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Storm Consultancy wins Queen's Award for innovation

Bath-based Storm Consultancy wins Queen's Award for innovation

Bath-based digital technology agency Storm Consultancy has received the nationally acclaimed Queen’s Award for Enterprise (Innovation category) alongside life-science spinout company CiteAb.

The Queen's Award was established in 1965, and is among the most prestigious business awards in the UK, with only around 7,000 winners since its inception.

Founded in 2009 by University...

TechSPARK

TechSPARK: the evolution of one of the South West's most vibrant clusters

Ben Shorrock, managing director of TechSPARK , shares the latest news from the cluster.

The last decade has seen phenomenal growth in the Bristol & Bath tech community and TechSPARK with it.

The area went from a small ecosystem to hosting 1,000’s businesses, including some of the most successful in Europe. Success stories like Graphcore , Huboo, Immersive Labs , Open...

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Bath-based Storm Consultancy receives B Corp status

Storm Consultancy has become the third company in the city of Bath to receive Certified B Corporation status.

The company develops web applications, websites and systems for startups, scaleups and innovative corporates, and has a team of 15 people.

According to bcorporation.net , B Corporations "are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and...

Bath, Bristol, The Bottle Yard & Beyond: Neill Campbell, Director of CAMERA

SWTD reporter Jack Wride spoke with Neill Campbell, Director of CAMERA, a motion capture research facility established at the University of Bath, about the far-reaching effects of advanced motion capture technology.

First off, what exactly is CAMERA?

The Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications (CAMERA), a research centre based at the...

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Bath-based travel tech startup Tickitto obtains £3.25m investment

Tickitto, a B2B ticketing marketplace based in Bath, has secured an investment of $4.5m (£3.25m) after a seed funding round led by Berlin-based Vorwerk Ventures with participation from TriplePoint.

The travel tech company, founded in 2017 by Dana Lattouf, a former tech consultant for Accenture, provides open access to tickets for events and travel-related experiences for travel...

Dancerace eyes expansion with new investment from Newable Capital

Bath-based Dancerace has received an investment from Newable Capital, which the fintech company will use to recruit further staff and to improve their working capital operating systems.

It is the first time Newable Capital has invested in fintech and represents an opportunity for Dancerace, which was founded in 1992, to write its "next chapter as a company", according to its CEO....

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The UK’s secret weapon for change: our tech clusters

Tech is the fastest growing industry in the UK. This opens huge opportunities for positioning the UK as global tech leaders and creating a more equitable world of work for the next generation. Yet London still accounts for a large majority of tech activity in the UK, acting as a magnet for local and foreign investment, as well as capitalising on the more traditional sectors that have a...

Bath coding bootcamp iO Academy expands North

Award-winning Bath coding bootcamp iO Academy is expanding with the launch of a new location in Sheffield.

iO Academy has partnered with the newly launched EyUp Skills, a venture from entrepreneur David Richards, founder of the Yorkshire and Silicon Valley based technology company WANdisco, for their expansion to the north.

The partnership is formed around the vital role of...

Bristol & Bath named as top fintech cluster

Bristol & Bath named among top fintech clusters

The South West is home to one of Britain's fastest-growing fintech clusters, according to an influential new government review .

Bristol & Bath is identified as one of 10 high growth clusters by the Kalifa Review of UK Fintech, which was commissioned by the chancellor, Rishi Sunak.

The report recommends the creation of a £1bn “Fintech Growth Fund” to unlock investment...