Bristol-based breastfeeding and early parenthood support innovator LatchAid is poised for further growth after closing its seed funding round, taking its total investments to £1m and bringing in some high-profile backers. The fundraising round was led by super angel and former Google UK & Ireland managing director Dan Cobley and...
A Bristol-based firm supplying pioneering analytical technology to the global pharmaceutical industry has been sold to a major US biotech group in a deal handled by a team from law firm Thrings. Optimal Industrial Automation and Technologies’ acquisition by Massachusetts-based Bruker Corporation opens up new markets for both firms. Founded...
Bristol-based utilities innovator The Bunch has strengthened its senior management team with a raft of strategic hires as it targets a 100% increase in customers this year. The hires follow a highly successful year for the company, which consolidates all household bills into a single monthly payment and grants...
Award-winning Bristol health and protection insurer National Friendly has extended its partnership with software development company Spark! Data Systems, which is also based in the city. Spark! will continue to deliver and support National Friendly’s policy administration and customer services platform Odyssey, which it uses across its range of...
Global tech group Infostretch is to create more than 40 jobs in Bristol by opening a base in the city. The Silicon Valley-based group, which employees more than 2,000 people in 15 offices across the world, said it was attracted to set up in Bristol due to the West...
Bristol-based electric vehicle charge point mapping app Zap-Map has partnered with motoring organisation the RAC as it seeks to power ahead in the fast-growing market. The firm, which is majority owned by renewable energy group Good Energy, is already the UK’s top app of its kind with 660,000 downloads...
University of Bristol spin-out companies generate higher average returns on investment than those of any other UK university, a new study has found. The University Spin-out Report revealed that over 20 years the average UK spin-out generates around double the original capital raised. But Bristol’s spin-outs average 285%, putting the...
Bristol tech start-up Zero Point Motion has raised £2.58m in a seed funding round to build a state-of-the-art lab in the city as it develops a new kind of navigation and motion-sensing microchip. The investment also means that Zero Point Motion founder and CEO Dr Ying Lia Li, pictured,...
Zap-Map, the Bristol-based app that helps electric vehicle users find public charging points, has powered-up its senior management team as it prepares for further growth, including a drive into international markets. Richard Bourne, who joined in January 2021 as interim CEO, has been appointed to the role permanently while...
A major festival to be staged in Bristol this summer will give business leaders the opportunity to discuss key issues for the city ranging from the drive towards net zero to the reinvention of high streets with with government ministers and leading opposition politicians. The two-day Big Tent Festival...
Five innovative tech companies with founders from diverse ethnic backgrounds have been awarded a special bursary by tech incubator SETsquared Bristol. Now in its third year, the Breakthrough Bursary provides heavily subsidised membership to SETsquared Bristol’s pioneering incubation programme, including bespoke business support, mentoring, coaching and investment readiness training. ...
Bristol firms are being urged to prepare for new rules on food waste as the government sets about increasing recycling levels. Waste management company Grundon, which has a base in Bristol, says the new food waste guidelines, which are expected to be announced imminently, are part of a bigger...
A new leadership team has been announced by the Centre for Modelling & Simulation (CFMS), the Bristol-based not-for-profit digital engineering consultancy, following the decision by its chief technology officer to retire this summer. Prof Ian Risk’s departure in July after five years in the role has provided the opportunity for CFMS to...
