Scottish data & cloud sector report
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.
Key findings
- 69 Scottish-registered companies on record in data & cloud, led by Edinburgh (24), Glasgow (20) and Aberdeen (2).
- Of the 43 companies with accounts at Companies House, Kick ICT leads on both staff (165) and net assets (£6.8m).
- 2 funding rounds on record, £300m disclosed; the 1 round in the last twelve months brought in £300m.
- The largest disclosed round is DataVita gets £300m public support (18 Aug 2026).
Funding by month
Disclosed rounds, last twelve months; bar height is on a square-root scale so small rounds stay visible · Scottish data & cloud funding this month
Top companies
| Company | Raised |
|---|---|
| Kick ICT | 1 round |
| Nile HQ | |
| Peachy Mondays | |
| Theria Games | |
| Actual Analytics | |
| Archangel Cloud | |
| BIP Solutions | |
| BreakFee | |
| Commission Crowd |
Also on record, no figures yet: ScotlandIS, The Data Lab, Wood Mackenzie, Kytra Analytics, Tethered, Ambiesense, Andrew Garrett, Arctic Cloud Solutions, Aridhia Informatics, Arithmia, Civex Data, Cloud Demand, Community Barter, Data Culture Change, Drink Tech.
24 of 69 Scottish data & cloud companies, ranked by money raised on record.
Where they are
People in the news
In the news
Free sample: the 24 companies above, with their rounds, roles and filed accounts. The full dataset is available: ask us.Download sample CSV
Cite this: ayeoh, “Scottish data & cloud sector report”, data to 31 Oct 2026, https://ayeoh.io/sectors/data. Free to quote with a link.
Sources: Companies House filings, funding announcements and company boards read by ayeoh, and the Scottish tech press. Money is the disclosed amount only; a round with no stated figure counts as a round, not as money. Data to 31 Oct 2026.
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