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Lightpoint Medical is an early-stage medical device company founded in 2012. The company is developing a breakthrough intraoperative imaging technology called Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging (CLI). CLI has the potential to detect cancer in real-time during surgery, and thereby reduce the likelihood of cancer recurrence and the need for reoperation.

Zopa is a P2P money lending service that allows lenders and borrowers to deal directly with one another, cutting out the banks that act as middlemen. Zopa provides an app designed to help users manage their loans, credit cards, and savings and monitor their credit scores conveniently. Zopa also mitigates lenders' risk by enforcing monthly direct debit repayment, making borrowers sign a legal contract, and allowing lenders to lend small chunks of money to individual borrowers (e.g., someone lending £1000 would have their money spread across, say, 100 borrowers). The company itself makes money by charging a fixed fee for borrowers and a 1% annual fee for lenders. Zopa has received public acclaim as well, having been awarded CNET Technology Awards' 2006 Internet Innovation of the Year, the 2007 Webby Award for Best Banking/Bill-Paying Website, the 2008 Webby Award for Financial Services, the Banker 2007 Award for Best Internet Project, and Moneywise 2009 Awards for Best Customer Service and Best Personal Loan.

DeadHappy is an insurtech company that provides digital pay-as-you-go life insurance services. It specializes in offering flexible life insurance policies that are designed to be cheaper, easier, and better than existing traditional providers. Its offerings include pricing insurance based on current circumstances and the option to add further coverage on a rolling basis. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Leicester, England.

Farewill is a will writer and funeral and direct cremation provider which leverages a platform to simplify complex processes, avoids legal jargon and hidden fees. It is a provider of an all-in-one financial and legal services platform used to deal with all paperwork after death. It enables clients to manage their wills online using simple and affordable digital tools through round-the-clock customer service operations.

Scoota is an online advertising technology company that enables advertisers to create, activate, measure and optimise brilliant brand campaigns at scale. We offer a single programmatic platform for the creation and delivery of rich, high-impact formats via open real-time bidding and private marketplaces, without compromising creative execution or brand safety. Our technology includes a unique campaign delivery system that pre-reads an ad space in real-time so that the right creative is delivered into the right ad unit without the need for pre-testing and independent site integration. We care about and invest in an open and long-term approach, enabling partners to work with us through integration with their own systems of choice, or via our platform whether as a self-serve solution, or a fully managed service. Scoota was founded in London in 2008 and employs more than 40 people. In 2015, we won best overall programmatic technology at The Drum Digital Trading Awards and Silver for Best Ad Tech Provider at the 2015 British Media Awards.

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

FullCircl provides a platform and services with access to company intelligence. They provide a platform for customer-facing channels in B2B financial services. They support online sources for data on markets, organizations, and individuals. They address customer lifecycle challenges facing financial institutions.

Flagstone's simple, secure online platform gives you access to hundreds of deposit accounts from 37 banks through a single application, empowering you to earn more interest income and reduce risk.

Perkbox is a global benefits and rewards platform that helps companies care for, connect with and celebrate their employees, no matter where they are or what they want. Trusted by over 5000 businesses across 34 countries, we help keep employees happy, healthy and motivated. The Perkbox platform gives teams a wide range of perks and benefits, a personalised recognition and reward tool carefully curated wellbeing content and an engaging way to showcase company culture. Our global app provides a seamless experience for everyone and is proven to save businesses time and money. With over 10 years’ expertise, we’re here to help you unleash the full potential of your business.

Farewill is a will writer and funeral and direct cremation provider which leverages a platform to simplify complex processes, avoids legal jargon and hidden fees. It is a provider of an all-in-one financial and legal services platform used to deal with all paperwork after death. It enables clients to manage their wills online using simple and affordable digital tools through round-the-clock customer service operations.

Lightpoint Medical is an early-stage medical device company founded in 2012. The company is developing a breakthrough intraoperative imaging technology called Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging (CLI). CLI has the potential to detect cancer in real-time during surgery, and thereby reduce the likelihood of cancer recurrence and the need for reoperation.

Zopa is a P2P money lending service that allows lenders and borrowers to deal directly with one another, cutting out the banks that act as middlemen. Zopa provides an app designed to help users manage their loans, credit cards, and savings and monitor their credit scores conveniently. Zopa also mitigates lenders' risk by enforcing monthly direct debit repayment, making borrowers sign a legal contract, and allowing lenders to lend small chunks of money to individual borrowers (e.g., someone lending £1000 would have their money spread across, say, 100 borrowers). The company itself makes money by charging a fixed fee for borrowers and a 1% annual fee for lenders. Zopa has received public acclaim as well, having been awarded CNET Technology Awards' 2006 Internet Innovation of the Year, the 2007 Webby Award for Best Banking/Bill-Paying Website, the 2008 Webby Award for Financial Services, the Banker 2007 Award for Best Internet Project, and Moneywise 2009 Awards for Best Customer Service and Best Personal Loan.

LiveSmart provides health assessments and reacted quickly to the new situation. The team sourced and supplied antibody tests via their well-established platform; supporting both small businesses and large corporate clients.

FullCircl provides a platform and services with access to company intelligence. They provide a platform for customer-facing channels in B2B financial services. They support online sources for data on markets, organizations, and individuals. They address customer lifecycle challenges facing financial institutions.

Brightpearl is the omnichannel retail management system that puts your orders, inventory, financials, POS and CRM in one place. A purpose built ERP platform that delivers real time accounting and order management to automate the back office for today’s omnichannel brands, retailers and wholesalers where in store, online, or in the warehouse. They are 100% focussed on the retail sector and deploy in half of the of time of generic solutions like NetSuite, SAP, and Sage.

Micrima Ltd. spun out from research at the University of Bristol. The Micrima team is developnig radio-wave technology for detecting breast cancer. The technology is non-invasive, non-ionising and inexpensive. The imaging technology has received extensive validation in the laboratory and is now undergoing first human use trials.

Medicspot allows immediate and on-demand GP consultations. It connects patients with a UK-based clinician via diagnostic devices and secure video calling. Any prescription medication can be picked up right away, saving the patient a trip to the pharmacy. The company's goal is to create thoughtful and effortless quality healthcare experiences.

Talmix has built a market-leading Talent Marketplace with a focus on Business Talent, to deliver this talent on demand to companies worldwide who need expertise and operational talent as part of their extended workforce ecosystem. It offers three main products: • Talmix marketplace for sourcing talent on demand • Talmix talent pools to provide direct sourcing and network management for proactive talent requirements • Talmix ‘bring your own talent’: payrolling and compliance to facilitate use of the extended workforce. The Talmix marketplace is recognised as an Industry Leader because of its unique product capabilities including the Talmix Talent Passport, its global reach and its exceptional user interface. It is built for purpose using Talmix proprietary technology and data built from millions of platform interactions to provide a fast, convenient and precise way for teams to extend bandwidth and expertise and deliver successful project outcomes. The marketplace provides direct access to talent for hiring managers, allowing them to engage with matched talent in 24 hours. It also provides central visibility to HR and procurement teams running extended workforce programmes with talent intelligence, reports and insights on external talent usage, skills, experience and costs. The open API architecture of the Talent Marketplace has been designed specifically to enable integrations with third party systems, including Vendor Management Systems (VMS). It recently launched a new talent pools product to facilitate management of the external workforce, with pre-built and customisable pools from its network immediately available to deploy alongside internal teams. Increasingly companies want to ‘bring their own talent’ into the extended workforce, and Talmix PCO:payrolling and compliance solutions allow this convenient approach, managing more of the process for clients. Talmix was founded in 2016, and now numbers over 1,000 corporate users and 60,000 registered on its talent network.

At BioSure they specialise in providing solutions. They develop, manufacture, source and distribute world class point of care rapid tests. They understand the importance of ease of use where immediate results are the primary consideration, their tests provide the highest levels of accuracy, rivalling those of standard laboratory tests. Since launching the world's first apporved HIV self test to use blood, they have become experts in this field and have unique and unrivalled knowledge of the global landscape. They passionately believe that this technology through can revolutionise testing protocols, reduce late diagnoses, provide cost effective testing solutions and engage hard to reach key populations. Ultimately budgets can be spread further through far lower delivery costs and immediate diagnosis.

Pyreos develops and supplies a specialised infra-red sensor platform focused on three markets where it has particular USPs: food safety, gas detection/analysis and fuel/oil condition monitoring. These markets, worth over $1.2bn, are perfect for the Company's tiny, high performance rugged sensors, working in the mid-IR spectrum – the key ‘fingerprint’ region where the molecular composition of materials can be accurately identified.

BitPoster is programmatic advertising marketplace for the outdoor media market. Their mission is to make out of home media accessible, transparent, and accountable through the technology they develop.

Based in Manchester, UK, Hiring Hub is a marketplace platform that helps companies find and work with trusted recruitment agencies, and manage their recruitment suppliers and process in one place, online.

Talmix has built a market-leading Talent Marketplace with a focus on Business Talent, to deliver this talent on demand to companies worldwide who need expertise and operational talent as part of their extended workforce ecosystem. It offers three main products: • Talmix marketplace for sourcing talent on demand • Talmix talent pools to provide direct sourcing and network management for proactive talent requirements • Talmix ‘bring your own talent’: payrolling and compliance to facilitate use of the extended workforce. The Talmix marketplace is recognised as an Industry Leader because of its unique product capabilities including the Talmix Talent Passport, its global reach and its exceptional user interface. It is built for purpose using Talmix proprietary technology and data built from millions of platform interactions to provide a fast, convenient and precise way for teams to extend bandwidth and expertise and deliver successful project outcomes. The marketplace provides direct access to talent for hiring managers, allowing them to engage with matched talent in 24 hours. It also provides central visibility to HR and procurement teams running extended workforce programmes with talent intelligence, reports and insights on external talent usage, skills, experience and costs. The open API architecture of the Talent Marketplace has been designed specifically to enable integrations with third party systems, including Vendor Management Systems (VMS). It recently launched a new talent pools product to facilitate management of the external workforce, with pre-built and customisable pools from its network immediately available to deploy alongside internal teams. Increasingly companies want to ‘bring their own talent’ into the extended workforce, and Talmix PCO:payrolling and compliance solutions allow this convenient approach, managing more of the process for clients. Talmix was founded in 2016, and now numbers over 1,000 corporate users and 60,000 registered on its talent network.

Rotageek helps organisations predict and meet demand, using complex data-driven technologies to effectively and fairly schedule staff. They use personalised algorithms and machine learning to find patterns that would otherwise go unnoticed - providing best in class and fully personalised business forecasting and scheduling. Today, Rotageek lives in London and Melbourne and their clients include O2, Dune, William Hill, Maplin and The Perfume Shop to name just a few. They’re growing really quickly but their approach and their ambitions remain personal, and they always will. Their goal is to create a step change in scheduling capabilities using data-driven, highly intelligent technology that is agile and works both for business and people.

FullCircl provides a platform and services with access to company intelligence. They provide a platform for customer-facing channels in B2B financial services. They support online sources for data on markets, organizations, and individuals. They address customer lifecycle challenges facing financial institutions.

They are on a mission to spark the creative imagination of young people using hands on technology. Their award winning make-it-yourself kits and digital tools help kids (and the adults that love them) to make, play, code and invent using technology. They started small, around their kitchen table, and have now built a company of 28 passionate designers, educators, engineers and problems solvers – obsessed with inspiring kids and empowering parents to become creators of technology. They have 6 different make it yourself kits and hundreds of digital tools and projects to support kids in learning through play. They have sparked the imaginations of kids in over 87 countries around the world. They work closely with children to design their kits, engaging in large scale research projects before beginning on design & manufacture.

Jupiter Diagnostics offers a faster, cheaper way to obtain accurate blood tests. Our patent- protected reader can replace the lab, delivering multiple tests in 10 minutes, from a prick of blood, at prices a third cheaper.

Lein Applied Diagnostics is an optical metrology company pioneering measurement devices and solutions for the healthcare and industrial markets. Its core technology is based around a scanning confocal system that can make highly precise, non-contact dimensional and structural measurements of organic and man-made materials. Lein was founded in 2003, initially to develop a non-invasive, pain free glucose meter for the diabetes market. Underpinning this Lein put together a highly qualified, experienced engineering team and built up a strong suite of patents.

At BioSure they specialise in providing solutions. They develop, manufacture, source and distribute world class point of care rapid tests. They understand the importance of ease of use where immediate results are the primary consideration, their tests provide the highest levels of accuracy, rivalling those of standard laboratory tests. Since launching the world's first apporved HIV self test to use blood, they have become experts in this field and have unique and unrivalled knowledge of the global landscape. They passionately believe that this technology through can revolutionise testing protocols, reduce late diagnoses, provide cost effective testing solutions and engage hard to reach key populations. Ultimately budgets can be spread further through far lower delivery costs and immediate diagnosis.

Samba re-defines advertising for mobile, delivering better engagement stats for brands, better yields for publishers and more choice for viewers of brand advertising. Samba 'hyper-targets' smartphone users by age, gender, device type, and operating system. They encourage social feedback, sharing and clicks, driving earned media. They use a selector model to drive consumer engagement, empowering viewers. An empowered viewer is an engaged viewer. Clicks and shares on Samba's network are well in excess of industry norms

LiveSmart provides health assessments and reacted quickly to the new situation. The team sourced and supplied antibody tests via their well-established platform; supporting both small businesses and large corporate clients.

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

Lightpoint Medical is an early-stage medical device company founded in 2012. The company is developing a breakthrough intraoperative imaging technology called Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging (CLI). CLI has the potential to detect cancer in real-time during surgery, and thereby reduce the likelihood of cancer recurrence and the need for reoperation.

Lightpoint Medical is an early-stage medical device company founded in 2012. The company is developing a breakthrough intraoperative imaging technology called Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging (CLI). CLI has the potential to detect cancer in real-time during surgery, and thereby reduce the likelihood of cancer recurrence and the need for reoperation.

Rotageek helps organisations predict and meet demand, using complex data-driven technologies to effectively and fairly schedule staff. They use personalised algorithms and machine learning to find patterns that would otherwise go unnoticed - providing best in class and fully personalised business forecasting and scheduling. Today, Rotageek lives in London and Melbourne and their clients include O2, Dune, William Hill, Maplin and The Perfume Shop to name just a few. They’re growing really quickly but their approach and their ambitions remain personal, and they always will. Their goal is to create a step change in scheduling capabilities using data-driven, highly intelligent technology that is agile and works both for business and people.

Brightpearl is the omnichannel retail management system that puts your orders, inventory, financials, POS and CRM in one place. A purpose built ERP platform that delivers real time accounting and order management to automate the back office for today’s omnichannel brands, retailers and wholesalers where in store, online, or in the warehouse. They are 100% focussed on the retail sector and deploy in half of the of time of generic solutions like NetSuite, SAP, and Sage.

Talmix has built a market-leading Talent Marketplace with a focus on Business Talent, to deliver this talent on demand to companies worldwide who need expertise and operational talent as part of their extended workforce ecosystem. It offers three main products: • Talmix marketplace for sourcing talent on demand • Talmix talent pools to provide direct sourcing and network management for proactive talent requirements • Talmix ‘bring your own talent’: payrolling and compliance to facilitate use of the extended workforce. The Talmix marketplace is recognised as an Industry Leader because of its unique product capabilities including the Talmix Talent Passport, its global reach and its exceptional user interface. It is built for purpose using Talmix proprietary technology and data built from millions of platform interactions to provide a fast, convenient and precise way for teams to extend bandwidth and expertise and deliver successful project outcomes. The marketplace provides direct access to talent for hiring managers, allowing them to engage with matched talent in 24 hours. It also provides central visibility to HR and procurement teams running extended workforce programmes with talent intelligence, reports and insights on external talent usage, skills, experience and costs. The open API architecture of the Talent Marketplace has been designed specifically to enable integrations with third party systems, including Vendor Management Systems (VMS). It recently launched a new talent pools product to facilitate management of the external workforce, with pre-built and customisable pools from its network immediately available to deploy alongside internal teams. Increasingly companies want to ‘bring their own talent’ into the extended workforce, and Talmix PCO:payrolling and compliance solutions allow this convenient approach, managing more of the process for clients. Talmix was founded in 2016, and now numbers over 1,000 corporate users and 60,000 registered on its talent network.

Zilico is developing the next generation of cancer diagnostics that will provide real-time diagnosis for cervical cancer and reduce the inherent subjectivity of current methods. Two applications are under development: the first for the referral market and the second for the screening market.

Idio makes buyer-centric marketing possible for global B2B enterprises. Idio’s Demand Orchestration platform uses Content Intelligence to predict the interests of every individual, and automatically deliver relevant 1:1 experiences across digital channels. Global leaders including Intel, Fitch Ratings, and AllianceBernstein trust Idio’s AI to maximize buyer engagement and pipeline, whilst handling marketing complexity. Idio is based in London and New York, backed by leading SaaS investors including Notion Capital, Juno Capital and Foresight Group, and in 2017 was named by Forrester Research as a Breakout Vendor.

Brightpearl is the omnichannel retail management system that puts your orders, inventory, financials, POS and CRM in one place. A purpose built ERP platform that delivers real time accounting and order management to automate the back office for today’s omnichannel brands, retailers and wholesalers where in store, online, or in the warehouse. They are 100% focussed on the retail sector and deploy in half of the of time of generic solutions like NetSuite, SAP, and Sage.

Cipher Surgical Limited is a medical device company established to design, patent and globally market a unique laparoscopic medical device for maintaining a clear distal window of the laparoscope during an operative procedure.

May 2006, marked the beginning of an epic journey. Founded as a bedroom hobby, Connexin is now an international business with customers all over the world. Going from startup to a larger business, they have stayed true to their values everyday. They owe a huge thanks to their customers who have believed and stuck with them for so long. They hope that you will continue to be a part of our story.

Scoota is an online advertising technology company that enables advertisers to create, activate, measure and optimise brilliant brand campaigns at scale. We offer a single programmatic platform for the creation and delivery of rich, high-impact formats via open real-time bidding and private marketplaces, without compromising creative execution or brand safety. Our technology includes a unique campaign delivery system that pre-reads an ad space in real-time so that the right creative is delivered into the right ad unit without the need for pre-testing and independent site integration. We care about and invest in an open and long-term approach, enabling partners to work with us through integration with their own systems of choice, or via our platform whether as a self-serve solution, or a fully managed service. Scoota was founded in London in 2008 and employs more than 40 people. In 2015, we won best overall programmatic technology at The Drum Digital Trading Awards and Silver for Best Ad Tech Provider at the 2015 British Media Awards.

Freemarket works with businesses to accelerate their growth by giving them access to cross-border payments and currency exchange optimized for their needs. Freemarket's platform gives you access to a global bank network and innovative technology in one place, allowing you to streamline your processes, remove complexity and increase efficiency. Freemarket was founded in June 2010 by Alex Hunn. And it is headquartered in London, England.

Cydar has developed computer vision software that produces real-time automated 3D overlays during X-ray guided procedures, allowing clinicians to concentrate on the patient and not on adjusting displays. High-performance overlay updates are enabled by our unique use of cloud supercomputing.

LabMinds is the leader in AI and robotics for solution preparation in pharmaceutical and life science labs. A cornerstone of R&D and QA/QC processes, solution preparation continues to be a highly manual process with many moving parts, exposing labs to considerable risk and inevitable waste. LabMinds’ platform addresses these challenges with powerful AI software combined with state-of-the-art robotics to safeguard against tainted inputs, enable near-perfect accuracy, and attain unmatched control. Further, labs in the LabMinds network contribute to, and benefit from, the collection of input and sensor data throughout the solution prep process; it’s never been easier to gain detailed insight into how chemicals interact with each other. By implementing more security and order, and leveraging the power of big data, LabMinds moves ever closer to achieving its mission to enable scientists and businesses to build and optimize labs, in order to bring meaningful therapies to market sooner.

Based in Manchester, UK, Hiring Hub is a marketplace platform that helps companies find and work with trusted recruitment agencies, and manage their recruitment suppliers and process in one place, online.

EcoHydra Technologies Ltd. is a hand hygiene company offering a distinctive line of skincare products that are alcohol-free and antimicrobial. In contrast to harsh alcohol-based treatments, they are dedicated to offering exceptional hand hygiene formulations that are effective and kind to the skin. They offer barrier cream, handwashing, and instant hand sanitizer for sale.