Converge 2011 Cohort

July 31, 2011August 19, 2025

Sofant Technologies raises £3.4million

Bellrock Technology acquires Summers-Inman Construction and Property Consultants LLP

Meet our 2011 winner:

Name	Company	University	Challenge
Adam Brown	Bellrock Technology	Strathclyde	Converge

Meet our 2011 runners-up:

Meet our 2011 special prize winners:

Name	Company	University	Award
Jonathan Millin	Infatics	Edinburgh	Principal’s prize for Enterprise
Nart Daghestani	Novel Terahertz Systems	Dundee	Principal’s prize for Enterprise

Meet our 2011 finalists:

Name	Company	University	Challenge
Carig Dalzell	Fibre sensing products	Strathclyde	Converge
Nicole Sharp	Appen	St Andrews	Converge
Bryce Richards	Clean water from clean energy	Heriot-Watt	Converge
John Tinsley	CRO for aquaculture & marine industry	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Keith Muir	Cytomos	Edinburgh	Converge
Bilal Khan	DigiLets	Edinburgh	Converge
Donald MacPhee	Enocell	Aberdeen	Converge
Jens Kafmann	Environments	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Le Zhang	Exinite	Edinburgh	Converge
Christine Watson	Fashionable Waterproof Garments	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Michel Singleton	FASTrac	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Helen Hastie	Health Coach for Absence Management	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Yan Pailhas	Hydrason	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Matthew Edgar	Juvo Network	Glasgow	Converge
Francesco Maurelli	Kosmo Stategio	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Sara da Silva Ramos	Memory Tracker	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Mazhar Mohammed	MGP of clopidogrel drug efficacy	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Tadgh O’Donovan	Monitoring of Cardiovascular Health	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Michael Lincoln	Quorate Technology	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Silvana Palacios-Guberti	Selvancolour	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Alex Gibbard	ShareSci	St Andrews	Converge
Robert Beharie	Shoreline Environmental Monitoring	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Thomas Larkworthy	Spectral Robotics	Edinburgh	Converge

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