The company is developing a targeted radiopharmaceutical cancer treatment called Oncocidia. This innovative treatment involves extending the already successful use of Iodine-131 in treating thyroid cancer to treat solid cancers (primary and metastatic) elsewhere in the body. Iodine-131 is used to label the necrosis avid agent hypericin. Hypericin targets necrosis in a tumor and carries …

Pear Bio is a computational biology company that uses organ-on-a-chip and computer vision technology to recreate, visualize and compute the human tumor microenvironment and its effects on cancer progression. The company is building an atlas of cancer progression to help research hospitals/pharma test experimental drugs and to help clinicians evaluate potential treatment options for each …

Ada Ventures finds and funds extraordinary talent, building breakthrough ideas for the hardest problems we face. The firm invests £250,000 – £1m in UK technology companies across climate, economic empowerment, and healthcare & ageing.

Part of Octopus Investments, Octopus Ventures is backing founders who are changing the world for the better. To that end, it is getting behind businesses that put people, community and the environment first. The firm’s teams are sector experts focusing on six areas: B2B Software, Bio, Climate, Consumer, Deep Tech, Fintech and Health. Octopus aims …

Scan.com is on a mission to make medical imaging accessible for everyone through an online marketplace. It offers an appointment booking engine for patients, a portal for referring providers, and an API for digital health partners, across the UK and the USA. As part of that goal, the company is reinventing the complex infrastructure underpinning …

Perci Health has developed a platform that supports people living with cancer and also goes beyond cancer through personalized programmes. Said programmes include support across the whole cancer continuum, from preparing for treatment to support during treatment, recovery and rehabilitation and return to work. To that end, Perci offers tailored answers and access to high-quality …

Tympa has developed a solution allowing fully digitized comprehensive ear and hearing health assessments to be performed across both traditional clinical and community-based settings. By creating a solution that brings ENT expertise to community settings, Tympa increases cost-effective access to care and supports earlier disease detection. TympaHealth is CE-marked, FDA-registered, and the only solution of …

Little Journey has developed an app that helps kids reduce hospital anxiety. Said app provides engaging, interactive, and age-appropriate content designed to psychologically prepare and support families throughout healthcare interactions. The company also offers a web portal for healthcare staff, which enables organizations to configure the app content, build virtual patient pathways, and edit key …

Phlo provides a UK digital pharmacy, offering a same-day NHS and private prescription delivery service to patients in Birmingham and London, and launching in Manchester in 2023. The company’s second product, Phlo Connect, provides digital pharmacy infrastructure that enables healthtech companies and private healthcare providers to offer a seamless digital pharmacy service.

Visionable has developed a video conferencing platform for healthcare teams, enabling critical remote decision-making by clinicians wherever they are located. The solution also allows physicians and nurses to share 360° view of patient health, with unlimited multi-camera feeds and views from connected devices and available patient data. Finally, Visionable is made to help facilitate clinicians’ …

Veratrak has developed a blockchain-based platform called the Hub to improve the world of healthcare by facilitating collaboration across the supply chain. It is meant to help pharma companies break down communication barriers with their outsourced partners, and to help manufacturers coordinate suppliers to deliver critical batches. Veratrak’s Hub provides a single and secure path …

Untap is on a mission to transform the way viral diseases are detected. With backgrounds in water tech and sewage tech, it has created a cost-effective solution for tracking community health via wastewater. In that sense, the company provides an early warning system, detecting the presence of carriers whether they are asymptomatic (no symptoms), pre-symptomatic …

Thalamos has developed mental health software designed to help psychiatrists deliver the best possible care by joining up admission, treatment and discharge care pathways. Fully encrypted and auditable, the software effectively digitizes the paper system to assist psychiatrists in storing, sharing clinical forms, handling finances, invoicing, and securely managing diaries. As a result, psychiatrists reduce …

With its AI-driven drug discovery platform, Tailor Bio is bringing precision medicine to the deadliest cancers. It provides clinical decision support to physicians, allowing them to select the best therapy for their patients’ treatments. To do this, Tailor Bio’s technology decodes chromosomal instability — a genomic phenomenon present in 80% of all cancers — and …

Suvera has developed a platform designed to deliver healthcare that maintains people in good health. The company is a CQC-registered digital healthcare organization that helps people proactively look after their long-term conditions in partnership with their practice. Combining the in-house technology and in-house clinical team, Suvera creates a service that’s there to make complex care …

Spill has developed a video therapy platform for employees that integrates with Slack and MS Teams. Participating companies pay a monthly subscription for access to the platform, which spots anyone who’s not feeling great and prompts them to access mental health support — whether that’s booking a video therapy session, messaging a therapist, or accessing …

R.grid has developed a solution streamlining clinical trial operations from months to minutes. Its clinical trial management system is accessible, unified, regulation compliant, fully customizable, patient-centric, suitable for all trial types (including decentralized/hybrid), and powered by AI. The company also offers Inclusive, a platform for managing participants, projects, and data. It eliminates the most common …

Qureight uses cloud-based technology to assist in the structuring of image and paired clinical metadata in complex diseases. By structuring data in this way, it allows for the development of AI-based tools to understand diseases such as lung fibrosis, complex cancers and COVID-19. Moreover, it enables scientists to track disease progression and drug response, developing …

A spin-out from Newcastle University, NunaBio has developed a platform that enables the synthesis of whole genes and DNA fragments of unprecedented length without the use of plasmids or primers, which are existing bottlenecks in the synthetic biology industry. Its technology has broad applications across multiple areas of life sciences, including gene therapy, T cell …

Novai is a cutting-edge biotech company developing solutions for the detection and treatment of retinal diseases. At the heart of Novai’s technology is DARC (Detection of Apoptosing in Retinal Cells), a revolutionary method for detecting early signs of apoptosis (cell death) in the retina. DARC combines an innovative patented biologic with a state-of-the-art AI algorithm …

MindLabs has developed a wellness platform and a mobile app focused on mental well-being to help users stress less, sleep and feel better in seconds. To that end, the platform provides access to personalized on-demand videos from professionals in therapy, psychology, and mindfulness, along with an online community and analytics. Also included are expert-led series …

Nebuflow, a University of Glasgow medical spin-out, is developing the next generation of nebulisers. Its patented aerosol formation technology allows for the efficient delivery of hard-to-nebulise drugs to the lungs. As such, it is made for both existing formulations and emerging novel high-value therapeutics such as biologics, nanomedicines, and vaccines — enabling medical professionals to …

GoJoe is a hybrid B2C and B2B app that enables workplaces and brands to connect and engage their people. It combines wearables, content and team-based challenges and experiences to socialize everyday solo exercise for the masses of “ordinary joes” and help people stick to their fitness and well-being journeys. The company collaborated with Stanford University …

Kuano combines quantum physics, AI and medicinal chemistry in an approach to transforming the discovery of therapeutics focused on enzyme inhibition. Enzymes represent the largest class of drug targets, with over $40 billion of pharmaceutical sales attributable to small molecule inhibitors of enzymes. The market is seeing considerable demand for enzyme inhibitors, which can provide …

Kraydel aims to improve social connectivity and support independence for older adults while delivering peace of mind to their families and caregivers using familiar technologies such as the user’s own TV to drive adoption and engagement. The company’s Konnect device connects to a TV to enable video calling and remote monitoring for older adults, as …

ExSeed Health is a male fertility company offering a male at-home fertility test kit that marries the powerful camera capabilities of modern smartphones with cloud-based analysis — providing patients with a live view of their sperm sample directly on their screen and highly accurate quantitative analysis of their sperm concentration and motility in just 3-5 …

Eolas Medical is on a mission to organize the world’s medical information to make healthcare simpler, safer and smarter. To that end, the company provides AI-enabled knowledge management systems for hospitals, enabling them to have a single source of truth for their medical knowledge to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery and the overall quality …

Aura work with fertility clinics to support the psychosocial outcomes of fertility patients, pioneering whole-patient fertility care. The company’s app is a wrap-around solution for fertility clinics, offering patients health and emotional support, integrated with the clinic experience. Powered by experts, Aura is evidence-based and supports clinics with real-time reporting and regulatory best-practice. It works …

HelloSelf is a provider of online therapy and life coaching services intended to minimize the effects of stress. The company works with referrer partners like healthcare professionals, employers, the NHS, insurers, friends, and family to optimize the speed and quality of care of its members via a rapid therapist-member matching process. HelloSelf’s platform includes features …

A spin-out from Newcastle University, AMLo Biosciences is developing predictive tests for cancers with unmet needs. Its first product is an immunohistochemical test for non-ulcerated, cutaneous melanomas, which can accurately identify those tumors at low risk of recurrence/spread, reducing patient anxiety associated with cancer.

Acurable creates accurate and user-friendly wearable medical devices intended to be used by patients themselves at home. Its award-winning, patented AcuPebble technology enables the automated diagnosis and management of respiratory conditions at home. Acurable’s first product AcuPebble SA100 simplifies obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) detection and monitoring by enabling fully automated testing of patients at home …

Artios is a leading independent DNA Damage Response (DDR) company focused on developing first-in-class treatments for cancers that are difficult to treat. Artios began clinical trials in February 2021 of its small-molecule ATR inhibitor, ART0380, in patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors. The company is building a pipeline of next-generation DDR programs, including through …

The GIANT (Global Innovation and New Technology) Health Event is the UK’s leading healthcare innovation festival with 4 “shows within the festival.” Come meet, network, learn, and do business with 100s of world-class speakers, immersive innovation presentations, the UK’s leading health-tech start-ups pitching to investors show, and more. GIANT’s vision is to improve the health …

Designed by the healthcare industry for the healthcare industry, HETT (Healthcare Excellence Through Technology) drives transformation by connecting health technology innovators with digital leaders from across the healthcare ecosystem. The event unites world-leading health technology suppliers with digital leaders from NHS Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, national bodies and private hospitals to tackle the biggest technology-related …

Med-Tech Innovation is the UK and Ireland’s leading event for medical device manufacturing. It connects leaders, engineers, innovators, and manufacturers with all the technology and innovation they need to facilitate the design and manufacture of life-changing medical devices. At the event, you can see live demonstrations, advanced technologies, new product launches, a world-class conference programme, …

The UK’s only event exclusively focused on the design, development, and production of medical devices. Serving the needs of device OEMs, their engineers, supply chain managers, and senior executives. The event includes an exhibition that showcases leading specialists from all tiers of the medical device manufacturing supply chain. There is also a comprehensive “Learning Programme” …

Future Health is an international world-class exhibition and conference organized in association with UKIHMA. The annual LIVE in-person showcase of innovative healthcare products and solutions runs alongside a two-day conference, where professionals from the world of health connect, meet buyers and partake in cross-border purchasing, education, and deal-making.

Intelligent Health UK will brings together clinicians, hospital heads, data scientists, startups, academics, and investors to advance discussions on how to apply AI and drive technological collaboration in healthcare. It aims to help accelerate the safe adoption of AI, to fully harness its benefits but to do so safely and ethically as well as, at …

UX Healthcare is a leading global User Experience Healthcare (UXH) platform dedicated to clinicians, healthcare works and designers. Its goal is to help UX practitioners, clinicians and stakeholders improve the holistic patient experience. The UXH Community will come together in London, Amsterdam and Berlin — bringing together designers, practitioners, clinicians, technologists and thought leaders linked …

Digital Health World Congress is the leading technology digital healthcare conference in London. It covers all aspects of medical and mobile technology, including eHealth, mHealth, telehealth, telemedicine, genomics, healthcare IT and more.

SEHTA International MedTech Expo & Conference is the SME focused healthcare event for driving collaborations between Business, Care & Clinicians & Academics. The event is organized by the South East Health Technologies Alliance (SEHTA), which aims to understand and meet the needs of small healthcare businesses with the purpose of improving the health and care …

WIRED Health highlights the most exciting, thought-provoking disruptors scientists and practitioners making a positive change in the way we provide and access health care. The editorially curated, community-driven event gathers medical practitioners, health technologists, pharmaceutical leaders and entrepreneurs for a day of eye-opening and inspirational stories.

Digital Health Rewired is for anyone wanting to make a difference in UK digital health, including NHS and social care, private healthcare suppliers, start-ups, innovators, policy makers, and patients. Explore stages of CPD-accredited educational content featuring the latest direction on national policy, pioneering work by local health IT teams and the new innovations making waves …

LSX World Congress brings together the CEOs and senior decision-makers from the world’s most innovative biopharma, medtech and healthtech companies with investors, senior BD&L teams, R&D leaders and industry KOLs. Together, they share best practice, forge partnerships and investments – all geared at putting capital and ideas to work to help create the world’s future …

Imagine If! is an accelerator organized by Innovation Forum, an international grassroots network that supports scientific entrepreneurs aiming to build ambitious companies at the intersection of science, technology, and health. It is a pre-acceleration programme for early-stage science-based ventures providing start-ups with extensive opportunities to take their venture to the next level through structured interactions …

Oxford University Innovation is on a mission to be the leading international technology transfer organization, to transfer technology and expertise from the University of Oxford, to deliver value to all our clients, and to maximize social and economic benefits in a commercial manner. Oxford University Innovation helps staff and students to apply their expertise and …

The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) supports exceptional individuals to scale promising innovations across England’s NHS for greater patient and staff benefit. It is delivered in partnership with the country’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) and the Accelerated Access Collaborative. Hosted by UCLPartners, NIA’s support for startups includes “bespoke learning programme,” mentorship and networking opportunities …

Entrepreneur First (EF) aims to bring together and fund exceptional individuals to help them meet their co-founders, develop an idea and raise money from leading investors – as fast as possible. Although it is NOT an accelerator, EF does offer a 3-month long program to help startups hit the ground running. The companies built at …

Startupbootcamp is a global network of industry-focused accelerators. It takes startups global by giving them direct access to an international network of the most relevant partners, investors, and mentors in their sector. Startupbootcamp operates globally with 20+ industry-focused programs in some of the greatest startup hubs, including Amsterdam, San Francisco, London, Berlin, etc. For each …

Kheiron Medical is on a mission to help breast cancer patients live longer, better lives through earlier detection. Its solution, called Mia (Mammography Intelligent Assessment), combines new deep learning methods, data science, and radiology insights to help doctors find malignancies in mammograms. Whilst many AI technologies are not designed to be inclusive, Kheiron’s technology has …

Born at the University of Oxford, Ultromics provides autonomous echocardiography analysis through its AI solutions, empowering physicians to make fast, accurate decisions when diagnosing cardiovascular disease. EchoGo Heart Failure is a novel AI device built to indicate heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) by looking only at the apical four-chamber (A4C) echocardiography view. The …

The Lowdown is on a mission to transform women’s health, starting with contraception. Its contraceptive review platform has collected over 5,000 reviews on every method and brand of contraception in the UK. The site doubles as an online community, allowing women to report the different contraceptive methods they have tried and their effects, check a …

MedAll is on a mission to solve this healthcare crisis by making great healthcare training more accessible to every healthcare professional, everywhere. It offers live and on-demand healthcare courses, conferences, workshops, webinars and sessions for (future) healthcare professionals, as well as a platform for healthcare organizations to host live and hybrid events — enabling them …

Neucruit has developed intelligent software that aims to redefine patient recruitment for clinical trials. Its technology aggregates real-time data from the over 25 million health-related conversations initiated online every day to facilitate planning and recruitment in clinical trials. Neucruit serves biopharmaceutical companies, site teams and investigators, helping them enhance site selection, optimize recruitment materials and …

University of Cambridge technology spin-out Zetta Genomics is a leader in large-scale genomic data management for precision medicine. It is employing big data technology and best practice security to leverage genomic data benefits while preserving data privacy. The company’s flagship offering, the XetaBase platform, is a genomic data management technology that powers the discovery and …

Flo is one of the most popular women’s health apps globally. It uses Data Science and AI to support women during their entire reproductive lives and provides curated cycle and ovulation tracking, personalized health insights, expert tips, and a private community for women to share their questions and concerns. The app prioritizes safety and keeps …

Doccla is changing healthcare by building what it calls the virtual hospital ward. The company partners with caregivers to take patients out of hospitals and monitor them remotely using medical class IoT devices. As a result, Doccla enables early hospital discharge, while avoiding readmission and freeing up hospital capacity. Already, several NHS entities have selected …

Founded in 2018, Vinehealth has built an app applying behavioral science and AI to deliver highly personalized support for cancer patients at scale. The platform also acts as a channel through which patients can be remotely monitored by their clinicians as they provide feedback on symptoms and report any treatment side effects. On the other …

Elvie is a health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. The company’s first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected Kegel trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor via fun, five-minute workouts. Its second product, Elvie Pump, is the world’s first silent wearable breast pump, which is making it possible for new …

Habitual is a health tech startup that offers a weight loss program aimed at people with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes. It combines evidence-based food replacement with digital (mobile) support to help people manage and even reverse the condition. For the food replacement product, Habitual worked with a product development consultancy that had previously done …

Palta helps cofound and build companies, but it isn’t a VC or an accelerator. Rather, it works as a cofounder for health and wellness startups, offering services such as financing (up to Series B), marketing guidance, access to professionals in tech and life science, in-house recruiting, and legal support. Palta, in turn, gets a 51% …

Founded by an NHS surgeon, Proximie aims to revolutionize the way surgeons work and educate through augmented reality guidance. Its secure, perioperative software solution expands surgical collaboration by enabling surgeons to share expertise using AR tools before, during and after surgery. Bringing together experts remotely, Proximie “pushes the boundaries of time and distance” for real …

GiveVision provides innovative accessibility solutions to empower blind and visually impaired people into mainstream society, education, and employment, and to inspire increased social inclusion and ultimately equal opportunities for blind and visually impaired people. The company’s flagship product, SightPlus, is a wearable headset that can be used to magnify close-up or far-away objects, change the …

A spin-out from Oxford University’s Department of Engineering, Oxehealth’s technology can measure pulse & breathing rate and human activity & behavior using proprietary algorithms that harness deep learning, computer vision and signal processing techniques. In other words, Oxehealth enables a secure optical sensor to measure vital signs from right across a room. The company’s Digital …

Oxford Medical Simulation delivers virtual reality medical simulation — training healthcare professionals to provide consistently world-class patient management without risking lives. The company has developed fast-paced, repeatable, real-life scenarios that can deliver consistently excellent, standardized clinical training to doctors and nurses to improve patient care. Using the latest virtual reality headsets, learners are immersed in …

Founded in 2016, Cera Care (or just Cera) is a home care provider that has developed technology to provide high-quality, transparent care to hundreds of service users in the UK and Germany. It aims to enable people to live well in their own homes and communities, and is in that sense working closely with local …

FitXR aims to rewrite the rules of fitness through immersive technologies. To that end, the company is building the world’s first virtual gym where like-minded people can meet and experience a variety of the highest quality workouts, from boxing to yoga. Further, it will be fully accessible at home. The first component of this gym, …

Medical Realities offers medical training products, specializing in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. By doing so, the company is able to reduce the cost of medical training, reach a wider audience and provide a completely safe learning environment for doctors, surgeons and medical students. The Medical Realities Platform utilizes its unique Spatial Menu System and …

Teslasuit has developed what it says is the world’s first full-body haptic suit for VR and AR applications to serve as an interface between human and virtuality. It is a smart textile two-piece full bodysuit that consists of a jacket and trousers, made for a diverse range of enterprise applications and training solutions. In the …

Virti is developing immersive, enterprise learning solutions and content for healthcare; it also provides analytics that intelligently predicts how a user will perform under pressure before entering a real environment. Virti uses research into cognitive decision-making under pressure and an immersive video platform combined with augmented reality to help professionals prepare for real-life high-pressure environments …

KareInn helps care providers transform their service, making operations run more smoothly and improving resident health & wellbeing. The company’s digital care management SaaS offering includes smart mobile tools, and real-time alerts and insights that help reduce preventable risks, resolve escalated issues and coordinate better care operations. Said insights include things like weight loss, sleep …

Launched in 2017, Birdie has developed an AI-enabled platform that supports care providers with a suite of digital tools intended to reduce admin costs and makes it easier to manage the care being provided to individuals — doing away with the need for paper-based records, and enabling real-time visibility such as via carer check-ins and medication-related …

Formed when Leap Motion and Ultrahaptics came together in May 2019, Ultraleap brings together powerful 3D hand tracking with haptic technology able to create the sensation of touch in mid-air. The company’s products include Leap Motion Controller, an optical hand tracking module that captures the movements of your hands with unparalleled accuracy; Leap Motion VR …

A spin-out from Oxford University, Oxford VR is developing VR-based clinically validated, cost-effective, user-centered mental health treatments that are faster and more effective than traditional treatments while significantly lowering the cost to health providers. Oxford VR’s first product, an automated VR treatment for psychosis, was tested in a large randomized controlled trial, with the results …

Created by a team of VR, haptic specialists and surgical training experts – FundamentalVR is the company behind Fundamental Surgery, a SaaS platform that combines VR with cutting-edge haptics and AI to create a low-cost and scalable flight simulator experience for trainee and qualified surgeons. Said platform creates an authentic environment complete with real-time feedback …

Digipharm combines industry expertise and blockchain to “pioneer the transformation of healthcare to a value-based approach.” As such, the company dubs its offering as the first blockchain platform for value-based payments in healthcare. Since outcomes are used to define costs and prices, Digipharm uses blockchain to create a medical information infrastructure that enables all parties …

Sweatcoin is on a mission to motivate people to be more physically active and fight the obesity problem that costs the global economy billions of dollars in direct costs every year. In order to do so, Sweatcoin converts outdoor steps into a virtual currency (sweatcoins), which can be spent within the mobile app’s marketplace on …

Medicalchain uses blockchain technology to create user-focused electronic health records whilst maintaining a single true version of the user’s data. The service enables the user to give healthcare professionals — such as doctors, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacists and health insurers — access to their personal health data, and then record interactions with this data in an …

Seedcamp is touted as Europe’s seed fund, investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets.

Calculus Capital is a specialist in creating and managing private equity funds with substantial tax advantages for individuals.

The initiative to connect NHS staff, digital health companies and academics to improve the NHS and social care

Hoxton Ventures LLP is an early stage VC firm, seeking to grow European tech companies with focus on the internet, mobile and software markets.

Episode 1 is a seed stage VC fund, investing £500k – £2m in early-stage software companies in the UK. In addition to the UK, the firm has deep connections with Silicon Valley, where several of its partners have built businesses. Aside from capital, Episode 1 also helps founders across all areas of early-stage company building, …

Redline backs rapidly growing companies in technology and life sciences, funded by the founder of Sistema, Russia’s largest publicly listed investment company.

Balderton is focused exclusively on European-founded technology companies, supporting them from Seed to Exit. The firm has a track record of backing breakthrough companies ranging from MySQL to Betfair, and The Hut Group to Yoox Net-a-Porter. Companies in the Balderton portfolio take advantage of Balderton’s network of globally-connected executives, who have real-world experience in founding …

CMR Surgical (Cambridge Medical Robotics) is developing the next-generation universal robotic system, called Versius, for minimal access or “keyhole” surgery. The company aims to make minimal access surgery universally accessible and affordable, transforming the existing market for surgical robotics and addressing the six million people who still undergo open surgery each year. Versius is dubbed …

Entrée Capital provides multi-stage funding for innovative start-ups and companies all over the world.

A VC arm of RELX Group, investing big data, digital health, internet and other tech companies

Atomico is a venture capital firm that invests in disruptive technology companies with ambitious founders from Series A onwards.

Baillie Gifford is an independent investment management firm, owned and run by 39 of its senior executives who operate as a partnership.

Northzone is a technology investment partnership that has so far invested in over 100 companies.

Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders. Beyond capital, it devotes its proven operational expertise, platform resources, and extensive network to support founders on their journey to Series A and beyond.