I am a marketer now turned founder/consultant. I started my business back in 2017 as a social media marketing agency and then I found a problem and became obsessed with it. It started with the lack of diversity I noticed in stock images. I started with a project that highlighted this issue which got featured on the BBC. Then I went on to look...
Stapleton Cricket Club (CC) have teamed up with educational technology company Virti to produce a virtual reality (VR) training programme that will allow players to practice and retain essential skills while off season.
Stapleton CC, established in 1863, will be the first amateur cricket club to adopt VR for the purpose of enhancing and improving player performance, according to...
In SWTD's third profile of the nominees for the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tech South West Awards , we look at the career of Greville Commins, who recently retired as SETsquared Bristol's Entrepreneur in Residence [EiR] after 15 years in the role.
During his time at SETsquared Bristol, Greville personally supported about 100 start-ups in their growth journey, through their...
In our second story on the nominees for the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tech South West Awards , SWTD profiles Zara Nanu, founder and chief executive of software business Gapsquare.
Zara founded Gapsquare in Bristol where, with her talented team, she has developed software that analyses pay gaps for employee demographics such as gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and...
Bristol-based technology start-up Matter , has secured a £150,000 investment from British Design Fund, as it looks to scale-up its innovative solutions for the capture, harvest and recycling of microplastics.
Matter was founded in 2017 by Adam Root, a former Dyson engineer and keen scuba diver. After discovering the size of the microplastics problem, Adam set about using his skills...
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...
Clue , a SaaS platform for managing investigations, today announced growth investment of £5 million from Frog Capital, a leading investor in European scale-up software.
Demand for Clue has more than doubled over the last two years, driven by co-owners Clare Elford, CEO, and Thomas Drohan, CCO. From its roots in policing, the platform is now used across government, private and non-...
A Bristol-based cyber security firm that was founded by an ex-GCHQ trainer has acquired a US tech firm to improve its cyber security training offering to businesses.
Immersive Labs enables organizations to continuously measure and optimize the human cyber capabilities of their entire workforce, and has announced the acquisition of Philadelphia-based Snap Labs to support its work with...
Bristol City Council has agreed to lease land for the construction of England’s tallest wind turbine, which will be run by community interest company Ambition Community Energy (ACE).
ACE, which was set up by charity organisation Ambition Lawrence Weston (ALW) in 2018, had planning permission approved for the 150m structure in July of last year on local authority land in Avonmouth,...
