Edinburgh Startups List
Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Edinburgh.
John McNeill
Investor
Oil and gas consultant and Edinburgh based investor in start-ups.
Mike McQuaid
http://mikemcquaid.com
Doug Scott
Investor
Investor and Advisor
Founder of many internet companies @potential.co.uk, carrentals.co.uk, discountvouchers.co.uk
20 angel investments in 24 months
Julian Carter
Investor
Co-Founder & M.D of EC1 Capital an early stage web and mobile tech investment firm based in London.
http://www.julian-carter.com
Sandy McKinnon
Investor
Partner at Early Stage IT VC - @pentech-ventures; Likes pattern matching - helping folks and working/playing hard http://www.pentechvc.com
Shona Cotterill
Investor
Investing in tech and software start ups
James Varga
Founder and CEO of @miicard, I am a serial entrepreneur (okay a start-up junkie) with a passion for technology, startups and online identity.
Ryan O'Rorke
Founder at Flavourly • Studied at @queen-margaret-university-college • Fine foodie lover and Award winning Entrepreneur • Full time 'Chicklet' at Entrepreneurial Spark.
http://www.flavourly.com/blog
Jono Millin
Founder @dronedeploy, AdvertEyes, Zoom2Work. MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning PhD @university-of-edinburgh-1 Worked @BSG.
Gil Dibner
Investor
Investor: @innovid @sisense @loyalblocks @jfrog @the-gifts-project @yedda @front @resin-1. Angelist syndicate backs top-tier Israeli tech companies.
http://yankeesabralimey.tumblr.com/
FOUNDER.org
Investor
FOUNDER.org is an investor and company building program for student entrepreneurs who are solving big problems.
Cassie Anderson
A tech start-up marketeer with a knack for message and management. I'm working hard creating trust online with @miicard and came from HoundDog Technology.
Rob Hunter
Product design leader. At @ondeck-capital. Designed products with @gamechanger, Bloomberg, Tiffany, MTV and BigThink.
Richard Smith
Previously worked for @ibm, @amazon, @lehman-brothers, @tripbod, plus 4 startups in roles from coder to CEO. BSc in Comp. Sci & Artificial Intelligence.
Michael Donoghue
Business Development Exec passionate about new technology and companies offering innovate solutions.
Ali Jawin
Darren Lester
Founder @SpecifiedBy - Helping architectural pro's research building products online. Giving building product companies tools to engage with specifiers online.
Reg Orton
Co-founder of BRCK • Studied at @university-of-auckland • brck.com
Russell Dalgleish
Investor
Studied at @edinburgh-napier-university
http://russelldalgleish.co.uk/blog/
Max Polyakov
Investor
partner and investor at @murka
Tony Lucas
Founder at XCalibre 97-09 (hosting services exit Dec 09) Founder at Flexiant 09-Present (cloud orchestration software), Founder at Planning.TO (2014 pre-launch)
Bill Dobbie
Investor
Entrepreneur/Angel/Director
Steven Webster
Founder and CTO of @iteration-two, sold to @macromedia-adobe • Built+led new organizations at @adobe System and @microsoft • Hardware+Software+Design+Technology
http://www.stevenjwebster.com/
Donald McKendrick
Full-stack Developer @floatapp. Full of ideas, not all of them are terrible. Find me @EdTechCube trying to help others build quick prototypes.
David Robinson
Founder and CEO Bright Grey; Chairman at Engage Mutual; number of advisory positions
Stefanos Falkonakis
Investor
Founder @alld-europe • Worked at @reed-elsevier, @bbdo • Investor @specom-web-solutions-athens • Studied at @city-university-of-london
Gummi Gulla
Co-founder at @clara, entrepreneurial advisor, community analytics advisor and all around good guy!
Philip Mshelbwala
CMO and Co-Founder of @reel-deal
@wheeling-jesuit-university Business Admin '13
Entrepreneur, Passionate, Creative and a Big Thinker
Cally Russell
CEO of Mallzee, the Personal Shopper in your pocket! Marketing mind and scaling enthusiast.....
Andrew Fulton
Work with early stage technology companies.
Christian Arno
Investor
Managing Director/CEO, Lingo24
Peter Gerard
CEO & Co-Founder of @distrify. Over a decade as a film producer/director (mostly documentaries & music videos), plus 15 years developing web applications.
http://blog.distrify.com
Rob Dobson
Investor
Founded Actix (partial sale to Summit Partners then sold to Amdocs 2013), Fellow of IET, Entrepreneur and Investor (5 current investments)
Joan Figuerola Hurtado
Founder Adlegant • Worked at @specifiedby-1, @indra-systems • Studied at @edinburgh-napier-university, @universitat-rovira-i-virgili
http://t.co/U078duINoo
Sandeep Dhillon
Practice Leader in Technology and Media for Largest Global Expert Network connecting investors with senior industry experts
Nigel Eccles
CEO and co-founder of FanDuel, the leading daily fantasy sports platform. Previously with McKinsey and Flutter.com/Betfair.
Wolfgang Merkt
Serial Entrepreneur, Full-Stack Developer, Startup Coach. free2goApp.com, fdbck.io - Web, Desktop & App Consultant - Studied at UT Austin & Uni of Edinburgh
Brian Corcoran
Co-founder & Chief Customer Officer at Stipso; a content marketing software provider.
http://blog.stipso.com
Jennifer Waggoner
Worked at @bank-of-america, @sierra-club • Studied at @claremont-mckenna-college, @university-of-edinburgh
David Toy
Worked at @cloudsoft-corporation • Studied at @babson-college, @university-of-cambridge
http://www.davidtoy.co.uk
Faiz Syed Hussain
Creation & Practice. Studied at @college-of-william-and-mary, @university-of-edinburgh
http://tumbles.faizsyedhussain.com
Craig Reville
Senior UX/UI Designer/Developer
Maciej Zurawski
Founder and CEO of Musemantik
Tadas Labudis
Founded Eventhread, Drum Space, Study Man. Organised Startup Weekend and TEDx events. Self-taught web developer. Graduated from the University of Glasgow.
Callum Stuart
Co-Founder Ops & Dev @mallzee. Co-Founder @storehr. Comp Sci at @heriot-watt-university. Technical Manager Bloxx. Worked @motorola in mobile research.
http://www.mullac.net
Allan Lloyds
Founder & MD of Insight Arcade
Steven Drost
@stipso CEO and co-founder. One successful exit in the Market Research industry.
Lizzie Eardley
PhD student in astrophysics at Edinburgh University. Oxford Graduate. Experienced with big data sets, programming and statistical techniques.
Matthew Dunn
Product Designer & Web Developer
Jamie Sutherland
Founder StoreHR
Christopher de Beer
I'm a Designer by education, and a Designer/Front-end Dev by trade, and a Maker of things by Passion
Alessio Failla
Investor
Founded Capital Softworks LTD. Developer Consultant, Speaker and Author, I can help as a technical creative, architect, manager, consultant and developer.
Iain Evans
COO of Living Lab at @ubc. Experience as CTO and VC in tech sectors. PhD Cantab.
Brian Davis
Co-Founder of Milq and Honey, @friendect, @bamboo-detroit, @furbr What's your 500yearplan
Rob Leigh-Bramwell
Portfolio Careerist at Bramwell Brown, Make it Social & Leigh Brothers @Rob_L_B
Christophe MacIntosh
Worked at @wavo-me, @bandsintown-group • Studied at @university-of-edinburgh
Matteo Bortolu
Xamarin Developer
http://www.bortolu.com
Graeme Bodys
CEO & Founder nooQ, the first visual collaboration platform for business. Align customer feedback, ideas, and execute projects with 30% greater efficiency.
http://www.nooq.co/feed
Phil Leggetter
Dev Evangelist. Open sourcing @BladeRunnerJS at @CaplinSystems. Realtime Web Technology consultant, blogger, co-author of @RealtimeWebApps. Formerly at @pusher.
Gareth K Thomas
Co-founder/Director at Reserve Apartments (holiday apartment specialists) and BookParks (online booking for campsites).
Ali Kurtze
Digital Media in Germany, worked in London Agency sphere, moved on with own companies in London, HK and Indonesia. Vendor for agencies, idea converter.
Andra Roston
New to the game, looking to make a career change. Trained at Thinkful. Competent Front End Web Developer with a keen eye for clean, beautiful code and deisgn.
http://www.avictoryaday.wordpress.com, www.hangingatthefringe.wordpress.com
Marcus Kernohan
Hilary Roberts
I work for the University of Edinburgh's LAUNCH.ed programme. We launch 30 start-ups each year, and provide mentoring, seed-funding, and connections.
Jonathan Jouty
CS & HPC graduate, worked for startup with Haskell / parallel file systems / high performance computing.
Alina Strodthoff
multi lingual postgraduate student with human resources knowledge
Sasha T
University of Edinburgh Grad; Enthusiastic about entrepreneurship and investment in novel technologies
Adam Alton
Konstantinos Karasavvas
Software Architect and Engineer at Acrossio. More than 15 years of experience in software systems architecture and design. Researcher in Distributed Computing.
Stefan Pretty
Founder @subbly, @pretty-klicks • Studied at @university-of-glasgow
http://www.stefanpretty.co.uk
Minhaj Analyst
I am ready to accept any kind of challege . Have got massive experience of e-commerce business.
Sigurdur Darri Skulason
Investor
MSc Software Engineering (University of Oxford). Founded Hringiðan/Vortex, Darval Solutions Ltd, Þumalína ehf, Agara ehf
Jonathan Baillie Strong
Conner Stephen McCabe
Heriot-Watt University Ruby Enthusiast looking for work
Kieran O' Leary
UpstartJobs.com Founder & CEO. Electronic engineer with FPGA, mixed-signal ASIC and consumer electronics experience. I may well have worked on your smartphone.
Mick O'Brien
Gabriele Rossi
I'll do everything in my power and learn the rest
Mike MacNeil
PhD Student with outstanding social, marketing skills as well as business acumen.
John S
Developer & scientist.
Victor Roodhorst
MSC. Management & IT @ St Andrews University. Online Marketing Manager with international background, pivoting to BI. Fluent in four languages.
Stuart Fraser
Founder dns Ltd (sold to secureworks then to Dell); MSc. in High Performance Computing.
Gregg Mulholland
Liberal Democrat Gregg Mulholland has served as a member of Parliament for Leeds North West for nearly a decade.
Wanyi Yao
Investor
I am a fund manager at Baillie Gifford which manages over 150bn usd asset in equities. I have a personal interest in VC and angel investing outside work. I graduated from Oxford University with a maths degree. I also serve as china ambassador for Sibgular
James Shoemark
Renata Bittencourt Grasso
Graduate from the University of St Andrews; degree in English & History of Art; Experience in publishing, advertising, marketing; Fluent in Portuguese & Spanish
Lola Louise Leach
Experienced, passionate and creative 2:1 hospitality and tourism graduate from a world class hospitality mgmt. school. Pro-active customer-focused team-player.
http://lolaleach-brookes.blogspot.co.uk/
Judith Veenhuizen
Martin Alderson
Studied at @university-of-edinburgh
Matthew Bradley
Passionate Web GIS/Mapping Developer. Strong background is all things location based. Every product can utilise location!!
Gabriel West
Informatics UG with emphasis in Vision/Robotics and Natural Language Processing. Interest in Robotics, AI/Game Development, Education, and Software Development
Phil Lawrence
Founder ColorFlash™ from New Kinetics OÜ • Studied @university-of-aberdeen
Ted Wen
Desmond McNamee
Founder and Software developer at Crewcam • Worked at @liveqos-inc • Studied at Carleton
Alexandros Spathoulas
Passionate graduate willing to work hard and become a successful developer with strong background in academic career.
Ho Soo Keng
BSc (Hons) Neuroscience; Edinburgh. Singapore Armed Forces; Training Resource Officer (2nd Lieutanent). Singapore General Hospital; publication of research.
Turan Rustamli
web engineer with background in math and AI
https://twitter.com/nehfy
Fabian Reinartz
Undergraduate student with completed thesis and a fair bit of experience under his belt. Love for Data Science and high-quality front- and backends.
Nikolaos Kaltsas
University of Edinburgh M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, Software Developer, Machine learning, Junior Data Scientist
Daniel Winterstein
An expert on the development and use of data analysis software to achieve business goals with 10 years industry experience.
Chris Howard
Founder of EdExchange.co.uk, Full stack web developer experienced with Node.js, PHP and .NET. UX Obsessive
Zalman Silber
Fashion/Ramp Model. Worked at @ford-models • Studied at @edinburgh-napier-university
http://zalmanmodel.blogspot.com/
James Birchmore
Founder BeeFound
Jack Rogers
Undergrad studying business at Edinburgh Uni. Looking for summer internship in start-up, strong passion for entrepreneurship. Skills in sales and Marketing
Ro Ramtohul
Node.js Engineer at Mallzee. Living and breathing JavaScript, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch.
http://blog.designbyro.com/#angelco
Paul O'Neill
Worked at @miicard
http://pablissimo.com
Sarah Killarney-Ryan
Edinburgh graduate economist, start-up enthusiast, looking for a role where I can help grow a good business.
Victoria Thomas
CEO of Trigah. Resident Entrepreneur in Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Former magazine editor and entertainment journalist.
http://trigah-films.tumblr.com
Anouar Haidary
Founder Silicon Hub Jobs
Catriona Cory
Operations Project Manager; Worked in Email Marketing (application support) and Financial Services (Change Management).
Tom Walker
Medical Doctor that started a successful online e-commerce company looking for next challenge
http://www.drtomwalker.co.uk
Luke Harte
Luke Harte (CEO) and Co-Founder of Onyu
Clément SIMONNEAU
Passionate and multi-tasking professional with over 3 years of experience in digital marketing and ecommerce project management.
Ilana Wetzler
Alex Kennedy
Scotsman in SF. Co-founder of @e2e and @KennedyMacGregor-Dennis. Hell-Bent on changingthe world
Naglis Vy
Chase Stevens
CogSci undergrad at Edinburgh University. Working at Skyscanner. Interested in AI (esp. NLP, machine vision), extracting semantics from the web, and dev tools.
http://blog.chasestevens.com
Hamish Hutchings
Undergrad at Edinburgh Uni. Interest in Functional Programming and javascript technologies
http://hamhut1066.com/notes
Faith Ainembabazi
Casey Wan
Edinburgh Law School, looking to apply legal skills in venture capital or financial services. Strong background in Intellectual Property Law.
Arthur Zubkoff
Free thinker, ambitious entrepreneur, and risk taker. Techie at heart, creative in design, following the innovation and celebrating the cutting edge.
Marek Dvorak
UI/UX in Tripomatic.com and Whichairline.com. 2 my own software startups. Freelance for 50+ big clients. Travel addict and pixel perfect lover.
http://hipstacowboys.com/
Hamish
Jason Dawes
Chief Marketing Officer with International experience in strategy and execution. Passionate about learning and helping others achieve their potential.
Tania Nishat-Botero
Alejandro Kirchuk
Argentinean freelance photographer and editor. Contributor of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Photo editor at phmuseum.com
Ryan McLean
IT Engineer (@Sir Robert McAlpine) also worked with 'PeeeM' 2million+ downloads and I'm only 17.
Alexander Macdonald
Ryan Falconer
Founder of Skillstep.com. 2nd software training startup, 1st was an acclaimed top 70 company. Consulted with tech startups in UK and Australia.
Lee Parry
Always looking for solutions before problems occur. Track record in supplier management and cost extraction. Want to play with sales next.
Grant Thompson
Benjamin Brown
✓ 7 years design experience
✓ Startup fluent
✓ Ground-up branding experience
✓ Web & UI design
✓ iOS & Android Design
✓ Icon Design
✓ HTML / CSS
✓ Print Design
darren gordon
Shahida Imani
Gavin Wong
Calum Robertson
Jordan Marland
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Andrew Cairns
Software Developer
http://acairns.co.uk/
David Murray
Senior executive with background in investment management, music & tech. Looking for new projects.
Samantha M
Konrad W. Gorak
D WHY Guy of #SocialMedia & Human Behaviors | Helping #SmallBiz & #StartUp's Build Their Community of Raving Fans | Top #20 StartUp Marketing Expert to Follow
James Langdale Brown
Over 20 years software development experience, much on trade floor.
Russell Barnard
PHP Web Developer
Andreia Rodrigues
Worked at @acqua-telecom
Experienced in marketing management, budget administration, writing, events and management team.
Craig
Interaction Designer for flights metasearch company @skyscanner. Likes nice things.
José Clímaco Pereira
Web dev at MultiplyUk, Filmmaker, Photographer and blogger.
Duncan Beattie
digital designer, front end developer, creative coder, musician, husband and father, not in that order
David Ball
Investor in @miicard. Team member of @miicard.
Robert Malone
Sam Mayers
Martin Stan
Kirk J. Torrance
Founder @industrial-new-media-ltd • Worked at @sohonet
Javid Khan
Founder of Holoxica Ltd. Specialising in holographic 3D solutions including digital holograms and holographic displays
Chris Marks
Founder Baking Every Corner
JP Larsson
Richard Bogle
Contract Software Developer
Chris Gillan
A Vodka with a Mission!
Heroes Vodka was founded by a UK Veteran for the purpose of providing an alternative revenue stream for Forces & Veterans Causes,
Grant McAllister
I'm Grant McAllister a 21 year old UX Designer for Booking.com currently living in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Giacomo Ferraresso
Said Mohammad Khan
Investor
We are Al Arab International Investments. Experienced in Business acquisition,start-up consulting and offshore financial services in the Middle east and Asia.