‘Barclays Eagle Lab’ in partnership with Legal & General is celebrating its 1st year anniversary by offering free co working facilities for Business News Wales readers. The 6,500ft2 incubator facility located at Brunel House, Cardiff provides the South Wales start-up and scale-up communities with a dedicated workspace for growing and successful businesses.
Cardiff is one of 20 Eagle Labs Barclays has opened, after success in locations such as Salford, London and Edinburgh.
The 120 seat co-working site, is home to high growth businesses with access to Maker Space facilities supporting rapid prototyping and product development. With local companies such as Sure Chill, MediData Exchange and Artimus, demand is already proving strong for this cutting edge facility.
Niki James, Lab Manager at Cardiff Eagle Lab said,
“The Barclays Eagle Lab business incubator has been successfully launched in 19 other major cities across the UK, some by regenerating unused Barclays premises; and others by partnering in the regeneration of city buildings. We are offering Business News Wales readers 2 days free co working access to the lab and all the facilities we have to offer.
Our investment is bringing benefits far beyond a shared workspace and much further afield than Cardiff. This Barclays Eagle Lab in the heart of Cardiff will help Welsh entrepreneurial companies to scale up and accelerate their growth locally and into international markets.
We recognize the importance of supporting entrepreneurs, start-ups and accelerating high growth companies, and the vital role they play in creating a sustainable, prosperous Welsh economy.”
The space at Brunel House, has been specifically designed around the needs of local entrepreneurs, businesses and communities and tailored to suit Wales’ strength in high tech digital and IoT (Internet of Things) innovation. The lab provides a range of equipment and development platforms such as a LoRaWAN and Sigfox base station to support IoT product testing and access to digital fabrication tools such as rapid prototyping facilities including 3D printers and laser cutting equipment and educational workshops.
Nigel Saunders, CEO at Sure Chill based at the Cardiff Eagle Lab said
“Sure Chill is a fast growing company with a groundbreaking technology that is changing the way people cool around the world. Currently in a stage of rapid growth, we needed a location that was agile enough to suit our expansion, yet with state of the art facilities to continue our innovative product development. With collaboration, innovation, and flexibility at its core, we quickly decided Barclays Eagle Lab was an ideal home for us. Barclays has also added great value by providing introductions to their extensive list of contacts and connections.”
The Labs are supported by a dedicated Eco-System Manager, Lab Technician and a Barclays Business Manager on site to provide help and advice to local companies and entrepreneurs from across South Wales. The Eagle Lab will also act as the Cardiff base for Barclays’ Digital Eagles community activity.
To take up the offer please e mail [email protected] and quote Business News Wales.
