Eight Bristol directors will go head to head with some of the South West’s top bosses next week in one of the region’s most prestigious business award schemes. The eight are among the finalists in this year’s South West Director of the Year Awards. The coveted awards will be presented...
Bristol-based Sparkol, which makes the leading whiteboard animation software VideoScribe, has been acquired from its founder by its CEO. Zoe Taylor, pictured, takes over the 10-year-old firm, which employs more than 25 people, as it aims to build on the success of VideoScribe with new products, a wider distribution...
Digital and the creative industries minister Margot James has seen how pioneering work on 5G technology being carried out in Bristol could transform the way future generations work, rest and play. The minister toured key projects in the city that are keeping Bristol at the leading edge of 5G...
Lawyers at international legal practice Osborne Clarke’s Bristol office have advised on the £2.25m seed funding round for a start-up pioneering the use of real-time data in insurance. London-based Flock’s investment round was led by Anthemis, a venture capital provider focused on fintech and insurtech investments. Other investors included...
One of just a handful of office buildings under construction speculatively in Bristol has been awarded the highest rating for connectivity and digital infrastructure. The Platinum Wired Score rating for Aurora, the 95,000 sq ft ‘Grade A’ building at Finzels Reach, follows national recognition for the building’s environmental credentials. Aurora...
The co-founder of one of Bristol’s recent tech success stories has joined a fast-growing virtual reality and immersive tech firm as its new business development director. Chris Price, pictured, launched pioneering Bristol-based app developer Mubaloo in 2009 with city serial entrepreneur Mark Mason and grew it to a £4m...
Lloyds Bank has launched a £100m fund to help small businesses take advantage of supply chain opportunities linked to the construction of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset. The fund, which opened today, will help small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the UK access discounted lending and...
Bristol-based computer services firm ITEC is to merge with Dorset company Copyrite to create a business with 3,500 existing customers, 300 staff and annual sales of £45m. The new combined company, which includes Copyrite’s wholly owned IT services subsidiary Criterion, will be known y as ITEC from June 25....
Bus operator First Bristol has joined forces with city-based tech firm Esoterix Systems to make the morning commute more convenient and sustainable in the first trial of its kind in the UK. The project is taking people by taxi from a pick-up point near their home to a bus...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) could double the UK’s economic growth over the next two decades – with Bristol at the forefront of the revolution, city business leaders have been told. An event staged by the Bristol office of accountancy, investment management and tax group Smith & Williamson heard from the...
A programme to enable some of the UK’s best tech scale-up companies become the sector giants of tomorrow has been launched by the University of Bristol The programme, part of a national project, is supported by £5m of government money through Research England’s Connecting Capability Fund. It will enable...
Bristol businesses are to be helped prepare for the challenges and opportunities that Brexit will bring when an Export for Growth roadshow arrives in the city later this month. The day-long Trade Horizons event is one of four being staged across the South West by Business West – the...
A world-class health technology cluster could be developed in Bristol following the opening of a £5m centre. The hub, on UWE’s Frenchay campus, will help businesses develop innovative products harnessing technology that enables people to live independently and manage their own health and wellbeing, ensuring they spend the least...
