Finance for Growth + Exit
(Mostly) Tech Acquisitions from Bristol + Bath
A list of tech acquisitions that I update from time to time. It’s intended to give a flavour of the history of tech in the region, and is supported by the techSPARK Chair’s reports linked in the useful research blog.
Photo of flowers grown and hand picked by Bristol Flower Co.
Podcasts with a local flavour
A quick list of podcasts connected to Bristol/Bath and business. Photo of Old City Studio, Bristol.
Funding Support for Growing Businesses
A quick list of useful resources for founders and business leaders seeking investment or funding in Bristol and Bath.
Photo by Bobbi O’Gilvie from Balloon Fiesta 2026
Useful Research + Resources
Reports and research that provide a background to the economic shape of our region.
Event Photographers
A quick, handy list of photographers that have been useful in my travels
Powering Women in Business
Which women's networks and communities are worth joining in Bristol? It's one of my favourite questions, because the honest answer is: so many, and they're all a bit different. Here’s my running list!
A Beginner’s Guide to the Greater Bristol Innovation Ecosystem
Photo from Electra event - group of women in workshop setting
Biggest Bristol Employers
Ask most people what powers Bristol's economy, and you'll probably get a different answer depending on your background: tech, creative, aerospace, maybe a nod to the universities. All are fair answers. None of them is the biggest employer in the city.
Bristol: Impact-led Capital
I've spent years mapping the Greater Bristol ecosystem. Starting with the West of England Growth Map and a little later the Tech for Good BB open dataset in 2019, I have a slight obsession with trying to make our community more transparent and connected. I keep coming back to the same feeling: we undersell ourselves. So let's stop being modest for five minutes and look at the evidence when it comes to impact in our city -
Bristol’s Flying Taxi’s
It All Begins HereAt the UK Private Capital South West Forum last week, Hargreaves Lansdown's Chief Product Officer Douglas Abbott said something that has been rattling round my head ever since: "Let's build a UK SpaceX." He was talking about how HL recently gave UK retail investors access to the SpaceX IPO for the first time, and lamenting that British innovation too rarely turns into world-beating, IPO-scale ambition.