Best Startup Scotland
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 74 Business Development companies in Scotland. 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 Business Development Companies & Startups (Scotland)
CelluComp
CelluComp is a material science company developing high performance products based on sustainable resources.
Founder(s): David Hepworth, Eric Whale
Location: Burntisland, Fife, United Kingdom
Industries: Advanced Materials, Apps, Business Development, Manufacturing, Product Research
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Pastdue Credit Solutions
Pastdue Credit Solutions are reputation based solutions providing firm for energy, water, telecoms and financial service providers.
Founder(s): Caroline Grant
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Debt Collections, Financial Services, Outsourcing
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Highbeam
Highbeam is a fintech company that offers an online platform for ecommerce originators to comprehend, invest, and expand businesses.
Founder(s):
Location: Newyork, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, FinTech, Information Services, Online Portals
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S C P
SCP Distributor is part of a distribution network leading the way as the largest wholesale distributor of swimming pool supplies worldwide.
Founder(s): Frank J. St. Romain, Louisiana native
Location: Covington, South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Construction, Professional Services, Service Industry, Swimming, Wholesale
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Scottish Development International
Scottish Development International supports inward investment to Scotland.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, Government
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Zinc Group
Zinc Group is credit control, recoveries management & business process outsourcing company that operates in both the B2B & B2C markets.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: B2B, Business Development
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AyMa IoT
AyMa IoT providing intelligent solutions that enable organizations to work towards a net-zero carbon footprint.
Founder(s):
Location: Dundee, Dundee City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Information Technology, Software, Web Development
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H&A
H&A are a team of creatives that use design thinking to provide innovative and effective solutions to the challenges clients bring us.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Marketing, Personal Branding
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E-max Systems
E-max Systems is a lexible and designed ERP syatems manufacturing company located in Glasgow.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Manufacturing, Software
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60mo
60mo develops tools for forecasting and analyzing businesses’ finance, HR and shareholder data.
Founder(s): Ed Buchholz, John Siladie, Keith Kauffman
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Accounting, Business Development, Finance, Software, Web Development
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Energy Link
Energy Link offers risk management strategy, price forecasting and financial support services to the electricity and gas industry.
Founder(s):
Location: Perth, Perth and Kinross, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Energy, Oil and Gas, Risk Management
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HedgeSync
An interactive database featuring hedge funds, CTAs, venture capital funds, private equity funds, private debt and more…
Founder(s): Mel Sutton
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Hedge Funds, Social Media, Venture Capital
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AquaTerra
AquaTerra focuses on construction and engineering, technical rigging and lifting, fabric maintenance, access solutions and services.
Founder(s):
Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Construction, Environmental Engineering
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Layer Systems
Layer Systems is a leading CRM provider for telecoms & IT companies. Whether you’re looking to grow your business, consolidate disparate systems or implement process automation, their software, The Layer, will simplify the process through six business-critical modules.
Founder(s): Michelle Livingstone and Nick Kewney
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, CRM, Software
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Remarkable
Remarkable is specialize in business advisory, consultancy, leadership and organizational development.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Impact Investing
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Dundas Global Investors
Dundas Global Investors focuses on global equity portfolios, business, and asset management for developed and emerging markets.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Asset Management, Business Development, Financial Services
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Howat Capital
Howat Capital offers a wide range of financial services like equity capital, funding, investment, consulting and management.
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Location: Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Consulting, Finance, Financial Services, Wealth Management
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SageCity
SageCity develops tools that are needed to run business operations easily, efficiently, and at as low a cost as possible.
Founder(s): Adam Greenberg, Thomas Sichel
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Blockchain, Business Development, Enterprise, Information Technology, Productivity Tools, Supply Chain Management
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LWJ & Co
LWJ & Co is an accountant and tax advisers that provide services like inhouse accountancy, tax planning, account management, business plan.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Accounting, Business Development, Financial Services
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Compliance First
Compliance First is a supplier of compliance and business support services to financial advisers.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, Service Industry
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Limetree Consultancy
LimeTree is a Consulting Agency that Provides Marketing & Business Consultancy Services to SME’s.
Founder(s):
Location: Perth, Perth and Kinross, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Consulting, Marketing
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Blyth Consultancy
Blyth Consultancy Ltd build strong relations with clients team & quickly get up to speed with clients commercial and operational challenges.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Consulting, Human Resources
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Donation Envelopes
Donation Envelopes is a leading manufacturer and supplier of church offering envelopes, gift Aid envelopes and supplementary stationery.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Manufacturing, Printing
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Green Fulfilment
Green Fulfilment provides order fulfillment services for businesses.
Founder(s): Cain Fleming, Rukhsar Ahmed
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Delivery Service, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
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Fife Council
Fife Council is committed to making the Kingdom a great place to do business.
Founder(s):
Location: Glenrothes, Fife, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Education, Government, Professional Services, Residential
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Heating Appliances and Spares
Heating Appliances and Spares is a distributors of heating and ventilation equipment.
Founder(s):
Location: Livingston, West Lothian, United Kingdom
Industries: Architecture, Automotive, Building Material, Business Development, Consulting, Developer Tools, Product Design, Service Industry
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Repsol Sinopec Resources
Repsol Sinopec Resources is a global oil and energy exploration firm that develops and provides products for global companies.
Founder(s):
Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Energy, Oil and Gas
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Migill Software
Migill Software design, development, and consulting for software.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Consulting, Graphic Design, Information Technology, Software
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ModeAudio
ModeAudio is a music studio that is engaged in sound design, field recordings packs, and music production.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Audio, Business Development, Music, Music Label
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Mind One Digital
Mind One Digital Limited is a personal development company, located in Edinburgh.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Digital Marketing, Professional Services
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Hannon Westwood
Hannon Westwood delivers strategic business development projects to the oil and gas industry, spanning E&A, field production.
Founder(s): Charles Westwood
Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Business Information Systems, Business Intelligence
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CharityBee
We identify the best products and services for 3rd sector organisations are able to identify the best products and services for your needs
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Commercial Insurance, Health Insurance, Human Resources, Insurance
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DB Group
DB Group provides procurement, management, and business solutions for the energy, environment, communication, and water sector.
Founder(s):
Location: Linlithgow, West Lothian, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Consulting, Procurement, VoIP
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Onestop IT
Onestop provides IT support services in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Scotland: tech support, IT solutions, and IT strategy consulting for businesses
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Consulting, Information Technology
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The Rubicon Partnership
The Rubicon is an executive coaching firm that employs coaching methodologies to assist Senior Executives in growing their businesses.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Consulting, Training
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Lux
LUX is an award-winning, full service agency, comprised of strategists and creatives.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Advertising, Brand Marketing, Business Development
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Tayside Virtual Assistant
Tayside Virtual Assistant Provides Virtual Assistant Services like Admin Support, Social Media Management, And Secretarial Services
Founder(s):
Location: Coupar Angus, Perth and Kinross, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Social Media Management, Virtual Assistant
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Purpose HR
Purpose HR provides HR support services.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Human Resources
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The Moffat Centre
Moffat Centre provides consultancy and research services in the areas of tourism and travel.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Consulting, Tourism, Travel
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Workstreme
Workstreme is a cloud application that offers easily harvest business-centric information from multiple devices directly at the source.
Founder(s): Steve Forsyth
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Information Technology, Real Time
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Anderson Anderson & Brown Consulting
Anderson Anderson & Brown Consulting offers business development services.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Management Consulting
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Bridge Industrial Supplies
Bridge is a leading, established single source supply company based in Aberdeen.
Founder(s):
Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Energy, Marketing, Oil and Gas
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B-Able
B-Able is an accountant and business support service company.
Founder(s):
Location: Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Accounting, Business Development
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Chris Hart Business Sales
Chris Hart Business Sales is a business transfer agent company located in Glasgow.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Customer Service, Local Business
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Initialize IT
Initialize IT is a company that Offering service from IT consultancy to Mobility solutions everything in between.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Consulting, Information Technology
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Walker Dunnett & Co
Walker Dunnett & Co render accounting, consulting, business development, compliance, business startup, financial and taxation services.
Founder(s):
Location: Dundee, Dundee City, United Kingdom
Industries: Accounting, Business Development, Compliance, Consulting, Financial Services
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COGENT FOCUS LIMITED
COGENT FOCUS LIMITED is a company that specializes in bussiness application and secure data.services.
Founder(s):
Location: Dundee, Dundee City, United Kingdom
Industries: Apps, Business Development, Database, Software
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PMB Taxation
PMB Taxation an independent firm of tax consultants & business advisors offer the best professional services available to our growing.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Accounting, Business Development
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Quality Scotland
Quality Scotland is a nonprofit firm that offers training, facilitation and guidance to improve productivity & achieve business excellence.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Non Profit, Training
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Nexus Business Space
Nexus is a office space provider offering bright, uplifting & highly professional work space with all the facilities & support required.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development
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Fraktul
Fraktul provides specialist marketing support and services for both SMEs and major organizations & works with finite budgets.
Founder(s):
Location: Perth, Perth and Kinross, United Kingdom
Industries: Advertising, Business Development, Marketing
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Blake Stevenson
Blake Stevenson specializes in social research & organizational development.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Professional Services, Social
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Webbusterz Engineering
WeBBusterZ Engineering develops complete solutions, mobile applications at an affordable price to make business useful and cost effective.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Mobile Apps, Software
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Stewart Timber 2012
Stewart Timber 2012 is a timber merchant serving central Scotland with their gardens timber needs.
Founder(s):
Location: Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Timber
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Jeden
Jeden is a construction company.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Architecture, Business Development, Construction
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claro print
Claroprint is a Online print shop providing everything to business needs.
Founder(s):
Location: Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Printing, Service Industry
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James Law Research Associates
James Law Research Associates is a highly experienced research professional & has been offering personal consultancy & project management.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Market Research, Marketing
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Thermal Image UK
Thermal Image UK specialises in thermal imaging and air tightness testing.
Founder(s):
Location: Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Aerospace, Business Development
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Capital Document Solution
Capital document solution is Scotland’s largest independent supplier of printers, photocopiers, office equipment, and document solution.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Information Technology, Software
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FinanceHeads
FinanceHeads provides business and financial management, decision making, market awareness, support, and advisory services.
Founder(s):
Location: Crookham, West Lothian, United Kingdom
Industries: Advice, Business Development, Financial Services
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Yuva Consultants
Yuva Consultants is a management consulting firm that offers marketing and business services.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Management Consulting, Marketing
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80/37 Solutions
80/37 Solutions is a consulting firm that focuses on FMCG sector and specialises in services like consultation, sales solutions, and others.
Founder(s):
Location: Dundee, Dundee City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Consulting, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
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Pod Creative
Pod Creative is a creative agency that specializes in brand identity and development, photography, POS, signage and website design.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Advertising, Business Development, Web Design
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Barnhill
Barnhill provides coaching, training, consulting, information, business, and professional development services.
Founder(s):
Location: Barrhill, South Ayrshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Consulting, Training
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Brighter Consultancy
Brighter Consultancy is a management consulting firm providing business consulting and advisory services for business transformation.
Founder(s): Dean Manning
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Advice, Artificial Intelligence, Business Development, CRM, Management Consulting, Software
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DSL Business Finance
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Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services
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Primo Associates Ltd
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Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development
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Scottish Security & Fire Systems
Scottish Security & Fire Systems is specialist in the security & fire industry who provides a modern, reliable service.
Founder(s):
Location: Kirkcaldy, Fife, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Electronics, Security
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Xtra Pair of Hands
Helping small business owners achieve manage growth and success by delivering and advising on creative marketing and business strategies
Founder(s): Sofia Middleton
Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Consulting, Marketing, Public Relations, Small and Medium Businesses, Sponsorship
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2112 Leaflet Distribution
2112 Leaflet Distribution provide leaflets design, printing, and distribution campaign services to promote business for various industries.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Graphic Design, Printing, Small and Medium Businesses
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First Zipper UK
First Zipper UK is a company that provides excellent advertising products and services for printing & engraving.
Founder(s):
Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, United Kingdom
Industries: 3D Printing, Advertising, Business Development, Printing
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Pixel Sword
Pixel Sword is games development business focusing on quirky arcade titles that mix in classic gameplay mechanics with modern concepts.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development
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Wordpicturestory
WordPictureStory’s graphic design, award-winning print, video and environmental design solutions.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Business Development, Graphic Design, Packaging Services
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BRS Interactive
BRS Interactive is an Internet Media Company.
Founder(s):
Location: Livingston, West Lothian, United Kingdom
Industries: Advice, Business Development, Consulting
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