Pioneering Bristol-based payment technology company CreditCall has been acquired by US fintech group NMI, creating a combined business accounting for payment volumes worth more than $45bn a year. CreditCall, which also has an office in New York, has expanded since it was launched in 1996. In that time it...
Innovative Bristol firm Interactive Scientific is hoping to gain a foothold in the multi-billion pound Chinese education market after being showcased in Shanghai during Prime Minister Theresa May’s recent visit. The firm was one of just five chosen to demonstrate their education technology in the Great British Classroom at...
Twelve of the West of England’s most exciting and fastest-growing businesses will line up next month to pitch for investment at an event that will also boost Bristol’s reputation as a hive of tech and creative activity. Accountancy group PwC and Business West, in collaboration with Bristol’s innovation hub...
Former head of technology at Deutsche Bank Labs, Charles Radclyffe, has relinquished his role at the global financial institution to lead NetKernel, an innovative fintech firm disrupting the financial services world from its HQ in Bristol. Charles’s role at Deutsche Bank included the research and evaluation of emerging...
Bristol’s SETsquared incubator has chosen Ashley Community Housing and Up Our Street as research partners for its innovative upcoming diversity and inclusion research project. The project aims to improve and increase the inclusion and representation of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) business founders applying to the incubator. Research...
Future Space, Bristol’s first science and tech hub, contributed more than £2m to the regional economy within its first year, new figures reveal. The innovation centre, which was the first flexible office space in Bristol to also offer private and shared laboratory space to start-up R&D-heavy enterprises, exceeded all...
The BBC has renewed its contract with SCISYS, the specialised software and IT services firm with an office in Bristol, for its world-leading radio technology. The deal extends the BBC’s use of SCISYS Media & Broadcast division’s dira! media asset management platform, pictured, for up to 10 years. The...
Small and medium-sized businesses in the Bristol area can benefit from research and development grants of up £75,000 under UWE Bristol’s relaunched Innovation 4 Growth (I4G) grant funding programme. The popular initiative, which recently opened for the fifth time, pledges a total of £650,000 in funding. SMEs in any...
Cookpad, the Japanese-owned online recipe sharing and cooking community, has added four senior staff to its global HQ, which opened in Bristol last year. The four new arrivals, who include Mark Wheatley, co-founder of innovative Bristol music/audio platform Audiogum and former Mumsnet head of community Rebecca Mears, are the...
Edo, the Bristol-based user-centred design agency, has appointed former industry head for healthcare, retail and fast-moving consumer goods at Google, Jenny Cowderoy, as a non-executive director. Edo, which last year changed its name from Sift Digital, described Jenny, pictured, as “an outstanding addition” to its team as the business...
The two ‘super projects’ funded by Bristol innovation hub Engine Shed to help create a more diverse tech workforce in the city were launched this week as part of its fourth birthday celebrations. Engine Shed’s Diverse Workforce for the Future project is supporting Boomsatsuma, Eidos and Babassa, DigiLocal, and...
Twelve leading individuals from Bristol and the West of England’s business community have joined the board of the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). The appointments, made at the LEP’s meeting on Wednesday, will boost it in bringing together representatives from business and universities with elected leaders to shape and develop...
Launch Space, UWE’s hi-tech business incubator for graduates, has attracted 23 residents since it was launching just over six months ago. Based in the £16m University Enterprise Zone, Launch Space provides recent graduates from across the UK with free desk space for a year, innovation support and access to...
