Xledger, the global cloud-based finance software provider with its UK headquarters in Bristol, has widened its partnership with Bristol Sport to back its approach to uniting the city through sporting achievement. Xledger, which has more than 10,000 mid-market customers in 60-plus countries, will continue to sponsor the South Stand...
A Bristol-based entrepreneur is to create a new online marketplace where experiences such as art classes, drone flying and wild cookery courses at city venues can be booked or sent as gifts. Yuup, which launches next month, is the brainchild of Dominic Mills, a former director at Bristol-based digital...
Bristol businesses are being urged to help make cancer care in the city the best it can possibly be as part of a new campaign which launched this week. Bristol Against Cancer has been started by Above & Beyond, the NHS charity for University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS...
More than 70 businesses and charities – including some of the city’s most innovative small firms – have been supported through the coronavirus crisis by a dedicated University of Bristol internship programme. The Covid-19 SME Internship Fund, which totalled more than £100,000, opened at the height of the pandemic...
Bristol businesses looking to get cutting-edge ideas off the drawing board and into reality can apply for funding under a new scheme. The Business Innovation Fund – a three-year programme managed by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) – will provide funding of either £20,000 or £50,000 for...
Bristol Media – the membership organisation that has supported the city’s creative businesses and individuals for the past 15 years – has rebranded to better reflect the breadth and depth of the city’s creative community. Now operating as Bristol Creative Industries, it aims to expand on its services to...
Bristol ‘intelligent video’ pioneer One Big Circle is helping to develop a safety system to help prevent anti-social behaviour or emergencies on railway station platforms. Working in partnership with the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), fast-growing One Big Circle (OBC) has been awarded funding for the initiative – named Project...
Ultraleap, the Bristol firm behind the world’s most advanced hand tracking technology, has signed a multi-year agreement to integrate it into US tech giant Qualcomm’s latest virtual reality system. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2 5G platform is the first in the world to bring together 5G and AI (artificial intelligence). It...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has welcomed the launch today of the government’s Kickstart scheme, which offers subsidised job placements to out-of-work young people. Under the £2bn programme, 16 to 24 year olds claiming Universal Credit and at risk of long-term unemployment, will be able to gain...
Bristol tech and creative businesses seeking equity investment of between £100,000 and £2m are being invited to take part in the next Silicon Gorge showcase. Taking place on November 12 as part of Bristol Technology Festival, the event will give up to 12 start-ups or scale-ups the chance to...
The coronavirus pandemic has hit profits at more than 60% of firms in the West of England – with nearly one-in-seven fearing they will never return to pre-Covid levels of activity, according to the largest business survey in the region. Just under a quarter of firms have, or plan...
The West of England is to be showcased as a national centre for legaltech by drawing on its strengths in both technology and law and promoting innovation in the fast-growing sector. The region is already acknowledged as having one of the UK’s fastest-growing legaltech sectors with many of its...
Bristol-based specialist tech consultancy Techmodal, which was launched 15 years ago by two students, has been acquired by defence giant BAE Systems. Techmodal employs around 150 market experts, data scientists, consultants and systems analysts at its offices in Queen Square and London and work on contracts with defence, industry and...
