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WORLD LEADING BUSINESS SUPPORT

BUILDING SUCCESS SINCE 2002

2002

£5m innovation grant secured to establish SETsquared with Bath, Bristol, Surrey

Successful Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF 1) £5m bid led by the University of Southampton to establish SETsquared with Bath, Bristol and Surrey.
2002
2002
2003

Business incubation centres established at the Universities of Bath, Bristol and Southampton

Business incubation centres established at the Universities of Bath, Bristol and Southampton to accelerate technology spinouts from the research base as well as local start-ups.
2003
2004

Launch of Annual Investment Showcase in London

The Annual Investment Showcase started in 2004 and by its 15th year in 2018 raised over £120m investment.
2004
2006

Surrey SETsquared Centre move to the Surrey Technology Park

2006
2007

SETsquared Surrey establish an exclusive investor network

SETsquared Surrey established the Surrey 100 Club, an exclusive investor network helping investors to connect with innovative fast growth early-stage companies and entrepreneurs in the Surrey and South East Region.
2007
2010

Southampton SETsquared Centre moves to the University of Southampton Science Park

2010
2010

SETsquared companies raise £22m & Ilika, Southampton spinout IPO’s

2010
2011

SETsquared companies raise £16m

2011
2011

University of Exeter joins the Partnership

2011
2012

SETsquared companies raise £25m & Revolymer, Bristol spinout IPO’s

2012
2013

SETsquared companies raise £30m

2013
2013

Bath Centre member Ubiquisys sold to Cisco for $310m

Bath Centre member Ubiquisys sold to Cisco for $310m, the biggest technology sale for many years.
2013
2014

ICURe pilot programme started

2014
2014

SETsquared companies raise £60m

2014
2014

SETsquared ranked top university business incubator

SETsquared ranked top university business incubator in Europe and 2nd in the world by University Business Incubator index.
2014
2015

Ranked as the Global No. 1 university business incubator by UBI Global

Ranking follow the worlds most extensive benchmark study of university linked business incubators from around the world, in which we scored highly against all 21 KPI’s.
2015
2015

SETsquared companies raise £90m

2015
2016

SETsquared companies raise £218m

2016
2017

£167m raised by SETsquared companies

2017
2018

Ranked as the Global No. 1 University business incubator

2018
2018

Report shows SETsquared’s Economic Impact to have been £8.6bn

Report shows SETsquared’s Economic Impact to have been £8.6bn which is set to grow to £27bn by 2030.
2018
2018

Graphcore a spinout of XMOS a spinout from Bristol raises $200m

2018
2018

Ultrahaptics raises £35m. Both classed as Unicorns

2018
2018

Ziylo, ICURe graduate, acquired for $800m

2018
2018

TDDS, Exeter centre member acquired for £19m

2018
2018

SETsquared companies raise £292m - over £0.75bn raised in the last 4 years

2018
2019

Actively 2019 supporting over 380 companies

Actively supporting over 380 companies with many more people and companies also being supported through our training programmes.
2019
2019

471 people or companies went through a SETsquared branded training programme

2019
2019

Ranked Global No1 University Business Incubator for the third time

2019
The future

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