79. Uptime Labs This startup delivers incident response training for IT professionals to help businesses recover as fast as possible in emergencies. Written by Helena Young Sponsored by Sage Published on January 12, 2026 About the Startups 100 Now in its 18th year, the Startups 100 is the definitive list of the most promising new UK businesses. There's no fee for entry or for inclusion in our index. The Startups team of new business experts judge all our top 100 entrants in collaboration with specialist industry consultants. See our guide to this year’s hottest new businesses and most exceptional founders in the complete 2026 Startups 100 index. Founders: Hamed Silatani, Joe McKevitt, and Jack MooreYear founded: 2021Website: uptimelabs.ioIT outages are a frequent subject of news headlines, with Amazon Web Services, Marks & Spencers, Co-Op, and Jaguar all hit last year alone.However, businesses are often under-prepared for these critical situations, not least because they have neglected to train their staff to be resilient in the heat of the moment.London-based founder Hamed Silatani, explains that he saw how professional and calm health workers were in an emergency situation when his son was born. In his own career as an incident responder at a major financial services firm, he had experienced the opposite – a ‘fight, flight or freeze’ response.Together with former colleagues, including Joe McKevitt and Jack Moore, Silatani founded Uptime Labs. The company provides incident response training for IT professionals using simulations, as opposed to book or classroom learning, enabling its customers to get as close to reality as possible.It was a tough journey. McKevitt and Silatani admit that balancing family and startup life was tricky; and they also took a significant pay cut and utilised personal savings to bootstrap the company. All three co-founders worked without salary for the first seven months.By pushing their pre-seed funding as much as possible, the founders have seen the company grow. The venture now has clients with large engineering teams, including Trainline, ESO, and IG Group. Smaller firms like Storio Group have provided “equally rich client experiences,” they add.A pivotal moment was running a whole virtual incident festival in July, which attracted 300 incident responders and was the first virtual festival in the resilience space. The team continues to iterate using feedback from its Customer Success team and are planning “a variety of products that help incident responders navigate the increasingly digital world”.With these, they hope Uptime Labs will become the ‘go-to’ name in resilience and therefore an essential in the tool-kit of every engineering team.View the full Startups 100 Index for 20261. Omnea2. HIVED3. MAGIC AI4. OXCCU5. Lightyear6. Neuranics 7. Hormona8. Burbank9. Better Dairy 10. Lenkie Technologies11. Userled12. Hoxton Farms13. Rensair14. PulpaTronics15. TradeKart16. 32Co17. Carmoola18. cheqd19. Sightline Analytics20. Adamo Foods21. Bold Bean Co22. Beams Renovation 23. Pan Galactic24. Capi Money25. Spotted Zebra26. ANTHROTEK 27. Unravel28. Perci Health29. Untap Health30. Hair Syrup31. Connect Earth 32. spacebands 33. Unfabled34. Lightning Reach35. STOCKED36. Embeddable37. XR Therapeutics38. Literal Labs39. Scooch40. Openr41. Fibe Limited42. Inicio AI43. Peachies44. Better Nature 45. Ctrl Alt46. 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