Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has launched a directory service to help signpost firms to vital advice, opportunities and support services. Back to Business is an evolution of Business West’s highly successful Trading Through Coronavirus platform, which has been visited by more than 100,000 businesses across the...
Bristol’s Engine Shed innovation hub and the city’s SETsquared tech incubator are teaming up to bring together a panel of women to talk about their entrepreneurial tech careers followed by a coding workshop. The virtual ‘Inspiring women and girls in STEAM’ panel event takes place from 4pm next Tuesday, October 13, to celebrate Ada...
Opportunities for Bristol firms in the world’s largest economic zone – China’s Greater Bay Area – have been highlighted at an online gathering led by West of England experts. Invest Bristol & Bath (IBB), the inward investment arm of the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) teamed up with...
Regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon, which has an office in Bristol, is encouraging businesses to take advantage of up to £1m in tax relief before it runs out. The Annual Investment Allowance (AIA) for capital allowances was increased to £1m a year for expenditure from January 1, 2019. However, from...
Restaurant chain D&D London today officially opening its £2m Klosterhaus restaurant in central Bristol – a move its directors view as a timely vote of confidence in the city’s ever-expanding food scene. Despite bars, cafés and restaurants having to adapt to changing Covid-linked restrictions – and some closing down completely...
Bristol creative education provider boomsatsuma has raised its offering to a higher level with the launch of a raft of new courses developed in conjunction with the city’s creative industry leaders. Its new (BA Hons) degrees in Documentary Photography & Print, Filmmaking Production & Post-Production, Games Art and Games...
Bristol’s pioneering Watershed cinema and media centre has received funding to build on the creativity and compassion of communities during the Covid-19 pandemic through stories, narratives and public imagination projects. The National Lottery Community Fund has given £49,500 to the Towards Equitable Futures programme, enabling Watershed to work with a design team that includes Zahra Ash-Harper (its independent creative director of inclusion), Bill Sharpe (independent...
Bristol-based alternative law firm Stephenson Law has advised on a £5.7m investment deal for a firm aiming to harness the power of 5G to revolutionise gaming, the Internet of Things and virtual reality. The Series A investment round for AccelerComm was led by Cambridge-based IQ Capital alongside existing investors...
Bristol’s burgeoning virtual reality (VR) industry has received a boost with the launch of a new virtual social space – complete with recreations of city icons the Clifton Suspension Bridge and a Harbourside crane. Opened by Bristol-based virtual reality firm Opposable VR, BVRL 2.0 is a virtual evolution of...
One Big Circle, the Bristol-based ‘intelligent video’ firm, and UWE Bristol have secured funding as part of a consortium to create an innovative AI system aimed at keeping construction site staff safe at work. Dubbed Computer-Vision-SMART, the system will harness the latest real-time image and machine-learning technologies to detect,...
Bristol-based e-commerce fulfilment and storage company Huboo has secured a further £14m investment to meet the rapidly growing demand for online shopping triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. The deal, which takes the total raised by Huboo to more than £18m, was handled by Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT. The Series...
A Bristol City Council scheme aiming to make the city’s leadership more diverse has won two major national awards, with judges describing it as ‘inclusivity at its best’. The innovative Stepping Up talent programme was launched by the council two years ago specifically for black and minority ethnic people, disabled people and women. ...
Tech businesses from Bristol are being invited to apply to join Tech 4 Good South West, a new initiative designed to stimulate international growth and expansion into the US, India and Singapore. The free programme will launch next month and applicants are invited to submit a pitch by next Wednesday, October...
