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UK HEALTHTECH HUB
Work with the UK's leading Healthtech companies
Why the UK?
As emerging and maturing technologies continue to disrupt and transform incumbent industries, leading UK companies are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges, in areas such as climate, energy, transport and health. As we live through the fastest pace of change in history, UK tech is at the forefront of some of the biggest questions, and providing the answers.
The tech sector has performed strongly over the past five years, the highlights, illustrating the strength of companies, and the ecosystem alike are presented below.
1. Digital tech GVA (Gross value added) increased by 43% from 2010 to 2018
Source: DCMS Sector Estimates, 2020
2. Digital tech VC investment increased by 44% between 2018 and 2019, bring investment to all time record levels
Source: Tech Nation and Dealroom, 2020
Note: Figures vary to Tech Nation Reports due to additional data captured post hoc on deals after respective reports were published.
3. Digital economy jobs increased by 40% from 2017 to 2019, taking the total number of people working in the digital economy to over 2.9m
Source: Business Structure Database and Annual Population Survey, 2005-2019
Note: Figures vary to Tech Nation Reports due to revisions made based on 2017 population estimates.
4. In 2019, there were 7x the number of digital tech unicorns in the UK compared to 2010
Source: Tech Nation and Dealroom, 2020
5. The number of digital tech companies in the UK has risen by 56% since 2010, to over 185k
Source: ONS, UK Business Counts, 2010-2019
UK tech companies are delivering record returns
4% investment of £10mn in 2016 would now be worth £66mn
5%investment of £5mn in 2015 would now be worth £100mn
3%investment of £1.95mn in 2017 would now be worth £60mn
UK healthtech
- VC investment into UK Healthtech reached a record high in 2020 at $2.33bn
VC investment in Healthtech by European nation from 2015 to 2020 ($bn)
Source: Tech Nation, Dealroom, 2021
- The UK was third in the world for healthtech investment raised in 2020, behind only the United States ($38.6bn) and China ($12.2bn)
- Healthtech investment was second only to Fintech in 2020, making up just under 12% of all investment into UK tech firms
VC investment in UK tech companies by subsector ($bn)
Source: Tech Nation, Dealroom, 2021
- Over 2020, the importance of tech in meeting people’s physical and mental health needs has been confirmed with several bumper deals including $100mn raised by Babylon Health, a digital healthcare application and $70mn by Cera Care, a platform which connects healthcare professionals and patients.
- There are just over 3,000 startups and scaleups operating in healthtech in the UK, of which around 400 have recorded high growth over the past two years (20% year on year growth)
- There are close to 10,000 jobs being advertised by Healthtech scaleups in early 2021 - including the likes of Immunocore, Oxford Nanopore, Healx and Babylon Health.
- $1.54bn was invested into healthtech firms in the advanced manufacturing sector, including Perspectum, Neurovalens and Nourish3d.
Healthtech First 100
The Healthtech First 100 is a directory of pioneering UK companies ready to work with you. They are laid out by sub-sector - take a look at their areas of expertise and check out their website.
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Health systems
Acadiant
Working closely with healthcare professionals to understand their challenges, and build future-proof software they enjoy using.
Allocate
Workforce technology helping organisations plan, manage, engage and deploy staff safely and efficiently for better patient care.
AT Medics
We bring together the best of primary care delivery and management, tailor-made and integrated healthcare technology, and accredited training and education.
BJSS
Relying on flexibility, commitment to technical excellence, and an absolute focus on outcomes to enable user-centric technology.
Cera Care
Enabling people to live happier and longer lives in the comfort of their own home.
Difrent
Helping to deliver secure, accessible digital services that positively impact the lives of users and citizens.
IMMJ
MediViewer™ allows healthcare professionals to view digitised paper patient records in a simple but powerful “viewer” from any device.
Infinity Health
A platform that integrates alongside other patient record systems, supporting staff to coordinate care and access patient information from the point of care
intouch with health
Increase organisational efficiency and deliver an improved patient experience through a flawless management of outpatients appointment (from A-Z).
Maldaba
Helping transform the way healthcare organisations help people and work more effectively.
Malinko
Malinko enables healthcare organisations to improve community clinical care by ensuring their patients are seen by the right clinician with the right skills at the right time.
MediShout
MediShout's technology improves the ability of healthcare organisations to repond to the evolving Covid-19 crisis
Patchwork
Unleashing the power of flexible working to solve the global healthcare staffing crisis.
PatientSource
PatientSource is the centre piece of a Digital Health eco system. Our solution is interoperable, connecting disparate data silos, complementary electronic solutions and monitoring devices.
RLDatix
Cloud-based software to support healthcare organisations with their patient safety, infection surveillance and GRC initiatives
Templar Execs
Protecting and optimising the availability of patient data through provision of specialist cyber security services and enabling staff to keep data safe through training and knowledge sharing
TPP
Connecting all health services through a central medical record. Allows patients access. AI for early detection and enhanced service delivery.
Transforming Systems
We capture data, convert this to information, transform this to intelligence and then deliver actionable insights from this.
Vita Healthcare
Experts in taking the best digital health innovation both into and out of the UK
X-lab
X-Lab offer a globally unique solution to connect any diagnostic health system to any other system, anywhere in the world.
XyCare
Digitally enabled Primary Care transformation team allows us to integrate health care systems providing one view of the patient journey
Self care and wellness
Babylon Health
We bring together the best of primary care delivery and management, tailor-made and integrated healthcare technology, and accredited training and education.
Elemental
Elemental enables Health and Social Care providers to connect patients to non-medical activities and support in the community to reduce health risks.
Healthbit
Bring all their health data together. Shareable personal health record and self-tracking tools with ability to connect to third-party apps and devices.
Healthera
We are the 'Uber Eats' platform for obtaining prescription, over-the-counter medicine, health & beauty products and pharmacy-related services.
Iam Yiam
AI virtual companion app to help people manage their lifestyle and predict + prevent key health risks. For organisations: a population analytics dashboard to help steer prevention strategies and track ROI.
Avatr
Connecting patients and doctors - delivering personalised healthcare through a secure AI platform that gives users control of their data privacy.
KiActiv®
Technology enabled self-care that empowers people to improve their health and rehabilitation using their personal everyday physical activity.
Kooth Plc.
We design and deliver digital mental health services for adults and children via an integrated data and content rich platform.
My mhealth
my mhealth makes apps to help people and doctors better manage COPD, asthma, heart disease and diabetes.
Patients know best
Allowing patients to collect all their medical data, health data and individuals managing their care around one record.
Sitekit
Keep track of your child's health, view their NHS data and read assured guidance - Easy to use and hard to lose.
Smart Asthma
Smart Respiratory uses AI and digital health to enable asthmatics to manage their condition at home.
Remote treatment and monitoring
Ampersand Health
Ampersand Health helps people with a range of long term conditions live happier, healthier lives.
Aparito
Giving researchers, physicians and health care professionals the insight needed to support their care, and communicate back with them directly.
Axela
The cAir:ID system provides a truly integrated electronic healthcare record for both healthcare professionals and citizens with a solution that stores, manages, queries and retrieves, multiple data sources.
Closed Loop Medicine
Improving patient outcomes through precision, integrated care by providing every drug its real time digital companion.
Concentric Health
At Concentric Health our mission is to transform how decisions are made about our health. Decisions informed by patient outcomes, and shared by patient and clinician.
Current Health
Current Health helps doctors treat patients proactively by monitoring the body and automatically identifying disease.
Diabetes Digital Media (DDM)
DDM provide digital therapies (apps) clinically demonstrated to engage and sustain long-term behaviour change.
Docobo
Helping clinicians monitor patients in their own homes, preventing deterioration of health and reducing need to go to hospital
DrDoctor
DrDoctor helps hospitals and patients communicate effectively, and supports health services to deliver effective remote services.
Feebris
We build AI tools that improve access to early diagnosis for the most vulnerable patients
HCI
Our videos and libraries support patients at home and help hospitals to manage healthcare pathways more efficiently.
Helicon
We provide technologies that work well to aid the doctors and other health and social care professionals to support and treat those people at most risk from infectious diseases and from life-threatening long-term conditions from a distance - using technologies.
Huma
Huma utilises integrated mobile solutions and analytics to provide more insight into health and help people live fuller, healthier lives.
Isansys
Enabling improved care through wearable technology, wrapping the patient in a digital “blanket” that is continuously monitoring, analysing and alerting at the first sign of trouble.
Kraydel
Agetech connecting older adults with family, and carers through their TV, and support remote health and wellbeing monitoring. Can be used in social isolation for Covid-19.
Medicspot
Patients can sit in front of our stations and clinicians can remotely connect with the stations and initiate a video consultation and remotely examine patients during the consultation.
Metix
Unify patient monitoring with administrative processes and provide clinical decision-making data at every stage of the patient journey
MyWay Digital Health
MWDH runs national and large regional integrated platforms for clincians and patients; supporting through data-driven automated advice, analytics, and education.
ORCHA
Shaping the future of patient-centred care by helping health professionals to find and recommend the best health apps.
OxeHealth
We use optical sensors, software and algorithmic intelligence to measure the vital signs and activity of patients
Spirit Health
Supporting patients to self-manage and connect to their healthcare teams remotely for long term condition and deterioration monitoring
StormID
Helps patients securely share their health data from apps, sensors and devices with clinical systems, generating new insights that transform their care, keeping them at home and out of hospital.
Visonable
Advanced Video conferencing connecting clinical teams and patients, opening next generation care pathways and providing clinicians with new capabilities.
Zesty
Zesty specialises in integrated patient portals, partnering with acute and community healthcare providers to unlock cost savings and deliver a wide range of clinical and operational benefits.
Data and analytics
AdviseInc
Providing analytics and insight to hospitals and health systems to drive effective procurement and supply chain management.
C2-Ai
Award winning AI-backed Hospital Improvement Solution, focussed on improving Governance, Finance & Patient Safety. Delivered SaaS in 11 countries.
i5 Health
i5 AI systems provide support throughout the entire healthcare cycle: identifying best practice and patient groups, addressing care gaps, referring patients to optimum services and measuring outcomes.
Management and Supervision Tool (MaST)
MaST is a computer system which helps mental health professionals to work out when a person is more likely to need crisis services.
Methods Analytics
Measurably improve society by helping people make better decisions with data.
Privitar
With the Privitar Data Privacy Platform™, you can define your Privacy Policies centrally and apply them consistently across your organization.
Source Group
Source Group provides specialist recruitment, waiting list management, sustainable change in the healthcare sector and software solutions that lead to sustained, tangible change.
Talking Medicines
Connecting the companies to make medicines to how their medicines are taken & what people are saying about them in the real world, at home.
uMotif
uMotif’s software platform engages patients to capture data during a clinical trial or research project, primarily undertaken by pharmaceutical companies
Screening and diagnostics
Behold.ai
Behold.ai utilises state-of-the-art technology to provide healthcare providers with cutting edge Artificial Intelligence diagnostic solutions.
Blackford Analysis
There is a significant opportunity to utilise AI applications in medical imaging departments – Blackford’s Platform simplifies the deployment, management and use of those applications.
Cirdan
Cirdan’s systems are helping to increase efficiency and streamline operations in the pathology departments of public and private healthcare organisations.
Kheiron Medical
Kheiron is transforming cancer diagnostics through the power of AI. Our award winning breast screening solution Mia supports radiologists reading breast mammograms.
Mirada Medical
Unlocking the power of AI for radiation oncology, automating radiotherapy imaging workflows.
Optellum
Our platform helps clinicians to identify and track at-risk patients and to speed up interventions for patients with cancer while reducing unnecessary invasive procedures.
Collaboration and communication
Bleepa
Bleepa provides an instant-messaging platform, using an end-to-end encrypted service for the secure exchange of medical grade images to collaborate for clinical reviews.
ImproveWell
Giving all frontline staff a voice, helping leaders to improve staff experience and the quality of patient care
Medic Bleep
Secure and real-time communication solution, enables doctors & nurses to communicate and collaborate.
Mind of my Own
Helping children have a digital way to tell professionals about their lives, their wellbeing and keep themselves safe.
Proximie
Proximie combines the best clinical experts in the world with sophisticated technologies so they can work together to save patients’ lives.
Xploro
Reducing young patients’ stress and anxiety through the use of artificial intelligence, augmented reality and gameplay
Staffing
BMJ
BMJ has over 170 years experience supporting healthcare professionals to make better, more informed decisions.
CMR Surgical
Helping more patients to get keyhole surgery by providing surgeons with a tool that can help them perform complex surgery
DemDx
Dem Dx helps doctors and allied health professionals diagnose better and faster with a step-by-step guide from presentations and investigations to diagnosis.
Elsevier
Using advanced technology, helping an institution’s doctors and nurses access digital evidence-based clinical knowledge, to make better diagnosis, treatment and care decisions for their patients.
Medics.Academy
Medics.Academy provides innovative technology enhanced learning solutions and communications strategies in the healthcare space.
MedShr
MedShr enables doctors to share their knowledge and skills through clinical case discussion to improve healthcare, and ultimately save lives
Tactuum Ltd.
www.quris.com improves the health of patients and the wellbeing of healthcare staff by ensuring they have the right information, at the right time to make the best decisions possible.
Yoti
Helping staff and citizens prove who they are, their qualifications & health test results and be allowed in the right places online and in person.
Future tech
Congenica
Translating complex genomic data into actionable information - enabling world-class genomic medicine services and empowering healthcare professionals to provide life-changing answers.
Glamorous.AI
Increase productivity and reduce the cost of drug discovery - addressing diseases of unmet need through novel human-artificial intelligence.
Hadean
Providing large-scale, high-fidelity simulations to rapidly accelerate clinical research and drug discovery.
iProov
Enables citizens and clinicians to easily verify their identities online and authenticate to access secure healthcare services and records.
Virti
Virti scales workforce training helping organisations to improve employee performance.
Triage
eConsult
Transforming the NHS from within, built by NHS doctors, eConsult Health Ltd helps improve patient access to healthcare and ensure they are directed to the right clinician for their symptoms as quickly as possible.
Ultramed
MyPreOp allows patients to enter, own and share their health information in preparation for an operation. This is also applicable in pre-procedure assessments and in the outpatient setting.
Vantage Health
Vantage Health transforms the referral process. Our solution operationalises pathways to help clinicians direct patients to the best care based on local guidelines.
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Tech Nation
Tech Nation is the growth platform for tech companies and leaders
Tech Nation fuels the growth of game-changing founders, leaders and scaling companies so they can positively transform societies and economies. We provide them with the coaching, content and community they need for their journey in designing the future.
Tech Nation catalyses the 21st century infrastructure that accelerates the entire ecosystem, bringing together a network of purposeful founders and philanthropists, progressive enterprises and policymakers, influential funds and institutions in order to collaborate in building the technological innovation that will improve the future for the UK and beyond.
When we started out in 2010, we dreamt of a tech nation that united the country. We kicked off by shining a spotlight on London’s tech cluster, and then rapidly expanded our reach to join the dots on UK technology, from Belfast to Bangor, Dundee to Derby, Liverpool to Leeds, Sheffield to Sunderland and Newcastle to Norwich. Our future will extend beyond timezones, territories and technologies. Our ambitions are as big as those of the entrepreneurs we elevate. Our current mission is to unlock the growth potential of 1000 scaling tech leadership teams across the UK by 2022. We want to contribute to a future in which anyone with vision and drive can access the skills and support needed to succeed as a game-changing leader. #WeAreTechNation. We fuel growth.
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The data
We use a combination of data from Beauhurst, Dealroom, and information collected from companies themselves. Dealroom data deals with venture capital investment and excludes debt, lending capital, grants, ICOs and other non-equity. Secondary rounds, buyouts, M&A and IPOs are also excluded. The data excludes biotech. Including biotech the UK and European investment data would make it much higher. Dealroom’s proprietary database and software aggregate data from multiple sources, including news flow aggregation and processing, web scraping and manual research. Data is verified and curated with an extensive manual process, augmented by data processing.
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