Walnut Medical

What Walnut Medical does

Walnut Medical, trading as Sharp Insight Limited, is a UK-based medical market intelligence firm founded in 1997 that operates a subscription-based online database covering over 25,000 hospitals across 25 European countries plus the United States. Its core offerings are the Hospital Register (detailing hospital specialities and equipment), Surgery Statistics (procedure-level data for France, Germany, Spain, and the UK), and Inpatient Information (inpatient diagnostic data for the same four European countries). Data is delivered through downloadable tables, charts, and interactive maps, and the firm layers on consulting services including product innovation research, market research, bespoke consulting, and country reports.

The underlying technology is a curated, structured database that the company has refined continuously for more than 25 years, transitioning distribution from print (1998) to CD-ROM (2001) to a web platform (2006) and finally to an integrated hospital-level platform with downloadable tables, charts, and interactive maps (2013). The company is founder-led, with Kimmi Crosby as Managing Director and Bob Tulloch as Technical Director (who originally coded the database based on prior market research work at Frost & Sullivan), operating from a single headquarters in Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, UK.

Revenue is generated through two streams: recurring subscription access to the database and professional services for bespoke research and consulting. The go-to-market is sales-led with a self-serve login portal, supported by phone and email sales for custom requirements. The customer base is primarily medical device and pharmaceutical companies launching or expanding products in European markets, together with medical industry consultants requiring structured hospital and procedure data. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, and no funding rounds, external investors, or headcount figures are reported in available sources. The website privacy policy links to Decision Resources Group, suggesting a possible group affiliation, but no formal ownership relationship is disclosed.

Name

Walnut Medical

Legal name

Sharp Insight Limited

Website

https://walnutmedical.info

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Walnut Medical is a UK-based medical market intelligence firm operating a subscription database of 25,000+ hospitals across 25 European countries and the United States. It serves medical device and pharmaceutical companies, plus industry consultants, with structured hospital, surgery, and inpatient data.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Melbourn

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription-Based Medical Market Research Services: Recurring subscription services providing access to hospital databases, surgery statistics, and inpatient information delivered in multiple formats including graphs, charts, and video.
2. Consulting and Research Solutions: Bespoke consulting services including product innovation research, market research, strategic development, and custom country reports.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Walnut Medical operates a subscription-based online database providing structured medical market information covering 25,000+ hospitals across 25 countries in Europe and the USA, including detailed surgery statistics and inpatient information for four major European countries (France, Germany, Spain, UK). The company also offers bespoke consulting, market research, product innovation, and country report services to medical industry clients.

Product overview

Walnut Medical offers a suite of subscription-based medical market research services delivered through a web-based online database. The core product portfolio consists of three main data services: Hospital Register (covering over 19,000 hospitals in 25 European countries plus 6,000 US hospitals with specialities and equipment data), Surgery Statistics (surgical procedure data from France, Germany, Spain, and the UK), and Inpatient Information (inpatient diagnostic data from the same four European countries). These products are delivered as downloadable tables, charts, interactive maps, and video content. Additionally, the company offers consulting services including Product Innovation, Market Research, Consulting, and Country Reports for strategic business development in the medical industry.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hospital Register A subscription database covering over 19,000 hospitals across 25 European countries plus 6,000 hospitals in the USA, providing detailed information on specialities and equipment, delivered as downloadable tables, charts, and interactive maps for medical industry professionals.
• Surgery Statistics A subscription database providing high-quality information on surgical procedures performed in four major European countries (France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom), with detailed surgery-level data and classifications for medical market analysis.
• Inpatient Information
• Product Innovation Consulting
• Market Research
• Consulting
• Country Reports

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Definitive Healthcare: Definitive Healthcare provides subscription-based commercial intelligence on hospitals, physicians, and healthcare facilities in the US, with detailed coverage of specialities, equipment, and affiliations. It is the closest direct competitor to Walnut Medical's Hospital Register product, although with a US-centric dataset versus Walnut Medical's European focus.
• Evaluate (formerly EvaluatePharma): Evaluate provides subscription-based pharma and healthcare market intelligence, including drug and device market data, forecasts, and country-level analysis. It is a direct comparator to Walnut Medical in the subscription medical market intelligence category, with stronger pharma coverage and weaker European hospital-level depth.

Broad incumbents

• GlobalData: GlobalData is a large subscription-based market intelligence platform with dedicated healthcare and medical device verticals covering hospital data, procedure volumes, and country-level market analysis. It competes with Walnut Medical across the same pharma and medtech customer base with a much broader data and analyst footprint.
• IQVIA: IQVIA is the largest healthcare data, analytics, and commercial intelligence provider, offering hospital-level data, real-world evidence, and market research to pharma and medtech clients. It competes with Walnut Medical for the same medtech and pharma market intelligence budgets at a much larger scale and broader geographic footprint.
• Frost & Sullivan: Frost & Sullivan is a global market research and consulting firm with deep healthcare and life sciences coverage, where Walnut Medical's Technical Director Bob Tulloch previously worked as an external market researcher. It is a direct competitor in healthcare market intelligence consulting and a strong comparator for Walnut Medical's bespoke research offerings.
• Decision Resources Group (DRG) / Clarivate: Decision Resources Group, now part of Clarivate, is a global healthcare intelligence and consulting firm with deep coverage of hospital, disease, and market data. Walnut Medical's website privacy policy links directly to decisionresourcesgroup.com and its social handles reference DRG MedTech, indicating an affiliation that makes DRG both a logical comparator and a likely distribution or parent relationship.
• Informa Pharma Intelligence (Citeline): Informa Pharma Intelligence, including the Citeline platform, offers subscription databases on drugs, trials, devices, and disease markets used by pharma and medtech commercial teams. It competes with Walnut Medical for the same medical industry intelligence budgets at significantly greater scale.
• Kantar (Health): Kantar's health practice provides subscription healthcare market research, patient and physician insights, and consulting to pharma and medtech clients. It overlaps directly with Walnut Medical's market research and consulting services for medical industry customers.

Regional players

• Hospital Healthcare Europe (HHE): Hospital Healthcare Europe is a Europe-focused information and reference platform covering hospital management, clinical practice, and infrastructure. It overlaps with Walnut Medical's European hospital register use case as a regional reference and intelligence source for the same European hospital ecosystem.

Emerging players

• Trinity Life Sciences: Trinity Life Sciences is a life sciences consulting and insights firm serving pharma and medtech with primary market research, commercial strategy, and analytics. It is comparable to Walnut Medical's consulting and bespoke research offerings from a different, more consulting-led angle.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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