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Edinburgh-headquartered global travel technology firm Criton has today announced it aims to raise a significant "seven-figure sum" in external investment later this year. The firm is targeting investment to develop its product offering and drive growth across international markets.

Scottish female business founders are once again being offered an opportunity to raise their company’s profile and win a place on an international trade mission with the launch of the 2020 AccelerateHER Awards. Organised by all-female business angel group Investing Women, the awards are design

Staff from Murray Taylor have participated in a series of physical challenges to raise money for Help for Heroes.  Staff members took part in Tough Mudder Classic Scotland 2019. This challenge included eight to ten mines of muddy trekking with twenty-five obstacles to contend with along the way

UK listings experienced a very strong start to the year with more funds raised in the opening quarter of 2021 than in any other opening quarter since 2007, and the most raised in a single quarter since 2014, according to the latest EY IPO Eye.

Scottish biotech company BioCaptiva has raised over £1 million in seed funding from Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate Archangels and Scottish Enterprise, to help develop a novel next generation “liquid biopsy” technology device. The device coul

Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves is auctioning off a one-to-one Zoom date in a bid to raise money for charity. The A-List actor is offering a 15-minute video call, which has been dubbed “15 Minutes of Fame with Keanu Reeves”.

Edinburgh-based tech start-up ePOS Hybrid is launching a month-long crowdfunding campaign in a bid to raise £250,000 to help support the company’s ambitious growth trajectory. The company launched their public campaign having already successfully secured £150,000 of private funding

A team from Aberdeen chartered accountancy practice Meston Reid & Co is hoping to raise more than £1,000 for charity. Staff – 11 in total – will take part in the Aberdeen Tower Abseil Challenge on Sunday, March 24.

The annual tax to be raised from the value of all the debts in UK banks is to be raised from 0.156 per cent to 0.21 per cent following yesterday’s budget announcement. It is the ninth rise since the tax was first introduced in 2011 at a rate of 0.05 per cent.

Savills has raised record £71 million from the sale of 350 lots at its first-ever two-day live-streamed auction on 27 and 28 February. The auction achieved 74% success rate. The auction showcased a surge in demand for higher value lots, with 13 lots selling for over £1m. Savills has

HMRC raised a record £7.1 billion from inheritance tax from April 2022 to February 2023, according to new figures. The sum stands at £1 billion more than in the same period a year earlier, continuing a recent upward trend.

Scottish alcohol-free beer brand, Days, has raised £1 million in funding to fuel its 2022 category ambitions. The independent beer business launched its award-winning range of 0.0% beers, brewed in Scotland, in October 2020 and is expecting the alcohol-free beer space to transform over the nex

An app which lets kids receive, manage and spend their money has raised $5 million in funding from investors.

Edinburgh-based technology company PureLifi has successfully raised $18 million to enable it to launch its technology to mass-market mobile devices and lighting manufacturers. Funding was provided by the Scottish Investment Bank and Temasek, an investment company headquartered in Singapore.

A man accused of breaching an order disqualifying him from acting as a company director who claimed that criminal proceedings raised against him were “time-barred” has had a legal challenge against his prosecution dismissed.