A detailed look at the companies created by the University.
Science and Engineering
- Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping
- Provider of remote electromagnetic sensing services designed to detect the presence of offshore oil and gas.
- Plexus Planning
- New generation of project management software, to help major companies achieve successful large-scale projects.
- Southampton Phototonics Inc
- Develops and manufactures high power fibre lasers for a wide variety of marking and micromachining applications.
- Stratophase
- Optical solutions via laser wavelength conversion and integrated optical circuit technology, particularly Bragg gratings.
- Fibercore
- Manufactures and supplies speciality optical fibre.
- CHG Southampton
- Launched to develop and exploit commercial opportunities of novel glasses, in particular chalcogenide materials.
- Ilika
- Science-based materials discovery company, which uses high-throughput technologies.
- Shellform
- Hi-tech composite material for manufacture of inexpensive, high strength construction panels used in the building of houses, factories and offices.
- Symetrica
- World-leading gamma-ray detector systems.
- PMG Perpetuum
- Developed the world’s first truly practical vibration harvesting microgenerator capable of generating enough power to enable the reliable transmission of large amounts of data.
Medicine, health and life sciences
- ActivotecSPP
- Novel methods for the synthesis of peptides and proteins from their constituent parts, amino acids.
- Exosect
- Innovative solutions for the control of insect pests in agriculture, horticulture, amenity, stored product, animal and public health.
- iQur
- Diagnostic testing and screening for viral hepatitis and other chronic liver diseases.
- Karus Therapeutics
- Novel drug treatment of cancer and heart disease through histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors.
- Newron (formerly Hunter-Fleming Ltd)
- A research and development company focused on novel Central Nervous System (CNS) and pain therapies.
- Synairgen
- Working to improve the treatment of lung diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).