Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright is advising a cultivated meat producer that is offering a potentially game-changing approach to sustainable pork as it scales up and moves towards commercialisation. Uncommon Bio, formerly called Highersteaks, was founded in Bristol in 2017 and is now based in Cambridge. It...
A scheme to support fast-growing firms launched by globally acclaimed business incubator SETsquared is set to contribute around £1.3bn to UK economy, according to new research. University of Bristol-supported SETsquared’s Scale-Up Programme, which began in 2018, supports innovative, expanding businesses to raise public and private investment to collaborate on...
Bristol has been chosen as the home for the UK’s most powerful supercomputer working on artificial intelligence in a move that will put the city at the heart of the UK’s AI revolution. To be known as Isambard-AI, the University of Bristol-hosted supercomputer will also be among the most...
A major new event series for employers on how to improve recruitment and retention across gender-equal talent pools is being launched next week. Staged by Bristol Women in Business Charter (BWIBC) on Wednesday, 20 September, the inaugural event will feature two panels – one made up of employment experts and another hearing from people with lived experience. ‘Recruiting for...
Early-stage tech founders and aspiring entrepreneurs from across the UK can find out about SETsquared Bristol’s acclaimed incubator at a virtual event later this month. The multi-award winning incubator will open its virtual doors on Wednesday 27 September between 4pm and 5pm to show how its bespoke business support...
Bristol-based Perceptual Robotics, which uses autonomous drones backed by artificial intelligence (AI) to help cut the cost of maintaining wind turbines, has closed its largest funding round so far. The latest investor to back the innovative firm is Susten, a London-based backer of sustainable energy projects. The deal means...
Emmaus Bristol, the charity helping people out of homelessness and poverty, is to benefit from an £18,000 package of digital marketing support under a programme staged by Bristol digital marketing agency Noble Performs. The US-owned agency brought the Noble Deeds scheme to the UK last year to help charities...
Bristol-headquartered communications agency Antidote has appointed Faye Lockier as its new managing director as it approaches its 10th anniversary. Faye, pictured, replaces Alex Neale, who moves into the newly created role of client director as part of a strategic repositioning exercise as the agency looks to continue the growth...
Bristol’s tourism and hospitality sector is to get a boost from thousands of extra visitors this year as the first cruise liners since the pandemic arrive at Royal Portbury Dock. The city has been chosen by Ambassador Cruise Line as a stop-off point for its new ship Ambition, which...
Looking at it rationally, having a Bristol Women in Business Charter is counterintuitive. We should not, rationally, even be discussing the ‘business case’ for women to be an equal and part of a fair and moral functioning economic system. There would, you could argue, be no rational reason to...
Bristol-based digital pharmacy pioneer Tariq Muhammad is financially backing two young software designers whose app creates seamless communication between pharmacies and their patients. Tariq, CEO at Invatech Health, whose products have revolutionised the UK pharmacy sector, has become an angel investor in PharmAppy, a business set up in 2020...
Bristol software development and digital services specialist Amdaris, one of the UK’s fastest-growing tech companies, has been acquired by a major global digital transformation group. Arizona-headquartered Insight Enterprises, a Fortune 500 company employing more than 13,000 people worldwide, will add Amdaris’ innovative services to its portfolio as it looks...
A start-up launched by a group of Bristol and London academics who have been at the forefront of quantum computing research for the past 20 years has raised £13m to accelerate its pioneering work. Phasecraft, which has bases in Bristol and London, designs advanced quantum algorithms for today’s computers. It is...
