Scottish Enterprise, established in 1991, is Scotland's principal economic development agency, operating as a non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government. Its mission is to stimulate Scotland's economic growth by fostering an innovative, high-wage, and productive economy with a strong international presence. The agency partners with both public and private sectors to identify and capitalize on opportunities that drive significant, lasting economic impact. Scottish Enterprise provides comprehensive support to businesses, including helping companies secure appropriate finance, strengthening management teams, and facilitating growth and export initiatives. It works closely with Scottish SMEs, as well as UK and international investors, such as business angels, venture capital groups, and corporate investors. The agency operates across Scotland in collaboration with Highlands and Islands Enterprise, aiming to increase the supply of finance for businesses and support the SME funding market.
Managing Director of Scottish Development International and Group Head of Strategy and Technology
Susan Armes
Senior Investment Manager
Past deals in Wireless
CSignum
Series A in 2025
CSignum is a technology company that focuses on wireless communication solutions for ocean industries. It has developed a unique system that uses low-frequency electromagnetic waves to transmit data across the water-air boundary, enabling frequent and automated collection of crucial oceanic data such as temperature, salinity, and currents. This technology supports precision aquaculture, enhancing offshore fish farming and fish production. Additionally, CSignum offers solutions for the digitization of subsea assets, providing actionable insights to optimize operations in the ocean industry.
Ingenious Audio
Venture Round in 2023
Ingenious Audio Ltd is a Scottish startup that specializes in designing and manufacturing audio electronics. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Edinburgh, the company has developed an innovative product known as the invisible guitar cable. This compact plug-in device transforms traditional analogue audio equipment, such as electric guitars and amplifiers, into Wi-Fi-enabled devices. The invisible guitar cable facilitates wireless connections between existing guitars and amplifiers, allowing users to utilize wireless effect pedals for the first time. Additionally, it enables seamless connections to any Wi-Fi-enabled PC, effectively replacing the need for costly recording and audio effects equipment. This technology also allows for the sharing of audio over the internet, enhancing the versatility of audio production and performance.
PneumoWave
Series A in 2023
PneumoWave is focused on developing innovative real-time monitoring solutions for patients with respiratory conditions, enabling them and their healthcare providers to track respiratory rates and performance outside of clinical settings. The company combines proprietary sensor technology with an AI-driven digital therapeutic software platform to enhance patient care. Its technology features advanced algorithms that accurately detect various respiratory adverse events, while a biosensor continuously collects and wirelessly transmits data for analysis. This system includes an alert mechanism that promptly notifies healthcare providers, facilitating early intervention and improving the overall management of respiratory health. By rationalizing medication use and identifying early signs of deterioration, PneumoWave aims to reduce hospital admissions and minimize the need for face-to-face appointments, thereby transforming respiratory care.
Aiber
Venture Round in 2022
Aiber develops innovative software and medical support systems aimed at enhancing emergency care in challenging environments, such as in the air or at sea. Their solutions leverage Bluetooth sensors to enable wireless monitoring of vital signs, facilitating the identification of patient deterioration or improvement. By providing medical-grade sensors, Aiber empowers crews to manage medical emergencies with confidence and ensures that vital health information is shared with ground-based medical providers. This approach allows flight businesses to deliver consistent and effective care to passengers during flights, supporting international first response efforts on the frontline of emergency care.
PneumoWave
Seed Round in 2021
PneumoWave is focused on developing innovative real-time monitoring solutions for patients with respiratory conditions, enabling them and their healthcare providers to track respiratory rates and performance outside of clinical settings. The company combines proprietary sensor technology with an AI-driven digital therapeutic software platform to enhance patient care. Its technology features advanced algorithms that accurately detect various respiratory adverse events, while a biosensor continuously collects and wirelessly transmits data for analysis. This system includes an alert mechanism that promptly notifies healthcare providers, facilitating early intervention and improving the overall management of respiratory health. By rationalizing medication use and identifying early signs of deterioration, PneumoWave aims to reduce hospital admissions and minimize the need for face-to-face appointments, thereby transforming respiratory care.
pureLiFi
Debt Financing in 2020
pureLiFi Ltd. is a light communications technology company based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, specializing in Li-Fi, a visible light communications technology that utilizes the visible light spectrum for wireless data transmission. Founded in 2012, pureLiFi develops various products, including the Li-1st platform for testing VLC applications and Li-Flame solutions that enhance network security by preventing external intrusions. The company also offers the Li-Fire Platform, along with ceiling and desktop units, and LiFi-XC devices that provide secure wireless communications compatible with multiple operating systems. Its innovative technology addresses the challenges of diminishing wireless capacity, serving applications across diverse sectors such as healthcare, aviation, and transportation. By converting light into electrical signals, pureLiFi enables high-density data transmission, presenting a viable alternative to traditional Wi-Fi.
Ingenious Audio
Venture Round in 2020
Ingenious Audio Ltd is a Scottish startup that specializes in designing and manufacturing audio electronics. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Edinburgh, the company has developed an innovative product known as the invisible guitar cable. This compact plug-in device transforms traditional analogue audio equipment, such as electric guitars and amplifiers, into Wi-Fi-enabled devices. The invisible guitar cable facilitates wireless connections between existing guitars and amplifiers, allowing users to utilize wireless effect pedals for the first time. Additionally, it enables seamless connections to any Wi-Fi-enabled PC, effectively replacing the need for costly recording and audio effects equipment. This technology also allows for the sharing of audio over the internet, enhancing the versatility of audio production and performance.
pureLiFi
Venture Round in 2019
pureLiFi Ltd. is a light communications technology company based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, specializing in Li-Fi, a visible light communications technology that utilizes the visible light spectrum for wireless data transmission. Founded in 2012, pureLiFi develops various products, including the Li-1st platform for testing VLC applications and Li-Flame solutions that enhance network security by preventing external intrusions. The company also offers the Li-Fire Platform, along with ceiling and desktop units, and LiFi-XC devices that provide secure wireless communications compatible with multiple operating systems. Its innovative technology addresses the challenges of diminishing wireless capacity, serving applications across diverse sectors such as healthcare, aviation, and transportation. By converting light into electrical signals, pureLiFi enables high-density data transmission, presenting a viable alternative to traditional Wi-Fi.
pureLiFi
Debt Financing in 2019
pureLiFi Ltd. is a light communications technology company based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, specializing in Li-Fi, a visible light communications technology that utilizes the visible light spectrum for wireless data transmission. Founded in 2012, pureLiFi develops various products, including the Li-1st platform for testing VLC applications and Li-Flame solutions that enhance network security by preventing external intrusions. The company also offers the Li-Fire Platform, along with ceiling and desktop units, and LiFi-XC devices that provide secure wireless communications compatible with multiple operating systems. Its innovative technology addresses the challenges of diminishing wireless capacity, serving applications across diverse sectors such as healthcare, aviation, and transportation. By converting light into electrical signals, pureLiFi enables high-density data transmission, presenting a viable alternative to traditional Wi-Fi.
pureLiFi
Series B in 2019
pureLiFi Ltd. is a light communications technology company based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, specializing in Li-Fi, a visible light communications technology that utilizes the visible light spectrum for wireless data transmission. Founded in 2012, pureLiFi develops various products, including the Li-1st platform for testing VLC applications and Li-Flame solutions that enhance network security by preventing external intrusions. The company also offers the Li-Fire Platform, along with ceiling and desktop units, and LiFi-XC devices that provide secure wireless communications compatible with multiple operating systems. Its innovative technology addresses the challenges of diminishing wireless capacity, serving applications across diverse sectors such as healthcare, aviation, and transportation. By converting light into electrical signals, pureLiFi enables high-density data transmission, presenting a viable alternative to traditional Wi-Fi.
Aiber
Grant in 2019
Aiber develops innovative software and medical support systems aimed at enhancing emergency care in challenging environments, such as in the air or at sea. Their solutions leverage Bluetooth sensors to enable wireless monitoring of vital signs, facilitating the identification of patient deterioration or improvement. By providing medical-grade sensors, Aiber empowers crews to manage medical emergencies with confidence and ensures that vital health information is shared with ground-based medical providers. This approach allows flight businesses to deliver consistent and effective care to passengers during flights, supporting international first response efforts on the frontline of emergency care.
Aiber
Seed Round in 2019
Aiber develops innovative software and medical support systems aimed at enhancing emergency care in challenging environments, such as in the air or at sea. Their solutions leverage Bluetooth sensors to enable wireless monitoring of vital signs, facilitating the identification of patient deterioration or improvement. By providing medical-grade sensors, Aiber empowers crews to manage medical emergencies with confidence and ensures that vital health information is shared with ground-based medical providers. This approach allows flight businesses to deliver consistent and effective care to passengers during flights, supporting international first response efforts on the frontline of emergency care.
Ingenious Audio
Venture Round in 2015
Ingenious Audio Ltd is a Scottish startup that specializes in designing and manufacturing audio electronics. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Edinburgh, the company has developed an innovative product known as the invisible guitar cable. This compact plug-in device transforms traditional analogue audio equipment, such as electric guitars and amplifiers, into Wi-Fi-enabled devices. The invisible guitar cable facilitates wireless connections between existing guitars and amplifiers, allowing users to utilize wireless effect pedals for the first time. Additionally, it enables seamless connections to any Wi-Fi-enabled PC, effectively replacing the need for costly recording and audio effects equipment. This technology also allows for the sharing of audio over the internet, enhancing the versatility of audio production and performance.
pureLiFi
Series A in 2015
pureLiFi Ltd. is a light communications technology company based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, specializing in Li-Fi, a visible light communications technology that utilizes the visible light spectrum for wireless data transmission. Founded in 2012, pureLiFi develops various products, including the Li-1st platform for testing VLC applications and Li-Flame solutions that enhance network security by preventing external intrusions. The company also offers the Li-Fire Platform, along with ceiling and desktop units, and LiFi-XC devices that provide secure wireless communications compatible with multiple operating systems. Its innovative technology addresses the challenges of diminishing wireless capacity, serving applications across diverse sectors such as healthcare, aviation, and transportation. By converting light into electrical signals, pureLiFi enables high-density data transmission, presenting a viable alternative to traditional Wi-Fi.
Connect-In
Angel Round in 2014
Connect-In Ltd. stands for innovative Bluetooth IoT solutions, sustainable development, and state-of-the art design. Their sensors are built to be long lasting and power efficient (lasts 1-4 years on replaceable coin cell batteries) to make IoT understandable, accessible, and affordable, and to power the next generation of the Internet of Things.
Silent Herdsman
Venture Round in 2014
Silent Herdsman’s vision is to be the leading global provider of predictive analytics software for dairy and beef farmers, that improves herd performance, business efficiency and animal welfare. Crucially, the collar triggers an alert to farmers when cows are on heat, providing farmers with advanced knowledge to activate insemination at critical times. This in turn enables them to produce more milk from the impregnated cows and increase their yields from each herd. The Silent Herdsman® triggers its alert via wireless technology to any mobile device such as a farmer’s mobile phone, tablet or laptop. Uniquely, its wireless technology can travel over long distances meaning it is suitable for farms hosting 100 to 20,000 cows. Its unique differentiator includes monitoring herds across large geographical distances on farms hosting several thousand beef or dairy cows.
Ingenious Audio
Venture Round in 2013
Ingenious Audio Ltd is a Scottish startup that specializes in designing and manufacturing audio electronics. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Edinburgh, the company has developed an innovative product known as the invisible guitar cable. This compact plug-in device transforms traditional analogue audio equipment, such as electric guitars and amplifiers, into Wi-Fi-enabled devices. The invisible guitar cable facilitates wireless connections between existing guitars and amplifiers, allowing users to utilize wireless effect pedals for the first time. Additionally, it enables seamless connections to any Wi-Fi-enabled PC, effectively replacing the need for costly recording and audio effects equipment. This technology also allows for the sharing of audio over the internet, enhancing the versatility of audio production and performance.
pureLiFi
Angel Round in 2013
pureLiFi Ltd. is a light communications technology company based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, specializing in Li-Fi, a visible light communications technology that utilizes the visible light spectrum for wireless data transmission. Founded in 2012, pureLiFi develops various products, including the Li-1st platform for testing VLC applications and Li-Flame solutions that enhance network security by preventing external intrusions. The company also offers the Li-Fire Platform, along with ceiling and desktop units, and LiFi-XC devices that provide secure wireless communications compatible with multiple operating systems. Its innovative technology addresses the challenges of diminishing wireless capacity, serving applications across diverse sectors such as healthcare, aviation, and transportation. By converting light into electrical signals, pureLiFi enables high-density data transmission, presenting a viable alternative to traditional Wi-Fi.
pureLiFi
Venture Round in 2012
pureLiFi Ltd. is a light communications technology company based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, specializing in Li-Fi, a visible light communications technology that utilizes the visible light spectrum for wireless data transmission. Founded in 2012, pureLiFi develops various products, including the Li-1st platform for testing VLC applications and Li-Flame solutions that enhance network security by preventing external intrusions. The company also offers the Li-Fire Platform, along with ceiling and desktop units, and LiFi-XC devices that provide secure wireless communications compatible with multiple operating systems. Its innovative technology addresses the challenges of diminishing wireless capacity, serving applications across diverse sectors such as healthcare, aviation, and transportation. By converting light into electrical signals, pureLiFi enables high-density data transmission, presenting a viable alternative to traditional Wi-Fi.
Ingenious Audio
Seed Round in 2011
Ingenious Audio Ltd is a Scottish startup that specializes in designing and manufacturing audio electronics. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Edinburgh, the company has developed an innovative product known as the invisible guitar cable. This compact plug-in device transforms traditional analogue audio equipment, such as electric guitars and amplifiers, into Wi-Fi-enabled devices. The invisible guitar cable facilitates wireless connections between existing guitars and amplifiers, allowing users to utilize wireless effect pedals for the first time. Additionally, it enables seamless connections to any Wi-Fi-enabled PC, effectively replacing the need for costly recording and audio effects equipment. This technology also allows for the sharing of audio over the internet, enhancing the versatility of audio production and performance.
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