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Skyscanner launches new train booking feature

TravelTech giant Skyscanner has expanded its offering to include a train booking feature. The Edinburgh-based company, bought by Ctrip in December 2016 for £1.4bn, has partnered with Trip.com, which...

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Edinburgh-based TVSquared raises an additional $8m

Ad analytics firm TVSquared has done it again. The Edinburgh-based company has raised an additional $8m (£6m) in funding to boost its market expansion. TV Squared, which acquired a German counterpart...

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Scottish startup EBar raises £300,000 to reduce bar queues

EBar Initiatives, a startup spun out of Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University, has secured funding amounting to £300,000. The Scottish company has developed ‘dispensing technology’ to reduce the time...

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FinTech startup Paysend gets $20m to shake up global remittances

UK FinTech company Paysend has raised $20m in a round led by MARCorp Financial. The company, which has offices in Fife (Scotland) and London, also drew support from existing investors. Paysend will use...

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Care Sourcer lands £8.5m in largest Series A round for a Scottish digital...

Care Sourcer has closed a £8.5m funding round – the largest ever Series A funding round to be received by a digital tech company in Scotland. The care comparison and matching site raised the funds from...

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FinTech startup Modulr brings total raised to £10.5m

Modulr, a FinTech firm which provides accounts for business payments, has raised a new round of funding. The company’s round was led by Blenheim Chalcot and brought its total raised to date to £10.5m....

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Tech Scotland Advocates launches to champion country’s tech sector

Global Tech Advocates (GTA), a private sector network connecting tech hubs around the world, has announced the launch of Tech Scotland Advocates at Glasgow Caledonian University, in a bid to champion...

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Cisco partners with University of Edinburgh to accelerate innovation

Cisco has announced a partnership with the University of Edinburgh to collaborate on opportunities in AI and data-driven innovation, a key pillar of the recently announced Edinburgh and South East...

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Shell Springboard semi-final results for low carbon startups

Three innovative, low-carbon startups have won at the Shell Springboard semi-finals in Aberdeen, each receiving an award of £40,000 to help scale their business. REOptimize Solutions, Farm-Hand Ltd,...

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Deliveroo to launch tech hub in Edinburgh

On-demand food delivery platform Deliveroo has announced the acquisition of Edinburgh-based software design and development firm Cultivate. Deliveroo will use the acquisition of Cultivate, who have...

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This Scottish firm develops laboratory-on-a-chip, gets £1.24M funding

RAB-Microfluidics, a Scottish R&D firm was built out of the University of Aberdeen. It was chosen for the TechX Pioneers accelerator programme run by OGTC in Aberdeen in 2018. Now, it has hit the...

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Parsley Box: Targeted at baby boomers, this Edinburgh meal delivery service...

Parsley Box is an Edinburgh-based direct-to-consumer service, which provides ambient ready meals focused on the underserved baby boomer demographic. The company just received fresh funding focused on...

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Edinburgh-based medtech Manus develops a digital pen to detect Parkinson’s...

It is estimated that around 145,000 people live with Parkinson’s in the UK. To help the same and detect the early signs of the disease, Edinburgh medtech company Manus Neurodynamica Limited (“Manus”),...

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Eos partners with US-based Kineticos to invest over £10M in early-stage...

St Andrews-based investment firm Eos Advisory has entered into a strategic partnership with US-based Kineticos Life Sciences to co-invest in early-stage Scottish life sciences companies. The venture...

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Skyports assists NHS to launch UK’s first COVID-19 test drone delivery...

Skyports is an urban air mobility infrastructure provider and drone delivery operator in London. The company designs, builds and operates take-off and landing infrastructure for​ air taxis. It has also...

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AI in Edinburgh: 10 new-age UK startups ready to slay 2021

Undoubtedly, AI technology has the potential to transform industries and deliver positive impacts on a wide range of innovation areas such as cleantech, healthtech, fintech, legal tech, etc. On similar...

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Continulus gets £0.5M: Scottish online video-learning platform for health...

In the latest development, Glasgow-based, global online medical education platform – Continulus, secured a £0.5m equity investment by a UK based group of investors. Continulus provides online...

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Glasgow biotech develops easy blood test for early cancer diagnosis, adds...

Earlier cancer diagnosis results in significantly higher survival rates, increasing the availability of treatment options and improving recovery chances and a better quality of life.  Additionally, the...

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A £22.4M worth National Robotarium to open in Edinburgh in 2022

Construction work has begun on the new research facility for robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) – National Robotarium at Heriot-Watt University’s Edinburgh campus.  £22.4 million worth facility...

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The most innovative wearable startups of UK in 2021

One of the most exciting consumer technology trends that’s sizzling right now is wearables. Rewind a few years, and wearables were limited to smartwatches or virtual reality headsets: the most obvious...

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