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What an intense two weeks of EDGE of your seat vote campaigning that was!

Three worthy contenders, Adelie Health, AS D-Zine and lil’POP were shortlisted from the 13 winning businesses of the Wild Card EDGE Round 11 Final by its expert panel of judges to take part in an online public vote.

During a packed day of pitching, eleven Scottish startup businesses pitched their way to a winning position in the Scottish EDGE Round Eleven Wild Card EDGE Final.

Designed to boost pre-trading businesses on their startup journey in Scotland, Wild Card EDGE winners receive up to £10,000 in grant funding. Businesses will also receive a non-financial business support package, provided by Scottish EDGE’s various partner organisations.

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Following the success of last round’s Wild Card EDGE Public Vote, which saw the winner, Sonik Pocket, go on to secure funding at the live Scottish EDGE Round Ten Final, we’re hugely excited to announce the competition’s return for its fourth outing.

Today, after two weeks of EDGE of your seat vote campaigning by three very worthy contenders, we are delighted to announce the winner of the Round 10 Wild Card EDGE public vote.

Three’s the magic number for one lucky Wild Card EDGE winner as the Wild Card EDGE Public Vote returns for its 3rd outing. Following the success of last round’s vote, which saw winners, Nu Blvck, go on to pitch live at the Scottish EDGE Round Nine Final, we’re hugely excited to announce the three Scottish businesses competing for your vote in Round Ten of the competition. BUBL Bags, Drink Baotic by Hippo and Hedgehog and Sonik Pocket now have until Wed, 24th May, 2017 to convince the public that their product or service has that winning EDGE – deserving of additional funding and support. The business with the highest number of unique votes will be given the opportunity to pitch for up to £100,000 in grant and loan funding at the Scottish EDGE final on June 22nd, 2017 (Get your free ticket here).

Earlier this week, 21 Scottish start-up businesses took a walk on the Wild (Card EDGE) Side, in what an expert panel of judges deemed to be an exceptionally high standard final. So high in fact, that 12, rather than 10, successfully pitched their way to a winning position – securing grant funding of up to £10,000 from the allocated £100,000 Wild Card EDGE prize pot. It is with great pleasure, therefore, that we can today reveal the businesses who will be collecting their award at the Scottish EDGE Round 10 Final on 22 June 2017 at the Royal Bank of Scotland’s Gogarburn campus (grab a ticket here). The actual amount won by each business will not be disclosed until the award ceremony.

After a fortnight of impressive social media vote canvassing, we are thrilled to announce the winner of our Round Nine Wild Card EDGE Public Vote.Following the Wild Card EDGE final, three of the winning businesses – Nu Blvck, Spark and Rocket and Spey Cardio – were shortlisted, by the expert panel of judges, to take part in an online public vote to win the chance to pitch for additional funding of up to £100,000. It was a close race throughout, but having received 44% of the 1,168 unique votes cast, it is with great pleasure that we declare Nu Blvck as our Wild Card EDGE Public Vote winner!

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Back by popular demand – the Wild Card EDGE Public Vote! Following the success of last round’s vote, which saw winners, Blusho, go on to secure funding of £30,000 in the Scottish EDGE final, it is with great excitement that we announce the three Scottish businesses competing for your vote in Round Nine of the competition.  Nu Blvck, Spark and Rocket and SpeyCardio now have until Wed, 23rd Nov, 2016 to convince the public that their product or service has that winning EDGE – deserving of additional funding and support. The business with the highest number of unique votes will be given the opportunity to pitch for up to £100,000 in grant and loan funding at the Scottish EDGE final on Dec 15th, 2016.

Last week, 22 Scottish start-up businesses took a walk on the Wild (Card EDGE) Side, in what an expert panel of judges deemed to be an exceptionally high standard final. Of the 22 finalists, 12 successfully pitched their way to a winning position – securing grant funding of up to £10,000. It is with great pleasure, therefore, that we can today reveal the winners of the Scottish EDGE Round 9 Wild Card EDGE competition. The actual amount won by each business, however, will not be disclosed until the Scottish EDGE final, to be held at the Royal Bank of Scotland’s Gogarburn campus on Thursday, 15th December (get your free tickets here).

Today, we are delighted to announce the winner of our first ever Wild Card EDGE public vote, which we launched in early May. Three of our round eight Wild Card EDGE winning businesses – Blusho, Estendio and Pio Design – were selected to take part in the vote to win the chance to pitch for additional funding of up to £100,000. Having received 2,509 votes from around the world, we are thrilled to announce that BLUSHO have won our Wild Card EDGE public vote.