Reath, named as a Scottish Young EDGE winner

Reath, the Edinburgh-based circular economy startup, has been named as a Scottish Young EDGE winner in Round 16 of the competition. Scottish EDGE is a competition aimed at identifying and supporting Scotland's up-and-coming, innovative, high-growth entrepreneurial talent.

What our co-founder said

Co-founder of Reath, Claire Rampen, said:

"We are incredibly pleased to have been awarded a Young EDGE prize, and to join the community of pioneering and successful businesses who have come before us."

Reath will use the prize money to continue developing their software platform, enabling more businesses to divert waste from landfill by adopting circular systems.

About Reath

Reath is an Edinburgh-based software business, founded in 2019 by Claire Rampen and Emily Rogers. The Reath system enables businesses to transition to safe, data-driven reuse. The Reath technology combines affordable, ubiquitous machine-readable trackers (e.g. QR codes), with the reuse.id® Data Standard to create safe, compliant and data-driven reuse systems.

About Scottish EDGE

Funded by the Hunter Foundation, the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise and private donors, the competition is delivered twice per year and has supported 395 early stage Scottish businesses with over £15m in award funding.

Scottish EDGE consists of three competition categories:

• Scottish EDGE
• Young EDGE
• Wild Card EDGE

There are also five special awards within the Scottish EDGE category:

• Higgs EDGE. a Science, Technology and Engineering focused business
• Creative EDGE. a creative business
• Social Enterprise EDGE. a social enterprise
• Circular Economy EDGE. a circular focused business
• STV Growth EDGE. a commercial product based business