SWIG Finance has successfully secured a capital injection of £10 million from Triodos Bank UK and Better Society Capital (BSC) through the second phase of the Community Investment Enterprise Fund (CIEF).
The £10 million facility has been made available through Social Investment Scotland and has gone live in February 2025, enabling SWIG Finance to support more micro and small...
Tech South West has secured UK Government funding to expand its successful Growth Forge accelerator in 2025.
The funding comes via the Barclays Eagle Labs Ecosystem Partnership Programme, funded by UK Government, which supports organisations embedded in their local entrepreneurial ecosystem to boost their support to tech and digital businesses.
Since its inception in 2014, the British Business Bank has backed 19,000 businesses in the South West, supporting 193,000 jobs and generating more than £3 billion of additional economic activity in the region.
That's according to The Power of 10: 10 Year Impact Report , published this week by the British Business Bank, which is the UK Government's economic development bank. Its...
A storm brews in the bowels of the UK’s innovation engine.
The country’s technological and economic advancement is underpinned by a world-class higher education sector. But that industry teeters precariously on the edge of a financial crisis.
As recently reported by The Economist, the UK’s current university funding model is untenable, with institutions “running on fumes”...
Cornish firm Tugdock and Sarens have successfully secured funding from The Crown Estate through the initial round of its innovative Supply Chain Accelerator . This is match funding for a joint project by Tugdock and Sarens to develop a heavy lift Operations and Maintenance (O&M) hub at ABP’s port of Port Talbot in Wales.
With key support from major industry players such as ABP...
A robotic manufacturing company based in Portishead has secured £2m in funding, led by Maven Capital Partners, through the British Business Bank’s South West Investment Fund.
Q5D Technologies, a leader in robotic additive manufacturing, has received £500,000 from Maven as part of a larger £2m investment round aimed at revolutionising wire-laying processes across industries such as...
Serial entrepreneur from Bristol, Rob Law MBE, has received a £25k Start Up Loan boost from SWIG Finance for his latest venture, the Zeepy Sleep Training Clock .
Aimed at children aged between two and six, the Zeepy Sleep Training Clock uses melatonin-friendly lighting to help foster a more restful sleep.
To complement the clock, Rob has developed a library of expert-backed...
A new £300m investment fund has been launched to accelerate the growth of science and technology spin-outs from universities in the West of England, with backing from the University of Bristol.
The fund is aimed at boosting early-stage capital, expertise, and support for startups working on global challenges such as sustainability, clean energy, and healthcare.
Nesti, a UK-based sales tech AI startup, celebrates closing its pre-seed funding round early.
Nesti, a platform designed to equip sales development teams to exceed their targets with personalised outbound videos at scale, has secured £250,000 in a competitive pre-seed funding round, led by SFC Capital. This investment will help Nesti maintain its pace of innovation, build out its...
Bristol-based edge computing provider StorMagic has secured a significant investment from Palatine Growth Credit Fund from its maiden Growth Credit Fund.
The fund was established to support UK cyber, tech, AI and advanced manufacturing firms experiencing strong year-on-year revenue growth.
StorMagic was founded in 2006 and helps organisations store, protect, and manage data...
