Sponsors and Partners

Cambridge Management Consulting is an international consulting firm built on a network of more than 220 senior executives in over 26 countries and territories. It supports organisations of any size – from startups and scaleups to global enterprises – with its people, process, strategy, and technology challenges. CMC’s purpose is to help its clients have a better impact on the world.

Prologis is a leading global property investor, owner and developer with a long-term commitment to supporting innovation, economic growth and thriving communities. In Cambridge, Prologis works in partnership with local stakeholders, including Cambridgeshire County Council, to help shape the future of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, one of Europe’s foremost centres for life sciences, healthcare and research.

BioMed Realty is a leading real estate solutions provider to the innovation economy with a substantial portfolio in Cambridge, UK. Operating a number of highly amenitised campuses in the region, BioMed Realty provides flexible solutions to growing businesses within the Cambridge ecosystem.

Deloitte UK is one of the country’s leading professional services firms, providing Audit & Assurance, Tax, Consulting, Risk Advisory, and Technology & Transformation services to organisations across all major sectors. With offices throughout the UK, Deloitte combines deep local market knowledge with national and global expertise. Deloitte Cambridge comprises 12 Partners and more than 300 professionals and is home to the Life Sciences Catalyst Business Lounge. The office is particularly recognised for its strengths in life sciences, technology, and fast-growth businesses, while also supporting professional services and consumer business clients. Working closely with Deloitte Manchester, the UK’s largest professional services hub outside London, the Cambridge office connects regional innovation ecosystems with national capabilities and specialist expertise.

Goodwin are in the business of building authentic, long-term relationships with its clients, who are some of the world’s most successful and innovative investors, entrepreneurs, and disruptors at the convergence of and within the life sciences, technology, healthcare, private equity, investment funds and real estate.

Goodwin’s immersive understanding of these industries – combined with its expertise across high-stakes litigation and dispute resolution, world-class regulatory compliance and advisory services, and complex transactions – sets it apart.

NatWest Accelerator is a community designed to help ambitious business owners grow through a blend of digital and in-person experiences, connecting fellow founders through events, coworking, and a supportive UK-wide network focused on business growth. Download the NatWest Accelerator app to discover funding opportunities and support, access practical insights, and benefit from valuable connections that help unlock new opportunities for your business in Cambridge and beyond.

Birketts is a full service, UK Top 50 law firm. With a heritage spanning over 160 years, it has more than 700 lawyers and legal professionals based in Bristol, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich, London, Norwich, and Sevenoaks. Birketts advises businesses, government and public sector organisations and individuals in the UK and internationally, across four principal practice groups: real estate, corporate services, dispute resolution and private client. Birketts is defined by its next level law proposition. It works with clients as a proactive partner, horizon scanning and thinking ahead to the changes, challenges or opportunities that they may face.

Wellcome Genome Campus, just south of Cambridge, is a world-leading centre for genomics, biodata, health data and data science. Home to the Wellcome Sanger Institute, EMBL-EBI, the Health Data Research Service and a growing community of innovative companies, it brings together around 2,200 people working to turn scientific discovery into real-world impact. The Campus is now expanding from 125 to 440 acres, backed by Wellcome, with new laboratories, commercial and innovation space, homes, amenities and advanced infrastructure. The first phase, completing in 2028, will create an open, connected destination for science, collaboration, translation and commercial growth.

AstraZeneca is a leading BioPharmaceutical company in the UK. Across its work in R&D, manufacturing, and its commercial business, AZ is inspired by what science can do and is on a mission to deliver life-changing medicines, transform population health outcomes and ultimately, accelerate the UK as a global leader in life sciences.

Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) is a venture capital investor focused on intellectual property rich technology and life science businesses in the Cambridge ecosystem. CIC is committed to building leading businesses from brilliant technologies. It combines a unique relationship with the University of Cambridge with deep financial and industry links to enable visionaries to build global, category-leading companies.

The mission of the University of Cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence.

Cambridge Enterprise connects, empowers and enables the transformation of Cambridge research into global impact. As the innovation arm of the University of Cambridge, it supports the translation of Cambridge research to create globally-leading economic and social impact.

Transforming lives through innovative, inclusive and entrepreneurial education and research. ARU is an innovative global university with students from 185 countries. ARU was the Times Higher Education University of the Year 2023.

ARU’s research institutes and four faculties bridge scientific, technical and creative fields, delivering impactful research which tackles pressing issues and makes a real difference to its communities.  Its academic excellence has been recognised by the UK’s Higher Education funding bodies, with 16 of our research areas assessed as world-leading.

Apollo Therapeutics is a portfolio biopharmaceutical company. It translates breakthroughs in biology and basic medical research into innovative new medicines. With over 20 active therapeutic programs, five of which are in development, it is building a large, diversified portfolio of novel therapeutics with uncorrelated risk. Apollo Therapeutics are located in Cambridge, UK, and Boston and Chicago, USA.

Cambridge has some of the most complex local government arrangements in the country. In addition to the services Cambridge City Council provides, Cambridgeshire County Council is responsible for other local government services, and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority is responsible for co-ordinating some strategic functions such as transport. It is committed to supporting local businesses and their employees to thrive, and. It works with business leaders and stakeholders to achieve inclusive and sustainable economic success.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority’s mission is to make life better, healthier, and fairer for all. It strives to serve its community by working cooperatively and leading with compassion, and aims for growth – but good growth. It wants to close the gap in healthy life expectancy and salaries, increase access to employment and education, protect our environment and boost innovation.

Cambridge Judge Business School is in the business of transformation – individuals, organisations and society. Cambridge Judge Business School is a world leader in business research and education inspired by the values of scholarly excellence, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Railpen is the investment manager of the Railways Pension Scheme, responsible for c£36bn in assets on behalf of more than 350,000 members connected to the UK railway industry. In Cambridge, Railpen is committed to developing an innovation cluster of 1.9m sq. ft across 11-assets, with developments including Botanic Place and Mill Yard, which are designed to support the city’s innovation and technology sectors and set new standards for sustainability, occupier wellbeing, connectivity and community.

Launched in August 2025, The Cambridge x Manchester Partnership is the first cross-UK innovation partnership. It is designed to expand and strengthen innovation ecosystems in both cities, drive investment, and define a new model of collaboration for the UK. Activities will focus on maximising the impact of complementary innovation assets in both Cambridge and Manchester across a breadth of sectors, including life sciences, quantum, climate tech, defence, material science, and creative industries.

Winston Taylor is a transatlantic full-service law firm that serves the world’s most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within its sectors, Winston Taylor works closely together with its clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together, they challenge expectation and create extraordinary results.