69 Best Startups in Scotland to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Startups in Scotland

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 176 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $3.0b. The average funding per company in this subset is $43.3m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Funding Rounds

$214.0m

Money raised

ScienceLogic is an IT Operations Management company providing IT infrastructure monitoring and AIOps solutions for hybrid cloud management.

10

Funding Rounds

$794.5m

Money raised

Addepar is a leading provider of technology for the wealth management industry. The company's performance reporting and analytics platform aggregates portfolio, market, and client data all in one place. It provides asset owners and advisors a clearer financial picture at every level, allowing them to make more informed and timely investment decisions. Addepar works with leading financial advisors, family offices, and large financial institutions that manage over $1.3 trillion of assets on the company's platform. In 2018, Addepar was named as a Forbes Fintech 50 and received Morgan Stanley's Fintech Award for making significant impact to the firm's mission of continuous innovation. Addepar is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has offices in New York, New York City, Chicago, Illinois, and Salt Lake City.

2

Funding Rounds

$6.8m

Money raised

Alba Orbital Limited is a Glasgow-based company that builds and designs small commercial satellite platforms.

3

Funding Rounds

$29.7m

Money raised

3F BIO is a biotechnology company developing and commercializing sustainable proteins, bioethanol and animal food production technologies. Jim Laird founded 3F Bio at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland in 2015.

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Funding Rounds

$38.8m

Money raised

A software company offering a mobile application for managing tax-free 529 education saving plans.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

Net AI is an Edinburgh-based virtual network management company using artificial intelligence for network monitoring.

2

Funding Rounds

$124.0m

Money raised

BrewDog is a multinational brewery producing different varieties of bottled and canned beers.

11

Funding Rounds

$98.6m

Money raised

snap40 is a company founded in 2015 by Christopher McCann.

2

Funding Rounds

$145.0m

Money raised

Paysend is a United Kingdom-based financial technology payments company.

11

Funding Rounds

$7.1m

Money raised

My1login is a company founded in 2007 by Michael Newman.

8

Funding Rounds

$84.5m

Money raised

Mogrify is developing tailored cellular conversions that power future cell therapies.

5

Funding Rounds

$52.2m

Money raised

Arria NLG is a London-based natural language generation company offering artificial intelligence-based text generation in data analytics and information delivery.

1

Funding Rounds

$12.5m

Money raised

Clinical Research & Services

2

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Macomics is an Edinburgh-based immuno-oncology company.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.5m

Money raised

Edinburgh Molecular Imaging Limited is an Edinburgh-based developer of optical molecular imaging technology.

4

Funding Rounds

$241.9m

Money raised

Asklepios Biopharmaceutical is a company in North Carolina.

6

Funding Rounds

$143.7m

Money raised

Manufacturer of small and medium-sized rockets and orbital service provider.

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5

Funding Rounds

$72.0m

Money raised

Kaiam Corporation develops and manufactures photonic integrated circuits, optical transceivers and other optoelectronic equipment.

4

Funding Rounds

$140.3m

Money raised

Software offering autonomous speech and voice recognition for live and recorded media.

2

Funding Rounds

$48.0m

Money raised

Daring Foods is a company making plant-based chicken products founded in 2018 by Ross Mackay.

4

Funding Rounds

$18.4m

Money raised

Cell analysis technology provider.

4

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

SaaS-based solution for small businesses to forecast short and long-term cash flow in real-time.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

Brainvectis is a biotechnology company developing treatments for neurodegenerative diseases through restoring cholesterol metabolism in the brain.

1

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

Icims is the leading provider of ats applicant tracking systems and hr recruiting software.

7

Funding Rounds

$90.2m

Money raised

EnteroBiotix is a fecal microbiota transplantation founded in 2017 by James McIlroy.

6

Funding Rounds

$46.8m

Money raised

Verimatrix is a San Diego-based software company developing content security, authentication, watermarking, and cybersecurity solutions.

4

Funding Rounds

$38.0m

Money raised

Artificial intelligence platform that predicts invoice payment decisions.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

A company offering launch services capable of delivering small satellites into orbit

4

Funding Rounds

$13.9m

Money raised

M Squared Lasers explores, develops and manufactures next-generation lasers and photonic instruments that bring new capabilities, higher reliability and greater ease of use to a diverse range of industrial and scientific applications. The core team ...

4

Funding Rounds

$11.1m

Money raised

Optoscribe Limited uses laser direct-write technology to manufacture glass-based 3D photonic integrated circuits for the telecommunications and data communications markets.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.7m

Money raised

Neurolabs enables developers to build image recognition algorithms without expert knowledge, by using synthetic data.

4

Funding Rounds

$10.7m

Money raised

Online platform offering accounting and money management software for small businesses and freelancers.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.3m

Money raised

Platform allowing merchants to control their entire payment process.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

Platform helping businesses onboard customers using Open Bank data to address credit risk and affordability issues.

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6

Funding Rounds

$58.5m

Money raised

Reliant Technologies, LLC. develops and sells non-surgical laser systems.

9

Funding Rounds

$5.6m

Money raised

Global Surface Intelligence Ltd. is an earth observation and artificial intelligence provider founded by Nigel Douglas.

4

Funding Rounds

$19.3m

Money raised

TestCard is the innovative medtech behind the 'urine test-in-a-postcard' concept. Its accompanying mobile app provides an immediate result.

4

Funding Rounds

$21.9m

Money raised

Multiomic spectral analysis (MOSA-Dx™) platform for early detection of solid tumour cancers.

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4

Funding Rounds

$12.3m

Money raised

Synpromics Ltd is a Edinburgh-based company founded in 2010 by Michael Roberts.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.3m

Money raised

uFraction8 is a microfluidics-based filtration systems provider for bio-manufacturers founded in 2017 by Brian Miller.

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2

Funding Rounds

$34.5m

Money raised

DYSIS Medical is focused on developing imaging systems for the non-invasive, in-vivo detection of cancerous and pre-cancerous lesions.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.7m

Money raised

Mraketing automation tool to streamline recruitment and develop talent pipeline by sourcing and filtering candidates to match profiles.

1

Funding Rounds

$228.0k

Money raised

App offering clothing to consumers and data analytics to help retailers make better purchasing choices.

1

Funding Rounds

$400.0k

Money raised

Craft Prospect is a company founded in 2017.

3

Funding Rounds

$16.4m

Money raised

Olis Robotics Ltd is a Edinburgh-based company founded in 2019 by Fredrik Ryden, Howard Jay Chizeck and Don Pickering.

3

Funding Rounds

$16.5m

Money raised

Facial animation platform tailored for the entertainment industry.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Mgb Biopharma is a biopharmaceutical company developing anti-infective medicines founded in 2010.

3

Funding Rounds

$82.2m

Money raised

Mironid Limited is a small Molecules Targeting cAMP pathway founded in 2014.

3

Funding Rounds

$13.9m

Money raised

Logan Energy is a developer of integrated energy systems, including hydrogen storage and distribution services.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

PowerPhotonic is an industry expert in high-precision low-loss fused silica optics for image optimization.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

Bioreactor and automated systems developer for microbial growth and analysis.

1

Funding Rounds

$420.0k

Money raised

Iona Mind is a London, UK-based company offering employee mental health solutions that aim to be affordable and evidenced-based.

8

Funding Rounds

$5.7m

Money raised

Uniklasers Ltd. is a tech firm specializing in creating high-precision lasers founded by Fedor Karpushko.

3

Funding Rounds

$82.8m

Money raised

Realtime Worlds is a video game developer founded in 2002 by David Jones.

2

Funding Rounds

$880.0k

Money raised

Sofant Technologies is a wireless communication technology developer founded in 2011 by Nakul Haridas.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.3m

Money raised

Money Dashboard is a mobile-based application for personal finance management (PFM).

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

HeySummit is an Edinburgh-based company providing a platform for virtual summits, online conferences, and online events.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.8m

Money raised

Producer of sustainable carbon adsorbents from organic waste.

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Funding Rounds

$849.4k

Money raised

Aridhia informatics provides biomedical informatics and analytics services to improve the management of chronic diseases.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.6m

Money raised

Customer loyalty, card-linking, automated marketing, open banking, digital, SMB, local businesses

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2

Funding Rounds

$3.8m

Money raised

Food and nutraceutical products and sustainable materials made from sustainably-sourced seaweed.

1

Funding Rounds

$18.0m

Money raised

Technology that combines data transmission and lighting utility for communication networks.

1

Funding Rounds

$130.0k

Money raised

Infracost shows engineering teams how code changes affect cloud bills

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

Class leading experts in formulation work and scintigraphic clinical trials.

2

Funding Rounds

Ocyan is a blockchain company founded in 2019 by Evangelos Pappas.

1

Funding Rounds

Well-SENSE Technology Ltd. is a company in Aberdeen.

3

Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised

Willo is a virtual interviewing platform founded in 2018 by Andrew Wood.

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1

Funding Rounds

$1.7m

Money raised

Aveni is an information technology company utilizing artificial intelligence.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.4m

Money raised

ZoneFox is an Edinburgh-based cybersecurity company developing software and consulting packages for data security and compliance.

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