Ellie Horvath
At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 Medical companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Medical Companies & Startups (London)
Wellcome Trust
| Founders | Sir Henry Wellcome |
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Wellcome Trust is a medical research charity that funds research that aims to protect and improving human and animal health.
Second Nature
| Founders | Chris Edson, Michael Gibbs |
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Second Nature is a digital programme that helps people lead healthier lives
SERG Technologies
| Founders | Christos Kapatos, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Samuel Wilson |
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SERG was founded to make the gesture control of technology accessible for everyone and easier to use than ever before.
Eleusis
| Founders | Shlomi Raz |
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Clinical stage company established to unlock the therapeutic potential of psychedelics through mitigating and managing psychoactivity
Silence Therapeutics
| Founders | Unknown |
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Silence Therapeutics is a drug development company with a proprietary genetic medicine platform.
Signifier Medical Technologies
| Founders | Akhilesh Tripathi, Anshul Sama, Philip Hess |
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Signifier Medical Technologies is a medical technology company
Medicalchain
| Founders | Abdullah Albeyatti, Mohammed Tayeb |
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Medicalchain is a decentralized platform that enables secure, fast and transparent exchange and usage of medical data.
uMotif
| Founders | Ben James, Bruce Hellman |
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UMotif is a scalable and engaging patient-centred data capture platform for modern research.
Alchemab Therapeutics
| Founders | Alex Leech, Ben Larman, Jane Osbourn, Rachael Bashford-Rogers, Uri Laserson |
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Alchemab Therapeutics is developing natural protective antibodies designed to keep people free of hard-to-treat diseases.
Digital Surgery
| Founders | Andre Chow, Jean Nehme |
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Digital Surgery is a privately-held pioneer in surgical artificial intelligence (AI), data and analytics, and digital education and training
Callaly
| Founders | Alex Hooi, Ewa Radziwon, Thang Vo-Ta |
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Callaly is a period care company that develops and manufactures innovative feminine care products.
Hertility Health
| Founders | Deirdre O’Neill, Dr Helen O’Neill, Dr Natalie Getreu |
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Hertility Health is on a mission to revolutionise the world of reproductive health.
Kuur Therapeutics
| Founders | Gregg Sando |
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Kuur Therapeutics is committed to transforming the lives of patients with cancer & is leading the development cell therapies.
FundamentalVR
| Founders | Chris Scattergood, Richard Vincent |
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FundamentalVR delivers VR haptic ‘flight simulators’ for surgery creating a safe, measurable & repeatable space to refine to refine skills.
Ixaka
| Founders | Gaby Salem, Joe Dupere, Vicente Sáez González |
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Ixaka is a private cell and gene therapy company with a focus on the natural power of the body to cure disease.
Vamstar
| Founders | Praful Mehta, Richard Freeman, Vishesh Duggar |
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AI-powered Global B2B Healthcare Marketplace
Habitual
| Founders | Ian Braithwaite, Napala Pratini |
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Digital therapeutics & nutritional treatment for type 2 diabetes reversal.
Cognetivity Neurosciences
| Founders | Seyed-Mahdi Khaligh-Razavi, Sina Habibi |
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Cognetivity Neurosciences is a Platform technology for early, rapid and easy detection of dementia.
Proximie
| Founders | Nadine Haram |
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Proximie is a health technology platform that enables surgeons to virtually attend operating theaters to visually guide complex surgeries.
Spire Healthcare
| Founders | Unknown |
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Spire Healthcare is a hospital group providing inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostics, and primary care.
Chronomics
| Founders | Charles Ball, Daniel Elías Martín Herranz, Robin Thompson, Toby Call, Tom Stubbs |
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Tech-bio company, providing access to a ‘bio-infrastructure’ to simplify and speed-up the use of biomarkers to improve everyday decisions.
Heydoc
| Founders | Christoph Lippuner, Mikael Landau |
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The integrated clinical system for managing your patients’ medical data and admin tasks.
Pulmocide
| Founders | Garth Rapeport, Pete Strong |
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Pulmocide is focused on the development of inhaled medicines for the treatment of viral and fungal infections of the respiratory tract.
Skin Analytics
| Founders | Neil Daly |
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Skin Analytics uses artificial intelligence to screen for melanoma skin cancer.
Echo
| Founders | Sai Lakshmi, Stephen Bourke |
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Echo is a simplifying pharmacy, helping everyone get the medicine they need.
Sixfold Bioscience
| Founders | Anna Perdrix Rosell, George Foot, Zuzanna Brzosko |
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Sixfold Bioscience develops and researches on biotechnology advances for RNA therapies.
Bold Health
| Founders | Elena Mustatea, Jossy Onwude, Matt Stammers |
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Bold Health is a specialty telemedicine company that offers best-in-class integrative care for Gastrointestinal (GI) conditions.
Bea Fertility
| Founders | David O’Rourke, Tess Cosad |
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Bea Fertility is a monthly subscription program that provides users with at-home fertility treatment and ovulation tracking.
knok healthcare
| Founders | Andre Sousa, Carolina Relvas, Jose Bastos, João Magalhães, Pedro Vieira e Moreira, Tiago Craveiro |
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Knokcare is the world’s Integrated Care Video Platform (ICVP).
Pear Bio
| Founders | Duleek Ranatunga |
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Pear Bio is a biotechnology company that develops biomedical technologies for cancer treatment by testing patients’ drug resistance.
Unibio International
| Founders | Ebbe Busch Larsen |
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Unibio is operating in the biotechnology sector with core competences within bacterial fermentation.
Syrona Health
| Founders | Anya Roy, Chantelle Bell |
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Syrona Health is a personalised digital health platform for Chronic Gynaecological/Uterine Conditions like Endometriosis, PCOS etc.
Keyron
| Founders | Unknown |
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Keyron is a biomedical startup which produces medical devices for obesity, type 2 diabetes, and related comorbidities.
Relation Therapeutics
| Founders | Benjamin Swerner, Charles Roberts, Jake Taylor-King |
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Relation Therapeutics engages in humanizing drug discovery and development.
WeWALK
| Founders | Gokhan Mericliler, Kürşat Ceylan, Sadik Unlu |
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WeWALK is a startup developing a smart cane for the visually-impaired.
Phlo
| Founders | Nadeem Sarwar |
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Phlo is a digital pharmacy that provides secure, real-time, same-day prescription delivery.
Qured
| Founders | Alex Templeton, Charlie Harington |
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Extraordinary care, at the touch of a button.
Stallergenes Greer
| Founders | R.T. Greer |
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Stallergenes Greer is a fully integrated global biopharmaceutical company specialising in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies.
MedShr
| Founders | Alistair Gosling, Asif Qasim, Jude Venn |
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MedShr facilitates an online network that enables doctors to connect and share data and knowledge with each other.
Entia
| Founders | Millie Clive-Smith, Toby Basey-Fisher |
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Entia is a medical technology company that specializes in improving access to blood test.
My Online Therapy
| Founders | Dr. Elena Touroni, Dr. Tom Pennybacker, Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein, Vasileios Touronis |
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MyOnlineTherapy, a mobile mental health company, is the first of its kind virtual psychology clinic.
Puraffinity
| Founders | Ben Reeve, Gabriella Santosa, Henrik Hagemann |
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Puraffinity develops precision materials to target chemicals, with an initial focus on PFAS in water
Novoic
| Founders | Emil Fristed, Jack Weston |
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Novoic is a digital biotech company that develops AI-based speech analysis.
Complement Therapeutics
| Founders | Unknown |
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Complement Therapeutics operates as a preclinical stage company.
Purespring Therapeutics
| Founders | Moin Saleem |
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Purespring Therapeutics is an AAV gene therapy company focused on the kidney globally.
MedicSpot
| Founders | Nicholas Ibery, Oliver Brooks, Tarlochan Toor, Zubair Ahmed |
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MedicSpot gives patients convenient and quick access to healthcare using the latest advancements in telemedicine
Anima
| Founders | Shun Pang |
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Anima is a tech-enabled provider of healthcare triage.
Abtrace
| Founders | Cristina Correia, Helder Soares, Umar Naeem Ahmad |
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AI based solutions that scale medical expertise.
GyroGear
| Founders | Faii Ong |
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GyroGear is developing a wearable to help individuals with hand tremors.
Medefer
| Founders | Bahman Nedjat-Shokouhi |
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At Medefer, we want to be the world’s most patient-focused virtual health service
Digital Home Visits
| Founders | Devika Wood, Naushard Jabir |
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DHV is a tech-enabled home care provider, regulated by the CQC.
Quin Technology
| Founders | Cyndi Mitchell, Cyndi Williams, Isabella Degen |
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Digital therapeutics for personalized independent self-management of diabetes
videoDoc
| Founders | Damian Kissane, Mary O’ Brien |
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videoDoc is a healthcare and medical service that offers scaled access to online healthcare services and SaaS solutions
Umedeor
| Founders | Matt Wilson |
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uMed enables healthcare providers to run patient research more efficiently through automating the clinical studies process
ExSeed Health
| Founders | Daniel Gewecke Daugaard, Emil Andersen, Morten G. Ulsted |
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MedTech / Software company in the reproductive health space
Scarlet
| Founders | James Cox, James Dewar |
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Continuous compliance
IAG, Image Analysis Group
| Founders | Olga Kubassova |
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IAG, imaging expert company helps to accelerate novel drug development by using the right analytical tools and modern trial infrastructure.
Xperiome
| Founders | Julie Walters, Peter Coe |
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Xperiome is a global healthtech company that delivers deep insights in rare disease experiences
MediSieve
| Founders | George Frodsham, Quentin Pankhurst |
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MediSieve is a therapeutics company developing a platform technology for the treatment of blood-borne diseases.
Virax Biolabs
| Founders | Cameron Shaw, Greg Aldridge, James Foster, Mark Ternouth, Tomasz George |
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Virax Biolabs is an innovative Biotechnology company focused on the prevention, detection and diagnosis of viral diseases
MIRA Rehab
| Founders | Alina Călin, Andrei Cantea, Cosmin Mihaiu, Liviu-Andrei Dascălu |
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Digital Health Company that is Gamifying Physiotherapy and Transforming Rehabilitation.
OxSyBio
| Founders | Hagan Bayley |
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OxSyBio is developing 3D printing techniques to produce a range of tissue-like & functional tissues for medical research.
Yaqrit
| Founders | Rajiv Jalan |
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Yaqrit Limited is a UK-based company specialising in interventions in liver disease based on 20 years of research and development at UCL.
ApcinteX
| Founders | Jim Huntington, Trevor Baglin |
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ApcinteX develops and markets anticoagulant APC pathway to treat haemophilia.
Cotinga Pharmaceuticals
| Founders | Wayne Danter |
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Cotinga Pharmaceuticals discovers and develops drug therapies for diseases.
Acurable
| Founders | Esther Rodriguez Villegas, Emilio Sanz Pereiras |
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The first wearable medical device able to accurately diagnose and manage respiratory conditions at home
PCL Health
| Founders | Deepti Atrish, Stewart Southey, Tornike Asatiani |
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B2B SaaS Connected care platform with IoTs, mobile Apps and Online Clinician Dashboard.
Altrix Technology Ltd
| Founders | James Lock |
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Technology led nursing agency with self-booking app.
Advanced Oncotherapy
| Founders | Unknown |
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Advanced Oncotherapy is a medical technology company providing advanced radiotherapy systems for the treatment of common and rare cancers.
LIfT BioSciences
| Founders | Alex Blyth |
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LIfT BioSciences is a socially-minded Biotech start-up that develops a portfolio of potentially life-saving immuno-oncology cell therapies.
11 Health
| Founders | Michael Seres |
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Ostom-i™ Alert Sensor helping patients like these and their families cope with managing their ostomy.
Sensate
| Founders | Anna Gudmundson |
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Sensate provides on-the-spot profound relaxation in as few as 10 minutes.
Salve
| Founders | Charlie Kenny, Elin N. |
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Guides patients through specialist medical procedures and helps clinics run more efficiently
hometouch
| Founders | Jamie Wilson |
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hometouch is a home-care marketplace connecting families looking for home care to professional carers.
Veristat
| Founders | John P Balser |
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Veristat, a full service Clinical Research Organization (CRO).
Smart Surgical Appliances
| Founders | Adam James, Ara Darzi, Guang Zhong Yang, Omer Aziz |
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Smart Surgical Appliances is a medical device company, developing sensor-enabled surgical instrumentation.
Autifony Therapeutics
| Founders | Charles Large |
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Autifony Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing medicines to treat hearing disorders such as hearing loss and tinnitus.
Be Nosy
| Founders | Carina Cunha, Dorette Hibbert |
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Nosy is a MedTech startup developing wearable air filter and air pollution tracking network.
Walk With Path
| Founders | Florian Puech, Lise Pape |
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Walk With Path is a mobility company providing active wearables and data insights to improve human function.
Collagen Solutions
| Founders | Stewart White |
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Collagen Solutions Plc is a global provider of medical grade collagen formulations and components for use in regenerative medicine,
Fertility Circle
| Founders | Abi (Childs) Hannah, Jo Living, Karen Hanson |
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Fertility Circle is a digital platform that assists and supports the women trying to conceive.
CAR.O.L
| Founders | Ratna Singh, Ulrich Dempfle |
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A.I.-Powered Exercise Bike for High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
Kesios Therapeutics
| Founders | Guido Franzoso, Laura Tornatore, Menotti Ruvo |
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Kesios Therapeutics, a London, UK-based oncology drug discovery company
Ixico
| Founders | Derek Hill |
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Ixico is a U.K.-based company that provides clinical trial services worldwide.
medsii.com
| Founders | Nasir Hussain, Paolo Ursino, Rav Roberts |
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medsii.com is Next-Generation Health Information. medsii won the 2021 Webby Honoree Award in the Health & Fitness cateogory.
Autolus
| Founders | Martin Pule |
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Autolus is in T-cell programming and manufacturing technology.
Oxford Heartbeat
| Founders | Katerina Spranger |
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Oxford Heartbeat makes cardiovascular surgery more accurate and safe.
MedicAnimal.com
| Founders | Andrew Bucher, Ivan Retzignac |
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MedicAnimal.com is an e-commerce company specializing in veterinary and pet retail.
Echopoint Medical
| Founders | Adrien Desjardins, Ioannis Papakonstantinou, Malcolm Finlay, Richard Colchester |
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Echopoint Medical is a medtech company
Pharmacierge
| Founders | Edward Ungar, Robert Ungar |
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The free e-prescribing service chosen by Private GPs and Consultants to deliver medication to their patients nationwide
Fortuna Fix
| Founders | Jan-Eric Ahlfors, Vikram Lamba |
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Clinical-stage biotech company .
Messly
| Founders | Abrar Gundroo, Christopher Kurwie |
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Messly is a SaaS, Professional Network that helps doctors find their next role in healthcare.
Smart Separations Ltd
| Founders | Hugo Macedo |
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Smart Separations is a limited company based in London UK that has patented an innovative microfiltration technology.
Create Fertility
| Founders | Geeta Nargund |
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Create Fertility is a fertility clinic headquartered in London.
Eczemadoc
| Founders | Haroon Ahmad, Miena Mizusaki, Niall Jawad, Noreen Akram, Nyree Trimbel, Shailendra Singh |
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Transforming eczema management using big data.
Belluscura
| Founders | Unknown |
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Belluscura is a medical device company that focused on novel oxygen-based treatment platforms.
Plasticell
| Founders | Yen Choo |
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Plasticell offers a cell-based screening technology for the discovery of small molecule drugs that regenerate cells of the body.
GPDQ
| Founders | Anshumen Bhagat, Justin Peters |
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GPDQ delivers outstanding CQC-certified primary healthcare services by mobilising innovative NHS GPs, nurses, pharmacists.
Px HealthCare
| Founders | Anne Bruinvels |
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Px HealthCare is the digital health company that puts cancer patient experience experience at the heart of improving oncology outcomes.
London Doctors Clinic
| Founders | SETH RANKIN |
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London Doctors Clinic is a convenient and affordable private London GP practice providing medical care.
PrEP Biopharm
| Founders | Bruce A. Malcolm, Ryan Muldoon |
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PrEP Biopharm is a developer of respiratory infectious disease products
