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Sherry Coutu The role of Archangels in supporting Scottish companies to scale-up is to be highlighted this week at the business angel investment syndicate’s annual dinner for portfolio companies and investors.

Scottish start-ups and university spinouts who participated in Converge Challenge have leveraged over seven times in subsequent funding the amount that the programme’s university partners and the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) originally invested in the company creation competition, a new indepen

The UK and Scottish governments joined local leaders last week to mark ten years of the Glasgow City Region City Deal and to reflect on what has been achieved through the £1.13 billion of funding. One of the largest and the most advanced in the UK, Glasgow’s Deal has delivered a range of

The Business Growth Fund (BGF) has invested more than a quarter of a billion pounds in Scottish businesses to date, its most recent figures show. This includes 30 new investments, as well as follow-on funding for existing portfolio companies, since BGF was set up in 2011.

The quest to find the next generation of entrepreneurs from Scotland’s thriving academic entrepreneur community has begun anew with the launch of the latest edition of Converge Challenge.

Spending cuts of £615 million were announced by the Scottish Government in its emergency budget alongside measures help to those most impacted by the cost of living crisis. The Emergency Budget Review (EBR) for 2022-23 identifies funding of around £35m for a range of initiatives to suppo

Scottish insolvency expert R3 has called for company directors to face identity checks to help reduce business fraud.

https://youtu.be/0cS7gmgDOPI The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has teamed up with Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and CFA Institute to celebrate this year’s Global Ethics Day.

Ross Stupart Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM and Entrepreneurial Scotland have joined forces to spearhead a delegation of Scottish businesses in the US to facilitate transatlantic trade.

The growth plans of Scotland’s only private electric vehicle charge point operator FOR EV have been boosted by a £10 million follow-on investment by the Scottish National Investment Bank. The cash injection follows an initial investment of £2m by the bank in 2021, followed by &poun

Forres-headquartered spaceflight company Orbex has closed an update to its Series C funding round, securing a further £16.7 million from a consortium of six major investors. This latest injection of capital brings Orbex's total funds raised to an impressive £102m.

Nicola Ross delves into the prevalent issue of late payments affecting various businesses, discussing implications and outlining preventative measures, strategies for resolution including credit control, litigation, and mediation. Recently Etsy and Amazon have been outed for withholding funds f

Edinburgh-based Lentitek Ltd, a developer of pioneering manufacturing technologies enabling economic delivery of advanced cell and gene therapies, announced today that it has secured £250,000 ($300,000 USD) in seed investment. This investment will be deployed to further advance its technology

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)'s global survey of 829 accountants and finance professionals reveals their deep concerns about social and environmental issues, with 90% of respondents saying they want organisations to increase efforts to become more environmentally sus

An Midlothian company researching ground-breaking new haemophilia treatments has secured £1.1 million in investment to advance its R&D programme with the help of Kelvin Capital. ProFactor Pharma Ltd (PFP), based outside Edinburgh at the Easter Bush campus, has received the second tranche o