Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Edinburgh.
Founder and CEO of @miicard, I am a serial entrepreneur (okay a start-up junkie) with a passion for technology, startups and online identity.
Studied at @edinburgh-napier-university
http://russelldalgleish.co.uk/blog/
Previously worked for @ibm, @amazon, @lehman-brothers, @tripbod, plus 4 startups in roles from coder to CEO. BSc in Comp. Sci & Artificial Intelligence.
Founder @SpecifiedBy - Helping architectural pro's research building products online. Giving building product companies tools to engage with specifiers online.
FOUNDER.org is an investor and company building program for student entrepreneurs who are solving big problems.
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.
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
Co-founder of BRCK • Studied at @university-of-auckland • brck.com
Investing in tech and software start ups
Partner at Early Stage IT VC - @pentech-ventures; Likes pattern matching - helping folks and working/playing hard http://www.pentechvc.com
http://mikemcquaid.com
partner and investor at @murka
Oil and gas consultant and Edinburgh based investor in start-ups.
Business Development Exec passionate about new technology and companies offering innovate solutions.
Product design leader. At @ondeck-capital. Designed products with @gamechanger, Bloomberg, Tiffany, MTV and BigThink.
Founder @dronedeploy, AdvertEyes, Zoom2Work. MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning PhD @university-of-edinburgh-1 Worked @BSG.
Investor: @innovid @sisense @loyalblocks @jfrog @the-gifts-project @yedda @front @resin-1. Angelist syndicate backs top-tier Israeli tech companies.
http://yankeesabralimey.tumblr.com/
Investor and Advisor
Founder of many internet companies @potential.co.uk, carrentals.co.uk, discountvouchers.co.uk
20 angel investments in 24 months
Co-Founder & M.D of EC1 Capital an early stage web and mobile tech investment firm based in London.
http://www.julian-carter.com
Founded Actix (partial sale to Summit Partners then sold to Amdocs 2013), Fellow of IET, Entrepreneur and Investor (5 current investments)
Founder @alld-europe • Worked at @reed-elsevier, @bbdo • Investor @specom-web-solutions-athens • Studied at @city-university-of-london
Co-founder & Chief Customer Officer at Stipso; a content marketing software provider.
http://blog.stipso.com
Worked at @bank-of-america, @sierra-club • Studied at @claremont-mckenna-college, @university-of-edinburgh
CEO and co-founder of FanDuel, the leading daily fantasy sports platform. Previously with McKinsey and Flutter.com/Betfair.
Managing Director/CEO, Lingo24
Work with early stage technology companies.
Founder Adlegant • Worked at @specifiedby-1, @indra-systems • Studied at @edinburgh-napier-university, @universitat-rovira-i-virgili
http://t.co/U078duINoo
Practice Leader in Technology and Media for Largest Global Expert Network connecting investors with senior industry experts
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
Worked at @cloudsoft-corporation • Studied at @babson-college, @university-of-cambridge
http://www.davidtoy.co.uk
Founder and CEO Bright Grey; Chairman at Engage Mutual; number of advisory positions
Co-founder at @clara, entrepreneurial advisor, community analytics advisor and all around good guy!
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)
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/
Full-stack Developer @floatapp. Full of ideas, not all of them are terrible. Find me @EdTechCube trying to help others build quick prototypes.
Serial Entrepreneur, Full-Stack Developer, Startup Coach. free2goApp.com, fdbck.io - Web, Desktop & App Consultant - Studied at UT Austin & Uni of Edinburgh
CMO and Co-Founder of @reel-deal
@wheeling-jesuit-university Business Admin '13
Entrepreneur, Passionate, Creative and a Big Thinker
Entrepreneur/Angel/Director
CEO of Mallzee, the Personal Shopper in your pocket! Marketing mind and scaling enthusiast.....
Dev Evangelist. Open sourcing @BladeRunnerJS at @CaplinSystems. Realtime Web Technology consultant, blogger, co-author of @RealtimeWebApps. Formerly at @pusher.
Founder and CEO of Musemantik
Worked at @wavo-me, @bandsintown-group • Studied at @university-of-edinburgh
Xamarin Developer
http://www.bortolu.com
Portfolio Careerist at Bramwell Brown, Make it Social & Leigh Brothers @Rob_L_B
Co-founder/Director at Reserve Apartments (holiday apartment specialists) and BookParks (online booking for campsites).
Creation & Practice. Studied at @college-of-william-and-mary, @university-of-edinburgh
http://tumbles.faizsyedhussain.com
Senior UX/UI Designer/Developer
Product Designer & Web Developer
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
Co-Founder of Milq and Honey, @friendect, @bamboo-detroit, @furbr What's your 500yearplan
COO of Living Lab at @ubc. Experience as CTO and VC in tech sectors. PhD Cantab.
Founder StoreHR
PhD student in astrophysics at Edinburgh University. Oxford Graduate. Experienced with big data sets, programming and statistical techniques.
Founded Capital Softworks LTD. Developer Consultant, Speaker and Author, I can help as a technical creative, architect, manager, consultant and developer.
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
@stipso CEO and co-founder. One successful exit in the Market Research industry.
Founded Eventhread, Drum Space, Study Man. Organised Startup Weekend and TEDx events. Self-taught web developer. Graduated from the University of Glasgow.
Founder & MD of Insight Arcade
I'm a Designer by education, and a Designer/Front-end Dev by trade, and a Maker of things by Passion
PhD Student with outstanding social, marketing skills as well as business acumen.
MSC. Management & IT @ St Andrews University. Online Marketing Manager with international background, pivoting to BI. Fluent in four languages.
Digital Media in Germany, worked in London Agency sphere, moved on with own companies in London, HK and Indonesia. Vendor for agencies, idea converter.
Heriot-Watt University Ruby Enthusiast looking for work
Developer & scientist.
MSc Software Engineering (University of Oxford). Founded Hringiðan/Vortex, Darval Solutions Ltd, Þumalína ehf, Agara ehf
Founder @subbly, @pretty-klicks • Studied at @university-of-glasgow
http://www.stefanpretty.co.uk
Software Architect and Engineer at Acrossio. More than 15 years of experience in software systems architecture and design. Researcher in Distributed Computing.
I am ready to accept any kind of challege . Have got massive experience of e-commerce business.
UpstartJobs.com Founder & CEO. Electronic engineer with FPGA, mixed-signal ASIC and consumer electronics experience. I may well have worked on your smartphone.
University of Edinburgh Grad; Enthusiastic about entrepreneurship and investment in novel technologies
I'll do everything in my power and learn the rest
CS & HPC graduate, worked for startup with Haskell / parallel file systems / high performance computing.
multi lingual postgraduate student with human resources knowledge
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
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.
Liberal Democrat Gregg Mulholland has served as a member of Parliament for Leeds North West for nearly a decade.
BSc (Hons) Neuroscience; Edinburgh. Singapore Armed Forces; Training Resource Officer (2nd Lieutanent). Singapore General Hospital; publication of research.
Founder of EdExchange.co.uk, Full stack web developer experienced with Node.js, PHP and .NET. UX Obsessive
Founder and Software developer at Crewcam • Worked at @liveqos-inc • Studied at Carleton
University of Edinburgh M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, Software Developer, Machine learning, Junior Data Scientist
web engineer with background in math and AI
https://twitter.com/nehfy
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
Passionate graduate willing to work hard and become a successful developer with strong background in academic career.
Undergraduate student with completed thesis and a fair bit of experience under his belt. Love for Data Science and high-quality front- and backends.
Graduate from the University of St Andrews; degree in English & History of Art; Experience in publishing, advertising, marketing; Fluent in Portuguese & Spanish
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/
Founder ColorFlash™ from New Kinetics OÜ • Studied @university-of-aberdeen
An expert on the development and use of data analysis software to achieve business goals with 10 years industry experience.
Passionate Web GIS/Mapping Developer. Strong background is all things location based. Every product can utilise location!!
Founder dns Ltd (sold to secureworks then to Dell); MSc. in High Performance Computing.
Informatics UG with emphasis in Vision/Robotics and Natural Language Processing. Interest in Robotics, AI/Game Development, Education, and Software Development
Studied at @university-of-edinburgh
Node.js Engineer at Mallzee. Living and breathing JavaScript, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch.
http://blog.designbyro.com/#angelco
CEO of Trigah. Resident Entrepreneur in Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Former magazine editor and entertainment journalist.
http://trigah-films.tumblr.com
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
Worked at @miicard
http://pablissimo.com
Free thinker, ambitious entrepreneur, and risk taker. Techie at heart, creative in design, following the innovation and celebrating the cutting edge.
Fashion/Ramp Model. Worked at @ford-models • Studied at @edinburgh-napier-university
http://zalmanmodel.blogspot.com/
Edinburgh graduate economist, start-up enthusiast, looking for a role where I can help grow a good business.
Undergrad studying business at Edinburgh Uni. Looking for summer internship in start-up, strong passion for entrepreneurship. Skills in sales and Marketing
Founder Silicon Hub Jobs
Operations Project Manager; Worked in Email Marketing (application support) and Financial Services (Change Management).
Edinburgh Law School, looking to apply legal skills in venture capital or financial services. Strong background in Intellectual Property Law.
Medical Doctor that started a successful online e-commerce company looking for next challenge
http://www.drtomwalker.co.uk
Founder BeeFound
Scotsman in SF. Co-founder of @e2e and @KennedyMacGregor-Dennis. Hell-Bent on changingthe world
Passionate and multi-tasking professional with over 3 years of experience in digital marketing and ecommerce project management.
Luke Harte (CEO) and Co-Founder of Onyu
Undergrad at Edinburgh Uni. Interest in Functional Programming and javascript technologies
http://hamhut1066.com/notes
Software Developer
http://acairns.co.uk/
D WHY Guy of #SocialMedia & Human Behaviors | Helping #SmallBiz & #StartUp's Build Their Community of Raving Fans | Top #20 StartUp Marketing Expert to Follow
IT Engineer (@Sir Robert McAlpine) also worked with 'PeeeM' 2million+ downloads and I'm only 17.
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/
Chief Marketing Officer with International experience in strategy and execution. Passionate about learning and helping others achieve their potential.
Senior executive with background in investment management, music & tech. Looking for new projects.
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Founder of Skillstep.com. 2nd software training startup, 1st was an acclaimed top 70 company. Consulted with tech startups in UK and Australia.
✓ 7 years design experience
✓ Startup fluent
✓ Ground-up branding experience
✓ Web & UI design
✓ iOS & Android Design
✓ Icon Design
✓ HTML / CSS
✓ Print Design
Always looking for solutions before problems occur. Track record in supplier management and cost extraction. Want to play with sales next.
Argentinean freelance photographer and editor. Contributor of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Photo editor at phmuseum.com
PHP Web Developer
Over 20 years software development experience, much on trade floor.
Founder of Holoxica Ltd. Specialising in holographic 3D solutions including digital holograms and holographic displays
Founder Baking Every Corner
Contract Software Developer
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,
Interaction Designer for flights metasearch company @skyscanner. Likes nice things.
Investor in @miicard. Team member of @miicard.
Worked at @acqua-telecom
Experienced in marketing management, budget administration, writing, events and management team.
Web dev at MultiplyUk, Filmmaker, Photographer and blogger.
We are Al Arab International Investments. Experienced in Business acquisition,start-up consulting and offshore financial services in the Middle east and Asia.
Founder @industrial-new-media-ltd • Worked at @sohonet
I'm Grant McAllister a 21 year old UX Designer for Booking.com currently living in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
digital designer, front end developer, creative coder, musician, husband and father, not in that order