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“SaxaVord Spaceport’s £60m has given Scottish space more in October alone than in all of 2025, on our record.”

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Daily edition · Friday 18 September 2026

Scottish tech news, Friday 18 September 2026

The ayeoh front page as it stood at 7:40am that morning: the lead, the top stories, the money and the record.

King Charles meets artificial intelligence industry leaders in Scotland amid growing AI fears

WWNO · 31h · 7 outlets

Top stories

Growth

Chemify to create 300 jobs with £89.9m Glasgow expansion

Scottish Business News · 19h · 4 outlets

Nearly 1,000 homes and businesses across Aberdeen set for GoFibre full-fibre rollouts

The Herald · 18h · 2 outlets

Policy

Large datacentre planning applications to face new environmental impact assessments

FutureScot · 16h

Funding

Edinburgh Graduates’ AI infrastructure firm Expanse raises $5.3m

DIGIT · 38h

Feature

Inside the room as Larbert community confronted AI data centre developers

The National · 14h

Growth

European commercial launch sector accelerates, with Scottish spaceport and rocket firms in focus

NASASpaceFlight · 3d

Who just got funding

Calterra wins £96k grant

17 Sep 2026 · Grant · Edinburgh · Deadline News · Calterra on ayeoh

Expanse raises $5.3 million (£3.93m)

16 Sep 2026 · Seed · Edinburgh · DIGIT · Expanse on ayeoh

iGii raises £22.7m

16 Sep 2026 · Series B · Stirling · Scottish Business News · iGii on ayeoh

Chemify gets £22m public support

16 Sep 2026 · Public support · Glasgow · Scottish Enterprise · Chemify on ayeoh

HEMSPAN raises £4m

15 Sep 2026 · Scottish Borders · Scottish Business News · HEMSPAN on ayeoh

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