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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 Product Design 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 i4pd team to accelerate challenging roadmaps and/or innovate a way past technical challenges. The i4pd 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.