Geco Connect wins £90K Scottish EDGE grant to free up carers' time

What's the deal? Geco ConnectDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a care-tech platform from The Solutions on Demand Group, has won £90,000 (≈$118K) as a winner of Scottish EDGEDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, one of the UK's leading entrepreneurial funding competitions. The platform pulls care, education, and wellbeing data into one system, helping residential care and education services cut admin and spend more time with children and young people. Geco Connect was built with the University of Strathclyde through an Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership.

Why now? Care professionals face mounting pressure to maintain records, evidence decisions, and prepare for inspections across multiple systems — paperwork that eats into time for direct support. The funding will accelerate product development, expand the team, and reach more organisations across Scotland. "Scottish EDGE isn't just recognising a business," said founder Martin Boyle. "It's recognising the importance of giving professionals more time to support children and young people."

The signal: Scottish EDGE has become a key launchpad for early-stage Scottish ventures, and its backing of Geco Connect signals growing investor appetite for care tech that targets the sector's administrative burden rather than front-line headcount. With academic validation from the University of Strathclyde and a string of innovation awards behind it, the company is positioning impact evidence — not just scale — as its route to growth.

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