Bristol-based professionals at Smith & Williamson have advised fast-growing HR technology platform Connectr on a multi-million pound investment deal. The £5m follow-on funding into the leading digital employee mentoring platform was made by Puma Private Equity, the private equity division of Puma Investments. London-based Connectr, formerly known as MyKindaFuture,...
Experts in the Bristol office of national law firm Foot Anstey have advised London-based fintech start-up Nester on what is believed to be the first UK peer-to-peer Islamic finance fintech deal. Bristol-based partner Imam Qazi and associate Leena Payyappilly of Foot Anstey’s Islamic Finance team advised on all legal...
A recently-refurbished office building in Bristol city centre is now fully occupied following the letting of its final suite. PS21, the former TSB regional office on Prince Street, was acquired in 2016 acquisition by Cheltenham-based developer Robert Hitchins. It has since been extensively refurbished to provide 15,278 sq ft...
Bristol-headquartered property developer PG Group, which has been responsible for a number of upmarket apartment schemes in the city, has secured £6.5m for a project on the seafront at Weston-super-Mare. The funding, from London-based specialist lender Paragon Development Finance, will help the group with its Promenade House project, which...
Insolvency and restructuring trade body R3 has appointed Bristol-based insolvency litigation specialist Charlotte May as its new regional chair. Charlotte, pictured, is an associate director for South West and Wales in the Bristol office of Manolete, the UK’s leading insolvency litigation finance company. She takes over as chair from Philip Winterbourne,...
SETsquared Bristol has appointed Marty Reid as its new director, taking over from Monika Radclyffe, who has led the world-leading tech incubator since 2016. Marty, pictured, takes up the role in January. He has been the head of Engine Shed, the Bristol innovation hub and home to SETsquared Bristol,...
Bristol-based utilities scale-up The Bunch, which consolidates students’ household bills into one monthly payment, is set expand into the wider residential market after raising £400,000 in its latest investment round. The firm, founded by then-student Elliott Herrod-Taylor in 2017, closed the round in just eight days. Funded solely by...
Bristol-based wealth management boutique Whitechurch Financial Consultants has continued to grow with the acquisition of another client bank, adding a further £31m to its assets under advice. The client bank, which is based in the South West, is now in the final stages of being integrated into Whitechurch’s financial...
Spherics, the Bristol start-up enabling businesses to understand their carbon footprint, has appointed Marina Traversari as its chief operating officer. Spherics uses cloud-based carbon accounting software to support making net zero a reality. The software measures the carbon footprint of companies and their supply chains to better identify opportunities to...
A Bristol-based coffee roaster plans to create jobs and become more sustainable after buying the building that houses its production roastery with a £1.1m funding package. Clifton Coffee Roasters has been renting the premises at Avonmouth for the past eight years, during which it has enjoyed significant growth. Now,...
ForrestBrown, the Bristol-based market-leading research and development tax relief consultancy, has appointed Chloé Palmer as an associate director. Chloé, pictured, will be working on a wide range of strategic projects to support the next phase of ForrestBrown’s growth. She has joined from national accountancy firm Mazar’s London office, where...
The Institute of Directors (IoD) has appointed four ambassadors for the South West to ensure its members remain at the heart of its operations in the region. The quartet of experienced business leaders – Katherine Piper, Alex Chikhani, Peter Doyle and John Rotherford – will enable greater connectivity between...
National Friendly, the Bristol-based specialist finance firm, has linked up with global insurance group Munich Re to support its launch of a new income protection proposition. Under the partnership with Munich Re’s Automation Solutions business, National Friendly will provide simplified access to income protection insurance to its traditionally underserved...
