Cambridge's fastest 50 growing businesses (UK)

Sherry Coutuhttp://www.cambridgeclustermap.com

CAMBRIDGE CLUSTER:

5 Dec 2013


AGENDA:

SCALE-UP IN THE UK ECONOMYHOW THE CAMBRIDGE CLUSTER DEVELOPEDWHAT ROLE IS PLAYED BY UNIVERSITY GRADUATESWHAT ROLE IS PLAYED BY THE UNIVERSITY?What can other areas and policymakers can learn from Cambridge?Q & A


6 %NESTA:

The vital 6 percent report showed that 6% of all SMEs produced 54% of jobs in the UK over the past 7 years


54%NESTA: the vital 6 percent report showed that 6% of all SMEs produced 54% of jobs in the UK over the past 7 years


1,300,000

2,400,00054% of all jobs = 1,300,000 out of the 2,400,000 jobs


NVCA’s 2011 report about 0.2% of US GDP is invested in new and high-growth companies, which now have revenues that account for some 21% of US GDP.

About 0.1% of UK GDP is invested in new and high-growth companies, which now have revenues that account for some 8% of UK GDP and 25% of GDP Growth.


“First Mover Advantage doesn’t go to the first company that launches, it goes to the first company that scales”

-Reid Hoffman (co-founder and co-chair of SVC2UK)


Cambridge Generates wealth:

GVA per job is £ 45,000 (London’s £34.2k in 2009) At least £ 50 Bn of market cap generated House Prices rose by 11% last year Unemployment is 2.1 %


1,575


57,140These companies employ more than 57,000 people directly – and estimates are that this number increases to north of 80,000 if you include their families


£ 13 billionturnover

These companies have sales circa £ 13 billion in 2012, up 1.2 bn over 2011


Scaling up companies generates jobs:

The top 50 companies (by revenue) account for 6.6 of the 13 Bn, employ 28,772 people

they have hired 5901 people in the past year…. (23.2% increase)


Scaling up companies generates wealth:

The top 50 companies by employee growth account for 4.3 bn in revenue and employ 25,878 people.

They grew their revenues by £ 1.3 bn (17.6% increase)



In Life-sciences, there are 158 companies in Cambridge, generating 2.1 bn in revenue and employing 11,912 people

http://www.camclustermap.com/list/sector/HLS



In IT and Telecoms, there are 332 companies in Cambridge, generating 2.3 bn in revenue and employing 9,103 people

http://www.camclustermap.com/list/sector/ICThttp://www.camclustermap.com/list/sector/ICT



In Physical Sciences & Engineering, there are 155 companies in Cambridge, generating 1.8 bn in revenue and employing 10,163 people




Spin-outs from the University in Cambridge number 45 companies in Cambridge, generate £227.5 m in revenue and employ 3,505 people

Illumina, Bluegnome & Cambridge Consultants are the top 3

http://www.camclustermap.com/list/badge/camenterprise



Spawn-out companies in Cambridge number 47 and are generating 268.9 m in revenue and employing 1,648 people

(blinkx, jagex & realvnc are the top 3)



Let’s turn to Cambridge


The University of Cambridge

World Class Ranking

QS World University Rankings 2011 (2010)

1. Cambridge (1) 6. Imperial (7)

2. Harvard (2) 7. UCL (4)

3. MIT (5) 8. Chicago (8)

4. Yale (3) 9. Pennsylvania (12)

5. Oxford (6) 10. Columbia (11)

88 affiliates of the University of Cambridge have won Nobel Prizes, more than any other institution. Turnover of ‘big u’ in Cambridge is £ 1.5 bn


A long history of innovation

Cambridge University Press:Established 1534

Harvard University:Established 1636


Leading to Europe’s most successful technology cluster

1,400 cluster companies54,000 employees

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Whittle Turing DarwinRutherfordBabbage Sanger……

Watson & Crick

88 Nobel Prize Winners

2 x $10bn companies

10 x $1bn companiesa vibrant Cambridge Cluster Economy

world leading underpinning science


This company has more than £ 1 bn in turnover


15 companies have > £ 100 mm revenues

http://www.camclustermap.com/%23/company/04187346














And there are 30 others that are scaling nicely

10 have between 50 and 100 mm

11 have between 25 mm and 50 mm

7 have more than 10 and less than 25 mm


SHERRY COUTU

CAMBRIDGEIS

DETERMINED TO HELP THESE COMPANIES

CONTINUE TO SCALE AS FAST AS WE CAN


In 2012, the Cambridge Cluster has come together, in an unprecedented way to launch a revolutionary service the supports the next generation of billion pound companies to scale up using Cambridge as their base

Cambridge 2 YOU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSRq44bHGkk


And this is what they have to say about us….

Sir Michael Marshall

“As a 103 year old family company, located at its freehold airport and surrounding premises to the east of Cambridge and at sites in the UK and across the world, involved in hi-tech design, manufacturing and support activities in the aircraft and defence industries and representing most major manufacturers in the retail motor industry, the Marshall of Cambridge Group is delighted to be a Founding Partner of the Cambridge Cluster Map to help to promote the continued dynamic growth of all the companies which make up the world leading Cambridge Cluster through the instant availability of up-to-date information. Cambridge has become an exciting place to work and we are proud to play a supporting and funding role.”


HOW YOU WOULD USE IT for M&A


Searching for companies selling products the fastest


Here are the top 50 (of the 1400) that insiders believe are capable of being worth £ 1 Bn in the next 5 years……..

www.Cambridge2YOU.com

Success!


Here are the top 50 (of the 1400) that insiders believe are capable of being worth £ 1 Bn in the next 5 years……..

www.Cambridge2YOU.com

Success!


SAMANTHA RIDLER-UENO

AND LET’S SEE HOW YOU WOULD USE IT IF YOU LIVED IN JAPAN, BUT WERE THINKING OF MOVING TO CAMBRIDGE AND WORKING FOR ONE OF OUR

COMPANIES


Searching for companies hiring the fastest

You can see that the top 50 companies by revenue growth employ 28,356 people and are responsible for turnover of £ 7.4 billion

I’m going to let Samantha show you how she would look for a job in one of these companies….

Sherry Coutuhttp://www.cambridgeclustermap.comwww.Cambridge2YOU.com

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Searching for life-science companies hiring the fastest


Here’s one I want to work for!


Here’s one I might want to work for!


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