Increasingly we are tracking investments in companies which are based outside Scotland but have their origins or strong connections here. Although YCF’s main focus is on companies formed and grown…
In July 2020 the Scottish Government announced a £38 million funding programme for innovative early stage businesses whose routes to investment and growth had been hit by coronavirus. The largest…
Unlocking Ambition is a £4m challenge fund created by the Scottish Government and delivered by entrepreneurial ecosystem partners In the first, pilot, round of the programme, 40 entrepreneurs received 12…
This is the first IPO of a Scottish company since Nucleus Financial in July 2018 Calnex Solutions designs, produces, and markets test instrumentation and solutions for network synchronisation and network…
Kerry Sharp, director of Scottish Investment Bank, has reported some key figures from its investment performance in 2019/20 “Scottish Enterprise has published its year-end results for 2019/20 and I’m delighted…
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…
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…
A fully virtual event, replacing our usual face-to-face conference but with the same emphasis on added value and networking The theme of the conference this year is the relationship…
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…