One report for each Scottish tech sector, refreshed daily: the companies, their funding and accounts, the open roles, the people and the latest news.
Scottish software sector report
2,676 companies · Software is Scotland's broadest technology sector: product companies, consultancies and the platforms behind other industries, in every city.
Scottish data & cloud sector report
277 companies · Data work in Scotland runs from the national data centres and cloud operators to analytics firms and the data-driven innovation centres run with the universities.
Scottish telecoms sector report
214 companies · Scottish telecoms is about getting connectivity to the Highlands and Islands, the 5G and fibre networks built across the Central Belt, and the firms that supply and manage them.
Scottish hardware sector report
139 companies · Scottish hardware spans semiconductors, photonics, electronics design and the devices built around them, a trade with roots in the old Silicon Glen.
Scottish games sector report
128 companies · Dundee is known as a games town, home of the studios behind some of the best-known British titles, and Glasgow and Edinburgh add independent studios and the tools and services around them.
Scottish AI sector report
62 companies · Scotland's AI scene grew out of Edinburgh's long-standing informatics research and now spans university spin-outs, applied machine learning in finance and health, and a growing set of start-ups building on large models.
Scottish life sciences sector report
61 companies · Life sciences is one of Scotland's biggest tech-adjacent sectors, from university-born biotechs in Edinburgh and Dundee to diagnostics, medtech and digital health companies working with the NHS.
Scottish cybersecurity sector report
32 companies · Cybersecurity in Scotland draws on its universities' security research, its banks' need for defence and a Scottish government that backs the sector, with firms concentrated in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Scottish energy sector report
31 companies · Scotland's offshore wind, oil and gas heritage and hydrogen plans make energy technology a natural strength, with Aberdeen's engineers moving into renewables and software and data firms serving the grid.
Scottish space sector report
16 companies · Scotland builds a large share of the UK's small satellites, mostly around Glasgow, and the Highlands and Islands are home to planned vertical and horizontal launch sites.
Scottish robotics sector report
14 companies · Scottish robotics comes out of Edinburgh's and Heriot-Watt's research groups and serves industries Scotland already has: offshore, energy, manufacturing and agriculture.
Scottish consumer sector report
13 companies · Consumer technology in Scotland is apps, marketplaces and online services built for the public rather than for other businesses.
Scottish quantum sector report
12 companies · Quantum technology in Scotland rests on strong physics and photonics research at the universities, with a small number of companies turning that into sensors, computing and communications hardware.
Scottish fintech sector report
11 companies · Edinburgh is one of Europe's older financial centres and Glasgow's banks and insurers are big employers, so Scottish fintech is about payments, lending, wealth and regulation technology built close to the customers it serves.
Scottish environment sector report
10 companies · Environmental technology covers carbon, water, waste and nature, and ties closely to Scotland's climate targets and its land and sea.
Scottish agritech sector report
7 companies · Agritech joins Scotland's farming, food and drink base to software, sensors and robotics, with the research institutes and rural colleges as its anchors.
Scottish transport sector report
5 companies · Mobility technology covers electric vehicles and charging, rail, aviation and the software that moves people and freight around a country with long distances and few people.
Scottish proptech sector report
4 companies · Proptech applies software to how property is bought, let, built and managed, and Scotland's separate legal system gives its firms a market of their own.
Scottish edtech sector report
3 companies · Scotland's universities and colleges are both customers and sources of ideas for edtech, which ranges from learning platforms to skills and training software.
Scottish crypto sector report
2 companies · Scottish crypto and blockchain work is small and scattered: a handful of exchanges, tokenisation and infrastructure firms, plus research groups at the universities.
Scottish defence sector report
2 companies · Defence and security technology in Scotland builds on its shipyards, its electronics and photonics firms and its universities' work with the Ministry of Defence.
