Cambridge Consultants, part of Capgemini Invent, develops breakthrough products and services, creates and licenses intellectual property, and provides business consultancy in technology-critical issues for clients worldwide. The company has offices in Cambridge (UK), Boston (USA), Tokyo and Singapore, Cambridge Consultants offers solutions across a diverse range of industries including medical and life science, industrial and energy, consumer and retail, and communications and infrastructure. In 2021, Cambridge Consultants became part of

Capgemini Capgemini SE is a multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company, headquartered in Paris, France. History Capgemini was founded by Serge Kampf in 1967 as an enterprise management and data processing company. The compa ...

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History

Cambridge Consultants was founded in 1960 by three

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

graduates – Tim Eiloart,

Rodney Dale Rodney A.M. Dale (28 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was an English author, editor, publisher, and a co-founder and former member of Cambridge Consultants Ltd. He wrote principally on non-fiction topics (biography, technology, computing, jaz ...

, and David Southward – to "put the brains of Cambridge University at the disposal of the problems of British industry".About Us
at cambridgeconsultants.com. Retrieved 2 June 2018. Initially, the company was privately run. In 1971, it became part of

Arthur D. Little Arthur D. Little is an international management consulting firm originally headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1886 and formally incorporated in 1909 by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT chemist who had discovered acetate. ...

(ADL), an American management consultancy firm.Cambridge Consultants Ltd Overview
at vault.com. Retrieved 2 June 2018. In 2002, following ADL's process through Chapter 11, Cambridge Consultants management team acquired the company with the backing of

Altran ALTRAN (ALgebraic TRANslator) is a programming language for the formal manipulation of rational functions of several variables with integer coefficients. It was developed at Bell Labs in 1960s. ALTRAN is a FORTRAN version of ALPAK rational algebra ...

, a global innovation and engineering consulting firm.Arthur D. Little Consulting Firm Auctioned Off
at pubs.acs.org. Retrieved 2 June 2018. In 2020, Altran itself was acquired by

, with Cambridge Consultants thus also coming under the ownership of the French consultancy conglomerate, under the "Capgemini Invent" umbrella.

Notable spin-outs

Cambridge Consultants has been described as the founder of the

Cambridge Cluster Silicon Fen (also known as the Cambridge Cluster) is the name given to the region around Cambridge, England, which is home to a large cluster of high-tech businesses focusing on software, electronics and biotechnology, such as Arm and Ast ...

Great Debt Owed to Cambridge Consultants
at businessweekly.co.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2018. and has spun out more than $1bn companies including: *

Alphamosaic Alphamosaic Ltd was a fabless semiconductor company specialising in low power mobile multimedia processors, based on their VideoCore architecture. Alphamosaic was founded in Cambridge, UK by Robert Swann and Steve Barlow in October 2000, as a ...

Domino Printing Sciences Domino Printing Sciences PLC is a British-based developer of Industrial and Commercial inkjet printing, thermal transfer printing, print and apply machines, digital printing presses and laser printing products. At present, they are operating i ...

* Cambridge Silicon Radio *

Xaar Xaar (foaled 1995) was a British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, best known for his performances as a two-year-old in 1997. In his juvenile season, he won four of his five races, including the Prix de Cabourg and Prix de la Salamandre in ...

Innovations

Technology innovations include a drone delivery service,Need emergency medicine, better phone drone: Cambridge firm unveils new breakthrough
at itv.com. Retrieved 9 Sep 2018.This intriguing drone concept drops packages straight into your hands
at theverge.com. Retrieved 9 Sep 2018.

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

solutions,AI researcher Monty Barlow teachers a computer to figure out American accents
at techcrunch.com. Retrieved 9 September 2018. fitness-enhancing clothing,Your next smart shirt will make you look like an extra from 'Tron'
at engadget.com. Retrieved 9 Sep 2018. holographic radarHolographic radar tracks 1,000 mph shells
at cnet.com. Retrieved 9 September 2018. and airborne antenna that will provide widescale 5G coverage.Airborne antenna that will provide widescale 5G coverage
at theengineer.co.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2020.

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Notable spin-outs

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