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Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Enterprise

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Scottish Enterprise is a national economic development agency supporting business growth.


Recent investments

Seed
£1.0M

TRICAPITAL Angels led the round alongside Scottish Enterprise and UKI2S to support the firm's subsea technology.

"We look forward to working with TRICAPITAL and Scottish Enterprise and to have the continued backing of UKI2S in our journey to change the game for underwater robotics."
— Lee Wilson, Chief Executive
Series B
$8.5M

Guinness Ventures led the round, with additional backing from Scottish Enterprise, Growthdeck, The SideBySide Partnership, Equity Gap, and Virgin Money.

"This investment accelerates our mission to deliver game improvement technology to 60 million golfers around the world. Throughout 2024 we plan to invest in infrastructure across the USA to support our retail and distribution partners. Golfers globally love our GPS, rangefinder and shot-tracking technology, having sold products in 160 different countries worldwide in 2023. Golf has experienced a huge change in the past 5 years, people of all ages and demographics love the sport. With Shot Scope golfers can improve quickly and enjoy the game they love even more."
— David Hunter
Series B
£6.6M

Guinness Ventures led the Series B round alongside participants including Scottish Enterprise, Growthdeck, and Virgin Money.

"This investment accelerates our mission to delivergame improvement technology to 60 million golfers around the world. Throughout 2024 we plan to invest in infrastructure across the USA to support our retail and distribution partners. Golfers globally love our GPS, rangefinder and shot tracking technology, having sold products in 160 different countries worldwide in 2023. Golf has experienced a huge change in the past 5 years, people of all ages and demographics love the sport. With Shot Scope golfers can improve quickly and enjoy the game they love even more."
— David Hunter, CEO and Founder
Seed
£1.0M

The Scottish laser technology specialist has raised over £1m from existing investors and Innovate UK to fund healthcare product rollouts and emissions monitoring tools.

"Designing and manufacturing state-of-the-art ultrafast infra-red lasers brings huge value and efficiencies to the global healthcare market. Our new '920' builds on a decade of research and IP development to extend our product roadmap."
— Julian Hayes, CEO
Series A
£11.0M

The funding round was led by Puma Private Equity and will support the creation of a financial services-specific large language model.

"The financial Services industry does not need AI models that can quote Shakespeare, it needs AI models that deliver transparency, trust and above all correctness. The way to achieve this is to develop small, highly tuned language models, trained on financial services data, reviewed by financial services experts for specific financial services use cases."
— Joseph Twigg, CEO