150+ Best UK Apps Startups & Companies | Best Apps Companies Award 2021

Apps is big business in the UK. We have selected the top 150 Apps companies across the size spectrum to showcase. These startups and companies are all taking different approaches to innovating the Apps industry, that diversity of innovation is what makes the UK so great. 

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

Innovation

Growth

Management

Societal impact

The best Apps startups and firms in the UK

We have profiled the top 150 Apps startups, companies and firms in the UK. This list is in no particular order, all of the companies showcased here are exceptional companies, well worth following. 

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Elvie

Elvie is a British femtech company developing smart technology for women.

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Curve

Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.

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OLIO

OLIO is a global food sharing app connecting neighbors, volunteers, and businesses.

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Flo Health

Flo is an AI-powered women’s health app that supports women at every stage of their reproductive cycle.

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Stacker

Stacker is a no-code software creation platform that develops an application to help developers build software.

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Tide

Tide is a business banking platform with a mission to save small businesses time and money on their banking and admin.

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PawaPay

PawaPay is a payments company that provides mobile payment solutions to African consumers or businesses.

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Cera

Cera is a digital-first healthcare-at-home company delivering care, nursing, telehealth and repeat prescription services in people’s homes.

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Marvel

Marvel puts the power of design in everyone's hands.

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Bonnet

One subscription for all EV charging networks

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Weezy

Weezy is an online supermarket platform designed for on-demand grocery shopping.

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Citymapper

Citymapper is a transport app for cities.

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Lumen

Lumen is an app-only dating platform for over 50s.

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Sona

Sona is the employee app for tomorrow's workforce.

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Urban

Urban is an online wellness appointment platform for booking in-person and online treatments.

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Upstream

Upstream is leading the mobile internet revolution in high growth markets.

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Wirex

Wirex is a digital payment platform that aims to make crypto and traditional currencies equal and accessible to everyone.

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Moody

MOODY is a digital ecosystem for hormones, cycles and moods.

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Capital.Com

Capital.com is a high-growth, investment trading fintech group of companies empowering people to participate in financial markets.

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Element

Element builds secure, self-sovereign chat apps and collaboration solutions using the open Matrix protocol.

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Chip

Chip is building the best savings account in the world

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JustPark

JustPark is a parking app reinventing parking for the digital era.

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Kroo

Kroo is a financial technology company that develops innovative services for a new generation of customers.

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Shazam Entertainment

Shazam Entertainment is an app that identify any music playing around you.

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Guild

Guild is a platform for professional groups, networks & communities. As easy as WhatsApp but no ads, private and designed for business.

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Argent

Argent is the most simple and secure smart wallet for crypto.

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Sweatcoin

Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by economic value of physical movement.

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Taptap Send

Taptap Send is an app that lets immigrants send money back home at great rates

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Poq

Poq offers a SAAS platform to help large retailers join app commerce.

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Tripledot Studios

Tripledot Studios is a mobile games studio.

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Logically

Logically develops the latest in AI technologies to combat information overload, misinformation, fake news & other types of harmful content.

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MishiPay

Mishipay is an app allowing you to never have to stand in line to pay at a store again.

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Fiit

Fiit offers a real-time performance feedback and live leader boards that allows users to challenge their friends from around the world.

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Penfold

Challenger pension getting young people and the self-employed saving enough for retirement.

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Second Nature

Second Nature is a digital programme that helps people lead healthier lives

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Limitless

The Limitless GigCX platform enables businesses to connect customers with qualified experts to solve customer service enquiries on-demand.

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Papercup

Papercup translates videos using AI by generating voices that sound like the original speaker

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Muzmatch

Muzmatch is the worlds biggest dating app for Muslims looking for their life partner. Backed by Y Combinator S17.

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Curio

Listen to the world's best journalism on the go

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UFIN

Founded in October 2019 with the main business areas of financial technology market

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Amity

Amity powers in-app social experiences, helping developers to easily add pre-built social features to any app with a few lines of code.

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Her

Her is a dating application for lesbians, bisexual and bi-curious women, allowing users to connect with each other and their community.

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Raylo

Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.

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ev.energy

Smart charging software platform for electric vehicles, to reduce carbon emissions and cost

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Wheely

Wheely is a luxury ride-hailing service, allowing customers to book chauffeur-driven journeys both on-demand and pre-booked through an app.

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ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin

Business Banking and Admin service

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Mind Candy

Moshi provides a sleep and mindfulness app for kids featuring melodic stories created to help kids drift off to sleep quickly.

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AppyWay

AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.

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Wrisk

Wrisk offers a customizable platform that enables businesses to create mobile-first insurance experiences for their customers.

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Reflaunt

Reflaunt gives fashion brands the technology to build and reclaim the secondary market.

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Lingumi

Lingumi is an edtech startup that teaches English to kids aged 2 to 6 using an app and a range of physical products.

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tickr

Empowering people to build a better future of themselves and the world

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Oval Money

Oval offers an app for financial coaching and planning that helps people save according to their rules.

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Transak

Web2-to-web3 conversion funnels for the next generation of apps.

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Azoomee

Azoomee / Da Vinci is a kids' global media company and app development studio with offices in London, Berlin, Istanbul and Luxembourg.

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Paired

Paired provides the steps needed by couples to improve their relationship each day.

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Quipper

Quipper provides quiz-based e-learning apps for iPhone and Android platforms.

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Rezolve

Rezolve allows any kind of product or media to instantly trigger a highly relevant, contextual engagement between consumer and retailer

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Springpod

Springpod is an early careers attraction, engagement and recruitment technology that helps young people discover their futures.

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Judopay

Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.

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Glorify

Glorify is a mobile app designed to create space and structure for Christians to connect with God.

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Zesty

Zesty is a multi-award winning European digital health company.

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Playrcart

Playrcart lets you browse and watch video content.

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AEVI

AEVI provides a platform for merchant-facing businesses that enables them to upgrade to more agile, more data-driven propositions.

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Trackd

Trackd Social Music Universe with Creator Tools. We unite music lovers and artists around the world.

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BUMP

BUMP is a social peer-to-peer marketplace for authentic streetwear and sneakers.

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Mana

Share what you love with 1:1 sessions and live classes. Inspire dedicated followers who fund your work.

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Laundrapp

Laundrapp is the UK’s leading online laundry and dry cleaning service, offering unparalleled levels of quality cleaning right across London.

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SafeToNet

SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.

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Flat

Flat is an online and collaborative music score editor.

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Artfinder

Artfinder is the art marketplace.

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Minimum

Minimum provides plug and play sustainability solutions for businesses. Make your products climate positive with one API and three lines of code!

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Zappar

Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.

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Rota

SAAS Mobile and desktop Apps to provide Total Workforce Technology for the whole workforce (internal and external)

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Scoodle

Scoodle is connects students with teachers.

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Cyferd

A next-generation low-code digital transformation platform that allows users to create interconnected business apps in the cloud.

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tomato pay

tomato pay is a QR-code based payments and invoice app used by businesses and sole traders.

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Shift

On-demand technology platform for consumers and businesses focused on the logistics market

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Thursday

Thursday is a dating app that wants to solve problems created by, well, too much time spent using dating apps.

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Beautystack

A visual network marketplace for next generation Beauty Professionals

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365Scores

365Scores is a cross-platform application that enables users to create their own personalized sports channel.

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Mush

Mush is an online social platform that enables mothers to meet other mothers with kids the same age.

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WeWALK

WeWALK is a startup developing a smart cane for the visually-impaired.

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7digital

7digital is the global leader in B2B end-to-end digital music solutions.

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Twin Science & Robotics

Twin Science & Robotics is a new generation educational experience that upskills children with physical and digital products.

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sync.

We provide bank account aggregation and personal financial management service.

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Loot Financial Services

Loot Financial Services is a banking and money management app for students.

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Swapi

Swapi is the only digital wallet globally that allows users to swap their loyalty rewards, cashback & gift cards between brands.

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Antavo Loyalty Management Platform

Antavo is the leading customer loyalty technology for fashion and retail.

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Mediatonic Games

Mediatonic develops and publishes games for digital platforms such as smartphones, PCs and consoles.

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appScatter

AppScatter is a B2B SaaS platform that distributes, manages, and monitors mobile apps across multiple app stores worldwide.

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Debut

Debut is an app for students to showcase their profile and skills.

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Raycast

Raycast is a developer of a command bar software intended to assist developers to control their tools.

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Yayzy

Yayzy is building technology to automatically track, understand and reduce carbon footprint

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Shopperbird

The first on-demand fashion app that allows shoppers to create their own unique style!

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EVIIVO

EVIIVO is an online reservation and property management system provider for the independent accommodation sector.

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Founder and Lightning

We partner with ambitious startup founders and equip them with the team, tools, expertise and scale to build highly successful startups.

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Dorm

Dorm is an audio learning app that aggregates and curates the world's podcasting content.

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SKOOT

SKOOT is a new Carbon Negative carpooling app connecting friends / colleagues and communities improving mobility for all

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Zzish

Zzish is a valuable classroom digital teaching tool for teachers that provides real-time feedback on the progress of their students.

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SMARTIFY

SMARTIFY provides instant access to inspiring art commentary, straight to your smartphone.

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Tenzo

Tenzo is a management platform that gives hospitality and retail businesses actionable insights from their real time data.

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pepperhq

The Pepper platform supports white label apps for mobile payment, discovery, digital loyalty, social media marketing, and actionable data.

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Anvex

Reinventing on-demand personal lifestyle concierge by providing valuable services anywhere and anytime.

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Fancy

Fancy is an application that offers the users the convenience to have drinks and snacks delivered within 30 minutes.

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LuckyTrip

LuckyTrip is a travel inspiration app that lets you find a trip in one tap.

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Movebubble

Movebubble is a property rental app in London & Manchester

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SmartUp.io

SmartUp is the ultimate platform for peer-to-peer knowledge creation, sharing and exchange.

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SteadyPay

SteadyPay is an income smoothing app for the modern economy.

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Audiense

Audiense is a develops delivering unique consumer insight and engagement capabilities to many of the world’s biggest brands and agencies.

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Kindred

Kindred is an impact driven tech company that has developed the world’s first sustainable app monetization network.

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Paddle

Paddle is a Revenue Delivery Platform for B2B SaaS companies that powers growth across acquisition, renewals, and expansion.

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Hoop

Hoop is a platform for kids activities.

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Flypay

Flypay is an app platform to transform the restaurant experience.

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Feed

Automated ads designed to work for small budgets.

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Reposit

The tenancy deposit alternative. A new way of renting without the hassle of a deposit

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Vitesse PSP

Vitesse is the smart way to make secure global money transfers.

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Flexion

Flexion is a monetization and distribution platform for developers and publishers.

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Labstep

Labstep captures real time scientific process data to provide an internally shareable timeline of a lab's activity.

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Waracle

Waracle define, design & deliver mobile, web and emerging tech applications that make customers and patients lives better.

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TRIM-IT

TRIM-IT is an app that brings style without the wait.

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ClickMechanic

ClickMechanic is an online marketplace for users to find mechanics.

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Reality Games London

Mobile games based on real world Big Data as a content.

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Skrap

Skrap is an on-demand mobile marketplace for skip hire and other waste collection services.

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Fleksy by Thingthing Ltd.

Elevated mobile typing and powerful keyboard SDK

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Seenit

Industry-leading video crowdsourcing solution

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Hopster TV

Hopster is a beautifully designed app for the under-sixes, aiming to strike the perfect balance between learning and fun.

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HaikuJAM

Collaborative Poetry & Artistic Expression App

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Landmrk

Landmrk is a flexible white-label platform that enables you to deliver digital content to your audience at specific physical locations.

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Resource Guru

Cloud-based team scheduling software.

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TouchNote

TouchNote helps you send thoughtful cards and prints to loved ones, right from your mobile, tablet or desktop.

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Kin

Kin is an app that provides family members with secure personal media.

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Snatch

Snatch is a computer game development company that provides a radical reinvention of the brand experience.

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Hinterview

Hinterview is the leading specialist video platform for the recruitment industry.

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BIZZBY

BIZZBY is the UK's top connected home services company.

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Ubamarket

Ubamarket is a tech startup that provides a retail shopping app.

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Pedal Me

Pedal Me is a pedal-powered cycle logistics and taxi company.

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Gojimo

Gojimo is an education software company.

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Heliocor

Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.

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Bits

Bits helps people build their credit score by providing them with a digital credit card that they pay off every month.

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InCrowd Sports

Incrowd builds sponsorship activation platforms to give fans an in-stadia experience.

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vendi

vendi is an AI-assisted marketplace to buy and sell verified products.

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Kape Technologies

Kape Technologies is an online distribution and digital product hub.

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Youtility

Youtility allows you to manage all your home finances from a single place.

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Howbout

The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.

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VitraCash

Tired of carrying all your debit and credit cards without even knowing which one to use for which kind of payment? Try VitraCard!

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unrd

unrd is creating a new genre of entertainment by combining Hollywood quality plots with mobile storytelling techniques.

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Sugi

Sugi is the UK's first app to check your carbon impact, compare investments and help you build a greener portfolio.

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Nuw (The Nu Wardrobe LTD)

Nuw is the app to swap preloved fashion. ‘Spend your money anywhere, spend your clothes on Nuw’.

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