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