Portfolio

Nottingham-based In a Fishbowl tracks the development of fledgling enterprises by broadcasting their every move in business. It combines business education with the real-life trials and tribulations of real start-ups in real time, and has been described as "Big Brother meets the Apprentice".
www.inafishbowl.co.uk

Lovestruck.com is a unique dating service exclusively for city singles who want to meet other city singles who work nearby. Members use the site to arrange informal meetings, such as a coffee, lunch or a quick drink after work. The company, which is headquartered in Quorn, Leicestershire and has offices in London, has received rave reviews from publications as diverse as The Sun, The Telegraph, The Evening Standard, Men’s Health and Cosmopolitan.
www.lovestruck.com

Utility Exchange Online, based in Derby’s Pride Park, enables corporate customers to save time, money and energy. The company sources rates from a range of utility and telco providers to find the best quote for its corporate customers which includes limited companies, Plc’s and even sole traders. Factors such as location, industry and even credit rating are taken into account. Utility Exchange Online is 100% independent.
www.utility-exchange.co.uk

Nottingham and London-based Splash has developed a suite of web-based video streaming, conferencing and broadcasting applications that can be offered as complete, end-to-end, ‘white label’ managed web services over email or from within any company’s website.
www.splashvideo.com

Biocontrol is a leader in the treatment of infectious diseases. The Nottingham-based company’s adaptable biological agents are targeted at markets where current chemical drugs are failing or ineffective.
www.biocontrol-ltd.com

Loughborough-based Axilica has developed a powerful new software tool that enables the use of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) in the design of electronic hardware. The software enhances designer productivity when designing complex electronic systems, reducing development costs and reducing time to market.
www.axilica.com

BPR Medical, based in Mansfield, researches, designs and manufactures a range of oxygen therapy and medical gas control products for use in hospitals, ambulances and homecare applications. BPR’s award-winning products are exported around the world.
www.bprmedical.com

Entiva Systems, based near Towcester in Northampton, offers the mobile marketplace – caravans, motor homes, yachts etc - an easy to use, easy to install all-in-one entertainment system designed specifically for the mobile marketplace.
www.entivasystems.com

Metafocus are an internet marketing and ecommerce website design agency headquartered in Nottingham and with offices in China. The company has developed a multilingual content management system that enables global corporations to simultaneously update their websites in several languages, all optimised for the leading search engines in each locality.
www.metafocus.co.uk

Founded by florist industry veterans, Mansfield-based Flowers-by-Florists provides relay services for carefully selected ‘tier one’ independent professional florists. All bouquets are individually arranged by experts, many award winning, from the best fresh flowers of the day, and each order is personally delivered.
www.flowersbyflorists.co.uk

Nottingham-based CellAura produces fluorescent receptors for use in molecular pharmacology at a single cell level. Fluorescence as a technology is widely expected to replace radioactive technologies in drug discovery due to cost advantages and safety concerns. The company is a spin-out from the University of Nottingham.
www.cellaura.com

Rutland-based Babybond provides private ultrasound scans and related services to pregnant woman from its wholly-owned and franchised centres across the UK. Founded by ultrasound professionals Jan and Mike Steward, the company has quickly established itself as the UK’s leading national provider of such services and was the first ISO Quality Endorsed ultrasound provider in the UK.
www.babybond.com/

Board Envelopes is the UK’s only provider of envelopes weighing more than 210 grams, and have created bespoke designs for the likes of the Microsoft Xbox, Barclaycard, the AA and Jaguar cars. BOARD ENVELOPES IS NOW UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT, FOLLOWING ADMINISTRATION.
www.boardenvelopes.com

Nottingham-based Karma Insurance is a unique Internet-only insurance product development company. Karma’s AJAX-powered website offers instant quotes after as little as three questions, and can quickly create novel insurance products for underserved but profitable niche sectors.
www.karmainsurance.com

Nottingham-based FDAS offer a full range of food, drug and health-sector testing services within an accredited laboratory in a state of the art facility – helping clients achieve their quality control objectives quickly and efficiently.
www.fdas.org

Derbyshire-based FDTEK develops software and services to enable commercial vehicle operators, including leading truck manufacturers like DAF and Iveco, to track the servicing and other compliance requirement of their fleets.
www.fdtek.co.uk

Pegasus Equine Diagnostics develops products and services for horse owners and vets to prevent and diagnose horse diseases. The Nottingham-based company has made major advances on the road to discovering the causes and offering a treatment for laminitis and Cushing’s syndrome.
www.pegasusdiagnostics.com

Hinckley-based HR4UK.com is a specialist provider of comprehensive online human resources software and services. HR4UK.com is the only computerised personnel system on the internet that holds employee personnel records and can guarantee to meet all the current legislative requirements of UK employment law.
www.hr4uk.com

Sigmala, based in Lincolnshire, combined traditional engineering techniques with emerging technologies to develop a range of integrated modules for the converting industry. SIGMALA WAS ACQUIRED BY MARIO COTTA AMERICA INC. (OHIO) IN JANUARY 2009.
www.Sigmala.com

Northampton-based Blackstar Amplification is a design and manufacturing company specialising in innovative guitar amplifiers and associated products. Its products have proven instant hits and are now used by many of the world’s most popular bands and musicians.
www.blackstaramplification.com

Elemental Power, based in Leicestershire, offered bespoke renewable energy installation services for homeowners, commercial customers and local authorities. ELEMENTAL POWER IS NO LONGER TRADING.
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Nottingham-based Critical Pharmaceuticals is a product development company that creates high value added therapeutics by applying its breakthrough, and proprietary, technology to transform the drug delivery of challenging molecules. The company’s focus is on approved recombinant protein therapeutics (biologics) where current technologies cannot create the highly active drug delivery systems that are needed.
www.criticalpharmaceuticals.com