Software spin out in global growth deal
Monday 26 June 2017
A TECHNOLOGY firm which started life at Salford University is hitting the global big time.
The two companies will retain their own brand names, but move forward as a combined business with potential market valuation of more than £18m operating across Europe and North America.
Computer science
“From its origins in the University’s computing services department nearly thirty years ago, the University can be rightly proud of ProofID’s success and continuing partnership with our academics and students.”
Products such as a series of Fortran programming language compliers became industry standards of the time. As a preferred supplier into the University sector, SSL was instrumental in trying to build computing capability in higher education and sold Novell software well into the 2000s.
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