Ecosystem guide
Search Scotland's entrepreneurial ecosystem for the support your start-up, scale-up, or spin-out needs.
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City of Glasgow College - IP Hatch
The City of Glasgow College hosts the IPHatch® UK competition, which enables the growth of start-ups in key economic sectors including digital healthc… -
City of Glasgow College Incubation Hub (Incub8)
Incub8 is City of Glasgow College (CoGC)'s incubation hub. Ideal for start-ups, it offers fully serviced office space and a bespoke mentoring programm… -
CodeBase
CodeBase is a tech ecosystem builder which provides growth programmes, mentorship, communities, and events, as well as coworking spaces, international… -
Collabor8te
Collabor8te offers coworking memberships, drop in day passes and meeting room hire in a bright, spacious building in the heart of Glasgow City Centre… -
Collective Communities CIC
Collective Communities CIC (trading as EK Collective) is an inclusive coworking hub in the heart of East Kilbride. It's open to anyone with a pas… -
Community Enterprise
Community Enterprise provides free business support to social enterprises, from individual social entrepreneurs and emerging social enterprises to es… -
Converge
Converge works in close collaboration with Scotland’s world-class universities, supporing researchers, students and recent graduates to turn their res… -
CPI - Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre
MMIC can support Scottish companies with their pharma manufacturing and digital innovation projects, including access to technical expertise and help… -
Create Business Properties
From start ups to national companies, Create is home to a variety of businesses throughout its 65 varying sized property units. Create doesn't j… -
Creative Dundee
Creative Dundee centres creative practitioners and communities as powerful catalysts for the collective good. It's built by, with, and for Dundee's cr… -
Creative Edinburgh
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
Creative Scotland is the public body that supports culture and creativity across all parts of Scotland, distributing funding from the Scottish Governm… -
Dechomai
Dechomai is a social enterprise that offers start-up business support for ethnic minority founders. It focuses on providing ethnic minority profession… -
Defence and Security Accelerator
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) finds, funds and fast-tracks ideas that benefit HM Armed Forces and UK National Security. DASA works… -
Democratic Finance Scotland
Democratic Finance Scotland works with social and community enterprises that are seeking to raise investment from within their local community. To be… -
Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI)
The Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) is a national resource, a key enabler, and a catalyst for change. It occupies a unique and visib… -
Discovery Investment Fund Ltd
Discovery Investment Fund Ltd is a syndicate of self-certified, sophisticated investors who collectively possess extensive experience across numerous… -
DSL Business Finance Ltd
DSL Business Finance Ltd was established in 1993 and is a not-for-profit alternative finance provider that deliver a range of loan products to startup… -
East Renfrewshire Accelerator
This programme aims to help businesses achieve a turnover of £250,000 and create at least one new job opportunity per business within three years, whi… -
Edinburgh Innovations
Edinburgh Innovations is the University of Edinburgh’s commercialisation service that brings the University's research to industry. It works to identi… -
Elevator
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… -
Entrepreneurial Scotland Foundation
Entrepreneurial Scotland runs two core programmes to support people with an entrepreneurial mindset. Its peer support programme, The Exchange, i… -
Entrepreneurial Spark
Entrepreneurial Spark provides programmes that cultivate entrepreneurial mindsets and behaviours to facilitate impactful acceleration and growth for f… -
Eos
Eos invests in and commercialises science and technology, supporting businesses from local seed stage to a global scale, with a focus on improving liv… -
Epidarex Capital
Epidarex Capital is a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage, high-growth life science and health technology companies in the UK and USA. It…