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Head Resourcing appoints new Head of Talent Solutions

By updatesPosted on 16th March 202216th March 2022Posted in Member News

Edinburgh headquartered recruitment specialists Head Resourcing, has announced the internal promotion of Lyle Ritchie to Head of Talent Solutions where he will lead an expert team responsible for attracting and supplying a diverse range of top talent across IT, digital

Edinburgh Robotics Startup Raises $4.8m in Funding

By updatesPosted on 16th March 202216th March 2022Posted in ScotlandISData, Industry News

Edinburgh robotics startup Touchlab has announced the successful raising of $4.8 million in seed funding. The Scottish firm, which develops an electronic skin (e-skin) for robots, had its investment round led by Octopus Ventures, one of the EU’s largest early-stage investors. Octopus Ventures

Edinburgh tech firm unveils digital home breakthrough using light to transmit data

By updatesPosted on 16th March 202216th March 2022Posted in ScotlandISData, Industry News

PureLiFi, the Edinburgh-based firm behind technology that uses light to transmit data, has unveiled what it claims is a ground-breaking system aimed at home users. The company’s “LiFi@Home” system has been launched at a major industry conference in Barcelona. LiFi is

Scottish space tech firm appoints high-profile executives as it eyes global expansion

By updatesPosted on 16th March 202216th March 2022Posted in ScotlandISData, Industry News

A Scottish space tech firm has appointed three high-profile executives to its team as it eyes global expansion. Edinburgh-headquartered R3-IoT has also acquired an office space in Glasgow and announced a series of further senior hires and promotions. The scale-up,

UK Space Science Projects Receive £455k Funding Boost

By updatesPosted on 16th March 202216th March 2022Posted in ScotlandISData, Industry News

A fresh £445,000 cash injection has gone towards getting 10 UK space science projects off the ground across the UK. The Technology for Space Science initiative is a joint venture between the UK Space Agency’s National Space Technology Programme and the Science

Dayshape ranked Europe’s 95th fastest growing company in the FT 1000

By updatesPosted on 15th March 202215th March 2022Posted in Member News

Dayshape, a software company providing AI-powered resource management software to professional services firms, has placed #95 in the FT 1000. Dayshape now ranks as the 24th fastest growing company in the UK, as well as the 24th fastest growing technology company

eCom helps in achieving the UK and Scottish Governments’ Energy Strategy aims

By updatesPosted on 15th March 202215th March 2022Posted in Member News

Helping people re-focus their energy-related industry skills – along with up-skilling and re-skilling for the energy industry – are key ways in which the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Learning Solutions is contributing to achieve the aims of the

Service Design for Smarter Planning – The Enduring Importance of Putting the User First

By updatesPosted on 15th March 202215th March 2022Posted in Member News

Informed Solutions has written a blog on the importance of user-centred design for smarter planning – an increasingly important issue in Scotland. Over the years, our UCD teams have tackled the innovative transformation of citizen-facing services that have met a

Cybersecurity firm 7 Elements acquired by Redcentric

By updatesPosted on 15th March 202215th March 2022Posted in Member News, ScotlandISCyber

Redcentric is pleased to announce the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of 7 Elements Limited, an industry leading provider of security testing, incident response management and bespoke security consultancy services. 7 Elements works closely with customers to assess

Supplier opportunity for Telephony Services DPS

By updatesPosted on 15th March 202215th March 2022Posted in Member News, Industry News, Opportunity

Scottish Procurement has recently issued the Contract Notice for their Telephony and Communication Services Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) via Public Contracts Scotland. This DPS will replace the Telephony Services DPS which is due to expire on 31 March 2022. Scottish Procurement intend