Quickview # Fastest Growing Companies

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10 sectors, 10 lists, 100 companiesFastest Growing Companies

In the first quarter of 2015, investors pumped a record-breaking £459m of venture capitalist funds into London’s tech sector, a rise of 66% on the same quarter last year.

As investment pours into the UK tech sector, ambitious startups are springing up all over the city taking the number of digital businesses in London’s Tech City from 250 to over 3,000 in just five years.

Fresh off the back of London Tech Week 2015, where the best and brightest ofthe tech sector showcased theirtalents to investors, we’veidentified the fastest hiringcompanies using Mattermark’sinvestment index.

Research Methodology

Country: GBR

Employees month over month growth: more than one

Employee count: 10 - 500

Source: Mattermark

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Banking

Fastest Growing

Transferwise (18%)

What they do

TransferWise is a peer-to-peer money transfer service allowing foreign students and businesses to transact money globally.

Investment News

£60m from nine investors.

Fastest Growing By Total Investment

WorldRemit

What they do

WorldRemit is an online money transfer business enabling migrants and expats to send money using a variety of payment options.

Investment News

Raised £94m from three investors.

What they say

“The clever new way to beat bank fees”

What they say

“Send Money Online Anytime.”

Hiring

https://transferwise.com/jobs

https//www.worldremit.com/en/


Ecommerce

Fastest Growing

Stratajet (38%)

What they do

Real-time search engine and booking platform for private jet travellers. Stratajet provides informed searches for charter prices with real-time availability, transparent prices and the option to book their private aircraft online.

Investment News

Preparing for a full commercial launch this summer after securing £3m from an undisclosed backer.

Goal

To have its charter availability posted alongside scheduled airline flights in leading travel booking systems, such as Expedia and Kayak. Customers pay a 5-percent commission on the price of flights booked either online or by phone.

Fastest Growing (by highest number of current employees)

Secret Escapes (7%)

What they do

Secret Escapes is an exclusive members only travel club offering our members huge discounts and great deals on hand-picked luxury hotels and holidays.

Investment News

Backed by a mixture of well-known business angels including Alex Chesterman of Zoopla and William Reeve of Lovefilm. Series A Octopus Investments and Atlas Investment. Series B - Index Ventures.

Goal

To be the market leader and profitable in the UK. Staying focused on present model and repeating successful growth in the remainder of Europe, the U.S. and eventually Asia.

What they say

“Welcome to the worst-kept secret in luxury travel”

What they say

“Stratajet is the future of private aviation booking”

Hiring

https://www.stratajet.com/careers

http://secret-escapes.jobpigeon.com/


Enterprise Software

Fastest Growing

MOVE Guides ( 20%) What they do

MOVE Guides is a cloud-based platform for employee relocation and global mobility.

Investment News

Received over £6m from 11 investors.

Fastest Growing by Total Investment

Kurtosys

What they do

Kurtosys is a global provider of digital marketing and client reporting tools that help asset managers attract and retain investor assets. Since 2002, its team of industry experts have been using digital media to transform the way that financial information is presented, shared and consumed.

Investment News

£14m Acquired by Sponge.

What they say

“A single technology platform that brings together global mobility, finance, employees and vendors”

What they say

“We help asset managers go digital with mutual fund websites and performance tools, fund factsheets, client reporting and secure portals”

Hiring

https//info.moveguides.com/careers-list

https://www.kurtosys.com/about/careers/


iOT

Fastest Growing

Pusher (11%) What they do

Pusher is a cloud-based service that allows developers to quickly and easily add realtime functionality to webapps. This means that people can create collaborative tools, multiplayer games, chat, realtime dashboards and much more.

Investment News

Received over £600k from 12 investors.

Fastest Growing By Total Investment

EVRYTHNG

What they do

EVRYTHNG is the Internet of Things Smart Products Platform that connects any consumer product to the web, and manages real-time data to drive applications. The world’s leading consumer product manufacturers work with EVRYTHNG to deliver real-time interactive experiences and support services, and connect with the ecosystem of other applications and products in their consumers’ digital lives.

Investment News

Received over £9m from 12 investors.

What they say

“A single technology platform that brings together global mobility, finance, employees and vendors”

What they say

“We make products smart, interactive and trackable by connecting them to the Web”

Hiring

https//pusher.com/jobs

https://evrythng.com/about-us/joinus/


Gaming

Fastest Growing

Plumbee (14%)

What they do

Plumbee is a social casino games company providing a free-to-play and real-money digital casino entertainment platform.

Investment News

Received over £10m from Idin-vest Partners and Endemol.


Space Ape Games

What they do

Space Ape Games is an Award Winning Mobile/Social Gaming startup founded in 2012.

Investment News

Received over £18m from six investors.

What they say

“We’re disrupting a $400Bn industry. The online casino market is experiencing a deep shift and we want to be at the forefront of that change”

What they say

“We make hand-crafted mobile and tablet games”

Hiring

https//www.plumbee.com/jobs/

http//www.spaceapegames.com/ca-


Health IT

Fastest Growing

Exco InTouch (11%)

What they do

Exco InTouch is the leading provider of digital patient engagement and data capture solutions for clinical research and healthcare providers.

Investment News

£6m investment from two investors.


Zesty

What they do

Zesty is the UK’s leading Con-sumer Healthcare Platform launched in May 2013 by two technology entrepreneurs, Lloyd Price and James Balmain. Zesty allows patients to find a healthcare provider near them, compare providers by reading real user reviews and book an actual, confirmed, appointment in under 60 seconds.

Investment News

Successful completion of its £4.5m Series A financing, one of the largest early stage Digital Health financings in Europe to date.

What they say

“By utilizing everyday technology we will improve patient engagement and help to advance the current clinical research and healthcare model”

What they say

“At Zesty we’re on a mission to make booking healthcare appointments online an everyday reality”

Hiring

http://excointouch.com/careers/

https://www.zesty.co.uk/pages/jobs-at-zesty


Infrastructure

Fastest Growing

Gigaclear (18%)

What they do

Gigaclear is a private company dedicated to building and operating Ultrafast broadband networks based on pure fibre technology. Delivered only to rural areas of England Gigaclear aim to deliver better broadband than is currently available to most towns and cities.

Investment News

£6.5m in new funds have been raised from both existing and new institutional and private shareholders with the CF Woodford Equity Income Fund.


Host Europe Group

What they do

Host Europe Group (with over 1 million customers) provides domain registration, mass hosting, customised managed hosting, cloud hosting and has an emerging software-as-a-ser-vice offering.

Investment News

Acquired by Cinven for £420m.

What they say

“Gigaclear is one of the fastest and most reliable broadband networks in the UK”

What they say

“HEG is renowned for providing high quality hosting products with comprehensive technical support to its many customers from around the world”

Hiring

http//www.gigaclear.com/careers/

http//www.heg.com/ca-reers/


Payments

Fastest Growing

doPay (20%)

What they do

doPay offers banking services for un(der)banked employees through their employers.

Investment News

£1 million in seed funding from ACE & Company, Techstars Ventures and a syndicate of angel investors working for leading banks, private equity funds and hedge funds.


judoPay

What they do

judoPay is a custom mobile card payment solution that makes credit and debit card acceptance simple and affordable for businesses. Early adopters of Judo’s mobile-first payments platform include fast food restaurant chain KFC and coffee shop Harris + Hoole.

Investment News

Received over £9m in fund-ing from financial technology venture capital firm Route 66 Ventures.

What they say

“The payroll and payment solution for tomorrow’s economies”

What they say

“Judo’s card payment products for apps and web help your business sell more and risk less”

Hiring

http//www.gigaclear.com/careers/

http//hub.judopay.com/jobs/


Security

Fastest Growing

CensorNet (15%)

What they do

CensorNet provides cloud-based web filtering and e-mail filtering services for managed service providers, VARs, and companies of all sizes.

Investment News

Received over £150k from one round of investment.


Feedazi

What they do

Provides software that uses big data analysis and machine-based learning to prevent fraud in commerce.

Investment News

Received over £10m from six investors.

What they say

“Powerful, enterprise-class cloud security for your organisation”

What they say

“Fraud prevention with big data”

Hiring

https//www.censornet.com/company/careers/

https//www.feedzai.com/jobs/


Software

Fastest Growing

Veeqo (46%)

What they do

Veeqo offers web based software for online retailers which, in turn, allow them to sync their stock levels from their website directly to a POS, Amazon, and eBay channel.

Investment News

Raised £1m funds via crowdfunding platform Seedrs.


Quipper

What they do

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

Investment News

Raised a total of over £6m from London-based Atomico, Silicon Valley-based 500 Start-ups, Japan-based Globis Capital Partners and Benesse.

What they say

“Veeqo syncs your orders every few minutes, making it easier for you to manage them all from one screen”

What they say

“Quipper is a London-based e-learning company with $6m+ of investment, and nearly 10 million users”

Hiring

https//veeqo.workable.com/

https://www.quipper-school.com/en-GB/ca-reers.html


Ten to Watch Outside UK

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Who: LineWhere: Tokyo, JapanWhat: A hugely popular messaging and free calling app that actually generates revenue.Why: 181 million monthly active users.

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Who: HaConWhere: Hannover, GermanyWhat: Its popular travel planning apps in Europe combine information on taxis, car rental, bike sharing, and public transportation systems.Why: 40 million journeys planned on its system every day.

3

Who: GeneraliWhere: Trieste, ItalyWhat: This Italian-based insurer will use fitness data from wearables, to calculate insurance rates for customers who choose to participate.Why: 60 countries in which the company operates.

4

Who: Imprint EnergyWhere: Alameda, CaliforniaWhat: Developing ultrathin, flexible, rechargeable batteries.Why: 350 micrometers width of batteries capable of powering an ultrathin Bluetooth wireless sensor or a wearable device.

5

Who: AliveCorWhere: San Francisco, CaliforniaWhat: Maker of a heart monitor that connects to an iPhone and automatically detects irregular heartbeats.Why: 2 million ECG readings on its devices so far.

6

Who: IDE TechnologiesWhere: Kadima, IsraelWhat: Offering more affordable water desalination at a scale never before achieved.Why: 300,000 people to be served by the plant it is building with partners in Carlsbad, California.

7

Who: SlackWhere: San Francisco, CaliforniaWhat: workplace communications appWhy: 300 million messages sent via Slack each month.

8

Who: CoinbaseWhere: San Francisco, CaliforniaWhat: Helps companies including PayPal, Dell, and Expedia take Bitcoin payments without having to hold onto the cryptocurrency.Why: 2.9 million Bitcoin accounts registered with Coinbase.

9

Who: EnliticWhere: San Francisco, CaliforniaWhat: Its deep-learning technology automatically spots tumors in medical scans.Why: $1.7 billion - estimated value of the market for medical image analysis software.

10

Who: SunEdisonWhere: Maryland Heights, MissouriWhat: Aggressively expanding its renewable energy products and building a business to provide electricity to the developing world.Why: 1.1 billion people worlwide who don’t have access to electricity.

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10 Lists

Company EG LocationTransferwise 18% London

Ezbob 17% London

Monese 15% London

WorldRemit 12% London

Landbay 7% London

RateSetter 7% London

iwoca 6% London

Azimo 4% London

Money Dashboard 4% Edinburgh

Nutmeg 3% London

Company EG LocationStratajet 38% London

Huddlebuy 24% London

Book’n’Bloom 13% London

Modality Systems 8% St. Albans

Secret Sales 7% London

Be At One 7% London

Top10.com 7% London

Secret Escapes 7% London

Takeaway.com 6% London

Lyst 6% London

Banking

Company EG LocationPlumbee 14% London

Space Ape Games 11% London

Keen Software House 9% London

MKODO LTD 8% London

whisperinggibbon.com 6% London

Flexion 5% London

Outplay Entertainment 4% Dundee

ITFC 3% London

NaturalMotion 2% Oxford

Chelsea Apps Factory 2% London

Ecommerce

Gaming

Company EG LocationExco inTouch 11% Nottingham

Zesty 10% London

Oxtox 10% Nottingham

Mode DX 10% Glasgow

Quanta Fluid Solutions 5% Alcester

TrialReach 7% Richmond

Dataline Software 4% Brighton

Microvisk Technologies 8% Denbighshire

ISUOG 4% London

Diagnostic Healthcare 7% Altrincham

Healthcare

Company EG LocationGigaclear 18% Abingdon

Host Europe Group 8% Uxbridge

SIPHON Networks 7% Cwmbran

Onyx Group 7% Stockton-on-Tees

The Bunker Secure Hosting 5% Kent

Paragon Internet Group 5% Berkshire

OpenCloud 4% Cambridge

APSU 3% Cirencester

Affiliate Future 3% London

Conosco 2% London

Infrastructure

EG = Month on month employee growth

Enterprise Software

Company EG LocationMOVE Guides 20% LondonGlobal App Testing 15% LondonPusher 11% LondonCloudMade 10% LondonConcrete 9% LondonModality Systems 8% St. AlbansHICX Solutions 7% LondonBasis Technologies Inter-national

7% London

TradeSlide 6% LondonKurtosys 5% London


Software

IOT Security

Company EG LocationVeeqo 46% SwanseaYLD! 21% LondonApppli 20% LondonGlobal App Testing 15% LondonLink Humans 14% LondonCloudsoft Corporation 14% EdinburghUltraSoC Technologies 13% CambridgeMagenTys 12% LondonPusher 11% LondonQuipper 6% London

Company EG LocationPusher 11% Londonresin.io 10% Guildfordvocaliq.com 8% CambridgeEVRYTHNG 4% LondonEseye 3% GuildfordUnbits 3% LondonWiCastr 2% LondonChirp 2% LondonOnzo 2% LondonFitbug.com 2% London

Company EG LocationCensorNet 15% BristolDtex Systems 10% LondonThe Bunker Secure Hosting

5% Kent

Digital Shadows 4% LondonFeedzai 3% LondonMWR Infosecurity Limited

3% Basingstoke

Masabi 3% LondonBistech 3% LondonBytes 57 EwellHuman Recognition Systems

2% Liverpool

Company EG LocationdoPay 20% London

Pockit 18% London

Judo Payments 16% London

Monese 15% London

Papayer 14% London

AstroPay 12% London

Social Media Ltd 11% London

sQuid 6% Thames Ditton

CreditCall 4% Bristol

Azimo 4% London

Payments


Reference Shelf

blog.zesty.co.ukcrunchbase.comdopaypressroom.pr.coFlightglobal.commattermark.comtechnologyreview.comstartups.co.uk

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