UK’s 53 “most innovative” start-ups named in Bloomberg index

The UK’s 53 “most innovative” start-ups, across industries such as finance, technology, and food, have been recognised in Bloomberg’s inaugural Business Innovator List 2016.

Judged by leading names from the enterprise space including Saul Klein, Level39’s Eric van der Kleij, Second Home founder Rohan Silva, and Zopa co-founder Giles Andrews, the list claims to showcase the businesses disrupting the way people live, work and think.

Among the businesses identified in the index are Startups Awards winners Appear Here (founder Ross Bailey is pictured), Purplebricks, Notonthehighstreet.com, MADE.com, and Crowdcube, alongside Startups 100-featured companies such as Property Partner, Seedrs and Pact Coffee.

A number of start-ups founded by Growing Business Young Guns also appear in the index such as Deliveroo, Onfido and Graze.

The full list of companies are:

1. Appear Here
2. BBOXX
3. Blaze
4. Blippar
5. Bloom & Wild
6. Boldmind
7. Brightbridge Ventures
8. Busuu
9. Cambridge Quantum Consulting
10. CityFibre
11. Crowdcube
12. Darktrace
13. Deliveroo
14. Digital Shadows
15. DueDil
16. Entrepreneur First
17. EVRYTHNG
18. Farmdrop
19. Flypay
20. Funding Circle
21. GoCardless
22. Graze
23. Grind
24. HeatGenius
25. Improbable
26. Jukedeck
27. Loaf
28. Lyst
29. MSquared Lasers
30. MADE.com
31. Metro Bank
32. MyOptique Group
33. Neighbourly
34. Notonthehighstreet.com
35. Nutmeg
36. Onefinestay
37. Onfido
38. Open Bionics
39. Open Utility
40. Pact Coffee
41. Pavegen
42. Property Partner
43. Purplebricks
44. Qubit
45. Rapha
46. RateSetter
47. RealityMine
48. Secret Escapes
49. Seedrs
50. Signal Media
51. Sky-Futers
52. TransferWise
53. WorldRemit

Bloomberg’s head of tech editorial, Nate Lanxon, said:

“The UK is a global powerhouse of innovation and growth. With such a wealth of talent and drive, we wanted to curate a network among the business leaders who epitomise the vibrancy and diversity of the UK business scene.

“Each of these businesses are, in their unique way, transforming industries, our lifestyle, our ways of thinking, the environment and the future for the better. We look forward to seeing what they will accomplish in 2016.”