At Best Startup Scotland we track over 100,000 Scottish startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 33 Medical companies in Glasgow. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Medical Companies & Startups (Glasgow)
Dxcover
The Future of Cancer Diagnostics
Founder(s): David S Palmer, Holly Butler, Matthew Baker
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Machine Learning, Medical, Medical Device
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Talking Medicines
Talking Medicines captures the unstructured global voice of the patient using AI, ML, and NLP technologies.
Founder(s): Elizabeth Fairley, Jo Halliday, Scott Crae
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Data Visualization, Health Care, Machine Learning, Medical, Personal Health
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PneumoWave
Advanced Respiratory Monitoring and Digital Therapeutics. Powering the future diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of respiratory illness
Founder(s): Bruce Henderson, Jonathan Guthrie
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Home Health Care, Machine Learning, Medical, Medical Device, Sensor, Therapeutics
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Sure
Sure Retractors is a medical device company.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Medical Device
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Metix
Metix develops devices and services that meet needs and exceed expectations inside the demanding healthcare industry.
Founder(s): Jaime Lomeli-R., Pablo Perez Villanueva
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Health Care, Manufacturing, Medical, Medical Device
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Freedom One Life
Redefining mobility
Founder(s): Albert Nicholl, Alex Papanikolaou
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Health Care, Manufacturing, Medical, Medical Device, Product Design
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Saw DX
SAW Dx is an emerging point of care diagnostic (POC) device design and manufacturing venture focused on exploiting.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical Device
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WheelAir
WheelAir helps the wheelchair users remain in control of skincare, temperature and moisture buildup.
Founder(s): Corien Staels
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Health Care, Hospital, Medical Device
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Taragenyx
Regenerating orthopedic and dental implant design to help patients heal faster with far less pain.
Founder(s): Iain McDougall, Raman Bedi
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Dental, Health Care, Medical
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Clear Surgical
Clear Surgical is an innovative product that is set to transform surgical theatres.
Founder(s): Jim McGuire
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
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Organised Health Technologies
Organised Health is a Digital Pharmacy start-up transforming healthcare and improving lives through the use of technology.
Founder(s): Nadeem Sarwar
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Mode Diagnostics
Mode Diagnostics is exploiting the electrochemical properties of biomarkers to produce novel assays for home diagnostic purposes.
Founder(s): Paul Heaney
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Medical
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ClinTec International
ClinTec International is engaged in clinical research and provides support to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries.
Founder(s): Rabinder Buttar
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Health Care, Medical Device
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Simple Online Pharmacy
Simple Online Pharmacy is an online portal that offers online doctor service, private prescriptions and healthcare products.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Wellness
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Tissue Solutions
Tissue Solutions is providing rapid access to high quality biospecimens with guaranteed ethical compliance.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Mpathy Medical Devices
Mpathy Medical Devices is develops and markets less invasive surgical devices used to restore pelvic health to women.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Health Care, Medical Device
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Kvatchii
Kvatchii is developing a truly patient-focused deep health digital platform from ground-up in India.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Health Care, Medical Device
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Nanokick Technologies
Nanokick Technologies develops a spin-out, focussing on nanovibrational bioreactor technology for bone regeneration from stem cells.
Founder(s): Gabriel Pemberton, Matt Dalby, Peter Childs, Richard Boyd, Stuart Reid
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Nanotechnology
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ToothScan
ToothScan is a revolutionary scanner offering at home dental health monitoring combined with a direct connection to your dentist.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Dental, Health Care, Medical
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Optical Express
Optical Express is a laser eye surgery provider company.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
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Wideblue
Wideblue is a full-service, multi-disciplinary product design and product development consultancy.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Consulting, Medical Device, Product Design
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Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital
Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital provides audiology, emergency medical, esthetic, health information, and financial services.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Financial Services, Health Care, Medical
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ReactivLab
ReactivLab offers animal diagnostics solutions.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Medical, Veterinary
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Alba Ultrasound
Alba Ultrasound is a world-class technology leader in the field of Ultrasonic Transducers and Arrays.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Manufacturing, Medical, Medical Device
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Target Healthcare
Target Healthcare is a pharmaceutical supplier and manufacturer generic, and unlicensed medicines to pharmacies, dispensing doctors etc.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Biopta
Biopta is the company focussed on the use of fresh functional human tissues in drug development.
Founder(s): David Bunton
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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NewMetrica
NewMetrica is a company that provides scientifically-developed instruments to measure quality of life in animals.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Medical Device
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Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre
Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (SMS-IC) enables the development of new products and services for a global market.
Founder(s): Diane Harbison
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Hospital, Medical
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Patients Direct
Patients Direct is a niche, quality RWD and clinical trials organisation.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Ohmedics
Ohmedics provides and deploys advanced diagnostic systems that are easy to use in the home or clinic.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
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Transcribe UK
Transcribe UK provides medical, legal, media, estate agent and business transcription services, along with a workflow management system.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: B2B, Medical, Outsourcing
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Polwarth Medical
Polwarth Medical is a Scottish app company dedicated to developing trusted and engaging medical apps.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Health Care, Medical, Software
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Bcerta
Bcerta provides a comprehensive range of occupational medical services and management solutions to business enterprises.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Health Care, Management Consulting, Medical
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