The Bristol team behind the UK’s first female urinal has raised £250,000 in their first funding round, including investment from the co-founder of online bank Monzo, as they aim to pioneer ‘pee-equality’ for women. The PEEQUAL, invented by University of Bristol graduates Hazel McShane and Amber Probyn, pictured, is...
The Bunch, the rapidly expanding Bristol firm set up in 2016 by students fed up with being taken advantage of by utility companies, is taking its innovative bills payment system to the US in a move to harness the country’s vast market potential. The business, which consolidates all household...
PillTime, the Bristol-based online pharmacy, is poised for a period of rapid expansion this year, including acquiring a new head office and growing its workforce by 20%. The firm is one of the only pharmacies in England to provide medication in daily dose pouches – helping patients more easily...
BaseKit, the Bristol-based website and e-commerce platform, has received £1m in funding as it looks to broaden its portfolio and exploit the boom in online trading. The award-winning SaaS (software-as-a-service) business, which was set up in 2008, aims to more than triple its turnover to £10m by 2025. A key...
Rapid-growth Bristol e-commerce fulfilment technology firm Huboo has hit the acquisition trail, snapping up a specialist integration business also based in the city. The takeover of Roseta.io, which works with Notonthehighstreet, Etsy, Shopify and Magento, will enable Huboo to incorporate its innovative e-commerce integration software into its full stack...
Global engineering, technology and consulting group Expleo, which operates from three bases in Bristol, is creating 100 highly skilled jobs in the city as part of a major expansion. Expleo, which is planning to create a total of 500 new jobs in the UK this year, has grown rapidly since...
Fast-growing Bristol-based software developer marketplace platform Deazy is poised for further rapid expansion after receiving a £5m investment. The firm, which was launched in 2016, grew by two-and-a-half times last year – an increase it attributes to its model, technology and its ability to execute, along with the increasing...
Innovative businesses based at SETsquared Bristol, the incubator that supports the growth of tech start-ups, attracted investment of £98.8m last year – a 145% increase on 2020’s total. Member companies also created 250 jobs, generated £29m in revenues and achieved best-ever numbers for leadership diversity. More than half of...
The corporate team at Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon are celebrating advising on deals totalling more than £2.5bn last year, despite challenges posed by the pandemic. The firm’s corporate deals review for 2021 highlights its success in completing transactions across a wide range of sectors and for businesses...
Bristol-based bio-pharmaceutical consultancy eXmoor Pharma, which specialises in cell and gene therapy, has signed a deal to work with New Zealand’s blood service. eXmoor, which has worked in more than 15 countries worldwide, will be providing the service with valuable quality support as it builds and establishes a new...
More than 100 innovative businesses have been supported by Future Space, the science hub launched five years ago by UWE Bristol, creating 400-plus high-value jobs between them, a new report shows. One of four University Enterprise Zones (UEZ) set up across the country, Future Space aims to spark new...
National accountancy group Smith & Williamson, which has a Bristol office, is to partner with fintech group Innovate Finance to provide its members with professional and financial services insights to help them grow and develop their businesses. Under the year-long tie-up, the two will collaborate on a series of...
Dealmakers from accountancy firm Deloitte’s Bristol-based mergers & acquisitions team completed a record number 17 deals last year – four of them in just three weeks during December. The total number, with a collective value of just under £2bn, was almost double that of 2020, when the team completed...
