June update from Tech SY
Tech Scale Up Advisors Expansion Programme We are excited to announce the expansion of the Tech Scale Up Advisors programme by Business Sheffield, which is
May 28, 2025
Tech Scale Up Advisors Expansion Programme We are excited to announce the expansion of the Tech Scale Up Advisors programme by Business Sheffield, which is
TechForge We ran our ever-popular TechForge pre-accelerator earlier in the year. Attendance was good, and the character of the cohort was similar to that we
TECH SY progressing – team now recruited and we will be fully staffed from late October. Matt Snowden now in post as Programme Development Manager.
Social Enterprise Exchange 2024 The 9th Social Enterprise Exchange conference takes place in Sheffield, 21 November 2024, celebrating International Social Enterprise Day. This annual event
Entrepreneurial Spark is currently running two national programmes: The Space Accelerator and Evolve. Our Space Accelerator contains several programmes, and there are opportunities across all
In partnership with Sheffield Live!, we are opening a new co-working space for start-up and early-stage social, creative and environmental enterprises.
SEGA Programme – Business Sheffield/Sheffield City Council have commissioned Sheffield Social Enterprise Network (SSEN) to create a new Social Enterprise Growth Accelerator Programme (SEGA). The
The AWRC was pleased to announce its new cohort for 2024 following the securing of a commercial contract to deliver services as part of the
Delighted to say that we have now run the first two of our series of 6 ‘TechForge’ workshops.
We are a week away from concluding Transform SY! On June 9th we will host our Celebration Event where all cohorts, partners, supporters and friends of the accelerator will come together to acknowledge the successes achieved by Transform SY and the businesses we supported throughout the last 18 months.
We onboarded 3 new entrepreneurs to the Cooper Project last month, and interestingly one of them is a group of women entrepreneurs (consisting of 3 members), which is great.
In February, Twinkl received a minority investment from Vitruvian Partners to help Twinkl grow – we are excited for what this might mean for TwinklHive! To
We have partnered with TeamSY to host a women entrepreneur workshop. The first workshop was on the 4th and was very successful with 9 attendees. The next one will be on the 20th, please feel free to share with anyone you know who might be interested.
The programme supports start-ups and SMEs to adopt, integrate and develop IoT through 1:1 mentoring and access to the MakerLab at Barnsley DMC for prototyping and proof of concept support.
Blue Lake VC is excited to announce our investment in our BLA cohort 1 graduate Humans Not Robots. The team is on a mission to
– Accelerator programme #2 R&D projects continue (each one of varying length in line with needs of company).
– Ongoing activity to recruit new mentors to our network in readiness for programme #3.
– Our community work continues with the innovation futures programme.
Following a frenetic pre-xmas period, including a few memorable – or only vaguely memorable in the best cases! – Xmas events with tech sector colleagues
University of Sheffield spinout company, Phlux, has raised a cumulative £4M (LINK). Phlux Technology has designed the first infrared sensors for LiDAR using the semi-metal element,
We organised the showcase and pitching event of Project22 – a 12-week Pre-Accelerator, on 12th December. The best five businesses pitched and received valuable feedback from a panel of experienced business advisors.
Recruitment for the programme has now concluded however we are working with P4 Accelerator Programme in London with referrals – P4 have just launched recruitment
In January, Unrest held a very well attended demo day for their first South Yorkshire cohort at the Barbican in London. Applications are currently open
We from Transform SY haven’t sent an update since October, and that reflects how busy we’ve been in the last months of 2022 and the
Aside from R&D/grant funding activity with companies, our focus over the last couple of months has been planning and promotion around our new community-focused programme.
We are closing an investment fundraise for a Sheffield startup. Cast (https://www.experiencecast.com/), will have their round closed on Friday 20th January. It will either be
STP has had a busy couple of months delivering our cohort based pre-accelerator Project 22. This is coming to an end and we expect to
We had some fantastic events in the last two weeks of November: the P4SY Showcase & MedTech conference on Weds 23rd; the South Yorkshire Tech
Philippa and Tamara at the Tech Summit.
Participation of P4SY and Gold Standard Phantoms in SY Tech Summit and film content – great opportunity and platform for building the ecosystem.
New project announcement – AWRC Innovation Futures As part of our work in the community, we are pleased to announce a new project that will
The programme supports start-ups and SMEs to adopt, integrate and develop IoT through 1:1 mentoring and access to the MakerLab at Barnsley DMC for prototyping and proof of concept support.
As usual Chris and Morgan have been highly active in the local eco-system and a recent stocktake showed we are working actively with 50 tech
Programme Updates We ran our second Get Funding Fit programme, this time it was designed as an intensive 2-day bootcamp. We held it in September
We are at the half-point of Transform SY – Cohort 2 and just delivered our in-person event ‘Acceler8’. Now we are looking forward to the
Within our caseload, there have been 4 investment deals closed so far this financial year, totalling just under £0.5m. Two larger £1m+ deals are in
We have been announced as finalists in the Investor category at the EducationInvestor Awards 2022. We have invested in GrandNanny, the UK’s first intergenerational childcare
We delivered an online Stakeholder briefing session on 20th July to meet partners in the region, explain our plans for the programme and discuss both
Recruitment & Onboarding: Rolling recruitment to the programme – capacity for 6 more companies to join the programme for support until June 2023. Details regarding
Completion of second accelerator programme Our second cohort of companies have been through our curated programme which closed with a showcase on 6th September. The
We have established a new cell therapy regulatory consultancy business. ‘RCTC’ was founded by Dr Zoe Hewitt, an expert in stem cell technologies. The company
Sheffield Tech Parks will start the Project22, a 12-week Pre-Accelerator program (Oct-Dec 2022) from October 10th. It is designed to help early-stage Tech/ Digital start-ups
In the first of our P4SY Accelerator Programme Founder interviews, we’ve been talking with Grace Gimson, CEO and Co-Founder of Holly Health.
Blue Lake Open Office Hours:Over the month of August, we are offering open office hours for any early-stage start-ups in South Yorkshire. They are open
Rikki Coles, r.coles@connexin.co.uk Programme We are now supporting 16 businesses with various IoT-related projects across a variety of sectors from health care to rail
Contacts: Lahari Parchuri, l.parchuri@sheffield.ac.uk Tom Hemington, t.hemington@sheffield.ac.uk Clare Lankester, c.lankester@sheffield.ac.uk Dr Clare Lankester has recently joined Partnership & Regional Engagement at TUoS to act as
Contact: Andy Hogben, a.j.hogben@sheffield.ac.uk Capital Enterprise has recruited a new Mentor-in-Residence (TBA) and a new Engagement Manager (Clare Lankester) to work within the University of
We have invested in 2 new companies, Yakkr (a marketplace for online gaming experiences) and an EdTech company which we cannot yet disclose the name
Contact: Mike Stephens, mike@entrepreneurial-spark.com; Denis Ivanov, denis@entrepreneurial-spark.com; Update on Transform SY companies: Future Greens, led by Gabriele Barteskaite, who is growing seasonal greens with 95%
Contacts: Rose Tran, rose@shefftechparks.com Tom Wolfenden, tom@shefftechparks.com We have seen an increase in the applications for our Incubation program/ Cooper Project, which is great. We
Contacts: Philippa Hedley-Takhar, philippa@capitalenterprise.org Tamara Moon, tamara@capitalenterprise.org Programme officially launched 15th March at Electric Works – press coverage is here. 23 companies on the initial
Contacts: Morgan Killick, Morgan@levelupsolutions.co.uk Chris Wheater, cdw4020@gmail.com We have been doing more to collect and analyse data about the clients we support and are pleased
Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Canon Medical Systems UK (Canon Medical UK) to enhance
Contacts: Yvonne Asquith, Yvonne.Asquith@sheffield.gov.uk, Natalie Fletcher, Natalie.Fletcher@sheffield.gov.uk Sheffield best city to start a business in the Startup Cities Index 2022 Winning overall city, Sheffield Sheffield
Contact: Richard Bland, Richard.Bland@sheffield.gov.uk Department for Levelling Up Homes and Communities funding now received (mid-Feb). Consultation in Feb/Mar to raise awareness of AMID#2 programme and
Sheffield Hallam University has been awarded £300,000 for a healthy ageing project that will address some of the barriers faced by older adults who struggle
Contact: Laura Bennett, laura@capitalenterprise.org David Richard’s EyUp Skills are launching the Entrepreneurship Academy with TEAM SY, building on the success of their Coding Academy. Expressions
A CEO who had support from Sheffield Hallam University two years ago has now joined its panel of industry experts to help others achieve their
A CEO who had support from Sheffield Hallam University two years ago has now joined its panel of industry experts to help others achieve their
Contact: Ryan Sylvester, ryan.sylvester@shu.ac.uk Promotion has gone well with applicants from 11 countries applying for this year’s programme. Shortlisting has taken place and interviews in
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