Securing funding is a crucial step for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) looking to grow and scale their businesses. The Barclays Demo Directory is a free, sector-agnostic platform designed to help UK-based start ups and scale-ups connect with business angels, venture capitalists, private equity firms, and family offices.

1956 Individuals, an AI pioneer leading the global charge in avatar creation, has entered multiple categories of the 35th Anniversary Business Weekly Awards – and the move could hardly be better timed.
It comes just weeks before the company brings the story of one of the legendary grandfathers of artificial intelligence, Alan Turing, to Bletchley Park in a unique digital AI experience.

The 8Cs Framework is a simple but powerful checklist that helps businesses assess whether you’re truly ready to scale. It forces you to think about the hidden risks and ensures that when you do scale, you’re doing it in a way that’s sustainable, profitable, and built for the long haul.

Bathroom and boiler installation specialist BI-UK has taken an office at The EpiCentre. The company is run by husband and wife team, Dan and Hayley Bruton and it has taken a four-person office at the centre to accommodate the quickly growing business.

Rapidly growing residential property management company Foster Kemp has taken space at The EpiCentre in Haverhill.
The company that manages residential estates and blocks of flats, acting on behalf of leaseholders, has a large number of clients in the Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket, Ipswich and Mildenhall areas.

The barbecue seasonings and sauces packaging produced by CP Packaging, an occupier of The Epicentre, appeared on the BBC’s Dragons’ Den programme on 20th February 2025.

Entrepreneurs in the innovation space—whether they are launching a deep-tech start up, commercialising cutting-edge research, or spinning out from a university—face additional challenges that often go unrecognised.

Locals residents and businesses were invited to a public meeting held at The EpiCentre to be updated with the latest information and next steps in the campaign to stop the proposed anaerobic digestion plant, in Withersfield near Haverhill.

ExpressionEdits in Cambridge has clinched unspecified riches from global pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim through a collaboration and licensing agreement.

The programme, with two unique options – the EpiFund and EpiBoost to suit startups, R&D spinouts, and established SMEs – originally had an application deadline of 31st January, 2025 but will now be extended indefinitely.