Fixing the female funding gap; a founder shares her experience
Next week will see fifty ‘high-growth potential’ technology companies pitch for funding at the annual Engage Invest Exploit (EIE) event hosted by Informatics Ventures – ten of them founded by...
Scottish Optoelectronics Association rebrands as Photonics Scotland
The Scottish Optoelectronics Association (SOA), Scotland’s community for photonics and photonics-enabled organisations, today launched its strategic paper, ‘Photonics in Scotland: A Vision for 2030’, and announced it was rebranding as...
Boosting Scotland’s international collaboration in digital education
EIT Digital, the Europe-wide digital innovation and entrepreneurial education organisation, has opened a centre in Edinburgh. Funded by Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Funding Council and EIT Digital, and hosted by the...
Scottish space tech set to combat ‘cocoa-fuelled deforestation’
African Governments and the world’s cocoa companies are to be handed a new tool in their battle to end deforestation caused by their supply chains. Using satellite derived information from...
Scotland’s global role showcased at UK’s first two-week festival of data innovation
DataFest19, the UK’s first two-week festival of data innovation, focused on the economic and social benefits of data-driven innovation. The festival saw in excess of 4,000 participants, with 62 events...
Scottish start-ups seek greater investment to tackle the US market
More than 40% of Scotland’s tech start-ups and scale-ups are targeting the US market for growth but have found access to finance the biggest barrier to their ambitious plans. The...
Glasgow’s M Squared Lasers named among Tech Nation’s 2019 ‘Future Fifty’ firms
Glasgow’s M Squared Lasers has been named among the top 24 late-stage companies to watch by Tech Nation – as the UK network for digital tech entrepreneurs today reveals the...
Europe backs copyright reforms targeting Google and Facebook
Europe has endorsed an overhaul of its two-decade old copyright rules, which will force Google and Facebook to pay publishers for the use of news summaries and make them filter...
Turing Fest announces 2019 speakers
Turing Fest, Europe’s “leading cross-functional tech conference”, is returning to Edinburgh this year with, said organisers, “an ambitious new format and a formidable lineup of speakers from some of the...
IPOS founders open first funding round for Boundary
The founders of Intelligent Point of Sale (IPOS), Robin Knox and Paul Walton, have opened the first funding round for their new venture – Boundary, a smart home alarm. The...
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