Johnston Carmichael has announced a strategic partnership with Glasgow’s Smart Things Accelerator Centre (STAC) to support the next generation of tech entrepreneurs in building viable businesses.
STAC is an industry-led accelerator for product-driven startups, running an 18-month programme blending mentorship, investment readiness and access to specialist facilities to help founders launch and scale competitive companies. Through the partnership, Johnston Carmichael will work with all thirty-five startups in STAC’s current programme, providing hands-on support across finance, tax and fundraising.
The deal will include one-to-one mentoring, specialist workshops on topics such as investor tax reliefs and Enterprise Management Incentives, and access to Johnston Carmichael’s technology specialists, including Neil Wilson and Stephen Oates.
Calum Purdie, head of technology and life sciences at Johnston Carmichael, said the partnership builds on the firm’s growing role in Scotland’s tech ecosystem, aiming to help businesses scale successfully and contribute to Scotland’s reputation as a hub for technology and innovation.
For STAC, the partnership supports its ambition to position Glasgow as Europe’s leading hub for transformative technologies across IoT, robotics, AI and advanced materials, having backed almost ninety early-stage firms while bridging the commercialisation gap between academia and industry. Paul Wilson, CEO and co-founder of STAC, said collaborations like this give founders the financial and strategic expertise they need to compete globally, helping build companies that will define the next era of innovation.