Cyan Forensics

Ever since launching Cyan Forensics, people asked me “so how is it being a CEO?” or “is it very different from what you expected?”, and I’ve found it a very [...]

I was delighted when I walked into the Copper Box Arena on Tuesday morning to find the huge “Scottish Pavilion” banner was in a great spot right on the main thoroughfare. The day [...]

Here are some quick thoughts from Day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt in London.

Just under a year ago I blogged about going to TechCrunch Disrupt with Cyan Forensics, and finished by saying “I hope to be back here again next year with the same company at a later stage [...]

So it’s been a week of good news for Cyan Forensics, Edinburgh and Scotland, and I thought I would share some of the highlights.

In my last post I wrote about how Start Global prepared us for TechCrunch Disrupt in London, which was the starting point of our fundraising campaign. Not long after we got back from that, we [...]

I recently blogged about the investment we raised in Cyan Forensics. Obviously I’d like to think this was mostly the result of my personal skill and charisma, but in fact there were a [...]

About 18 months ago I started working with a team at Edinburgh Napier University on a project in Digital Forensics.  Today we have announced that we’ve completed the process of creating [...]

I wanted to share some experiences I have built up over the last year or so of some London investors – especially since the opportunities and patterns I am seeing there are quite different [...]

Scotland’s biggest investor event is EIE, and it’s just around the corner.  It’s very much on my mind just now, as this year I will be giving one of the big “6 minute [...]