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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...

Clue

Bristol SaaS platform Clue announces £5m strategic growth investment from Frog Capital

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 hacker with a mask

Bristol-based cyber security company Immersive Labs acquires US tech firm

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...

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England's tallest wind turbine coming to the South West

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,...

Inside the Innovation Studio

Behind the curtains at CAMERA Bristol's 'Innovation Studio'

Tucked away down a narrow track at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Film Studios, camouflaged within a row of uniform warehouses, sits CAMERA’s ‘Innovation Studio’.

CAMERA is the ‘Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications’, a research facility based at the University of Bath that examines the impact and employment of motion capture technology in areas such as...

Bristol proptech Propflo opens for pre-registration

Propflo is open for pre-registrations for their property transparency platform, the Bristol-based company has announced.

Founded in August of this year by Luke Loveridge and Dr. Daniel Moyo, Propflo is a property transaction, transparency, and decision support platform that uses artificial intelligence to help consumers and property professionals who are looking to buy or sell...

Plastics in the ocean

Bristol-based Matter receives global funding to help confront microplastic pollution

Bristol-based CleanTech company Matter is one of 19 companies to have secured funding from Elemental Excelerator, a global nonprofit that invests in climate tech deployment.

Matter, founded by current CEO Adam Root in 2019, provides technology solutions for capturing, harvesting and recycling microplastics. First set up in UWE Bristol’s FutureSpace, they produce technology that has...

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...

The founders of the company

Tech-powered borrow and return scheme launches in Bristol

Another UK first launches in Bristol today with CanCan , the country's first city-wide borrow and return scheme for hospitality, events and corporates. Built around an app connecting users to smart trackable cups & food containers each fitted with a unique QR code, the innovative scheme gives traders and businesses cost effective and easy ways to reduce their use of disposable cups and...

Bristol incubator

Bristol launches pre-incubator to create more UK deep tech startups

The University of Bristol’s Quantum Technology Enterprise Centre (QTEC) is launching a new pre-incubator programme, QUEST, this November.

The QUEST programme will support the rapid generation of new quantum, engineering and scientific technology companies.

The University of Bristol has a strong track record in contributing to the development of the UK quantum industry with a...

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