Converge 2012 Cohort

July 31, 2012April 13, 2022

Alba Orbital Raises $3.4million in Seed Round from Founders of Skype & Fitbit

Chromacity completes a growth funding round of £1.2million

Meet our 2012 winners:

Meet our 2012 runners-up:

Meet our 2012 finalists:

Name	Company	University	Challenge
Tom Walkinshaw	Alba Orbital	Glasgow Caledonian	Converge
Derek Ball	BioFlux	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Eleanore Irvine	BioGelX	Strathclyde	Converge
Lee Baker	Chi Squared Innovations	Dundee	Converge
Efthymios Klampaftis	Colour-PV	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Nazimi Sellami	Concentrating Photovaltaic Window	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Iona Campbell	Diabetes Trak	Dundee	Converge
Sam Zawadski	DigiLets.com	Edinburgh	Converge
Christine Watson	Fashionable Waterproof Garments	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Muhammed Farooq	Garbage to Gold	Aberdeen	Converge
Oscar van Heek	lo-FI Movies	Edinburgh Napier	Converge
Philip Smit	Novel kinetics & kinematics sensor	Strathclyde	Converge
Michael Kowalczyk	Novel medical products in CAD software	Edinburgh Napier	Converge
Nart Daghestani	Novel optical sources for spectroscopy	Dundee	Converge
Mark Hughes	Pre<Optimise	Edinburgh	Converge
Omair Uthmani	SA.FIRE	Edinburgh Napier	Converge
Jack Hoy-Gig Ng	Sensible Wearables	Heriot-Watt	Converge
S. Palacios-Guberti	Selvancolour	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Frank Martin	Singled Up Ltd	Stirling	Converge
Mohamed Saafi	Smart Paint for Structural Defects	Strathclyde	Converge
Thomas Aspray	SOLIDsense	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Alexandra Fultz-McNeil	The Boarding Band	Heriot-Watt	Converge
Tracy Thomson	TigTag Events	UWS	Converge
Elias Ekonomou	Vitalstream	Edinburgh Napier	Converge
Mat Miehling	Zuriel	Edinburgh Napier	Converge

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