WeDO members AirFunders, founded by Chris Turnbull, has opened for business with a new approach to building long term savings. The current COVID-19 crisis and likely recession highlights problems ahead for many. Recent data suggests that 1 in 5 UK adults have less than £100 in savings and AirFunders want Read more…
We are delighted to announce the appointment of stalwart Glasgow entrepreneur, Gordon White as Chair of WeDO Scotland. Gordon has been a loyal and proactive supporter of WeDO since we launched in 2008. In 2014, fatBuzz won our High Growth Company Award before Gordon joined our Executive Team, latterly as Chair of our Glasgow Read more…
The Green Room Wine Bar has launched their #DontRunOutOfWine campaign in light of COVID-19. Since February 2020, Ghislain Aubertel & Miguel Crunia have been running the venue located in the West End of Edinburgh (based at 19-25 William St, EH3 7NG) with the intention of becoming one of the best Read more…
Commsworld, members of WeDO Scotland, has been recognised as one of the best performing privately-owned technology companies in the Megabuyte 50 Awards. The annual awards recognise the performance of technology companies across the UK, and are judged by an independent body of adjudicators with key criteria including growth, profitability, cash Read more…
We’re delighted to hear that WeDO members VWM Wealth have been awarded with the highly prestigious Chartered Financial Planning Firm of the Year by their professional body, The Personal Finance Society at the Personal Finance Awards. The Award was presented to VWM by Andrew Pike from NS&I. The Personal Finance Awards Read more…
[email protected] has helped 931 Entrepreneurs in 62 countries create 5,977 new jobs and generate over £1,113 million of new economic activity over the last 5 years. The survival rate for [email protected] Alumni companies is over 97%. Impressive figures given the challenges faced by many entrepreneurs. WHAT IS [email protected]? [email protected] gives Read more…
Doddie Weir OBE has today been announced as the 2019 winner of our Inspiring Leader Award and will be presented with his Award at our Awards Dinner on the 24th of May at the Kimpton Hotel in Edinburgh. We are absolutely delighted for Doddie and it is a richly deserved Read more…
Eight aspirational female-led Scottish companies have been shortlisted as finalists for this year’s AccelerateHER Awards. They include Glasgow-based businesses All Day Designs, makers of a toddler pushchair which converts into a trike, Cedeco Contractors, developers of an offshore wind turbine installation solution, Empowered Earth, an app for managing and tracking Read more…
French Duncan LLP, accountants and business advisors & Corporate members of WeDO, have reported a bumper year advising on 25 deals worth almost £200m in 2018 in the private and public sectors. Deal values ranged from a few million up to £60m across various sectors including engineering, hotels & hospitality, aerospace, technology, Read more…
ZoneFox, Edinburgh based corporate members of WeDO Scotland, specialising in AI-driven insider threat analysis have been awarded the Scottish Government contract to provide a fully cloud-hosted service to protect all employees and data across 15,000 endpoints. After conducting a thorough analysis of the different solutions available on the market, the Read more…