Companies involved in Bristol tech incubator SETsquared raised nearly £100m of investment in 2021.Based at the city’s Engine Shed innovation hub, the University of Bristol incubator supports the growth of technology start-ups, helping them move from initial ideas into commercial viability. Businesses within the incubator attracted record investment of £98.8m last year – equivalent to 15% of the total £636m raised by firms in the city over the period. More than half of SETsquared’s 80 companies raised investment, it said, including former member Ultraleap, which raised £60m to further commercialise its hand-tracking and mid-air haptics tech. Other high-level raises included breast cancer detection system Micri …
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