building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
Scottish tech startup Coastr has secured £1.4 million in funding through London-based investment platform, GroVentive. Formerly known as Nuvven, Coastr was founded in 2018 by Biswajit Kundu Roy, a University of Strathclyde graduate and former PwC tech strategist. The Edinburgh-based firm offers a
The “Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation” initiative officially launches its Autumn cohort next week, with the newest members of the programme, designed to tackle gender diversity in digital leadership, meeting in person for the first time in Edinburgh. The
It’s our Cyber Cluster Manager Ciara’s latest blog, providing a summary of recent activity within the cluster and some of the new events and opportunities that are coming your way. This month we are really seeing the ramp-up of in-person
We are delighted that we’ll be able to bring the Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards back in person this year. As always, the YSE Awards showcase some of the brightest minds our universities have to offer. Nominees are
The recently launched open data hub offers a view on how the city operates. The hub is a place to access data, provide tools to enable people to visualise this, and to tell some simple stories about what the data means for
Read this article from BT’s Scotland Director, Jane Wood, as she outlines the importance of digital technology in combating climate change, and highlights the Climate Tech report produced by SCDI, BT, RSE and ScotlandIS. Scotland’s environmental aims are at the
Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, is offering at least 20 Women in Innovation Awards to female entrepreneurs across the UK. The winners will receive a £50,000 grant and a bespoke package of mentoring, coaching and business
Wobble Genomics, a spin-out from the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute, has raised £1.2 million following an investment round led by Eos Advisory. Founded by CEO Richard Kuo in April 2021, the RNA sequencing specialist has developed a range of hardware and
A Scottish tech startup focusing on reusable packaging has gained substantial investment to create an Open Data Standard (reuse.id) for firms. Edinburgh-based Reath has secured £313,000 in pre-seed funding, which it said will be used to improve it’s systems and build its
ScotlandIS have collaborated with Carlyle, to compile an industry-leading salary benchmarking report looking at the remuneration of all C-suite disciplines in the most exciting, high-growth tech businesses in Scotland. Reliable data around this sector, specifically in Scotland, is imperative in
