Meet our spin-outs and licensees

Our portfolio of technologies available to license is just the beginning. In order to bring these new groundbreaking, cutting-edge innovations to life, we work with a wide range of individuals and organisations across different sectors to create new start-up spin-out companies, or license the technology to existing organisations to broaden or upgrade their existing products and services. Our commercialisation experts work with both the public and private sector to identify opportunities for business and economic growth, while driving solutions that save lives, support defence and national security, combat cyber threats, and improve healthcare and sustainability.

To date, Ploughshare has created 16 spin-out companies and brought over 140 technologies to market. Below, you can discover just some of these, and click here to learn more about some of our success stories.

To learn more about the process of creating spin-out companies, visit our spin-out playbook.

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Clearwater Hydroacoustics

Clearwater Hydroacoustics was set up in July 2019 to take over the technology of a previous sp...
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presymptom health

Presymptom

Founded as a spin-out company in 2019, the technology was originally developed by the Defence ...
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P2i

P2i Ltd was the first spin-out of the DSTL in 2005. P2i’s technology is a novel plasma-surface...
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Claresys

Claresys Ltd was established in 2008 to exploit patented technology which introduced completel...
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Esroe

Esroe

ESROE is a specialist in advanced products for the identification and tracking of radar and ot...
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sentinel photonics

Sentinel Photonics

A UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) spin-out company manufacturing state-of-the-art laser detection...
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thor industries

Thor Industries

Thor Industries Ltd is a specialist engineering company based near Salisbury, Wiltshire....
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riskaware

Riskaware (HASP)

Riskaware is a leading incident modelling solutions provider.
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l3 harris

L3 Harris ASV

An American technology company, defence contractor, and information technology services provid...
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detection tek

DetectionTek

DetectionTek, LLC is a technology company located in Boulder, CO. The company was founded in 2...
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jcs nuclear solutions

JCS Nuclear Solutions

JCS has manufactured radiological instrumentation for over 40 years. They are proud of the pro...
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trimax technologies

Trimax

Trimax offer highly specialised, user-focussed equipment and bespoke training to worldwide Def...
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apmg internatiol

APMG International

APMG (APM Group) International certifications are used by 80% of the FTSE 100 and 33% of the S...
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foster + freeman

Foster + Freeman

Foster + Freeman are world-leaders in fingerprint visualisation, who have been at the forefron...
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amsafe bridport

Amsafe Bridport

Problem solvers and solution providers, designing and manufacturing engineered textile solutio...