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Best-in-class providers B-Secur (ECG) and LifeQ (PPG) announce partnership to offer integrated solution for advanced biometric applications.

Clarendon portfolio company B-Secur and LifeQ announced today a collaboration to offer an advanced, integrated Electrocardiogram (ECG) and optical Photoplethysmography (PPG) based technology solution. The combined offering will provide superior sensing capabilities from wearable devices and enable advanced features for identification, wellness and health monitoring in next generation everyday devices. Each company is widely recognised […]

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£1.1m investment in AI-enabled in-home neurocognitive assessment platform

Clarendon portfolio company BrainWaveBank Limited an artificial intelligence (‘AI’) company focused on developing a machine learning-enabled neurocognitive platform for in-home assessment and remote monitoring of central nervous system disorders, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, and psychiatric conditions such as depression and schizophrenia, announces the closing of a £1.1m financing round led by Par Equity and supported by

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Health tech company Neurovalens raises more than £5 million to advance medical device approvals of its neurostimulation technology

Belfast, 21 July, 2020: Clarendon portfolio company Neurovalens, a global healthtech company headquartered in Belfast and San Diego, has raised £5.1 million in funding, which will be used to expand on the success of its initial clinical trials and develop the application of its technology to the treatment of other conditions. The funding round was led

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Cirdan acquires Philips PathXL business

Clarendo portfolio company Cirdan the medical informatics and imaging technology company has today announced that it has acquired the Belfast-based Philips Digital and Computational Pathology business (formerly known as PathXL). Headquartered in Northern Ireland with offices in Canada and Australia, Cirdan specialises in developing technology that supports and speeds up diagnosis, primarily used by those

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Queen’s spin-out Re-Vana Therapeutics raises €2.9m in funding

Clarendon portfolio company Re-Vana Therapeutics the Queen’s University spin-out has secured $3.25 million (€2.9 million) in funding. Among the backers are three specialised US ophthalmic venture capital funds: ExSight, Visionary and InFocus. Re-Vana is a drug delivery company focused on the treatment of chronic eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and Glaucoma. The seed

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NI angel investor network hits £5m worth of investment in first 18 months

22 businesses in Northern Ireland have secured a combined £5m worth of funding from HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network) members, during its first 18 months of operating in NI. HBAN is a joint initiative of Invest NI, InterTradeIreland and Enterprise Ireland, dedicated to the all-island promotion of business angel investment. It allows companies from across

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Belfast-based Thrive develops new communication app for Children’s Health Ireland

The Republic’s largest paediatric hospital has selected Clarendon portfolio company Thrive to create a new employee communication and engagement app for its workforce of over 4,000 people across five locations in Dublin. Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) is responsible for the delivery of acute paediatric services for children, provided in the three Dublin children’s hospital locations

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Boatyard distillery takes new investors’ cash into hand . . .

A distillery which has been producing gin and vodka on the shores of Lough Erne is using a new tranche of investors’ money to add alcohol-infused hand sanitiser to its range. And from this week the new product, which uses ethanol normally used in drinks production and which is manufactured to World Health Organisation specifications,

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Belfast edtech firm Komodo reports fourfold increase in global demand during Covid-19 pandemic

Clarendon portfolio company Komodo Learning an educational technology company has reported a fourfold increase in global demand for its learning tools during the coronavirus pandemic. Founded in 2015, Komodo has developed a maths home learning system on smart devices for children aged five to 11, designed to supplement the primary school curriculum. Before the Covid-10

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