{"id":521430,"date":"2020-04-03T08:30:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T07:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/?p=521430"},"modified":"2021-01-25T16:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T16:50:32","slug":"13-startups-to-follow-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/2020\/04\/03\/13-startups-to-follow-in-bristol\/","title":{"rendered":"13 startups to follow in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Focusing on helping ambitious entrepreneurs in their startup adventures, among others, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspark.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TechSPARK<\/a> is a tech information hub bringing the community together in Bristol, Bath and the West of England region. The hub hosts the largest tech meetup membership in the West (4,500+ members) with a focus on fast-growing startups, scaleups and tech companies. With these resources at disposal, Bristol is a perfect start for serial entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>Bristol-based <strong>Graphcore<\/strong> builds processors to power accelerated machine-learning and AI. Recently, the company has raised a $150M Series D round which brought the company\u2019s valuation to $1.95B. This investment was led by Baillie Gifford, Mayfair Equity Partners and M&amp;G Investments as well as existing investors including Merian Chrysalis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphcore.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Graphcore<\/a>\u00a0had previously received investments from leading figures in machine learning including DeepMind, Cambridge University, Uber, UC Berkeley, and OpenAI. The money raised will help the company to continue their commitment to investment and R&amp;D as well as the global expansion of the business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focusing on helping ambitious entrepreneurs in their startup adventures, among others, TechSPARK is a tech information hub bringing the community together in Bristol, Bath and the West of England region. The hub hosts the largest tech meetup membership in the West (4,500+ members) with a focus on fast-growing startups, scaleups and tech companies. With these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":521431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34359],"tags":[],"hashtag":[24553],"type-d-article":[23048],"maddybasic_maturity":[],"maddybasic_thematic":[],"partnership":[],"poool":[],"class_list":["post-521430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portfolio","hashtag-maddytop","type-d-article-classique"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521430"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523303,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521430\/revisions\/523303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521430"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=521430"},{"taxonomy":"type-d-article","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-d-article?post=521430"},{"taxonomy":"maddybasic_maturity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maddybasic_maturity?post=521430"},{"taxonomy":"maddybasic_thematic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maddybasic_thematic?post=521430"},{"taxonomy":"partnership","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partnership?post=521430"},{"taxonomy":"poool","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poool?post=521430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}