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PREMIUM The Current Health monitor remotely collects data on a variety of vital signs to predict the onset and progression of disease By Kristy Dorsey Edinburgh start-up Current Health has raised $43 million (£31m) in what is believed to be largest Series B funding round in Scottish tech history. The cash will allow the company, whose platform delivers healthcare in the home, to more than double headcount with the creation of 100 new jobs by the end of this year. About half of these will be data science and software engineering posts based in Edinburgh, where it currently employs 50 of...

Axol Bioscience and Censo Biotechnologies Announce Merger 03/17/2021 | 05:27am EDT Send by mail : Message : iPSC industry-leaders combine tools, talent, and technologies to drive life science discovery forward Merger accompanied by £3.8million ($5.3m USD) investment across shareholders, which will be used to fund recruitment and growth of the business Axol Bioscience Ltd, an established provider of iPSC-derived cells, media, and characterization services, and CENSO Biotechnologies, a cell biology CRO with focused expertise in iPSC-related technologies, today announced that the two companies ...

Scottish medtech secures £1.2m of funding  

Par Equity is working with advisers to understand how EIS can be improved as a tax efficient investment tool.  One area of particular interest to Par

Par Equity, the Edinburgh-based investment manager that specialises in early-stage technology businesses with high growth potential, increased its new investment activity to a record £12.4m in 2020. Despite the challenges of a year dominated by Covid-19, the company also continued its run of successful exits, which means it has now returned cash to investors every year since 2013. The year closed with Par having completed 35 investment transactions in 12 months, up from a previous high in 2019. Additions to the portfolio included the likes of SICCAR, an IT technology company that en...