| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.09.2025 | Digital Forensics in Crisis as UK Police Struggle with Surge | Forensic experts are warning that the UK’s digital forensics system is at breaking point, with growing backlogs, staff shortages, and outdated technology leaving thousands of crimes at risk of going unsolved.
Over the past decade, every pol... |
| 16.02.2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | January 2022 | Recruitment and Appointments The Data Lab
Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, The Data Lab, has a new Interim CEO at the helm.
Brian Hills will be responsible for leading the 50+ strong team, driving the growth of AI and data scie... |
| 09.12.2021 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | November 2021 | Funding and Investment Cyan Forensics
A consortium led by Cyan Forensics has been awarded £85,000 by the UK Government to demonstrate innovative technologies to tackle one of society’s most pressing issues – keeping children safe online in ... |
| 18.11.2021 | UK names five projects to get funding for CSAM detection | The UK government has named five projects that have scored public funding under a ‘tech safety’ challenged announced in September — when the Home Office said it wanted to encourage the tech industry and academia to develop novel AI/scanning... |
| 12.11.2021 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | October 2021 | Recruitment Aveni
Speech analytics firm Aveni has appointed Elizabeth Gooch, MBE, as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer.
Shortly after its recent funding round, the speech analytics company also announced a raft of key design and engineeri... |
| 12.11.2021 | DIGIT Movers & Shakers | October 2021 | Recruitment Aveni
Speech analytics firm Aveni has appointed Elizabeth Gooch, MBE, as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer.
Shortly after its recent funding round, the speech analytics company also announced a raft of key design and engineeri... |
| 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... |
| 12.04.2021 | The DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | March 2021 | Funding and Investment Swipii
Glasgow-based tech startup Swipii has launched its first-ever crowdfund as it seeks to quadruple its business network to help power the Shop Local recovery last month.
Hosted by Crowdcube, the firm is seeking £... |
| 31.03.2021 | International Growth Programmes launch in Asia-Pacific | This week sees 30 UK tech scaleups join the inaugural Tech Nation International Growth Programme launched in Australia, Singapore, Japan and South Korea.
The new programme has been commissioned as part of the Digital Trade Network, by the ... |
| 30.03.2021 | Tech firm that helps police combat child abuse raises £5m | |
| 30.03.2021 | Edinburgh startup that busts online crimes pockets £5M; bullish to grow in two years | Edinburgh-based Cyan Forensics helps law enforcement, social media and cloud companies find and block harmful content. In a recent development, the company pocketed £5 million in Series A funding. Fuels ambitious global growth plans
The inv... |
| 29.03.2021 | Scottish crime-busting startup Cyan Forensics lands €5.8 million | Cyan Forensics, the Edinburgh-based tech company that helps law enforcement, social media and cloud companies find and block harmful content, has successfully completed a Series A investment round of just over €5.8 million led by Par Equity... |
| 16.12.2020 | 11 Scottish Startups Worth Watching in the New Year | 2020 has been a turbulent year for everyone. In business, startups have been particularly hard hit, with a recent survey warning that over 1000 young companies have filed for administration since the start of lockdown.
However, for those th... |
| 10.12.2020 | National Center for Missing & Exploited Children assessment of Cyan Tech finds it can help "safeguard children" | NCMEC assessed Cyan’s digital triage tool and believes it will work well to quickly and effectively identify child sexual abuse materials
President and CEO John F. Clark states that based on NCMEC’s assessment, NCMEC believes Cyan Examiner ... |
| 22.09.2020 | Smartphone Scanning Tech to Help Find Child Abuse and Terrorist Material | Edinburgh-based Cyan Forensics has announced a new partnership with Susteen, a California-based developer of mobile forensic tools, to deliver rapid triage capability for smartphones.
The technology is a combination of Cyan Forensics’ scann... |
| 09.04.2020 | Three Scottish Startups Join Tech Nation Cyber Programme | Three of Scotland’s most exciting cybersecurity startups have been chosen to take part in Tech Nation’s Cyber 2.0 growth programme.
Cyan Forensics, SnapDragon and Symphonic Software will join 19 other firms from across the country on the pr... |
| 09.04.2020 | Introducing: The 22 leading UK Cyber Security scaleups joining Cyber 2.0 | At times like these, scaling companies need more help and guidance than ever. So it is with much pride that we can announce the list of companies who are joining our Cyber 2.0 cohort.
After an impressive amount of applications, which were ... |
| 10.12.2019 | Digital forensics firm targets new markets with £1.3m funding | Cyan Forensics – the Edinburgh-based start-up whose technology helps police investigators to find evidence faster – has secured a further £1.3m from a consortium of investors. |
| 09.12.2019 | Cyan Forensics Raises £1.3M in Funding | Cyan Forensics, an Edinburgh, Scotland, UK-based startup providing a tech platform for police investigators to find evidence quickly, raised £1.3m in funding.
Backers included Triple Point Investment Management, Mercia, SIS Ventures, the Sc... |
| 09.12.2019 | Edinburgh-based Cyan Forensics, the crime-busting startup, raises €1.5 million to target new markets | Cyan Forensics, the Edinburgh-based startup whose technology helps police investigators to find evidence faster, has secured a further €1.5 million from a consortium of investors.
The funding, which has come from Triple Point Investment Man... |
| 16.08.2019 | DIGIT Tech News Roundup: 16th of August 2019 | Cyan Forensics leads fight against child exploitation with US Partnership
Napier University spin-out Cyan Forensics has secured a major US partnership to help tackle child exploitation. @CyanForensics @MissingKids https://t.co/0wzO6Qp7Vo
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| 14.08.2019 | Cyan Forensics Leads Fight Against Child Exploitation with US Partnership | Edinburgh-based digital forensics startup, Cyan Forensics, has secured its first major partnership in the US with the National Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).
The partnership with NCMEC is the company’s first step to in... |
| 09.11.2018 | Edinburgh Tech Startup Cyan Forensics Raises £900,000 Funding | Scottish startup Cyan Forensics, which develops digital forensic technology to help law enforcement catch criminals faster, has closed a £900,000 investment round led by Mercia Fund Managers.
The cash injection brings its total funding to n... |
| 09.11.2018 | Award-winning tech startup Cyan Forensics raises almost £1m in latest funding round | Scottish startup Cyan Forensics, which develops digital forensic technology to help law enforcement catch criminals faster, has closed a £900,000 investment round led by Mercia Fund Managers, bringing its total funding to nearly £1.5million... |
| 08.11.2018 | Cyan Forensics Closes £900K Funding Round | Cyan Forensics, an Edinburgh, Scotland, UK-based company which develops digital forensic technology platform to help law enforcement catch criminals faster, closed a £900k funding round.
The round – which brought total funding raised to dat... |
| 08.11.2018 | Scottish startup Cyan Forensics raises €1 million to help catch sex offenders and terrorists | Tech startups have been revolutionising many industries, but we don’t come across too many that are aiding law enforcement.
Edinburgh-based startup Cyan Forensics develops digital forensic technology to help the police catch criminals faste... |
| 23.04.2018 | EIE Catapults Cyan Forensics to National Attention at St James’s Palace | After delivering an outstanding pitch at EIE18, Cyan Forensics (CF) is set to take part in the prestigious finals of Pitch@Palace, an event that showcases Britain’s most promising startups.
The ambitious tech start-up will be pitching it ou... |
| 25.10.2016 | Cyan Forensics Raises £240K in Funding | Cyan Forensics, an Edinburgh, Scotland, UK-based digital forensics spinout, raised £240k in funding.
Backers included Mercia Fund Management and the Scottish Investment Bank.
that could dramatically cut the time it takes police to examine c... |
| - | Edinburgh startup that busts online crimes pockets £5M; bullish to grow in two years | Edinburgh-based Cyan Forensics helps law enforcement, social media and cloud companies find and block harmful content. In a recent development, the company pocketed £5 million in Series A funding. Fuels ambitious global growth plans
The inv... |
