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Wishing you a Merry Christmas from the SETsquared Bristol team

As always the run up to Christmas has been a flurry of activity at SETsquared.

Industrial Phycology have recently joined us as Virtual members, and in the New Year Immersive Labs will move into our offices with their team of over 10. Zeetta Networks' rapidly expanding team has relocated to nearby offices, and Inductosense is taking on lab space with our partner Unit DX. We look forward to continuing to have a close relationship with both companies as they join our exclusive alumni membership and take their businesses to the next level.

IoT Boost 2 has received funding from Digital Catapult. This is a joint partnership with HBB and SETsquared to fund 1 years incubator membership for 5 IoT ventures. The ventures will also benefit from the support of IoT and LoRaWAN meet-up groups, and a celebration event designed to maximise commercial exposure as part of the IoT Boost programme. The competition and selection criteria for IoT Boost will be announced shortly.

We hope you have a wonderful Christmas break and return refreshed for 2018. And remember, if you have any ideas for inclusion in this newsletter going forward, please let us know.

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Is your tech business ready for an incubator?

We want to help make the process of applying to SETsquared as painless as possible. We are writing a series of blogs acting as a toolkit for prospective applicants, to help make sure they are at the right stage to apply and that they have considered why they want to apply in the first place.

Read the first instalment of this new resource here.

Bristol tech pioneers pitch for investment at SETsquared Accelerating Growth Investment Showcase

Innovative tech businesses from across Southern England, including members Good Sixty, LettUs Grow, LuJam and Motion Impossible came together in London last week to pitch for £20m of investment to an audience of 150 investors at the annual SETsquared Accelerating Growth Investment Showcase.

Emma Thorn, Centre Director at SETsquared in Bristol said:

“I am hugely proud of the success that businesses involved with SETsquared achieve on their pathway to growth. This year we have seen some extraordinary companies come forward with fantastic investment propositions.

“The investor community that we work with has turned out in significant numbers. This is a testament to the faith that they have in quality of the deal flow presented at SETsquared events. In 2016 businesses we supported raised £166.7m and I am confident after today, 2017 will also be a bumper year for the companies we have been working with.”

Read more here.

Over the last 15 years SETsquared has helped more than 1,500 businesses raise over £1.25bn in investment, as well as contributing over £3.8bn in GVA (Gross Value Added) to the UK economy with £8.6bn GVA estimated over the next decade – figures that contributed to it being named by UBI Global as the top university business incubator in the world.

Sound-shaping tech start-up, Metasonics wins the University of Bristol New Enterprise Competition

As sponsors we are excited to announce Metasonics will receive 6 months free membership at SETsquared as well as £10K in funding. Existing members Lettus Grow received £4K as runner up and support from VWV legal services. Complia received highly commended with 6 free months membership. Read the full story.

SETsquared Bristol Festive Connect

Our regular SETsquared Bristol Connect networking event went festive this month, with plenty of delicious nibbles and drinks thanks to sponsors VWV legal firm, kicking off the season in style!

Our success of the month went to alumnus Graphcore for their $50m investment raise. Attendees also heard SETsquared member pitches from genetic ethnicity technologists Living DNA and Trail, which offers a smart daily checklist for operations management.

Thanks to everyone for attending and we look forward to re-connecting with you all in the New Year!

Women's Tech Hub (WTH) Bristol have published a series of interviews with SETsquared Bristol female entrepreneurs to share some of the common themes of working in tech for women, as part of the Women Tech Founders launch.

Read Cathryn Dillon's story as female founder of Medical Networking which initiated GP+ Networking shares, or about Dr Becky Sage, founder of Interactive Scientific, creators of Nano Simbox - an immersive digital nano world of molecules and atoms. Or Chloe Meineck's interview on her journey to found Studio Meineck.

Strength to strength for Graphcore

Graphcore has successfully raised another $50m from Silicon Valley tech investment group Sequoia. Atomico have just released 'The State of European Tech' report, which places four U!K hubs in the top twenty of investment raises in 2017. This places Bristol as no.12 in Europe with Graphcore at no.1 in the top 10 publicly announced deep tech investment rounds of 2017.

YellowDog on ITV News

CEO and founder of YellowDog Gareth Williams, appeared on ITV News’ 10pm show last night speaking about the challenges of recruiting high quality talent in an expanding marketplace that they are creating, read on.

It is exciting to see so many of our members, alumni and previously supported ventures on The 2017 Disrupt South West Index set to shake up their respective industries at the top level: @ultrahaptics @graphcoreai @oncorpsHQ @Perc_Robotics @yellowdogltd @ZeettaNetworks

Alumnus Ultrahaptics were shortlisted for two Techworks awards: The Product of the Year Award and The Research Collaboration Award. Find out more here

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