10 Years of Impacting Economies
From entrepreneurs and SMEs to large organisations, experts at USW are helping business to thrive.
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Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Emerging Technologies (CEMET)
With a particular interest in emerging and enabling technologies which can transform daily lives, CEMET has supported many businesses, such as Cardiff-based company Antiverse - which operates in the medicinal drug discovery sector of the pharmaceutical industry.
Antiverse was founded to introduce artificial intelligence into the process of discovering antibody treatments to discover antibodies inaccessible to traditional methods, improving the success rate and reducing the associated time and cost of new medicines.
Experts at CEMET worked with Antiverse in its early days discussing alternative ways of approaching the problem, producing useful insights for Antiverse's world-first
computational system, which is successfully making the discovery of antibody treatments more efficient and accurate.
Antiverse continues to develop rapidly, raising £2.5 million through investment in the past year to further accelerate their business.
Developing Entrepreneurial Women programme
A programme at USW is helping to develop female entrepreneurs, giving businesses and the economy a boost.
Research shows that women who start and grow a business face more barriers around access to finance, disproportionate caring responsibilities, and different levels of access to networks.
USW launched the Developing Entrepreneurial Women programme, in partnership with NatWest Cymru, to provide masterclasses and networking, as well as opportunities to access business coaching and CPD. From gaining financial and legal knowhow, to developing a marketing strategy, participants not only receive technical knowledge, but benefit from a supportive community of female founders.
The programme has benefited hundreds of women, supporting those that choose to launch their own business, and giving them a helping hand to succeed.