Scottish hardware sector report
Scottish hardware spans semiconductors, photonics, electronics design and the devices built around them, a trade with roots in the old Silicon Glen.
Key findings
- 94 Scottish-registered companies on record in hardware, led by Glasgow (24), Edinburgh (20) and Aberdeen (6).
- Of the 50 companies with accounts at Companies House, Linn Products has the most staff (170) and Clas-SiC Wafer Fab the largest net assets (£29.5m).
- 13 funding rounds on record, £50.4m disclosed; the 6 rounds in the last twelve months brought in £31.6m.
- The largest disclosed round is iGii raises £22.7m (16 Sep 2026).
Funding by month
Disclosed rounds, last twelve months; bar height is on a square-root scale so small rounds stay visible · Scottish hardware funding this month
Top companies
| Company | Raised |
|---|---|
| iGii | £31.5m |
| Neuranics | £6.2m |
| Clas-SiC Wafer Fab | £1.9m |
| Innova Nanojet Technologies | £1.5m |
| Mask Logic | £780k |
| Freedom One Life | £500k |
| UNA Watch | £300k |
| Airspection | £257k |
| Vuabl | £257k |
| Edinburgh Biosciences | |
| Linn Products |
Also on record, no figures yet: Ashtead Technology, Calnex Solutions, PlayerData, Ceres Holographics, Fyne Audio, Semiconductor Catapult, Aqura Systems, Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult, Dukosi, Edinburgh Remakery, Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics, Helia Photonics, NASPIC.
24 of 94 Scottish hardware companies, ranked by money raised on record.
Where they are
People in the news
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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 hardware sector report”, data to 31 Oct 2026, https://ayeoh.io/sectors/hardware. 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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