PushFar Ltd - Ed Johnson
PushFar is the world’s leading SaaS technology startup. We focus on providing a mentoring and career progression platform, supporting hundreds of organisations to launch, run and scale mentoring programs, alongside our free and open mentoring network, supporting 100,000+ people. Named by Startups.co.uk as one of Top 100 Startups of 2023, we work with a wide variety of entrepreneurial initiatives, schemes and ventures to ensure mentoring is accessible and effective for everyone, everywhere.
Qkine Ltd - Catherine Elton
Qkine manufactures high-purity, animal-free growth factors, cytokines, and other complex proteins for life science applications including stem cell and organoid culture. Based in Cambridge, UK, Qkine combines proprietary production processes with protein engineering technology to tackle fundamental biological, quality, and scale-up challenges to provide more reliable tools for research and bio-manufacturing.
As leaders in protein innovation, approximately 30% of our catalogue is formed of unique products. We have developed a portfolio of stable, tag-free growth factors for use in the most popular pluripotency media recipes, and we provide pioneering growth factor forms for scaling organoid cultures. Our product range spans a wide range of applications including hepatocyte, cardiac and neural differentiation, all aimed at increasing reproducibility in your research and manufacturing processes. We actively support and innovate for emerging fields such as cellular agriculture, regenerative medicine, synthetic hydrogels, organ-on-a-chip, and bioprinting.
Qkine is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company with an established global distribution network. With a robust manufacturing process, we can support scale-up and commercial manufacturing by offering lot reservations, bulk orders, custom vialling, and custom QA.