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As with industries across the board, COVID-19 has caused disruption to our placement programmes, with a number of students seeking positions for the forthcoming academic year, due to disrupted and cancelled placements. We’d love to hear from you if you might be in a position to offer a professional work placement position to one of our students.
Read MoreLast week saw the launch of a brand-new SETsquared Investment Showcase. NextGen Invest gave graduates of our ICURe, Innovation to Commercialisation of University Research Programme, a platform to pitch for investment for their pre spin out commercial ventures.
Two SETsquared Bath members, Mesmerix and SMDR Ltd, pitched at NextGen invest for funding and support for their businesses.
Read MoreHow to apply for breathing space to consider a rescue plan for your company, under measures to support companies and other types of business in financial difficulty.
A moratorium gives struggling businesses formal breathing space in which to explore rescue and restructuring options, free from creditor action.
Read MoreWith a focus on attitude and thinking beyond and behind the immediate, the series covers:
Mindset, Resilience, Building Trust, Effective Communications, Making Sales, Inspirational Leadership, Managing Money, Effective Teamwork and International Perspectives.
Ultimately the final episode asks the question: What does Startup Success really mean?
Read MoreT-cup was founded in early 2019 by Tech Entrepreneur, Edwyn van Rooyen who has previously set up and run a number of very successful organisations. Ed applied for the fully funded business support available through the Digital Innovation Business Acceleration Hub (DBAH) to provide business consultancy support to help identify strategic growth plans for the business. The DBAH is a programme funded through the ERDF to provide bespoke, sector specific business support for startups and SMEs.
Read MoreIf you’re an entrepreneur, start-up, or scale-up with a; product or early-stage product that can be developed to improve the Transport for Wales Rail passenger experience, then we think you’d be a great fit for the programme.
It’s your chance to accelerate your start-up. Refine and develop your product, network with rail industry leaders and secure a contract of work with Transport for Wales Rail to help grow your business.
Read MoreTickitto, a U.K. travel tech company that aims to help travel retailers access tickets to events and travel-related experiences through one single connection, has closed a $700 K pre-seed round led by Seedcamp.
The events and experiences category now represents the third-largest travel segment worldwide and is growing faster than the overall travel market. Despite that, the space is highly fragmented and composed of suppliers or reservation platforms that often focus their efforts on specific genres and/or geographies.
Read MoreThe objective of the survey was to provide a means to understand the financial health, customer impact and morale of our members and ecosystem under the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic and gauge the effectiveness of the early response.
The survey was carried out between 22 April and 6 May 2020 and questions were also designed to help us assess the optimum mix of support that will need to be provided over the remainder of the lockdown and as we emerge into a new, changed operating environment.
Read MoreMembers of SETsquared Bath Innovation Centre
Please read our latest policy announcement regarding COVID-19 and the Innovation Centre.
Read MoreSmall businesses in shared offices or flexible workspace
The government has set up a discretionary fund to be administered by local authorities.
Government has requested that one of the business types to be prioritised for the fund are small businesses that have exclusive use of a unit within a shared/flexible workspace, but do not have their own business rates assessment. Examples include units in offices, industrial parks, science parks and incubators. This is specifically for those that are outside the scope of the present business grant funds scheme set out by Government.
Read MoreFrom reducing the queue for ladies’ loos, shaping up international shipping to developing smarter prosthetics, 17 early stage ventures, all started by students or recent graduates from the SETsquared partner universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey, virtually pitched their innovative ideas at this year’s Grad Invest.
Five of the seventeen start-ups to pitch were from the University of Bath and we’re looking forward to sharing and supporting their entrepreneurial journey! Pictured is Nav Sawhney, University of Bath graduate and founder of The Washing Machine Project.
Read MoreThe Brevio social enterprise platform launched this month, offering UK charities a more efficient way to apply for funds from those wishing to fund their worthy causes.
Researchers at the University of Bath were key to developing the online platform, which matches charities with would-be funders in a bid to replace the existing complex intensive grant-making and application processes which are estimated to cost the charity sector heavily in both time and money.
Read MoreBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma today (20 May 2020) announced the government is doubling investment in the Fast Start Competition with an additional £20 million.
The competition aims to fast-track the development of innovations borne out of the coronavirus crisis while supporting the UK’s next generation of cutting-edge start-ups – helping to build the businesses of tomorrow and propel their future prosperity.
Read MoreClaritum is a member of the SETsquared Bath Innovation Centre. On May 4th amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, their Chief Executive and long-term supporter of the centre and University of Bath, Professor Rick Hillum wrote a blog post for SETsquared on his top tips for running a virtual business.
Read MoreSeeking Out has launched a series where they interview the next generation of entrepreneurs to find out about their businesses and what makes them tick as people. Some of the entrepreneurs sharing their stories are graduates of the University of Bath and have been supported through the SETsquared Bath Innovation Centre. We’ll share some of the podcasts so you can get to know your fellow members and associates a bit better!
Read MoreThe SETsquared Bath Innovation Centre would like to pass on our condolences to the family and former colleagues of Professor Cliff Burrows.
Cliff Burrows joined the University in 1987 as Professor of Systems Engineering and the Director of the Fluid Power Centre, subsequently re-named the Centre for Power Transmission & Motion Control.
Read MoreNia Simpson, one of SETsquared Bath’s 2018-19 awardees of the prestigious Alumni Innovation Award, is taking her final-year mechanical engineering project, the Compact Cane, to the commercial market.
Read MoreThe long-term success of start-ups is often down to the quality of support they receive in the early days. Access to vital seed investment, contacts, networks and training is mission critical to budding entrepreneurs.
We’re therefore hugely excited by the return of GradInvest, the event which gives businesses formed by recent graduates a platform to raise investment and gain support, on 21 May.
Read MorePrevious SETsquared Bath members, MoveGB has generated more £1m for the fitness, yoga and dance instructors across the country since launching its lockdown-inspired Move At Home service. In less than a month more than 40,000 classes have been streamed through the service and the number of classes and providers continues to grow by the day.
Read MoreOn Monday 27th April, HM Treasury announced further financial support in the form of a ‘Bounce Back Loan’.
Bounce back loans are for small businesses meaning you might be eligible to borrow between £2K-50K and most importantly access the cash within days. The loans will be interest free for the first 12 months.
Apply from Monday 4th May.
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