Sis Ventures

SIS Ventures has launched a second round of fundraising with the aim of attracting up to £5 million to scale up its support for Scotland’s high impact potential early-stage businesses. SIS Ventures’ Impact First fund provides the opportunity for investors to make tax-efficient fina

Glasgow-based Talking Medicines, the world’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven patient intelligence company designed to meet the needs of pharma, has closed a £1.5 million funding round to support its ambitions for expansion into the US. Boston based life science investor Mark Ba

Trojan Energy, the clean energy company, has secured a late seed round investment of £2.2 million to roll out its unique, flat-and-flush on-street EV (electric vehicle) charging hubs and develop further commercial applications of its technology. The round was led by Scottish angel investors Eq

SOLSTA Bio, a Glasgow University spinout specialising in the next generation of green insecticides, has secured seed investment of £1.3 million to support ongoing development of its unique nature-inspired pesticides, the first of their kind to be developed worldwide. Investors in this seed fun

Social Investment Scotland (SIS) has appointed Siobhan Moore as an investment manager for its wholly-owned impact investment fund, SIS Ventures, supporting its continued growth amid increasing investor demand for mission-driven businesses. Siobhan Moore joins the impact investor from Finsbury Food G

Aberdeen-based green-tech start-up Trojan Energy has secured a £4.1 million round of seed funding to support the roll-out of its on-street flat and flush electric vehicle (EV) charging points.

Some of Scotland’s early-stage mission-led businesses are stepping up in the fight against COVID-19, as part of the business community’s pandemic response.

SIS Ventures is launching a second round of fundraising with the aim of attracting up to £3.7 million to scale up its support for Scotland’s high impact enterprises. The Impact First Fund successfully raised c.£1.3m from 25 UK-based private investors. More than 100 high-growth earl

SIS Ventures, Scotland’s leading ‘profit with purpose’ fund, has appointed David Ovens as it gears up for its next phase of fundraising with the appointment of a new chair. David Ovens, chief operating officer at Archangels and current vice-chair of SIS Ventures, takes over as chai

Edinburgh-based Cyan Forensics has secured £1.3 million in funding from Triple Point Investment Management, Mercia, SIS Ventures, the Scottish Investment Bank and private investors. Cyan Forensics' digital analysis tool can find terrorist handbooks or child sexual abuse material on devices wit