2014

A NEW business angel syndicate says it is keen to get away from the Dragons’ Den image which has grown around the sector in recent years. Lancaster Capital Investments, founded by father and son Hector and Richard Cameron, has already attracted 35 investors since opening […]

Calcivis, a medical devices company focused on revolutionising the management of tooth decay, today announces that it has received a prestigious Biomedical Catalyst award co-funding a £0.5m development programme and raised a further £0.8m in equity funding from existing investors Archangel Informal Investment and the

The British Business Bank has published new guidelines for its Enterprise Capital Funds (‘ECF’) programme that include a doubling of the maximum potential commitment it can make to new ECFs to £50m. The new provisions, which apply with immediate effect, also mean that new funds

ALMOST half the country’s start-up firms believe that access to finance is the biggest challenge facing their business, and many fear that Scotland lacks the appropriate funding environment to help them develop. But, in a major survey of the Scottish start-up scene, compiled by Young Company

PROSTHETIC limb maker Touch Bionics has launched a number of innovative new products at a trade show in Germany which it believes will help people improve their daily lives. To read the article in full please click HERE.

ANGEL investors have raised £400,000 to support a Scottish company that is helping to prevent blindness in millions of diabetes sufferers. Epipole, based in Rosyth, will use the investment to develop a prototype of its hand-held eye-scanning camera and take it to market. For more

Fashion startup Mallzee has announced a £500,000 investment. The funding comes from a range of investors – Par Equity, the Scottish Investment Bank, and angel investors including Gareth Williams, CEO of Skyscanner, and serial investor Rob Dobson. For the full story please click HERE.

Two of Scotland’s driving forces in talent creation and entrepreneurship, the Saltire Foundation and the Entrepreneurial Exchange (are coming together to form Entrepreneurial Scotland. Representing businesses with over £ 17 billion of turnover and 150 000 employees the new entity will help ‘join the dots

The Scottish Loan Fund (SLF) has made it’s 17th investment – investing £1.3M into education supplies group, ‘Spaceright’.  The company, located in Cumbernauld is using the funding package to acquire a complementary business, ‘Educational Technology Ltd’ (‘Edtech’). Set up in 2011 by the Scottish Investment

Business Journalist turned Entrepreneur. Alastair Balfour, will interview a trio of Entrepreneurs at the Business Forum Scotland in Edinburgh on Wednesday 18th June 2014. For more information please click HERE.

Informatics Ventures have announced their first ever School for Female Entrepreneurs, a 3-day residential programme which will be held at the Stirling Management Centre 12th – 14th September 2014. The school is based on a proven coaching philosophy, system, tools and exercises that focus on HOW business

Curapel, the creator of a range of patented skin-care technologies, has attracted £200,000 of private equity funding from Glasgow-based business angel syndicate Lancaster Capital. To read the full story please click HERE.