Tagged: university of edinburgh

November 20, 2022 @ 7:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Input Output Global, Inc. (IOG), one of the builders of Cardano, the proof of stake blockchain, has partnered with the University of Edinburgh, one of the “most highly rated” academic institutions in the United Kingdom, “to develop the blockchain industry’s first ‘decentralization index’.” The Edinburgh… Read More

April 14, 2022 @ 11:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest has announced a 3-year partnership with The University of Edinburgh Centre for Business, Climate Change and Sustainability. The £1.5 million partnership will aim to facilitate the delivery of a climate education program to 16,000 people across the NatWest Group by the end of 2024,… Read More

February 5, 2021 @ 8:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based remittance firm TranSwap has reportedly decided to make a move into the United Kingdom with plans to establish an Edinburgh research and development (R&D) center that will employ over 50 professionals. Currently operating in Hong Kong, Indonesia and Malaysia, TranSwap’s management noted that the… Read More

June 30, 2020 @ 7:21 am By Olivia Halsall  |  

The Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence Fintech Hub (known as GOFCoE Fintech Hub) was launched in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2018. With the overarching aim of safely unlocking the potential of customer data to improve lives, the GOFCoE has secured £22.5 million in funding from… Read More

June 6, 2020 @ 6:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Edinburgh-based Fintech Aveni is planning to improve how businesses interact with their clients by automating customer relations management (CRM), fact-checking, risk monitoring and assessment, and adviser prompts. The company has secured £520,000 in seed funding through a round led by the Tricapital angel syndicate. The… Read More

March 10, 2015 @ 12:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

University of Edinburgh spin-out company Parkure Ltd has successfully attracted over £75,000 in crowdfunding investment through ShareIn, the technology-focussed crowdfunding firm, to develop a cure for Parkinson’s disease. Parkure has opted to use equity crowdfunding to raise finance because traditional sources of funding are often… Read More

November 18, 2014 @ 12:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to put an end to the devastating progressive disorder of the nervous system, Parkinson’s Disease (PD), a group of scientists at the University of Edinburgh developed a new program known as Parkure and has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Sharein to raise £150,000 so they… Read More