Glasgow Startups 2.0

Welcome to the first edition of Glasgow Startups 2.0.

These 19 founder-led startups are not backed by venture capital. Bootstrapped, pre-seed or angel-backed, the enterprises are in the early stages of their journey and either building or harnessing a unique technology.

We invited nominations from our readers, key figures in Glasgow’s tech scene and an array of incubators and accelerators.

You can find Edinburgh Startups 2.0, also published today, here.

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&I Technologies
&I Technologies’ mission is to empower employees to excel under pressure with AI-driven solutions that optimise stress. Its solution ‘Moai’ is engineered to transform stress into a powerful tool for enhancing productivity, fostering creativity and bolstering overall wellbeing.
Airspection
Remote inspections for remote locations. Airspection flies its drones out to the likes of offshore wind farms and oil & gas structures so its clients and their teams don’t have to – improving safety, reliability and environment impact.
Ciendos
Behind Know Your Environment solutions to ‘tackle the environmental data gap head-on’. Financial institutions and corporates can effortlessly assess the environmental risk and impact of any company via Ciendos’s API or interface.
Clyde Hydrogen Systems
University of Glasgow spinout Clyde Hydrogen Systems is developing breakthrough methods for large-scale green hydrogen production. Its decoupled electrolysis technology offers a flexibility not possible with existing electrolysers.
Lupovis
Lupovis specialises in helping its customers protect their business-critical network assets. It provides precise, high-fidelity threat identification with a drastically reduced alert-to-noise ratio through a ‘Deception as a Service’ platform.
Metahelios
Metahelios has developed a long-distance camera that can manipulate light to distinguish between a range of materials from a still image. Its breakthrough imaging technologies serve several industries through a nanotechnological approach.
Nami Surgical
Nami Surgical has created a miniaturised ultrasonic surgical scalpel for robotic-assisted surgeries. Its breakthrough solutions are designed to empower surgeons with intuitive, high-performance manoeuverable tools for complex and minimally invasive surgical tasks.
Neuranics
A DeepTech startup that creates game-changing sensing solutions for healthcare, gaming and metaverse applications.Neuranics’s magnetic ‘spintronics’ sensing technology detects minute magnetic impulses from the human body and is used in wearable systems.
Nooku
Nooku says indoor air can be five times more polluted than that found outdoors. Its air quality monitor empowers people to understand and improve their environment to combat asthma and allergies, prevent pollution build-up, and improve concentration and sleep quality.
Notation
Founder Daniel Grant is building an open-source serverless toolkit designed for cloud-native deployments into JavaScript’s culture and ecosystem. It compiles code that can be written intuitively into infrastructure that can’t.
Nuclevolve
Nuclevolve is a radiation protection tech company that uses materials engineering to achieve advancements in the space, medical, energy, oil & gas and radiation research industries. Aims to improve shielding in reactors and radioactive waste management.
Rostra Therapeutics
University of Strathclyde spinout Rostra Therapeutics aims to transform a unique platform of chemicals into medications that treat infectious diseases. Based on two decades of research, it was founded in 2022 and has an initial focus on serious fungal infections.
Seluna
Rebranded from Claymore Surgical, Seluna – led by Scott Black – is developing a centralised software platform to automate the diagnosis of childhood sleep apnoea and prioritise treatment for the children who need urgent care.
Small99
Provides small companies with actionable tips for reducing their carbon impact. Seeking to cut out the noise with no-nonsense resources, it points to practical, sometimes boring changes which can make an effective and immediate change.
Songbox
Music-sharing platform Songbox welcomed Canadian rock star Bryan Adams as a ‘co-founder’ last year. Described as ‘the classy alternative to Soundcloud’, it allows audio files to be securely stored and shared.
Strikes
Developed by Unbiased & Intuitive Ltd, Strikes is an intuitive, data-driven stocks & options trading app. It says that for too long ordinary people have been trading blindfolded with limited access to specialised data and hidden key information to help avoid costly mistakes.
The Healthcare Collection
End-to-end managed services provider for the healthcare industry. The Healthcare Collection helps SME healthcare facilities operators, independent practitioners, consortia and regional and national providers to unlock their potential.
TRIOS Renewables
TRIOS Renewables is an energy modelling and consultancy helping renewable energy stakeholders make informed, transparent decisions. With a background spanning the offshore wind sector, its in-house models can adapt to any site, tech or business case in the offshore renewables sector.
Weeteq
Weeteq is a ‘tiny’ embedded technology company providing industrial solutions. Its mission is developing circuit-level artificial intelligence solutions to accelerate sustainable growth of smart technologies.

Glasgow Startups 2.0

&I Technologies

Airspection

Ciendos

Clyde Hydrogen Systems

Lupovis

Metahelios

Nami Surgical

Neuranics

Nooku

Notation

Nuclevolve

Rostra Therapeutics

Seluna

Small99

Songbox

Strikes

The Healthcare Collection

TRIOS Renewables

Weeteq

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