Two Scottish investor groups have reported record activity recently A busy time for Par Equity Par Equity recently announced that it had closed investments worth almost £5 million over a…
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Readers may have noticed some unfamiliar names in this month’s issue. On closer inspection two of these are familiar in their previous guises – Oodls was until recently Pixey, and…
YCF’s readers are encouraged to respond to the Scottish Government’s consultation on the objectives and structure of the Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) The Scottish Government’s 2017-18 Programme for Government…
Seed Haus invests at the pre-seed stage in “outstanding founders and pre-founders tackling real problems, in large markets”. Founded by Calum Forsyth, CEO, and Robin Knox, chairman, the initiative was…
In September, our annual conference programme focused on ‘Standing Out from the Crowd’ and included a fantastic array of inspiring presentations by speakers from well-established businesses; discussing how companies can…
Standing out from the crowd Each year YCF’s annual conference takes a broad theme that gives a variety of speakers the opportunity to set out their own knowledge or experience...
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David is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years in the global enterprise technology sector and an award-winning leader, having built, grown and sold a series of businesses in Europe,…
Austin is a senior partner in the Corporate Division and also a director of West Lothian Chamber of Commerce. A former winner of the Law Awards of Scotland’s ‘Corporate Lawyer…
Jude is the Cofounder and CEO of ShareIn, the Edinburgh based fintech business. Jude studied General Engineering at Durham University, specialising in Fluid Mechanics. She then qualified as a Chartered…
With a background in lean product and service design, Craig has over 20 years’ experience delivering large scale transformations, covering enterprise technology deployments, new product development, multi-channel sales propositions, lean…