Bristol tech start-up Zero Point Motion has raised £2.58m in a seed funding round to build a state-of-the-art lab in the city as it develops a new kind of navigation and motion-sensing microchip. The investment also means that Zero Point Motion founder and CEO Dr Ying Lia Li, pictured,...
Acquisition-hungry Bristol businesses can find out how software robotics could help revolutionise their financial reporting at an online event hosted by accountancy group Tilney Smith & Williamson next week. The webinar on Wednesday, March 23, will explain the benefits of robotic process automation (RPA) and Tilney Smith & Williamson’s...
More than £15,000 has been raised for research into the impact of Long Covid in a unique link-up between The Bristol Hippodrome, city-based specialist finance firm National Friendly and the Southmead Hospital Charity. The three organisations teamed up last November to launch the appeal to support pioneering work into...
Free trials of electric vehicles (EVs) are being offered to Bristol firms by the city council to encourage them to switch to cleaner ways of travelling ahead of the launch of the city’s Clean Air Zone later this summer. The council is offering businesses the chance to trial electric...
National accountancy group Tilney Smith & Williamson has continued to invest in its Bristol office by appointing Mark Bishop as an audit partner. Mark, pictured, joins the firm’s audit team from rival Grant Thornton, where he spent more than 17 years specialising in working with fast-growth and entrepreneurial technology...
Bristol PR agency Empica is the latest firm to join the Children’s Hospice South West Business Club as it looks for 300 companies across the region to raise a vital £90,000 this year. The charity launched the club during the worst of the pandemic to help it continue to make...
The corporate finance team at regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has its largest office in Bristol, has advised the shareholders of a fire safety specialist business on its sale to one of Europe’s largest fire-protection engineering companies. The acquisition of Worcester-headquartered Compco Fire Systems adds £40m to Irish...
The Bristol firm behind pioneering technology that can reduce carbon emissions from crops by 30% has received a £1m investment to prepare its first product for the market. Glaia, which was founded in 2019 by former University of Bristol scientists Dr David Benito and Dr Imke Sittel, pictured, has...
Bristol-headquartered e-scooter and e-bike specialist Pure Electric is gearing up for further expansion after securing a £10m finance facility. The firm, founded in 2018 by entrepreneur Adam Norris, is one of Europe’s fastest growing e-bikes and e-scooter businesses and employs 284 people across its 17 UK stores, a number...
A major festival to be staged in Bristol this summer will give business leaders the opportunity to discuss key issues for the city ranging from the drive towards net zero to the reinvention of high streets with with government ministers and leading opposition politicians. The two-day Big Tent Festival...
Supporting a diverse range of community initiatives in and around its home city of Bristol has earned health and protection insurer National Friendly was another top award. Over the past year the mutual organisation has worked on strategies to ward off loneliness among the over 60s, supported creative learning...
Bristol specialist printing firm Twentysix01 has secured a six-figure commercial mortgage as part of a wider bespoke funding package from Barclays, which has enabled it to move to a larger base. The firm, which offers large format and bespoke artwork such as banners, posters and exhibition stands along with...
There’s no better time than the end of the financial year to conduct a financial MOT and pension check to ensure your investment strategy is still aligned to your objectives and that you are not paying too much to the taxman. The tax year ends on April 5 and...
