{"id":73951,"date":"2015-06-10T20:39:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T12:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/scottish-government-grants-up-to-2-9-million-to-spire\/"},"modified":"2015-06-10T20:39:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T12:39:47","slug":"scottish-government-grants-up-to-2-9-million-to-spire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/scottish-government-grants-up-to-2-9-million-to-spire\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Government Grants up to $2.9 Million to Spire"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 06-10-2015] <b>Scottish Enterprise<\/b>, the international investment and trade promotion agency of the Scottish government, has awarded up to $2.9 million in grants to <b>Spire<\/b>. The new funds will support the opening of a new office in Glasgow, Scotland along with further international growth. Spire plans to double its Glasgow team to more than 50 full-time employees by 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The recent grant follows $25 million in Series A funding Spire raised in 2014, which brought the total amount raised to $29 million and fueled a new branch location in Singapore. Spire cited Scotland\u2019s lower cost base and extensive range of universities as key reasons for its interest in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Spire\u2019s Glasgow office, the company\u2019s third office globally, will help develop the next generation of GPS Radio Occultation (RO) technology. The company previously announced intentions to build a constellation of 20 commercial weather satellites, which are slated to launch this year. According to Spire, the constellation will be able to provide five times more GPS-RO weather data than is currently available from today\u2019s fleet of weather satellites for significantly reduced cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 06-10-2015] Scottish Enterprise, the international investment and trade promotion agency of the Scottish government, has awarded up to $2.9 million in grants to Spire. The new funds will support the opening of a new office in Glasgow, Scotland along with further international growth. Spire plans to double its Glasgow team to more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}