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Featured below are a number of Spin- Out and Start -Up companies that the School of Informatics has helped establish:
Actual Analytics
Actual Analytics use cutting-edge video analysis to analyse behaviour, a crucial step in the development of drugs treating diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Their customers cut costs by automating a time-consuming and error-prone manual step in the $80bn drug discovery pipeline.
The solution has been validated with multiple top-ten pharmaceutical companies and some of the world's leading academic institutions across Asia, North America and Europe.
Contemplate Ltd
$800bn is spent on software development annually, and as software continues to get more complicated, defects get harder to find. Contemplate helps customers to improve developer productivity (studies show 20% is achievable) by identifying defects early in development when the cost to fix them is low - and before customers see them!
Contemplate tools integrate seamlessly with Eclipse, used by over 6 million Java developers, to deliver sophisticated Java static analysis to the desktop.
Spinsight Ltd
Spinsight was founded in 2008 with the aim of facilitating the real-time analysis of sports events. The company has since been growing to become a leading provider of video analysis products to the sports coaching and media markets.
Based in the heart of Edinburgh, Spinsight originated from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics. Through an ongoing relationship with the university, Spinsight has built up a team of computer vision and software engineering experts that has allowed the company to deliver continued innovation and value to its customers.
Cereproc Ltd
CereProc, founded in 2005, creates text-to-speech technology for numerous applications such as mobiles, desktops and servers. Information is converted from text into speech, but unlike other products on the market, Cereproc voices have character; regional accents and emotional variation. Voices sound engaging when reading long documents and web pages, and add realistic, emotional, voices to animated characters. Given the potential uses for their product, Cereproc has received a lot of media attention and has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, the BBC as well as featuring in a number of newpapers.
This article was published on Jan 27, 2011