Daily edition · Wednesday 21 October 2026

Scottish tech news, Wednesday 21 October 2026

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

Growth · Aberdeen

Connected Kerb invests £350,000 in Aberdeen manufacturing expansion

Connected Kerb opened a £350,000 facility at W-Zero-1 in the Energy Transition Zone to build over 3,000 public chargers in 2027.

The Herald · Aberdeen · 19h · 8 outlets

Top stories

Policy

SNP minister's letter raises questions over Scotland's huge data centre plans

Scottish Land Commission · 2h · 4 outlets

Growth · Edinburgh

Edinburgh College & Mauritius partnership helps develop EV maintenance skills

Midlothian View · 19h · 3 outlets · The story and its coverage

Aberdeen

Fraserburgh Campus receives renewables technology donation worth £7000 from Infinity Group Ltd

North East Scotland College · 22h

Fife

App developed by Dunfermline man can help public avoid hefty fly-tipping fines

Dunfermline Press · 14h · 2 outlets

Case study · Highlands

Highland pupils reach for the stars thanks to Bank-backed broadband investment

Scottish National Investment Bank · 19h

Research · Edinburgh

Scottish researchers win fellowships for deepfake detection and quantum sensing

Silicon Scotland · 43h

Feature

Scottish AI data centres 'would be target list for hostile nations', expert warns

The National · 14h

Event · Midlothian

Midlothian entrepreneur Julie Begbie places in top five at Foundever AI100 UK 2026

Edinburgh Evening News · 20h · 2 outlets

Who just got funding

Mocean Energy wins £698k grant

14 Oct 2026 · Grant · Edinburgh · UKRI Gateway to Research · Mocean Energy on ayeoh

Cerefuze Medical UK wins £99.8k grant

14 Oct 2026 · Grant · Glasgow · UKRI Gateway to Research · Cerefuze Medical UK on ayeoh

Nami Surgical raises £3.4m

14 Oct 2026 · Growth · Glasgow · Maven Capital Partners · Nami Surgical on ayeoh

Snappy Group raises an undisclosed sum

13 Oct 2026 · Debt · Dundee · Dundee Culture · Snappy Group on ayeoh

Danu Robotics raises $5M (£3.7m)

10 Oct 2026 · Edinburgh · Dealroom · Danu Robotics on ayeoh

That week on the record

Microtech Group won a £2.44m contract from Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (Utility) for IT Managed Services.

Contract · 20 Oct · Find a Tender

Bloomberg won a £196k contract from University of the West of Scotland for Financial Data Analytics and Trading Tools.

Contract · 19 Oct · Find a Tender

FourNet acquired SVL Business Solutions, creating a £65 million customer experience and AI business.

Acquisition · 15 Oct · Pulse 2.0

BDO hired R&D tax relief specialist Angela Banerjee into its 200-strong Scottish team.

Appointment · 19 Oct · TheBusinessDesk.com

Egis appointed Mark Docherty, based in Edinburgh and previously of Arcadis, as energy director for the UK and Ireland.

Appointment · 19 Oct · Bdaily

Today's Scottish tech news on the front page

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