Quickview # Fastest Growing Companies

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10 sectors, 10 lists, 100 companies
Fastest 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 of
the tech sector showcased their
talents to investors, we’ve
identified the fastest hiring
companies using Mattermark’s
investment 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.
Investment
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.
Investment
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.
Investment
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.
Investment
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.
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.
Investment
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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1
Who: Line
Where: Tokyo, Japan
What: A hugely popular messaging and
free calling app that actually generates
revenue.
Why: 181 million monthly active users.
2
Who: HaCon
Where: Hannover, Germany
What: 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: Generali
Where: Trieste, Italy
What: 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 Energy
Where: Alameda, California
What: 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: AliveCor
Where: San Francisco, California
What: 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 Technologies
Where: Kadima, Israel
What: 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: Slack
What: workplace communications app
Why: 300 million messages sent via Slack
each month.
8
Who: Coinbase
What: 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: Enlitic
What: 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: SunEdison
Where: Maryland Heights, Missouri
What: 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 Location
Transferwise 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 Location
Stratajet 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 Location
Plumbee 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 Location
Exco 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 Location
Gigaclear 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 Location
MOVE Guides 20% London
Global App Testing 15% London
Pusher 11% London
CloudMade 10% London
Concrete 9% London
Modality Systems 8% St. Albans
HICX Solutions 7% London
Basis Technologies Inter-
national
7% London
TradeSlide 6% London
Kurtosys 5% London

Software
IOT Security
Company EG Location
Veeqo 46% Swansea
YLD! 21% London
Apppli 20% London
Global App Testing 15% London
Link Humans 14% London
Cloudsoft Corporation 14% Edinburgh
UltraSoC Technologies 13% Cambridge
MagenTys 12% London
Pusher 11% London
Quipper 6% London
Company EG Location
Pusher 11% London
resin.io 10% Guildford
vocaliq.com 8% Cambridge
EVRYTHNG 4% London
Eseye 3% Guildford
Unbits 3% London
WiCastr 2% London
Chirp 2% London
Onzo 2% London
Fitbug.com 2% London
Company EG Location
CensorNet 15% Bristol
Dtex Systems 10% London
The Bunker Secure
Hosting
5% Kent
Digital Shadows 4% London
Feedzai 3% London
MWR Infosecurity
Limited
3% Basingstoke
Masabi 3% London
Bistech 3% London
Bytes 57 Ewell
Human Recognition
Systems
2% Liverpool
Company EG Location
doPay 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.uk
crunchbase.com
dopaypressroom.pr.co
Flightglobal.com
mattermark.com
technologyreview.com
startups.co.uk
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