What is Geovation Scotland?
Geovation Scotland is a collaboration between Registers of Scotland and Ordnance Survey. It exists to accelerate property and location innovation in Scotland.
Our aim is to:
- bring about economic benefit
- promote open innovation
- provide early-stage tech start-ups with supported access to data and other expertise
- harness the opportunities that come from working alongside the Scottish tech, geospatial, and property communities
We provide support for early-stage tech start-ups working with land and property or location data. We do this in two main ways.
A funded accelerator programme
This offers up to 12 months incubation support for start-ups looking to develop their business.
The successfully selected start-ups can access a wide range of resources including:
- supported access to Registers of Scotland and Ordnance Survey data
- up to £15k equity-free programme funding
- free use of the Geovation co-working spaces in Edinburgh and London
- access to a community of over 1900 members UK-wide
- a mentorship programme
Following the above, we also offer a bespoke programme of content tailored to their skills and business needs. This can range from financial modelling to investment support to marketing and sales.
Becoming a member of Geovation Scotland
The Geovation network has over 1900 members UK-wide in the geospatial and proptech communities. By becoming a member founders can access a wide network of experts and organisations.
Membership provides connections for those interested in location data or land and property. It also gives access to an environment aimed at fostering innovation and creativity.
Who are our founders?
Our 6th Geovation Scotland cohort includes:
The EmergencyLocate platform provides solutions to emergency, search, and rescue functions by rapidly and accurately pinpointing exactly where assistance is needed using geospatial technology.
The platform includes a two-way fully translatable text messenger to help overcome any communication barriers and uses 3D satellite mapping to display the location of the person in need whilst also building a clear picture of the surrounding that leads to enhanced dispatch decision making.
EMCAI Solutions is an early-stage startup, which is creating software-based tools for the construction industry.
Construction projects often face delays and budget overruns due to inefficient tender evaluation and inaccurate cost estimation processes, impacting profitability and operational efficiency. The industry’s use of AI is hindered by the lack of up-to-date and location-adjusted data.
EMCAI uses AI and machine learning in their primary products, which are being developed for construction cost planning. These will help to streamline the evaluation of tenders and improve the quality and speed of early-stage cost advice.
The 16,000 rail freight wagons in the UK have no on-board power. This means that the controllers responsible for their safety are spending too much time trawling through legacy mainframe systems for critical wagon status information, leading to poor wagon availability performance.
Rail Geospatial helps rail freight fleet controllers, who need to maintain high wagon availability, by reliably getting the information they need to make decision to their fingertips on a single screen so that they can increase contract profitability by making more wagons
VanFill Ltd’s goal is to reduce transport costs, save time and cut carbon emissions through their mobile and web application, (two-sided marketplace). This will connect businesses and individuals looking to transport their goods with transport providers who have empty spaces in their vans and trucks.
VanFill Ltd aims to help utilise the full range of infrastructure to improve the efficiency of goods transportation, consolidate deliveries and improve route planning, giving customers access to a variety of available transportation options.
Real estate and infrastructure developers need efficient solutions for managing supply chain costs and quantities to mitigate cost and embodied carbon increases.
Optab is designed to address recurring inefficiencies, reduced productivity, and transparency issues within the built environment and construction sector, promoting better utilisation of the limited resources and materials available.
Optab’s SAAS platform allows construction teams to track trends, monitor carbon, and assess costs proactively, providing clients with actionable insights to manage costs and decrease their carbon footprint. Through the Optab platform, construction teams can optimise every aspect of the supply chain process for better outcomes, cost efficiency, and greener implementation.
Our Geovation Scotland alumni
Get in touch
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