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Belfast software firm SciLeads target pharma sector in latest global growth drive

L-R: Tom Walls, Laura Haldane, James Campbell and Patrick McColgan from SciLeads, launching the company’s new BioPharma product.
L-R: Tom Walls, Laura Haldane, James Campbell and Patrick McColgan from SciLeads, launching the company’s new BioPharma product.

BELFAST-based software company SciLeads has launched a new product focused on the pharmaceutical sector which has the potential to take the company into new markets and accelerate its growth plans. 

Launched in 2016 by friends Daniel McRitchie, Laura Haldane and James Campbell, SciLeads is a market intelligence platform that helps scientific companies identify, engage and close their ideal buyers.

It now employs 60 people, primarily in Northern Ireland and Canada. But it also has staff in the UK, Europe and Asia.

Expanding on its original platform, SciLeads has launched BioPharma, a product designed to give clients accurate and up-to-date information about companies operating in the pharma industry.

Earlier this year, the Belfast firm announced plans to double the size of its team in the next two years, and with the launch of the new product is immediately recruiting at least five software engineers.

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SciLeads was last year named among the island’s fastest growing tech companies, with Deloitte ranking it 14th in its 2022 Technology Fast 50 list.

“As part of a core team of seven developers, spread across the world, it has been an amazing experience to collaborate, entirely remotely, on such a big project,” said SciLeads’ senior software developer, Paddy McColgan.

“It has been a challenge, which is great. We keep expanding the platform with huge new datasets and it pushes us to learn new skills and develop new processes.”