Four aspirational women and their companies have shared the spotlight as winners of the 2020 AccelerateHER Awards. Today’s awards final was staged online, after increasing concerns about Covid-19 led organisers to develop an alternative solution to their planned face-to-face gathering. From a short-list of 12 finalists, judges announced a winner in each of the four … continue reading.

Organisers of this year’s AccelerateHER Awards have announced they will use a technology-led solution to ensure their 2020 finals go ahead on 26 March. A public event to declare this year’s winners was set to be held later this month at Barclay’s Eagle Lab within Edinburgh’s Codebase but, due to concerns about Coronavirus, organisers have … continue reading.

Twelve aspirational female company founders have been shortlisted as finalists in the 2020 AccelerateHER Awards.  This year’s programme called for applications from businesswomen whose companies fit into one of four specific categories: CleanTech and Climate; Disruptive Innovation; MedTech and Science; and FinTech and Cyber Security. Three companies from each sector made it onto the 2020 … continue reading.

The AccelerateHER Awards 2020 for Scottish female business founders has today announced global IT and business consulting services provider CGI as one of its core sponsors for this year’s programme. It joins Barclays Eagle Labs and Skyscanner who return as AccelerateHER 2020 sponsors. A further partnership with Aberdein Considine has also been confirmed with the law firm sponsoring this year’s Rising Star Award for … continue reading.