Across the pond, London’s tech scene, also known as the Silicon Roundabout, is bursting at the seams with startup activity. Among the buzzing streets of London lives Tech City UK, an accelerator aimed at fueling digital entrepreneurs to image, start, and grow digital enterprises and help founders drive change within the industry.
Within their accelerator, there is the Future Fifty, a program that powers 50 of the UK’s fastest growing and most disruptive digital tech companies by providing expert-led classes and workshops, networking opportunities, visibility, private partnerships, and direct links to the UK government.
Since 2014, Future Fifty has graduated 77 companies through the program. They’ve had five IPOs on the London Stock Exchange, raising $1.5 billion, as well as 17 mergers and acquisitions of which 11 in the last year, including SwiftKey (Microsoft), Housetrip (TripAdvisor), One Fine Stay (Accor Group) and Skyscanner (Ctrip). Their startups have captured over $3.8 billion raised in funding, the companies have created 27,000 jobs around the world and have alumni with names including Zoopla and Just Eat.
Tech City UK announced their class of 2017 with 26 UK-based companies who will be joining the Future Fifty program.
Future Fifty’s Latest Batch
Azimo is an online international money transfer service that allows people to send money to any internet-connected device in over 190 countries around the world
Blis uses location data technology to create audiences for advertisers
Bloom & Wild provides flower delivery through the letterbox
Carwow is the most convenient, stress-free way to find and buy a new car
ClearScore is a company that provides free access to credit scores and reports
Condeco Group helps companies manage their meeting and office spaces more effectively
Ebury is a financial services company that helps small and medium enterprises grow internationally with foreign exchange, business lending and cash management solutions
Epos Now is a point-of-sale software and hardware provider that automates small business banking
Fairsail provides cloud-based human resources and people management software to mid-sized organizations
Festicket is an online marketplace to discover and book musical festival experiences
Gousto provides innovative recipe boxes with pre-portioned ingredients packaged and delivered to the door each week
Interact intranet software and professional services to help companies solve internal communication and collaboration challenges
Kano creates computers and coding kits for all ages
LoveCrafts is an online community and marketplace for the crafts sector
My UNiDAYS connects brands and services to a verified audience of students around the world
Onfido is an identity verification platform that helps over 1,000 companies ensure their customers are who they claim to be
Receipt Bank is a startup that plans to automate small business bookkeeping
ROLI is a music technology company that makes a modular music creation system that opens up new possibilities for musical expression
Tails.com is an online pet nutrition service that makes and delivers tailormade food for an individual dog’s unique diet and nutritional needs
Thread is an e-commerce company that uses human stylists and machine learning to help men dress well without going shopping
Threadstyling is a company reinventing luxury goods commerce for Millennials
Spitfire Audio provides virtual instruments to composers and producers to produce and earn royalties on quality musical samples
SuperAwesome powers a kid-safe digital media ecosystem with products that are designed for kids’ data privacy requirements
Swoon Editions is an online furniture brand that works directly with suppliers to provide better quality products at a better price than traditional retailers
Trak Global Group is a telematics company that uses embedded devices to gather data and manage driver risk
Ve Interactive provides software that helps companies with digital advertising and online conversion
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Existing Companies with Future First
Adzuna is a search engine for jobs ads that lists every job, everywhere
Algomi enables all market participants to securely and intelligently harness data to make valuable financial trading connections
Brandwatch is the world’s leading social intelligence company
buddi is a personal emergency response service
Busuu is the world’s largest social network for language learning
Crowdcube is a leading investment crowdfunding platform
Deliveroo was founded in 2013 to provide the ultimate food delivery experience
FundApps provides cloud-based regulatory compliance monitoring SaaS to financial institutions
GoCardless is the easy way to collect Direct Debit payments
iwoca offers flexible credit to small businesses across Europe
Just Giving is the Number 1 platform for online giving in the world
LMAX was established to deliver the benefits of exchange quality execution to both buy-side and sell-side trading institutions
Lost My Name is an award-winning independent technology and publishing business
MWR InfoSecurity is an independent cyber security consultancy with research at the heart of what they do
NewVoiceMedia powers customers connections that transform businesses globally
Performance Horizon is the leading provider of SaaS solutions for digital partner marketing
Qubit empowers businesses to customise and optimise websites in real-time using qualitative and quantitative visitor data
RateSetter is one of the largest P2P lending platforms in the UK
scoota is an online advertising technology company that enables advertisers to create, activate, measure and optimise brand campaigns to scale
Space Ape is a gaming company focused on mid-core games
The Floow designs the world’s most insightful, feature-rich and cost-effective telematic system to make vehicles safer and cheaper for all
TransferWise is an international money transfer platform
WorldRemit lets people send money to friends and family living abroad, using a computer, smartphone or tablet
Yieldify founded in 2013, helps marketers convert visitors easily
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