For Bristol's founders & entrepreneurs

Everything a Bristol founder needs, in one place.

Funding you could win, every event worth being at, places to work and people to ask — built by Bristol founders and given to the city. No catch, no upsell, no agenda.

What's here

We're many things. All of them yours.

However you arrive — chasing funding, building alone, burning out, or just new to the city — there's a door here for it. Everything below is live today.

The money

Win it or raise it.

33 grants open · £5.8m on the table

Every grant, competition and award a Bristol founder could win — and the angel networks, SEIS/EIS funds and accelerators when it's investment you need.

The week

Never miss what's on.

7 founder events this week

Every talk, meetup, angel night and fundraiser in the city's founder scene — one feed, refreshed 6am daily, or one short email each week.

The people

Founders helping founders.

The Town Square — who's building what, asks & offers with real names on them, small tables around your sector, and a monthly coffee that's open to everyone.

The person

Because you're not just the business.

Springboards when you need a boardroom's worth of attention, chaplaincy when you need someone unhurried, and friendship before either.

The practical

Somewhere to work, someone to test it.

Desks and studios that won't sink a young company — and real Bristol founders as your first early adopters before you launch.

All of it

The full toolkit, working live.

See every tool with live data flowing through it — what's open, what's on, who's asking. Roughly one new tool a month.

The Bristol Pulse · updated 6am daily

Never miss anything amazing again.

Every talk, meetup, angel night and fundraiser in Bristol's founder scene — found, checked and refreshed at 6am every day. One short email and the week ahead comes to you before it starts.

Email newsletter · weekly

Get the week ahead by email.

Everything worth being at, before the week starts.

No spam, one-click unsubscribe.

The Town Square

And behind it all — the people.

Everything above stays open to everyone — joining doesn't unlock a thing on this page. What it adds is the people: Bristol's founders, findable and up for helping each other.

Your name, your email, a six-digit code — about a minute. No spam, and easy to leave again.

Why we give it away

Useful and generous, given to the city.

We're builders, creators, founders, startups — passionate about creating and building, and excited to see the city of Bristol flourish.

Faith stays exactly where it has always been — in how the work is done, and in why it is given away.

This tool is the public half · the people are inside

Everything here is yours either way. The room is where it compounds.

The Town Square is the members' room behind these tools — 130+ Bristol founders, the directory of who does what, asks and offers answered by people who've been there, and a wave from someone building alongside you. Two minutes to join, nothing to pay, leave any time.