Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Enterprise head Adrian Gillespie

Scotland’s economy resilient and growing - Angus Robertson

But to prevent 400 threatened job losses at Mitsubishi

Image: Nicola Kennedy, CEO Heero Technologies.

Scottish clean tech company secures further £230,000 funding

LtoR Oren Smith-Carpenter and Rowland Fraser, co-founders Aurora Avionics

Investment fuels Aurora Avionics’ ascent

School pupils from Winchburgh Academy with headteacher Jonny Mitchell and ITZA CEO Anthony Bouchier. Picture by Stewart Attwood

Edinburgh venture secures £2m funding to grow digital learning hub in Scotland

Professor Chris McDermott, from Edinburgh University's School of Geosciences, says: "With more than 800,000 households in Scotland in fuel poverty, using waste heat could be a game-changer.” Picture Neil Hanna.

Supercomputer's waste energy could provide heating for city homes

Crystal FM's Eric Platten (foreground) and Colin McCall with the back-to-back awards from SME News, Scottish Enterprise Awards.

Community radio station retains national award

The firm has secured £1.72 million to scale up the production, sale, and supply of its Black Soldier Fly eggs and larvae to the insect farming sector. Picture: contributed.

Roslin's Beta Bugs nets seven-figure sum to scale eco-friendly insect offering

From left: Mark Mountford, Victoria Mackie, Paul Reid, and Rebecca Christensen of Trickle. Picture: Stewart Attwood.

Seven-figure boost for Edinburgh-based workplace productivity start-up Trickle

Innovation minister Richard Lochhead, Scottish Enterprise managing director of innovation Jane Martin and Össur vice president of R&D upper limb prosthetics Hugh Gill.

Artificial limb pioneer gets boost for £2m project to develop new products

Cytomos is an Edinburgh-based life sciences company that has developed a proprietary new approach to analysing cells and plans to scale up market-testing of its technology platform Cytomos Dielectric Spectroscopy (CDS). Picture: Mike Wilkinson

Edinburgh life sciences firm behind revolutionary tech secures £4m funding

The team at Skylark Lasers, which says it is leading the UK’s efforts to commercialise business-led inventions in the quantum technology market. Picture: contributed.

Ratho's Skylark Lasers beams up seven-figure funding boost from Innovate UK

Rhona Bree, who joins Equity Gap from Scottish Enterprise as a senior investment and portfolio manager, with Fraser Lusty, who becomes managing director.

Edinburgh investment syndicate Equity Gap unveils shake-up at top

Auticon UK says its focus is 'recruiting and retaining talent based on identifying and playing to the strengths of the individual' - and good for businesses. Picture: Kent Smith/Hand Cranked Films Inc.

Autistic people 'face catalogue of barriers preventing entry to workforce'

The business angel groups invested their money with co-investment coming from other private sector investors and public sector agencies. Picture: Jon Savage

Business angel investment tops record £50 million in 2022 - Linc Scotland

Kathrina Skinner (Waire Health), Mark Beaumont (Eos) and Dave Hurhangee (Waire Health). Picture: Stewart Attwood

Fife start-up secures £2m investment for device that can help ease bed blocking
A Fife start-up is set to scale its sensor technology designed to improve remote ward monitoring and ease bed blocking by reducing hospital readmissions following a £2 million funding injection.
Scott Reid

From left: technician Richard Osborne and Professor Dragan Jovcic from the School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen beside the DC circuit-breaker. Picture: contributed.

University projects net collective £150k to support renewable energy

While ADHD is a condition often associated with children, it can also affect adults (Picture: John Devlin)

I've just realised I might have adult ADHD. Hopefully natural remedies will help

Bayile Adeoti, founder of Glasgow-based Dechomai, a social enterprise working to empower ethnic minority women with leadership and enterprise skills, has been named one of this year’s Unsung Heroes. Picture: contributed.

Survey highlights 'magic that happens' to help early-stage Scots start-ups

Shahida Imani, CEO of Edinburgh-based Chromacity . Picture: Peter Dibdin

Edinburgh laser innovator Chromacity secures funds and names two new directors

Euan Tripp, partner at Anderson Strathern: 'Despite the uncertainty and disruption during 2022, it has been a very positive year for investment deal activity.'

Anderson Strathern 'cautiously optimistic' for 2023 after record investment year

Adrian Gillespie, CEO, Scottish Enterprise. Picture: Scottish Enterprise / Alan McAteer

Scottish Enterprise funding set to generate £700m of innovation activity

'We have established a close, long-term relationship with Barclays Eagle Labs... and we look forward to building on that rapport,' says AccelerateHER CEO Elizabeth Pirrie. Picture: contributed.

New partnership aims to help 40 UK female-led firms accelerate

David McElroy, CEO; Gary Loake, founder and chief science officer; Andrew Durkie, partner at Eos. Picture: Stewart Attwood

Edinburgh biotech start-up gets £2.6m injection to scale up business

AccelerateHER chief executive Elizabeth Pirrie has welcomed the additional support.

Scottish Enterprise signed up as 'key partner' for AccelerateHER awards

Evelyn McDonald, CEO Scottish Edge; Judith Cruickshank, managing director, commercial mid market at Royal Bank of Scotland, and Steven Hamill, COO Scottish Edge. Picture: Sandy Young/scottishphotographer.com

£1.5 million boost for high-growth firms as latest Scottish Edge launches

Claire Cramm, Iain Anderson, Benjamin O'Brien, Paul Atkinson and Tom Croy. Picture: Stewart Attwood

Edinburgh tech jobs boost as New Zealand firm opens 'centre of excellence'
A New Zealand firm behind advanced motion capture technology is launching a “centre of excellence” in Edinburgh as part of a multi-million-pound expansion of its capital operations.
Scott Reid

MiAlgae managing director Douglas Martin. Picture: Martin Shields

Edinburgh biotech behind sustainable pet food nets £2.3m investment

Scottish EDGE COO Steven Hamill and CEO Evelyn McDonald. Picture: Sandy Young Photography.

Scottish EDGE returns 'bigger and better' with latest round open for submissions

From left: Charles Sweeney, Kirsten Lord, and David Ovens. Picture: Jamie Williamson.

Healthtech firm PhysioMedics strengthening with seven-figure investment

Cytomos board: Alan Raymond, Stuart White, Mark Collinbourne, Nicola Broughton, Gino Miele, with Sarah Hardy from Archangels.

Edinburgh life sciences firm behind cell analysis tech secures £1.6m funding

From left: Nicola Wee, chief marketing officer; Jamie Hunter, chief operating officer; Joseph Twigg, CEO; and Andy Johnston, chief revenue officer. Picture: contributed.

'Regtech' firm Aveni scaling AI-backed platform with seven-figure funding boost

The latest recipients of the awards and funding celebrate. Scottish Edge is the biggest funding competition for high growth potential businesses. Picture: Sandy Young

Scottish Edge awards: 40 firms with 'entrepreneurial potential' share £1.5m

Mark Bustard, chief executive of IBioIC. Picture: Chris Watt

Scotland’s industrial biotech sector to be worth £1.2 billion by 2025

Livingston-based Brewster Brothers, which recycles 99 per cent of all construction, demolition and excavation waste it processes for reuse, currently serves about a fifth of the construction market.

West Lothian recycling specialist nets funding to create 22 'green' jobs

John McNicol, director at Kelvin Capital, and Fiona Marshall, chief executive at Biotangents.

Edinburgh biotech to use £2.2m funding to improve disease detection in cattle

Alex McVey, Michiel Smith, Teuta Pilizota and Moray Martin. Picture: Stewart Attwood

University of Edinburgh start-up to set up lab and grow team with £1m funding

Edinburgh's west end pictured at dusk The firm has chose a location in the city to base its new product hub. Picture: McAteer Photograph

Behavioural science tech firm to create 25 jobs with Edinburgh 'hub' opening

Scottish Government business minister Ivan McKee has welcomed the latest figures.

Foreign direct investment brings 7,500 jobs boost to Scottish economy

Locogen’s first hub project is looking at the development of wind and solar farms, co-located with batteries to store excess energy when not required, and an electrolyser to produce green hydrogen.

Edinburgh firm's £2 million green energy project creating 'high-quality' jobs

Prof Damian Mole, CEO, and Prof Scott Webster, CSO, co-founders of Edinburgh-based Kynos Therapeutics. Picture: Ian Jacobs Photography

University of Edinburgh life sciences spin-out secures major £9m injection

AccelerateHER's Elizabeth Pirrie says delivering the programme online will reach a higher number of female founders and provide a more flexible approach. Picture: contributed.

AccelerateHER and Scottish Enterprise debuting online training initiative

From left: Mint Ventures co-founder and CEO Gillian Fleming, co-founder and chair Lynne Cadenhead, and co-founder and director Carolyn Currie. Picture: contributed.

Funding boost for women-led business angel network to extend reach

Tori-Leigh Adams, 18, is studying Automotive at West Lothian College and is currently on the #femaleboss programme (Photo: Tori-Leigh Adams).

#femaleboss initiative set to brace Scottish schools

The Global Research Innovation and Discovery building (GRID), based at Heriot-Watt University, is a ground-breaking facility designed to advance global research, innovation and discovery.

'Ground-breaking' Heriot-Watt research to revolutionise high-speed imaging

Dr Diane Seimetz, Clare Doris, Clare Wareing, Nicola Broughton and Dr Sally Waterman of Cumulus. Picture: Stewart Attwood

Edinburgh cancer discovery accelerator Cumulus gets £4.1m funding injection

Biscuit Tin CEO and founder Sheila Hogan and chair Iain Mackay. Picture: Stewart Attwood.

Biscuit Tin entrepreneur nets six-figure sum ahead of Dragons' Den appearance

Biscuit Tin CEO and founder Sheila Hogan and chair Iain Mackay

East Lothian entrepreneur to appear on Dragons' Den

RoslinCT has a base at the Edinburgh BioQuarter at Little France, Edinburgh. Picture: Phil Wilkinson

Investment boost for Edinburgh life sciences firm rooted in Roslin Institute

Readers' letters: How Scotland lost out on post-Brexit freeports

From left: Equity Gap's founder Jock Millican with fellow director Fraser Lusty. Picture: Chris Watt.

Angel syndicate Equity Gap sings praises of £25m investment milestone

Chromacity’s fixed wavelength systems provide reliable laser sources for the life science imaging community, while the company’s OPO technology enables detection and spectroscopy techniques that can be used to identify and quantify chemical signatures within the atmosphere.

Edinburgh laser innovator has sights set on Japan after new partnership

Heriot-Watt's Global Research Innovation and Discovery facility is playing a key role. Picture: contributed.

Major milestone for pioneering work by Heriot-Watt to tackle inflammation

Mitsubishi Electric Air Conditioning Systems Europe will invest millions in its Livingston manufacturing facility, with Scottish Enterprise support.

Major investment in West Lothian heat pump plant to generate 55 jobs

The accelerator is said to have helped more than 12,000 Scottish start-ups and small businesses to build digital skills during the pandemic. Picture: AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Scots start-ups offered free training on how to grow export sales