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New home for Dyneval in the Roslin Innovation Centre

Dyneval are moving into the Roslin Innovation Centre, and within Easter Bush Campus the company will be located in a cluster of the highest concentration of animal related science expertise in Europe.

“Dyneval is a great strategic fit for the Roslin Innovation Centre. The Dynescan enables the generation of new data sets concerning male livestock fertility at a global level which will be of considerable value to guide data-driven decisions for sustainable outcomes. We are delighted to welcome Dyneval to our already burgeoning research, data driven innovation and entrepreneurial community.”

John Mackenzie, CEO, Roslin Innovation Centre

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Dyneval secures Series A invesment

Dyneval is delighted to announce that it has secured total funding of over £1.8M to establish a new quality control standard for semen analysis that will benefit users across the livestock production chain. 

As part of the funding round Dyneval secured a £575K grant from InnovateUK under the Transforming Food Production Series A Investor Partnership. Securing lead investor support from Jim Dobson of Cottagequinn Enterprises Ltd within the Series A Partnership, and through a collaborative funding investment round led by Kelvin Capital and supported by Par Equity, Gabriel Investments and Scottish Enterprise a further £1.293m of equity investment was raised.  

Jim Dobson, the co-founder and former CEO of Dunbia, which he grew from a small butchers shop in the 1970s to one of Northern Ireland’s most successful private companies, exporting to over 50 countries worldwide said ‘Dyneval met our criteria of being an early-stage company, looking for smart money with a focus on a solution that is a clear win for agri production, not only in the UK, but globally. We look forward to an exciting journey with a great team in Dyneval as they aim to address key challenges in the agri-food supply chain’.

Dyneval was incorporated in April 2020, winning the Glasgow Biocity Accelerator in 2020.  Experienced entrepreneur and engineer Richard Cooper took the helm as Chairman and guided the founders through raising investment and product development.  

In May 2021, the team gained confidence after winning the IBioIC Edge award of £100K at the Scottish Edge competition which helped them to develop their first product through subcontracting Scottish-based companies, i4pd, Firefinch Software and Albacom.  

“We are proud to have supported Dyneval in its journey so far and are pleased to see the company attract substantial funding from a group of venerable investors. The company is delivering world-leading innovation that could make a significant difference to the agri-food supply chain, and the drive towards more sustainable farming practices. Dyneval’s technology has global potential, making it a great example of the type of early-stage company we need to support and nurture in Scotland.”

Liz Fletcher, director of business engagement and operations at IBioIC

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Dyneval joins InnovateUK project to drive livestock productivity in UK and Canada.

Dyneval is excited to be joining a project led by RAFT Solutions Ltd, funded by UK Research and Innovation’s UK-Canada: enhancing agricultural productivity and sustainability competition, overseen by the Transforming Food Production challenge. Along with other partners, Dyneval’s innovation will support improvements in fertility performance for the dairy and beef industries in the UK and Canada.

RAFT Solutions Ltd, Atelerix, Ostara Biomedical Ltd & Dyneval (UK) partnered with Bow Valley Genetics (Canada)

Good fertility performance is the cornerstone of a profitable and sustainable livestock enterprise. In the international dairy and beef herd, optimum performance is achieved by maintaining a calving interval (CI) of 365 days. Every day CI increases >365 days is estimated to directly cost the farmer close to £2.07 or $3.54 per cow, or more for high yielding dairy cows.

Fertility drives productivity, and in turn the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, through reduced waste and optimising unproductive replacement youngstock inventories.

This project is supported by advisors at University of Saskatchewan and University of Guelph in Canada. As an integrated bilateral approach, it will:

  • research and develop several innovative new technologies

  • establish national level referral facilities for quality assurance and improvement of bovine germplasm.

The outputs of the project will transform genetic progress, through adoption of:

  • precision technologies

  • diagnostics

  • advanced breeding

  • big data.

This will lead to more sustainable livestock food production and export opportunities in both UK and Canada.

More information about UKRI can be found here: https://www.ukri.org/

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Dyneval win IBioIC EDGE award at the 17th Scottish EDGE competition in 2021

Dyneval is delighted to announce that it was awarded £100K as the IBioIC EDGE winner at this year’s Scottish EDGE17 awards final.

This news comes after having already been announced as winner of the i4 Product Design awards in January this year and the Biocity Accelerator Glasgow most promising venture awards in 2020.

Dyneval’s innovative technology offers reliable and precise measurements of semen quality using portable equipment and is currently focused on supporting reproduction in the livestock industry. There is currently no quality control standard for vets, farmers and AI technicians to check semen quality before reproduction, this results in the average UK dairy farmer losing £37,000 each year due to poor conception rates (which have dropped by 40% over the past 20 years costing Europe 2 billion euros each year).

Invented by physicists, with over 30 years of experience studying complex fluids at the University of Edinburgh, and validated by vets the technology provides an easy-to-use, automated and portable instrument for semen analysis. The Dyneval technology offers the most reproducible motility measurements and works for any concentration of semen above 1million/mL. The company’s goal is to become the “gold-standard” in semen assessment for use by anyone, anywhere.

Speaking about the EDGE17 funding award Dr Tiffany Wood, Founder and CEO, said “The team at Dyneval is absolutely delighted to have won the Scottish Edge. This award will accelerate our market readiness and growth to build a Scottish business that will have a strong and positive impact on the profitability and sustainability of dairy farming, worldwide.’”

Dr Vincent Martinez, Founder and CTO, said, “I feel speechless and honoured to have won this award from such a prestigious competition.”

Dyneval will be using part of this funding to design instrumentation control software with Firefinch Software

Barry McHoull, Director, Firefinch Software commented “It is an exciting time to be partnering with Dyneval. It’s a time of innovation and growth for Scottish life sciences and we are delighted to continue to be part of it through this project. We look forward to working with the Dyneval team to bring their product to launch”

Tiffany Wood, CEO of Dyneval Ltd continued “Firefinch were recommended to me through one of their clients and, on meeting, we discovered that Firefinch’s knowledge of instrument control and experience in designing software for users in the LifeScience sector offered Dyneval the highest potential for rapid progress. With their help, we look forward to being market-ready this summer.”

Mark Bustard, CEO of IBioIC, added: “Dyneval is a great example of the kind of world-leading innovation we are looking to support – the company is a worthy winner of the IBioIC Award, which recognises future leaders in biotechnology. We are proud to support Scottish Edge through our sponsorship, providing co-funding for the £100,000 prize and helping the next generation of start-ups and entrepreneurs to make meaningful change through their groundbreaking research and development.”

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Dyneval win Biocity Accelerator Award 2020

Dyneval are delighted to be listed as ‘the most promising start-up at the at the Biocity Accelerator Glasgow Program’ in 2020.  Dyneval will be provided with business coaching and access to facilities at Biocity, Glasgow as part of a package to support their growth under the Biocity Launch Program 

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