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Call to female entrepreneurs

Final call to enter AccelerateHER Awards

Jackie Waring and Rachel Jones
Jackie Waring of Investing Women and previous award winner Rachel Jones Although the deadline is fast-approaching, there is still time for aspirational female business founders in Scotland to enter thisRead More

Expansion planned

NorthEdge backs security software firm Altia-ABM MBO

John Boyle
John Boyle: steps down as chairman Altia-ABM, a Scotland-based global leader in specialist investigation and covert operation software, has been acquired in a private equity-backed management buyout. The company develops specialistRead More

New office in Newcastle

Advisory firm ABGI creates 20 jobs in expansion

Scott Henderson
Scott Henderson: supporting business growth Tax and grant funding advice company ABGI UK is creating more than 20 jobs and expanding its operations in the south. The subsidiary of theRead More

Daily Business Live

Yellen for US Treasury; AA backs offer; Daily Mail; Cineworld

10.30pm: Wall Street higher on vaccine and Yellen speculation Wall Street stocks closed higher after the Wall Street Journal reported US President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate former Federal Reserve chairman JanetRead More

Bank up and running

SNIB launches with M Squared Lasers deal

M Squared Lasers Graeme Malcolm
Graeme Malcolm: first recipient of SNIB funds The Scottish National Investment Bank, funded by the taxpayer to stimulate high growth businesses, has opened for business with the completion of itsRead More

Corporate finance

Shepherd and Wedderburn sees busy deal flow

George Frier
George Frier: ‘We have seen some excellent valuations’ Legal firm Shepherd and Wedderburn has reported a busy first half of deal activity despite the challenging environment created by the COVID-19Read More

Investors back startup

Mocean Energy raises funds for wave power technology

Cameron McNatt and Chris Retzler of Mocean Energy
Co-founders: Cameron McNatt and Chris Retzler Wave power specialist Mocean Energy has secured £612,000 in equity seed funding to accelerate the commercialisation of its energy technology. The funding will unlockRead More

Daily Business Live

RSA backs offer; inflation rises; SSE profits hit; Halfords surges

Hester smile vid
4.30pm: London higher on vaccine hopes The FTSE 100 index closed higher on further positive vaccine news. Britain’s blue-chip benchmark closed ahead by nearly 20 points at 6,385 as Pfizer andRead More

Social investment

Arnold to lead funding deals for SIS Ventures

Scottish finance provider, Social Investment Scotland (SIS), has appointed a UK specialist on the growing market for mission-driven business as its first head of SIS Ventures, the wholly-owned impact investmentRead More

New tech partnership

Converge and Cisco in tie-up to hasten start-up flow

Claudia Cavalluzzo
Claudia Cavalluzzo: ‘we need a healthy pipeline of start-ups’ (pic: Terry Murden) Converge, the academic company creation programme, has forged a collaboration with and technology giant Cisco to accelerate theRead More