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 87 Art 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 Art Companies & Startups (Scotland)
Sharktower AI
Sharktower AI is a data and AI software company aimed to transform how businesses deliver change using our AI project management platform
Founder(s): Craig Mackay, Lynsey Taylor
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Project Management, SaaS, Software
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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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Bird.i
Bird.i provides access to the latest, up to date satellite imagery, helping you obtain valuable insights & make better business decisions.
Founder(s): Corentin Guillo
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Geospatial, Software
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Net AI
Net AI is a network intelligence company that specializes in AI-driven mobile traffic analytics.
Founder(s): Marco Fiore, Mark Chapman, Paul Patras
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Telecommunications
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gravityAI
A Two-Sided Marketplace for AI Models.
Founder(s): Daniel Huss, Jon Huss
Location: Newyork, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Marketplace, Software
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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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NCTech
NCTech is a big data and analytics provider. Pioneering edge-to-cloud big data capture & provision with ML/AI for Google, government & AEC
Founder(s): Cameron Ure, Neil Tocher
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: 3D Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Machine Learning, Open Source, Service Industry, Smart Cities, Virtual Reality
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Brainnwave
Brainnwave provides the platform and expertise that enables you to enrich and analyse your data, making it usable and profitable.
Founder(s): Graham Jones, Steven Coates
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics
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Aveni
Aveni is a driving automation and insight direct from the voice across regulated industries.
Founder(s): Alexandra Birch, Barry Haddow, Jamie Hunter, Joseph Twigg, Mark Caulfield
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Call Center, Financial Services, Information Technology, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Software, Speech Recognition
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Aveni
Aveni is a driving automation and insight direct from the voice across regulated industries.
Founder(s): Alexandra Birch, Barry Haddow, Jamie Hunter, Joseph Twigg, Mark Caulfield
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Call Center, Financial Services, Information Technology, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Software, Speech Recognition
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Coastr
Coastr provides car rentals to establish trust & customer delight by small car hire agencies using an AI driven marketplace platform.
Founder(s): Biswajit Kundu Roy
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Auto Insurance, Car Sharing, Software, Travel
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Gigged.AI
Gigged.AI is a innovative digital talent sourcing and on-boarding platform.
Founder(s): Craig Short, Rich Wilson
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Software
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National Robotarium
National Robotarium is a world-leading centre for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, creating innovative solutions to global challenges.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
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Continuum Industries
Developers of an AI-powered tool for engineers to design better infrastructure. Accelerates design by 40% and reduces total cost by 10%.
Founder(s): Emil Hansen, Grzegorz Marecki, Matt Blythe
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
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Global Surface Intelligence Ltd.
Global Surface Intelligence is an Edinburgh-based earth observation and artificial-intelligence-as-a-service provider
Founder(s): Matt Tyburski, Nigel Douglas
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Geospatial, Information Services, Information Technology, Machine Learning, Natural Resources
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Codeplay Software
Enabling AI to be Open, Safe and Accessible to All
Founder(s): Andrew Richards
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning, Software
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Orca Hub
Orca Hub is a revolutionising Asset Integrity Management in the offshore energy sector.
Founder(s): David Lane
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Energy, Market Research, Robotics
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Level E Research
Level E Research is a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) investment solutions.
Founder(s): Sonia Schulenburg
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, FinTech, Machine Learning
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Bellrock Technology
Bellrock Technology is a high-tech software company.
Founder(s): Adam Brown, Stephen McArthur
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Electronics, Information Technology, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Software
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Clear Returns
Clear Returns is predictive analytics technology helping enterprise retailers protect profits by tackling returns.
Founder(s): Vicky Brock
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
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Neurolabs
Synthetic Computer Vision
Founder(s): Paul Pop, Remus Pop, Patric Fulop.
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Retail Technology, Software
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Crossing35
Crossing35 is a Scotland based startup building an AI enabled platform to help CEOs tap global markets and find potential business partners.
Founder(s): Nara Kaveripatnam
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
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Akari
Akari, they strive to inspire change with inventive and creative technologies to further enable people’s experiences.
Founder(s): Margaret Totten, Lindsay Climson, Kim Totten, Natalie Bell
Location: Glasgow, City of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Information Services, Information Technology
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Kythera AI
Kythera is a next-generation AI middleware, dedicated to delivering new gaming experiences through innovative and empowering features.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence
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Pasabi
AI technology solutions to detect and prevent the proliferation of counterfeit goods and fake reviews online.
Founder(s): Chris Downie, Martin Spinks
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Reviews, Cyber Security, E-Commerce, Retail Technology, Social Media
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Danu Robotics
Danu Robotics is an artificial intelligence and robotic solutions for the recycling and waste management industry.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Recycling, Waste Management
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The Works
The Works is a retailer of discounted and remaindered books and also sells art materials, gifts, stationery, and DVDs.
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Location: Coleshill, South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Leisure, Marketing, Retail, Toys
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Moment One
Moment One is a digital behavioral health platform that helps in tackling mental health wellbeing issues by building self-awareness.
Founder(s): Naish Yadav
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, mHealth, Wellness
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Airts
Airts is a software company on a mission to bring the benefits of advanced ai technology from academia into industry.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
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Anomalous
Artificial intelligence for manufacturing quality control
Founder(s): Euan Wielewski, Matt Davies
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance
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My Customer Lens
Award-winning real-time customer listening platform, using AI to future-proof firms that compete on experience
Founder(s): Mike Evans, Paul Roberts
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Market Research, Natural Language Processing, SaaS, Software, Text Analytics
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UrbanTide Limited
Our USMART software delivers Rapid Artificial Intelligence for Smart Cities. We are on a mission to dominate the Smart Cities AI Market.
Founder(s): Steven Revill
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Machine Learning, Software
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Unlisted Ltd
Real-time AI-powered company valuations
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
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Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh International Festival is a non-profit organization that renders performing arts, music, theatre, charity, and support services.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Charity, Music, Non Profit, Performing Arts, Theatre
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PVLSE
The platform for monetising your passion and skills
Founder(s): Maria Rybak
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Communities, Fitness, Lifestyle, Sharing Economy, Software, Sports
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The European Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit
The European Chatbot and Conversational AI Summit helps in Acceleration Conversational AI in European Market. #chatbot #conversationalai
Founder(s): Sydney Eneremadu
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Events, Information Technology, Machine Learning
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Tiro
Tiro is an intelligent voice-assisted tool for creating meeting notes.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Assistant
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Helpa
Your Personal Assistant – Everyones Little Helpa
Founder(s): Gihan Munasinghe, Tony Lucas
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources
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National Museum Scotland
National Museums Scotland looks after regional and global collection, collecting, explaining, and making them accessible to the public.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Charity, Museums and Historical Sites
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Vivolution
Vivolution empowers the growth of emerging technology businesses with an emphasis on digital health, AI, ML and IoT solutions.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Management Consulting, Product Design
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Semiwise
Semiwise offer low power CMOS technology IP that has the potential to revolutionise the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Internet of Things
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Wee Jobs
Emotional Intelligence Recruitment Platform
Founder(s): Naish Yadav
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, Information Technology, Recruiting
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Quorate Technology
Quorate Technology provides highly qualified experts in speech recognition, natural language processing and software engineering.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
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Macrobert Arts Centre
Macrobert Arts Centre is a cultural hub for Stirling, the Forth Valley and Scotland, making active connections with people.
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Location: Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Museums and Historical Sites, Professional Services
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The List
The List is an online portal that provides information regarding arts, entertainment and festivals.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Media and Entertainment, Music, Online Portals
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Aberdeen Performing Arts
Aberdeen Performing Arts mission is to create a spark. Aberdeen Performing Arts is a vibrant, cultural hub at the heart of city life.
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Location: Ellon, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Parking, Real Estate
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Forth Point
Forth Point is a business intelligence firm that provides machine learning, cloud engineering, and data science visualization services.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Professional Services
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Tangent Graphic
Tangent is a group of designers and developers who set up branding structures for cultural bodies, big events & industry start-ups.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Architecture, Art
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Summerhall
Summerhall is a multi-arts venue that presents theatre, music, film, literature, visual art, and performance.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Music, Theatre
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Visible Fictions
Visible Fictions offers lively, high-quality, and accessible theatre for young people and adults alike.
Founder(s): Dougie Irvine
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Performing Arts, Theatre
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Dhiyantra Limited
Dhiyantra a conversational & commerce company developing products & services intersection messenger apps, chatbots, artficial intelligence.
Founder(s): Diwakar Thakore, Srini Janarthanam
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet, Machine Learning
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Numonday
Numonday is an online platform for makers and artists to sell their work from.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Online Portals
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Eden Court
Eden Court is Scotland’s single-site arts venue: 2x theatres, 2x cinemas, 2x studios, 3x galleries in a building spanning 3x centuries.
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Location: Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment, Performing Arts, Social Media, Theatre
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Angel Guard
Angel Guard is a biotechnology research company.
Founder(s): Jonathan Waggott and Elaine Waggott
Location: East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Industrial, Manufacturing
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Tron Theatre
Tron Theatre has been a major player in Glasgow’s cultural scene.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Education, Non Profit, Performing Arts
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Decision Point AI™ UK
Professional services consulting for key decision making solutions
Founder(s): Karl A L Smith
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Information Technology, Predictive Analytics, Software
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Prime Event Management
PRime Event Management offers private parties, event, & wedding exhibitions with corporate activities, will take care of all the event need.
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Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Events
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La Belle Angele
La Belle Angele is a music & clubbing agency that deals in dance club & nightclub services.
Founder(s): Hafid Mahboub
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Music, Performing Arts
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IberoDocs
IberoDocs showcases documentary films by Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin- American filmmakers.
Founder(s): Mar Felices
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Events, Film
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Epistemy
Epistemy is start up company looking to revolutionise assisted history matching and uncertainty quantification in the oil industry.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Software, Machine Learning, Oil and Gas, Software
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Tech Mavens
Recruiter, Recruitment, Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, IoT
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Staffing Agency
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Scottish Event Campus
Scottish Event Campus operates as a venue for public events, concerts and conferences.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Events, Hospitality, Performing Arts
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Scottish Opera
Scottish Opera is an NGO that offers performing arts education, communities, private and commercial support services.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Communities, Non Profit, Performing Arts
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Scottish Chamber Orchestra is one of Scotland’s five National Performing Arts Companies.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Consulting, Performing Arts
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Photogold photography and videos
Photogold Photography is an photography studio specializing in product photography, aerial photography and HDR photography.
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Location: Falkirk, Falkirk, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, E-Commerce, Web Design
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Auraventi
Auraventi develop and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning and artificial intelligence technology to deliver very accurate forecasts.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
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Total Chatbots
Total Chatbots is an AI chatbot design and development company.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Messaging, Mobile Apps, Web Design
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National Theatre of Scotland
National Theatre of Scotland is a theater company of Scotland.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Media and Entertainment, Performing Arts, Theatre
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Houselore
Houselore is an art and antiques gallery.
Founder(s): Alexandra Jones
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Photo Sharing, Professional Services
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Impact Arts
Impact Arts is a community arts charity organization.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Internet, Media and Entertainment, Non Profit
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Falkrik Community Trust
Falkirk is a company limited by guarantee with charitable status and was established by Falkirk Council.
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Location: Falkirk, Falkirk, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Communities, Non Profit, Recreation, Sports
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Human Resources Intelligence
Human Resources Intelligence is a software company that offers artificial intelligence solutions to improve automation processes for firms.
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Location: Broughty Ferry, Dundee City, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Software
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Creative Carbon Scotland
Creative Carbon Scotland is a nonprofit organization devoted to assisting and creating a culture in Scotland’s pursuit of sustainability.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Environmental Consulting, Non Profit
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Scottish National Jazz Orchestra
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra is Europe’s contemporary band that promotes jazz as a pre-eminent art.
Founder(s): Tommy Smith
Location: Lanark, South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Media and Entertainment, Non Profit
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Culture NL
Culture NL offers entertainment, arts, festivals, exhibitions, libraries, museums and catering services.
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Location: Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Communities, Media and Entertainment, Museums and Historical Sites
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Scottish Ballet
Scottish Ballet is Scotland’s national dance company with an aim to move people by sharing their passion and creating exceptional dance.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Performing Arts
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Edinburgh Royal Choral Union
Edinburgh Royal Choral Union is a choral organization that organizes and promotes diverse musical programs and performances.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Event Management, Music, Non Profit, Performing Arts
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Risotto
Risotto is a risograph print and design studio.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Printing
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Barclay’s Beats
They supply funky DJs and groovy live music for parties and events throughout Scotland and the north of England.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Digital Entertainment, Music
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O2 Academy
O2 Academy provides services such as event planning, production, marketing and promotional services.
Founder(s):
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Event Management, Performing Arts
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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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Project Ability
Project Ability is a visual arts organization that provides programs, workshops, and events for mentally ill-health and disabled people.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Charity, Events, Health Care
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Wizlemon Studio
Wizlemon is a Graphic Art & Design studio that offers graphic products designed to totally enhance & promote its clients’ projects.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Graphic Design, Packaging Services
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Active Inquiry
An arts company based in Leith, Edinburgh committed to creating exciting new theatre and arts projects with and for communities.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Communities, Theatre
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Peacock Visual Arts
Peacock Visual Arts provides access and support for artists, makers, businesses, schools, students and the public.
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Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, United Kingdom
Industries: Art, Printing
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