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Cold outreach: Startups

Organisations that take students who write to them. We list organisations, never people, and we never write or send emails for you.

Showing 25 organisations.

6 organisations · Type | Location

Dayshape

Type: StartupEdinburgh

What they do

Builds AI-based resource management software that helps large professional services firms plan their work and match staff to projects. It is headquartered in Edinburgh and also has staff in the US.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Details for Dayshape
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“Join Dayshape, trusted by Big Four firms, for a 9-month placement building real features across JavaScript, C#, .NET, and Vue.js”

GOGETMEIT

Type: StartupLiverpool

What they do

A young company with an online platform that connects social housing landlords with local tradespeople for repairs and upkeep. It allocates jobs to nearby trades and uses data collected during repairs, with machine learning, to predict which parts and materials are likely to fail.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Grape Software

Type: StartupLocation not stated

What they do

Develops software for food hygiene inspections in the UK that links council inspectors, independent auditors and food businesses, so inspection findings, evidence and follow-up actions stay together. Its inspection tool is open to council trials, with further products still being built.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

KPV LAB Edinburgh

Type: StartupEdinburgh

What they do

An Edinburgh software studio, part of a Munich-based group, building interactive web tools that map information across time and place, for subjects ranging from history and music to business data.

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Does not say

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Phasecraft

Type: StartupLondon, Bristol

What they do

A startup writing quantum computing algorithms tailored to each of the main quantum hardware platforms, which it applies with commercial partners to problems in materials, biochemistry and logistics where ordinary computers fall short.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Willo

Type: StartupGlasgow

What they do

Makes an online platform employers use to screen job applicants, who answer set questions on video at a time that suits them, so hiring teams can interview large numbers of candidates.

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Does not say

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

3 organisations · Type | Location

Continuum Industries

Type: StartupLondon, Edinburgh

What they do

Builds Optioneer, an AI platform that helps energy and water utilities and project developers plan and design new infrastructure and move it through permitting more quickly. Offices in London and Edinburgh.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Favorius

Type: StartupEdinburgh

What they do

Develops a cloud-based artificial intelligence service in which each user has a personal neural network, and runs projects on personalised health advice, indexing of medicines and cosmetics, and genome research.

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Does not say

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Resilient Technologies

Type: StartupLondon

What they do

A young UK company building AI software for smaller businesses. It advises on, prototypes and develops custom AI tools, links AI into existing systems, and runs its own product that scores each location's Google reviews and sends an automatic reply when a negative one arrives.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

12 organisations · Type | Location

Aurum Biosciences

Type: StartupLocation not stated

What they do

Develops an oxygen-carrying injection whose carrier is far tinier than red blood cells, so it can reach tissue cut off from blood flow in a stroke; the same product also serves as an MRI imaging agent. A UK company with its product in clinical trials.

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Does not say

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Baseimmune

Type: StartupLondon

What they do

A biotech company that uses computer-led design and protein engineering to create tailored antigens, with the aim of building immune-based treatments for long-lasting illnesses.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

CHARM Therapeutics

Type: StartupLondon, Cambridge

What they do

A drug discovery company that designs medicines by studying how proteins interact with the molecules that bind to them. It is taking a menin inhibitor for acute myeloid leukaemia into clinical trials; resistance has been seen with the first menin drugs, and this newer one is built to tackle it.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Concinnity Genetics

Type: StartupLocation not stated

What they do

Spun out of the University of Edinburgh, it combines an AI platform with synthetic biology to design ways of controlling cell and gene therapies so they are safer, and works with therapy developers as partners.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Cytochroma

Type: StartupEdinburgh

What they do

An Edinburgh biotechnology company that produces stem-cell-derived human liver, heart and immune cells from donors of many ancestries, and tests drug candidates on them for pharmaceutical and biotech clients.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Econic Biosciences

Type: StartupLondon

What they do

A cancer drug company studying extrachromosomal DNA, rings of DNA outside the chromosomes that help tumours grow and resist treatment, and searching for medicines that act on it.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Engitix

Type: StartupLondon

What they do

A drug discovery company that models disease using human tissue scaffolds to learn how the matrix around cells goes wrong in chronic illness. Its early-stage medicines aim at scarring, inflammatory conditions and solid cancers, and it seeks collaborations with drug companies.

Hosted students

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Ignota Labs

Type: StartupCambridge

What they do

A Cambridge company that takes drug candidates abandoned over safety problems, uses its AI platform to find what caused the harm, and redesigns them with new chemistry before selling or partnering them.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

ILC Therapeutics

Type: StartupLocation not stated

What they do

A UK biotech that engineers hybrid interferons, a new type of protein drug, with infectious disease as its first target. It is building a pipeline of candidates and looks for partners to develop or license them.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Ixogen

Type: StartupLocation not stated

What they do

A UK biotechnology company developing cancer treatments from adenoviruses it modifies to infect and kill tumour cells while mostly sparing healthy ones, with the aim of taking them into first clinical trials.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Pheno Therapeutics

Type: StartupEdinburgh

What they do

An Edinburgh company working on drugs that switch off a receptor called GPR17 so the brain can mend itself, for MS, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other nervous-system conditions. Its most advanced drug, for MS, has been cleared for human trials.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Scarlet Therapeutics

Type: StartupLocation not stated

What they do

A biotech company that grew out of University of Bristol research. It is developing treatments based on red blood cells grown in the lab and made to carry medicinal proteins, aimed first at rare metabolic disorders.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

4 organisations · Type | Location

Arda Biomaterials

Type: StartupLondon

What they do

Materials science company turning spent grain from beer and whisky makers into protein-based materials that can replace plastic, and working with brands in fashion, drinks and beauty to use them in products.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Epoch Biodesign

Type: StartupLondon

What they do

A biorecycling company that breaks nylon waste down with enzymes created with the help of AI, so the waste can be turned into new polymer. It sells both standard and recycled nylon and is adding production sites.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Holiferm

Type: StartupLocation not stated

What they do

A university spin-out that manufactures surfactants using bioreactors. It has grown from early research to running its own pilot and commercial plants, and has brought out a granulated surfactant.

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026

Zentraxa

Type: StartupLocation not stated

What they do

A University of Bristol spin-out that designs, makes and tests peptides inspired by sea molluscs, used as glues that hold in wet conditions. It targets wound care, ostomy bags, optical sensors and hair care, and seeks companies to develop products with.

Hosted students

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Link checked 27 Sep 2026