{"id":47506,"date":"2017-05-22T00:07:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T23:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/?p=47506"},"modified":"2021-05-18T14:27:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T13:27:25","slug":"8-leadstream-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2017\/8-leadstream-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"8. LeadStream UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Founders:<\/strong> Matthew Milnes and Michael Hubbard
\nFounded:<\/strong> September 2014 (launched November 2014)
\nWebsite:<\/strong> www.leadstream.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

For financial services businesses, finding prospective customers who want to learn more about their brand and buy into their products can be a difficult task. As Matthew Milnes and Michael Hubbard discovered when they witnessed busy brokers being inundated with leads that were destined to go nowhere.<\/p>\n

Deciding that the market was crying out for innovation, Milnes and Hubbard founded LeadStream; a start-up specialising in online customer acquisition for financial services companies.<\/p>\n

Instead of simply selling companies leads, after a customer has filled out its web form LeadStream verifies the lead over the phone – confirming whether or not they would like to speak to a broker. LeadStream then transfers the customer to the best company for their requirements.<\/p>\n

In short, brokers get connected to customers who actually want a quote for their product.<\/p>\n

The innovative service, which has secured a ranking among the Startups 100 top 10, attracts around 1,700 customer enquiries per day, and has garnered 1,862 four and five-star reviews. With 92 brokers, finance companies and intermediaries using LeadStream to purchase meaningful leads, LeadStream’s buyer numbers have surged – rising a whopping 300% from January to November in 2016.<\/p>\n

This rapid growth has been reflected across the start-up’s operations. In March 2016, the business had 16 operators verifying leads each day, and by October this number had grown to 27. In the same time frame, the start-up increased its gross profitability by a staggering 3,605%.<\/p>\n

LeadStream’s ambitious plans for the next two years include diversifying its range of products, expanding into other insurance-specific sectors, and growing from B2C (business to consumer) lead generation into B2B (business to business).<\/p>\n

As LeadStream’s founders comment; “our rate of growth over the last three years has been incredible and we don’t want this to stop.”<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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