| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.11.2025 | Comment | Scotland’s Deep Tech Opportunity | Scotland has a longstanding reputation for punching above its weight when it comes to science and engineering – supported not only by our world-class academic institutions, but also a strong ecosystem of spin-outs and start-ups. This is par... |
| 11.09.2025 | Deep Tech Supercluster Programme Launched | Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes has officially launched the Deep Tech Supercluster Programme at a showcase event at the Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh.
The pilot programme is part of the wider Deep Tech Supercluster and was hailed ... |
| 04.09.2025 | Movers and Shakers | August 2025 | Welcome to August’s jam-packed edition of Movers and Shakers!
The summer has only just finished and the kids are barely back to school, but Scotland’s tech scene has wasted no time getting back to business, with a fresh crop of high-level a... |
| 05.08.2025 | Glasgow MedTech Novosound Targets FDA Clearance with New Exec Appointment | Glasgow-headquartered medtech Novosound has announced the appointment of renowned medical technology executive Gary Beale as executive vice chairman.
In this role, Beale will lead the company’s medical business as novosound moves towards FD... |
| 04.06.2025 | Glasgow's Tech Renaissance: A New Era of Innovation | Glasgow is buzzing. The city is a vibrant hub of innovation, shedding its industrial past for a future steeped in technology. Once known for shipbuilding and heavy industry, Glasgow has transformed into a breeding ground for tech startups. ... |
| 03.06.2025 | Scotland's Wearable Ultrasound Revolution: A New Era in Health Tech | Scotland is on the brink of a technological renaissance. A new Special Interest Group (SIG) has emerged, uniting industrial and academic forces to champion wearable ultrasound technology. This initiative aims to position Scotland as a leade... |
| 03.06.2025 | Scotland's Leap into the Future: The Rise of Wearable Ultrasound Technology | Scotland is on the brink of a technological revolution. A new Special Interest Group (SIG) has emerged, aiming to position the nation at the forefront of wearable ultrasound technology. This initiative brings together academic and industria... |
| 03.06.2025 | 18 Glasgow Tech Startups You Need To Know About | It’s been a visceral transformation. Pulling into Central Station now offers a strikingly different cityscape than it did just ten years ago.
Years of truncated transition and an identity problem as the city struggled to move on from its in... |
| 28.05.2025 | Group Launched to Promote Wearable Ultrasound Tech in Scotland | A Special Interest Group (SIG) aimed at positioning Scotland to the fore in wearable ultrasound was launched this week, bringing industrial and academic partners together to explore advancement in wearable ultrasound technology.
This singul... |
| 31.01.2025 | Sound Blade Medical: A New Wave in Ultrasound Technology | In the world of medical technology, innovation is the lifeblood that keeps the industry thriving. Sound Blade Medical, a Halifax-based company, has recently made waves by securing $16.5 million in Series A funding. This funding will propel ... |
| 30.01.2025 | Sound Blade Medical secures $16.5M to advance ultrasound technology | Photo: SeventyFour/Getty Images
Sound Blade Medical, a medical device company that develops handheld ultrasound-guided histotripsy technology, announced it raised $16.5 million in Series A funding.
The round was coled by Amzak Health and Lu... |
| 28.10.2024 | Novosound Creates ‘World’s First’ Ultrasound Blood Pressure Monitor | Glasgow-based tech company Novosound has developed what it claims to be the world’s first ultrasonic blood pressure monitor.
This breakthrough allows for the miniaturisation of blood pressure monitoring in wearable devices, including smartw... |
| 24.05.2024 | Scots Scale Up Novosound Eyes APAC Expansion | Scottish sensor technology scale-up company Novosound is set to expand its footprint in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, capitalising on recent client wins with global energy giants in the Middle East and North America.
Novosound’s Ceilidh s... |
| 25.03.2024 | Novosound Secures Patent for Wearable Ultrasonic System | Novosound, the Scottish sensor technology scaleup, has secured a patent for its ultrasonic instrumentation system, with the firm recently launching its related Slanj platform targeted at the medical and wearable device sectors worldwide.
Th... |
| 07.12.2023 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | November 2023 | Welcome to the latest monthly edition of DIGIT Movers and Shakers.
Movers and Shakers gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem, from recruitment and partnerships to expansion and awards.
This month’s column featu... |
| 20.11.2023 | Novosound Inks New Transatlantic Partnership | Just east of Glasgow, in North Lanarkshire, Novosound is spearheading technological innovation for wireless ultrasounds. The new partnership with Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston Texas, marks a significant expansion for Novosound into... |
| 13.02.2023 | DIGIT Deal RoundUp: January 2023 | Funding and Investment Scottish Enterprise
£150,000 of funding awarded by the Scottish Enterprise will go towards two university projects focusing on green energy and renewables.
The High Growth Spin Out funding is directed at products and ... |
| 12.01.2023 | Par Equity Invested £38 million in UK Tech in 2022 | Edinburgh-based VC Par Equity has invested £38 million in early-stage technology businesses across the North of the UK in 2022, backing 27 companies in total, ten of which were new additions to the portfolio.
Continuing to build out its cap... |
| 04.08.2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | July 2022 | Recruitment Mark Logan
Scotland has officially appointed its first ‘Chief Entrepreneur’, with former Skyscanner executive Mark Logan selected for the role.
The new position has been created specifically to ensure entrepreneurship is “embedd... |
| 16.03.2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | February 2022 | Recruitment Novosound
Simon Patterson has been appointed Chief Commercial Officer at Novosound, joining from Innospection in Aberdeen to drive the remote sensor specialist’s UK and international growth strategy.
An MSc graduate in materials... |
| 13.01.2022 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | December 2021 | Funding and Investment Filament STAC
Filament STAC has announced the backing of a series of major tech giants from the US to create an IoT cluster in Scotland.
US firms Twilio, Plexus Corp., Intel Corporation, Keysight, and Arrow Electronic... |
| 11.11.2021 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | October 2021 | Funding and investment Gigged.AI and Techstart Ventures
Technology startup Gigged.AI has doubled its headcount from seven to 14 and expanded its presence after closing an over-subscribed £600,000 investment round.
Funding came from early-st... |
| 27.01.2020 | Foresight backs 23 new SMEs during 2019 - Private Equity Year in Review | It has been another busy and successful year at Foresight and we wanted to share some of our Private Equity team's most defining moments of 2019.
We have made a total of 45 new and follow-on investments across the UK, deploying close to £7... |
| 27.12.2019 | Novosound Raises £3.3M in Funding | Novosound, an Edinburgh, Scotland-based innovative ultrasound technology company, raised £3.3m in funding.
The Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund led the round investing £1.5 million alongside £500,000 from the Foresight Scottish Growth... |
| 18.12.2019 | Scottish startup Novosound secures €3.9M funding to expand ultrasound sensor technology | As we know, ultrasound sensors produce sound waves with frequencies above human range. And, these are used to transmit through an object to measure or image internal features. Ultrasound imaging is commonly used in maternity wards and other... |
| 16.12.2019 | Scottish startup Novosound snaps up €3.9 million to expand pioneering ultrasound tech | Award-winning Scottish startup Novosound today announces snapping up a total of €3.9 million, to expand its world-first ultrasound technology into new global markets.
The Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund led the round with €1.7 millio... |
| 05.07.2019 | DIGIT Tech News Roundup: 5th July 2019 | New Electric Vehicles Must Emit Noise to Alert Pedestrians
New EU regulations mean electric vehicles could sound very different… https://t.co/qigeLDJ7r4
— DIGIT (@digitfyi) July 4, 2019
A spin-out company from the University of the West of ... |
| 04.07.2019 | High-tech sensor firm Novosound boosted by £1m grant | A Scottish sensor technology firm is to boost its research and development activity after receiving a £1m grant from Scottish Enterprise.
Novosound, which has patented a technique to mass-manufacture printable ultrasound sensors, will focu... |
| 01.07.2019 | Scottish Ultrasound Tech Company Secures £1m to Boost Expansion | A spin-out company from the University of the West of Scotland has secured a £1 million grant from Scottish Enterprise.
Novosound, based at the Biocity incubator outside Glasgow, will use the grant to rapidly scale up its research & dev... |
| 04.09.2018 | DIGIT Movers & Shakers August 2018 | Recruitment Nucleus
Edinburgh-based Nucleus has recruited a new head of product development, Sam Hampton-Smith, as the firm looks to add to its tech capabilities.
Hampton-Smith joins Nucleus from cybersecurity company, Zonefox, where he ser... |
| 10.05.2018 | Scottish EDGE Round 12 Announces Finalists & New Venue | Scottish EDGE, the UK’s largest business funding competition has decided to move its final event from its traditional home of Edinburgh to Stirling where twenty businesses will gather to participate in Round 12.
Contenders will pitch to an ... |
| 04.05.2018 | DIGIT Deal Roundup: April 2018 | CityFibre
CityFibre, the fibre-optics infrastructure company which is currently building networks across Scotland has agreed to a £538 million takeover. Antin Infrastructure Fund partnered with Goldman Sach’s-backed West Street Infrastructu... |
| 02.05.2018 | Novosound - University of the West of Scotland’s first spinout raises £1.5 million | The first spinout company set to emerge from the University of the West of Scotland has closed its seed investment round, raising £1.5 million.
novosound, the winner of the 2017 Converge Challenge, has developed and patented a ground-break... |
| - | novosound | “Novosound is an award-winning Scottish sensors company utilising thin-film processes to eliminate conventional limitations in ultrasound sensors. This includes customisable solutions for emerging applications in industrial, medical, dental... |
