Microplate Dx- Closing the Year with Winning the Best 'StartUp' Business at Barclays Entrepreneur Awards 2023

“It takes courage and sacrifice to start and remain in business. It takes grit to #startup, and determination and resilience?to keep going.

Microplate Dx Limited #Team Keep innovating, keep dreaming, and keep doing good work to help the world and communities."

What a fab outcome!? Microplate Dx Limited was successful in receiving the Best ‘StartUp’ Business winner's trophy from amongst the many 100s of entries submitted, shortlisted, through Regional nations rounds and then winning the National #Finals in London, this time at the Barclays #EntrepreneurAwards 2023, #BarclaysEA23.

Fabulous work by the whole amazing Microplate Dx #Team.? Commercialisation and growth journey continues in getting national recognition amongst high-potential, innovative, revenue generating growth businesses. As a MedTech, Health Technology business- this reward and recognition at the UK-wide level becomes even more positive because it is competed against all technology companies, at a sector-agnostic level. Chosen by the judges for company’s strengths in #Team's #Leadership, raising #Investment, #commercial traction, partnerships, #innovation & #Technology uniqueness along with the business's vision and mission for longer term #inclusive influence and #Impact on the global society.

A fab evening hosted by Sara Davies MBE , aka Dragon's Den and presented the award to Microplate Dx Limited with Katherine M. ( Barclays UK 's High Growth Entrepreneurs) at the #BarclaysEA23 for Best #Startup’ Business chosen in London, UK. ?

Super proud of Team's achievement and extremely pleased to bring this back to #Scotland and more so .......this win to the City of #Glasgow and for the spinout from 英国斯特拉斯克莱德大学 , Glasgow and Scotland headquartered Tech company.?

All the kudos to our #Team & the Board - can not thank and praise enough the work of the super team for keeping the momentum and the pace of developments going: Dr Stuart Hannah , Profs Damion Corrigan , Paul Hoskisson & NXD, Prof Andy Porter .?

Shout out to our fabulous staff & team : Michael Malecha , Gregor Russell , Heather Ralston , Maria Katsafadou , Adrian Butterworth , Tyla Campbell , Vincent Vezza and Graham Lithgow .

Also thank you to all the supporters for their help: Alistair Longmuir , MBM Commercial LLP , CT: Accountants Advisers , CS Lifesciences , Albert Nicholl , Dr Alexis Roberts-McIntosh .

#AntiMicrobialResistance, #AMR is a major threat to global #public #health, currently responsible for more than 1.27 million global deaths each year, and according to the World Health Organization (#WHO), could result in 10 million deaths annually by 2050, more than cancer and diabetes combined.

Thank you to the like-minded #Investors for their keen interest in company’s ambition and growth journey, its vision and mission: Deepbridge Capital , the 英国斯特拉斯克莱德大学 , Scottish Enterprise , SIS Ventures and international backers from the #USA market, Mark Bamforth #ThairmBio Investment.

Lessons learnt along the way from managing and working on start up and scaleup journeys and growth are: Celebrate the small wins, be self aware, enjoy the journey and keep up the pace for the marathon of big prize ahead.

Congratulations to all the other amazing Finalists and winning businesses at the Awards and the great work that is being done to create value, particularly around #impact and #Societal #Impact and #Innovation. There were at least four Scottish companies amongst the Finalists.? Congratulations to RAB-Microfluidics for winning 'Eagles Lab Innovation Award'. And Well done to HVSystems , Jawad Khursheed and CCU International , Beena Sharma for joining the shortlist of amazing #finalists.?Well done OpenOrigins for being named ‘Highly Commended’ in the ‘StartUp’ award Category.?

All the best to all businesses for huge success in their ventures and scaling up as that is what we need in the UK to be a thriving economy nation & create new high-quality jobs from entrepreneurial ventures with disruptive solutions for real world challenges.?

A big thank you to all involved and Barclays UK , Barclays Eagle Labs for organising and hosting the competition #BarclaysEA23.

Scottish Development International , Strathclyde Inspire , Royal Society of Edinburgh , Scotland's Life Sciences Conference & Awards , Life Sciences Scotland , SULSA - Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance , OBN (UK) Ltd , Scottish EDGE , Converge Alumni , Bayes Centre #AIAccelerator, Glasgow City Innovation District , Glasgow City of Science and Innovation , Invest Glasgow , Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre , #EIE , Scottish Lifesciences Association , BioIndustry Association (BIA) , Innovate UK .

#Entrepreneurship, #BreakingBarriers #leadership, HealthCare, #Diagnostics Tools, #PointOfCare Test, #PoC, #SpinOut, #Glasgow, #Scotland, #UK, #GCID, #AMID, #BarclaysEA23.