Bristol-based R&D tax credit consultancy ForrestBrown is celebrating two significant milestones – reaching its fifth birthday and planting 4,500 trees through its partnership with TREE AID. The fast-growing firm was formed in 2013 by managing director Simon Brown, who left the corporate world of the ‘big four’ accountancy firms...
Applications are being invited for an investor pitching competition that will put Bristol’s best tech start-ups in front of key investors. Firms will be vying for investment of between £100,000 and £5m at the Silicon Gorge Investor Showcase – part of this year’s Bristech event – when 10 start-ups...
Two of Bristol’s top tech disruptors will line up against some of the world’s most innovative businesses in a major new award scheme. YellowDog and Blu Wireless Technology are competing in the inaugural 2018 UK Business Tech Awards, which will be presented in London next month. YellowDog, which has...
A business hub to help Bristol’s digital entrepreneurs start up, scale up and innovate has been officially launched. The Digital Innovation Business Acceleration Hub (DBAH) aims to support 120 companies working on new technologies in the health, well-being and creative media sectors across the West of England. Set up...
Bristol Water has officially launched a business incubator to boost innovation and create a new raft of suppliers. Called The Workshop, it encourages small, start-up businesses to help solve business challenges. Businesses can take advantage of Bristol Water’s equipment and facilities, access to data and physical assets, access to...
The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs is staged in Bristol next week for its seventh year to once again support women to build and grow sustainable businesses. Hundreds of women self-starters are expected to attend the day-long event on Friday, October 19, to hear, learn from and be inspired by...
More than 180 ideas from across the world have been submitted to Bristol’s pioneering City Leap project, which aims to encourage new ways of helping the city become carbon neutral by 2050. Bristol City Council aims to attract investment of up to £1bn into the city’s energy infrastructure over...
Businesses from across the world have signed up to support the Global Parliament of Mayors Annual Summit, which takes place in Bristol later this month. Global development consultants Mott MacDonald and Arup and transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson are among the sponsors while IT provider NEC Corporation –...
Micrima, the innovative Bristol firm developing technology that could revolutionise breast cancer detection, has been named as the region’s top disruptive business. The health tech diagnostic imaging company secured the prestigious top spot on the unique DisruptSW 2018 index, which names the South West’s 25 most innovative businesses. Micrima’s...
Bristol-based defence consultancy and technology firm Techmodal has secured another three-year contract with the Army to deliver ongoing support and enhancements to its VERITAS product. VERITAS is an innovative planning and forecasting product created by Techmodal for the Army. It is used by the Support Directorate in Army HQ...
The innovative large-scale connectivity test bed that earned Bristol the title of the world’s smartest city is seeking new projects and partners to take it to the next level. Bristol is Open (BiO), a joint venture between the University of Bristol and the city council, wants to link up...
Business West’s Skills West team is running a series of business skills workshops throughout autumn covering topics ranging from recruitment and flexible working to apprenticeships for small and medium-sized businesses and developing the workforce. The workshops take place across the West of England and are open to businesses from...
TLT, the Bristol-headquartered national law firm, has launched a regulatory affairs consultancy service to help digital businesses prepare for – and shape – public policy and regulation. The firm said the move created a unique industry knowledge base for mid-tier companies, putting them on a more equal footing with...
