TEES TECH AWARDS 2025

SPONSORED BY TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY

FINALISTS

BEARTECH

Professor David Hughes( right), associate dean for research and innovation at Teesside University, presented the Digital Innovation award to Salvify co-founders Guy Brown and Craig Rabbetts( left).

WINNER

It was a triumphant return to the Tees Tech Awards for Innovation category winner Salvify.

At the 2024 awards, the firm – which launched last year with the tagline“ digital ointment for your medical inventory system” – was among three pitching to win the Tech Start-up prize.

It narrowly missed out but 12 months later, the firm run by brothers-in-law Guy Brown and Craig Rabbetts was named winner of the Digital Innovation category. And Guy admitted the past year, in which Salvify was named Most Original New Business at the Best New Tees Business Awards, had been a whirlwind of growth and phenomenal support from the local tech community.

He said:“ When we did the Tech Start-up last year, we were pitching at our very birth – we didn’ t even have a product then. It was an idea, a demo, a product getting developed.

“ We released it in September and since then have welcomed on board customer after customer. Now we’ re making an impact on care professionals up and down the country.”

With nurse Craig providing the medical expertise and Guy the digital knowhow, tech platform Salvify continues to set new standards in healthcare by addressing the problem of outdated and inefficient medical inventory systems.

Its innovative SaaS platform focuses on the critical needs of medical providers, ensuring teams can track, manage and restock life-saving supplies with ease. But Guy says Salvify’ s growth has been made easier by local support. He explained:“ Last year, we were very quiet – we didn’ t have a voice. But we came here, pitched and ever since, it feels like the community has backed us and backed us.”

And Craig says more growth is on the cards. He told Tees Business:“ We’ re already global – we’ re being used in New Zealand and the other day I got a message from Italy regarding some equipment that was being used as part of a patient transfer.

“ So, we’ re already being used by various international companies – and one of our newest clients is going to take us into one of the biggest stadiums in the UK to use as a medicine platform.

“ Over the last three months, our platform has managed 4,500 transactions of medication – that’ s 4,500 chances for people to have got it wrong. We’ d like to think the chances of them getting it wrong are now very slim because they’ re using our platform.”

Jurana, developed by Teesside-based BearTech, is transforming legal automation through AI. From the idea in June 2024, extensive market research and iterative design ensured a perfect product-market fit before launch.

In its first 10 weeks of alpha release, Jurana generated £ 600,000 in revenue, proving its commercial viability. Starting with cost drafting automation, Jurana is now expanding into mergers and acquisitions and residential conveyancing, streamlining legal workflows, enhancing compliance and reducing transaction times.

Powered by AI, it enables precise document analysis, setting a new benchmark for legal tech innovation. With strong early adoption and a scalable subscription-based model, it is poised to become a market leader in legal automation.

MCD SYSTEMS

MCD Systems’ expertise spans logistics, training and safety-critical applications through intelligent, scalable platforms that drive efficiency and compliance.

From AI-powered automation in logistics to IoT-enabled radiation detection and globally adopted training apps, its innovations are making a tangible impact. In 2024, it continued to push boundaries by integrating AI-driven workflows, expanding its Cloudnative infrastructure and launching early-stage product ventures. A recent development, a compliance recording app, aims to streamline regulatory processes across multiple industries.

And with an impressive 56 % revenue increase and a 102 % rise in profit, Kirkleathambased MCD’ s commercial success underscores the growing demand for its digital transformation solutions.

SPONSOR’ S MESSAGE

Professor David Hughes, associate dean for research and innovation, Teesside University: It’ s not just the impact of the innovation but it’ s the scale of the impact Salvify are having that really sets them apart. But the whole Tees Valley is full of amazing innovators and developers, creating a whole range of solutions. Those shortlisted were just three of many amazing businesses creating new solutions in traditional sectors and beyond.

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