Converge Awards 2023

BeyondHR is a progressive, independently-owned HR consultancy firm that helps organisations recruit, manage and safeguard their staff. We work for a range of start-ups, SMEs and larger corporates across Northern Ireland, Scotland and England, and our HR consultancy team boasts some of the most experienced consultants in the HR industry.

We are proud to be the chosen HR partner for over 400 start-ups and SMEs across Scotland and Northern Ireland providing a full range of HR support services.

We work across all industries and are respected for our pragmatic stance to problem solving and ensuring that we make the lives of our clients pain free by taking the stress out of HR issues while ensuring the best outcomes for their businesses.

The team at CT has an unrivalled knowledge of the Scottish investment and startup market. Our collaborative approach has a direct, positive impact on our clients – our award-winning team has a genuine interest in their growth ambitions.

From our market leading Entrepreneurial Tax team that offer advice on Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS), Seed Enterprise Investment Schemes (SEIS), Enterprise Management Incentives (EMI) share schemes and Research & Development (R&D) Tax Relief, through to our digital solutions focused accounts team, we are here every step of the way to provide clients with honest advice and tech-savvy solutions.

Enterprises is the private investor engagement and ventures arm of CPI, a leading independent technology innovation centre and a founding member of the UK Government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult.

Enterprises stimulates impactful investment into early-stage deep tech companies, leveraging our world-class technical expertise, facilities and innovation network to benefit both investors and companies alike.

At Firefinch Software we create custom software and data science solutions, specialising in the Life Sciences sector.

The work we do varies from small proof-of-concept data analyses and prototype applications up to large systems which companies run their core business on every day.

Our clients are diverse and include instrument manufacturers, academic start-ups & spinoffs, and contract research & manufacturing organisations

HLK is one of the largest independent IP firms in Europe and works with visionaries, innovators and businesses, helping them to get the most out of their intellectual property and safeguard their inventions, creative designs, brand identities and other innovations. 

Providing services that span the whole spectrum of the IP rights life cycle, from strategy through to filing and all the way through to litigation, HLK is privileged to work with some of the world’s most exciting and forward-looking businesses that are at the forefront of innovation and product development in their various spheres. The firm has clients in over 50 countries, including the UK, US, China, Japan and all major European countries.

As well as large corporate entities, the firm’s clients include universities, research institutes, SMEs and early-stage businesses across all sectors, all serviced from our offices in Glasgow, London, Munich, Bristol, Leeds, and Guangzhou (China).

HLK is a global cooperation combining Haseltine Lake Kempner LLP and HL Kempner Partnerschaft mbB.

i4 Product Design is an employee-owned company with a 20 year track record of working with start-ups and multinationals to deliver commercially successful products. 

Clients utilise the i4PD team to accelerate challenging roadmaps and/or innovate a way past technical challenges. The i4PD team achieve this by augmenting the size and capabilities of a client’s internal team.

Our experienced engineers and creative design team work in partnership with clients throughout the product design and development process to ensure their products aren’t just beautiful, they’re brilliant too.

MBM Commercial is an award-winning commercial law firm that helps entrepreneurial businesses.

Many of our clients are going through significant growth, either by investment, acquisition or by international expansion. We are committed to helping our clients succeed and always aim to help make connections and add value wherever possible. The work that we do spans all sectors, and we are proud to represent many exciting businesses, ranging from small start-ups to large companies. 

The firm provides a full range of commercial legal services, including corporate finance, commercial contracts, insolvency/restructuring, commercial property, dispute resolution, employment/HR and company administration.