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Creative Industries

Activity Stream

Activity Stream provides comprehensive, connected and user-friendly technologies that help live entertainment businesses achieve outstanding results.

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Financial Services & FinTech

Braid Financial Planning

Braid’s primary objective is to help people truly understand money – what it means to them and how they can use it to live their best life.

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Financial Services & FinTech

Building Atlas

Building Atlas is a UK-based tech firm that provides an AI-based platform for commercial real estate retrofit strategy.

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Financial Services & FinTech

CATALYST (PCI Geomatics)

With over 40 years of experience in earth observation, CATALYST (PCI Geomatics) has a rich history of transforming raw satellite imagery into actionable insights.

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Multi-sector

CodeBase

CodeBase is an ecosystem builder, collaborating with partners to increase the number of successful businesses through online and physical hubs, educational programmes, international pathways and skills development.

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Financial Services & FinTech

FinTech Scotland

FinTech Scotland is an independent not for profit cluster body jointly established with the financial services sector, universities and Scottish Enterprise.

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Public Services

Innovation Unit

Innovation Unit is a UK-wide social enterprise with a mission to grow and scale the boldest and best innovations that deliver long-term impact for people

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Creative Industries

Nagoya University Global Campus at the University of Edinburgh

The Nagoya University Global Campus at the University of Edinburgh connects students, researchers, and industry partners across our two universities. It supports joint research projects, student and faculty exchanges, and degree programs, including our Joint Degree Program in Science.

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Public Services

Nesta

Nesta designs, tests and scales new solutions to society’s biggest problems to change millions of lives for the better.

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Multi-sector

Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR)

ADR Scotland is a partnership between researchers at the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR) and the Scottish Government. ADR Scotland is transforming how public sector data in Scotland is curated, accessed and explored, so it can deliver its full potential for policymakers and the public.

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Public Services

Scottish Policy & Research Exchange

SPRE has a long-term commitment to supporting researchers of all disciplines and career stages to improve their policy-engagement practice.

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Creative Industries

Screen Language Ltd

Screen Language offers accessibility and linguistic services for film and other creative products including multilingual subtitles, captions/descriptive subtitles, audio description, live captions and BSL interpreting.

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Financial Services & FinTech

Synechron

Synechron is a global consulting firm that combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions.

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Creative Industries

Take Note

Take Note is an action research lab and consultancy working with cultural organisations, funders and the wider charity sector.

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Public Services

Thrive at Five

Thrive at Five is a UK-based charity whose mission is to help children in their early years develop strong foundations for life and learning in places where families are experiencing poverty and hardship.

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Tourism & Festivals

VoucherCart

VoucherCart is a global market-leading provider of SaaS voucher and gift card technology, serving thousands of businesses in over 35 countries.

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