Mercia Technologies PLC announced that it has opened an Edinburgh office and secured partnerships with Abertay University and the University of Strathclyde, to reinforce its support for early stage Scottish businesses.

The office will be headed by Paul Devlin, who joins Mercia as Investment Manager, Scotland. Located in central Edinburgh, the office will allow Mercia to bolster its commitment to finding and investing in disruptive, scalable technology businesses in Scotland, which is largely underserved by later stage investors despite its impressive variety of start-ups and spinouts.