🗻 FOR EV Raise, CodeClan's back and Hop Software powering arctic properties
Plus, an exclusive Turing Fest discount for Campfire readers (only 20 available!).
Here's your Campfire for the 17th of June, 2024. FYI we’re hosting two events next month as part of the Turing Fest Fringe:
🚀 Founder2Founder Night: Lightning talks and startup founder public office hours. Listen to local startup founders as they teach you something in 10 minutes, and watch as groups of early-stage founders get in-depth advice about their idea from founders who've been there before.
🎁 Pitched Your Idea: Are you super early in your startup journey? Want a fun way to work on your pitch? This relaxed morning event right before Turing Fest begins for the day is a great way to get out of your own head and have some fun while learning a bit about how your idea comes across.
We’ll announce speakers and companies closer to the time. If you’d like to help out, teach something, or get feedback for your idea, get in touch.
💼 Want to create template legal agreements in minutes for free? Check out what Shepherd and Wedderburn making available for Campfire readers below in the ‘Asks and Offers section’. Also follow the Start to Scale LinkedIn page for useful videos and posts designed to help founders.
🌊 Updates
🖇️ Glasgow-based Smart Things Accelerator Centre (STAC), an Internet of Things (IoT) accelerator, announced a collaboration with Volvo to help get companies into Volvo’s pipeline. FS SBN
🚀 New partnership for space sector startups: The Scottish Space Network has partnered with New York-based Sustainable Alpha to “unlock investment opportunities for the Scottish, UK, and international space sectors”, aiming to help Scotland offer a full end-to-end service and access new markets and alliances. SS FS
⚡ CodeClan Relaunch: What's Different? CodeClan is relaunching under CodeBase with a different model to address high industry demand for software development and data science skills, with a focus on upskilling to “bridge the digital skills gap and accelerate economic impact”. The new model, developed in partnership with Qwasar (Silicon Valley education platform), Edinburgh College, Borders College, and West Lothian College, combines in-person and online training with constantly updated materials. TS SFN DGT FS
⛽ Edinburgh-based For EV (private electric vehicle charge point operator) has raised £10 million in follow-on investment from the Scottish National Investment Bank. The funding will support FOR EV’s plans to develop high-quality, accessible electric vehicle charging hubs across the UK and expand its unique fleet solutions to facilitate the transition to net-zero. SBN DGT
🏔️ Hospitality tech startup Hop Software (property management software handling online bookings and payments) is now being used in the Arctic as it has secured a contract with a hotel in Greenland, situated at the heart of the Inuit community. SBN
🎯 FinTech Scotland, in partnership with eleven corporates including EY, Morgan Stanley, and HSBC, has launched an ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) challenge aimed at achieving positive environmental and societal impacts. The challenge invites global innovative companies to propose solutions, with funding opportunities of up to £50,000 available for successful applicants. DGT IN
֎ The UK reportedly leads Europe in having the highest-valued AI sector. According to Tech Nation's UK Tech in the Age of AI report, Scotland saw £62.8 million of the £332 million total tech investment last year dedicated specifically to AI. DGT
🎙️ New podcast alert: The Braw Tech Podcast is launching to showcase tech and innovation in Scotland. First guests include Janani Prabhakaran from Unbaggaged and Rich Wilson from Gigged.AI LI
📣 Asks & Offers
🚨Start to Scale by Shepherd and Wedderburn is offering eligible subscribers of Campfire exclusive access to their ‘Start to Scale Hub’ which helps companies create template legal agreements in minutes for free. To learn more and request access click here.
💰 Pitch & network with international investors - In June 2024, 20 International Investors are taking part in a visit to Scotland seeking investment opportunities. Scaling Scottish companies have the opportunity to present to the cohort (with a particular emphasis on companies at Seed/Series A stage) and network with investors. Must be available W/C 17th June 2024. Find out more and apply here.
👩⚕️ ERIC is recruiting for key roles across the business from Full Stack Developers, Data Science Specialist, Marketing and Sales. Email hello@erictech.co.uk for more info.
🚀 Drimify is hiring! ✨ 4 new roles are live across various different functions including sales, customer success, design, and development! Find out more about each role here.
👨🏻💻 Looking for a data-scientist job? Glasgow-based PropEco is hiring a full-time data scientist and backend engineer to further develop its data platform, which helps property professionals manage the impacts of climate change. Please email chris@propeco.io if interested.
🎧 Who do you know? Voxblock (improving children’s literacy through audiobooks - 10k so far) is hiring for a COO/Director of Ops. Role includes supply chain and inventory management, scaling processes in operations, coordinating fulfilment, project management, and marketplace management. Competitive salary and share options, full-time/4 days a week, based in Edinburgh. Jobspec here.
🗄️ Want an office AND the diverse membership of a coworking space? The Melting Pot are seeking an organisation to occupy their Hot Office for a long-term rental. Available furnished or unfurnished, capacity for up to six team members at a time. Renting the Hot Office also includes 24/7 keyholder access and discounted Pay-As-You-Go access for any additional team members. For more info, contact Sam Ross.
⚙️Do you dream about prototyping? The University of St Andrews has just opened its Rapid Prototyping Centre with facilities like HD 3D Printing Studio with premium materials, a 3D design office suite, electromechanical engineering equipment and machinery, and an electronics design studio (clean room environment). They offer services like high quality 3D scanning, stereolithography, selective laser sintering, fused deposition modelling and much much more. Campfire readers get a 10% discount (just quote CAMP10). Email them here, and find out more here.
👭 Interested in connecting with possible co-founders? Fill in your listing on Cofounder Curious today! Connect with others for possible cofounder matching here.
👷Are you hiring? Send us a blurb and we’ll include it in the next newsletter!
✍️ Want to write something for Campfire? Have an opinion you'd like to share? get in touch!
🎯 The Turing Fest team has graciously given the Campfire community a discount code for £200 off tickets for Turing Fest 2024 (9-10 July, EICC, Edinburgh).
However, there are only 20 reduced tickets available, and they are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Be quick to secure yours! Use the code CAMP200 at checkout: Book Here.
Turing Fest is the only cross-functional tech gathering that connects founders and leaders in engineering, product, and growth. We'll see you there!
📅 Events
🍽️ 18/06, 11:30 🗺️ Glasgow: Lunch and Learn: Cyber Security with M3Networks [Glasgow]: CodeBase Glasgow is pleased to be partnering with m3 Networks to deliver a Lunch and Learn to the ecosystem to tackle some common misconceptions about cyber security. MORE INFO
🔋 18/06, 13:00 🗺️ Online: HubSpot for Startups - How to Supercharge your Content Marketing with AI: Join HubSpot for Startups and Codebase for a session on how to Supercharge your Content Marketing with AI! MORE INFO
👩💻 19/06, 10:00 🗺️ Dumfries: Coworking Days [South of Scotland]: Each Coworking day will start at 10am and finish the day at 4pm; you’re free to join us for the whole day or just pop in and out. MORE INFO
⛓ 19/06, 17:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Blockchain Scotland Meetup: Welcome to the Monthly Blockchain Scotland Meetup at the Bayes Centre in Edinburgh. The event takes place at the ground floor in G.03. MORE INFO
🚀 20/06, 08:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: ESG Innovation Summit: The conference will focus on the role of digital technology in driving ESG impact; exploring how innovation in IoT, Analytics, AI and Cloud are helping to improve climate outcomes. MORE INFO
🥐 20/06, 09:00 🗺️ Dundee: Operational Excellence Breakfast Workshop: Join a free breakfast event at the Innovation Hub where we’ll cover operational excellence and show how it can benefit your business. MORE INFO
💡 20/06, 12:30 🗺️ Stirling: Idea Factory: Ideation Workshop: Join us at Idea Fest where we will gather to ignite your imagination and inspire your boldest ideas and foster the future of creativity. MORE INFO
🎯 20/06, 17:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Scottish Notion Meetup x nocode.scot: Whether you're a total newbie or power user of Notion / your preferred nocode tool, you're welcome to come along and meet up with likeminded people. MORE INFO
🍺 20/06, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Edinburgh x Business Declares- People, Planet, Pint™: Sustainability Meetup: Pop down to your local People Planet Pint meetup to find more about what's going on locally with sustainability and how you can get involved. MORE INFO
🌴 20/06, 18:00 🗺️ Dundee: Dundee Summer Social: Our summer social will be a chance for everyone in the tech startup community to get together and socialise. You'll meet other startup founders, CodeBase staff and people from the local tech and business ecosystem. And your first drink's on us! MORE INFO
🔥 20/06, 20:00 🗺️ Glasgow: Fireside Chat: Michael Bergson, Buck's Bar and Thundercat: Join us for an evening to talk through Michael's journey, the lesson's he's learnt building a hospitality business from scratch and surviving a global pandemic when everything in your industry changes with the flick of a switch. MORE INFO
🖥️ 21/06, 09:30 🗺️ Online: Online Coworking Session - Week 6: Join us for an accountability session and let's get things done! MORE INFO
🤝 21/06, 10:00 🗺️ Perth: Perth Coworking Day: Join us at the Famous Grouse Ideas Centre in Perth Creative Exchange for a day of free coworking. This is a great opportunity to connect with the regional tech and business community, use the excellent facilities available and get an extra dose of Friday motivation. MORE INFO
🏳🌈 21/06, 17:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Queer in Tech Mixer: A mixer for those in the tech ecosystem who identify as part of the LGTBQ+ community. MORE INFO
🔌 25/06, 17:00 🗺️ Hawick: Unplugged @ Hawick Business Centre: Open to everyone, CodeBase Unplugged is a networking event for professionals working in, or interested in, tech startups. MORE INFO
🥂 25/06, 18:00 🗺️ Dundee: Dundee Data Meetup 1 Year Celebration: Join us for a special event as we celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the Dundee Data Meetup! MORE INFO
🌍 25/06, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Geomob Edinburgh: Geomob is an event series and podcast for geospatial enthusiasts. MORE INFO
💡 26/06, 09:00 🗺️ Glenrothes: Lean Introduction Workshop: Join this free workshop and explore how Lean Thinking Principles can engage your people and create sustainable change. MORE INFO
💼 26/06, 09:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: How to smash LinkedIn: A Founders Marketing Workshop: Join this workshop to learn how to master LinkedIn so that your own profile and company page becomes a business building machine. MORE INFO
🤝 26/06, 10:00 🗺️ Dumfries: Coworking Days [South of Scotland]: Join us at our coworking days for the South of Scotland Community! MORE INFO
💡 26/06, 12:00 🗺️ Stirling: Idea Factory: No Code Along with Oli Littlejohn: Join us for an insightful event, "NoCode Along with Oli Littlejohn," as part of our Idea Factory series. Discover how to build digital products without any coding skills. Learn what NoCode is, explore its platforms and tools, and understand best practices tailored for tech startups and the broader tech ecosystem. MORE INFO
💬 26/06, 17:15 🗺️ Edinburgh: Barclays Eagle Labs and CodeBase monthly Quiz - Edinburgh (June): Join us for this month's pub quiz - bringing together the CodeBase and Edinburgh community for a bit of fun! MORE INFO
🚀 26/06, 17:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Techno-Solutionism in AI: Part of The Melting Pot's Spring - Summer AI & Social Innovation events series, discover how to overcome barriers and make AI better for all. MORE INFO
🤝 26/06, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Entrepreneurs Social Club (ESC) - Edinburgh Startup Meetup: The social club for founders and aspiring entrepreneurs - skip the talks, presentations and lectures - and go straight to networking! MORE INFO
🔌 27/06, 12:00 🗺️ Stirling: Unplugged Cowie: This event aims to bring together entrepreneurs, techies, creatives, students, investors, and other regional stakeholders to network and share ideas. MORE INFO
🔌 27/06, 16:00 🗺️ Westhill: Unplugged - Westhill: This event aims to bring together entrepreneurs, techies, creatives, students, investors, and other regional stakeholders to network and share ideas. MORE INFO
🌊 27/06, 18:00 🗺️ Inverness: Inverness Big Summer Social: Our Big Summer Social will be a great chance to get together with others in the local tech startup community for a fun and informal evening. You'll meet other startup founders, CodeBase staff and people from the local tech and wider business community. MORE INFO
📈 28/06, 09:00 🗺️ Hawick: Scaling Your Service Business Workshop Series: Do you run a service-based business and looking for inspiration on how you can grow and scale through technology? This event is for you! MORE INFO
🎯 Deadlines
🎓 21 June 2024: Barclays Eagle Labs Funding Readiness Programme: educating around different methods of funding available for startups/scaleups through expert led online workshops Info here.
🇬🇧 Upcoming Innovate UK deadlines:
Smart Shipping Acceleration Fund Applications close 26 June
UK-Taiwan CRD 2024 Applications close 17 July
Innovate UK Smart grants: April 2024 Applications close 24 July
Europe Quantum Technology CR&D 2024 Applications close 28 August
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