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Cohort 3 of our innovation accelerator programme is live! We’ve welcomed another 7 start-ups onto the programme and want to introduce them all to you in this post.  Cohort 2 was a remarkable success, as we helped 8 of the 11 startups who took part enter business case...

Thursday 19th November 2020 was a celebration of the stand outs of Lab by Transport for Wales cohort 2. With one start-up being awarded £25,000, 2 receiving commendations from TfWR and a total of 8 start-ups progressing to business case review. Our virtual demo day...

We've accelerated almost 20 businesses and took 13 of these to business case review with Transport for Wales Rail. Recruitment for cohort 3 of our innovation accelerator programme is now open! Your business could be the next startup to come through our innovation lab...

With demo day fast approaching - we are really excited to showcase all the great work our startups have been doing during cohort 2.   Due to COVID restrictions, cohort 2 has not been able to take place from our innovation Lab in Newport. However, that doesn't mean...

Wales' only rail dedicated is gearing up for cohort 2 demo day. On November 13th, 11 start-ups will pitch their solutions to TfWR and Keolis Amey stakeholders. These pitches will showcase ideas that have been developed over the 11 week Innovation Accelerator...

We're super excited at TfWL with all the start-ups we have taking part in cohort 2. Due to COVID restrictions, cohort 2 has not been able to take place from our innovation Lab in Newport. Consequently, cohort 2 has been taking place remotely. We're collaborating with...

We're over way half way through cohort 2 of TfWL. In this time, we've seen 11 brilliant start-ups problem solving challenges that are facing Transport for Wales Rail. Over this 6 week period, start-ups have; Analysed and prioritised challenge areas Identified area's...

Week 4 was dedicated to stakeholder workshops. These workshops allowed start-ups to present, playback and review their progress, ideas and thoughts with their stakeholders. Stakeholders could then provide feedback, plugging in gaps, or validating assumptions that had...

Week 3 saw start-ups on cohort 2 of TfWL take part in a number of design thinking workshops. As well as this, we had guest speakers talk about additional funding and resources available to each start-up. Let's take a closer look at what went down in week 3 of TfWL's...