Cambridge wireless technology woos the world Business Weekly - Thu, 03 Jul 2008
Cambridge Wireless chairman, David Cleevely The East of England is leading the charge towards equipping the UK and beyond with the cutting edge technology that will soon be demanded by a new era of unprecedented digital media requirements.
...includes representatives from the BBC, BT, C2Ventures, AMF Ventures, GE, Great Eastern Investment Forum (GEIF), Lloyds TSB and Pera...Read More>>

New horizons for promising talent
Cambridge News – Tue, 27 May 2008
DAVID Farrow has been appointed commercial sales director for the eastern region at Barclays Commercial. He has been with the bank 18 years and has previously led large teams in retail and commercial banking across the region.
...is an advisor to IQ Capital, Create East of England, and GEIF Ventures. As well as higher education clients, Richard advises local authorities...Read More>>

Coffee is a heavenly gift for angels
Cambridge News Online – Tue, 13 May 2008
Business angels in Cambridge have cashed in on the sale of Coffee Nation. A decade ago Martyn Dawes presented his proposal for a self-serve premium coffee offering to a group of Great Eastern Investment Forum business angels.
...proposal for a self-serve premium coffee offering to a group of Great Eastern Investment Forum business angels...Read More>>

It's all about timing for Optisynx
Cambridge News – Tue, 26 Feb 2008
We are sitting in a meeting room with an extremely large clock facing me. It's the sort of size you expect to see on mainline railway stations in London, and it is a huge hint as to the subject about to be tackled.
...car." OptiSynx has attracted early stage funding from Cambridge Angels, Great Eastern Investment Forum members and London Business Angels, plus £100,000...Read More>>

October 2007 - Knocking down the barriers to investment. Persuading an equity investor to invest in your company is notoriously difficult. Hugh Parnell, a director at the Great Eastern Investment Forum (GEIF) explains how to give an explosive pitch and clinch a deal that works for you...Read More>>

9 October 2007 - Shortfuze announcement about Machinima For Dummies
Moviestorm™ officially announces that a FREE version of its machinima creation software is cover-mounted on the newly published Machinima For Dummies...Read More>>

19 September 2007 - OnRelay Short listed for the World Communications Awards 2007
OnRelay, lauded as a company that is 'defining the next era of [mobile] PBX', has been short listed in the Convergence category, part of the World Communications Awards 2007...Read More>>

10 July 2007 - GEIF wins the BEST ANGEL INVESTOR AWARD at Spear’s Wealth Management Survey of Europe’s first High-Net-Worth Awards...Read more>>

16 May 2007 - Swisscom launches One Phone Business based on OnRelay MBX
Swisscom has launched its One Phone Business service. The service is based on OnRelay's leading Fixed Mobile Convergence product MBX. Swisscom's announcement is the first result of the partnership between Swisscom and OnRelay for convergence that was announced in November 2006...Read More>>

16 May 2007 - Daniolabs acquisition by Vastox
On the 22nd of March 2007 the zebrafish drug discovery company DanioLabs Ltd was acquired by VASTox Plc (AIM: VOX), an innovative drug discovery company which has a broad set of pre-clinical, clinical and discovery programmes in neurodisorders, oncology, ophthalmic diseases, anti-infectives and others. VASTox's drug discovery programmes are supported by the company's world leading technology platforms in zebrafish chemical genomics and carbohydrate chemistry. The scientific expertise and capabilities of DanioLabs in zebrafish biology provide a synergistic fit with VASTox's technologies and the enlarged company will be the global force in the use of this innovative drug discovery and development platform. For more information please see www.vastox.com

29 April 2007 - IBM and OnRelay deliver Fixed Mobile Convergence for Wavefield Inseis IBM (NYSE: IBM) has designed and deployed an integrated fixed and mobile convergence solution for Wavefield Inseis (OSE: WAVE), a leading Norwegian seismic data acquisition specialist. The new solution replaces a mobile centrex system with a company-wide IP telephony solution with full mobile integration.

27 February 2007 - OnRelay and Westcon partner to deliver Fixed Mobile Integration
OnRelay, a pioneer in Fixed Mobile Integration, and Westcon Group, Inc., a global specialty distributor of networking and communications systems, have joined forces to deliver a new generation of Fixed Mobile Integration to the enterprise market.

23 March 2006 - IQ CAPITAL BECOMES UK'S FIRST £25 MILLION ENTERPRISE CAPITAL FUND - Gordon Brown announces £16.7m of Government backing for IQ Capital Fund. A new £25m investment fund, IQ Capital Fund I LP, focused on seed and early stage companies in high tech as well as more traditional sectors, has been launched by Cambridge based NW Brown Group Ltd, in partnership with three of the UK's most prominent angel networks, OION in Oxford, GEIF in Cambridge and SWAIN based in Bristol ..... more>>

18 March 2006 - GEIFV, CREATE AND ANGEL INVESTORS COMPLETE A £900,000 INVESTMENT IN CAMRIVOX - The GEIF Ventures Early Growth Fund (GEIFV), CREATE East of England Fund and a syndicate of GEIF and other angel investors, have completed a fundraising of up to £900,000 with Cambridge based Camrivox Limited (Camrivox), one of four winners in the East of England prestigious "Running the Gauntlet" competition...more>>

TISSUOMICS RAISES £620,000 FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITS INNOVATIVE TISSUE DIAGNOSTICS AND IMAGING TECHNOLOGY - 5 October 2005 - £620K from Cambridge business angels through GEIF, GEIF Ventures, CREATE and the East of England Co-Investment Fund (COIN) will be used to develop Tissuomics' innovative technology for the diagnosis and imaging of tissue samples...more>>

ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4 MILLION UK CITIZENS TRYING TO QUIT SMOKING THIS YEAR? 2 September 2005

If so, the news is getting better. Although in the past only an average of 5% of individuals that try to kick the habit actually succeed, one of the companies presenting to investors at the GEIF Investment Day on Thursday 8 September is aiming to drastically increase the success rates ... more>>

QUOTIENT DIAGNOSTICS COMPLETES FUNDING ROUND - 19 July 2005

VCs, trade investor and Angels combine in £800,000 deal..more>>

LAUNCH OF VENTURE INDEX REVEALS 22% DROP IN INVESTMENT IN UK SMALLER COMPANIES - 4 April 2005

Venture Index today launches the UK's first index designed to lift the lid on investments in small, unquoted UK companies...more>>

FARLEIGH's 100 LAWS OF TRADING AND INVESTMENT - 24 March 2005

Richard Farleigh, the 44 year old Monaco based Australian financier who 'retired' in 1995 only to resurface as one of the most prolific investors in UK early stage technology companies, will give Great Eastern Investment Forum (GEIF) members and guests an insight into his '100 laws of trading in financial markets' when he speaks at GEIF's forthcoming breakfast briefing on Friday April 29th...more>>

BACKING FLEDGLING BUSINESSES IS THRILLING BUT RISKY - Emma Simon looks at what it involves - Sunday Telegraph - 13 February 2005

Budding entrepreneurs are no doubt honing the details of their latest money-making ventures in the hope of appearing in the second series of Dragons' Den, the reality TV show that allows people to pitch for funding from a panel of "dragons" - successful businessmen and women who want to invest in new companies. Pop Idol meets the FT, if you like...more>>

CLIMATE CHANGE - OPINION PIECE FOR INVESTMENT NOW MAGAZINE - by Mark Woodall of Climate Change Capital and Hugh Parnell of GEIF - Feb 05

CLIMATE CHANGE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES - Climate change as an area of scientific study has passed beyond the debate of whether it is happening to 'what are we going to do about it?'...more>>

CLIMATE CHANGE - GLOBAL THREAT OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY? - Jan 05

Mark Woodall, co-founder of Climate Change Capital, the specialist energy-related advisory company, will be the guest speaker at the next Great Eastern Investment Forum breakfast meeting on 20 January, 2005...more>>

FOOD SUPPLY COMPANY DEVELOPING GROUND-BREAKING CROP TECHNOLOGY TO PRESENT AT GEIF INVESTMENT DAY - December 04

Early stage companies from the food supply, biotech, internet and managed services sectors will be pitching funding proposals to business angels at the next GEIF Investment Day being held at Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge on Friday, 3 December...more>>

MICHAEL JACKSON TO RETELL HIS INVESTMENT HIGHS AND LOWS AT GEIF BREAKFAST BRIEFING - October 2004

A story of 'smash hits and spectacular failures' will feed the appetite of business angels when they gather at the Great Eastern Investment Forum breakfast meeting on 20 October in Cambridge, to hear Michael Jackson, Chairman of Sage Group plc, Elderstreet Investments and a long time business angel, talk about some of his personal highs and lows as investor and entrepreneur... more>>

ENCOURAGING ANGELS - August 2004

GEIF launches a new campaign 'On the side of the angels', designed to demystify the activities of business angels, to encourage new angel investors and to support the existing angel investment community.

The campaign aims to: Highlight the potential rewards - both financial and personal - of this high risk, high return asset class .... more>>

BVCA CHAIRMAN ANNE GLOVER ADDRESSES GEIF MEMBERS AT BREAKFAST BRIEFING - July 2004

For a copy of the presentation click here>>

FISHING FOR GLORY - CASIENT's SHOAL TECHNOLOGY GETS GEIF SUPPORT - May 2004

When Cambridge-based Casient, the creator of state-of-the art wireless mesh-networking technology (Shoal), came to a Great Eastern Investment Forum angel network presentation day hoping to attract seed funding, its management team were delighted with the support and encouragement they received, both from the GEIF team and the GEIF business angels.. more>>

'GEIF VENTURES SETS STANDARD FOR EARLY FUNDS' Free Radicals Feature - April 2004 (http://www.freeradicals-news.com)

A business angel co-investment fund established and managed by financial services group NW Brown Group Ltd in Cambridge is to date by far the most active of the six funds started with cash from the DTI's Early Growth Fund... more>>

GEIF VENTURES CELEBRATES SUCCESSFUL FIRST YEAR - 1st April 2004

Announces Investment Fund to double to £5 Million. more>>

GEIF WINS BUSINESS EXCELLENCE INVESTMENT AWARD - March 2004

The Great Eastern Investment Forum is delighted to announce that it has won the Business Investment title of the 2003 Cambridge Evening News Business Excellence Awards. more>>

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