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Techstart funding helps MycoNourish boost crops

Tom Hunter and Peter Orrell
Peter Orrell, right, receiving his Higgs Award from Sir Tom Hunter A spin-out business, which has developed a method for enhancing crop production, has raised £150,000 in a funding roundRead More

Talks with minister

FSB demands more help as 16k firms await support

Andrew McRae
Andrew McRae: confident of more help Small businesses have welcomed a rise in the number of government grants being paid to struggling firms but say thousands of businesses are stillRead More

Move to cashless society

Zumo’s app eases use of cryptocurrencies

Zumo team
Mission: the Zumo team based in Leith Zumo, an Edinburgh-based mobile wallet and payments start-up backed by Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman, has launched an app that stores, sends and allows consumers toRead More

University deal

Kier wins £22m School of Engineering contract

School-of-Engineering-Edinburgh
The building is part of a masterplan for the estate Kier has won a £22 million contract to build the new School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, beatingRead More

Innovators defy virus worries

Record applicants for Converge despite Covid-19

Claudia Cavalluzzo: Scotland’s academic innovators have shown dogged spirit (pic: Terry Murden) Scotland’s largest company creation programme for the higher education sector has received a record number of entries thisRead More

£10k machinery investment

Keeping it clean to help businesses return to city

Outlay: Emilia Ferenc with Krystian Kienast Edinburgh cleaning firm Perfect Clean has invested in new equipment to help ensure city buildings are safe for the return of workers following lockdown.Read More

£350,000 secured

Home care tech firm secures funding to develop software

Steven Morris
Steven Morris: ‘care tech is a growing sector’ (pic: Terry Murden) Scottish company Time for You Care, which has developed software to monitor staff movements in care homes, has securedRead More

TechVentures leads funding

AdInMo games ad platform secures $500k to build team

Kristan Rivers
Kristan Rivers: in-game ad model is currently broken AdInMo, the programmatic ad platform for video games, has secured a $500,000 (£407,000) investment round led by Techstart Ventures, the investor inRead More

Intestine treatment

MGB Biopharma closing in on ‘gold standard’ drug

Miroslav Ravic CEO MGB Biopharma
Miroslav Ravic: the world urgently needs new anti-infective treatments MGB Biopharma says its new drug has the potential to become the new gold standard for treating a deadly intestine infectionRead More

As new CEO hired...

Par Equity leads £750k support deal for UnikLasers

Paul Atkinson
Paul Atkinson: it is one of the very best high-growth technology start-ups (pic: Terry Murden) UniKLasers, a manufacturer of high precision scientific laser instrumentation, has completed £750,000 round of investmentRead More