We are pleased to announce that SEEDS have secured £1million in private and public capital to reach our commercial targets in first half 2022. This is double the amount of funding secured in first half of 2021.
£1million in private and public capital secured in the first quarter of 2022
Seeds Capital has been awarded a government Community Renewal Fund (CRF) grant. The CRF grant is an Innovation accelerator grant being awarded by Business Durham, University of Durham and delivered by CPI for SME’s that have promising technology and can demonstrate improvements to current product or innovation and must be able to demonstrate the innovation […]
Seeds Capital worked together with it’s Innovate Edge growth specialist, Iain Hemington, to secure grant funding from the RTO/Catapult project provided by innovate UK Edge. The funding will be used to develop a 1 year, £1 million R & D programme starting in February 2022 to deliver commercial outcomes across Seeds principal technology innovation areas […]
Laying the foundation for the next generation of energy harvesting systems “CPI has worked hand-in-hand with Seeds Capital to develop their carbon nano-fibre materials, taking them from concept to touching distance of high-value applications, bringing the enormous potential of next generation energy harvesting technology within reach.” Innovating nano-scale materials from concept to reality Seeds Capital […]
Seeds Capital received a grant award from Business Durham (Netpark owners) under the ‘Durham Future Innovation Building Programme’ (DFIB). The DFIB is a business innovation programme, funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) helping Durham businesses investing in research and innovation. Seeds will use the funding to support the Thin Film Solar Cell prototype […]
After a year developing the nano-materials within the CPI’s Graphene Application Centre we have now successfully separated out sufficient quantities of fibres to measure the conducting properties. The results were as expected and we have now verified the potential of the materials use in energy storage applications. Work is now underway at the National Formulation […]
We have been fortunate to secure all the funding we require to bridge the gap and meet our 2021 goals. This funding is primarily in the form of private seed investment from a group of investors who have supported the project up to this stage as well as public funding from InnovateUk and the European […]
We are pleased to announce that we have received a fully funded £100K award from InnovateUk for developing sustainable innovation. Our project to replace toxic materials with sustainable non-toxic materials for use in batteries and solar cells will use scalable manufacturing methods to achieve proof of concept. The project will commence in November 2020 at […]