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Paragraf Limited

Paragraf Limited is a UK company with status active founded in 2015 based in East of England.

CRN
09889431
Founded
2015
Age
10

Overview

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Legal name
PARAGRAF LIMITED
Region
East of England
Registered address
7-8 WEST NEWLANDS
SOMERSHAM
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
UNITED KINGDOM
PE28 3EB
Insolvency history
No

Company events

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15 events
24 Apr
2027

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30 Sep
2026

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10 Apr
2026

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08 Apr
2026

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2026

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2026

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31 Dec
2024

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22 Nov
2024

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25 Nov
2015

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Spinout profile

3 entries

Company description

Paragraf was formed from feasibility studies made by two of Humphreys PDRAs, Simon Thomas and Ivor Guiney, employed on his EPSRC grants, and developed on his EPSRC IAA Follow-on Fund. Paragraf is exploiting a new way of making large-area graphene and other 2D materials for applications in electronic devices, energy generation (e.g.solar cells), sensors, etc. Humphreys is the Company Chairman and a Non-Executive Director. The company moved into premises in Somersham, Cambs, in February 2018 and is already employing 16 people (as at February 2019). It has filed 8 patents. It is about to launch its first product.

Paragraf produces a variety of graphene-based products.

Project impact

Paragraf has been moving rapidly. It obtained seed funding of £2.64 million in October 2017, moved into premises near Cambridge in January 2018, took delivery of equipment in February 2018 and is already employing 8 members of staff. It plans to be manufacturing large-area (8-inch) graphene by the end of March 2018, and then producing prototype device structures. Recently a Joint Development Programme with the solar cell company Verditek was agreed to develop the first Graphene based solar panel.

One patent has been filed to date, in the UK, Internationally and in Taiwan. We believe we have just achieved seed funding for this company from a range of investors (February 2017). We believe we have achieved our goal of low-cost, large-area, high-quality graphene, which no one else has achieved. This could be important for a wide range of devices and would make graphene really useful.

Paragraf
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Public funding

12 awards
First funded
2018
Funded years
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Age at first award
2 years

Projects

2025 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

MaGIC Memory: Manufacturable Graphene Electronic Memory Devices in the UK

1 Jan 2025 to 31 Dec 2026

Awarded
£419,419
Total cost £699,032

This is a disruptive project to develop a proof-of-concept, completely novel, semiconductor memory technology using a new class of ferroelectric materials complemented with graphene transistors. To do this, Paragraf Ltd. will partner with Prof. Judith Driscoll's research group. Paragraf Ltd., the world-leader in graphene semiconductor devices, has develop...

2024 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

GHS_ASIC IC_CS : The development of Paragraf’s Graphene Hall sensor merged hybrid ASIC IC for high current sensing of ESS for EV

1 Nov 2024 to 31 Oct 2026

Awarded
£498,557
Total cost £830,929

The aim of this project is to develop the world's first graphene-silicon semiconductor device product. To do this, Paragraf, the world leader in graphene semiconductor devices, will partner with Futurecore, the Korean leader in precision electronics. Paragraf's first product is a Hall sensor made from graphene. This is at present a discrete component, whi...

2024 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

UK-GRAFT: The UK Graphene Research and Fabrication Technology Foundry

1 Jun 2024 to 31 May 2025

Awarded
£773,394
Total cost £1,288,991

Paragraf is the first company in the world to produce graphene-based electronic devices using standard semiconductor processes. Paragraf has grown rapidly since spinning out from Cambridge University in 2017, developing and selling its first graphene based Hall-effect magnetic sensor devices in 2019\. Since then, Paragraf's sample products that have gener...

2023 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

GRAPHene device Scale Up of Manufacturing (GRAPH SUM)

1 Aug 2023 to 30 Nov 2023

Awarded
£89,606
Total cost £149,343

Paragraf is the first company in the world to produce graphene-based electronic devices using standard semiconductor processes. We have grown rapidly since spinning out from Cambridge University in 2017, developing and selling our first graphene based Hall-effect sensor (GHS) devices in 2019\. Since then, our sample products that have generated a great de...

2022 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Novel point of care test technology development: Initial focus - differentiating between bacterial and viral infections to

1 Jun 2022 to 31 May 2024

Awarded
£319,324
Total cost £638,649

This project brings together a UK SME, Paragraf Ltd., the University of Manchester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, the University of Liverpool Institute of Infection and the University of Newcastle NHS trust to develop and test novel in-vitro diagnostic electronic devices made from graphene. Paragraf has developed a unique and groundbreaking production m...

2021 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

Queen Mary University of London and Paragraf Limited

1 Jun 2021 to 30 Nov 2023

Awarded
Unknown

To develop the next generation graphene-OLED display product for smart screens. To investigate the post-processing of graphene, the effect on key graphene properties and the exploitation of post-deposition processing to integrate graphene electrodes into smart displays.

2020 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

High-T Hall

1 Jul 2020 to 30 Jun 2022

Awarded
£273,934
Total cost £695,135

The aim of Project High-T Hall is to demonstrate an integrated UK supply chain solution for advanced Hall sensing within PEMD. This would bring together a UK SME (Paragraf Ltd.) as the Hall sensor die producer, TT Electronics (Semelab and AeroStanew) to provide bespoke packaging solutions and Rolls Royce as the end user/customer of the devices. Technical ...

2020 Study Lead participant

GRAPHIC-MAN: Graphene Electronics Manufacturing in the UK

1 Jan 2020 to 31 Dec 2021

Awarded
£450,652
Total cost £643,789

This is a disruptive project to research and develop a manufacturing process for graphene electronic devices. Graphene, a single atomic layer of carbon, was discovered in 2004 at the University of Manchester, and its discoverers were subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010. This novel material has amazing properties: optically transparent, more elect...

2019 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Graphene Hall Effect Sensor Testing in Hostile Environments

1 Oct 2019 to 31 Dec 2020

Awarded
£32,348
Total cost £46,212

"Discovered by scientists at the University of Manchester in 2004, Graphene is called a wonder material, because it has such phenomenal properties. It is more electrically conductive than copper, stronger than stainless steel, it is flexible and it is almost fully transparent. No other material has such a combination of outstanding properties. Its use in ...

2019 BIS-Funded Programmes

Electro-Magnetic Flux Imaging Scanner (EMFIS)

1 Aug 2019 to 31 Oct 2021

Awarded
£83,603
Total cost £167,205

Development and testing of high-reliability and high-efficiency motors for aerospace applications is becoming a key dependency for the introduction of the More/All Electric Aircraft. The project will develop real-time imaging of motor flux density characteristics, addressing an industry requirement for a scanner that can be modified to arbitrary stator/ar...

2019 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Replacing Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) with next-generation graphene in electronic devices

1 Jan 2019 to 30 Sep 2020

Awarded
£241,279
Total cost £344,684

This is a disruptive project to replace Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) by next-generation graphene in a range of electronic and light emitting devices. ITO is the most common transparent conductive material used today because of its high electrical conductivity, high optical transparency and ease of deposition. Because of this remarkable combination of properties...

2018 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Energy Harvesting from Salt in Seawater: A New Source of Graphene-enabled Power

1 Oct 2018 to 30 Jun 2019

Awarded
£69,943
Total cost £99,918

"This project aims to demonstrate a completely new energy harvesting technology based on the wonder material graphene, exploiting the as yet unlocked electronic energy stored within salt in seawater. While many energy harvesting solutions exist already (solar, thermoelectric, piezoelectric, etc.), none are capable of generating power directly from charged...

Product types

BIS-Funded Programmes Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies Knowledge Transfer Partnership Study