Best Life Sciences Platforms and Tools Companies in Scotland, United Kingdom
The 39 best Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies in Scotland, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: M Squared.
Our analysis of 50 Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies
$4.8b in tracked funding; 68% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies in Scotland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M Squared Developer of light-sheet microscopy systems for multiple business verticals | $31M | 69 mo ago | 110 | Vinor Zukhubaia Co-Founder | BootstrapApache HTTP ServerGoogle Ads+13 | 10 patents Intelligent access control systems with biometric verification and blockchain-based identity management | — |
| 2 | Bsolve Dental Developer of dissolvable dental and oral strips | $10M | 94 mo ago | 37 | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Synpromics Developer of synthetic promoters and gene expression solutions | $10M | 98 mo ago | 46 | — | — | 63 patents Synthetic regulatory nucleic acids and inducible promoters for viral vector and gene‑therapy production | — |
| 4 | Crawford Scientific Service provider in analytical testing | $10M | 83 mo ago | 50 50 → 25 (-50%) | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Carcinotech Developer of 3D cancer research models for cancer drug discovery | $8M | 31 mo ago | 1 | Ishani Malhotra CEO | — | 10 patents In vitro cancer model and microenvironment culture devices for tumor research | — |
| 6 | Cytomos POC cell sorter | $7M | 21 mo ago | 8 | David Rigterink CEO | — | 32 patents Cell analysis and biosensing platforms for measuring biological samples | — |
| 7 | Chromacity Provider of tunable fiber lasers for industrial applications | $5M | 25 mo ago | 12 | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | DestiNA Genomics Develops non-enzymatic nucleic acid detection technology | $3M | 46 mo ago | 2 | Hugh Ilyine Co-Founder & CEO | — | 4 patents Ultra‑sensitive single‑molecule nucleic‑acid detection with base‑level specificity | 2 launchs |
| 9 | Sesmos Label-free biosensor for drug discovery and screening | $2M | 174 mo ago | — | Paul Rounding CEO | — | — | — |
| 10 | OGI Bio Provider of a system for automation of routine microbial culturing | $2M | 15 mo ago | 8 | Teuta Pilizota Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 11 | Arrayjet Microarray platform using unique, non-contact, inkjet printing technology | $2M | 120 mo ago | 27 | Iain McWilliam CEO | — | 32 patents Automated microarray printing, reagent dispensing, and real‑time imaging instrumentation | — |
| 12 | Actual Analytics Provider of solutions for the behavioral analysis of rodents, zebrafish, and flies | $1M | 197 mo ago | 10 10 → 9 (-10%) | James Heward Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 13 | OrganLike Developer of organ models and tools for use in surgical simulation, and life sciences industries | $1M | 57 mo ago | 2 | Will Shu Founder | — | — | — |
| 14 | Ten Bio Developer of ex vivo human skin models for research services | $1M | 64 mo ago | 8 | Michael Conneely Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — | — |
| 15 | BioClavis Developer of a transcriptomic/genomic platform for precision diagnostics | $1M | 63 mo ago | 14 | Joel McComb CEO | — | — | — |
| 16 | Biogelx Supplies peptide hydrogels for cell culture | $983K | 102 mo ago | 10 | — | — | 8 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | — |
| 17 | Cytochroma Developer of human tissue models for research purposes and drug discovery | — | 56 mo ago | 8 | Kate Cameron Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies in Scotland
#1
Seed · Penicuik, Scotland · founded 2020 · 8 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Provider of a system for automation of routine microbial culturing. It offers modular culturing system to replicate manual flask culturing which includes providesa base unit and retrofittable modules to select the measurement and control features for culturing process.
- Jun 2025Seed$1.9M
- May 2024Seed$824.7K
- Jun 2023Seed$499.5K
- Mar 2022Seed$1.3M
#2
Series A · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2012 · 8 employees$7.2Mraised▾
Cytomos is focused on the development of a point-of-care (POC) device for sorting cells for application in research labs and clinical diagnostics .
- Nov 2024Series A$6.3M
- Aug 2023Series A$5.1M
- Jun 2022Seed$2M
- 2014Seed$164.8K
#3
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2013 · 12 employees$4.9Mraised▾
Provider of tunable fiber lasers for industrial applications. It manufactures a femtosecond infrared laser product for use in a diverse range of scientific applications, including multi-photon microscopy, light-sheet microscopy, second-harmonic microscopy, optical coherence tomography, and time-resolved semiconductor spectroscopy. It offers custom Femto lasers for a range of wavelengths. It has applications in the testing and measurement of electronics.
- Jul 2024Seed$1.3M
- Dec 2022Seed$1.2M
- Aug 2021Seed$1.7M
- Dec 2015Seed$774K
#4
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2018 · 1 employees$7.9Mraised▾
Operator of a medical technology company intended to offer effective cancer treatments. The company provides a platform for rapid, ethical, and accurate drug discovery, screening, and pre-clinical testing, enabling clinicians to provide individuals suffering from cancer to better their chances of treatment and survival.
#5
Series B · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2006 · 110 employees$30.7Mraised▾
Developer of light-sheet microscopy systems for multiple business verticals. It offers products for neuroscience, developmental biology, cancer biology, regenerative medicine, and other biosciences verticals. Its product range includes low-end IR to the high-end IR spectrum. They were awarded the IOP innovation award in 2015. Applications range from optical metrology to non-destructive testing.
- Nov 2020Conventional Debt$26.6M
- Nov 2020Series B$16.6M
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)$720.9K
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$1.2M
#6
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2010 · 2 employees$3.5Mraised▾
DestiNA Genomics uses dynamic chemistry to develop DGL probes, which are a combination of aldehyde modified nucleobases(SMART nucleobases) and PNA (peptide nucleic acid). The probe has been developed with an empty position so that the binding to the target sequence would leave a position blank at deletion or mutation sites. This chemical lock up reduces false positives observed in enzymatic detection systems. The application of the technology includes insertion, deletion, mutated and non-mutated sequences.
- Nov 2022Grant (prize money)$248.7K
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$282.1K
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$479K
- May 2017Seed$403.9K
#7
Series A · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2003 · 37 employees$10.1Mraised▾
Developer of dissolvable dental and oral strips. The company's dissolving films include Be Brighter used for teeth whitening, Be Soothed used to treat mouth ulcer patches, Be Fresher used for breath freshening, and Be Hydrated used for dry mouth.
- Nov 2018Series A$3.2M
- Apr 2014Series A$1M
- May 2013Series A$687.7K
- Oct 2011Series A$1.9M
#8
Acquired · Strathaven, Scotland · founded 1985 · 50 employees$9.8Mraised▾
Crawford Scientific is a supplier of chromatography columns and consumables, and spec products. It also provides analytical services in chromatography, mass spectrometry, elemental analysis, and spectroscopy. Along with this, the company also offers training and consultancy services.
- Oct 2019Conventional Debt—
- Jan 2015Series A$3.3M
- Aug 2014Series A$6.5M
#9
Acqui-Hired · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2010 · 46 employees$9.9Mraised▾
Developer of synthetic promoters and gene expression solutions. The company designs and develops patentable synthetic promoters to regulate genes in a highly specific manner. These products produced by Synpromics will be applied in Cell & Gene Therapy, Biologics Bioprocessing, Industrial Biotechnology, Agricultural Biotechnology, and Cell-Based Assays. Synpromics would develop a library of synthetic promoters through its platform for screening in the CHO system.
- 2018Grant (prize money)$2.4M
- Apr 2017Series B$6.6M
- Aug 2015Series A$3.3M
#10
Seed · Inverness, Scotland · founded 2014 · 2 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Developer of organ models and tools for use in surgical simulation, and life sciences industries. The company is developing revolutionary organ printing technologies for future healthcare and provides hyper-real and rapid production of organLike models. The company's products inlcude bowel, skin, and liver models.
- Dec 2021Seed$1.3M
#11
Funding Raised · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2016 · 14 employees$1.2Mraised▾
BioClavis has developed the proprietary transcriptomic/genomic platform technology. The TempO-Seq platform is used for analyzing large gene sample numbers with customizable biomarker panels. It is used for transcriptomics analysis in precision diagnostics (including CDx development) and drug or biomarker discovery.
- Jun 2021Grant (prize money)$1.2M
#12
Seed · Dundee, Scotland · founded 2019 · 8 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Developer of ex vivo human skin models for research services. The product TenSkin is used for the research of topical, diffusion, and intradermal skin treatments. It is developed through a next-generation culture technology that maintains skin viability and the ability to response to external stimuli.
- Apr 2021Seed$1.3M
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Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
What Scotland researches in bioinformatics
- Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland4
- Alzheimer Scotland4
- Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute3
- University of the West of Scotland3
- Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre3
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