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Kerchoonz.com

is a new online music download community website that tackles the problems with piracy and digital music distribution on the internet.
Kerchoonz has received funding from the Discovery Invesment fund to take the project to the next level.

 

Website: www.kerchoonz.com

 

Easyberth

EasyBerth is a revolutionary docking system designed for boat owners and marina operators.
For boat owners, EasyBerth makes docking safer, easier and less stressful. A rotating fender system helps to guide the boat into the berth whilst a series of lights offer guidance during night docking.
For marinas, the EasyBerth range of docking systems can create not only a safer and stylish boating environment, but also increases berthing capacity by optimising space, resulting in increased efficiencies, safer operations, increased revenues and profits.

 

Website: www.easyberth.com

 

Ocutec Ltd

is a Glasgow based ocular medical device company with a novel proprietary hydrogel materials platform technology. These materials are biomimetic and capable of thermoforming to deliver performance and manufacturing cost advantage. Ocutec Ltd and Discovery Investment Fund Ltd signed an investment agreement worth £160,000 in February 2007.


Ocutec Limited
6.05 Kelvin Campus
West Scotland Science Park
Glasgow
G20 0SP

Website: www.ocutec.com

 

SFX Technologies Ltd

has developed a patented sound delivery technology called SFX Gel Audio.  This technology transfers sound via a unique hydro-gel coupling to almost any surface and in doing so, turns that surface into a loudspeaker panel. The technology works with a very wide range of materials including glass, metal, wood, plastic and various composites. This means that potential applications range from consumer electronics to industrial audio and architectural uses. The Discovery Investment Fund invested alongside Sigma Technology Venture Fund and other parties.

SFX TECHNOLOGIES LTD
SFX House
6 Pitreavie Court
Pitreavie Business Park
Dunfermline
KY11 8UU

Website: www.sfxtechnologies.com

 

Dundee Cell Products

is a supplier of high quality products and innovative tools for biochemistry and molecular and cell biology research. They also offer Quantitative Proteomics (SILAQTM) based on stable isotope labeling of amino acids in culture (SILAC) and Drug Discovery services to the academic and biotech/pharma sectors in the areas of our core technologies and expertise.

They have now extended their portfolio of services to include Molecular and Cell Biology Services offering customers a one-stop shop for generating cDNA plasmid clones up to protein expression and purification or preparation of stable mammalian cell lines expressing the customer's gene of choice.

Dundee Cell Products Ltd
Dundee University Incubator
James Lindsay Place
Dundee Technopole
Dundee
DD1 5JJ

Website: www.dundeecellproducts.com

 

Calnex Solutions Ltd
was formed in early ’06 to develop a new class of test instrumentation for the Telecommunications industry.  The current Trunk, or Core, Network is being transformed with next-generation technology to optimise it for the transmission of Data-services (e.g. broadband to the home, inter-office computer networks, etc). This new technology needs test solutions specifically designed to test that it meets the International Standards governing the deployment of all equipment in the Telecommunications Network. The company’s executive team are all experienced in this market segment having held senior positions with established test instrument vendors like Agilent Technologies.

Calnex Solutions Limited
The Farmhouse
Springfield
Linlithgow
EH49 7NX
United Kingdom

Website: www.calnexsol.com


 

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