We are delighted to announce the launch of the South Yorkshire Tech 100, a new report highlighting the extraordinary growth and promise of the tech startup ecosystem in South Yorkshire and demonstrating the impact of our TEAM SY programme in the region. In this new...

The P4 Precision Medicine Accelerator hosted its Demo Day earlier this week, with nine companies from the current cohort pitching to an audience of investors and medtech experts in an airy rooftop space atop London’s Southbank Centre.  Nathan McNally, Health and Life...

I recently attended an event co-hosted by the Centre for Cities and Cambridge Ahead, part of a series on the challenges to growth and innovation faced by regions around the UK. In Cambridge’s case, the city is already home to one of the country’s most successful tech...

We spoke to Priya Oberoi-Cattai, founder of femtech angel investor Goddess Gaia Ventures and an entrepreneur in residence with our P4 and P4SY precision medicine programmes.  CE: Tell me about your background and how you came to found Goddess Gaia Ventures. POC: I...

We spoke to Nirmesh Patel, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of oncology startup Cambridge Cancer Genomics (subsequently acquired by Dante Labs) and an entrepreneur in residence with the Cancer Tech Accelerator.  CE: Tell us about your background and how you...

Alex Appelbe talks to us about how KEEP helped his startup create a better industrial control system for companies like Procter & Gamble. By deploying machine learning-based neural networks onto the manufacturing equipment that runs their production lines, Metis...

We speak to Sarah McVittie, co-founder of Dressipi, about how KEEP helped her startup improve its online shopping recommendation engine. Dressipi works with online retailers like John Lewis to recommend fashion products to visitors. This is an interesting technical...

In March 2019, the government brought in two new types of visas, the Start-up visa and the Innovator visa, designed to attract startup founders to the UK with a fast-track approval process. This was followed by the Global Talent Visa in February 2020, which provides a...

We spoke to Allan Ponniah of Cogitat about how the KEEP programme helped his company build a demo for their brainwave-reading electroencephalography (EEG) software. https://youtu.be/9GiXtm-fe1U Allan is the CEO of Cogitat, a startup developing software to read and...

We spoke to Marek Sirendi, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Transformative, about how the KEEP programme helped his startup get better at predicting cardiac arrests. https://youtu.be/AIHM6GBJRHY Transformative is an AI startup that allows healthcare...

The atmosphere in the UK this week is not that far off from a disaster movie, right at the moment when the tsunami roars into view. We know the winter ahead will be difficult for many, with inflation spiking as we face an energy crunch. Our new prime minister seems...

The newest addition to our TEAM SY programme is Indielab’s South Yorks Games Accelerator, the first ever accelerator for gaming to come to South Yorkshire. It’s made up of two accelerators under one umbrella, the first with a focus on game developers whilst the second...