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MEIF II Equity - East and South East Midlands

Biotech entrepreneur launches new lab software platform

7th July, 2025

An entrepreneur who founded one of the UK’s leading biotechnology companies has secured backing for a new...

Pictured front left to right are Lab Thread founders Deyan Sultov and Ryan Cawood and back, Howard Mitchell of Mercia Ventures and Lab Thread’s chair John Zafar

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