South West startup guide
Over the last decade we’ve worked with everyone from husband and wife startups to multi-million pound scale-ups.
Naturally, we’ve built up an extensive databank of contacts and knowledge that could be useful to a tech entrepreneur just starting out in the South West.
And we want to share that learning with you.
With links to mentors, marketing agencies, co-working spaces, sources of funding and more, we hope this guide will be a valuable starting point for your startup journey.
Table of contents
- Accountancy services
- Business guidance
- Courses
- Co-working spaces and studios
- Events and meet-up groups
- Festivals and conferences
- Funding
- HR helpers
- Incubators
- Industry blogs
- Legal services
- Marketing, communications and PR agencies
- Mentoring programmes
- Tech hubs
- Tech news
- Tech recruiters
Accountancy services
Affecton
Burton Sweet
But The Books
Corrigan
Crunch
FD Works
Focus Accountancy
Hollingdale Pooley
McManus Williams
Smith & Williamson
Victoria Accountants
Business guidance (UK-wide)
Business Doctors
The Knowledge Transfer Network
Guidance for women
Accelerate Her
Driven Woman
Everywoman
Female Entrepreneur Association
Prowess
Ten Entrepreneurs
Women In Business Network
Women in Rural Enterprise UK
Project management consultancy
Courses
Bristol Business College
Bristol Media diary events
DevelopMe training
FutureLearn courses
Mayden Academy
SETsquared Support Programmes
UWE Professional Short Courses
Co-working spaces and studios
Bath
Ethical Property
Glove Factory Studios
Spaces Works
The Guild Hub
The Old Church School
Bristol
Bankspace
Bristol and Bath Science Park
Bristol Leigh Court
Desklodge
Engine Shed
Filwood Green
Framework Bristol
Futurespace Bristol
Gather Round
HERE
Meriton Foundry
Mild Bunch
Origin Workspace
Paintworks Bristol
Pennywell project
Podville Office
Pollen Place
Raw Space
Redbrick House
Runway East
Spike Island
Square Works
Studio 31
Two’s Company Studios
77 Stokes Croft
Virtual offices
Events and meet-up groups
BAME groups
Business networking events
Avon Business Club
Bristol Accelerator Network (formerly Entrepreneurial Spark)
Bristol Life Business Club
Interactive Business Club Bristol
Network 10
NRG Networks
Vistage
Working Breakfast
Yena
4Networking
Business/startup socials
BathSPARK
Bristech
Bristol Business Brainstorm
Bristol Entrepreneurs and Opportunity Seekers
Bristol Small Business Marketing Strategy Meetup
Bristol Tech Volunteers
Design/Build/Market
Ecopreneurs
ProductTank Bristol
Silicon Gorge Tech Networking Beers
South West Founders
Startup Grind Bristol
Startup Stories Bristol
Talks for Growing Brands
Tech4Good South West
Techie Brekkie
Technation
TechSPARK Bristol
Coworking and freelancing groups
Hack nights
Bath: Hacked
CodeHub Bristol
Simpleweb
LGBT+ groups
Testing groups
Bristol User Testing Social
South. West. Test.
Women’s groups
Bristol Girl Geek Dinners
IT Girls Collaborative Tech Sector Network
Ladies That UX Bristol
Women Tech Founders
Women’s Tech Hub Bristol
Women Who Code Bristol
Festivals and conferences
Bath Digital Festival
Bristech
Bristol TechFin
Data Science Festival Bristol
Digital Gaggle
Festival of Female Entrepreneurs
Fireside Summit
Pixel Pioneers
Voxxed Days
Funding
Alternative Business Funding
Bath SETsquared
Business West funding circle
Business West Regional Loan Fund
Innovate UK
UFI funding rounds
Silicon Valley Bank
Sustainable Technologies Business Acceleration Hub
SWIG Finance
We Are Growth
West of England Local Growth Fund
Angel investors
Corporate finance
Bristol York
Bishop Fleming
FRP Advisory
Icon Corporate Finance
ISCA Ventures
Momentum CF
Shaw LLP
WH Ireland PLC
Crowdfunding
Code Investing
Crowdcube
Crowdreach
Fundsurfer
Hyperstarter
Ideasquares
Seedrs
Funding finders
British Business bank finance hub
Business West finance finder
Business West funder finder
Ideasquares
Grants
Growth investors
Accelerated Ventures
BGF Ventures
Deepbridge Capital
Maven Capital Partners
UK Business Angels Association
Investment events
Seed investors
Bristol Private Equity Club
Cool Ventures
Wyvern Fund
Social impact funding
Bristol and Bath Regional Capital
Fredericks Foundation (Women’s Loan Fund)
Quartet Community Foundation
Resonance Ltd
Seedbed Enterprise
Social Enterprise and Innovation Programme
Incubators
Bristol Accelerator Network (formerly Entrepreneurial Spark)
Digital Innovation Business Acceleration Hub
Oracle Startup Accelerator
SETsquared
The Guild Hub
Robotics
Science
HR Helpers
Industry blogs
Bristol and Bath
Adlib Recruitment
CookiesHQ
Ignite Digital
Oggadoon
Runway East
SETsquared
Simpleweb
SR2
TechSPARK
Valuable Content
UK-wide
All Top Startups
Entrepreneur Handbook
Just Entrepreneurs
Startup Donut
Startup Today
Tartle Media
Techround
Legal services
AMD Solicitors
ART Accountants
Ashfords
Clarke Willmott
Gregg Latchams
Rocketlawyer
Roxburgh Milkins
Steer & Co
TLT Solicitors
VWV
Womble Bond Dickinson
Marketing, communications and PR agencies
Activation Digital
Agency UK
Apopsi
Element78
Future Content
Goram and Vincent
Konichiwa-PR
Nameless
Nivo
Noisy Little Monkey
Oakwood Agency
Oggadoon
Proctors
Rin Hamburgh & Co
That Little Agency
True Digital
T&S Advertising
Valuable Content
We are DNA
We Are Ready
Why Communications
Yours Sincerely
CRM and PPC
Armadillo CRM
Digirank
Edit
SearchStar
Mentoring programmes
Atechup
BRAVE
Bristol Creatives
Bristol Media
Business West
EY
FSB
Knowle West Media Centre
Natwest Entrepreneur Accelerator
North Somerset Enterprise Agency
Outset
Prince’s Trust
Tech Nation Growth Programmes
The CEO Room
We Are Growth
BAME programmes
Bristol Gov Stepping Up Programme
IP help
Business West Intellectual Property
Tech hubs
Bristol and Bath Science Park
Bristol Games Hub
Bristol VR Lab
Engine Shed
Health Tech Hub
Pervasive Media Studio
Tech news
Bristol24/7
Bristol Business
Bristol Media
Bristol Post
South West Business
TechSPARK
Tech recruiters
Adlib Recruitment
Fwd Thinking Recruitment
Ignite Digital
IO Associates
SR2 Recruitment
Techfolk
Job boards
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