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Hi-tech Start –up Businesses. The QUBIS Experience

Hi-tech Start –up Businesses. The QUBIS Experience. David Moore QUBIS Ltd. QUBIS Ltd - ‘Turning Research into Wealth’. Current Portfolio. 51 High Tech Start ups 24 Divested 27 Current Shareholdings. QUBIS Ltd - ‘Turning Research into Wealth’. MarEnCo Ltd Kainos Software Ltd

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Hi-tech Start –up Businesses. The QUBIS Experience

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  1. Hi-tech Start –up Businesses.The QUBIS Experience David Moore QUBIS Ltd QUBIS Ltd - ‘Turning Research into Wealth’

  2. Current Portfolio • 51 High Tech Start ups • 24 Divested • 27 Current Shareholdings QUBIS Ltd - ‘Turning Research into Wealth’

  3. MarEnCo Ltd Kainos Software Ltd Lumichem Ltd Andor Technology Ltd Hughes & McLeod Ltd Biocolor Ltd Acksen Ltd Lagan Technologies Ltd StreamOn.net Ltd Alta Systems Ltd Questor Technologies Ltd Realtime Solutions Ltd Fusion Antibodies Ltd Vykson Ltd EventMap Ltd Amphora Non-Destructive Testing Ltd TruCorp Ltd Optima Numerics Ltd Almac Diagnostics Ltd Stone Conservation Ltd eMS Ltd APT Ltd ED Medical Ltd I-Path Diagnostics Ltd Sengenia Ltd TOM Ltd Titan IC Systems Ltd CapnaDSP Ltd Current Shareholdings QUBIS Ltd - ‘Turning Research into Wealth’

  4. Sectors • Software • Electronics • Bio/Medical Technology • Physics and Chemistry • Engineering QUBIS Ltd - ‘Turning Research into Wealth’

  5. Low light measurement After several moves around the Physics department Andor now accommodates its 200 staff in Springvale Business park Andor’s Imaging CCD’s are designed with scientific imaging in mind and can be easily integrated into a wide range of industrial and scientific processes AIM IPO Dec 2004 – Current Market Cap £55m Dr Tom Morrow Dr Hugh Cormican Dr Donal Denvir Physics

  6. Acquired by PerkinElmer Inc Sept 2006 Dr Andrew Dennis, Dr Steven Bell, Prof John McGarvey, Dept of Chemistry

  7. Biocolor’s Assay Kits are used by every major pharmaceutical company in the world • Citations: over 60 in leading journals • E.g. • Brown, A.N. Kim, B.S. Alsberg, E. Mooney, D.J.       [2000] • Combining Chondrocytes and Smooth Muscle Cells to Engineer Hybrid Soft Tissue Constructs • Tissue Engineering; 6, (Number 4), 297-305 • David E. Joyce, Larry Gelbert, Angelina Ciaccia, Brad DeHoff, and Brian .Grinnell  [2001]  • Gene Expression Profile of Antithrombotic Protein C Defines New Mechanisms Modulating Inflammation and ApoptosisJ. Biol. Chem. 2001 276: 11199-11203. • Dr Roy Elliot Biology and Biochemistry

  8. Prof Howard Fee, Dr Jim Murray Surgery & Perioperative Care

  9. World leader in complex Semiconductor Intellectual Property for high end Digital Signal Processing MPEG MPEG-2 MPEG -4 JPEG2000 M-JPEG2 WM9 H.264 Acquired by Conexant Systems Inc - $30m - June 2004 Prof John McCanny, Dr JG Doherty, Electronic Engineering

  10. Achievements to Date • 51 ‘Spin Outs’ • Won 27 DTI Innovation Awards • Campus based ‘Virtual Science Park’ • Successful UCF Bid • Employment approx 1,000 • £63.1m External Equity Raised • FY10 Turnover Estimate £112m • Rated #2 UK HE-BCI 08/09 Survey Current and Past Company Turnover QUBIS Ltd - ‘Turning Research into Wealth’

  11. Turnover £m Growth in the QUBIS Ltd Companies QUBIS Ltd - ‘Turning Research into Wealth’

  12. Turnover £m Growth in the QUBIS Ltd Companies QUBIS Ltd - ‘Turning Research into Wealth’

  13. Summary • QUBIS Ltd aims to create wealth for QUB and its partners, through focussed investment over the long term, in commercial ventures based on QUB technology • Successful Hi-tech investment takes time and effort • It can be done, local technology companies can and do compete successfully on the global stage QUBIS Ltd - ‘Turning Research into Wealth’

  14. david@qubis.co.uktel 028 9097 5404www.qubis.co.uk QUBIS Ltd - ‘Turning Research into Wealth’ QUBIS Ltd - ‘Turning Research into Wealth’

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