http://www.highlandvc.co.uk Investing throughout Scotland in emerging businesses Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:12:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The article below appeared today in the Inverness Courier http://www.highlandvc.co.uk/2008/07/29/inverness-courier/ Business Angel group, Highland Venture Capital (HVC), has completed its first lead investment in partnership with Scottish Enterprise’s Scottish Co-investment Fund. £600,000 has been committed as investment in newly formed Advanced Microwave Technologies Ltd, a company which has invented a system for treating, at source, blood waste from abattoirs which will ... http://www.highlandvc.co.uk/2008/07/07/amt_funding/ A Borders start-up company that has the potential to grow into a global pharmaceutical business has secured more than £1 million venture capital funding. Syntropharma specialises in developing new ways of delivering drugs that help to reduce side effects and increase compliance amongst patients. The company’s business model means that rather than ... http://www.highlandvc.co.uk/2006/11/20/11/