Hi-tech Start

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Hi-tech Start up Businesses. The QUBIS
Experience

• David Moore
• QUBIS Ltd

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Presentation Format

• Current Portfolio Overview
• Investment Examples/Models
• Achievements to Date

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Current Portfolio

• 51 High Tech Start ups
• 24 Divested
• 27 Current Shareholdings

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Current Shareholdings

• MarEnCo Ltd
• Kainos Software Ltd
• Lumichem Ltd
• Andor Technology Ltd
• Hughes McLeod Ltd
• Biocolor Ltd
• Acksen Ltd
• Lagan Technologies Ltd
• StreamOn.net Ltd
• Alta Systems Ltd
• Questor Technologies Ltd
• Realtime Solutions Ltd
• Fusion Antibodies Ltd
• Vykson Ltd

• EventMap Ltd
• Amphora Non-Destructive Testing Ltd
• TruCorp Ltd
• Optima Numerics Ltd
• Almac Diagnostics Ltd
• Stone Conservation Ltd
• eMS Ltd
• APT Ltd
• ED Medical Ltd
• I-Path Diagnostics Ltd
• Sengenia Ltd
• TOM Ltd
• Titan IC Systems Ltd
• CapnaDSP Ltd

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Sectors

• Software
• Electronics
• Bio/Medical Technology
• Physics and Chemistry
• Engineering

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Low light measurement
After several moves around the Physics department
Andor now accommodates its 200 staff in
Springvale Business park
Andors Imaging CCDs are designed with
scientific imaging in mind and can be easily
integrated into a wide range of industrial and
scientific processes
AIM IPO Dec 2004 Current Market Cap 55m
Dr Tom Morrow Dr Hugh Cormican Dr Donal Denvir
Physics
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Acquired by PerkinElmer Inc Sept 2006
Dr Andrew Dennis, Dr Steven Bell, Prof John
McGarvey, Dept of Chemistry
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Biocolors Assay Kits are used by every major
pharmaceutical company in the world

• Citations over 60 in leading journals
• E.g.
• Brown, A.N. Kim, B.S. Alsberg, E. Mooney,
  D.J.       2000  
• Combining Chondrocytes and Smooth Muscle Cells to
  Engineer Hybrid Soft Tissue Constructs
• Tissue Engineering 6, (Number 4), 297-305
• David E. Joyce, Larry Gelbert, Angelina Ciaccia,
  Brad DeHoff, and Brian .Grinnell  2001 
• Gene Expression Profile of Antithrombotic Protein
  C Defines New Mechanisms Modulating Inflammation
  and ApoptosisJ. Biol. Chem. 2001 276
  11199-11203.
• Dr Roy Elliot Biology and Biochemistry

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Prof Howard Fee, Dr Jim Murray Surgery
Perioperative Care
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World leader in complex Semiconductor
Intellectual Property for high end Digital Signal
Processing
MPEG MPEG-2 MPEG -4 JPEG2000 M-JPEG2 WM9 H.264
Acquired by Conexant Systems Inc - 30m - June
2004
Prof John McCanny, Dr JG Doherty, Electronic
Engineering
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Achievements to Date

• 51 Spin Outs
• Won 27 DTI Innovation Awards
• Campus based Virtual Science Park
• Successful UCF Bid
• Employment approx 1,000
• 63.1m External Equity Raised
• FY10 Turnover Estimate 112m
• Rated 2 UK HE-BCI 08/09 Survey Current and Past
  Company Turnover

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Turnover m Growth in the QUBIS Ltd Companies
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Turnover m Growth in the QUBIS Ltd Companies
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Summary

• QUBIS Ltd aims to create wealth for QUB and its
  partners, through focussed investment over the
  long term, in commercial ventures based on QUB
  technology
• Successful Hi-tech investment takes time and
  effort
• It can be done, local technology companies can
  and do compete successfully on the global stage

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