Start up Scale up

New partnership aims to break down EU barriers for Scottish start-ups
“Ireland and Scotland have strong start-up ecosystems, but there is real opportunity to achieve more by connecting them” – James Trotman, CodeBase

Taxpayer-backed SNIB leads £3.4m funding for Glasgow robotic surgery specialist

ScotGov’s Techscaler sends founders on investor missions to London and Paris

Grocery delivery platform gets snappy with seven-figure Virgin Money facility

Kevin Havelock is mid-market champion for Royal Bank of Scotland, part of NatWest Group.

‘Conversion gap’ holding back growth for 4,400 Scottish mid-market businesses

Broadcaster and founder of SAIRA Saira Khan, co-founder and CEO of SuperScalers Sam Smith, founder and chair of Pathways Forward Ana Stewart, entrepreneur and author Sahar Hashemi OBE, founder of Ooni Darina Garland, CEO of ScaleUp Institute Irene Graham OBE. Picture by Anna Moffat

Hundreds of female entrepreneurs and leaders gather for Edinburgh growth summit

‘Pivotal moment’ as Scottish underwater monitoring scale-up secures £2.6 million

Edinburgh global growth summit targeting female founders looking to scale-up

Scotland’s 358-strong ‘untapped innovation cohort’ presents a real opportunity

Scottish biotech pioneer set to break ground on ‘peat-free’ production plant

Edinburgh AI specialist adds top talent from FanDuel and Waracle

Techscaler cohort: Ten of Scotland’s top tech founders head to Silicon Valley

Scottish Start-Up Month returns with free support for budding entrepreneurs

Green light for ‘milestone’ expansion of innovation park next to Glasgow Airport

Scotland’s start-up surge as UK business population hits record 5.66 million

Edinburgh image sensor start-up gets £1.6m funding boost after ‘phenomenal’ year

Simply Asset Finance hits £200 million Scottish lending milestone

Scottish firm behind ‘green’ building bricks secures £900k growth backing

‘Particularly concerning’ figures show fall in Scotland’s scale-up businesses

New academy looks to help fill Scotland’s critical industrial skills gap

Is your Scottish tech business ready for private equity? Alan Downie

Free programme looks to plug Scotland’s tech start-up support gap

Seven-figure investment has Glasgow marketing agency going for global dominance

Scotland attracts record 76 new funders to market as investment broadens

Entrepreneurial Scotland places record 208 students in internships globally

£3.5m boost for West Lothian firm pioneering new type of plastic recycling

Glasgow ticketing disruptor valued at £2.2m after funding boost

£420m boost: BGF marks 15 years of backing Scottish start-ups and scale-ups

Why Scotland has seen a 74% surge in equity investment value as UK falters

100-pledge milestone for initiative launched by Scotland’s chief entrepreneur

Green hydrogen pioneer has ‘big plans’ after move to Aberdeen Energy Park

32 of Scotland’s ‘most inspiring’ small companies win £1.4m in funding

Tricapital: Scots syndicate leads £3m-plus deals and unveils key hire

Firm aims to be Scotland’s top GovTech scale-up as revenues top £1m

Edinburgh start-up in race to be crowned ‘UK’s most exciting tech business’

Dundee start-up venture looks to reinvent hotel management model

£2.6m for Edinburgh firm producing ‘live experiences’ for Netflix and Bafta

Glasgow life sciences firm gets £19m boost in one of largest deals of its kind

Douglas Graham, director of innovation clusters at Edinburgh Innovations, the University of Edinburgh’s commercialisation service, and Heidi Simpson, regional accelerator director, Royal Bank of Scotland. Picture: Ian Georgeson / Royal Bank of Scotland

RBS and Edinburgh Uni seal new alliance to support Scotland’s boldest start-ups

Edinburgh Uni spinout raises £10m to help address three 'pressing challenges'

Scottish investors back pioneering firm behind rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink

Scottish tech accelerator that’s helped create 400 jobs backs three new ventures

20 high-growth regional businesses share £400,000 in Scottish funding contest

Scottish taxpayer backs Edinburgh wearable device maker to tune of £3 million

Scottish space sector boost as Edinburgh avionics innovator expands

RBS offering £30,000 prize pot for budding Scots entrepreneurs

Scottish start-up Hosel bringing ‘trust’ to £2 billion used golfing gear market

CodeBase unveils shake-up as former Skyscanner director gets on board

From left, co-founders Dr Valentino Seferai, CTO; Dr Jack Brennan, CEO; Wridhdhisom Karar, Measurement Lead; and Prof Martin Weides, Scientific Advisor.

£2.5 million boost for Glasgow Uni spin-out at cutting edge of quantum tech

Scottish jobs tech platform embarks on ‘pivotal year’ with key appointment

Flagship accelerator seeks ‘Scotland’s most promising tech founders’

Scotland named UK’s start-up hotspot as more Scots look to ‘change direction’

Stac chairman Jim Rowan and Paul Wilson, CEO. Picture: Stewart Attwood

Former Volvo CEO to chair Scottish tech accelerator as it launches £15m fund

Glasgow ultrasonic surgery pioneer unveils new boss and funding boost

Scottish government unveils £2.5 million boost for young entrepreneurs

Johnston Carmichael and Stac tie-up to ‘empower’ Scotland’s tech entrepreneurs

Spin-out boost as University of Edinburgh innovations arm provides £113m lift

Milestone breakthrough for Scots hydrogen energy pioneer on staggering journey

Funding of up to £50,000 for start-ups beyond Scotland’s Central Belt

Members of the BGF Scotland and Northern Ireland team. Picture by Chris Watt Photography

BGF eyes ‘positive’ 2026 after significant exits and successful new deal

Team members at Archangels, the Edinburgh-based business angel syndicate.

Archangels gives £41 million boost to Scottish tech and life science scale-ups

Scots satellite firm goes global with £6m boost and former Virgin Galactic boss

Edinburgh-founded robotics start-up raises $1m to help solve $100bn challenge

Scottish firm whose tech promises ‘happier, healthier pets’ secures £2.7m

Scottish firm ‘uniquely positioned’ to tap into AI secures significant funding

Edinburgh University spinout secures £4.5m to grow tree-boosting fungal tech

Scottish firm’s £1.5m boost to create world’s most convenient disposable inhaler

Solving Scotland’s scaling-up conundrum: New report sets out 15 priorities

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