i-Teams Statistics
i-Teams at the IfM (2006-2026):
• 20 years
• 280 inventions provided with direct market feedback
• 1800 early career researchers trained
• 70 industry mentors engaged with the University
• Participants from the schools of Physical Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Participants include PhDs, Postdoctoral researchers,, MBA students, MPhil, M.St and Masters students, undergraduates and members of university staff
Resulting in:
• Over 150 start-ups – over 50% of projects
• 30 start-ups included i-Teams students or mentors
• Past i-Teams projects have raised over $600 million investment between them, including over 15 that have raised at least $10 million each, and 4 that have had successful exits
• Multiple business plan competition awards in Cambridge and beyond, including winners and runners-up in the Chris Abell PostDoc Business Plan competition, and past winners and runners-up of the CUE business creation competition
• Multiple examples of i-Teams feedback enabling the inventors to access follow-on research funding and awards such as the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowships
* Multiple participants have gone on to become CUE and CUTEC presidents and Cambridge Enterprise hires, as well as to found their own startups or work in investing in startups
• Typically 15-20 new industrial contacts per project (over 5000 in total!)
• The i-Teams programme won the 3rd Innovative Youth Incubator Awards 2018 in Washington DC
• Peer-reviewed conference papers on i-Teams were presented at EPIC 2019 and EPIC 2020
Past projects include:
Raspberry Pi, AQDOT, Sphere Fluidics, Cambridge CMOS Sensors, Ampika, Immaterial Labs, WaterScope, Intelligent Fingerprinting, Spectral Edge, Lungfish Dive Systems, Illumink, Sorex Sensors, Paragraf, Xampla, Abselion, Qkine, NuQuantum, Tenyks, Signaloid, Colorifix, NoBACZ…
i-Teams at other Universities:
• Thanks to our outreach activities, i-Teams has now been launched at UEA, the Universities of Hertfordshire, Essex, Lancaster (PG-RISE) and Cardiff (iSolve), as well as, in 2023, the Technical University of Munich
• i-Teams was launched with our support at Universidad National de Cordoba (UNC) in Argentina in 2019. Through the 2021 GCRF-funded 3C programme, training and support was also provided to other universities across Argentina
• i-Teams was launched at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya in 2022 thanks to EPSRC Partnership funding, and at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia in 2025
• i-Teams was launched at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology in 2023 and at the Institut Teknologi Bandung in 2024 as part of the two year ASEAN i-Teams programme, funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
* In 2026, i-Teams will be launched at Taita Taveta University in Kenya and at KNUST in Ghana, in partnership with the Centre for Global Equality