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Biotech spin-out Ferryx secures seed funding

By SETsquared-Bristol / 15th September 2022

Bristol-based biotech startup, Ferryx, has raised £300k seed capital from Deepbridge Capital for further development of its innovative solution to common gut problems. Ferryx is a University of Bristol spin-out company that joined SETsquared Bristol in 2020 and has since won ‘Best Elevator Pitch’ at our Tech-Xpo 2021 Showcase. The company aims to tackle the…

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Sustainable startup branches into prison partnership to aid rehabilitation

By SETsquared-Bristol / 23rd August 2022

LettUs Grow, a climate-crisis-fighting agritech company founded by University of Bristol alumni, has introduced its environmentally-friendly methods to a prison setting for the first time in the UK. The trial is part of a strategy to aid rehabilitation by empowering prisoners and helping them develop new skills to reintegrate back into society. LettUs Grow was…

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Thinking differently: Neurodiversity in early-stage companies – Jack Jordan-Connelly

By SETsquared-Bristol / 10th August 2022

ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) shares a common trait with many other mental health conditions, in which most people assume they have a ‘pretty good understanding’ of it, without actually realising the variety of ways it can manifest or affect day-to-day behaviour. I followed the not uncommon path of exhibiting extreme hyperactivity as a child…

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Bristol University enterprise films attract wide interest

By SETsquared-Bristol / 9th August 2022

A series of films commissioned by the University of Bristol in which SETsquared Bristol company founders, researchers and academics talk candidly about their personal experiences working in the enterprise space has attracted widespread interest and praise for its diverse subject matter and honest, stereotype-busting approach. Called The Enterprise Sessions, the broadcast-style interviews see Professor Michele Barbour,…

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Startup advice from Olivia Champion, Entrepreneur in Residence

By SETsquared-Bristol / 9th August 2022

As part of a series of startup advice features with our Entrepreneurs in Residence (EiRs), we had a chat with Olivia Champion to hear her top tips for startups. Our EiRs work with our members to provide support, advice and recommendations drawn from their own entrepreneurial backgrounds and specialist experience In what ways does your own professional…

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Condense raise $4.5M and open world’s first studio for streaming live events into the metaverse

By SETsquared-Bristol / 3rd August 2022

Condense – the world’s first company to deliver the power, connection and immersiveness of live, real-world events into the metaverse – has raised a $4.5 million round led by LocalGlobe, 7percent Ventures and Deeptech Labs alongside angel investors. Condense was founded in 2019 and joined SETsquared Bristol in March 2021. It is the only company in…

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Greentech and cyber student startups win flagship competition to join SETsquared

By SETsquared-Bristol / 26th July 2022

We are thrilled to welcome two new and innovative student startups to our tech incubation programme as winners of the University of Bristol’s New Enterprise Competition. RouteZero and Ultra Horizon will join our supportive and diverse community of over 80 startups, scaleups and spinouts to receive bespoke coaching and mentoring, training and networks. RouteZero is…

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Gritty Talent partners with Channel 4 to increase talent from under-represented groups

By SETsquared-Bristol / 21st July 2022

Channel 4 is partnering with our member Gritty Talent to help independent production companies build more diverse senior teams. Gritty Talent, who won our 2022 Breakthrough Bursary, is a trailblazing company bridging TV, talent and technology, who discover, nurture and connect talented people from under-represented groups into the media industry. In 2021 the startup, founded…

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Radii Devices: Redefining prosthetics and orthotics

By SETsquared-Bristol / 11th July 2022

Following our member Radii Devices‘ recent grant funding success with Innovate UK’s Biomedical Catalyst fund, we had a chat with Founder and CEO, Joshua Steer, to find out about his journey from researcher to medtech startup… Radii Devices key facts Start date: April 2020 Market sector: Medtech Location:  Engine Shed, Bristol Number of employees: 6 Company growth status: About…

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Inclued wins Best Elevator Pitch award at Tech-Xpo 2022 

By SETsquared-Bristol / 30th June 2022

Our member, Bristol-based startup Inclued whose software helps identify bias, pitched against eight other innovative technology startups to win ‘Best Elevator Pitch’ at Tech-Xpo on Wednesday 29 June.  Now in its 18th year, Tech-Xpo is our flagship pitch, demo, connect showcase that provides a platform for startups to promote their innovative technologies to an audience of influential investors and business movers…

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