Scotland's tech sector is booming. This year’s list of the best 121 Scotland tech startups is an eclectic mix of hyper-growth scaleups, small creative startups and everything in between.
The last update was made on May 06, 2022.
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DIGIT
DIGIT is Scotland’s leading technology media & events company.
Skyscanner
Skyscanner operates as a trips meta-search engine company.
BOLT Learning
BOLT provides online learning solutions using the latest in web technology combined with modern teaching methodologies.
pureLiFi
pureLiFi develops technology for communication networks that integrates data and lighting utility infrastructures.
Cyan Forensics
Cyan Forensics sells software to help police, social media, and cloud providers find & block harmful content from paedophiles & terrorists
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Innis & Gunn
Innis & Gunn is Scotland’s most awarded and best loved independent brewer.
encompass
encompass robotically automates information and news discovery for KYC requirements for onboarding, event-driven refresh and remediation.
Money Dashboard
Money Dashboard is an online personal financial management service allowing users to view their online financial accounts.
Sigma Capital Group
Sigma Capital Group focus on the creation of communities by delivering new, good quality and well located family homes to rent.
FreeAgent
FreeAgent provides online accounting and money management software for small businesses and freelancers.
DeltaDNA
DeltaDNA provides real-time player relationship management solutions for the deep-dive data analysis of player data.
M Squared Lasers
M Squared Lasers develops and manufactures next-generation lasers and photonic instruments.
CSI
CSI is a award-winning Cloud Services Provider.
Nucleus
Nucleus is a software platform for financial advisors.
Swipii
Customer loyalty, card-linking, automated marketing, open banking, digital, SMB, local businesses
The ID Co.
The ID Co. help businesses onboard their customers using Open Bank data to solve business pains such as credit risk and affordability.
3fbio
A technology spin-out company from the University of Strathclyde.
Boundary
Boundary is an IoT Home Security company providing a smart burglar alarm system that can be controlled over mobile devices.
Float
Float is a SaaS based real-time financial intelligence solution for small businesses to forecast short and long-term cash flow.
The Faraday Grid
The Faraday Grid is a clean energy startup.
TravelNest
TravelNest is an advertising optimisation platform for holiday rental owners.
NCTech
NCTech is a big data and analytics provider. Pioneering edge-to-cloud big data capture & provision with ML/AI for Google, government & AEC
Bird.i
Bird.i provides access to the latest, up to date satellite imagery, helping you obtain valuable insights & make better business decisions.
Drinkly
Drinkly offers an on-demand service of alcoholic drinks to its customers in Edinburgh, UK.
Mallzee
Mallzee is a B2C clothing retail app and a B2B data suite for clothing retailers to improve margins and make smarter buying decisions
MindMate
MindMate is an application that helps people living with cognitive decline.
Robotical
Robotical makes a low cost walking robot that's more than a toy. The perfect robot for learning about robotics
Blackford Analysis
Blackford Analysis develops software solutions for the worldwide medical, oil and gas, and defense industries.
GeckoLabs
Gecko Labs provides software to the Higher Education sector to improve the way insitutions engage with their students.
Kite Power Systems
Kite Power Solutions is a business developing a disruptive technology to produce renewable energy from the wind.
Prodsight
Prodsight is an AI-powered customer feedback analysis software.
Pyreos
Pyreos develops and supplies a specialised infra-red sensor platform.
Nude
Nude is a financial coach and savings account for first-time home buyers. Save a deposit, without breaking a sweat.
Sunamp
Sunamp is the leading provider of heat battery (thermal energy) storage systems.
Mara Seaweed
Scottish company based in Edinburgh selling a range of native seasonal seaweeds of Scottish and Irish provenance.
Appointedd
Appointedd is an online booking and scheduling system.
Sofant Technologies
Sofant Technologies offers Smart Antenna and tunable RF solutions for next generation mobile and wearable devices.
Dukosi
Dukosi is a company focused on developing revolutionary battery technology.
Calcivis
Calcivis is a biotech company that focuses on unmet needs in dentistry.
Wootzano
Wootzano allows robots and autonomous systems to sense and feel like humans do with their own skin through our e-skin called Wootzkin.
Machine Labs
Big company machine learning for marketing at a small company price.
Cogbooks
CogBooks is an adaptive web-based learning platform.
Houseology
Houseology.com - the UKs premier online interior design store
CandidateID
Candidate.ID is a Talent Pipeline Software for the employers and agencies.
Twig World
Twig World is award-winning tools and educational resources for the classroom.
Sumdog
Online site making learning fun for k-12 students while allowing teachers and parents to track progress and create activities.
Ecometrica
Ecometrica is an end-to-end environmental software-as-a-service that helps businesses and governments identify risks and opportunities.
Synpromics
Synpromics develops and commercializes synthetic promoters to control gene expressions and regulations.
EnteroBiotix
EnteroBiotix harnesses bacterial communities derived directly from the human gastrointestinal tract to prevent and treat disease.
TVSquared
TVSquared is the global leader in TV attribution.
Shot Scope
Shot Scope's patent-pending technology provides unparalleled insights into your golf game.
The Movement Athlete
The Movement Athlete is a skill-based fitness training application.
Beer52
Beer52 is the UK's most popular craft beer club.
Wood MacKenzie
Wood Mackenzie is a global leader in commercial intelligence for the energy, chemicals, metals and mining industries
Edinburgh Molecular Imaging
Edinburgh Molecular Imaging is a developer of optical molecular imaging technology.
Holoxica
Holoxica is an award-winning high-tech company specializing in holographic 3D visualization technologies.
Zumo
Zumo turns Bitcoin and Ethereum into money by making crypto work seamlessly with traditional currencies.
LendingCrowd
LendingCrowd is a fintech company that operates a lending platform to connect small and medium-sized enterprises with investors.
Atterley
Atterley is a womenswear and menswear e-tailer for independent boutiques and brands.
Codeplay Software
Codeplay Software is internationally recognized for expertise in Heterogeneous Systems.
SpecifiedBy
SpecifiedBy helps architects, designers and specifiers to make informed decisions about building products
Huli
Simple route planning for cyclists, runners and hikers
ACS Clothing
ACS is a provider of mens hirewear to leading retailers in the UK and Ireland. Wtih an extensive range of both formalwear and highlandwear
spoonfed
Spoonfed is a catering management software.
Roslin Technologies
Roslin Technologies is a UK-based agriculture biotechnology company.
Adimo
Admio integrates with any form of marketing to make it shoppable.
Synaptec
Synaptec develops and deploys photonic sensing systems.
Find a Player
Connecting sports people & games in local areas.
ShareIn
ShareIn is a software and compliance firm specializing in crowdfunding solutions and technology.
Celtic Renewables
Celtic Renewables is a biotech startup formed to commercialize a process for producing a superior next generation biofuel.
Cognitive Geology
A specialist software provider for the oil industry
Desana Network
Desana Network is a flexible workspace and coworking spaces booking start-up.
Flavourly
Flavourly is the UK's leading craft beer & spirits discovery club and also operates an eCommerce shop serving all craft alcohol categories.
Class4Kids
Class4Kids allows people who run kids activities to list on our website for free and pay for an advanced management system.
Dimensional Imaging
Dimensional Imaging designs and develops human body 3D and 4D surface image capture and analysis solutions.
SymbaSync
Human Capital Asset Allocation Software: Engaging and deploying employees for new project teams to maximise return on employee investment
Odro
Odro is a software business specialising in industry specific live video technology.
Caldan Therapeutics
Caldan Therapeutics, a spin-out from a long-standing collaboration between Professor Trond Ulven at the University of Southern Denmark
Sirakoss
SIRAKOSS is a medical device company based in Scotland that has developed synthetic bone graft substitutes
Edesix
Edesix provides professional body worn video camera solutions.
Blazing Griffin
Blazing Griffin is a digital entertainment company driving innovation at the dynamic intersection between film, games & post production.
Clydesdale Bank
Clydesdale Bank growth finance provides a range of innovative debt solutions for early stage, high growth businesses.
Incremental Group
Incremental Group provides software consultancy and analytics services to clients in oil and gas, financial services, and the public sector.
Kindaba
Kindaba is a private, safe and ad-free space to share family photos, videos, and updates with family and friends.
GETGUIDED
GETGUIDED is capturing uncaptured data in tours & activities industry by bringing offline players to online using innovative tech solutions.
SkoogMusic
Skoog is a powerful, fun music interface for iPad, OSX and Windows, that opens up a world of ‘musicplay’ to everyone.
Intelligent Point of Sale
Intelligent Point of Sale is an iPad point of sale system that provides its customers with a low cost, full EPOS.
Aridhia Informatics
Aridhia informatics provides biomedical informatics and analytics services to improve the management of chronic diseases.
Silent Herdsman
Silent Herdsman’s vision is to be the leading global provider of predictive analytics software for dairy and beef farmers, that improves
Homes for Good
Homes for Good ensures that a wider stock of affordable, well maintained homes is available to marginalized households.
Inquisitive Systems
Inquisitive Systems is an information security software company developing the foxDNATM technology for commercial deployment.
Bio-Images Drug Delivery
Class leading experts in formulation work and scintigraphic clinical trials.
Beta Bugs
Beta Bugs is a cutting edge biotechnology company that produces enhanced insect strains for the growing insect farming industry.
Pufferfish
Pufferfish open up a world of possibilities for better communication and engagement with world-beating PufferSphere® display solutions.
Bpay.io
Bpay.io is a payment processing company for cryptocurrency and blockchain payments.
Anacail
Anacail Limited is a Research company located in University Ave, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Sustainably
Sustainably enables businesses and consumers to give to causes they care about in frictionless and connected ways as part of everyday life.
Soar
Soar is a Glasgow-based fintech focused on building a better financial society.
Ingenza
Ingenza is an industrial biotechnology company.
Playerbase
Playerbase is a community driven platform for gamers that delivers solutions to improve overall gaming experience.
Sensewhere
Sensewhere provide hyper-local indoor positioning technology and applications for mobile devices.
QED Naval
QED Naval is a naval architecture consultancy that is focused on the development of the marine renewable energy industry.
QikServe
QikServe is the enterprise platform for guest self-service in hospitality.
PhysioWizard
The UK's first clinically validated triage solution for muscle and joint problems.
Cutitronics
Cutitronics is an AI-driven skincare start-up.
Metix
Metix develops devices and services that meet needs and exceed expectations inside the demanding healthcare industry.
Greengage Lighting
Agri-Tech company providing LED lighting induction systems.
Neatebox
Neatebox strives to make society more inclusive by developing solutions to address challenges people with disabilities face every day.
Firefish Software
Firefish Software is a recruitment and marketing SaaS platform that helps recruiters reach, engage, and recruit top candidates.
Roslin Cells
Roslin Cells is focussed on creating large numbers of stem cell lines from various cohorts of the population.
Care Sourcer
Care Sourcer is a platform that connects those seeking elderly care with those providing it.
Sumerian
Sumerian applies IT Operational Analytics to IT Capacity Planning, helping companies to cut their IT costs and de-risk their IT plans.
Oodls
Oodls allows Instagrammers, brands and companies search and buy content for Instagram
Red61
Red61 is an Edinburgh-based ticketing software
Flexiworkforce
Flexiworkforce is the only UK-wide job site specialising in all forms of flexible working.
Uboro
Uboro is a cloud-based GPS tracking software.
SquareBook
SquareBook is a socially responsible FinTech driving a new IPO equity culture.
Freeflow Technologies
FreeFlow Technologies has developed the world’s lightest, greenest electrical bike
Kitvendr
Retail platform for sports clubs.
Lease Fetcher
A leasing comparison start-up based in the UK.
Arrayjet
Arrayjet is a microarray instrumentation company.
Snappd
Increase engagement, conversions & revenue for your brand with mobile first video.
Vert Rotors
UK-based compressor manufacturing company.
Clear Surgical
Clear Surgical is an innovative product that is set to transform surgical theatres.
Amati Global Investors
Amati Global Investors is a specialist fund management business based in Edinburgh.
Reactec
Reactec is the market leader in monitoring and management support solutions for hand and arm vibration syndrome
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