Here’s your Campfire for Monday, 2nd November.
📣 Asks, Offers, Updates, & Deadlines
🏃 Building in sports or wellbeing tech? MotionLabs has launched its first accelerator cohort, with 15 Scottish startups and 21 founders working with universities and sporting bodies on venture building, real-world testing and routes to customers and investors. Follow MotionLabs here.
🏆 Scottish EDGE Round 28 Live Final: Finalists will pitch for up to £200,000 in funding at the Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre on 19 November. Find out more here.
🏴 Starting a business in Fife? Fife Council’s Start-Up Grant is open until 14 February 2027 for people starting to trade in Fife. Apply here.
🔋 Working on battery tech? Innovate UK’s Battery Innovation for Dual Use and Defence fund (£2m total) closes on 4 November at 11:00. Find out more here
💷 Early-stage business in Scotland? SWEF Start-up Grants of up to £500 are open to sole traders and small companies trading for less than two years. There’s no fixed deadline, and applications are reviewed monthly. Apply 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!
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📅 Events
🚀 02/11, 18:30 🗺️ Glasgow: RookieOven Monthly Meetup Glasgow’s long-running monthly meetup for tech startup founders and the wider startup community. MORE INFO
🛡️ 02/11, 13:00 🗺️ Dundee: You Don’t Need to Be a Genius Hacker to Work in Cybersecurity Robbie Tyrie, founder of Torridon Cyber, shares careers, skills and practical steps for getting into the cybersecurity industry. MORE INFO
🎯 03/11, 09:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Decode Your Customers: Understand, Connect, Convert A Barclays Eagle Labs morning session for startup founders on understanding who they’re building for, so their sales and marketing reach the right people. MORE INFO
☕ 03/11, 09:00 🗺️ Inverness: Unfiltered Inverness An informal morning meetup for founders and the local tech community, run by CodeBase and Techscaler. MORE INFO
🏴 03/11, 09:30 🗺️ Dundee: Tayside TechFest 2026 A day of talks, workshops and showcases at Abertay cyberQuarter for startups, scale-ups and tech leaders across Dundee, Angus and Perth & Kinross. MORE INFO
🎤 04/11, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Edinburgh Startup Panel – Bae HQ, HSBC Innovation Banking and CMS equIP A panel on scaling a startup, with lessons from venture-backed founders and investors including Kuan-Chuan Pao of Outrun Therapeutics, Dr Poonam Malik and Elijah Nazarzadeh. MORE INFO
☕ 04/11, 08:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Unfiltered Edinburgh An informal morning meetup for founders and the local tech community, run by CodeBase and Techscaler. MORE INFO
💼 04/11, 18:00 🗺️ Aberdeen: Confident on LinkedIn Workshop: Profile, Content, Connections A Women in Tech Aberdeen workshop with Victoria Vyalikova of BrandHouzz Digital on building your LinkedIn profile, content and network. Also available online. MORE INFO
☕ 04/11, 08:30 🗺️ Aberdeen: Unfiltered Aberdeen An informal morning meetup for founders and the local tech community, run by CodeBase and Techscaler. MORE INFO
🗽 05/11, 17:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Where Hope Meets Reality: Turning Big Dreams into Real Impact A Venture Café Thursday Gathering with a founder burnout workshop from Cat Burton and a panel of Scottish founders on expanding into New York. MORE INFO
☕ 05/11, 09:00 🗺️ Glasgow: Unfiltered Glasgow An informal morning meetup for founders and the local tech community, run by CodeBase and Techscaler. MORE INFO
🎙️ 06/11, 10:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: How to Reach an Audience: Edinburgh Spokesperson and Media Training A one-day course with journalist and media trainer Julia Rampen for founders, campaigners and spokespeople, covering press releases, pitching, interviews and using social media with just a smartphone. MORE INFO
🤝 06/11, 09:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Founders Hub Edinburgh – by Bayes and ScotlandIS A co-working morning at the Bayes Centre for founders building scalable tech businesses, from early stage to scaling up. MORE INFO
💻 07/11–08/11, 10:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: HackTheBurgh XIII Scotland’s largest student hackathon returns to the University of Edinburgh for a weekend of building, run by CompSoc. MORE INFO
🐧 07/11, 11:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Linux Users’ Group Edinburgh Meetup A meetup for Linux users of all levels, from sysadmins to beginners, covering shell scripting, self-hosting, troubleshooting and switching from Windows or macOS. MORE INFO
💡 09/11, 18:30 🗺️ Inverness: TechMeetup Inverness November 2026 The monthly meetup for the Highlands tech community, with a featured talk and networking. MORE INFO
🤖 09/11, 10:00 🗺️ Inverness: AI Agents for Your Business A free, practical Peer Works workshop to help entrepreneurs and SMEs understand and prepare for AI agents. Register interest to check eligibility. MORE INFO
🛡️ 10/11, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: TechTalks Edinburgh #10 – Keeping AI-Written Code Safe to Change Lead software engineer Dmitriy Fedoryshchev shares lessons from modernising a 600-table legacy system with AI agents, and how to tell whether agent-written code is making a codebase safer or riskier. MORE INFO
💻 10/11, 18:00 🗺️ Dundee: Cyber & Script Meetup A meetup at Abertay cyberQuarter exploring cybersecurity, automation and tech trends with local experts and peers. MORE INFO
🎮 10/11, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: GameDevEd Social Meetup A casual fortnightly meetup for game developers of all ages, stages and disciplines, from students to industry veterans, artists and hobbyists. MORE INFO
📊 11/11, 13:30 🗺️ Dundee: Unlocking Regional Data: Exploring Opportunities A Dundee Digital Fortnight session on the University of Dundee Health Informatics Centre’s Trusted Research Environment, covering secure data access, regional data gaps and how connected data can support research and innovation. MORE INFO
☕ 12/11, 10:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Founders Coffee Club A founders-only networking morning with no pitches or speeches, followed by a day of co-working. MORE INFO
🌍 12/11, 17:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: The Global Approach: Building Bridges, Accelerating Growth A Venture Café Thursday Gathering on going global, with fundraising advice from US biotech investors, researcher-turned-founders sharing their journeys and a session on export finance. MORE INFO
📈 12/11, 14:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Talent2Scale An Invest2Scale masterclass for founders and leaders moving from startup to scaleup, run with Eden Scott and Cosh and Co, on the leadership, culture and team structures needed to support growth. MORE INFO
❄️ 12/11, 17:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: ESEN Winter Networking 2026 The Edinburgh Social Enterprise Network’s annual networking evening, bringing together social entrepreneurs, anchor institutions and private businesses, with speakers. MORE INFO
👩💻 12/11, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Women in Tech Edinburgh – OutGeekWomen An evening of networking for women working across tech, with the chance to meet CTOs, developers and people behind well-known tech brands. MORE INFO
👩💼 13/11, 14:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: ASB 30th Anniversary Celebration & Awards 2026 The Association of Scottish Businesswomen’s annual awards, marking 30 years of the network and bringing together women in business from across Scotland. MORE INFO
🏗️ 13/11, 10:00 🗺️ Dundee: Founders Hub Dundee – Digital Fortnight A co-working morning at Abertay cyberQuarter for founders building scalable tech businesses, from early stage to scaling up, run by ScotlandIS. MORE INFO
🚀 17/11, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Founders Meetup Edinburgh – November 2026 A monthly meetup for founders, potential co-founders and investors, with community shoutouts, speed networking and a fireside chat with Valentin Hinov, co-founder of Thankbox, hosted by Laura Bernal of CodeBase. MORE INFO
📈 18/11, 10:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: The Data Lab Leaders Forum – The Reality of Delivering AI The first in a new quarterly series for senior data and AI leaders, with open peer discussion on governance, data quality, scaling AI and measuring value. MORE INFO
🛠️ 19/11, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: CTO Craft Mixers: Edinburgh An evening of networking and shared experiences for CTOs and senior technology leaders in Edinburgh. MORE INFO
🎉 19/11, 17:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Venture Café Edinburgh Turns 1 A first-anniversary Thursday Gathering for founders, investors, researchers and Edinburgh’s wider innovation community. MORE INFO
☕ 20/11, 11:00 🗺️ Glasgow: Founders Coffee Club Glasgow A monthly coffee meetup for founders, freelancers, startup builders and small business owners, with no pitches or speeches. MORE INFO
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