2016

The founders of Agency Core, a management tool designed exclusively for creative agencies, have successfully closed a seed investment round worth £150K, after relocating from Surrey to Edinburgh and spending a Scottish winter living in a motorhome. To read the full article please click HERE.

Entrepreneurial Finance Hub (EFH) is offering a pilot scheme for Scottish companies to join its Quantiply platform free of charge. For more information please click HERE.

PROSTHETIC limb specialist Touch Bionics said it expected to continue growing sales in 2016 after posting an 11 per cent rise in revenues to £15 million for last year. “We are pleased with our 2015 performance and are proud that there have now been more

The old and the new went head-to-head at the recent Angel Summit, as equity crowdfunding took to the platform to sell its case to more traditional start-up investors. Internationally-known Scottish angel investor and angel fund manager Nelson Gray has travelled the world discussing best practice

A NEW Glasgow city centre incubator inspired by Google’s offices is expected to inject £53 million into the local economy over the next five years. The Tontine building at Glasgow Cross is to be converted into a high-tech space for up to 300 entrepreneurs in

Two Scottish technology companies have raised significant sums to help boost their growth prospects. Software firm Administrate received £1.7 million with backers including Archangels, the Scottish Investment Bank (SiB) and Tri-Cap. Meanwhile Heriot-Watt University spin-out firm Chromacity, which is involved in laser development for scientific

Scottish Enterpise has published the report on the risk  capital market in Scotland 2014 by Young Company Finance. The purpose of the report is to provide a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the early stage risk capital market in Scotland for 2014. The report is intended

Barclays has provided a £500k term loan to help innovative Edinburgh company NetThings fund commercial trials of its new energy management system. The company is one of the first in the UK  to benefit from Barclays’ new ‘Innovation Finance’ product targeted towards high-growth and innovative

A Scottish investment firm have backed a Silicon Valley start-up aiming to transform the wearable technology market with the latest virtual reality (VR) glasses. Par Equity – who specialise in funding start-ups with a high potential for growth – announced last week they will support

Epipole, a Rosyth-based start-up which is developing a mass market monitoring and screening platform that can identify eye diseases that cause long-term damage and blindness, has been awarded Scottish EDGE’s largest prize to date of £150,000. To read more please click HERE.

Twintangibles are in the process of revising and updateing the Scottish Crowdfunding Report as originally published back in 2013. Part of the research for that includes running a brief survey on business finance. The survey is anonymous, takes only 10 minutes to complete, and all

The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement did not contain much new with regard to EIS and SEIS tax reliefs apart from confirming the anticipated restrictions related to energy generation. However, the Finance Act (2) 2015 gained Royal Assent last week and contains a number of items of