StartupCafe

The Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club, hosted by the University of Edinburgh Business School, is currently looking for a new part-time co-ordinator. This prestigious, public-facing role has been held by some big names in the past—namely, StartupCafe’s very own Jess Williamson, who has since moved south to work at a new startup accelerator. Prior to that, you [...]

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With the full schedule for the Turing Festival now published, here’s a taste of what’s lined up for August. Our first stop: Arjan Haring, self-described wannabe breakdancer and science rockstar, and Chief Rebel Officer of Dutch startup Persuasion API. What does Persuasion API do? We have a learning algorithm that optimizes persuasion strategies per individual [...]

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Ok, we might be a little late in passing this one on, but in case you didn’t know, our favourite Edinburgh based AI consultancy has gotten investment through the new accelerator in town – the Sandpit. Techcrunch covered the story (read the full story here). So it’s congratulations to Joe and Dan – and in [...]

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Our friends over at Mozilla emailed us to tell us about an exciting accelerator that they’ve been setting up. An intense 4 week bootcamp which includes housing, food, mentoring, access to the mozilla folks etc. This is due to kick off at our new SF MozSpace (office) around September but soon to go international, including [...]

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Congrats to Michael Berger and Gregor Hofer of Speech Graphics, who were awarded £5000 and third place in the national Santander Entrepreneurship Awards earlier this month. Michael and Gregor are the brains behind a new lip-synch technology for video games, which automatically generates high-quality facial animations directly from recorded speech. You can see a cool [...]

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The Float Yard, an Edinburgh-based startup building a SaaS cashflow tool for small businesses, enrolled its first paying customers yesterday. The online software, dubbed “Float”, is still in private beta, but co-founders Colin Hewitt and Philip Roberts say a public launch is now imminent. This marks a major milestone for the company, which has been [...]

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This August marks the inaugurual Turing Edinburgh International Technology Festival. Intended to be “an emerging technology event, bringing together the cream of the world’s technology-based innovators and entrepreneurs with Scottish web, broadcast and mobile talent,” the new festival is a sort of experiment, with big plans for the future if all goes well. Confirmed speakers include [...]

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Next Wed and Thurs (29th and 30th June) is the place to be if you’re in the creative industries and need some IP help. Although registration fees are a little steep at £199, there are some quality speakers. You can check out the conference at: http://digitalspark.abertay.ac.uk/   In the knowledge economy, intangible assets can account for [...]

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It’s rare that I find myself in a situation where I read something at work, and feel the need to reply right away. Posts like the original rallying call and the reply to it, is simply rehashing the same arguments over and over again; more importantly, it’s doing something that I hate – playing the [...]

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Our colleagues at Startup Digest and Social Penguin recently posted a call to action for the Scottish startup community, in which they identified the failure of universities to promote entrepreneurship, a disjointed startup community, and the predominance of risk-averse investors as obstacles that must be overcome before entrepreneurship can flourish in Scotland. I appreciate the sentiment of [...]

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