🛰️ Rubik's cube satellites, rockets, and rethinking carbon
🛰️ Rubik's cube satellites, rockets, and rethinking carbon
Plus all the cool founder events happening across the country.
Here's your Campfire for the 11th of March, 2024.
💼 Thinking about EMI schemes or share incentives? On 12 March, Shepherd and Wedderburn and Deloitte are hosting a breakfast panel discussion titled "Share Incentives: What I wish I had known!" Find out more and register here.
🌊 Updates
📑 According to British Business Bank’s Small Business Finance Markets 2023/24 report, equity investment in Scotland’s smaller businesses nearly halved last year but was still ahead of the UK average and on track to record the third highest annual figure in the last decade. TS DGT
🪵 Aviemore-based AI platform 'Rethink Carbon’ is launching to help land managers blend ecology with sustainable economic development practices. FS
🦐 Edinburgh-based startup Aquanzo is collaborating with CENSIS (Scotland’s innovation centre for sensing, imaging, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies) to develop an RAS system to produce brine shrimp using agricultural and food by-products to raise the crustaceans. TFS DGT
🧬 Edinburgh-based Wobble Genomics (a biotech spinoff from the University of Edinburgh focused on advancing RNA sequencing technology with the potential to accelerate drug development) raised £8.5 million in pre-Series A funding, led by Mercia Ventures and BGF, IQ Capital, EOS Advisors, Old College Capital, and the University of Edinburgh's venture fund. UKTN SC ACS IN
🚀 Unst-based SaxaVord will receive £10 million in UK government funding for an orbital launch in 2024 at the UK’s first space port. SS
🛰️ Glasgow-based satellite company Alba Orbital has closed a large multi-launch contract with Turkish space startup Hello Space to launch four ‘rubik’s-cube-sized’ satellites via SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. SS
📣 Asks & Offers
⚙️Do you dream about prototyping? The University of St Andrews has just opened its Rapid Prototyping Centre with facilities like HD 3D Printing Studio with premium materials, a 3D design office suite, electromechanical engineering equipment and machinery, and an electronics design studio (clean room environment). They offer services like high quality 3D scanning, stereolithography, selective laser sintering, fused deposition modelling and much much more. Campfire readers get a 10% discount (just quote CAMP10). Email them here, and find out more here.
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Share incentive schemes are a popular and effective way for UK emerging growth companies to recruit, incentivise and reward the key individuals that they need to grow their businesses. However, if not implemented and managed correctly, the existence of share incentive arrangements can significantly increase the complexities involved in delivering an eventual “exit”.
Join Shepherd & Wedderburn and Deloitte for a breakfast panel discussion that centres on the team's experience of dealing with share incentives in corporate transactions.
Key discussion topics:
Practical issues that arise as part of a due diligence or transaction process that could have been avoided by implementing relatively straightforward processes and checks at an early stage in the incentive lifecycle
How to ensure EMI plans deliver their intended benefit
The importance of the right approach to documentation and tax valuation for share acquisitions
A “client’s-eye-view” of managing a recent transaction involving a number of employee option holders, with David Jolliffe, CFO of Novosound
Panel:
David Jolliffe, CFO, Novosound
Arran Simpson, Reward Partner, Deloitte
Stephen Trombala, Corporate Partner, Shepherd and Wedderburn
Rodger Cairns, Employee Share Scheme Partner, Shepherd and Wedderburn
📅 Events
💼 12/03, 08:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Share Incentives: What I Wish I Had Known! Join Shepherd and Wedderburn and Deloitte for a breakfast panel discussion that centres on the team's experience of dealing with share incentives in corporate transactions. MORE INFO
🎯 12/03, 13:00 🗺️ Stirling: Marketing Meetup with Scunnered Digital [Stirling]: Join us for a six-month event series dedicated to elevate your marketing skills, build connections and exchange ideas with fellow marketers. MORE INFO
🎨 12/03, 17:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Artists Showcase by The Melting Pot: The Melting Pot and Creative Edinburgh have come together to showcase the work of up and coming artists in Edinburgh. MORE INFO
🧱 12/03, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Inaugural Databricks Scotland March Meetup [Edinburgh]: Come join us for the Scotland Databricks meet-up at CodeBase for an evening of amazing data talks! MORE INFO
🎯 13/03, 08:30 🗺️ Aberdeen: Barclays Demo Directory Launch & Access to Funding - Aberdeen: Join us for the launch of our new Demo Directory, a platform to help ambitious businesses connect with attested investors. MORE INFO
📍 13/03, 09:00 - 14/03, 16:00 🗺️ Glasgow: IBioIC's 10th Anniversary Conference: IBioIC’s 10th Anniversary Conference takes inspiration from the idea of transformation. The conference will reflect on the transformation of the IB sphere over the past ten years, celebrate key success stories so far, and look to the next ten years to identify what transformations will, and need to, happen across technology, policy, infrastructure, and research.. MORE INFO
🚀 13/03, 13:30 🗺️ Dumfries: Launching Your Tech Idea [Dumfries]: Session 3 of our Intro to Tech Series - brought to you by South of Scotland Enterprise, SRUC, Borders College & Techscaler. MORE INFO
🎢 13/03, 16:30 🗺️ Dumfries: Bridging Communities: Dumfries & Galloway: Get ready to connect, collaborate, and build relationships at "Bridging Communities" on March 13th. MORE INFO
🏁 14/03, 09:30 🗺️ Glasgow: Is Starting a Co-op Right for You? (Glasgow): Starting a new business or looking for a different approach to your existing business or community venture? A co-op could be the answer. MORE INFO
🍀 14/03, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Edinburgh Greentech Futures Creative Hackathon - Part 3: Join the Edinburgh Greentech Futures community for the final creative problem solving session with Visit Scotland. MORE INFO
🍽️ 14/03, 00:00 🗺️ Glasgow: Founders Dinners (by Turing Fest): Where founders & execs of product startups relax together and connect with peers over food and drinks. MORE INFO
🌱 18/03, 09:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Making The Most Of Your Marketing: How to Grow on A Tight Budget - Startup Grind: Are you looking to grow your business but struggling to plan your marketing around your tight/bootstrapped budget? Then join this marketing workshop, curated for Startup founders and leaders, where we will help you shape your thinking for your marketing strategy with limited resources. MORE INFO
🖼️ 18/03, 16:30 🗺️ Glasgow: KTP Images Showcase 2024: Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) are funded by Innovate UK and link forward thinking organisations with the UK’s world class universities to deliver innovation projects led by inspired graduates. MORE INFO
👩💻 19/03, 17:30 🗺️ Striling: Digital Skills 4 Girls [Stirling]: Digital Skills 4 Girls is a monthly workshop for girls and non-binary people who want to learn new digital skills or develop existing skills. The recommended age for attendance is 10-15. MORE INFO
🔌 21/03, 16:00 🗺️ Ellon: Unplugged Ellon: Open to everyone, CodeBase Unplugged is a networking event for professionals working in, or interested in, tech startups. MORE INFO
💬 21/03, 17:30 🗺️ Inverness: Inverness Social: Games in the Hub (Highlands & Islands): This is an informal get-together and everyone is welcome - whether you’re a startup founder, working in tech or just curious. MORE INFO
🍀 26/03, 08:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Greentech Meetup with Creative Edinburgh: Join the Edinburgh Greentech Futures community for a meetup in partnership with Creative Edinburgh. MORE INFO
📅 26/03, 10:00 🗺️ Aberdeen: Eagle Has landed - Barclays Eagle labs March Drop in Clinic: Drop in and let’s have an open discussions about your business goals and ambition and learn more about how your ecosystem manager here at Eagle Labs can support you and your business here at One Tech Hub. MORE INFO
🎤 26/03, 11:00 🗺️ Inverness: Inverness Pitch Club: A supportive and welcoming environment which gives you the opportunity to practice your pitching skills and gain confidence in talking about your business. MORE INFO
📣 26/03, 12:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Presentation Club [Edinburgh]: A space to practice presenting and pitching in a safe, low-stakes environment, with the opportunity to get feedback from peers. MORE INFO
🔓 26/03, 17:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Unlocking Product Excellence: Navigating the Future of Product Ops: The reason why Product Operations is growing as a new Product discipline, once you have it you won’t be able to live without it. MORE INFO
🤝 26/03, 18:00 🗺️ Dundee: Dundee Data Meetup: Welcome to the monthly recurring Dundee Data Meetup, a vibrant community-driven event that brings together curious learners, data enthusiasts and professionals to explore the captivating world of data and its applications. MORE INFO
🥂 26/03, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: #geomobEDI: Geomob is an event series and podcast for geospatial enthusiasts. MORE INFO
🔐 27/03, 08:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Scot-Secure 2024 – Cyber Security Summit: Scot-Secure is Scotland’s largest annual cyber security conference. The event brings together senior InfoSec personnel, IT leaders, academics, security researchers and law enforcement, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking. MORE INFO
⛓ 27/03, 17:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Monthly Scottish Blockchain Meetup: Welcome to the Monthly Scottish Blockchain Meetup at the Bayes Centre in Edinburgh. The event takes place at the ground floor in G.03. MORE INFO
👥 27/03, 18:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Entrepreneurs Social Club (ESC) - March 2024: Welcome to our monthly Entrepreneurs Social Club (ESC) gathering! Skip the talks, presentations and lectures - in favour of going straight to the bar, where real connections are made! MORE INFO
🎯 Deadlines
🇬🇧 Upcoming Innovate UK deadlines:
Eureka collaborative R&D: Eurostars 3 Call 6 Applications close 14 March
Unlocking nature positive private investment Applications close 10 April
UK-Switzerland CR&D Round 2 Applications close 1 May
UK - Germany Bilateral: Collaborative R&D Round 3 Applications close 3 June
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