The AccelerateHER programme, run in Scotland by Investing Women (www.investingwomen.co.uk), has teamed up with Barclays Ventures to offer specialist mentoring to some of the nation’s most promising female-led companies. Angel…
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There have been a number of recent reports from analysts who track venture funding in the UK. Ascendant Corporate Finance (www.ascendant.co.uk) works with growing companies who use technology as the…
In the second quarter of 2020 angel syndicate members of LINC Scotland, the national business angel association, maintained the high level of activity seen in the first quarter. Taking these…
Following last month’s report on the many ways in which innovative companies in Scotland are using their expertise to combat the coronavirus pandemic, we have tracked more efforts from…
The winners of the 2020 Queen’s Awards for Enterprise were announced on 21 April, the Queen’s birthday. Many congratulations to the eight Scottish firms which won awards: Innovation category Armadilla,…
In the first quarter of 2020 Edinburgh-based angel investment syndicate Equity Gap completed 12 deals and delivered £2.85 million of investment to early stage businesses in Scotland. A number of…
The Scottish Tech Army is building a volunteer Covid-19 technical response team. The Scottish Tech Army is building a rapid response force to address short and midterm recovery phase responses…
Business angel syndicates in Scotland participated in deals which invested over £100m in young entrepreneurial companies in the financial year to end March 2020. This is a record for…
Companies around the world have been spurred by the pandemic to consider what they can do, both the mitigate the effects on their own operations and to adapt what…
With relatively little of the new funding yet reaching its intended recipients, and both the UK and the Scottish Governments trying to respond to pleas from all parts of…