Better, connected
We’re proud to collaborate with a network of leading organisations across industry sectors in Scotland who help our alumni businesses go further, grow bigger and achieve more.
Knowledge share
Through our business masterclasses, workshops and resources, we bring partners, our current cohort and Converge alumni together. They share knowledge, impart advice, make connections and form long lasting business relationships.

Working together
We partner with organisations at the forefront of their respective industries – from IP and tax through to product design, human resources, technology and investment. Their financial contribution allows us to raise our ambition and deliver an exceptional programme to hundreds of aspiring academic entrepreneurs.

Meet our partners
We’ve joined forces with business leaders, disrupters, movers and shakers across Scotland to achieve more impact for our participants past and present.
BeyondHR is an HR consultancy with a proven track record of providing high quality and affordable HR support solutions across Scotland and Northern Ireland.
With more than 25 years’ experience our team of qualified HR Consultants is proud to be the chosen HR partner for over 250 start-ups and SMEs across Scotland and Northern Ireland providing a full range of HR and Employee Relations support services.
We work across all industries and are respected for our pragmatic stance to problem solving and ensuring that we make the lives of our clients pain free by taking the stress out of HR issues while ensuring the best outcomes for their businesses.
Cisco helps seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the unconnected. An integral part of our DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships, working together to identify our customers' needs and provide solutions that fuel their success.
Nearly every Internet connection in the UK touches Cisco technology and we're investing in projects across Scotland to support innovation, from smart cities to transport, healthcare and manufacturing, to cyber-security and digital skills.
Enterprises is the private investor engagement and ventures arm of CPI, a leading independent technology innovation centre and a founding member of the UK Government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
Enterprises stimulates impactful investment into early-stage deep tech companies, leveraging our world-class technical expertise, facilities and innovation network to benefit both investors and companies alike.
i4 is an employee-owned company with a +15 year track record of working with start-ups and multinationals to deliver commercially successful products.
Clients utilise the i4 team to accelerate challenging roadmaps and/or innovate a way past technical challenges. The i4 team achieve this by augmenting the size and capabilities of a client’s internal team.
Our experienced engineers and creative design team work in partnership with clients throughout the product design and development process to ensure their products aren’t just beautiful, they’re brilliant too.
MBM Commercial is an award-winning commercial law firm that helps entrepreneurial businesses.
Many of our clients are going through significant growth, either by investment, acquisition or by international expansion. We are committed to helping our clients succeed and always aim to help make connections and add value wherever possible. The work that we do spans all sectors, and we are proud to represent many exciting businesses, ranging from small start-ups to large companies.
The firm provides a full range of commercial legal services, including corporate finance, commercial contracts, insolvency/restructuring, commercial property, dispute resolution, employment/HR and company administration.
Murgitroyd is a global intellectual property (IP) attorney firm specialising in patents, trade marks, designs and copyright, helping companies of all sizes, from all sectors, to maximise value from their IP assets by providing tailored strategic advice and services.
The Murgitroyd team has particular expertise in helping start-up businesses to grow and develop through good use and protection of their IP assets.
The Royal Bank of Scotland is a UK-based banking and financial services company, headquartered in Edinburgh. Royal Bank of Scotland has paved the way in banking since it was established nearly 300 years ago. From the world’s first overdraft, and the first house purchase loan by a UK bank, to the first fully-fledged internet banking service, the bank has a history of using innovation to make banking easier for our customers.
Royal Bank launched its first mobile bank in 1946 and now has 20 mobile banks serving nearly 400 communities across Scotland. Royal Bank of Scotland has over two million customers in Scotland today, with over 120,000 business customers. These relationships are now enhanced by our Enterprise team who offer face to face support to customers the length and breadth of the country.
Social Investment Scotland (SIS) provides social loan finance and business support to social enterprises and charities across Scotland. SIS, a charity and social enterprise itself, seeks to support organisations scale their impact and increase sustainability through investment and additional support and training.
Since its beginnings in 2001, SIS has invested £63 million in over 300 organisations across Scotland and developed training programmes such as the SIS Retail Academy and Ambitions Masterclass Programme.
SIS is a valued Converge partner and sole sponsor of the Impact Challenge category providing both cash and in-kind business support to our Impact Challenge participants.
Why become a partner?
Success is best when it’s shared. Partnering with us demonstrates your commitment to supporting the next generation of innovators, growing and scaling together to help Scotland thrive. It’s also the perfect platform to showcase your business and area of professional expertise while forging long-lasting connections with some of Scotland’s most promising new businesses.

Network
- Meet Scotland’s most exciting entrepreneurs
- Build new business relationships
- Network with thought leaders
- Connect with our dynamic alumni community
Grow
- Showcase your expertise
- Raise your profile
- Amplify your news and successes via our national platform
Make an impact
- Play an active role in shaping and growing Scotland’s economic future

Join our partner network
Engage with Scotland’s brightest innovators and guide them as they invent our future.
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