The Leap 100 Company List 2016

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The Leap 100
Company List 2016
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WELCOME TO THE LEAP 100 2016
For the second year running, Mishcon de Reya has teamed up with City A.M. and other
partners to identify 100 of the most exciting, fast-growing companies in the UK.
These firms operate at a range of scales and across many sectors. All are in the process of
making the leap to the next level in terms of revenue. This stage of a company’s life is rich
in real-life drama, with risks of setbacks and sudden lows as well as high rewards for those
who make it to the other side. Throughout 2016, we will track the challenges and the
hopes of this brave and economically vital group via regular polls, round tables and events,
sharing the collective portrait that emerges.
Mishcon de Reya and City A.M. were joined by experts from The Supper Club, Seven Hills
and The Entrepreneurs Network to assemble this year’s The Leap 100 list. This is neither
a ranked index nor an exhaustive selection of the country’s fastest-growing companies.
These are however the firms, big and small, that we believe are worth watching. They
are not all household names, but their stories have the potential to become much better
known in the next few years.
All the firms chosen have a recent history of rapid revenue growth and still show
the ambition for more. We also looked for success in and commitment to achieving
innovation, brand recognition and expansion into new markets. Respecting the human
qualities that make a leap into the unknown possible, we sought firms with teams
displaying leadership and tenacity on their journeys. We hope you enjoy the window they
offer into the working life of some of Britain’s most ambitious companies.
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Acturis
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Adbrain
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Affectv
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Aframe
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AnyJunk
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Artesian
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Asset Match
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BAC (Briggs Automotive
Company)
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BBOXX
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BookingBug
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Brainlabs
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Car Throttle
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Cennox
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Comtact
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Conversocial
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Cook
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Cream
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Darktrace
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Darling Associates
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DataIQ
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David Phillips
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Decoded
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Deliveroo
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Dot Net Solutions
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DueDil
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Eames Consulting
Group
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énergie
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Fenton Whelan
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Fever Tree
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finnCap
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Gift Universe
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GoSquared
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Growth Engineering
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Hamilton Fraser
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Headspace
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HouseSimple.com
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Isotrak
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Jacada Travel
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JDX Consulting
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JNFX
Joe & Seph’s
JSA Services
Knomo
LaplandUK
Leightons Opticians &
Hearing Care
LendInvest
Leni Gas Cuba
LiBGroup
Linde Werdelin
LMAX Exchange
Longitude Research
Lost My Name
Love Moorish
M Squared Lasers
MarketInvoice
Marlin Hawk
Matrix APA (UK)
MCCGLC
MIRACL
money.co.uk
Movidiam
Orega
Pact Coffee
Palace Capital plc
PayAsUGym
PCA Predict
Phaidon International
Pie Mapping
Platform Black
Playmob
Prodigy Finance
Property Partner
PVL UK
Ramsden International
Rated People
ResponseTap
Results Through Digital
SCM World
Space Ape Games
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Spektrix
SyndicateRoom
tails.com
Talking Tables
The Catalis Group
The Clean Space
The Moment
Trimline
triyoga
UK Power Reserve
UltraSoC Technologies
Unilink
Vibe Teacher
Recruitment
VIP
Vivid Resourcing
Woodsford Litigation
Funding
Workshare
Wright Brothers
YPlan
Z Hotels
ZappiStore
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THE LEAP 100 COMPANY LIST 2016
On the following pages are the 100 firms selected to take part in The Leap 100 2016.
We believe these companies demonstrate success in and a commitment to achieving
innovation, brand recognition and expansion into new markets.
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Acturis
Innovative FinTech cloud based software
Founders:
Theo Duchen
David McDonald
Year founded:
2001
HQ location:
London
www.acturis.com
Acturis is about transforming general insurance through
its innovative cloud based Software as a Service platform,
enabling different participants such as brokers and
underwriters to operate efficiently at scale, to embrace
automation and electronic trading, to improve their agility
and to connect to other parties in the value chain.
Adbrain
Identity solutions technology
Adbrain is a leading data intelligence company that powers
marketers & their partners to regain control of their
customer relationships in today’s hyperconnected yet highly
fragmented world.
Working directly with Adbrain, or through the company’s
partner network, which includes LiveRamp, The Trade Desk,
Turn & Appnexus, marketers are able to target, measure
and connect with their customers as they switch between
multiple devices, channels and platforms, without infringing
on privacy concerns.
Adbrain is backed by Cisco Investments, Notion Capital
and Octopus Ventures.
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Founder:
Gareth Davies
Year founded:
2012
HQ location:
London
San Francisco
www.adbrain.com
Affectv
Personalised digital advertising
Affectv’s proprietary technology empowers brands to
engage more effectively with people by provising relevant
personalised adverts to each person.
SignalAds are real time intelligent messages that provide
consumers with relevant product and brand information to
help inform who they buy products and services from.
Aframe
Founder:
Glen Calvert
Year founded:
2011
HQ location:
London
www.affectv.com
Cloud video collaboration platform
Aframe is the cloud platform for video collaboration.
Aframe reduces the complexity of working with high
resolution, multi-format media by centralizing assets in the
cloud and making it easy for teams to view, access and
collaborate on content wherever they are.
Aframe saves cost, drives business efficiencies and increases
the revenue and returns on your content.
Founder:
David Peto
Year founded:
2009
HQ location:
Soho, London
www.aframe.com
Headquartered in London with operations in Boston, New
York and Los Angeles, Aframe is trusted by broadcast,
media and corporate organizations worldwide.
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AnyJunk
Man and van junk removal
Nationwide on-demand service for removing all types of
waste.
Artesian
Sales acceleration technology as a service
Artesian is the world’s most powerful sales acceleration
solution for B2B sellers; it gathers and tracks intelligence
on customers and prospects from millions of online
sources including corporate data, news, blogs, Twitter and
LinkedIn.
Artesian transforms this information to pinpoint
commercially valuable insights for its users, giving them
relevant reasons to engage with customers and prospects
and win more deals.
Artesian is used daily by 25,000 users across the UK and
US. Customers range from American Express, Adobe,
Barclays, Cisco, HP, HSBC, Lloyds Banging Group, RBS,
Towergate, and Willis.
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Founder:
Jason Mohr
Year founded:
2004
HQ location:
London
www.anyjunk.co.uk
Founders:
Andrew Yates
Steve Borthwick
Mike Blackadder
Year founded:
2007
HQ location:
Winnersh
www.artesian.com
Asset Match
Private company share exchange
Asset Match is an electronic on-line marketplace for
private and unlisted company shares. It facilitates partial or
full exits and equity release in these shares.
The platform provides a liquidity facility for companies and
their shareholders; entrepreneurs and early stage investors
to buy and sell. We use periodic auctions which generate
greater liquidity centered on bringing the participants
together at a time and place.
Founders:
Stuart Lucas
Iain Baillie
Year founded:
2011
HQ location:
London
www.assetmatch.com
The platform is a low cost alternative for both the
company and the investor participants. It is open,
transparent, arms-length and fully FCA Regulated.
BAC (Briggs Automotive Company)
Bespoke UK supercar manufacturer
BAC builds the Mono, a lightweight, ultra high performance
single-seat luxury supercar that is sold around the world. It
is designed created and built in the UK, and uses UK-based
suppliers and parts wherever possible. It uses a highstrength carbon fibre composite based around a steel cell,
designed to offer maximum protection.
Founders:
Ian Briggs
Neill Briggs
Year founded:
2009
HQ location:
Liverpool
www.bac-mono.com
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BBOXX
Off-grid power for the developing world
BBOXX is a dynamic young company that designs,
manufactures, distributes and finances innovative solar
systems to improve access to energy across Africa and the
developing world.
Currently the company operates a network of shops
across Kenya and Rwanda, from which customers can
purchase solar home systems and accessories on a
monthly payment plan. The solar home systems are
designed in BBOXX’s London office and manufactured in
China. Since 2010, BBOXX has sold over 60,000 solar kits
and impacted 300,000 lives across 40 countries.
BookingBug
A multichannel appointment platform
BookingBug is the industry’s most advanced, most
powerful and most versatile appointment and event
booking platform. Our technology powers the real-time
management of appointments made via online, mobile, instore or call center for enterprise clients in retail, financial
services, the public sector and beyond, enabling fullycustomized booking experiences that transform customer
engagement and increase revenue.
Our customers include John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, EE,
Three UK, The Cooperative Bank, Yorkshire Building Society,
The NHS, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office and
HM Treasury.
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Founders:
Mansoor Hamayun
Laurent Van Houcke
Chris Baker-Brian
Year founded:
2010
HQ location:
Chiswick, London
www.bboxx.co.uk
Founder:
Glenn Shoosmith
Year founded:
2008
HQ location:
Farringdon, London
www.bookingbug.com
Brainlabs
We run performance marketing campaigns and build
marketing technology for some of the UK’s top online
advertisers.
Car Throttle
Our platform is home to over 5 million car fans who use
it to join popular discussions and follow communities that
interest them. Car Throttle was founded in 2009 by Adnan
Ebrahim. The brand is run by car lovers, media minds and
technology visionaries.
We’re extremely active on social media and have popular
pages on Facebook (4m), a thriving YouTube channel (1m)
and a growing fanbase on Instagram (250k).
Performance marketing
Founders:
Daniel Gilbert
Sophie Newton
Year founded:
2012
HQ location:
King’s Cross, London
www.brainlabsdigital.com
Connect like-minded people
Founder:
Adnan Ebrahim
Year founded:
2009
HQ location:
London
www.carthrottle.com
Car Throttle’s investors include Passion Capital and the
minds behind AOL, Skype, MailOnline and Facebook.
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Cennox
Global ATM services specialists
Cennox is a UK success story. Since starting from humble
beginnings in 2006, Cennox is now a Global Brand in
ATM Services, providing products and services that are
relied upon by the world’s largest Banks and Financial
organisations.
Now the largest Independent ATM Business in the United
Kingdom, our services encompass all aspects of ATM
servicing, from their installation, maintenance, parts supply
& branding. Cennox also pushes the envelope in Research
& Development, developing products that we design
and manufacture in house. We are Award Winning and
progressive in our ambition.
Comtact
Award-winning IT service provider
Comtact are an award winning, Government approved
service provider, supplying intelligent Wi-Fi and
tracking, infrastructure monitoring, cyber security and
communication solutions as a managed service. We
support our mid-enterprise customers from our UK Tier
3 Network Operations Centre which operates 24x7x365.
2015 saw continued investment into the development
and expansion of Comtact’s Network Operations Centre
(NOC), growing our expert team and premises to
deliver an “always-on” IT experience to today’s connected
customer.
Building on these strengths, this year the centre will be
developed into a Security Operations Centre (SOC).
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Founder:
Clive Nation
Year founded:
2006
HQ location:
Camberley, Surrey
www.cennox.com
Founder:
Dominic List
Year founded:
2005
HQ location:
Weybridge, Surrey
www.comtact.co.uk
Conversocial
Conversocial is a leading social customer engagement
platform that enables enterprises to reach, respond and
resolve customer issues over social channels including
Facebook Messenger, Twitter, Instagram and Google+.
Cook
We’ve been cooking using the same ingredients and
techniques you would at home since 1997, so everything
looks and tastes homemade. Freezing locks in flavour, cuts
down waste and means no preservatives are required.
We’ve got 85 shops nationwide and supply more than 400
independent retailers (not the big supermarkets), we also
deliver via www.cookfood.net.
Social customer service
Founder:
Joshua March
Year founded:
2010
HQ location:
London
New York
www.conversocial.com
Hand-prepared frozen food
Founders:
Edward Perry
Dale Penfold
Year founded:
1997
HQ location:
Sittingbourne, Kent
www.cookfood.net
We’re privately owned, plan to stay that way, and are one
of the UK’s first certified B Corporations, part of a global
movement committed to business as a force for good in
society.
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Cream
Communications agency for premium and luxury brands
Cream is a boutique media agency offering bespoke
integrated media and marketing solutions to premium and
luxury brands.
Our mission is to help make every point of connection
between your brand and your customers a remarkable
and rewarding experience.
Founder:
Graham Painter
Year founded:
2003
HQ location:
London
www.creamuk.com
We’re one of the fastest growing privately owned
companies in the UK servicing a portfolio of clients that
include Barbour, Pandora, Kurt Geiger, The Watch Gallery,
Investec, William & Son, Hunter and Lacoste.
DarkTrace
Darktrace is one of the world’s leading cyber threat
defence companies. Its Enterprise Immune System
technology detects previously unidentified threats in real
time, powered by machine learning and mathematics
developed by specialists from the University of Cambridge,
which analyse the behaviour of every device, user and
network within an organisation.
Some of the world’s largest corporations rely on
Darktrace’s self-learning appliance in sectors including
energy and utilities, financial services, telecommunications,
healthcare, manufacturing, retail and transportation.
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Cyber security
Founders:
Jack Stockdale
Dave Palmer
Nick Trim
Emily Orton
Poppy Gustafsson
Year founded:
2013
HQ location:
Cambridge, UK
San Francisco, US
www.darktrace.com
Darling Associates
Architecture and planning
Darling Associates Architects is an international awardwinning architectural practice with studios in London,
Poland and United Arab Emirates. Established by Chris
Darling in 2003, the practice has won numerous awards
in a range of categories from prestigious establishments,
including the RIBA, Architects Journal, City Heritage Society,
Building Design, Evening Standard and BCO.
Founder:
Chris Darling
Year founded:
2003
HQ location:
London
www.darlingassociates.net
We work in a range of schemes, including affordable to
luxury residential, hotels, offices and retail.
DataIQ
Information and media services
DataIQ is building a community of professionals from
across business functions, in FTSE 100, large and midmarket organisations trying to find smarter and more
intelligent ways of gathering, managing and utilising data to
drive better business performance.
We act as a bridge to help leading tech, agencies and
service provides reach this unique and fast growing
community.
Founder:
Adrian Gregory
Year founded:
2015
HQ location:
London
www.dataiq.co.uk
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David Phillips
Furnishing solutions provider
The UK’s largest specialist supplier of furniture and
furnishing solutions to the property industry.
We sell and rent to landlords, agents and developers, as
well as student accommodation providers, local authorities
and housing associations.
Decoded
Global corporate technology educators
Now with offices in London, New York and Sydney,
Decoded was founded with a mission to demystify the
technologies behind the screen.
First famous for teaching anyone Code in a Day, their faceto-face and online learning experiences span code, data,
cyber security, machine learning, lean methodologies and
beyond.
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Founders:
Phillip, David and Nick
Year founded:
1998
HQ location:
London
www.davidphillips.com
Founders:
Kathryn Parsons
Richard Peters
Steve Henry
Year founded:
2011
HQ location:
Silicon Roundabout, London
www.Decoded.com
Deliveroo
High-quality food delivery
Deliveroo is the on-demand delivery service for highquality food from local restaurants. Its hyper-local approach
allows customers to enjoy dishes from their favourite
neighbourhood restaurants at home or at work, unlocking
a range of new choices for people making their meal
decisions.
Deliveroo partners with high-quality restaurants that don’t
typically offer delivery themselves. The restaurants can take
advantage of their end-to-end technology, logistics platform
and community of riders who pick up the food order at
the restaurant, pack it carefully and deliver it in an average
of 32 minutes after the order was placed.
Dot Net Solutions
Founder:
Will Shu
Year founded:
2013
HQ location:
London
www.deliveroo.co.uk
Public cloud integration and support
Dot Net Solutions was Microsoft’s UK FY15 Partner of
the Year and enables enterprise customers to leverage
the Public Cloud. Our Cloud Managed Platform provides
a sure-step process to assess, migrate and manage IT
environments in the Cloud. Our solutions encompass new,
modern ways of collaborating, enterprise security and
device management along with core IT provisioning and
support.
Founder:
Dan Scarfe
Year founded:
2004
HQ location:
London
www.dotnetsolutions.co.uk
We are a next generation managed services provider,
competing with traditional outsourcers and global system
integrators, to provide a modern, agile approach to
technology, with a heavy focus on business-driven solutions.
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DueDil
UK-based business intelligence provider
DueDil is about intelligence: for every team, in every
company, in every industry, that does business with other
businesses.
Eames Consulting Group
Recruitment and executive search firm
Eames Consulting Group connects the financial and
professional services sectors with the talent needed to
succeed. With offices in London, Zurich, Singapore and
Hong Kong, our services include retained and contingent
search, contract and interim solutions.
Occupying the mid-to-senior levels of the market, we work
in close partnership with our clients to offer a variety of
services directly suited to their specific business needs,
including sourcing niche skills, finding talent in challenging
geographies, handling senior or confidential assignments
and detailed research and market mapping projects.
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Founders:
Damian Kimmelman
Justin Fitzpatrick
Year founded:
2011
HQ location:
London
www.duedil.com
Founder:
Matthew Eames
Year founded:
2002
HQ location:
London
www.eamesconsulting.com
énergie
Health, wellness and fitness
énergie is the UK’s market leading fitness club franchisor
with a network spanning England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland,
Latvia & Poland with 90 clubs open & in presales, a
membership of over 110,000 & network turnover at
c£26m.
With 40 clubs due to open in 2016 alone, énergie is
outpacing its rivals & looks set to continue to dominate
the UK sector. The team has developed a robust, profitable
& cash generative business which is highly scalable with
a solid infrastructure capable of underpinning significant
acceleration in both the domestic market & overseas.
Fenton Whelan
Founder:
Jan Spaticchia
Year founded:
2003
HQ location:
Buckinghamshire
www.energiegroup.com
Property development and investment
We are a single point of contact for international or
domestic investors seeking a value added strategy partner
for London to deliver world class real estate investments.
Founders:
Sanjay Sharma
James Van Den Heule
Year founded:
2010
HQ location:
London
www.fentonwhelan.com
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Fever Tree
Food and beverages
Fever-Tree is a producer of premium drink mixers, founded
by Charles Rolls and Tim Warrillow in 2005. Based in
Southwest London, Fever-Tree makes a variety of products
including tonic water, ginger beer and lemonade.
finnCap
Stockbroker and financial adviser to ambitious companies
finnCap is the No. 1 Broker to AIM companies, and a top
five adviser on the LSE.
Its team has a strong track record in advising and raising
capital, providing research and after market care for
ambitious growth companies.
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Founders:
Charles Rolls
Tim Warrillow
Year founded:
2005
HQ location:
London
www.fever-tree.com
Founder:
Sam Smith
Year founded:
2007
HQ location:
London
www.finncap.com
Gift Universe
Retail
Gift Universe Group, (formerly Menkind Group) is one
of the UK’s leading and fastest growing operators in the
gifts and gadgets industry. The company began trading as
Menkind opening our first store in 2002 in The Chimes
Shopping Centre in Uxbridge; over the next few years we
established our position in the niche gadget and gifting
retail sector, organically growing the business through store
openings and Ecommerce.
GoSquared
GoSquared is the world’s most powerful and intuitive
software platform to acquire, convert and delight your
customers online.
Founder:
Paul Kraftman
Year founded:
2001
HQ location:
Dorking, Surrey
www.giftuniverse.com
Marketing and analytics software
Founders:
James Gill
Geoff Wagstaff
James Taylor
Year founded:
2006
HQ location:
London
www.gosquared.com
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Growth Engineering
Engagement-focused learning technologies
Growth Engineering is the arch-enemy of dull online
learning. We’re a learning technologies company which
focuses everything we do on the end user – the learner.
The Academy LMS, our gamified, social online learning
portal, and Genie, our game-based content authoring tool,
create unprecedented levels of learner engagement.
We’ve won a trophy cabinet full of industry awards, most
recently being named Learning Provider of the Year at
2016’s Learning Awards.
Founder:
Juliette Denny
Year founded:
2004
HQ location:
Windsor, Berkshire
www.growthengineering.co.uk
In short, we want to make every learning journey as easy,
engaging, and rewarding as possible.
Hamilton Fraser
Insurance broking and dispute/redress administrative services
A modern and innovative insurance broker specialising in
the private rented sector and aesthetic medicine sector
and operator of government authorised dispute and
complaint schemes throughout the UK.
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Founders:
Eddie Hooker
Simon Fox
Year founded:
1996
HQ location:
Borehamwood, Hertfordshire
www.hamiltonfraser.co.uk
www.mydeposits.co.uk
Headspace
Creative work space provider
Headspace provides flexible working space for a
community of creative, tech and media businesses and
entrepreneurs.
We have beautifully designed offices, coworking spaces,
meeting rooms and event spaces in two central London
locations, with more to follow shortly.
Founder:
Jonathan Rosenblatt
Year founded:
2013
HQ location:
Farringdon, London
www.headspacegroup.co.uk
Our focus is on building a community of like-minded
businesses who can enhance each others businesses
through collaboration.
HouseSimple.com
HouseSimple.com is an effective and inexpensive
alternative to the traditional high street estate agent, whilst
maintaining the highest standards of customer service.
Established in 2007, HouseSimple.com offers a full estate
agency service from valuation guidance, hosted viewings,
negotiation and full management of the sale to completion.
We utilise our fantastic technology to increase the
efficiency of the sale from start to finish, as well as giving
home sellers more control over the entire sale process.
Online estate agents
Founders:
Alex Gosling
Sophie Gosling
Year founded:
2007
HQ location:
Sudbury, Suffolk
www.housesimple.com
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Isotrak
Isotrak is a leading provider of Telematics services to large
fleets of heavy goods vehicles to improve their operational
efficiency.
Isotrak’s web delivered solutions allow customers to
improve fleet visbility whilst reducing vehicle, fuel and
labour costs.
The business has operations on 3 continents and works
with 25% of the world’s top 25 retailers. It also provides
its services to most of the top post & parcel, transport &
logistics and food manufacturing companies in the UK.
Jacada Travel
Our team of travel designers create one of a kind, luxury
trips to destinations all over the world to a discerning,
international clientèle (many of our clients are based
outside of the UK).
Our focus is on adding value through our expertise with a
flair for character and the personal touch that one simply
cannot get through online platforms.
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UK based SaaS telematics
Founder:
Was an R&D
department with NFT;
Greville Coe is CEO
Year founded:
1999
HQ location:
Milton Keynes
www.isotrak.com
Luxury tailor-made travel
Founder:
Alex Malcolm
Year founded:
2008
HQ location:
London
www.jacadatravel.com
JDX Consulting
Global financial services consulting firm
JDX is a global company specialising in aligning costeffective, flexible resourcing solutions to financial and
insurance clients in the areas of change, remediation, legal,
technology and advisory projects.
With offices in London and New York, JDX is positioned
to support our financial services clients and our insurance
clients across multiple geographical locations.
JNFX
Founders:
Tim Bethel
Jonathan Davies
Year founded:
2012
HQ location:
London
www.jdxconsulting.com
Foreign exchange and money transfer.
JNFX connect banks to regulated money service providers.
We provide transaction and foreign exchange services,
bridging the gap between supply & demand for the
increasingly important global transfer requirements of
international business.
Founders:
Nathan Eisenberg
Jonathan Green
Year founded:
2007
HQ location:
Canary Wharf, London
www.jn-fx.com
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Joe & Steph’s
Award-winning gourmet popcorn
Joe & Seph’s are a family business producing awardwinning gourmet popcorn and caramel sauces, in over 40
innovative flavours. Their products are sold in some of the
best premium retailers including Selfridges and Ocado,
Cineworld and Empire cinemas, and numerous hotels
and airlines, as well as exporting to over 17 countries
internationally.
Since launching in 2010, they have grown at over 200%
year-on-year and amassed a total of 24 Great Taste Awards
and a Grocer Gold Award. In 2015 their turnover was
£2.6m, forecast to increase to £4.5m in 2016.
JSA Services
UK based payroll/accountancy
JSA Services Ltd provides Accounting, Umbrella and Payroll
services to contractors/freelancers and temporary workers
across a range of industry sectors and is a leading provider
to the staffing/human capital sector.
JSA is recognised as one of the leading (Top 5) and most
innovative payroll and accountancy service providers in our
sector.
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Founders:
Joseph Sopher
Jackie Sopher
Adam Sopher
Year founded:
2010
HQ location:
London
www.joeandsephs.co.uk
Founder:
Andrew Goodman
Year founded:
1989
HQ location:
Watford
www.jsagroup.co.uk
Knomo
International multi channel accessories brand
Life organized: Knomo is a British brand of intelligent high
quality bags and tech accessories that will inspire a new
generation to do more and carry less.
Knomo stands for KNOwledge and MObility and is
designed for men and women living and working on the
go and designed to make life easier. Knomo is sold into
stores including Harrods, Nordstroms in over 40 countries
and also sold online via Knomo.com.
Founders:
Howard Harrison
Benoit Ruscoe
Year founded:
2004
HQ location:
London
www.knomo.com
The business has offices in London, New York, Germany
and Shanghai.
LaplandUK
An immersive theatrical experience
Inspired by the value we place on a child’s innocent
fleeting belief in Father Christmas LaplandUK revisited and
reimagined a Father Christmas visit in the UK.
Over the past 9 years we have created a unique and
innovative immersive 4 hour Christmas experience centred
around families celebrating a child’s precious but fleeting
belief in Father Christmas. We have been visited by over
300,000 people including royalty many times as well
as Sir Elton John , Sir Paul McCartney and many more
celebrities. We have created an immersive event as our first
demonstration of our values and brand. We are inspired by
Cirque du Soleil who took a much loved, but tired, subject
and reinvented it with quality, integrity and artistry and
expanded around the world.
Founders:
Mike Battle
Alison Battle
Year founded:
2007
HQ location:
London
(LaplandUK is staged
annually on the Windsor
Estate near Ascot)
www.laplanduk.co.uk
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Leightons Opticians & Hearing Care
Opticians and hearing care provider
Leightons Opticians & Hearing Care, is a family business
owned and run, since 1928, employing over 250 people,
within 34 stores in South East of England. It focuses on
the highest levels of clinical care, within contemporary
designed stores, using the latest diagnostic equipment and
technology.
Fashionable and high quality products that are built to last
are fitted via highly qualified opticians and audiologists. Its
brand philosophy is For Life. Helping people to see and to
hear so they can live life as fully as possible.
LendInvest
Online marketplace for property
LendInvest is a leader of FinTech and PropTech innovation,
bringing online marketplace lending to property for the
first time. Since 2013, LendInvest investors have lent
£525 million to property entrepreneurs building or
redeveloping 2,100 properties. LendInvest received the
UK FinTech sector’s largest ever Series A investment when
Beijing Kunlun, a Chinese technology company invested
£22 million in June 2015. Later in the year, the company
became the only UK marketplace lender to report two
years’ of profitability in its first two years of trading in
2015.
LendInvest is authorised and regulated by the Financial
Conduct Authority.
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Founders:
Henry Oscar Leighton.
Ryan Leighton (founder
of hearing business,
current CEO)
Year founded:
1928
HQ location:
Farnham
www.leightons.co.uk
Founders:
Christian Faes
Ian Thomas
Year founded:
2013
HQ location:
London
www.lendinvest.com
Leni Gas Cuba
Investment company
Leni Gas Cuba (LGC) was founded in March 2015 as the
first specialist investment company in the world to focus
on the country of Cuba. It listed on the ISDX Growth
Market in November having raised a total of £4.725
million in order to implement its investment strategy.
So far, investments have been made in five Cuba based
companies, giving LGC a head start in one of the world’s
most prospective national economies.
Founder:
David Lenigas
Year founded:
2015
HQ location:
London
www.lenigascuba.com
Other sectors of interest are tourism, accommodation,
infrastructure, transport, commercial and residential
property, technology, communications, manufacturing, retail,
services, leisure, agricultural and natural resources.
LiBGroup
Online Beauty Marketing Platform
The LiB Group brings engaged beauty customers and
brands together. Beauty consumers have the opportunity
to discover the right products for them at a fraction of
the price, beautifully packaged and conveniently delivered
to their homes. Through specific targeting, feedback and
insight analysis, beauty brands reach the right consumers
with the right products increasing long-term conversion
into their brands.
Founder:
Nort Janssen
Year founded:
2011
HQ location:
London
www.libgroup.co.uk
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Linde Werdelin
Watches and instruments
Modern by design, intelligent by materials and complex by
construction, these are the fundamental ingredients that
define a Linde Werdelin timepiece. Defying convention
and breaking the boundaries of what is possible, we have
successfully established a distinctive, respected point of
view in the art of fine watchmaking.
Inspired by childhoods spent skiing and diving, in 2002
Morten Linde and Jorn Werdelin formulated the idea: to
create analogue, mechanical timepieces for telling time, and
attachable, digital, electronic instruments for precision in
skiing and diving.
LMAX Exchange
Electronic FX trading technology
One of the UK’s fastest growing technology companies,
LMAX Exchange the leading MTF for FX. Servicing
brokers, funds, asset managers and banks, LMAX Exchange
is leading the industry transformation to transparent,
precise execution.
With clients in over 90 countries, LMAX Exchange delivers
a neutral, level playing field for all market participants,
regardless of status, size or activity levels. Based on
proprietary, ultra-low latency technology, the LMAX
Exchange open order is driven by streaming, no ‘Last
Look’ limit order liquidity. LMAX Exchange - the emerging
benchmark for global FX.
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Founders:
Morten Linde
Jorn Werdelin
Year founded:
2002
HQ location:
London
www.LindeWerdelin.com
Founder:
David Mercer
Year founded:
2007
HQ location:
London
www.lmax.com
Longitude Research
Research and thought leadership
We help companies to plan, research and produce
high-quality content and thought leadership. We work
predominantly in the B2B sector for professional services,
financial services and technology companies.
We work as an extension of our clients’ marketing teams,
and work in close collaboration with them. Our focus is
on using research and content to deliver their commercial
and marketing objectives.
Lost My Name
Founders:
Rob Mitchell
James Watson
Gareth Lofthouse
Year founded:
2011
HQ location:
London
www.longituderesearch.com
Technology & Storytelling startup
Lost My Name is a marvellously unusual, award winning
startup that plays in the intersection between storytelling
and technology. Its mission is to give every grownup
creative superpowers, to make magical, meaningful
connections with a child.
It’s created both the best-selling and the most
technologically advanced personalised picture books in the
world. And has made over 1.4 million children gasp and
giggle in 167 countries.
Founders:
Asi Sharabi
Tal Oron
David Cadji-Newby
Pedro Serapicos
Year founded:
2012
HQ location:
London
www.lostmy.name
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Love Moorish
Naturally-smoked food
Award-winning smoked humous and dips, created from
traditional artisan methods in Dorset that has been making
itself increasingly known, with stockists from Waitrose and
Ocado to Budgens and even British Airways.
M Squared Lasers
Photonics technology company
M Squared designs and manufactures world-class lasers
and advanced photonic systems. Its game-changing
products are helping scientists push the boundaries of their
scientific research whilst the M Squared Innovation Group
actively collaborates with universities, institutions and
industry around the world to develop and commercialise
new light-based applications.
The company has a worldwide customer base supported
via a global network of representatives and local offices.
M Squared has been featured in The Sunday Times Fast
Track 100, Deloitte Technology Fast 50, Deloitte EMEA
Fast 500 and Bloomberg Business Innovators 2016.
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Founder:
Julie Waddell
Year founded:
2012
HQ location:
Devon
www.lovemoorish.co.uk
Founders:
Dr Graeme Malcolm OBE
Dr Gareth Maker
Year founded:
2006
HQ location:
Glasgow
www.m2lasers.com
MarketInvoice
Cash flow finance for businesses
MarketInvoice is the world’s largest peer-to-peer business
lender for cash flow finance. Businesses can access funds
in 24 hours against outstanding invoices, licenses, contracts
and subscriptions. Launched in 2011 and based in London
and Manchester, MarketInvoice has helped hundreds of
businesses overcome the lengthy payment terms of their
customers.
More than £650 million has been raised through the
platform, with businesses using the funds to hire more staff,
launch new products and pay their suppliers.
Founders:
Anil Stocker
Ilya Kondrashov
Charles Delingpole
Year founded:
2011
HQ location:
Holborn, London
www.marketinvoice.com
The UK government – via the British Business Bank - has
lent more than £50 million through MarkeInvoice since
2013, in a partnership agreed until 2018.
Marlin Hawk
Marlin Hawk is a global leadership advisory and executive
search firm that delivers the next generation of business
leaders. We are game changers who challenge convention.
We hunt wider, dig deeper and work smarter to find the
few special candidates who make a real difference.
Our pioneering approach helps companies secure the
leaders they need to thrive in tomorrow’s business world.
Our services include Executive Search, Interim Consulting,
Partnership Programmes, Market Intelligence &
Organisational Analysis, Talent Mapping & Pipelining and
Leadership Assessment & Coaching.
Global executive search
Founders:
David Holloway
Jonathan Hime
Year founded:
2003
HQ location:
London
www.marlinhawk.com
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Matrix APA (UK)
Product, design and procurement
Matrix APA are product design and procurement partners
with energy and imagination.
We are experts in creating, sourcing, and delivering best
performing products to meet the needs of retailers and
brands worldwide.
MCCGLC
We imagine and create inspiring experiences to
communicate ideas for global brands. Through architecture,
graphic design, video and interactive technologies, we help
our multinational clients bridge the physical and digital
worlds by delivering events, exhibition stands, media and
digital campaigns.
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Founder:
Charlie Bradshaw
Year founded:
1996
HQ location:
London
www.matrixapa.com
Design agency
Founder:
Matteo Console Camprini
Year founded:
2005
HQ location:
London
www.mccglc.com
MIRACL
Two factor user authentication with 21st century methods
MIRACL is a leading cyber-security company creating next
generation of protection to Web services and users by
replacing outdated models. MIRACL’s M-Pin application
authenticates users through a protocol that does not
store passwords, PINs or credentials of any kind, and that
prevents the database server attacks that organisations
face today. M-Pin has been selected by Experian to
protect UK citizens using the GOV.UK Verify service from
identity fraud and the associated costs that result from
cybercriminals stealing and abusing passwords.
money.co.uk
money.co.uk is a free, independent comparison website
helping consumers and businesses compare personal
finance products and utilities.
The site provides over 500 free guides packed with
information that explains complicated financial matters in
an easy to digest format. money.co.uk recently won the
Tech Track 100 outstanding achievement award, was voted
the 7th best small business to work in the UK and ranked
the second fastest growing business in the Sunday Times
Fast Track.
Founders:
Brian Spector
Dr. Michael Scott
Year founded:
2009
HQ location:
Shoreditch, London
www.miracl.com
Financial comparison site
Founder:
Chris Morling
Year founded:
2008
HQ location:
Cirencester, Gloucestershire
www.money.co.uk
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Movidiam
Movidiam is a professional creative network and project
management application that enables brands, agencies and
filmmakers to connect, collaborate and create remarkable
films.
Orega
Orega’s fully serviced offices are an affordable solution for
working in desirable city centre locations. Our business
centre portfolio stands at 14 prime sites throughout the
UK and Europe. We pride ourselves in providing our
customers with the highest level of support services and
professional environments.
Orega are committed to offering exceptional facilities
whether you are setting up a serviced office, booking
a meeting room or using our Virtual Office packages.
Our support and customer service teams will go above
and beyond to ensure your Orega experience exceeds
expectations.
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Filmmaking reimagined
Founders:
George Olver
Alex Vero
Year founded:
2014
HQ location:
London
www.movidiam.com
Serviced office provider
Founders:
Zachary Douglas
Paul Finch
Year founded:
2000
HQ location:
London
www.orega.com
Pact Coffee
Online fresh coffee delivery
We make it easy to get your hands on fresh roasted
coffee, because fresh coffee tastes better. We ship our
coffee within 7 days of roasting - grinding it at the last
moment - to make it easier to drink fresh coffee everyday.
Your account on pactcoffee.com and our app ensure you
never run out. And through our Direct Trade relationships
with farmers, we pay a higher price than Fairtrade for
better quality coffee, and encourage the farmers we work
with to invest in coffee quality and their people.
Palace Capital plc
Founder:
Stephen Rapoport
Year founded:
2012
HQ location:
Bermondsey, London
www.pactcoffee.com
Regional commercial property investment
An AIM quoted conservatively geared property investment
company focusing on the regions. We continue to build
our income with selective acquisitions in quality locations,
including those that are part of the Northern Powerhouse.
Founders:
Neil Sinclair
Stanley Davis
Year founded:
2010
HQ location:
London
www.palacecapitalplc.com
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PayAsUGym
Online fitness aggregator
Life is busy and there are lots of things occupying our
time without having to worry where to workout. At
PayAsUGym we believe exercise should work for you and
should be fun.
We’ve broken down conventional barriers and offer
people fitness freedom. PayAsUGym was born in 2011.
Since then we’ve worked hard to unrestrict how, where
and when our customers workout. We were the first
fitness aggregator and we now give our 400k customers
in the UK more choice, unique products and better prices
than anyone else.
PCA Predict
Customer experience management
Delivering an exceptional online experience is the key to
attracting and retaining customers in a highly competitive
market. However, to be successful you need tools which
make the journey faster, smoother and easier for the
customer as well as the ability to recognise when things
are not going so well, so that you can support their
journey with a different approach.
PCA Predict’s mission is to help deliver exceptional online
experiences by anticipating and reacting to changes in
customer behaviour to turn poor experiences into good
ones and make good ones even better.
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Founders:
Jamie Ward
Neil Harmsworth
Year founded:
2011
HQ location:
London
www.payasugym.com
Founders:
Guy Mucklow
Jamie Turner
Year founded:
2000
HQ location:
Worcester
NYC
www.pcapredict.com
Phaidon International
Micro-specialist staffing group
Phaidon International is a global staffing group with 8
micro-specialist recruitment brands.
PIE Mapping
Founder:
Adam Buck
Year founded:
2004
HQ location:
London
www.phaidoninternational.com
Making transportation, logistics and fleet management as easy as Pie
Pie Mapping provide a transportation and logistics solution
that every individual, organisation with a vehicle or fleet,
can afford, that is easily used, offers flexibility to scale
up & down that will drive operational cost visibility and
efficiencies. Successful customer focused companies rely on
their ability to deliver operational logistics excellence.
The Pie platform is the scalable SAAS offering for any size
of business with vehicles.
Founders:
Freddie Talberg
Year founded:
2009
HQ location:
London
www.piemapping.com
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Platform Black
Online business finance marketplace
Platform Black is an online business finance marketplace.
UK businesses can take advantage of two main products
to access working capital finance, including instant funding
via single invoice trading and supply chain finance, which
ensures faster payment to suppliers. Since launching in
2012, the business has grown rapidly providing over £117
million of funding through their online platform.
Continuous investment in the development of the platform
and their recently strengthened risk focussed management
team, ensures that funders have greater assurance
that they are making good funding decisions providing
businesses with a strong source of working capital finance
to help their businesses grow.
Playmob
Playmob is a marketplace for games, brands and charities
to monetise through connecting to social good. We
provide the platform for partners to source, set up and
manage campaigns, resulting in first time spenders, higher
engagement and virality and increasing life time value for
games, brands and charities.
Playmob’s platform does the heavy lifting, ensuring a
greater ROI for each partner.
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Founders:
Andrew Whelan
Caroline Langron
Year founded:
2012
HQ location:
Basingstoke
www.platformblack.com
Monetise mobile games
Founder:
Jude Ower MBE
Year founded:
2011
HQ location:
London
www.playmob.com
Prodigy Finance
Borderless community funding platform
Prodigy Finance is a global community, connecting the
world’s emerging talent with the capital it needs to thrive.
Our international network of investors fund graduate loans
for students, over 3,800 students and $160 million in loans
accepted to date, from over 116 countries, through a
borderless model that prizes potential over geography.
We find and help fund talent all across the world, crossing
the borders and barriers which traditional funding
providers cannot.
Property Partner
Founders:
Cameron Stevens
Miha Zerko
Ryan Stelle
Year founded:
2007
HQ location:
London
www.prodigyfinance.com
Residential property crowdfunding platform
The platform uniquely combines residential property
crowdfunding with a secondary exchange upon which
investors can trade their holdings.
The company allows anyone to invest in an individual
property of their choice, with as little or as much they
wish, so they can own a share, receive rental income, and
realise capital gains if property prices rise. The letting and
management of the properties is carried out on behalf of
investors.
Founder:
Daniel Gandesha
Year founded:
2014
HQ location:
London
www.propertypartner.co
Property Partner brings accessibility, simplicity and
transparency to a residential property market that has
traditionally had high barriers to entry.
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PVL UK
Reflective vehicle safety markings
Founder:
Nick Broom
Year founded:
2000
HQ location:
Sussex
www.pvluk.com
PVL UK help save lives and generate brand awareness!
We are the biggest supplier of reflective vehicle safety
marking kits to the UK emergency services fleet, and
supply corporate branding for commercial vehicle fleets
throughout the UK.
From our manufacturing plant in Sussex we produce
vehicle specific reflective kits and full colour printed
“wraps” for fleets of any size. We export our reflective
vehicle kits as well as our patented Mirage™ thermal
marking material into mainland Europe, the Middle East
and USA.
Ramsden International
Exporter of British groceries
Ramsden International is a wholesale exporter offering
23,000 British grocery items to over 550 customers in 130
countries worldwide. Customers range from small retailers
to multi-national retailers and distributors.
We pride ourselves on being solely dedicated to the
export market and we position ourselves not just as
a wholesaler but also as a service provider, offering
customers a range of value-added services to make
importing British groceries as easy as possible. This includes
air freight, inkjetting and relabeling, documentation and
compliance, translations, consolidations, logistics and freight
management.
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Founder:
Sean Ramsden
Year founded:
1970
HQ location:
Grimsby
www.ramsden-international.com
Rated People
The UK’s #1 home services marketplace
Rated People is the UK’s #1 home services marketplace. It
connects homeowners with skilled, available tradespeople
in their area. Founded in 2005, the company offers a safer
and more convenient way for homeowners to find local
tradespeople than traditional directory methods. It also
offers over 50,000 UK tradespeople the opportunity to
grow their reputation and find quality work in their area.
In 2015, Rated People saw 1 million jobs posted on the
platform, with at least one job posted and serviced in
every UK postcode. Rated People also offers a wealth
of home tips, décor ideas and interviews with industry
leaders on its blog and its ‘Ask an Expert’ forum.
ResponseTap
Founders:
Andrew Skipwith
Celia Francis
Year founded:
2005
HQ location:
London
www.ratedpeople.com
Perfecting the buying experience
ResponseTap connects the online customer journey
to the phone call to help marketers understand what
makes people call, so they can better optimise their
marketing. This data is also used to enhance the phone call
experience by empowering the call centre agent with next
best action information based on information gathered
during the online customer journey. Together this allows a
business to improve the end to end buying experience of
the customer from first becoming aware of their products
to actually buying over the phone.
Founders:
Ross Fobian (CEO)
Richard Hamnett (CTO)
Year founded:
2008
HQ location:
Manchester
www.responsetap.com
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Results Through Digital
Business results through digital
We are a group of businesses. EMS Internet is the original
business, focussing on websites and web marketing,
founded in 1999.
Appitized is our bespoke mobile app development
business. Then we have a bespoke web marketing business,
EMS fifteen, and a mass market mobile app business,
Appitized Business. Additionally we have RTD Labs that will
be the core of services development. Our clients include
a number of NHS Trusts, some well known brands like
Reebok and Barry M, and large number of growing SMEs.
SCM World
Supply chain management professional development
SCM World is the cross-industry learning community
powered by the world’s most influential supply chain
practitioners. It exists to advance the profession of supply
chain management - helping senior executives share best
practice in order to shape the future of supply chain for
consumers, for business and for the lasting benefit of
society.
Membership of the SCM World community provides
access to predictive, ground-breaking research, worldleading events, cross-industry expertise, practitioner-driven
content and exclusive peer-to-peer connections. Members
of the community include Unilever, Nike, Caterpillar, Cisco,
Nestle, Chevron, Dell, and General Mills.
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Founder:
Jamie Wilson
Year founded:
1999
HQ location:
Warrington, Cheshire
www.resultsthroughdigital.co.uk
Founders:
Oliver Sloane
Jonathan Bennett
Year founded:
2009
HQ location:
London
www.scmworld.com
Space Ape Games
Award-winning mobile gaming
Headquartered in London, Space Ape are a high
performing team who aspire to make the highest quality
and most successful games on your smartphone and tablet.
Our first game, Samurai Siege was released in Oct 2013 to
great success (14M installs and $30M in revenue to date)
and our second game Rival Kingdoms, released in May
2015 received the Apple Editors Choice award, has 5M
installs to date and is generating $2m/month.
We have an exciting pipeline in development, including
the release of a major new Transformers mobile game in
Spring 2016.
Spektrix
Spektrix’s mission is to provide the arts with the tools
to be successful, which they do through their cloudbased ticketing, marketing and fundraising platform. Their
long-term ambition is to be the platform that powers
entertainment ticketing worldwide.
Spektrix works with over 250 organisations in the UK,
Ireland, the US and Canada, and focus on working with
them to help them grow and develop their audiences,
increase their revenues, and run as efficiently as possible.
Founders:
John Earner
Simon Hade
Toby Moore
Year founded:
2012
HQ location:
London
www.spaceapegames.com
Cloud-based ticketing platform
Founders:
Michael Nabarro
Matt Scarisbrick
Year founded:
2007
HQ location:
London
www.spektrix.com
In 2015, Spektrix processed £200 million of ticket sales
through the system. Within 3 years, they expect to be
selling over £1 billion of tickets through the system.
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SyndicateRoom
Investor-led equity crowdfunding
SyndicateRoom is the only UK-based, investor-led equity
crowdfunding platform. By allowing our members to
co-invest alongside experienced angel investors in highly
sophisticated opportunities, they get access to the same
economic terms as the lead investors.
SyndicateRoom was founded by Gonçalo de Vasconcelos
and Tom Britton, and its own lead investors. Advisers
include UK Business Angel of the Year Peter Cowley and
super-angel Jonathan Milner. SyndicateRoom is authorised
and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and is a
member of the London Stock Exchange.
Tails.com
Tails.com is tailor-made food blended to a dog’s unique
nutritional and dietary needs. It is a completely new
approach to dog food that was set up to change the lives
of dogs and their owners for the better.
Tails.com was developed with vets and nutritionists and
uses technology to cut out the middleman (shops), analyse
a dog’s condition and needs and provide tailor-made food
for dogs that is as individual as they are.
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Founders:
Gonçalo de Vasconcelos
Tom Britton
Year founded:
2013
HQ location:
Cambridge
www.syndicateroom.com
Tailor-made dog food
Founders:
Mark Holland, Steve
Webster, Karen Freeman,
Kat Linger, Paul Cooke,
Joe Inglis, Graham Bosher,
James Davidson (CEO)
Year founded:
2014
HQ location:
London
www.tails.com
Talking Tables
Design-led British brand creating trendy homeware
Experts in fun and innovative partyware, people around
the world are already celebrating with Talking Tables.
Launching new collections seasonally with award winning
products, Talking Tables can be found at the heart of special
occasions.
It’s time to get together!
The Catalis Group
The Catalis Group consists of three key areas:Curve Digital Publishing, the fast-growing independent
games publisher on PC and console formats.
Kuju Entertainment, one of the UK’s leading ‘work for hire’
video games development companies, which encompasses
the Zoe Mode and Headstrong Games studios.
Founder:
Clare Harris
Year founded:
1999
HQ location:
London
www.talkingtables.co.uk
Video games services
Founder:
Dominic Wheatley
Year founded:
2000
HQ location:
Croydon
www.catalisgroup.com
Testronic Laboratories, the leading global provider of QA,
compliance, and localization services for the entertainment
industries, including film, television and video games.
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The Clean Space
UK-based commercial cleaning
The Clean Space - a proud Living Wage Foundation recognised service provider - look after our cleaners, something a
significant proportion of the cleaning industry fails to do. We
train and manage our staff properly, pay them accurately
and on time, give holiday, and respect them as individuals,
because it’s the right thing to do. Additionally, keeping our
cleaners happy and motivated means they do a better job
for our clients.
Founder:
Charlie Mowat
Year founded:
2003
HQ location:
Vauxhall, London
www.thecleanspace.com
We are united in our mission to make The Clean Space the
best, most-distinctive cleaning company in the UK.
The Moment
International content company
We are a Creative Content Company. We are passionate
about creating amazing content with a real purpose that
performs. Content that compels audiences to share,
engage and start a conversation – right there and then in
that very moment. That’s The Moment we live for.
We understand the passions and interests of audiences.
What are their needs and desires? As storytellers we then
use our expertise in TV and video production, experiential
and digital to create content that entertains, inspires,
informs and engages audiences whenever and wherever
they are.
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Founder:
Mark Hawkins, CEO
Funded:
1989
HQ location:
Holborn, London
www.wearethemoment.com
Trimline
Global marine interior refurbishment specialists
Trimline is a market leading marine interior refurbishment
specialist. Our mission is to deliver quality interior
refurbishments on time, on budget and to exceed every
customer’s expectations through innovation, superior
project management and value driven partnerships. We
start each job with fresh eyes, knowing that every project
is different and has specific demand. We draw on our
experience gained from over 50 years in the industry to
find solutions for every project.
Triyoga
Founders:
Michael Oliver
Gary Oliver
(originally Reginald Oliver)
Year founded:
1965
HQ location:
Southampton, Hampshire
www.trimline.co.uk
Yoga, pilates and treatments in London
triyoga is London’s leading destination for yoga, Pilates
and treatments. The company opened its first centre
in Primrose Hill in 2000 and has grown to have four
locations in Camden, Chelsea, Soho and Covent Garden.
triyoga is recognised for working with leading teachers and
therapists, both in London and from around the world.
As centres of excellence, they provide the highest quality
classes in beautiful, tranquil spaces complete with lifestyle
shops and organic cafés.
Founder:
Jonathan Sattin
Year founded:
2000
HQ location:
Primrose Hill
www.triyoga.co.uk
The yoga class schedule offers over 400 classes per
week – in addition to inspiring and innovative workshops,
courses and teacher training programmes – with a broad
range of authentic yoga styles that makes the practice
accessible for everyone, whatever their age, physical ability,
experience or goals.
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UK Power Reserve
Smart, flexible power generation
UK Power Reserve is the leading independent developer
and operator of flexible, smart and affordable power
generation. Our company plays a critical role in the
delivery of one of life’s most basic requirements electricity.
We participate in a variety of Energy Balancing Services
and provide third-party aggregation and Demand Side
Response (DSR) management and trading services. UK
Power Reserve’s portfolio is the largest reserve power
portfolio in the UK, and places the company amongst the
largest independent reserve power providers in the EU.
UltraSoC Technologies
UltraSoC addresses a crisis in SoC development: today’s
billion-transistor chips are so complex it is almost
impossible for the designers to predict or fully understand
their operation.
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Founder:
Tim Emrich
Year founded:
2010
HQ location:
Solihull
www.ukpowerreserve.com
Silicon IP
Founder:
Klaus MacDonald Meier.
Year founded:
2009
HQ location:
Cambridge
www.ultrasoc.com
Unilink
The Unilink Group comprises four operating companies
and also offices in Australia, South Africa and the
Netherlands in addition to the UK. The company is
privately owned and focussed upon developing innovative
technology for niche markets.
Currently employing 60 staff Unilink is growing at around
20-30% per annum and has just won a significant contract
in Australia to install across a complete state. The Unilink
Group Board has Paul Mullins, Chair of ETF, as non-exec
and Sir Martin Narey a non-Exec and former head of the
National Offender Management Service.
Vibe Teacher Recruitment
Vibe is a team of teachers with a passion for Education
and a positive attitude to life! As well as supporting
schools by placing the best people to suit their needs, we
support and inspire people to be better!
Software for criminal justice
Founder:
Francis Toye
Year founded:
1994
HQ location:
London
www.unilink-software.co.uk
Vibe inspire better education
Founder:
Paul Harris
Year founded:
2001
HQ location:
Ravenscourt Park, London
www.vibeteaching.co.uk
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VIP
Electronic cigarette retailer and wholesaler
The success of its move into electronic cigarettes in 2009
resulted in VIP focussing purely on that market from 2011.
From a pure ecommerce sales channel, VIP expanded into
retail kiosks and shops in the UK and has now over 100
outlets. Licensees operate another 68 retail outlets across
the UK and Ireland. VIP can also be found in Asda and BP
garages and smaller independent retailers.
VIP employs 275 staff. VIP was acquired in 2014 by its US
parent Electronic Cigarettes International Group Limited.
Vivid Resourcing
Specialist international recruitment.
Vivid Resourcing was founded in 2008 by current
Managing Director Charlie Walker (then 24). Initially
focussing upon supplying interim contract workers in the
Technology and Engineers sectors, Vivid grew to a turnover
exceeding £30 million within only 7 years. Building on early
successes in the domestic UK market, Vivid Resourcing
has developed into one of the UK’s most prominent
internationally-focussed recruiters. The business supplies
workers into over 50 countries, placing workers in roles
ranging from Biomass Engineers in Rwanda, through to
Web Developers in Sweden.
The company is Headquartered in Clerkenwell, with
further locations in Manchester, Glasgow, Los Angeles,
Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
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Founders:
Miguel Corral
David Levin (no longer
with the company)
Year founded:
2004
HQ location:
Radcliffe, Manchester
www.vipelectroniccigarette.co.uk
Founder:
Charlie Walker
Year founded:
2008
HQ location:
London
www.vividresourcing.com
Woodsford Litigation Funding
Woodsford provides litigation and arbitration funding. Our
clients are businesses with a strong case, but without the
financial ability to pursue it, or well-resourced corporates
who wish to hedge risk and mitigate the detrimental effect
of lengthy disputes on cash flow. In return for investing
in a case we receive an agreed share of the proceeds
recovered. If the claim is lost we receive nothing.
Litigation funding
Founder:
Yves Bonavero
Year founded:
2010
HQ location:
London
www.woodsfordlitigationfunding.com
Our charges depend on a range of factors including
the amount in dispute, the likelihood of success and the
estimated duration of the claim.
Workshare
Workshare is a leading provider of secure enterprise file
sharing and collaboration applications.
Workshare allows individuals to easily create, share, and
manage high-value content anywhere, on any device.
Computer software
Founders:
Anthony Foy
Barrie Hadfield
Year founded:
1999
HQ location:
London
www.workshare.com
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Wright Brothers
Wholesale seafood distribution and restaurants.
We are “sea to plate” specialists with operations covering
aquaculture, wholesale distribution and restaurants.
We currently operate mostly within London and are
starting to scale nationally.
YPlan
With a carefully curated list of events, perfectly tailored for
impulsive city-dwellers, YPlan inspires people to live their
city like never before. YPlan available on the web and as
a free app on iOS and Android allows users to browse
upcoming gigs, food tastings, theatre shows and gallery
exhibitions, meaning they can book tickets to some of their
city’s best attractions in just two taps.
YPlan has enjoyed over 2,000,000 app downloads since
launch and works with over 1,500 event partners.
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Founder:
Ben Wright
Year founded:
2002
HQ location:
South Kensington, London
www.thewrightbrothers.co.uk
Entertainment on tap
Founders:
Rytis Vitkauskas
Viktoras Jucikas
Year founded:
2012
HQ location:
London
www.yplanapp.com
Z Hotels
The Z Hotel has everything you need for a couple of
nights in town. Concentrated style, an out-of-town price
and the West End – at your feet the moment you step
out the door. No off-central, tourist hotels for you.
ZappiStore
ZappiStore generates insight through automation. Using
technology to make industry-leading market research faster
and more cost-effective.
Enabling clients to get insights fuelling their business
decisions in a matter of hours.
Bringing consumers into the business process earlier and
more often.
Hospitality
Founders:
Jamie Goldstein
Jonathan Raymond
Year founded:
2011
HQ location:
London
www.thezhotels.com
Automates market research
Founder:
Steve Phillips
Year founded:
2013
HQ location:
Camden, London
www.zappistore.com
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ABOUT THE LEAP 100 PARTNERS
City A.M. is a free daily business newspaper, distributed at commuter and professional
hotspots throughout London and the surrounding area, as well as 1,600 offices throughout
the City, Canary Wharf and other areas of high business concentration. The paper
employs an editorial team of 27 across its four daily sections - news, business features and
investment, lifestyle and sport - and has an active website, CityAM.com.
The Supper Club is the UK’s leading membership club exclusively for founders and CEOs
of high-growth businesses. Established in 2004 by Duncan Cheatle, it currently has just
under 400 members and runs around 25 events a month. The businesses its members run
have an average growth rate of 34%. The Supper Club is part of Prelude Group which
runs a series of programmes to facilitate peer-learning and sustainable growth with the
aim to help make Britain the most enterprising nation in the world.
The Entrepreneurs Network is independent, non-profit and non-partisan. It supports
entrepreneurs by:
——Producing cutting-edge research outlining the benefits of easing unnecessary burdens
upon enterprise;
——Hosting regular events to bridge the gap between the aspirations of the
entrepreneurial community and policy makers;
——Building a network of entrepreneurs who are keen to improve the public policy debate;
——Championing entrepreneurship and making the case for a more entrepreneurial society.
From messaging to media relations, editorial to events, creative to corporate
communications, the team of specialists build campaigns that foster belief, build followings
and unlock growth.
Clients include founders, CEOs and destinations, empowering inspirational people and
places to articulate – and achieve – their mission.
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CONTACTS
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contact us.
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Partner, Head of Corporate
T +44 20 3321 7435
E nick.davis@mishcon.com
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Senior Business Development Manager
T +44 20 3321 7847
E anna.izbicki@mishcon.com
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