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Support for start up entrepreneurs and growth companies
The SETsquared entrepreneurship courses are ideal for entrepreneurs with an idea for a tech-based product or service and founders of early-stage technology ventures. At the SETsquared Bath centre we also offer fully funded bespoke business acceleration across a number of sectors. Please get in contact to find out more about how we can help with your business ambitions and funding goals.
Student & Graduate Entrepreneurship Programme
The SETsquared Entrepreneurship Programme for budding entrepreneurs.
Arming you with an Executive Summary, a Pitch Deck, a Business Model and a basic Financial Plan, this SETsquared programme will put your idea for a business on the path to success all whilst studying for your course. As well as presenter-led sessions you will get the chance to:
hear from other entrepreneurs who have gone on to raise significant investment
hone your pitch in front of a panel of investors and expert mentors
receive valuable feedback to shape your proposition
receive a SETsquared certificate for your LinkedIn profile
There is a rolling programme of workshops and events at various locations (or virtually when necessary) across the UK including Bath and Bristol.
The Smart Scale Programme for Health Founders
A 90-day strategic sprint for ventures building the future of health and life sciences
Delivered by the University of Bath Innovation and Entrepreneurship team, in partnership with NatWest and the globally recognised SETsquared network, the programme brings together operational experience, sector insight, and a trusted peer community.
It’s for health and med tech founders who have already taken a complex idea, found traction, raised early funding, and maybe started to build a team, who are now facing the next challenge of scaling and a new set of challenges:
What do you actually want this business to become?
Is your current team the right one for the next phase?
Are you building around the opportunity or around old assumptions?
What will you regret not fixing now, before things move faster?
The Smart Scale Programme creates time and space to ask those questions, then build answers you can act on.
Sector specific business support
We offer fully funded and bespoke business acceleration support for startup founders and growth businesses who fit the Advanced Engineering or Digital Innovation sectors and are regional to Bath.
Advanced Engineering Business Acceleration Hub. Find out more >
Digital Innovation Business Acceleration Hub. Find out more >
Scale up support
Following a £5m award from HEFCE, SETsquared has launched a Scale-Up Programme that will support the most innovative scale-up companies across the South of England.
Designed for companies with 10 or more employees, the programme is focused on the following sectors:
Digital innovation
Advanced engineering & manufacturing
Health & wellbeing
Environmental, sustainable & maritime/marine
The programme will help scale-ups to secure funded R&D projects with the SETsquared universities, make introductions to investors, corporates, customers and partners and access talent. Scale-ups require a different kind of support to start-ups and more often than not, it is hard to get the specialist knowledge needed at the right time and for the right cost in terms of time and money.
The Scale-Up Programme has been devised following a piece research conducted by SETsquared which looked at the challenges faced by scale-up companies and what kind of support was needed to help overcome these challenges.