Ecosystem guide

Aberdeenshire Council supports a sustainable, innovation-driven economy in north-east Scotland. Key teams in its Economic Development service deliver…

Bell Street Ventures (BSV) supports current Abertay University students and staff, as well as recent graduates. BSV offers co-working space, hot…

AccelerateHER is a network that exists to accelerate the growth, backing, and visibility of high-growth-potential women founders in Scotland. It aims…

Barclays Eagle Labs are an entrepreneurial network providing support to ambitious start up and scale up businesses, with a focus on those in the techn…

BGF provides businesses with an initial investment of £1 million to £20 million, with significant follow-on funding available for new growth opportuni…

BobbAI is an AI-powered platform that helps entrepreneurs access personalised business support. It creates dynamic profiles for each user, delivering…

Bright Red Triangle (Edinburgh Napier University) provides free lifelong enterprise support to a community of Edinburgh Napier University’s staff, stu…

The British Association of Women Entrepreneurs (Scotland) is an organisation primarily for senior female entrepreneurs in scale-up mode in Scotland.&n…

The Business Development Team at Inverclyde Council offers support to those setting up a new business and those who own existing companies in the Inve…

Business Women Scotland (BWS) supports startups and scaling companies that are led by women – as well as female entrepreneurs – in Scotland. With over…

CeeD (Centre for Engineering, Education and Development) Scotland is a community of businesses and academics that pools its talents, experience, and r…

CENSIS is a not-for-profit innovation delivery organisation focused on the development and deployment of the advanced enabling technologies that are c…

Ceteris (Scotland) supports entrepreneurs with new start-up businesses and helps established businesses to scale by providing services (often fully fu…

Challenges Group is an international enterprise development organisation which improves organisational capabilities by strengthening enterprises, thei…

The City of Glasgow College hosts the IPHatch® UK competition, which enables the growth of start-ups in key economic sectors including digital healthc…

CodeBase is a tech ecosystem builder which provides growth programmes, mentorship, communities, and events, as well as coworking spaces, international…

Community Enterprise provides free business support to social enterprises, from individual social entrepreneurs and emerging social enterprises to es…

Converge works in close collaboration with Scotland’s world-class universities, supporing researchers, students and recent graduates to turn their res…

MMIC can support Scottish companies with their pharma manufacturing and digital innovation projects, including access to technical expertise and help…

Creative Edinburgh is a charity that unites creative thinkers across the city. Its main objective is to protect the welfare of Edinburgh's creative co…

Creative Scotland is the public body that supports culture and creativity across all parts of Scotland, distributing funding from the Scottish Governm…

Dechomai is a social enterprise that offers start-up business support for ethnic minority founders. It focuses on providing ethnic minority profession…

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) finds, funds and fast-tracks ideas that benefit HM Armed Forces and UK National Security.  DASA works…

Edinburgh Innovations is the University of Edinburgh’s commercialisation service that brings the University's research to industry. It works to identi…

Elevator is Scotland’s leading social enterprise in the field of enterprise and business support services. Its goal is to ignite, nurture, and grow en…