HSBC BRISTOL Article - Trailblazers

Meet the BRISTOL Trailblazers

Appsbroker

@Appsbroker | appsbroker.com

Swindon-based Appsbroker is one of the largest Google Cloud-only managed service providers in Europe. Having scaled rapidly since being founded in a garage in 2007, it is one of the few remaining owner-managed Google services specialists of scale, with cloud-based technology playing a critical part of companies’ IT solutions across the world.

BladeRoom Group Ltd

@BladeRoom | bladeroom.com

BladeRoom Group is the global leader in off-site construction, specialising in pre-engineered data centres and healthcare facilities. it is a leader in its respective markets, developing the world’s most efficient data centre and becoming the UK’s number one provider of operating theatres.

Ecologi

@Ecologi_hq | ecologi.com

Ecologi is the platform for collective climate action. It offers individuals and businesses affordable monthly subscription services to fund the best climate solutions worldwide - like forest restoration and verified carbon reduction projects. In just three years, Ecologi has already reduced over two million tonnes of CO2e and funded the planting of 50 million trees, and helped 15,000 businesses to take climate action - including BAFTA, Co-Op and Vodafone.

Finisterre

@finisterre | finisterre.com

Finisterre is a pioneering outdoor clothing brand born from the needs of hardy British surfers. Founded in 2003, the brand is an example of a B Corp leading the way in creating the highest quality sustainable products. Headquartered in Cornwall, it has expanded to 9 locations across the UK.

Aardman

@aardman | aardman.com

Aardman is a world leader in animated entertainment across film, TV and gaming. It is the four-time Academy Award® winning animation studio behind Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, Chicken Run and Morph. Its animation studio is continuing to innovate by introducing novel technologies such as AR and VR into the entertainment experience.

Huboo

@huboofulfilment | huboo.com

Huboo is disrupting eCommerce fulfilment. Founded in 2017, it helps businesses realise their full potential by taking care of their fulfilment needs and solving the challenge of getting orders to customers efficiently. It is now one of the fastest-growing fulfilment companies in the UK and on track to become the latest Bristol-born ‘Unicorn’.

Precision Resourcing Group

@precision_resource_group | precisionresourcegroup.co.uk

PRG, the parent company of iO Associates, Finitas, Panoramic Associates and Panoramic Care, is a recruitment specialist in established and emerging industries - from healthcare to technology and engineering. Alongside being one of the South West’s fastest growing businesses, it is committed to addressing issues of diversity and inclusion, including removing barriers to hiring Black recruiters and committing to gender equality in the workplace.

RipJar

@ripjar | ripjar.com

RipJar is a global company of talented technologists, data scientists and analysts designing products that change the way criminal activities are detected, investigated and monitored and prevented. By leveraging machine learning and advanced analytics, it is helping to protect governments and organisations from money laundering, fraud, cybercrime, and terrorism. Founded in 2013, the company has grown year on year.

Rovco

@RovcoSubsea | rovco.com

Rovco is a UK founded, industry 4.0 business, and global provider of subsea robotic and hydrographic survey solutions to the offshore wind and oil field decommissioning sectors. It focuses on the use of perception, data and autonomy technology to modernise and help further the growth of marine generated renewable energy.

Space Forge

@Space_Forge | spaceforge.com

Space Forge is on a mission to lead the clean industrial revolution by harnessing the power of space. It is developing fully reusable satellites that are designed for manufacturing next-generation super materials in space for a return to Earth to be used to help move to low-carbon technologies.

Truespeed

@theTRUESPEED | truespeed.com

Truespeed is bringing the South West ultrafast, ultra-reliable full-fibre broadband. By providing each home with its own full fibre line, it delivers guaranteed speed broadband that customers can truly rely on. It recently reached a milestone of 50,000 properties passed and ready for service, and has secured an additional £100m investment to level-up digital connectivity.

Immersive Labs

@immersivelabslth | immersivelabs.com

Immersive Labs is the leader in people-centric cyber resilience. It provides realistic simulations and hands-on cybersecurity labs that help organisations continuously assess, build, and prove their readiness for cyber attacks. Its core product evaluates individual and team capabilities and decision-making against the latest threats and allows organisations to measure their readiness compared to industry benchmarks.

Limbs & Things

@LimbsandThings1 | limbsandthings.com

Limbs & Things is a leading healthcare simulation manufacturer committed to improving patient outcomes by facilitating realistic learning experiences. Founded in 1990 by Margot Cooper who spotted a gap in medical training, it now works in close collaboration with medical professionals globally to research, design and create products for hands-on healthcare training.

Netomnia

@netomnia | netomnia.com

Netomnia is delivering digital infrastructure, using innovative technology and agile deployment, to bring ultrafast broadband to under-served towns and cities across the UK. Founded in 2019, Netomnia is investing in rapidly building a high-quality multi-gigabit network for UK homes and businesses, future proofing communities for decades to come.

Ultraleap

@ultraleap | ultraleap.com

Ultraleap is on a mission to redefine interaction. Its world-leading hand tracking and haptic technologies enable people to use their hands directly to interact with digital content. It’s grown rapidly and recently completed a £60m investment round to continue development of its revolutionary technologies in XR, out-of-home and automotive.

XMOS

@xmos | xmos.ai

XMOS is a deep tech company at the leading edge of the intelligent internet of things (IoT). It addresses the evolving market need for flexible compute to serve an ever-widening range of smart things including voice, imaging, and ambient sensing; enabling embedded engineers to build entire system-on-chip solutions purely in software.

XMOS

@xmos xmos.ai

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