Tech Nation Rising Stars
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The UK’s leading late-stage growth programme is designed to support founders and their leadership teams address challenges unique to the most successful tech companies in the country. At this point in the game the stakes are sky high. Tailor made guidance can be the key to unlocking answers when problem-solving is part of the everyday.
We aim to deliver valuable peer-to-peer learning, facilitating an open dialogue between experienced entrepreneurs and founders, with in-depth masterclass sessions run by seasoned coaches, who can help guide you on your way.
You’ll be joining the ranks of household names such as Monzo, Bulb, Deliveroo, and Zoopla. Together, you have the opportunity to become a powerhouse community in the global tech economy.
The programme is free to join and we do not take an equity stake in your company.
Applications are now closed. Check back soon to pre-register your interest for next time.
The Future Fifty spirit is about late-stage leaders in tech joining forces, to achieve your potential together. Learning, leading and paving the way forward is at the heart of our purpose.
Your business needs to meet the following criteria to be eligible:
Applications are now closed. Check back soon to pre-register your interest for next time.
We aim to deliver a format that enables you to nurture your leadership skills, and apply those learnings in your workplace straight away.
Recognition as one of the UK’s most successful digital businesses
Peer-to-peer networks, including intimate C-Suite roundtables
Masterclass workshops led by global experts
Sessions with government key officials and exclusive ministerial roundtables
Access to a dedicated Tech Nation Visa team
London | Fintech | @AireScore
Aire is exclusively focussed on the research and implementation of new methods to improve credit decisions in consumer finance. It believes that consumers are the best source of relevant & contextual data about themselves. It's technology is used across Credit Cards, Personal Loans, Retail Finance and Automotive Finance in the UK and now the US. Aire is authorised and regulated by the FCA as a provider of credit references. Aire exists to create equitable outcomes for all participants of the credit ecosystem. Aire. Credit where it's due.
Durham | Fintech | @atom_bank
Atom bank is the UK's first bank built exclusively for mobile, and the most trusted on Trustpilot. They offer fixed saver accounts, secured business lending and residential mortgages. With the aim to be the most customer centric bank on the planet, they have industry leading NPS scores of +76.
London | Healthtech & Biotech | @babylonhealth
Babylon's mission is to put an affordable and accessible health service in the hands of every person on earth. By combining technology with the best available medical expertise, they bring doctors and people closer together. Their technology gives people round-the-clock access to affordable, holistic healthcare services like digital health tools and digital doctor appointments.
London | Enterprise Software & Cloud Computing | @BeameryHQ
Beamery's Talent Operating System allows enterprises to attract, engage, and retain top talent, managing the entire talent journey on one unified platform. Beamery's mission is to help the world's best companies acquire their greatest assets: their people. Beamery is trusted by the world's most innovative global organizations to treat their candidates like customers.
London | Artificial Intelligence | @Behavox
Behavox is the people analytics company that gathers and interprets employee data in a corporate environment to understand the behaviour of an organisation.
London | Artificial Intelligence | @benevolent_ai
Benevolent create and use AI technologies to transform the way medicines are discovered, developed, tested and brought to market. They have created the Benevolent Platform, a computational and experimental discovery platform that allows scientists to find new ways to treat disease and personalise medicines to patients.
London | Fintech | @blockchain
Blockchain is the most trusted and fastest-growing crypto company, helping millions across the globe have an easy and safe way to access cryptocurrencies.
London | Hardware & Devices & IoT | @bulbenergy
An online renewable gas and electricity supplier, competing with the likes of British Gas and NPower.
London | Data Analytics & Cyber security | @Callsign
Callsign is an identity fraud, authorisation and authentication company. They solve challenges that organisations face in getting their users on to and interacting with their digital platforms easily and securely. They provide solutions to some of the world’s largest banks and offer “bank grade” identification to public and private sector clients of all sizes.
London | SaaS | @complyadvantage
ComplyAdvantage are using the world’s only dynamic global risk database of people and companies to highlight the real risk of who companies are doing business with. Their suite of configurable cloud services integrates seamlessly via API into compliance workflows to automate regulatory processes. ComplyAdvantage works to eliminate the frustration of complying with Sanctions, AML and CFT regulations.
Leeds | Artificial Intelligence | @crispthinking
Crisp is a cutting-edge Social Media Safety and crisis monitoring firm, whose industry-leading technology is trusted by some of the world’s largest, most well-known brands to provide fast, precise detection of critical issues and crises.
London | Ecommerce & Marketplace | @CultureTrip
Culture Trip create stories that reveal what is unique and special about a place, its people and its culture.
London | Fintech | @currencycloud
Currencycloud removes the complexity of international payments from businesses so it can focus on delivering a great experience for customers.
London | Fintech | @cytora
Cytora is transforming commercial insurance. Using the Cytora Platform, insurers can underwrite more accurately, enhance efficiency, and deliver fairer prices to their customers. Cytora is a trusted partner to global insurers, backed by leading venture capital, and supported by builders of some of the world's most successful technology companies.
London | SaaS | @Decibelinsight
Businesses are losing $10bn every day because of poor customer experience. Decibel has invented a scoring mechanism that is helping 250 of the world’s largest brands rid the world of this digital frustration. Using machine learning, it provides unique intelligence about digital customer experiences, at scale, and alerts businesses of opportunities to increase conversion.
London | SaaS | @ducotweets
Data integrity is a fundamental part of regulatory reporting. Data Integrity company Duco enables firms to quickly set up robust and flexible data integrity checks and reconciliation controls that can scale and adapt over time, allowing them to focus on growth.
London | Artificial Intelligence | @Eigen_Tech
Eigen is a research-led machine learning company based in London and New York. Their mission is to help individuals and organizations make the right decisions by unlocking the value of their qualitative data. Their simple, flexible natural language processing (NLP) product accurately extracts information from diverse types of documents at scale and can be integrated into clients’ workflows.
London | Healthtech & Biotech | @trustelder
Elder is a technology enabled service that delivers 24/7, 365 care in the home anywhere in the UK. Catering for the elderly, those suffering with dementia, providing live-in care, 24-hour care - whatever your needs, Elder can connect you with a carer so you can get all the help you need while keeping control, choice and independence over your own life, in your own home.
London | Healthtech & Biotech | @elvie
London based femtech firm Elvie is bringing women's technology out of the dark ages. Its mission is to improve women's lives through smarter technology, such as the award-winning breast pump ‘Elvie Pump’ and pelvic floor trainer ‘Elvie Trainer’. Elvie approaches problems as women, and solves them as engineers, scientists and designers, starting with a real need and innovating around it.
Nottingham | Artificial Intelligence | @ENSEKdata
ENSEK helps energy suppliers provide a better customer experience through modern technology and the power of data.
London | Data Analytics & Cyber security | @garrison_tech
Garrison was founded 3 years ago, to solve one of the most difficult cyber security dilemmas facing modern organisations: how to harness the immense benefit of the Internet, without being exposed to its risks. Garrison’s unique Secure Remote Browsing technology combines ultra-secure web access with scalability, performance and affordability. The Garrison SAVI® (Silicon Assured Video Isolation) platform enforces security controls in dedicated hardware that also ensures a high quality user experience. Click on any link, browse the web without fear.
London | Artificial Intelligence | @GlobalWebIndex
GlobalWebIndex provides instant access to the world's most revealing data set on consumer behaviours.
Fintech | @gohenry
gohenry is designed to help young people learn good money habits. In an increasingly cashless society, gohenry empowers young people with the freedom to learn and take charge of their own spending and saving in a safe environment.
Cambridge | Healthtech & Biotech | @healx
Healx is an AI-powered and patient-inspired technology company, accelerating the discovery and development of rare disease treatments. Their AI drug discovery platform leverages public and proprietary biomedical data and features the world’s leading knowledge graph for rare diseases. Combining their technology with patient insights and drug discovery expertise, Healx’s mission is to advance 100 rare disease treatments towards the clinic by 2025.
London | Digital Entertainment | @HutchGames
Hutch are on a mission to innovate and disrupt the gaming racing genre on mobile. They have entertained over 160 million players, across franchises including F1 Manager, Top Drives, Smash Cops, Smash Bandits, MMX Racing, MMX Hill Dash, MMX Hill Dash 2, and Hot Wheels: Race Off.
Cambridge | Healthtech & Biotech | @iesohealth
Ieso is a world leading digital health company specialising in evidence-based online cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
London | @kimbleapps
Kimble Professional Services Automation drives business efficiency and resource optimization, delivering growth and profitability
London | Fintech | @landbayuk
Landbay is in the business of modernising mortgage finance. Their digital platform has re-engineered the mortgage application experience and they are a partner of choice for institutions and retail investors who want to invest directly into buy-to-let mortgages.
Glasgow | Hardware & Devices & IoT | @m2Lasers
Research, design and manufacture world-class lasers and advanced photonic systems for use in a myriad of academic and commercial applications.
London | Fintech | @marketinvoice
MarketInvoice makes it quick and easy to get funding through its invoice finance and business loans.
Altrincham | Data Analytics & Cyber security | @matillion
Matillion is an ETL solution, built specifically for cloud database platforms, that allows businesses to harness their data to gain better insights and make better business decisions. Matillion both extracts and loads data into a CDW, providing the scale and performance needed to power data-driven analytics; and the ability to join together varied data sources to make data entirely analytics-ready.
London | App & Software Development | @mediatonic
Mediatonic is an independent games developer with studios in the UK and Europe. It is focussed on Live Games for Mobile and PC.
London | SaaS | @wearemonterosa
Monterosa is the global leader in audience interaction technology and commerce, providing the cloud platform powering the world’s biggest entertainment and sports properties. They provide audiences with better ways to participate in their favourite TV shows and sports, including Love Island, The Voice and Britain’s Got Talent. Monterosa tech lies at the heart of the official show apps and interactive experiences across all screens.
London | Fintech | @monzo
One of a new breed of challenger banks. The mobile banking app receives its banking licence this year
London | Ecommerce & Marketplace | @nested
Nested is reinventing how we sell homes, giving homeowners across London the power to move chain free.
London | Adtech & Marketing | @OmetriaData
Ometria is a customer marketing platform that lets retailers send personalised and relevant marketing messages throughout the customer journey. It combines the advanced customer intelligence of a CDP with a retail-specific cross-channel marketing platform.
London | Ecommerce & Marketplace | @perkbox
Perkbox is a platform designed to enrich the employee experience – both inside and outside of work.
London | Data Analytics & Cyber security | @privitarglobal
Privitar is the leading data privacy platform for organisations using data for insight. In a world where data driven decision making is a competitive advantage, the ability to make data accessible to users, at scale, efficiently and safely is essential for building a sustainable, trustworthy business.
London | Data Analytics & Cyber security | @Quantexa
Quantexa empowers organisations to drive better decisions from their data. Using the latest advancements in big data and AI, Quantexa uncovers hidden customer connections and behaviours to solve major challenges in financial crime, customer insight and data analytics.
London | Fintech | @salaryfin
Salary Finance partners with employers to offer financial wellbeing benefits for employees that help staff live healthier, happier lives. It does this by offering simple savings, access to their salary as it is earned, and affordable loans - all underpinned by accessible, engaging financial education.
London | Fintech | @Soldo
Soldo is a fast growing London-based fintech company tackling the problem of spend management for businesses. It is the only business account of its kind in Europe that gives companies a single prepaid spending account alongside multiple mastercard cards for any person or department handling money on behalf of the business.
London | @StarLeafCo
StarLeaf brings people together through the power of messaging, meetings and calling.
London | Fintech | @StarlingBank
This is a bank account – but not as you know it. It’s personal, joint, euro and business banking that’s mobile and built for the way we live now, with instant notifications when you spend or get paid, insights that reveal your spending habits, no fees overseas, 24/7 support and an application that only takes minutes.
London | Ecommerce & Marketplace | @plumguide
Solving the lack of quality control in the home rental space, The Plum Guide ditches flawed user reviews and instead, sorts and scours hundreds of thousands of vacation homes, inviting roughly 1 in every 100 tested homes to join their elite inventory.
London | Fintech | @thoughtmachine
Thought Machine is a UK-based growth stage technology company which builds cloud native technology for banks. Thought Machine’s mission is to enable banks to deploy modern core banking and move away from the legacy platforms that plague the banking industry through its core banking software, Vault. It has been written from scratch as a next generation, cloud native platform which is completely flexible and can be configured to run any type of bank.
Sheffield | Edtech | @twinklresources
A trusted home of teacher-created planning and assessment materials and teaching resources perfect for inside and outside the classroom, Twinkl educational materials are teacher-created and checked. They offer over 625,000 resources, with new content added daily.
Swansea | SaaS | @Vizolution
Vizolution provides face-to-face customer service experiences, remotely. Their market-leading technology helps enterprises streamline complex customer journeys into effortless experiences by replicating the qualities of face-to-face interactions in their remote channels.
Chester | Tech For Good | @wejoHQ
wejo are creating a mobility data ecosystem to transform the way we live, work and travel, by connecting automotive manufacturers, businesses and consumers. They find smarter ways of using mobility data, to better serve consumers, and make congestion, pollution and road traffic injuries a thing of the past.
London | Fintech | @Zegocover
Zego is providing flexible insurance for the gig economy and new mobility - including ride-hailing, delivery services and fleets of shared vehicles. They're a digital broker using technology to price policies by the minute or mile, so customers are covered for just as long as they need.
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