Congratulations to Forefront RF who are commercialising technology developed at the University of Bristol and have raised £1.5m in an investment round led by Science Creates Ventures.
Find out more: Forefront RF Raises $1.5M in Funding (finsmes.com), Forefront RF launches into global market | Forefront RF News
Every business starts with an idea, or in our case with years of high value research – our spin out companies go on to develop their IP portfolio, creating commercial solutions for maximum economic or societal impact. Go to our UoB Research Commercialisation webpages to learn more.
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Bristol has won the Deal of the Year category in PraxisAuril’s KE Awards for 2020! The winning entry was for IRISi, a social enterprise established by the University of Bristol to promote and improve the healthcare response to gender-based violence through sustainable evidence-based interventions. The impact of the company has been transformational for the delivery of the intervention, the staff involved, for the clinical practice of general practice teams and for the thousands of survivors of domestic violence and abuse who have been referred to specialist support services as a result. The establishment of IRISi has saved and improved many lives. Andrew Wilson, Senior Research Commercialisation Manager, was instrumental in the creation of the company working closely with the Prof Gene Feder and Medina Johnson (CEO) to transition the IRIS service into a successful social enterprise. IRISi has recently received a £1M grant investment from London’s Violence Reduction Unit to enable expansion across 7 boroughs, with the potential to support more than two million Londoners.
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Kaedim have won £10,000 and 12 months incubation with SETsquared.
Kaedim’s software enables 3D creators to spend more time doing what they love by automating repetitive tasks using AI, turning sketches into digital 3D models in seconds. Find out more about Kaedim on their website.
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E2E have won £2,000 in the People’s Choice Award! Massive thanks to everyone who voted.
E2E is a digital platform which aims to build an active and co-operative learning environment by connecting engineering students and academics. Find out more about E2E on their LinkedIn page.
The New Enterprise Competition is the University of Bristol’s flagship start-up competition, run by the Basecamp Enterprise team.
Every year we award £35,000 of funding to entrepreneurial students, staff and alumni. These start-ups cover a broad range of areas from jewellery design to novel vertical farming technologies.
Thank you to all our mentors for their support as part of this year’s competition. For the first time, we paired 25 aspiring entrepreneurs with a talented pool of experienced mentors. The calibre of applications was exceptional, and our mentors played a significant role in that.
| There’s less than 24 hours left to have your say and vote for which University of Bristol start-up should win £2,000.
Huge thanks if you have already voted, we know the finalists really appreciate your support. You’ve got until 12 noon on Wednesday 6 May to watch their pitches and make your vote count. The winner of both the New Enterprise Growth Stage funding and the People’s Choice Award will be announced on Thursday!
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University of Bristol academics have developed technology to sense if sports equipment such as mountain bikes, skateboards or fishing rods are reaching overload. The team is currently working with a number of industrial end-users and the university is calling for sales and manufacturing partners on World Intellectual Property Day. Please get in touch!
This is a family of novel, strip-like sensors based on a glass and carbon hybrid composite. The sensors easily attach to different parts of a structure to provide a simple and reliable indication of when critical loading conditions have been reached or surpassed.
The sensor can cover all or part of a structure and report on a range of conditions such as strain overload, fatigue or impact. Each sensor is thin, lightweight, modular and easy to attach, and doesn’t need a power supply or electronics to operate.
The innovation has broad potential application in the sports industry, as well as in other industries where detecting an overload condition is important.
A great video presenting this technology in action is available here:
More information can be found on our website – scroll down to composite sensors.
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