Brain tumours are difficult to diagnose, with 40% being found as emergency presentations, and are found through long diagnostic journeys are common.
Dxcover’s proprietary PANAROMIC™ Platform can detect the presence of disease with minute volumes of liquid sample, with a turnaround time of one day. This technology goes beyond other liquid biopsy methods by harnessing the power of AI and utilising a multiomic spectral analysis (MOSA-Dx™), to improve early-stage detection of a range of solid tumours. The test result is designed to be a valuable tool for clinicians to make rapid and appropriate patient management decisions.
Professor Matthew Baker is CEO and President of Dxcover and as such is responsible for the direction, strategy, and operations of the company. He recognises the to the need to develop his leadership skills to support the scale up and translation of our technology to a new region. These areas will significantly impact Dxcover’s plan over the next 12 months.
Professor Baker is looking forward to the networking and training involved in the Shott Scale Up Accelerator to support scaling and expanding a deep tech company such as Dxcover. He particularly wants to use the training to enhance his leadership skills to support this. He also recognises the value of expanding his personal network within the scale up sphere with other founders and investors.
Dxcover were recipients of a 2.5 million Euro grant from the European Innovation Council to drive forward the translation of the platform, and particularly the Dxcover Brain Cancer Liquid Biopsy. They are now working to bring their Brain Cancer Liquid Biopsy to market and expand their offering into the US.
William Goldsmith is the Director of Strategy and Innovation at ev.energy, responsible for expanding their addressable market and collaborating with partners to build the world’s largest virtual power plant. Since securing $33 million in Series B funding last year, ev.energy is transforming from a startup to scale up. The Shott Scale Up Accelerator comes a perfect time to help him navigate this transition by gaining greater business acumen and leadership skills to build on his strong engineering background.
William recognises that the Shott Scale Up Accelerator will: “help to expand my peer network of other innovative tech leaders and support each other in scaling our companies.” He also plans to make use of the one-to-one coaching sessions and mentoring to support his changing role. He also notes that “Mentors would bring awareness to the risk and challenges I’m likely to face in my leadership role so I can mitigate risks or weaknesses and fully exploit opportunities or strengths.” He also plans to use the £10k grant towards leadership courses to enable him to receive targeted learning in the areas of leadership and finance.
In the next three years ev.energy’s goal is to scale from 160 thousand to 3 million EV drivers using their platform and expand their partnership with utilities, automakers, and charger manufactures across the UK, EU, and US. Key milestones include launching their ChargeWise program, which has been awarded $41m in funding by the California Energy Commission to deploy their software at scale in California.