Bath-based tech firm Actual Experience has won a top award for its spin out from London’s Queen Mary University. The firm, which improves digital supply chains for major firms through leading-edge analytics, was co-founded by Queen Mary academic Jonathan Pitts and businessman Dave Page, pictured below, in 2009 and floated on the London Stock...
Bath will play host to representatives of a Europe-wide project set up to help develop and promote wellness and well-being in spa and tourism destinations. The European Weldest project stages its next key, three-day meeting in the city between Wednesday and Friday. The previous meeting was held in Berlin. Set up two years ago,...
Good Energy, the fast-growing, Chippenham-based renewable electricity supplier, has started producing and exporting electricity to the national grid from its first solar farm in Dorset. The 5MW site is Good Energy’s first solar farm and will generate enough electricity for around 1,300 homes. Planning permission for the site was received at the end of...
Bath-based landscape architecture firm Grant Associates is to help design a new university in Vietnam after teaming up with US architects to win an international competition. Grant Associates is working with Boston-based Machado and Silvetti Associates on the project for the Vietnamese-German University Campus in Binh Duong Province. The university is a unique collaboration...
The South West is outperforming most other UK regions for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in a highly-competitive for market, according to research published this week. The region achieved a 44% increase in the number of FDI projects last year, going from 15 to 27 – the highest number since 2010. Although London remained...
Good Energy, the Chippenham-based green energy pioneer, is among the six finalists competing for the coveted title of West of England Business of the Year. Previous winners of the award, now in its 26th year and staged by international accountants PwC, read like a who’s who of the West’s most-respected companies, including Dyson, MITIE...
By Nick Sturge, centre director, SETsquared and Vice-chair, High-Tech Sector Group, West of England Local Enterprise Partnership Having worked with nearly 300 high-tech start-up businesses – some for just an hour, some for several years – and having done a start-up myself, I've watched, very carefully, how leadership develops and evolves over the life...
Eleven Wiltshire firms have received grant funding worth a total of £348,000 from the the county's Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) to spur their growth and boost employment. According to the Swindon & Wiltshire LEP, the funding – the second round of its Gateway for Growth grant scheme – will inject £10m into the local...
Café group Friska, which was launched by two University of Bath graduates, has been named as one of the UK’s 50 fastest-growing and innovative businesses. Economics graduates Griff Holland and Ed Brown started Friska in 2009 in Bristol and it has since grown from one to four restaurants around the city, including at the...
A new fund focusing on investing in the Bath area’s early stage tech businesses is to be launched by Technology Venture Partners, a new independent venture capital fund manager based in the region. Technology Venture Partners is to start the fund to run alongside YFM Equity Partners’ closed South West Ventures Fund, which it...
