26 new “rising stars” of tech join Future Fifty programme

Tech City UK has announced 26 new technology companies that will join its Future Fifty programme – a showcase of the UK’s “most exciting” growth stage businesses.

The new recruits will receive support in the form of expert-led classes and workshops, access to a valuable peer network and media coverage.

Startups Awards 2017 overall winner Onfido, the background checking tool, is amongst the 2017 intake, alongside a number of other Startups Awards-winning and Startups 100-featured companies including credit scoring service Clearscore, car comparison site carwow and dog food subscription service tails.com.

The 77 Future Fifty alumni, which includes the likes of Deliveroo, Crowdcube, Funding Circle, and Farfetch have secured $3.8bn in funding between them and created 27,000 jobs around the world since 2014. Five have gone on to IPO at a collective value of $1.5bn and there have been 16 mergers and acquisitions.

Four of the latest intake have graduated from the Future Fifty Upscale programme – a six-month coaching initiative for early-stage companies. This year’s 26 were chosen by a judging panel of UK investors and entrepreneurs for their “potential to scale rapidly and build significant businesses”.

The full list of Future Fifty companies is:

1. Azimo
2. Blis
3. Bloom & Wild
4. Carwow
5. Clearscore
6. Condeco Group
7. Ebury
8. Epos Now
9. Fairsail
10. Festicket
11. Gousto
12. Interact
13. Kano
14. LoveCrafts
15. My UNiDAYS
16. Onfido
17. Receipt Bank
18. ROLI
19. tails.com
20. Thread
21. Threads Styling
22. Spitfire Audio
23. SuperAwesome
24. Swoon Editions
25. Trak Global Group
26. Ve Interactive

Parveen Dhanda, the program lead for Future Fifty at Tech City UK, said: “We’re delighted to be working with this year’s intake. Together, they represent the diversity and depth of the UK technology sector. Their passion and talent has seen them do amazing things so far and we look forward to helping them to take the next step.”

Gerard Grech, CEO of Tech City UK, added: “From fintech to online shopping, telematics to edtech, the Future Fifty companies offer a glimpse into the UK’s digital future. Britain remains one of the best places in the world to start a tech business and we will make sure it remains so.

“These companies have global ambitions and with the support of the tech community we will do everything we can to help them, so that they can create jobs and opportunities across the UK – as their successful predecessors have done.”