Imperial Innovations helped Cortexica realize its commercial opportunity with initial funding in Jan 2009. As one of the UK's leading technology commercialisation and investment companies, founded in 1986 and admitted to the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange in 2006, Imperial Innovations’ access to early stage technology and intellectual property is unparalleled. Imperial Innovations’ integrated commercialisation approach encompasses the identification of ideas, the protection of intellectual property, the development and licensing of technology and the formation, incubation and funding, through investment, of technology businesses. Based at Imperial College, London, Imperial Innovations’ portfolio of equity holdings in more than 80 companies spans across its four core areas of Healthcare, Engineering, Energy & Environment and Software & IT.