News
21 May '09 : CTC holds second annual general meeting (AGM)
19 March '09 : CTC Shortlisted for East of England Business Awards
"Progress at this Cambridge University spin-out is the stuff investors dream of." - Business Weekly
20 February '09 : DuoFertility featured in Clinica
"A discreet, easy-to-use device designed to accurately predict when a woman is ovulating" - Clinica
13 January '09 : DuoFertility featured in Business Weekly
"Cambridge University medical device spin-out is shipping its first product less than a year after winning angel funding." - Business Weekly
11 January '09 : DuoFertility featured in the Sunday Telegraph
"For a firm launched by clever but inexperienced Cambridge University graduates, going from seed funding to shipping an approved medical device in a year is something of an achievement." - The Sunday Telegraph
6 December '08 : DuoFertility featured in The Times
"A temperature rise is the only way to confirm that ovulation has occurred, useful for women who are having trouble conceiving." - The Times
9 June '08 : DuoFertility featured at EnGadget, Gizmodo and Dvice
"Easy peasy, and no pee samples or early wake-ups for manual temp measurements that similar devices require." - Gizmodo
4 June '08 : DuoFertility featured in the Daily Mail
"Far more accurate than any current system and could save the NHS - and individual couples - a fortune on unnecessary fertility treatment." - The Daily Mail
18 May '08 : DuoFertility featured in the Sunday Telegraph
"A tiny thermometer, the size of a £1 coin, which could help thousands of would-be parents conceive." - The Sunday Telegraph
6 May ’08: The first AGM
29 January '08 : DuoFertility featured on the Bounty forum homepage
"Identifying the precise period of ovulation can significantly maximise a couple's chances of natural conception." - Bounty
23 Jan '08 : CTC announces £375,000 seed investment to develop revolutionary fertility monitor, DuoFertility
27 Nov '07 : CTC wins the UKSEC Business Plan Competition, winning a suite of business services as well as a £6,000 grant
11 Oct '07 : CTC featured in the Business Weekly Q10
3 Sept '07 : CTC move into offices at the Cambridge Science Park
23 Aug '07 : CTC featured in the Business Weekly Biotech Special
3 July '07 : CTC featured in Cambridge News
"Cambridge Temperature Concepts is one of the hottest new start-ups in the city, with business angels already queuing up to put money into the venture" Cambridge News
27 June '07 : CTC is offered a £17,282 EEDA Proof of Concept grant
18 June '07 : CTC wins the CUEntrepreneurs CUEBiC Business Plan Competition, winning both the 3i Entrepreneurship award (£5,000) and the Angels' Prize (£10,000) grants
8 Feb '07 : CTC featured on the Business Weekly front page
24 Jan '07 : CTC wins the CUEntrepreneurs £1K Business Idea Competition Greater Cambridge Partnership award, providing a £1,000 grant
11 Nov '06 : CTC produces first prototype "Ovutron 1000" (yes, it is a shoe-box full of electronics strapped to a woman...)
31 July '06 : Cambridge Temperature Concepts placed second in the i10 innovators business plan competition.
11 May '06 : Cambridge Temperature Concepts wins the Downing Enterprise business plan competition, providing £20,000 in seed funding.
Nov 06: The company was officially founded
3 Nov '05 : CTC wins the CUEntrepreneurs "Hundred Pound Pitch" as "The Fertility Guide", winning £100 in beer money
Q3-Q4'05: Dr Shamus Husheer meets the team