Melissa Quinn, the Head of Spaceport Cornwall, has announced her departure from the organisation at the end of this month.

Melissa has been part of the Spaceport team since its inception in 2014, providing support for the UK Space Agency bid and taking on the head role in January 2021.

Spaceport Cornwall is a consortium of partners working together to develop the UK’s first...

TouchByte , a Cornish based technology innovator focussed on facial recognition, has been acquired by global market leader SALTO Systems.

TouchByte, based in Falmouth, has developed biometric technology that enables users to access spaces using facial recognition technology.

It works by irreversibly converting an image of the user into a series of numbers, including...

For the next event in its HeadTalk series, Cornish software firm Headforwards has enlisted the help of experienced career coach and mentor Rob Lambert to give practical advice on how to achieve personal success.

Rob is an HR, Management and Business Agility coach, trainer and consultant who focuses on helping organisations improve workplace communication to aid business agility....

Feritech Global has been awarded a King’s Award for Enterprise for their outstanding success in international trade.

The award will be presented by the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall, Colonel Edward Bolitho OBE, at a special ceremony at Feritech’s Innovation Centre in Falmouth. Feritech has also been invited to a reception with His Majesty The King at Buckingham Palace in the summer....

Cornwall-based healthtech company Ultramed has won a King’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category.

Founded by former NHS consultant anaesthetist Dr Paul Upton and creative director Alan Sanders, the Ultramed platform allows patients to securely share their personal health information with their healthcare teams, which reduces the number of unnecessary appointments for...

Armada Engineering, a marine engineering company based in Falmouth in Cornwall, has launched the first training centre for hydraulics in the South West of England. The company has been approved as an accredited training centre by the British Fluid Power Association (BFPA), the UK trade association for the fluid power industry.

The Armada Engineering Skills Academy has been developed...

A startup born out of Falmouth University’s venture studio, Launchpad, is calling all entrepreneurs over 50 to contribute to a new economic report highlighting the challenges and opportunities for business owners in their ‘greater’ years.

Greater Life, founded by Mike Turner and George Hardwick, is on a mission to support entrepreneurs over 50 plan for a better work life balance. The...

Tugdock, a startup company based in Cornwall, has been selected to join the 2023 cohort of the National Launch Academy programme, run by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult.

Launch Academy is ORE Catapult’s national flagship technology accelerator programme, designed to enhance the UK’s offshore wind supply chain and support cost reduction by advancing innovative solutions...

Two startups supported by Falmouth University’s venture studio, Launchpad, have been shortlisted for this year’s South West England Startup Awards.

Web-based easy parking payment solution, Find Park Pay , is up for the Mobile & Emerging Technologies StartUp of the year.

Founder Tim Macknelly said: “We’re delighted to be shortlisted for this award; it validates that we’re...

On Friday 3rd March, a Marine-i Technology and Innovation Showcase event took place at the Atlantic Hotel, Newquay. The event celebrated the achievements of Marine-i in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, as the programme draws to a close.

Since its launch in 2017, the £13.4 million Marine-i collaboration has assisted nearly 200 marine tech businesses across Cornwall and the Isles of...