Aqdot

Highlighted in the FT: Oxbridge: Aqdot Selected UK Tech stocks causing a stir

Founded: 2012
Founders: Roger Coulston and Jing Zhang
Employees: 10
What they do: Make capsules for storing and releasing chemicals
Who they want to be: The next Bayer
Total funding: £1m

When you swallow a pill you probably care more about the ingredients that are inside than the casing that holds them in. But such “encapsulation” will be a $40bn market in 2015, say the founders of Aqdot – a company founded by researchers at Cambridge university.…….. read more