Image credits: Engine Shed Engine ShedĮngine Shed is an event, venue and co-working space with a difference. Early in 2020, the agritech startup secured £2.35 million in seed funding led by Longwall Venture Partners LLP. The vertical and indoor farming technology company LettUs Grow has designed a patent-pending indoor farming system for greenhouse and vertical farms to address global food security and sustainability concerns. Image credits: LettUs Grow LettUs Growįounder/s: Charlie Guy, Ben Crowther, Jack Farmer It has come up with innovative bacterial products for the treatment and prevention of gastrointestinal inflammation in both people and animals. Image credits: Ferryx Ferryxīiotech startup Ferryx, has brought an innovation in the treatment of inflammatory disease. Existing investors Lakestar, Amadeus Capital Partners, Kindred Capital and Notion Capital also participated. Currently, the company has eight self-driving vehicles, equipped with necessary sensors and immense processing power.Įarly in 2020, the startup raised a $41 million (nearly £35 million) Series B funding from Trustbridge Partners, Direct Line Group and Sistema VC. Five has developed a self-driving system for mixed-use urban public roads, which became part of the UK government’s StreetWise program. Image credits: FIVE Fiveįounder/s: Stan Boland, Ben Peters, John Redford and Simon Walkerįor self-driving vehicles to take over the market and the roads, we need the right technology and a means to measure the safety of this technology. Its spatial interaction technology solutions offer a haptic module enabling the integration of virtual touch and an optical hand tracking module, which can capture the movements of a user’s hands with unparalleled accuracy and near-zero latency.Įarlier this month, Image Frame Investment, a subsidiary of Chinese gaming giant Tencent, invested $50 million (nearly £35 million) into Ultraleap in the first phase of the company’s Series D round. Ultraleap is a hand-tracking haptic (touch) technology startup from Bristol working with Qualcomm, Varjo and others. It is a low-cost and lightweight robotic hand and can give Iron Man-style arms for amputees.īack in 2019, the robotics startup bagged $5.9 million (nearly £4.3 million) Series A funding from investors including Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund, joined by Ananda Impact Ventures and Downing Ventures. This robotic hand called ‘Hello Arm’ senses muscle contractions and expansions, understands muscle movements’ variations and performs the task much like a normal hand. Image credits: Open Bionics Open BionicsĪ robotics company, Open Bionics, headquartered in Bristol designs a low-cost robotic prosthetic hand using 3D printing. Having said that, here we list the promising Bristol startups worth watching in 2021. Especially after producing some great tech companies like Graphcore, Immersive Labs and more. With the COVID-19 crisis being a catalyst in shifting the tech talent away from London, regions such as Bristol are getting a greater focus. Bristol was popular among tech investors last year with the local businesses having received an impressive $414 million in 2020. While the city might not boast the largest number of deals in the UK, it does make a good investment as compared to some regions. The other reason is an impressive influx of capital. Adding to these, the city of Bristol is home to incubation programmes and university spinouts. The first reason is that Bristol is home to two research universities – The University of Bristol and the University of the West of England. So, what makes the city a haven for tech entrepreneurs? Notably, Bristol is one of the most popular cities in the UK for tech startups trailing behind London, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Manchester. Of these, Bristol itself is a strong and robust fintech landscape alongside other industries including biotech, robotics, VR, digital and deep tech showing progress. Of late, this region is burgeoning into an active tech hub with several innovative companies. The Silicon Gorge tech cluster in the UK comprises Bristol, Gloucester, Swindon and Bath. įollow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Follow us on LinkedIn See us on YouTube Is there an investor you’d like us to interview? If so, email your suggestions to. Investor Interviews Read our interviews with prominent Angels and VCs who invest in the UK tech space.Find out what they have learned and the mistakes they have made along the way. Founder Interviews Read our interviews with inspiring tech company founders.Funding Advice from our experts on everything you need to know about raising funding, whether you are trying to secure investment from a bank, an Angel or a VC.
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