Scottish EDGE
Scotland's largest business funding competition, GBP 10k–150k grants and loans; backed Prozymi Biolabs and Unbaggaged
- Government & grants
- Glasgow
- Type
- Government & grants
- Based in
- Glasgow
- Stages
- Pre-seed, Seed
- Sector focus
- Sector-agnostic
- Cheque size
- GBP 10k–150k (grant and loan)
- Fund size
- GBP 32.7m awarded to date
- Founded
- 2013
- Website
- scottishedge.com
Scottish EDGE is a Glasgow-based funding competition for early-stage Scottish businesses, social enterprises and charities, run by the community interest company Scottish EDGE CIC since it was spun out of Scottish Enterprise in 2014. Funded by the Hunter Foundation, Royal Bank of Scotland, the Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise and private donors, it awards between GBP 10,000 and GBP 150,000 per winner, with the main Scottish EDGE award of up to GBP 100,000 split between grant and loan, and grant-only Young EDGE and Wild Card EDGE awards of up to GBP 15,000. It has distributed more than GBP 32 million across 700-plus awards. Winners include Prozymi Biolabs and Unbaggaged.
Team
- Evelyn McDonald, Chief Executive Officer
- Kevin Walls, Chief Operating Officer
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