17CICADA LTD
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Executive summary
17CICADA LTD is a Cambridge-based biotech research and chemical manufacturing startup with strong scientific leadership and innovation capabilities. While it benefits from strategic positioning in a leading innovation hub and has established foundational R&D assets, the company currently faces financial pressures including negative working capital and net asset depletion. To realize growth, it should focus on securing stable funding, forming strategic partnerships, and advancing its product development pipeline to transition from research to commercial viability.
Shareholders' funds
£123,821
Balance sheet as at 2026-03-31
What it does
Research and experimental development on biotechnology
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2021-05-31
- Employees
- 11 (2026 accounts · was 10 in 2025)
- Registered office
- St. John's Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, England, CB4 0WS
- Postcode
- CB4 0WS
- Capital
- 178 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-08-31
- Next due by
- 2026-09-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 20590 Manufacture of other chemical products not elsewhere classified
- 72110 Research and experimental development on biotechnology
Officers 3 current · 3 resigned
Public contracts won 1
£5,054,343 total awarded value where published.
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Among the biggest employers
of 23 similar companies in CB — measured against the wider sector, with 11 staff.
Competitors Cambridge
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2. ROMIL LTD.
This company ranks 8 among manufacture of other chemical products not elsewhere classified in Cambridge.