A Bristol firm making wearable technology and software to improve workplace safety has raised £1m from its first investment round to market its pioneering product. Spacebands, part of Bristol’s SETsquared tech incubator, is on a mission to improve workplace safety by using its technology to prevent accidents, injuries and...
Babbasa, the Bristol social enterprise that works to transform the lives of young people from ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds, has appointed six new board members to help drive its vision and mission. The individuals have been selected to assist with specific facets of operating a social enterprise as...
Bristol-based independent digital marketing agency Flourish has made a key appointment to its senior leadership team to strengthen its capabilities and future-proof its offering to its clients. Rob Manley, pictured, joins as technical director to lead its delivery of CRM (customer relationship management) programmes across its client portfolio. His...
Bristol media centre and cultural hub Watershed has joined an international training and transformation programme that empowers artists and cultural professionals to take action on the climate and ecological crisis. Run by pioneering not-for-profit organisation arts and culture group Julie’s Bicycle, the Creative Climate Leadership (CCL) programme will give...
National law firm Clarke Willmott, which has one of the largest of its seven offices in Bristol, has made three senior appointments as it looks to build on its most successful year ever. The firm’s 2021/22 revenues rose by 12% to £59.6m on the previous 12 months while it...
Business West is to mark International Women’s Day with an event celebrating the region’s female entrepreneurs and focusing on the importance of promoting gender equity in business. A panel of five inspirational women from the region will discuss a range of topics at the event on 8 March, such...
Loungers, the highly successful Bristol-based café-bar chain, is toasting a triple boost with the launch of its first roadside restaurant, the relocation of one of its first Lounges and the opening of another. The Brightside concept aims to fill what Loungers’ directors see as a gap in the market...
Bristol-based specialist creative education provider boomsatsuma is to double its capacity and create more than 20 jobs this year after receiving a £500,000 capital investment from Bristol & Bath Regional Capital. Boomsatsuma has been connecting students to the creative industries with its digital education programmes since 2008. It trains...
Bristol businesses can benefit from free soft skills training following new research showing their importance in the modern workplace. Business West, the regional business group that runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce, has worked with the West of England Institute of Technology (WEIoT) to launch a new soft skills certificate with...
Twelve innovative tech start-ups have joined the acclaimed tech incubator SETsquared Bristol to accelerate their growth. The new cohort represents a range of sectors as well as creative uses of technology to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems – from improved access to healthcare and education to...
The corporate team at Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon has advised on an $18m (£14.8m) fundraising for a fast-growing virtual reality (VR) training business used by some of the world’s biggest companies. London-based Gemba helps global enterprises such as Philips, Pfizer, Nike, Coca-Cola, Caterpillar, Johnson & Johnson and...
Magmatic, the Bristol-based children’s travel products business behind the Trunki kids’ ride-on suitcase, has been sold to an international group of baby, juvenile and maternity brands in a deal handled by city-based national law firm Burges Salmon. Trunki inventor Rob Law was famously rejected by the panel on the...
Multi-award winning Bristol film production company Wildseed Studios has been bought by a Paris-based independent studio – the second takeover of a production firm from the city by a French group in just over a year. Mediawan Kids & Family’s acquisition of a majority stake in Wildseed – which follows...
