Cambridge Wide Open Day: Accelerate Cambridge
9 Jun 2025
13:15 -14:30
Times are shown in local time.
Open to: All
Lecture Theatre 1 (Cambridge Judge Business School)
Trumpington St
Cambridge
CB2 1AG
United Kingdom
Overview
Cambridge Wide Open Day offers a unique insight into the city’s world-renowned science and technology. Welcoming visitors from across the Cambridge community – from scientists, techies, people working across different sectors to residents – to explore the innovations in Cambridge.
Founded by o2h co-work labs in 2023, the programme has gone from strength to strength and will now offer an entire week of open-days, events and tours across Cambridge and beyond.
This year Cambridge Wide Open Day will showcase the Accelerate Cambridge programme with a venture pitching event.
Ventures participating
Chain of Thought
Pitch by Neelima Alluri
Chain-Of-Thought is a startup committed to empowering businesses by facilitating the extraction of relevant information from vast and unstructured internal data. Our innovative solution seamlessly connects data from diverse systems and formats, forming a dynamic knowledge hub. This unified repository enables users to engage with their data conversationally, breaking down barriers to efficient information retrieval. This plays a crucial role in boosting productivity and streamlining turnaround times, particularly in enhancing customer interactions.
OrcaScan
Pitch by John Doherty
Barcode technology first made its impact on business productivity in the late 1970s, yet due to the complexity and high costs associated with implementing enterprise barcode solutions, the majority of organisations still rely on pen, paper and spreadsheets to manage their assets and inventory.
Orca Scan was designed to dramatically simplify, and lower the cost of enterprise barcode solutions to make barcode tracking technology available to all, regardless of company size or budget. They do that by removing the need for expensive hardware and custom software development, by leveraging cloud computing and the smartphone we’re all carrying in our pockets.
SmileShot
Pitch by Milad Divsalar
SmileShot is a tech-driven startup transforming dental imaging through AI-powered automation. It addresses inefficiencies in traditional dental photography by automating tasks such as photo categorisation, formatting, editing and layout creation, ensuring adherence to industry standards like the American Association of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD) and the British Association of Cosmetic Dentistry (BACD). The solution integrates with dental practice management software and ensures GDPR compliance for patient records.
Targeting the growing digital dental market, SmileShot caters to increasing demand for aesthetic dental treatments and regulatory requirements for accurate documentation. Its standout features include AI-powered categorisation, photo editing, and seamless integration with social media and professional workflows.
eScent
Pitch by Jenny Tillotson
Sensory Design & Technology Ltd (trading as eScent) is a small design house and the owner of a wearable innovative platform with applications for the Creative Industries, Perfumery, Wellness & MedTech Industries. The company was established by Dr Tillotson, Prof Andreas Manz (lab-on-a-chip) and Jonathan Lloyd-Platt (fashion ecommerce) to commercialise Dr Tillotson’s research on “eScent” from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL). Her research in Sensory Design can be traced back as early as her BA (Hons) degree in Fashion Communication at Central Saint Martins and her PhD research at the Royal College of Art, supported by IFF.
The Scent Bubble® is a patented cutting-edge wearable technology that delivers personalised fragrance experiences by releasing scents in response to a user’s emotions and physical state. Unlike traditional perfumes, it dynamically adjusts scent intensity and timing, creating a context-driven “bubble” of aroma around the wearer. It blends fragrance notes to ensure long-lasting freshness and can be integrated into jewellery or smart clothing. With refillable capsules and eco-friendly design, Scent Bubble® enhances both sensory engagement and sustainability. This revolutionary innovation goes beyond the passive perfume bottle, offering an adaptive, immersive experience tailored to individual moods and environments.
Water Sensitive Cambridge
Pitch by Yair Perry
Water Sensitive Cambridge is on a mission to get rain back into the ground close to where it falls. We will do this by retrofitting rain gardens and other sustainable drainage features near highways using existing green spaces or creating new ones. The benefits to nature are numerous, such as biodiversity and giving water support for existing green infrastructure (tree plantings, low traffic neighbourhoods, verges), but also softens the built landscape and creates cooler and more pleasant streets. These features also improve the quality and flow of rivers, by filtering, sinking and slowing the flow of water.
Asothia
Pitch by Maya Gavin
Recent surveys by the Wellcome Trust and Nature Journal found that better access to funding data is one of the central concerns for early career researchers today. There is a need for a centralised database and networking platform for funding and career opportunities in academia.
Asothia does exactly this. Through a sophisticated search engine, Asothia matches researchers to tailored funding opportunities, keeping you updated on new calls and events. By utilising innovative technologies and the most comprehensive grants database out there, we help guide researchers through the entire application process: from finding to winning grants.