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Kingussie High School scoops first place for Junior and Senior categories at this year’s Growing Future Assets Competition. After going to head-to-head with 660 schoolgirls competing from 144 teams across Scotland, Kingussie High School, based in the Scottish Highlands, has scooped first place for not one, but both the Junior and Senior categories, at this year’s nationwide Growing ...
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Alba secures licence to help transform banking for small and medium sized businesses in Scotland via its high-tech and customer-focused solution. Scotland’s first bank solely dedicated to small and medium sized business lending has been granted a banking licence by the UK Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) and the FCA. Founded in 2018 with its headquarters in Glasgow, Alba was Author...
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New report reveals the huge impact of Archangels' investments on the Scottish economy in terms of both money generated and jobs created. Archangels, the world’s longest continually running investment syndicate, has generated up to £1.4 billion Gross Value Added (GVA) for the Scottish economy from its investments in the life sciences and tech sectors. The analysis, conducted by the...
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Edinburgh-based startup SmpliCare innovating how we care and age by exploring the use of AI-driven wearables to predict the risk of falls and other age-related health issues Unfortunately, as we get older, the risks to our health increase, as does the risk of things like falling. In fact, more than half of over-80s fall at least one per year, which can have far more grave consequences than it w...
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New business event Invest2Scale aims to support Scottish scaleups by introducing them to investors and VCs based across the UK and beyond. A new, in-person business event aimed at supporting the best scale-up companies in Scotland has just been launched in Edinburgh. Led by a group of leading business support organisations, Invest2Scale will help revenue-generating scalable Scottish companies w...
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Calling all tech startups in Scotland! Here's a fab opp to avail of a free startup showcase package at the inaugural Digital DNA Glasgow on 28th September. Fancy showcasing your startup at Digital DNA Glasgow 2022 on the 28th September? Digital DNA has a number of complimentary Startup PODs available for Scottish startups to do just that. Here's the details! Since 2013, Digital DNA has be...
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Startups founded by students and recent graduates from the University of Edinburgh secure SMART:SCOTLAND grants to help support their ambitious and innovative projects. Five startup businesses founded by students and recent graduates from the University of Edinburgh are celebrating after securing almost half a million pounds in grant funding awards between them. The five young companies, all su...
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Edinburgh-based life science company Cytomos secures funding to support further development of its innovative cell analysis tech. Cytomos, an Edinburgh-based life science company that has developed a proprietary new approach to analysing cells, has secured £1.6m funding to progress the development and qualification of its novel cell analysis platform, Cytomos Dielectric Spectroscopy (CDS...
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No stamps or postage labels required! Edinburgh-based startup Stamp Free has created a digital and convenient alternative to traditional mail as we know it. Stamps. Perhaps not the bane of our existence, but we have all been in the position of needing to post something, but we don’t have any stamps in the house. Now, instead of simply throwing it in the postbox at the end of the street, w...
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Scottish startup Earth Blox secures investment to support global expansion and further development of its no-code earth observation software. Great news for Scottish tech firm Earth Blox with the announcement that it has secured £1.5m funding from Archangels to expand its global reach and further develop its no-code Earth Observation (EO) cloud-based SaaS. Earth Blox ...
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