Lawyers at international legal firm Osborne Clarke’s Bristol office have advised lastminute.com co-founder Brent Hoberman’s new venture capital firm on the £50m fundraising of its first start-up seed fund. Brent Capital’s Firstminute fund will back early-stage European tech entrepreneurs, particularly in the ‘deep tech’ fields of robotics, artificial intelligence...
Bristol firms and individuals operating in areas as diverse as apps, touchless technology and healthcare were among the winners at the SPARKies – the awards celebrating the best of the region’s tech sector. Nick Sturge, director of Bristol’s highly successful Engine Shed enterprise hub, won the Lifetime Achievement title...
A two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between UWE Bristol and the manufacturer of popular Henry and Hetty vacuum cleaners – which will revolutionise the way they are made – has earned an Outstanding grade from Innovate UK. The grade is the highest possible for a KTP and rarely given....
Bristol Media, the industry-led organisation which promotes growth in the city’s creative sector through collaboration, has appointed technology entrepreneur Dominic Mills to its board of directors. Dominic, pictured, is chief technology officer at Zone, the digital agency with clients including Aviva, Electrolux, Stagecoach and Maersk. He brings with him...
The UK’s first chat-based virtual assistant that can organise the busiest of modern families has won the ‘best elevator pitch’ at incubator SETsquared’s annual Tech-Xpo. The annual event pitches start-ups and scale-ups based at SETsquared’s Bristol hub against each other in a fast-paced battle. Kairo was one of 11...
Targeted campaigns aimed at attracting UK and foreign-owned firms to the West of England helped create a record 1,600 jobs last year. The figures, released by inward investment agency Invest Bristol & Bath (IBB), were announced by recently elected Metro Mayor Tim Bowles. IBB said more than half of...
Bristol tech firm Evolved Intelligence has doubled its office space to accommodate more staff following a number of contract wins with leading international mobile telecom operators. The firm has moved to a larger unit in Woodlands Court, Bradley Stoke – relocating from Unit 6 to recently refurbished Unit 8, pictured,...
Research-stage biomedical firm Innaxon, which is investigating treatments for cancer and inflammatory diseases, has become the first occupier of the shared lab space at UWE Bristol’s new Future Space science innovation hub. Innaxon is using the lab, pictured, to carry out early stage feasibility studies into a number of biomolecules...
Bristol’s next generation of healthcare entrepreneurs have learned how to take their cutting-edge technology and business ideas to the next level thanks to an intensive innovation programme. The four-day course brought together health professionals, health and life science academics and small businesses and was delivered by business incubator SETsquared, which is...
Businesses are being given the chance to shape to design of the University of Bristol’s new £300m campus next to Bristol Temple Meads station as part of a major consultation on the scheme. The university this week revealed its initial vision for the project – one of the city’s largest...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Nick Sturge, Engine Shed director and South West regional chairman of the Institute of Directors, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched?...
NatWest will on Monday launch a new digital centre of excellence in Bristol, bringing 80 jobs to the city. The new facility will be based in its Trinity Quay office, alongside the bank’s Entrepreneurial Spark hub and NatWest teams including commercial and corporate banking. The NatWest Digital Studio will...
Bristol Property Agents Association and the School for Social Entrepreneurs have become the latest organisations to become members of the business lounge at Bristol innovation hub Engine Shed. The School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE), a charity supporting people using entrepreneurial approaches to tackle social issues, has signed up for...
