Rupert Atkinson

Space Forge is a global company looking to lead the clean industrial revolution by harnessing space. Space Forge Ltd operates from headquarters in the UK, and through its independent entity, Space Forge US. We are developing fully reusable satellites that are designed for manufacturing next generation super materials in space for return to Earth to be used to help move to low carbon technologies.

Anaphite is a chemistry company developing enhanced cathode powders that can be used to produce dry coated electrodes for low-cost, high-performance Li-ion batteries. We believe this technology can enable no-compromise sustainable transportation for everyone by allowing dry-coated Li-ion battery electrodes to achieve electrochemical performance parity with wet coating.

Thyngs is a physical to digital contactless marketing and payments platform for charities and brand marketers. It’s built on the simple idea that real-world interactions have a greater, longer-lasting, and more memorable impact. Using smartphone technology like QR and NFC we turn offline marketing assets into high converting digital experiences. Charities and brand marketers use Thyngs to take touch-free payments, reward customer loyalty, and fundraise via campaigns, competitions and promotions. WHAT EXPERIENCE WILL YOU CREATE? - How about a scratch and win game? - Or a fun selfie experience. - Collect touch free, cashless donations via your charity mascot. - Or enable frictionless ordering and payments for your restaurant. - You could digitise your customer loyalty cards. - Or simply deliver personalised content based on context, time, and place. EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN ONE PLACE. Cost-effectively enhance all offline marketing assets such as points of sale, packaging, charity buckets and mascots. Then create, deploy and manage your offline to online experiences using our all-in-one platform. Use interaction and conversion data to improve existing campaigns and inform future projects. - EASY & FAST DEPLOYMENT: No bespoke technology or skills needed - MOBILE OPTIMISED: Choose from our templated experiences or create your own - HIGH CONVERTING: Frictionless user experiences and payment journeys - REAL-TIME INSIGHT: Gain new insight into offline marketing with analytics DO MORE WITH THYNGS. Contactless technology can help solve the fundraising crisis for charities, and to give people the confidence to shop on the high street, eat out, and access services safely. The good news is that this technology is available in every smartphone and we’ve built a straightforward, low-cost solution to create, deploy and manage these services. Visit our website: www.thyngs.net Give us a call for a platform demo: 0333 335 0490 Festive Demo: https://thyg.uk/AUU45356

FreeFlow Technologies have designed and manufactured a compact mid drive eBike motor that we sell into the global bicycle industry. Headquartered in East Kilbride, Scotland. Please do get in touch if you would like to come work for us, we are always expanding in line with the market of electrification and mobility.

Established in the UK in 2012, Internet Mobile Communications Ltd (‘IMC’) is a FinTech and telecoms company trading as Bank of Telecom ®, Bank of Telecom ® is the automated market place for telecom trade with over 2,250 Members including many major PTT, MNO, MVNO and Tier1 carriers as well as hundreds of small niche telecom suppliers. In the Bank of Telecom marketplace members can view over 30m voice and sms prices for every type of route to all destinations with each mobile operator and view routes performance of every route in the Global Test Area. Automated efficient trading allows Members to buy and sell in near real time the best priced working routes permanently making sales at higher margins and purchases at the lowest buy prices.

Whether youre scheduling staff on the shop floor or rostering your healthcare workforce, support your people with a leading scheduling and workforce management solution. What is Rotageek? Put simply, we provide an app-based workforce management and scheduling software solution that helps you plan labour to demand more efficiently. Whether youre scheduling staff on the shop floor or rostering doctors, we’ll help you create the perfect workforce schedule every time, broadcast it to your employees, fill and mitigate shift gaps, improve your labour to demand match and increase your sales or patient care. Our workforce management solutions range from intuitive digital schedules to AI optimised rotas using forecasts from data points at your locations. And with tools to book leave, track time and attendance, clock in and out for shifts, a self-serve employee app and integrations into HR & Payroll integration, we can provide an all-in-one workforce management solution. Customers include: Pets at Home, Lakeland, Merlin Entertainment, Charlotte Tilbury, Sephora, Morleys Department Stores, The Entertainer, Lush, Pret, Caffe Nero, Lolas Cupcakes, The Grove Hotel and many more!

At Warwick Acoustics, we are single-minded in our mission; to create remarkable listening experiences. Our ground-breaking audio systems breathe fresh life into the music that moves you. Whether it’s through our multi-award-winning Sonoma M1 or APERIO Headphone Systems or our world first in-car electrostatic systems, we offer a listening experience that’s as immersive as it is intimate, as thrilling as it is authentic. We believe in creating products that are designed from the ground up in order to deliver the best personal audio listening experience available to our customers. The platform for our success is a new patented bonded electrostatic speaker technology, the High Precision Electrostatic Laminate (HPELs). This new generation of lightweight, ultra-high performance loudspeakers enables the creation of outstanding products in a range of markets, including personal audio and automotive. Our team are pioneering perfectionists. The pursuit of excellence is our primary goal, and everything really does matter! From custom built low noise power supplies to the highest grade cables and leather ear pads. 
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At Powervault, we are on a mission to pioneer a sustainable energy future. We provide the most intelligent, economic and sustainable energy storage systems for homes and businesses. Our products store solar energy and affordable electricity from the grid, helping save you money while you help protect the environment. We design and manufacture Powervault here in the UK. In its initial market application the product stores ‘free’ electricity generated by solar panels during the day, then releases the stored energy during the evening when household demand peaks, delivering a 50% reduction on electricity bills. The initial addressable UK market of 1m solar PV owners is about to expand rapidly as regulation drives the roll out of smart meters enabling ‘smart tariffs’. This will allow any of the 26m UK homes to benefit from storing electricity when it is cheap to use at expensive ‘peak’ times.

We’re pioneering a fundamental new approach to electronics, harnessing the unique and vastly superior properties of diamond. Our breakthrough allows the creation of an entirely new class of components, offering 5 to 50 times better performance than any other electronic material, delivering nothing less than a revolution in power and capability. Imagine what you could achieve if you had the one missing component technology that makes possible: • an x-ray scanner the size of a smartphone • rapid prototyping tools able to precision mass manufacture in metal, ceramics and advanced materials • advanced metrology you can fully embed into your production process • 6G mobile phone comms that don't hammer your battery Enter Evince. Enter the new electronics age.

Umbra is a private merchant bank - offering Wealth Management and Corporate Finance services. Umbra is a wealth manager for high net worth individuals and families. We take the approach of an outsourced family office for our clients - putting service first. Umbra works with companies and entrepreneurs. We advise and invest across the capital structure, in both debt and equity. We have access to varied sources of capital including institutional capital and large family offices. Across both disciplines we have a fintech approach and use tech to help our clients identify relevant partners for each opportunity, and help capture and analyse key data to make better decisions.

The Bayes Entrepreneurship Fund is a £15 million venture capital fund, investing in early-stage, high-growth businesses. Entrepreneurs of all backgrounds will be considered for funding, not only graduates of Bayes Business School (formerly Cass). Businesses must have some revenue traction, and will have typically received a first round of concept-stage or seed funding. Initial investments range in size from £250,000 to £1,000,000, depending on the stage of business development, the funding structure, and the overall finance requirements of the investee company. Given our background and networks, we tend to be more focussed on B2B businesses, but have previously backed successful management teams in the B2C space, and remain open to such opportunities. The Cass Entrepreneurship Fund can act as a sole investor or as a lead or minority co-investor with other institutions, funds or private angel investors. We will typically circle a level of funds for follow-on investment rounds, which will be considered on a case by case basis as the company grows. The Fund has a cross-sector investment remit, but requires that businesses are headquartered in the UK.

Space Forge is a global company looking to lead the clean industrial revolution by harnessing space. Space Forge Ltd operates from headquarters in the UK, and through its independent entity, Space Forge US. We are developing fully reusable satellites that are designed for manufacturing next generation super materials in space for return to Earth to be used to help move to low carbon technologies.

Anaphite is a chemistry company developing enhanced cathode powders that can be used to produce dry coated electrodes for low-cost, high-performance Li-ion batteries. We believe this technology can enable no-compromise sustainable transportation for everyone by allowing dry-coated Li-ion battery electrodes to achieve electrochemical performance parity with wet coating.

The Bristol Private Equity Club is an organisation that matches its members with businesses looking for equity in the £100k to £500k space using the SEIS and EIS venture capital schemes. The BPEC is not a Fund. The members are all like-minded individuals who have been carefully chosen for their broad range of skills and industry backgrounds. We all are (or were) involved in our own businesses and therefore understand the trials and tribulations of starting and growing a business. We want to help! The Club gives us an organised process to receive, review and discuss business plans and then share the risk (and reward) of investing. Each member invests in each business on a deal by deal basis, not all members will invest in each proposal, this clearly differentiates the Club from a VCT or Private Equity Fund. Above all it is formed as a Club because we hope it will be fun! We are serious about our investing but the Club will have a social element too. The BPEC has 6 founder members and over 50 high net worth members.