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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 nations most successful and innovative scaleups. Backed by Tech Nation and powered by Founders Forum, Future Fifty supports founders with international expansion efforts and connects their senior leadership teams with networks of peers and mentors. To date it has supported over 30% of our nations unicorns and 40% of our decacorns, with our alumni collectively raising more than £16.3bn 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.
The Future Fifty is an 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 takes place at Daylesford Farm.
Future Fifty Alumni
The Future Fifty is by invitation only. We typically look for companies that fall into the following criteria:
Co-Founder & Executive Chair, Founders Forum Group
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Partner, Highland Europe
CEO, Funding Circle
Brent is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Founders Factory (global venture studios, seed programmes and accelerator programmes), Founders Forum (global community of founders, corporates and tech leaders), and firstminute capital ($320m seed fund with global remit, backed by over 120+ unicorn founders). Previously, Brent co-founded made.com in 2010 which went public last year with a valuation of $1.1bn, and lastminute.com in 1998 where he was CEO from its inception and sold it in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn.
Brent has backed nine unicorns at Seed stage and technology businesses Brent has co-founded have raised over $1bn and include Karakuri (provider of robotics, AI and automation systems), Founders Intelligence (entrepreneur-powered consultancy – recently acquired by Accenture), EQL:HER (network taking action to change the underrepresentation of women in technology), Founders Keepers (technology executive search firm), Founders of the Future (network that identifies and supports aspiring entrepreneurs), Founders Pledge (community for entrepreneurs committed to finding and funding solutions to global challenges), Grip (AI-powered event networking solution), 01 Founders (a network of free-to-access coding schools with a job guarantee), Founders Law (full-service tech law firm), Founders Makers (a creative partner for challengers and forward-thinking corporates), and Polygo (graduate talent accelerator).
Brent sits on the advisory boards of Google Cloud, The Tessa Jowell Foundation, the UK Government Digital Service and the WEF Digital Europe Group. He was also a founding Champion of Change for The Global Tech Group, has been an advisor to four UK prime ministers and in 2015 was awarded a CBE for his services to entrepreneurship.
Stan Laurent is a partner at Highland Europe. Prior to their current role, they were the president and CEO of PhotoBox Group, a European consumer print-on-demand service. Stan has also served as the chief operating officer of AOL Europe and the managing director of AOL Germany.
Stan Laurent’s educational career includes a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science from ESCP Business School.
“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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