Hi there. 🌍 The Global Tech Ecosystem Index was released this week - a comprehensive ranking of 288 tech ecosystems across 69 countries. And the best part? All the data is fully transparent and explorable. Compare your ecosystem. 

Cambridge: a global deep tech powerhouse

Cambridge's tech ecosystem has a combined value of $222 billion. For a city of just 125k people, it represents 18% of the value of UK tech, 2nd only to London.

Beyond academic excellence, Cambridge has become a thriving frontier tech hub. It is one of the highest achieving tech ecosystems per capita. (Ranked number 4 in the world for Density Leaders in the Global Tech Ecosystem Index).  It is second only to the Bay Area for unicorns per capita. 

The university has long attracted the best and brightest from around the world, a key ingredient to success, and might become even more attractive in the coming years. The Cambridge University alumni network in turn creates more startups than any other European university. An academic and entrepreneurial force to be reckoned with. 

Keep track of Cambridge founders

The Dealroom platform allows you to search for startups with founders from whichever top universities you're interested in.

Here are the top 20, by Dealroom Signal, startups founded just since 2023 with a Cambridge alum on their founding team.

🇦🇺 Xaira Therapeutics - AI drug discovery

🇺🇸 ElevenLabs - Text-to-speech AI voice generator 

🇺🇸 Magic - Frontier code models to automate software engineering

🇬🇧 Cogna - Custom software for AI to automate software development 

🇺🇸 Contextual AI - Customizable, privacy-aware foundational models

🇩🇪 Proxima Fusion - Designing optimised stellarator fusion reactors

🇺🇸 Integral Neurotechnologie - Brain interfaces for neurological & psychiatric disorders

🇺🇸 Somite Therapeutics - Leveraging AI to produce human tissue for cell-based therapies

🇩🇪 planqc - Developing quantum computers

🇺🇸 Callio Therapeutics - Advancing multi-payload ADCs for targeted cancer therapy

🇬🇧 Quotient Therapeutics - Developing new therapies using somatic genomics

🇬🇧 Tunic Pay - Constructing trust infrastructure to safeguard real-time payments for banks

🇬🇧 AutogenAI - AI-powered bid creation

🇦🇺 Diraq - Quantum computing technology

🇨🇭 terralayr - Infrastructure for short, medium, and long-term storage of energy

🇬🇧 Relay Technologies - E-commerce deliveries

🇮🇹 QuantaBrain - Precise diagnoses and personalised psychiatric treatments

🇬🇧 Cocoon - Upcycling by-products from steel manufacturing into a cement alternative

🇺🇸 Solve Intelligence - Writing high-quality patents with AI

🇺🇸 Samaya AI - Using AI and LLMs for search, summarisation and knowledge discovery

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📣 Paris trumps London as Europe’s leading tech ecosystem. Tech.eu, using Dealroom data.

🇳🇬 Lagos Startups Lure 42% More Funding Defying Slowdown in Africa. Bloomberg, w/ Dealroom data.