University spinouts are important drivers of innovation in the UK, serving as a vital link between groundbreaking academic research and its commercial application.
Earlier this year the University of Sheffield was listed in the Spotlight on Spinouts as a top university for number of spinouts from 2011-January 2025.
The Faculty of Engineering continues to grow the University’s spinout success with seven new companies being incorporated this academic year (2024-2025) with more in the pipeline.
Professor Lizzy Cross, Faculty Director of Research and Innovation, said: "The success of our spinouts is a credit to the impactful work our researchers do and the teams that support them. These new companies are bringing our research to life ensuring it has a lasting, positive impact on people's lives and the environment. In the Faculty of Engineering our vision is to engineer a better world, turning research into reality. These spinouts help us achieve this and also help to support our local and national economy.”
Our recent spinouts:
- AmpliSi Ltd
AmpliSi provides scalable, safe and sustainable porous silicon for next-gen batteries for electrical vehicles and other high-capacity applications.
Prof. Siddharth Patwardhan, Dr Gwen F Chimonides
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
- RNA Forge Ltd
RNA Forge bridges the critical gap in mRNA drug development by combining deep technical expertise with cutting edge manufacturing and analytical capabilities to accelerate their path from research to patient impact.
Dr Zoltán Kis, Prof. Mark Dickman, Dr Emma Welbourne
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
- SilViA Bio Ltd
SilViA Bio deconstructs and analyses cell factories, identifying limiting bioproduction parameters and offering solutions to take biomanufacturing to the next level.
Dr Adam Brown, Prof. David James, Ed Curry, Melinda Pohle
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
- Kausalyze Ltd
Kausalyze provides software that prevents process downtime through root cause analysis with engineering-led AI.
Prof. Joan Cordiner, Louis Allen
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
- PelviSure Inc
PelviSure has developed a medical device that provides a safe alternative to polypropylene meshes for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women.
Prof. Sheila MacNeil, Prof. Chris Chapple
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
- Pixel~Flo Ltd
Pixel-Flo’s breakthrough production technology overcomes the current bottlenecks to the scalable manufacturing of microLED display screens.
Dr Richard Smith, Suneal Ghataora
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- DigitalCNC Ltd
DigitalCNC has developed groundbreaking software that provides a step-change improvement in cycle time predictions for machining operations.
Dr Rob Ward, David Wilkinson
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering