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Maven Capital Partners leads £1.54m funding round for Glasgow-based Adimo
Glasgow-based Maven Capital Partners has led a £1.54 million funding round for Adimo, a marketing technology platform based in the same city that enables FMCG brands to turn their digital marketing campaigns into shoppable experiences.
Published 3 March 2021
Continulus secures half a million funding from investor consortium
Continulus, the Glasgow-headquartered online video-learning platform for health professionals, has secured half a million pounds of equity investment from a consortium of UK investors.
Published 3 March 2021
Paul Atkinson announced as new chair of Scottish Business Resilience Centre
Paul Atkinson, the founding partner of investment firm Par Equity, has been appointed as the new chair of the Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC).
Published 3 March 2021
Neil Francis: Scotland’s values to be highlighted through international trade and investment
Neil Francis, interim managing director of Scottish Enterprise, explains how Scotland’s commitment to inclusivity and net-zero can be shared via our trading relationships.
Published 3 March 2021
Knight Frank report names Edinburgh as a future global urban hotspot
Edinburgh’s growing status as a hub of innovation and the quality of life it has to offer places the city among the world’s most aspirational future urban hotspots, according to Knight Frank’s latest Wealth Report.
Published 3 March 2021
Law At Work acquires Dundee's Youmanage
Scottish-based employment law, HR, and health & safety specialist Law At Work has announced a trio of acquisitions worth £5.15 million which includes Dundee-based HR software provider Youmanage.
Published 3 March 2021
Bank of Scotland reveals budget wishlist for Scottish firms
Scottish SMEs are calling on the Chancellor to announce an extension to the furlough scheme when he delivers his Budget today, according to the latest data from Bank of Scotland’s Business Barometer research.
Published 3 March 2021
Guarantor loans complaints soar by 3000%
Complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service about guarantor-backed high-cost loans have increased by more than 3,000% in a year and now average almost 800 a week.
Published 3 March 2021
Finance secretary Kate Forbes calls for UK budget to protect Scottish finances
The UK Budget must provide adequate funding for Scotland and respect the devolution settlement, finance secretary Kate Forbes has said.
Published 3 March 2021
UK Finance sets out future model for Open Banking
UK Finance has published detailed proposals for a new service company which will support the UK’s world-leading open banking infrastructure.
Published 3 March 2021
Medical Incubator Japan targets further UK healthcare investments in 2021
Medical Incubator Japan (MIJ), an independent venture capital fund investing in early-stage life sciences companies, is planning further UK healthcare investments in 2021 after completing two landmark UK investments in 2020.
Published 3 March 2021
And finally… eggcellent
A golden egg made for a Cadbury’s treasure hunt in 1983 has sold at auction for £37,200.
Published 3 March 2021
RSM: Pandemic and Brexit to trigger ‘return on investment’ shifts in Scottish real estate
New research published by audit firm RSM has revealed that the pandemic and Brexit could both be acting as catalysts for rebalancing the traditional order of returns in real estate, with Scotland being cited by over three-fifths of respondents to achieve the greatest residential yields in the next five years.
Published 2 March 2021
Dunedin Advisory opts for blended working and new offices in Fife
Restructuring and insolvency specialists Dunedin Advisory has relocated to a purpose-build high-tech office hub in Glenrothes with the firm opting for blended working in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Published 2 March 2021
Which? calls for urgent government action to protect cash users as free ATMs decline
Consumer body Which? is pushing for the UK Government to take immediate action to protect the future of cash for those who need it, as its latest analysis shows a spike in the number of people forced to pay to withdraw their own money from cash machines.
Published 2 March 2021
