s second site outside of London and eighth site in total. Benito’s offers an authentic Mexican experience and high-quality food, at an affordable price point. The Company has won many accolades from food critics and has built … Continued

Spotlight On: Quai

As part of our ‘Spotlight On’ series, we focus on Quai Administration Services, a platform Business Process Outsourcer to the high volume personal savings industry Quai’s platform administers thousands of individual savings plans at a fraction of the cost incurred by established insurance companies and wealth managers, with the Company’s compliant and efficient administration systems … Continued

Spotlight On: Collagen Solutions

As part of our ‘Spotlight On’ series, we are focusing on Aim listed portfolio company, Collagen Solutions plc (Collagen), a global provider of collagen for use in regenerative medicine, medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics. Collagen provides medical-grade collagen formulations and expertise in the development of collagen components. Collagen is used as tissue scaffold and in … Continued

Duvas CEO on the importance of toxic gas detection

Duvas develops and produces specialised emissions detection equipment using ultra-violet (UV) spectroscopy. Duvas was spun out of Imperial College in 2008 and its highly sensitive detection technology enables remote sensing and identification of airborne chemicals at a “parts per billion” level (most other gas detection technologies detect “parts per million”). The Duvas core technology includes … Continued

Calculus View on UK Industrial Strategy

The Prime Minister delivered a speech this week outlining the Government’s Industrial Strategy which aims to tackle the ‘Four Grand Challenges’ facing the world today, along with a target that UK R&D spend reaches 2.4% of GDP by 2027. The Government’s ‘Four Grand Challenges’  Artificial intelligence and the big data revolution is transforming business models … Continued

Meet the CEO – Weedingtech

Following the recent CEO seminar featuring Calculus Capital portfolio company, Weedingtech, we are pleased to present the following video providing an overview of the company from Weedingtech CEO, Leo de Montaignac, and Calculus Capital Investment Director, Alexander Crawford. [youtube id=”TMnzu7se-tw”]Weedingtech are the world’s leading herbicide-free weed control company. Incorporated in 2011 and headquartered in London, … Continued

Synpromics Awarded £1.9m Grant from Scottish Enterprise

Synpromics has announced it has been awarded a £1.9 million research and development grant from Scottish Enterprise. The funds will expand Synpromics’ world leading R&D programmes in gene regulation for cell and gene medicines. This grant is part of Synpromics’ ambitious £5.4 million R&D project which initially creates 11 new high-skilled jobs. Synpromics will use the … Continued

Calculus completes a further investment in Mologic

Calculus Capital has completed a further investment into a growth capital investment round for Mologic alongside Foresight Group, who led the round. Mologic is a Point of Care (POC) diagnostics company that provides Contract Research (CRO) and manufacturing (CMO) services. The company is also developing a portfolio of proprietary products, including diagnostics for infectious diseases, … Continued

ActiveOps – Delivering Growth

Calculus portfolio company ActiveOps provides best in class solutions to organisations looking to optimise the use of their technical and human resources. Since Calculus invested in March 2014, the Company has grown significantly. Total revenues have grown by over 130%, with the most valuable SaaS revenues growing even faster. This recently produced video provides an overview … Continued

Synpromics awarded Innovate UK grant

Calculus portfolio company, Synpromics, has announced a partnership with Lonza Pharma & Biotech to further develop its inducible promoter system and improve manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals. The 18-month project has been made possible through the award of a £235,000 grant, part of the medicines manufacturing competition from Innovate UK. Dr Michael Roberts, Founder & CSO of Synpromics: … Continued