Edinburgh-based startup, 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.
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 and Wild Card EDGE, and five special awards within the Scottish EDGE category for a Science, Technology and Engineering focused businesses (Higgs EDGE), a creative business, (Creative EDGE), a social enterprise, (Social Enterprise EDGE), a circular focused business, (Circular Economy EDGE) and a commercial product based business, (STV Growth EDGE)