Please see below, a summary of businesses that have been supported by the Accelerated Growth Programme. 

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Entrepreneur shares how she overcame personal obstacles to steer a fast-growing cleaning company to success.

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"Business Wales AGP's help has been transformational for my business."

Overcoming challenges is a shared experience for most entrepreneurs. Some barriers, however, are more significant than others. Rayner Davies is an entrepreneur who has turned her business into a huge success through sheer grit and determination. Her inspiring story is proof of how an entrepreneurial spirit, and a mindset of perseverance, can spur personal and business growth. Her company, A&R Cleaning Services, has been supported through the Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme (AGP). The AGP...
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Tech start-up has 360-degree vision as it eyes an exciting future.

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“We’re very grateful for all the support Business Wales AGP has provided us.”

The use of virtual reality technology to aid businesses across a range of sectors is growing. Cardiff University students George Bellwood and Robin David identified a need and developed technology to fit into that space, using their expertise and skills while in their final years at university. Their firm Virtus Tech is a virtual reality and data insight company providing virtual reality platforms to businesses. Their flagship DIGI Tour uses 360 degree images and digital...
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23 entrepreneurs win place on accelerator programme designed to champion diversity in entrepreneurship in Wales

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Twenty-three entrepreneurs have secured a coveted place on a new accelerator programme, which will help them overcome the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic while championing diversity across the Welsh business start-up landscape.

The business founders beat entrepreneurs from across Wales to secure a place on the Excelerator Programme, which will see people from under-represented groups take part in a Welsh Government-funded 12-week immersive accelerator programme. The aim is to help them launch and grow their business idea or scale an existing business. The virtual programme will include a series of expert masterclasses for founders, as well as mentorship and professional coaching from business start-up and scaleup experts...
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How Covid crisis is pushing company’s AI technology into frontline orthopaedic care.

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“The expertise and advice we have been able to access through Business Wales AGP helped me to develop my idea into a viable business proposition.”

Technology is becoming an ever more important tool for medical practitioners across the healthcare sector. In so many ways, the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated that trend, bringing new treatments and new methods of diagnoses and consultation to the fore. Agile Kinetic, an early-stage business, has developed artificial intelligence (AI) to help healthcare professionals deliver better services to patients. The company has been supported through the Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme (AGP), which provides targeted support...
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The healthcare start-up determined to improve the patient experience.

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"Being part of Business Wales AGP has given us access to invaluable mentorship."

The way healthcare is delivered is constantly changing and improving. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the way healthcare services are provided in a multitude of ways. Concentric Health is a technology start-up transforming the way we make decisions about our health, with a radical approach to patients' experience as they move through the system. The Cardiff-based firm wants to disrupt the health sector for the better. Here Dafydd Loughran, one of Concentric's co-founders, explains...
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Welsh businesses "falling short" on diversity says leading academic, author and entrepreneur.

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Welsh tech-for-good firm Do-IT Profiler announces new global partnership set to pioneer diverse recruitment practices.

Businesses in Wales need to do more to ensure they can reap the benefits of truly diverse and inclusive teams and boards, according to world-leading neurodiversity expert and entrepreneur Professor Amanda Kirby. Professor Kirby, a founder of Cardiff-based tech-for-good firm Do-IT Profiler, says that despite increasing awareness of the business benefits of diversity, there remains a "reticence and a naivety" around recruiting, retaining and progressing a diverse workforce. She says this often results in "tokenistic"...
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Recruitment firm’s ambitious growth targets after navigating a challenging 2020

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“Being part of the Business Wales AGP has provided a huge amount of help and expertise for the company.”

Recruiting the right people for your business is one of the key components in making it a success. For Go2 Drivers, based in Colwyn Bay, that ethos is critical. Providing talent for the logistics sector has been its central aim since it was founded in 2011. Here, managing director Christopher Hughes gives an overview of the company’s history and shares valuable advice for others setting out on their own entrepreneurial journey, Tell us about Go2...
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Ruthin entrepreneur recognised for success on Top 100 female entrepreneurs list

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Workplace Worksafe founder Rhian Parry recognised for her contribution to society, the economy and local community.

Ruthin entrepreneur Rhian Parry has been named one of the UK's 100 most inspirational female entrepreneurs by Small Business Britain's f:Entrepreneur '#ialso100' campaign. Rhian, who founded Workplace Worksafe - one of the leading independent suppliers of health and safety equipment, personal protection equipment (PPE) and branded workwear in 2005 - is recognised alongside 99 female entrepreneurs from across the UK who are flourishing despite the challenges thrown up by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now in its...
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Welsh technology to help U.S. Navy reduce waste and environmental impact

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Cardiff-based Thermal Compaction Group eyes significant growth following the sale of its 'Massmelt' prototypeCardiff-based Thermal Compaction Group eyes significant growth following the sale of its 'Massmelt' prototype.

Thermal compaction technology developed in Wales is set to help the U.S. Navy reduce the waste produced by its fleet by up to 75%. Cardiff-based Thermal Compaction Group (TCG) has sold a prototype of its patented Massmelt thermal compaction system to the U.S. Navy, in a six-figure deal. The firm is now in negotiations to licence the design for manufacture in the U.S., in a potentially multi-million-dollar deal. TCG, based in Curran Road, was founded...
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Wales’ Limb Art scoops prestigious Great British Entrepreneur Award

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The former Paralympic swimmer and founder of LIMB-art, Mark Williams, has won the national Entrepreneurial Spirit Award for 2020 at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards.

Mark won the award at the virtual National Final on Tuesday and builds on the same title he won for Wales at the regional final in September. National winners were crowned from a group of 135 founders of 110 businesses who were successful at the regional finals. The Covid-19 pandemic forced the National Final online for the first time. LIMB-art is a British design and manufacturing company based in the heart of beautiful North Wales...

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