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Talent boost

Gig economy platform Gigged.AI seeking £1m

Gigged.AI
Better connections (left to right): Angela Brown, Rich Wilson, Craig Short and John Brodie A company using AI technology to source and hire digital staff in the gig economy isRead More

New cohort

Scale Up Scotland inviting applications

Tom Hunter at Scottish Edge
Sir Tom Hunter: “scale-ups are where the real economic growth will come from” Entrepreneurs looking to scale their business are being invited to apply for the next Scale Up ScotlandRead More

'Struggle with support'

Baird blasts bank as she eyes hospital expansion

Gill Baird
Gill Baird: ‘we didn’t fit bank’s criteria (pic: Terry Murden) Health care entrepreneur Gill Baird is planning further expansion at her new hospital in Livingston even before it opens –Read More

New finance

Catalyst Fund aims to fill gap in social enterprise support

Daisy-Ford-Downes
Daisy Ford-Downes: transformational A fund designed to finance ambitious social enterprises has been launched by Firstport and Social Enterprise Scotland. The Catalyst Fund offers loans starting at £50,000 using aRead More

Growth investment

BGF to build on record year by supporting recovery

Simon Welton
Simon Welton: ‘excellent performance’ BGF, the growth capital investor, believes it can beat last year’s record performance as it supports companies emerging from the lockdown. The group backed 61 firmsRead More

Prime Vision alliance

Stamp Free deal enhances product ‘recognition’

Hugh Craigie Halkett
Hugh Craigie Halkett: end-to-end solution Digital postage firm Stamp Free has signed an alliance with software company Prime Vision which offers solutions in barcode reading, sorting decision systems, video codingRead More

Tech expansion

AND Digital pledges 100 jobs in new Glasgow office

Paramjit Uppal
Digital tech consultancy, AND Digital, is creating 100 jobs for analysts, developers and designers in a new office in Glasgow. The facility in George Square, known by the company asRead More

Enterprise

Hunter Foundation offers digital scale-up support

Sir Tom Hunter
Sir Tom Hunter: scale ups move the economic dial (pic: Terry Murden) An online version of the Scale Up Scotland programme run by the Hunter Foundation will be offered toRead More

£1m funding

Kenoteq steps up output of bricks made from waste

Sam Chapman
Sam Chapman: reducing landfill Kenoteq, a spin-out from Heriot-Watt University, has received £1 million from Zero Waste Scotland to commercialise production of its revolutionary brick made of recycled construction waste. The unique K-Briq produces a tenth ofRead More

£400,000 raised

Equity Gap backs project platform Sharktower

Sharktower
Sharktower was developed to help with project management Sharktower, the Edinburgh-based AI-driven project delivery platform, has raised £400,000 in a seed round led by Equity Gap and backed by ScottishRead More