Accelerators

ELEVATOR PITCH Imagine if… …young people and adults who find themselves caught up in a range of illegal activities, from selling drugs to theft and robbery, could believe that they could achieve greatness. Imagine someone showing them the knowledge and confidence to apply what they have learnt from the streets to a legal hustle instead. […]

ELEVATOR PITCH Spin Up Science was founded in 2018 to support the development of scientists and engineers into future leaders and innovators, to strengthen the pipeline of technical expertise emerging from universities, and to increase research commercialisation activity. Through our initiatives designed to engage early career researchers with the local high-tech startup community, we aim

MONIKA RADCLYFFE – LEADING THE CITY’S TECH CLUSTER GROWTH SETsquared Bristol is the Global No.1 University-led Business Incubator working with the University of Bristol. I have been the Centre Director since 2016, working with over 250 companies, including Bristol Pound, Interactive Scientific, Immersive Labs, YellowDog and Zeetta Networks. Bristol is the second largest tech cluster

ELEVATOR PITCH Potato works with brands to deliver digital products that people love—and they just happen to be some of the best in the world, including Google, Mozilla, and the BBC. We also launch our own ventures, and our approach gives us the freedom to experiment and focus on creating digital products that have a

ELEVATOR PITCH In 2008, Watershed, in collaboration with the University of West of England and the University of Bristol, launched the Pervasive Media Studio – an arts and technology research space designed to develop talent and new ideas in the cultural and creative economy. ,     By co-locating a network of artists, creative companies,

ELEVATOR PITCH It’s hard for us to believe, but the Rocketmakers team (www.rocketmakers.com) has been at the heart of the Bristol and Bath startup scene for well over a decade now. Our vision from the very start has been to bring the latest and greatest technologies together with passionate startup and scale-up founders to make

It seems only yesterday that I was sitting in an empty office at the Bath Innovation Centre having just left an amazing role, a talented team and great stock options and benefits at Microsoft to satisfy my burning desire to create a startup. I felt that if I didn’t do it then I would always

THE INNOVATION MYTH – WHY OLD HABITS ARE STIFLING INNOVATION IN A NEW WORLD BY OLLY REID As John Holt once said, ‘’since we can’t know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love

At Box 2 Media, we aim to create content that inspires action. For our audience of startups, entrepreneurs, and small businesses, time is short, but there’s an endless amount of advice available. A lot of the time, a Google search can leave you more confused than when you started. We’re a startup, too, so we

Cendea is an intriguing mix of innovation and the tried-and-true. Innovation can be as simple as “if it ain’t broke, make it better” Our careers started at firebrand companies like PC’s Limited and Federal Express, better known to the world these days as Dell and FedEx. While innovation has been at the core of these

ProviderTrust is one of those entrepreneur stories in which leaders focus their efforts on a niche market in a massive industry. Through hard work, a creative and talented team, and with some luck, they have built a great company that has won numerous workplace culture awards and is consistently on the Inc. 5000 list.  

The Founder Institute is the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, having helped launch over 3,500 companies across 180+ cities and six continents. The company was founded in 2009 by serial entrepreneur Adeo Ressi and his colleague, Jonathan Greechan. The idea for the program spawned from operating TheFunded.com, where it became apparent that most entrepreneurs at

We started two years ago with the mission of providing a platform to connect technology with young people and the general public. Bristol has a wealth of groundbreaking innovations and a vibrant ecosystem, and our goal is to make this knowledge accessible to everyone regardless of their education or background. In a technology-driven world, we

ELEVATOR PITCH Ebco exists to enable innovation teams at the world’s largest companies through their unique approach to trend forecasting, which leverages fractal thinking and deep-dive trend analysis to reveal game-changing and leading-edge future opportunities. Fortune 500 brands like Starbucks and Colgate credit Ebco with helping them set the strategic direction for innovation efforts that