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Only a fifth of smaller businesses are “tech-savvy” despite the potential boost to turnover, a new survey suggests. Royal Bank of Scotland parent NatWest’s Springboard to Recovery report found that tech is more critical than ever to the success of an SME (small and medium-sized enterprise), yet “far too few” businesses are open to modern …

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Regional winners of Rising Stars contest for tech start-ups unveiled. From AI to pharma, farming to fintech, a nationwide initiative is casting a spotlight on the hottest tech startups. Now in its fourth edition, Tech Nation’s Rising Stars competition aims to identify and support the UK’s most disruptive tech upstarts. And after months of entries …

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Figures from NatWest’s ‘Springboard to Recovery’ report has illustrated that only one in five small businesses are open to digital transformation, despite it making them 2.5x more likely to experience a 20% or more increase in revenue. This data, which included: research from a survey of 1000 small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs), analysis of more than …

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A report has found that only one in five small businesses are open to digital transformation. FIGURES from NatWest’s ‘Springboard to Recovery’ report illustrates that only one in five small businesses are open to digital transformation, despite it making them 2.5x more likely to experience a 20% or more increase in revenue.  This data, which …

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Tech Nation has today announced the 5 Scotland Regional Winners of its fourth Rising Stars competition, which recognises the brightest and best early-stage tech scaleups from every area of the UK. This year’s Scotland Regional Winners are Kythera AI, Letting Cloud, PolyDigi Tech, Gigged.AI and Know-it. These companies, which hail from Edinburgh and Glasgow – Scotland’s two largest tech hubs – are …

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Five early-stage companies from Edinburgh and Glasgow have been named as Scotland’s most promising young tech firms in the “Rising Stars” competition run by growth platform Tech Nation. Edinburgh-based Kythera AI, Letting Cloud and Polydigi Tech, along with Gigged.AI and Know-it of Glasgow, join 50 other regional winners from across the UK as winners in the fourth …

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The tech sector in Scotland has received $549m in funding this year – up 56% on 2020. Tech Nation has announced the five Scottish of its fourth Rising Stars competition, which recognises the best early-stage tech scale-ups from every area of the UK. They were selected by a panel of more than 50 judges based …

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Growth funding competition receives hundreds of pitches during two-day event. Scottish EDGE has invested in a total of 42 businesses with entrepreneurial potential, breaking its investment record with a total of £1.5m. The high growth potential business funding competition received hundreds of applications. After two days of pitching, judges chose the winners. Medical technology start-up …

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Gigged.AI, Know-it, Kythera AI, Letting Cloud and PolyDigi Tech have been chosen as the Rising Stars 4.0 Scottish regional winners. A cohort of tech startups has today been announced by Tech Nation as the five Scottish Regional Winners of its fourth Rising Stars competition. Rising Stars 4.0 is Britain’s only national early-stage tech scaleup competition. …

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