| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.02.2025 | Movers and Shakers | February 2025 | Welcome to the February 2025 edition of DIGIT’s Movers and Shakers!
Each month, our Movers and Shakers feature gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem.
While understandably not the busiest month of the year, Jan... |
| 30.05.2024 | FinTech Scotland Announces Winners of AI Compliance Challenge | FinTech Scotland’s Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FRIL)—a collaboration in partnership with the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde—has announced the winners of its first innovation call, “Simplifying Compliance through the Applic... |
| 06.05.2024 | Lawtech Firm Amiqus Fundraises £35K for Scottish Refugee Council | Edinburgh-based lawtech company Amiqus has announced a notable milestone in its ongoing partnership with the Scottish Refugee Council (SRC).
The tech firm—creators of the eponymously-named onboarding and compliance platform—recently handed ... |
| 13.03.2024 | Scottish LawTech Firms Join Forces to Offer Workers Access to Legal Help | Edinburgh-based lawtech companies Valla and Amiqus have announced a new partnership, enabling simple and easy access to legal support for hundreds of thousands of workers across the UK.
The agreement will see Valla’s legal platform – which ... |
| 20.11.2023 | 4 Scottish Businesses Make Deloitte’s 2023 UK Technology Fast 50 | Deloitte has announced the winners of the 2023 UK Technology Fast 50 awards, with four Scottish companies among the ranking and Glasgow-based company Utopi claiming the inaugural CleanTech award.
The awards recognise and rank the 50 fastest... |
| 22.05.2023 | Addleshaw Goddard Launches 2023 Tech Accelerator Programme | AG Elevate is a fast-track, 10-month accelerator programme designed to advance tech firms in all sectors through the legal and business challenges that may arise as they grow.
Since its first launch in 2017, AG Elevate has supported nearly ... |
| 13.01.2023 | Movers and Shakers | December 2022 | Recruitment KPMG
KPMG UK have promoted ten colleagues to director positions across its three Scottish offices. Laura Wiseman (Audit) and Meredith Casey (Deal Advisory) become directors in KPMG’s Edinburgh office.
Along the M8, six new Glasg... |
| 14.12.2022 | Tech Firm Amiqus Partners with Scottish Refugee Council | Scottish tech company Amiqus has initiated a three-year staff fundraising partnership with Scottish Refugee Council with the aim of creating a new model for scaling companies in the UK to support and engage with the third sector.
The staff ... |
| 01.12.2021 | Edinburgh’s Amiqus Supports Major UK Vaccine Rollout | The success of a major vaccine rollout in the UK was supported using technology supplied by Edinburgh-based tech firm Amiqus.
The company provided its remote pre-employment screening technology to recruitment services used by multiple NHS o... |
| 12.10.2021 | Introducing: the 31 companies joining Upscale in 2021 | We are excited to announce the seventh cohort of companies selected for the Upscale programme, which supports mid-stage, fast-scaling tech companies in the UK.
In line with increasing attention on healthtech and edtech in the last two year... |
| 21.06.2021 | Scottish Startups Continued to Grow Despite Pandemic Worries, Survey Finds | Despite a challenging 15 months, Scottish startups have performed well and continued to grow, according to the 2021 Scottish Startup Survey.
The survey, run by the Engage Invest Exploit (EIE) team at the University of Edinburgh’s Bayes Cent... |
| 11.01.2021 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | December 2020 | Investment & Funding Alba Medical Sciences
A medical technology firm from Perth launched a funding appeal to finance its innovative infrared R&D project last month
Alba Medical Sciences is looking to raise £120,000 to fund the vario... |
| 06.03.2020 | CivTech 4.0 – A Day for Innovation and Collaboration in the Public Sector | Public and private sector organisations converged on the Edinburgh International Conference Centre for CivTech 4.0, a chance to showcase solutions to problems posed by the Scottish Government’s Digital Directorate, bring public sector exper... |
| 10.09.2019 | 11 of the Coolest Fintech Companies Innovating in Scotland | Figures published in May 2019 by FinTech Scotland show that there are now more than 100 fintech companies operating across Scotland.
This increase marked a significant rise compared to the beginning of the year when it was announced that th... |
| 04.02.2019 | DIGIT Deal Roundup January 2019 | Funding Mocean Energy and AWS Ocean Energy
Edinburgh-based Mocean Energy and Inverness-based AWS Ocean Energy have been jointly granted £7.7 million in funding from Wave Energy Scotland to build and test wave energy machines.
The research a... |
| 25.01.2019 | Law Society of Scotland Forms Strategic Partnership with Amiqus | The Law Society of Scotland is teaming up with Edinburgh-based technology firm Amiqus Resolution to develop and deliver software products for law firms across Scotland.
Amiqus helps firms to securely collect, analyse and manage anti-money l... |
| 06.11.2018 | Turing Fest Announces Finalists for Scottish Tech Startup Awards | Turing Fest has revealed the finalists for the inaugural Scottish Tech Startup Awards on 29th November.
The Scottish Tech Startup Awards is a newly launched event, which will highlight and celebrate individuals and companies leading the way... |
| 25.04.2018 | Amiqus Wins Deloitte’s Disrupt The Enterprise Award | Amiqus Resolution, the Edinburgh-based company which enables regulated professionals to securely collect client on-boarding information and documentation is the winner of the 2018 Disrupt the Enterprise competition.
Created by Deloitte, Dis... |
| 16.04.2018 | EIE18: From Scottish Startup To Global Scale | 2018 marks the tenth anniversary of EIE. Over the last decade, the event has featured some of Scotland’s most innovative and successful startup companies. From early stage start-ups to companies scaling globally, the country’s tech sector h... |
| 08.03.2018 | Amiqus Targets Recruitment Sector | Amiqus Resolution, the compliance technology startup has partnered with Denholm Associates, the specialist marketing and C Suite recruitment agency to incorporate the Amiqus ID service, into its candidate offering.
The partnership is Amiqus... |
| 01.12.2017 | Tech Leaders Scoop Top Entrepreneur Awards | The Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2017, organised by Entrepreneurial Scotland, is the country’s longest running competition to recognise and honour individuals who have excelled in leadership over the previous 12 months.
The Awards judgin... |
| 29.11.2017 | Applications Open For Second Round at Seed Haus | Entrepreneurs and start-ups from Scotland’s technology sector have until December 30 to apply for the second cohort of start-ups in pre-seed tech accelerator, Seed Haus.
Only five companies are chosen in each round. Successful applicants ca... |
| 28.07.2017 | Weekly News Roundup: 28th June 2017 | That’s not to say it’s been entirely hassle free. You may have noticed that last week’s NEWS ROUNDUP was MIA after the DIGIT site vanished mysteriously, during a site migration. We can only apologise. The web elves have been disciplined and... |
| 30.06.2017 | DIGIT Movers & Shakers: June 2017 | NEW HIRES ZoneFox
ZoneFox has hired three new senior staff:
Neill Cooper, formerly of Vormetric becomes the Chief Commercial Officer
Ian Thornton-Trump, formerly of Solar Winds becomes Head of Security
Miles Gould, formerly of Red Hat, beco... |
