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Spinouts and Startups

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The School of Computing Science has been the crucible for innovative spinout companies born of our research, and startup companies created by our students and graduates. Learn more about some of the companies emerging from the School and support available for prospective new ventures from our staff and students.

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KEPsoft Collaborative CIC

KEPsoft Collaborative was formed in 2025 as a spinout not-for-profit social enterprise from the research of Professor David Manlove and colleagues on matching algorithms to enable paired kidney exchanges in patients requiring a kidney transplant.

KEPsoft Collaborative provides software and services to support the optimisation of national and international Kidney Exchange Programmes (KEPs). By doing so, KEPsoft Collaborative widens access to living donor kidney transplants for patients suffering from end stage renal disease.

KEPsoft Collaborative is a result of eight years of interdisciplinary and international collaboration, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) and national funding bodies.

Current Health

PhD graduate Stewart Whiting was co-founder and CTO of Current Health. The company developed highly innovative wearable technology and associated predictive data analytics for remote patient monitoring, enabling proactive healthcare and saving lives, playing a significant role in the Covid 19 pandemic as health services around the world struggled to free hospital beds for incoming Covid patients.

Current Health was acquired by Best Buy in 2021 for approximately $400million. The company continues to support patients at home throughout the world.

Biomage

Biomage was a data analytics company, co-founded by PhD candidate Adam Kurkiewicz, SoCS graduate Iva Babukova and SoCS student Marcell Pek. The company built a single cell discovery platform which makes it possible for research biologists to turn vast single-cell sequencing data sets into actionable biological insights. They were early movers into a new, high-growth analytical market enabled by the recent explosion of massive data sets generated with an emerging technology: single cell genomics. Their product was built upon consultancy services provided to scientists in academia and industry.

Biomage were acquired by Seattle-based startup Parse Biosciences in January 2024 for an undisclosed sum, with the Biomage team joining Parse as part of the acquisition.

VeryConnect

VeryConnect provides innovative events and membership management software solutions to a global customer base spanning societies, nonprofits, alumni networks, and professional organisations. Based in Glasgow, VeryConnect has a world-class development team including many SoCS graduates, including PhD graduate and founder Kyle White.

Opinew

Opinew provides a SEO and speed optimized online review application for Shopify business owners. Founded by SoCS student and RSE Enterprise Fellow Tomasz Sadowski, the company is growing its customer base, profile and product offering. In 2019 Opinew was a Young Edge winner in the Scottish Edge Round 14 awards.

Bizvento

Bizvento provides a conference and event management app to conference attendees and invaluable analytics and insights to conference organisers. Founded in 2013 and led by SoCS PhD candidate Stefan Raue, the company has been growing its customer base throughout the higher education, tech conference, and event management sectors.

Prodsight

Prodsight automatically identifies and tracks customer issues in customer conversations to improve product and customer experience. It helps companies make data-driven product development decisions. Prodsight was founded by UofG graduate, and SoCS RSE Unlocking Ambition Enterprise Fellow, Tadas Labudis.

Prodsight was acquired by Playvox in 2022.

Malted AI

Malted AI Platform enables bespoke AI solutions for complex, regulated workflows within financial services. It leverages small language models and knowledge distillation to create highly specialised AI models that are efficient enough to self-host. Malted AI is working with Fortune 100 enterprises to optimise complex business processes where general AI fails. The company was founded by leading AI researchers from The University of Glasgow, who won AI's grand challenge, the multi-million dollar Amazon Alexa Prize. They assembled a team of world-class researchers and engineers from Google, Meta, IBM, Bloomberg, and Amazon. Malted AI has raised £7m from top venture capital firms and industry veterans.