Glasgow recently ranked the best city in Scotland to start a business, with the highest number of new businesses created per capita in the entire country, has some of the most interesting tech startups in Scotland, let’s discover together some of them:
1) Gigged.AI
Founded in 2020, Gigged.AI was named by Tech Nation as a Rising Star 4.0 Scottish regional winner. The company launched its Talent Portal using AI algorithms to create optimal business and employee matches. The company claims to help onboard new tech talent while helping SMEs retain their current staff to optimise effective hiring.
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2) Loopsio
Founded in 2021, Loopsio connects university and college students studying computing science with companies looking for software development, training, and consulting. Supervised by professionals, students are able to work on software projects for companies in varied industries and sectors, gaining real-world experience, while the organisations benefit from student talent and professional expertise.
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3) Chemify
Chemify is a spin out of the University of Glasgow which recently reaching £36m in series A funding, creating a way to ‘digitise chemistry’, so turning every molecule into code, with allowing that code to be converted back into the relevant molecules, in order to digitally develop compounds and conduct experiments over digital platforms, expanding chemistry research. The use of AI, machine learning, and robotics in chemistry could allow for the potential discovery of new chemical compounds and materials enabled by the speed and efficiency of AI algorithms.
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4) WeeTeq
WeeTeq is a Scottish company developing artificial intelligence for some of the smallest levels in manufacturing. WeeTeq’s Ultra Edge® model accesses the data within a machine on the circuit level, using artificial intelligence to them analyse the performance and even automatically adopt improvements. Launched in 2022, WeeTeq won £100,000 as winner of the Scottish Edge 2023 awards.
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5) Nooku
Founded in 2022, Nooku is a recent Scottish Edge award winner, and was inspired by the lockdowns of the pandemic. Kane, CEO of Nooku, became more worried and aware about the quality of indoor air after raising his 18 month old child inside during the lockdowns of the pandemic, as he struggled with respiratory issues. Kane designed a smart indoor air ventilation monitor humidity, temperature, Volatile compounds, CO2, noxious oxide, and fine particulate matter. The machine also provides practical advice to create better air quality within a home or business.
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6) Lupovis
Founded in 2021, the start-up uses AI-driven technology for early detection of threats to their clients’ most sensitive data, and uses tactics often adopted by threat actors themselves – manipulation, gamification, and deception – to steer attackers away from a company’s assets. In 2022, the company won a pre-seed investment of over €700k from a syndicate co-led by Techstart Ventures and Natural Capital, and the University of Strathclyde, from which it spun out.
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7) Vector Photonics
Founded in 2020, the company is focused on laser production for Cloud Datacentre applications, aiming for their designs and laser technology to reduce the energy consumption of these ever-important servers. Producing Photonic Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers (PCSEL) for semiconductors, the company aims to leverage their cost-effective and energy efficient laser technology in the race to develop more sustainable AI-capable semiconductors and servers.
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“The Glasgow Tech Ecosystem has entered a virtuous cycle. Catalysts such as the Innovation Districts, Tech Scaler, and an increased focus from our universities on entrepreneurship are combining to create more, and stronger startups,” Mark Logan, chief entrepreneurial advisor at the Scottish Government, stated in a Glasgow City Region Tech Ecosystem report.
“These, in turn, create more belief, and strengthen the ecosystems experience base, leading to further start-up creation. It’s the most exciting entrepreneurial environment we’ve seen in Glasgow in living memory.”
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