A Warwickshire-based manufacturer of fertility monitoring products, Fertility Focus, has secured further investment from MEIF through a £250,000 loan, enabling it to invest in its staff, continue research and development, while safeguarding against the impact of COVID-19. Fertility Focus secured the finance from The FSE Group Debt Finance Fund, part of the Midlands Engine Investment […]
A Warwickshire-based company, which helps foreign businesses establish in the UK, is expanding after seeing a growth in demand due to Brexit. EBS is taking a second office at the University of Warwick Science Park’s site at Warwick Innovation Centre. This will enable the company to accommodate additional staff and create a state-of-the-art video conferencing […]
Minerva Business Angels, part of the University of Warwick Science Park, has launched its first Super Start-Up Club with MICRA. MICRA is a collaboration between the Technical Transfer Offices of eight leading Midlands Universities, and provides a gateway to the latest technology and innovation emanating from them. It is hoped by working together with Minerva, they can […]
Chancellor announces one-off top up grants for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses worth up to £9,000 per property to help businesses through to the Spring £594 million discretionary fund also made available to support other impacted businesses comes in addition to £1.1 billion further discretionary grant funding for Local Authorities, Local Restriction Support Grants worth […]
Business leaders in Coventry and Warwickshire have urged the Government to increase support for firms to get them through the devastation of the latest lockdown. The Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce has also called for the vaccine roll-out programme to be ramped up after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the latest lockdown was coming […]
An angel investment group – which is part of the University of Warwick Science Park – hit a record for the amount of cash injected into businesses in 2020 despite the Covid-19 crisis. Minerva Business Angels, which now has investment groups across the Midlands and on Merseyside, pumped £1.4 million into start-up, spin-out and scale-up […]
A specialist in developing point of sale systems and e-commerce apps for the hospitality industry has seen major growth during 2020 – despite the sector being hit hardest by Covid-19. Epos Anytime has been trading for several years, but during the past six months and adapting to the pandemic it has seen its fastest […]
Ten new businesses will be the first to benefit from a new Creative Futures Accelerator Programme in Leamington Spa’s Creative District that will help those businesses become part of the UK’s largest creative cluster outside Greater London. The project, which will also work with 500 innovators, will help business teams develop their entrepreneurial skills, test, […]
Innovate UK have recently launched a number of new funding competitions to help tackle industry challenges ranging from transforming food production to the detection of heart failure management. A selection of the current funding competitions are outlined below, the full list can be found on the Innovate UK website. If you are interested in applying for […]
The UK Prime Minister announced today a Ten Point Plan for a “green industrial revolution”, including a ban on the sale of new cars that are wholly powered by diesel or petrol from 2030. Top experts from WMG at the University of Warwick comment on this story. Margot James is the Executive Chair of WMG, and […]
