| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.05.2025 | Scotland's Tech Surge: A Landscape of Innovation and Opportunity | Scotland is buzzing. The tech ecosystem is alive with energy, innovation, and ambition. From the bustling streets of Edinburgh to the vibrant communities of Glasgow, the Scottish tech scene is transforming. This month, we delve into the mov... |
| 01.05.2025 | Movers and Shakers | April 2025 | Welcome to the April 2025 edition of DIGIT’s Movers and Shakers!
Each month, our Movers and Shakers feature gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem.
Esteemed appointments, major partnerships, and important award... |
| 17.04.2025 | Scotland's AI Discovery: Igniting the Future of HealthTech Startups | Scotland is stepping into the future with a bold initiative. The AI Discovery program is here to transform postgraduate researchers into healthtech entrepreneurs. This is not just another startup incubator; it’s a launchpad for innovation. ... |
| 15.04.2025 | Codebase Launches DeepTech AI Initiative with Scots Unis and NHS | A DeepTech AI initiative has been launched in Scotland to bridge innovation between university postgraduate talent and NHS Scotland.
‘AI Discovery’, delivered by CodeBase via its Techscaler programme in collaboration with the University of ... |
| 15.04.2025 | Scotland launches DeepTech AI to nurture postgraduate founders | Scotland has launched a new initiative designed to foster a pipeline of deeptech AI startups built by postgraduate researchers. The programme, called AI Discovery, is being delivered by CodeBase via its Techscaler startup support network, i... |
| 05.12.2024 | Movers and Shakers | November 2024 | Welcome to the November 2024 edition of DIGIT’s Movers and Shakers!
Each month, our Movers and Shakers feature gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem.
This November has been another thrilling month, with many i... |
| 25.11.2024 | CodeBase Partnerships Offers AI to Local SMEs | CodeBase has partnered with Aberdeen City Council and Scottish Borders Council to offer an artificial intelligence (AI) programme for local SMEs.
The ‘AI Navigator’ programme run by technology ecosystem specialist CodeBase is designed to he... |
| 31.10.2024 | Sustainable Ventures Opens Glasgow Base in Partnership With Techscaler | Sustainable Ventures is opening a Glasgow base in partnership with Techscaler, aimed at driving climate tech startup activity in Scotland.
Sustainable Ventures is one of the leading climate tech hubs outside North America, with over 1,000 i... |
| 20.08.2024 | CodeBase and Open University Partner to Accelerate Startup Activity | CodeBase has partnered with The Open University in Scotland to drive co-learning opportunities, including the co-creation of educational content, and to accelerate startup and entrepreneurial activity.
As part of the tie-up, distance learni... |
| 17.07.2024 | OnFife Partners With CodeBase to Help Drive Tech Startup Growth | OnFife, Fife’s Cultural Trust supported by Fife Council, has partnered with CodeBase, which runs the Scottish government’s startup support programme Techscaler, to help drive tech startup growth in the region.
The new partnership plans to b... |
| 11.06.2024 | CodeBase Relaunches CodeClan | CodeBase is relaunching CodeClan, the digital skills academy, with three Scottish colleges and a Silicon Valley teaching programme for coding.
The pilot with Edinburgh College, Borders College, and West Lothian College, is set to commence t... |
| 20.05.2024 | What Does Scots Gov Startup Funding Package Actually Entail? | Extra investment to grow and nurture high-growth businesses and entrepreneurs in Scotland has been announced.
The £5 million package aims to help deliver end-to-end support for Scotland’s startup companies.
The funding comes as part of the ... |
| 13.05.2024 | Scotland’s Games Sector: A Look Inside the Rise and Roadmap Forward | On the back of the second annual Scottish Games Week in November last year, a plan was put in motion to develop a framework to understand and support the Scottish games sector.
In February of this year the National Games Strategy was announ... |
| 14.03.2024 | Techscaler and FinTech Scotland Partner to Accelerate Sector Growth | Techscaler, the Scots government’s tech startup support programme awarded to CodeBase, and FinTech Scotland, the cluster body driving Scotland’s fintech innovation, have announced a strategic partnership to drive forward Scotland’s fintech ... |
| 01.02.2024 | Scottish Government Backs National Games Strategy | The Scottish Government has given its backing to the creation of a national games strategy, recognising the enormous commercial and transformative potential of games.
This will make Scotland the first part of the United Kingdom to have a st... |
| 07.12.2023 | Final CodeClan Cohort Graduates from CodeBase | Following Codebase’s acquisition of CodeClan following its sudden closure, the final cohort of Professional Software Development students officially graduated on Friday the 1st of December.
Students were joined by instructors, support staff... |
| 30.08.2023 | Applications Open for CodeBase’s Edinburgh Greentech Futures | Applications are now open for the first CodeBase cohort of Edinburgh Greentech Futures, which will provide a space and community for businesses and entrepreneurs interested in developing green technology.
The group-based programme is aimed ... |
| 04.05.2023 | What’s the Criteria for CodeBase’s ‘Startup First Steps’ Techscaler Program? | At an event held at Barclays Eagle Labs in Glasgow, CodeBase officially launched its ‘Startup First Steps’ course, with a cohort of participants engaged in a round-table discussion with Scottish Government Innovation Minister, Richard Lochh... |
| 18.04.2023 | CivTech Announces it is Leaving CodeBase | CivTech Programme Director Mark Elliot wrote the announcement today, although the programme did not specify any new headquarters.
The government-backed programme opened their Studio at Codebase, the tech star-up hub, in 2016 before they ope... |
| 30.03.2023 | Techscaler Launches Scaleup Programme with Silicon Valley Firm | Techscaler has launched its first scaleup programme in partnership with Silicon Valley-based Reforge.
A plethora of companies have joined the cohort in March, with a total of 47 individuals from 17 organisations to participate.
Organisation... |
| 08.02.2023 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | January 2023 | Welcome to the January 2023 edition of the DIGIT Movers and Shakers column.
This month features another bumper crop of Scottish awards, relocation, partnership, and recruitment news.
Here’s all the latest news in one place.
Recruitment
Mico... |
| 07.10.2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | September 2022 | Recruitment The Scotland 5G Centre
The Scotland 5G Centre has appointed three Business Engagement Managers to the S5GConnect Team – the Centre’s core programme deploying regionally relevant 5G innovation hubs and testbeds across Scotland.
A... |
| 20.09.2022 | AccelerateHER and CodeBase Partner to Aid Budding Female Founders | AccelerateHER has teamed up with CodeBase in a new partnership to increase female company founder participation.
The collaboration is part of a Scotland-wide programme designed to inspire and support a new generation of tech entrepreneurs.
... |
| 02.08.2022 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | July 2022 | Funding CodeBase
Edinburgh-based company CodeBase was awarded a contract worth up to £42 million to establish seven new tech scaler hubs across Scotland.
The Scottish Government investment will help tech founders scale-up their businesses b... |
| 14.07.2022 | Nicola Sturgeon Leads the Line in Unveiling Scotland’s Tech Scalers | Almost two years ago, Scotland’s first chief entrepreneur, Mark Logan released the Scottish technology ecosystem review. The document set out a list of five major recommendations (among a total of 34), with a goal of maturing Scotland’s tec... |
| 13.07.2022 | CodeBase Receives £42m Scottish Government Contract | Edinburgh-based company CodeBase has been awarded a contract worth up to £42 million to establish seven new tech scaler hubs across Scotland.
The Scottish Government investment will help tech founders scale-up their businesses by accessing ... |
| 15.03.2022 | What Square’s Partnership With Codebase Means For British Start-Ups | On Tuesday, Jack Dorsey's Square (now Block) announced a new partnership with Codebase aimed at empowering Codebase entrepreneurs to scale up their start-ups using the wide range of Square's payments processing solutions. |
| 23.09.2020 | Barclays to Partner with CodeBase and ONE on EnergyTech Initiative | Barclays Eagle Labs, in partnership with Opportunity North East (ONE) and CodeBase, has announced the launch of an EnergyTech initiative to accelerate innovation in the UK energy sector.
The group will work with industry leaders and bring t... |
| 28.09.2018 | Money Dashboard Hits Major Milestone With 1 Million Accounts | Eight years after launching, Money Dashboard, a free personal finance management app, now has more than 450,000 registered users and more than one million connected bank accounts.
Since its release, the award winning app has analysed more t... |
| 19.09.2018 | Edinburgh Startup Prodsight Secures £115,000 in Seed Funding | Based out of the UK’s largest technology incubator CodeBase, Prodsight is an intelligence Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, which was founded by Lithuanian born Tadas Labudis.
Its tool aims to help businesses to make better data-driven ... |
| 10.09.2018 | Key Scottish Tech Figures Launch Women in STEM Survey | Purpose HR, training management software specialist Administrate, Fintech company Modulr and Girl Geek Scotland have pooled their talent and resources to launch a survey on technology sector diversity.
The survey will examine what attracts ... |
| 05.07.2018 | Make it Social Secures Landmark Deal with The Ticket Factory | Edinburgh-based startup, Make it Social has partnered with one of the UK’s leading ticketing agents, The Ticket Factory.
The move will see Make it Social provide group ticket booking services to two of the UK’s top entertainment venues; Are... |
| 22.06.2018 | City analysis: Edinburgh can build on success of tech ‘unicorns’ | As Tech Nation on Tour comes to Edinburgh, we’ve heard from a panel of local figureheads about the issues affecting Scotland’s tech ecosystem.
It’s all about unicorns
The panel agreed that Scotland is proud of its two tech “unicorns”, bot... |
| 30.05.2018 | DIGIT: Movers and Shakers May 2018 | Appointments Women’s Enterprise Scotland
Mark Logan has become the first male ambassador to join Women’s Enterprise Scotland (WES). Logan will be leading a campaign to recruit a new cohort of male ambassadors. Logan, a former Skyscanner exe... |
| 17.05.2018 | Tech Nation on Tour Arrives in Edinburgh | The high level national statistics show the vital importance of the digital technology sector to the UK’s output. While the wider economy has reported sluggish growth, the digital tech sector has bucked this trend, expanding nearly three ti... |
| 10.05.2018 | New Codebase Incubator Comes To Aberdeen | A new partnership between Opportunity North East (ONE) and CodeBase is bringing a new entrepreneurial hub to Aberdeen and North East of Scotland.
The new partnership will support growth in the commercial digital sectors, by creating busines... |
| 11.04.2018 | EIE 18: The Investors View | Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has been part of the Scottish investment landscape for nearly 20 years. Investing in companies across the UK and Europe, SEP nevertheless retains a keen interest in and focus on the rapidly evolving technology... |
| 05.03.2018 | Scottish Company Wins Best Personal Finance App | Money Dashboard fought off serious competition to take home this prestigious award, it was the startup’s free personal finance assistant app that secured them the coveted title. Their award-winning app helps users to make the most of their ... |
| 19.02.2018 | Scottish FinTech Powers UK’s First Bank-Backed Crowdfunding Platform | ShareIn, the online investment platform provider has capped a year of record growth, by launching the UK’s first crowdfunding platform to be offered by a bank.
Triodos, which has established a strong reputation in the ethical finance sector... |
| 22.01.2018 | Digital Xtra: Stirling High School’s Digital Learning Hub | In 2018, Digital Xtra Fund will be introducing over 3,200 young people to digital technologies by supporting 11 high-quality initiatives across Scotland. Over the next few months we will highlight each of these initiatives through a series ... |
| 31.10.2017 | PwC and CodeBase Announce SCALE: Edinburgh Participants | The companies participating in PwC and CodeBase’s brand new SCALE initiative have been revealed, as the 10 week series of events gets underway.
Nine companies and over 40 executives will now spend the next few days learning more about each ... |
| 23.10.2017 | Idea Bootcamp Lets Startups Access Tech Expertise | Edinburgh-based Bad Dinosaur is offering budding start-ups the opportunity to develop ideas through its new Idea Bootcamp.
The company has recognised that not every entrepreneur is a coder or technical expert, yet technology is a fundamenta... |
| 18.10.2017 | VR/AR Scotland Edinburgh Debut | The VR/AR Meetup, organised by VR experts Eventual, which normally takes place in Glasgow is coming to the East coast for the first time.
The first ever Edinburgh VR/AR Meetup will take place at Whitespace’s city centre HQ, at the foot of t... |
| 11.09.2017 | Edinburgh Tech Firm Administrate Secures Silicon Valley Deal | Edinburgh-based software developer Administrate has secured a potentially million-pound deal with one of Silicon Valley’s fastest growing cloud-based technology firms, CloudShare. Administrate provides software training platforms to a varie... |
| 23.08.2017 | Chinese online mobile games developer Chengdu Skymoons Technology opens Edinburgh Studio | |
| 31.01.2017 | UK’s first accredited digital skills academy celebrates first anniversary and plugging the software skills gap | |
| 26.04.2016 | Skyscanner: from basic spreadsheet to global travel search engine | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
Skyscanner started life as a spreadsheet to collect and compare commercial flight data worldwide and today is the go-to travel search engine in more than 30 languages.
The Edin... |
| 03.09.2015 | Turing Festival Showcases Some of the World’s Best Digital Minds | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
August in Edinburgh not only brings the Fringe Festival but also the Turing Festival, a gathering of Scottish superstars and world famous tech entrepreneurs, organised by Code... |
| 09.07.2015 | Codebase: Building Startup Ecosystems Through the Turing Festival | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Ahead of the Turing Festival in August, Jamie Coleman – Founding Director of the Festival and Managing Director of Codebase – shares his thoughts on its origins.
In late 2010... |
| 26.06.2015 | Joe Scarboro: Four Weeks at Tech City UK | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
It’s the end of my fourth week at Tech City UK and it’s been a hectic start! I’ve done a lot of research on where we can be adding more value and I’ve been to a lot of events ... |
| 06.03.2015 | Guest Blog: Graham Hatton of StartEDIN | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Graham Hatton of StartEDIN gave us his thoughts on the success of Edinburgh’s tech cluster, ahead of their networking event later this month
I love Edinburgh. What’s not to l... |
| 19.02.2015 | Tech Nation Cluster Profile: Edinburgh | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Following the recent launch of Tech Nation, we will be running a series of profile pieces on each of the digital clusters featured in the report.
The third city profiled in o... |
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