Filament STAC has announced the sign-up of several Scottish partners for its 18-month Smart Things Accelerator programme.

The announced partners are services group Anderson Anderson & Brown, law firm Burness Paull, European patent and trademark attorneys Scintilla, software development and data analytics specialist Arceptive, construction consultancy Soben and integrated IoT solutions firm Integrated Graphene.

Filament STAC is supported by Glasgow-based intelligent sensor firm Beringar, as well as Scottish Enterprise, CENSIS, Filament, and Plexus Corp.

Commenting on the news, Paul Wilson, CEO of Filament STAC, said: “We are combining the resources and passion of some of Scotland’s most innovative and tech savvy companies, businesses who realise the potential of what we are building at STAC.

“The partners we are announcing today cover professional services and technology support, which are vital for the scale-up tech companies we have on the programme.”

Filament STAC was launched as an industry-government partnership looking to produce Scottish IoT companies capable of scaling and competing on a global level, with a three-year target to create more than 25 IoT companies supporting around 750 jobs, reporting revenue in the region of £750 million, and cohort companies raising investment more than £100 million.

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Wilson added: “STAC is unique in that it is positioned to be a self-sustaining industry-led funding model, with Scottish business leaders pulling together to scale tech companies.

“We are creating a movement that will result in a Scottish IoT powerhouse sector, one which will collaborate, support and create market opportunities on a global level.”

The programme was officially launched back in August of this year, aiming to “jumpstart” the Scottish IoT sector. It is partly modelled on a Canadian programme that has supported around 650 startups and created more than 4,000 jobs.

It will also build on the IoT foundations already put in place by CENSIS, Scotland’s Innovation Centre for sensing, imaging and IoT technologies, and Glasgow-headquartered product design firm Filament.

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