Old College Capital

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 We're delighted to announce that we have received one of the largest Series A investments in a Scottish business this year, amounting to £11 million. The investment is led by Puma Private Equity with participation from Par Equity, Scottish Enterprise and financial services industry leaders: Lloyds Banking Group and Nationwide Building Society. It'll enable us to build on the success of our existing products, further establishing our presence across the financial services sector and introducing revolutionary technology through the creation of FinLLM, a financial services specific large language model. We're extremely excited about what's coming next and can't wait to share the journey with our new investment partners and the industry. Read more about how this investment will impact the future of AI in FS: https://hubs.la/Q02JbtXt0

Cytomos launches new benchtop cell analyser https://lnkd.in/eRuTCdbn #Immunotherapy #MonoclonalAntibodies #DrugDiscovery

20% of the companies we have backed in the UK are based at Scottish universities. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 has a huge density of PhD founder talent in AI and Life Science. That's why on the 14th May we are back with our famous PhD Founder Matchmaking event 🔥 . Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/etwG_QHF We will bring together PhD Founders from The University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow and Heriot-Watt University. Come see what the top scientific founders across Scotland are working on, meet a co-founder, or find talent to join your team. And hear live from Iain Mackie, CEO of Edinburgh-based Malted AI, which is building task-specific & distilled large language models. Louis Marlow Gautier Dagan Saniya Crouch John Fitzgerald Rohith Devanathan Simon D. Dougal Adamson Katharine Fox

🎉 Exciting Milestone for Prothea Technologies! 🎉 We're thrilled to announce our €12M Series A funding round, co-led by Earlybird Venture Capital and Merieux Equity Partners, to revolutionize lung cancer diagnosis and treatment. With additional support from NRW.BANK and Old College Capital, we're set to address the challenges of inaccurate biopsies and limited treatment options for small lesions. 🌐 Our Mission: To streamline lung cancer management by offering biopsy and treatment in a single hospital visit potentially reducing time-to-treat from weeks to minutes. 🔬 Innovation at Its Core: Our Microendoscope and Image Processing System will image lesions at a molecular level. 🤝 A Team Driven by Excellence: Led by industry veterans CEO Crispin Simon and CSO/CMO Prof. Kev Dhaliwal, along with a visionary board, we're committed to delivering next-generation healthcare solutions. 💡 Forward Together: With gratitude to our investors and dedicated team, we're excited to advance lung cancer care. Stay tuned for updates on our journey! For further information, visit: prothea.tech #ProtheaTechnologies #HealthTech #SeriesAFunding #InnovationInCancerCare

We won!!! 🎉 🌊 And we are still cheering! We are absolutely delighted that our Blue X wave converter has won the Pre-Commercial Deployment Technology category at the The Offshore Achievement Awards. Not only has Blue X been able to demonstrate wave energy innovation, data capturing and scalability, but also celebrates collaboration and knowledge sharing. Blue X shines a light on a greener future. Congratulations to all OAA 2024 winners and finalists, there is much to celebrate by all. And of course, huge congratulations to the Mocean Energy team and our collaboration partners! 🎉👏 🌊 To find out more about the awards, visit https://lnkd.in/eNc-5gY6 #OAA2024 #GreenEnergyOutOfTheBlue #SPE #SPEAberdeen #renewableenergy #oceanenergy #waveenergy

Oh, what a night ✨ Two award ceremonies' in one night! Last night Scotland's Life Sciences Awards took place in Glasgow and The University of Edinburgh took home two fantastic awards 🏆 Congratulations to: 🌟 Professor Craig Ritchie for winning the Rising Stars Extraordinary Talent Awards ♻ carbogenics won the Sustainability award Dr Andrea Taylor, interim CEO at Edinburgh Innovations, said: "We are proud to support the companies and academics translating world-leading life sciences research out of the University of Edinburgh, particularly in the fields of regenerative medicine, engineering biology and sustainability. Many congratulations to our winners and finalists, and we look forward to continuing to support them in making their ideas work for a better world. ” Read more➡ https://lnkd.in/dNbSaSxe Professor Ed ( 艾 ) Craig| Scottish Brain Sciences| Edinburgh Earth Initiative| School of GeoSciences #innovation #collaboration #awards #congratulations #Sustainability

The University of Edinburgh triumphed at the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards last night ✨ A huge congratulations to:  🔍Our fantastic iTPA team in the Knowledge Exchange Heroes category 🌐Prozymi Biolabs in the Innovation of the Year category 🚀 Dr María Martínez Castillero in the Innovation of the Future category. Dr Susan Bodie, Edinburgh Innovations’ Head of Business Development for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, which includes iTPA, said: "The iTPA team has been punching well above its weight and the Heroes award is well deserved! They have really harnessed and enabled early career researchers to take their research out into the world. And EI is proud to continue supporting Prozymi Biolabs and BetaBugs, who are fantastic, sustainable innovators. These awards are a testament to the strong innovation pipeline we are building here at Edinburgh." Read more about our award-winning evening ➡ https://eil.ac/SKEA24W/L Roslin Institute| Interface - The knowledge connection for business| Lysimachos Zografos| Max Reiter| Amelia Hodgson| Andrew McBride| Joe Murphy| Jeffery Wright| Ioannis Stasinopoulos| Niki Christopoulou|| Richard Lochhead| Beta Bugs Limited| Thomas Farrugia| Wellcome Trust #innovation #collaboration #awards #congratulations #tech #ScotKEAwards2024