Highlands medical tech specialist expands with cash injection

From left: Mime co-founders Anne Roberts and Alasdair Mort with clinical lead Chris Williams. Picture: Contributed

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Inverness-based Mime Technologies, a medical technology firm offering software that helps first responders in emergencies, has won Â£80,000 and a trip to Silicon Valley from Scottish Edge, a competition to foster start-ups.

Dr Alasdair Mort, chief executive and co-founder of Mime Technologies, said the firm aims to “revolutionise the quality of pre-hospital care data and vastly improve those first-responding organisations plagued by pen and paper recording”.

He added: “The Scottish Edge award is truly pivotal for us. It means we can increase our team and engineer our software to work on any mobile device around the world.”

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