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Future Fifty Cohort 2025
The Future Fifty is the UK’s leading late-stage growth programme for tech companies, and has become almost a rite of passage for many of the nation’s most successful and innovative scaleups. Operated by Tech Nation and powered by Founders Forum, the Future Fifty supports founders with international expansion efforts and connects their senior leadership teams to networks of peers and mentors. To date it has supported over 30% of our nation’s unicorns and 40% of our decacorns, with our alumni collectively raising more than £77bn and counting.
Designed to be more experiential than academic, the Future Fifty is industry agnostic, by invitation only, and inducts 25 companies twice a year. Programme highlights include a bespoke supper-club for the c-suite, founder missions to Dubai, Singapore, and New York, and the annual Future Fifty Forum.
If you have any questions, or would simply like to get on our radar, please email futurefifty@technation.io.
Invite-only network that inducts 25 companies each Spring and Autumn.
Partially subsidised annual missions to Dubai, Singapore, and New York.
Core programme operates as a life-long secret supper club for the c-suite.
Our founders only forum that connects cohorts, alumni, and the ecosystem.
Future Fifty Alumni
Future Fifty Forum 2025
The Future Fifty is by invitation only. We typically look for companies that fall into the following criteria:
“We’re really excited to be working with other entrepreneurs from top notch UK businesses through this programme. Amongst other things, it will help us stay up to date with the evolving needs of our country’s top talent; continuing to deliver on our promise of making our products as enjoyable and relatable to them as possible.” Chieu Cao Perkbox
“We’re really excited to be working with other entrepreneurs from top notch UK businesses through this programme. Amongst other things, it will help us stay up to date with the evolving needs of our country’s top talent; continuing to deliver on our promise of making our products as enjoyable and relatable to them as possible.”
Perkbox
“It’s a fantastic network of great people and companies. Great support from the Government which is doing a fantastic job in the UK tech industry.” José Neves Farfetch
“It’s a fantastic network of great people and companies. Great support from the Government which is doing a fantastic job in the UK tech industry.”
Farfetch
“The Future Fifty is the elite network for very successful scale-up businesses. You can grow and learn with the very best leaders and in turn gain the contacts and credibility to win business, partners and investors. Whether you are building to sell, looking towards an IPO or simply expanding your network, the invitation criteria is such that you can be sure that you will find the right expertise and resources in (and around) the group to help you take things to the next level.” Jacyn Heavens Founder & CEO, Epos Now
“The Future Fifty is the elite network for very successful scale-up businesses. You can grow and learn with the very best leaders and in turn gain the contacts and credibility to win business, partners and investors. Whether you are building to sell, looking towards an IPO or simply expanding your network, the invitation criteria is such that you can be sure that you will find the right expertise and resources in (and around) the group to help you take things to the next level.”
Founder & CEO, Epos Now
“As a founder, there is no shortage of folks keen to ‘share’ their advice on how to lead your business, but there are few things more dangerous than a LinkedIn ‘expert’ or a recently exited ‘growth consultant’. Future Fifty cuts through that. It connects us with our peers, those on the same path, and those who’ve walked the same trail just a few years prior. These connections offer an ability to share openly, learn and support that isn’t possible in any other forum I’ve been a part of. There’s no money involved, no vested interests, just collegiate support. That’s priceless.” James Hirst Tyk
“As a founder, there is no shortage of folks keen to ‘share’ their advice on how to lead your business, but there are few things more dangerous than a LinkedIn ‘expert’ or a recently exited ‘growth consultant’. Future Fifty cuts through that. It connects us with our peers, those on the same path, and those who’ve walked the same trail just a few years prior. These connections offer an ability to share openly, learn and support that isn’t possible in any other forum I’ve been a part of. There’s no money involved, no vested interests, just collegiate support. That’s priceless.”
Tyk
“As a founder, you get plenty of advice—often from people who’ve never been in your shoes. But nothing compares to learning from those who have. Future Fifty is built on that—real founder-to-founder support, where experience is shared freely, not as theory but as lived reality. No filters, no noise, just a group of people who understand the journey because they’re on it too.” Stephanie Eltz Doctify
“As a founder, you get plenty of advice—often from people who’ve never been in your shoes. But nothing compares to learning from those who have. Future Fifty is built on that—real founder-to-founder support, where experience is shared freely, not as theory but as lived reality. No filters, no noise, just a group of people who understand the journey because they’re on it too.”
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Co-Founder and former CEO at identity unicorn Onfido. Now Founder and CEO at new startup Quench.ai – using internal recordings to empower smarter work by delivering relevant learning in the flow of work. WEF Tech Pioneer; Forbes Contributor and “30 Under 30”; BA in Economics and Management from Keble College, Oxford.
