A biotech business launched by a University of Bristol academic that uses soundwaves to move cells in petri dishes has won £10,000 and a year’s membership of the city’s acclaimed SETsquared tech incubator. Impulsonics’ patented technology makes growing cells in the lab cheaper, faster and more reliable by automating...
Bristol-based international healthcare infrastructure specialist Archus is aiming for further overseas expansion after securing £9m funding from BGF, the growth capital investor. Archus, which was launched in 2017 with a mission to shape the future of healthcare, also plans to use the investment to recruit more senior staff to...
Businesses will get the chance to join forces with researchers and academics from the University of Bristol at an event in the city next month. The Festival of Enterprise will bring together the city’s industry and academia to discuss how they can collaborate to meet business challenges and achieve...
Lawyers from the Bristol office of international legal firm Osborne Clarke have advised on a major investment deal that will help one of the UK’s fastest-growing FinTech firms expand further into overseas markets. The team worked with London-based Freemarket, a leading FinTech platform for regulated B2B cross-border payments and...
The government and the Bank of England must do more to curb interest rates and lower inflation to avoid firms in Bristol being “pushed to the brink”, the area’s largest business organisation has said. Following the Bank’s decision yesterday to hike the base rate from 4.5% to 5% –...
Business West, one of the UK’s largest chambers of commerce, is celebrating 200 years of leading and supporting businesses with a campaign entitled 200 Years of Future Thinking. Marking two centuries since the Bristol-based Chamber of Commerce was founded, the campaign coincides with a new-look brand image, pictured, below,...
The UK’s first fleet of autonomous buses are now in service and carrying passengers – bringing to life cutting-edge technology developed by a team of Bristol engineers. Operating on a 14-mile route at up to 50mph between Fife and Edinburgh, the service operated by bus group Stagecoach uses automated...
Six playful creative prototypes ranging from huge inflatable robots to an interactive pavement will pop up around Bristol next month, showcasing the way the city brings art, technology and culture together. The projects are designed to fire the imagination and spark conversations around inclusion, surveillance, climate change and the kind...
Sixteen cutting-edge Bristol start-ups will promote their innovative technologies to an audience of influential investors and business leaders at a special event later this month. Now in its 19th year, Tech-Xpo is the flagship pitch, demo and connect showcase for the University of Bristol’s acclaimed tech incubator SETsquared Bristol. Eleven of the 16 companies are...
Bristol-headquartered independent UK law firm Burges Salmon’s corporate team has advised on a seed funding deal that will enable a nanotech start-up to scale-up its green ammonia technologies. Nium will use the $3m (£2.34m) investment to assembling its first small-scale, modular, low energy consumption ammonia reactors. Known as ‘minions’,...
A University of Bristol spin-out developing an innovative temperature-responsive coating for greenhouses has secured a £1.6m investment. By using advanced polymer chemistry, Albotherm has created a heat-sensitive material with the potential to boost food productivity in commercial greenhouses by up to 34%. The firm’s innovative coating automatically adjusts how much...
A Bristol advanced electronics manufacturer whose products are used by the security, scientific, medical and avionics sectors has been acquired by an international buyer. Microwave Amps designs and manufactures a range of bespoke solid-state radio and microwave frequency amplifiers that are deployed on land and sea, in the air...
Up to 40,000 jobs could be created and a further 60,000 safeguarded across the West of England and South Wales if they embraced the hydrogen revolution, according to a major report unveiled today. It also suggested that between 16,000 and 21,000 kilo tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions could be...
