Rocket List 2021

50 of the fastest-growing companies in London to accelerate your career in 2021. Vetted by investors & technology leaders. We include curated insight into why they're great places to work.

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How we choose companies

We feature startups in moments of truly exponential growth. We set criteria and pick companies based on 1) impressive fundraising 2) disruptive missions 3) exploding headcounts

Our expert panel

The Rocket List was personally vetted by a group of individuals who nurture and fund technology companies

Holly Bennett

Head of Ecosystem & Portfolio Development at Accel

Sia Houchangnia

Partner at Seedcamp

Saul Klein

Co-founder and Partner at LocalGlobe

Gerard Grech

CEO of Tech Nation

Irina Haivas

Partner at Atomico

Anne Glover

Chief Executive and Co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners

The Rocket List

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2021

Region

UK

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Cloud infrastructure and APIs for realtime data delivery

Data

Data

£63m

-27%

Accurx

Patient communication for healthcare professionals

Health and Beauty

Health and Beauty

£36m

30%

0 jobs

Bark

Marketplace for service professionals

Productivity

Productivity

Unknown

44%

Beacon

Supply Chain Visibility Platform

Travel and Transportation

Travel and Transportation

£52m

63%

0 jobs

Behavox

Communication surveillance for security & compliance

Finance

Finance

£144m

-9%

Blink

Enterprise app that empowers frontline workers

Legal/HR

Legal/HR

£23m

4%

Capdesk from Carta

Equity management platform

Finance

Finance

£10m

56%

0 jobs

Cazoo

Transforming the car buying and selling experience across the UK.

Travel and Transportation

Travel and Transportation

£455m

-42%

0 jobs

Checkout.com

To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.

Finance

Finance

£1467m

-9%

Cleo

AI personal finance assistant

Finance

Finance

£110m

24%

Codat

Universal API for small business data

Finance

Finance

£136m

96%

Mission

To make life easier for small businesses by enabling their systems and services to work together seamlessly.

Fintech
B2B
API
Data Analysis

12M Employee Growth
96%
Gender Diversity
30% female

Last updated Dec 2020 This is the start of our stats on diversity, and we'll be including more in the future. We have gender data and want to use it to promote transparency. The data is according to our analysis, last updated Dec 2020.


What makes Codat great?

Employees mention: My opinions are valued, Growing fast and Intelligent people

Examples of people progressing

Founders

Peter Lord (CEO)

After graduating with a degree in Computer Science, they joined Credit Suisse as a Software Engineer but quickly became frustrated with the speed of development. Wanting experience working in a start-up, they joined MarketInvoice and gained experience that would later spark the idea for Codat.

David Hoare (CTO)

Upon graduating from university where they studied Computer Science, they joined MarketInvoice as a Software Engineer. There they built the platform infrastructure and integration with Barclays that moves several billion pounds per year.

Alex Cardona (COO)

They graduated with a degree in Classics. At MarketInvoice they built the investor product from scratch, taking it to a portfolio of £35m with £0 marketing spend. Before co-founding Codat, they were part of both the strategy and institutional investor teams at RateSetter.

Diversity & Inclusion at Codat

Total funding - £135.9m

Last 2 fundraises

Jul 2021

£32.1m

SERIES B

Jun 2022

£80.2m

SERIES C

This company has top investors

Last 2 fundraises


202120222023£32.1m£80.2m

Codat's take on their challenges in 2021

Peter Lord headshot
Peter Lord
Founder and CEO

Our growth in 2020 from 42 to 100, as well as opening an office in NYC, leaves us well placed to help banks and fintechs alike during 2021 as they look to play their part in re-building and fortifying the small business economy. More than ever - access to bespoke and innovative products powered by open data and connectivity, will be vital to small businesses survival. Codat is poised as the platform for small business data to be able to facilitate this as we continue this scale of growth into 2021, building out our team and client base globally.

Otta's take on Codat

Xav Kearney headshot
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta

Codat specialises in providing API software tailored for small business data. They provide the connectivity that enables software providers and financial institutions to easily build integrated products for their small business customers. Its products connect banks and fintechs to all the major accounting, banking, eCommerce and payments platforms small businesses use, enabling them to build features that save small businesses time and get them faster access to capital.

Building upon the momentum of the Open Banking movement, Codat combines the small business data network into a single API by integrating with accounting, commerce & POS, open banking, and payroll platforms. Codat's clients license the API and build it into their products, allowing them to ‘plug in’ to their customer's data and provide faster, frictionless and more risk-averse products and experiences.

Codat serves a variety of clients, including traditional banks using the API to streamline lending processes, enabling faster funding for businesses, and established FinTechs and Payments platforms using Codat to integrate data seamlessly into accounting packages, saving small businesses time on administrative tasks. Codat also serves fast-growing startups such as ESG platforms that use data to calculate and offset a business's carbon emissions.

Codat is one of the fastest-growing companies in the UK right now, having raised 6 rounds of funding over 4 years. The company has landed on and remedies a problem that many businesses come up against.

Codat is hiring for 1 job on Otta!

Credit Kudos

Using financial behaviour to measure creditworthiness

Finance

Finance

£9m

15%

0 jobs

Cutover

Connecting teams and technologies through Collaborative Automation

Software

Software

£44m

-9%

Duffel

API toolkit for selling flights online

Travel and Transportation

Travel and Transportation

£45m

-31%

Eigen Technologies

AI document intelligence platform

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

£62m

-23%

0 jobs

Elvie

Pioneering smarter technology for women

Hardware

Hardware

£110m

-23%

Farewill

Wills, probate, and cremation service

Finance

Finance

£27m

-2%

Fidel API

Financial infrastructure platform

Finance

Finance

£69m

-40%

Form3

Payment technology platform

Finance

Finance

£174m

17%

Freetrade

Invest in stocks with zero commissions or fees

Finance

Finance

£102m

71%

0 jobs

Goodlord

End-to-end lettings platform

Real Estate

Real Estate

£53m

11%

0 jobs

Gousto

Recipe boxes delivered to your door

Consumer

Consumer

£290m

35%

Harbr Data

Data commerce platform

Data

Data

£41m

22%

0 jobs

Hopin

Event platform provider that connects communities through virtual, hybrid, and in-person events

Media

Media

£819m

-36%

0 jobs

Impala

Platform connecting hotel software providers with hotel inventory and services

Consumer

Consumer

£27m

36%

0 jobs

Infogrid

AI for sustainable buildings

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

£85m

215%

0 jobs

Kheiron Medical

AI enhanced cancer detection tools for radiologists

Health and Beauty

Health and Beauty

£27m

-14%

0 jobs

LabGenius

Protein engineering platform

Health and Beauty

Health and Beauty

£24m

4%

0 jobs

Lingumi

Smart tutoring platform for kids ages 2-7

Education

Education

£6m

-21%

0 jobs

Marshmallow

Accessible, tech-enabled insurance for those who step outside the norm

Finance

Finance

£95m

27%

Moneybox

Saving and investing app

Finance

Finance

£88m

35%

0 jobs

Multiverse

Providing equitable access to economic opportunity for everyone.

Education

Education

£332m

96%

Onfido

Automated identity verification

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

£174m

-13%

Paddle

Payments, tax, and subscriptions solution for SaaS

Finance

Finance

£233m

-3%

Primer

We are a unified payments infrastructure

Finance

Finance

£58m

-23%

0 jobs

Privitar

Solving data privacy challenges for enterprises

Security

Security

£119m

-9%

0 jobs

Prolific

Connecting people to facilitate world-changing research.

Data

Data

£27m

28%

0 jobs

Qatalog

Enterprise Intelligence platform

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

£15m

31%

0 jobs

Revolut

Comprehensive financial services platform

Finance

Finance

£1378m

78%

0 jobs

SeedLegals

One-stop platform for legals for startups

Legal/HR

Legal/HR

£4m

-11%

0 jobs

Sensat

Visualisation for infrastructure projects

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

£46m

6%

0 jobs

Snyk

Developer security platform

Security

Security

£1274m

-21%

Streetbees

Consumer intelligence platform

Data

Data

£45m

-11%

Thought Machine

Cloud native banking platform

Finance

Finance

£448m

22%

Tiney

Digital marketplace for childcare

Education

Education

£6m

9%

Trint

Transcription software

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

£9m

-5%

TrueLayer

A payments network built for growth

Finance

Finance

£218m

100%

0 jobs

Unmind

Workplace mental health platform

Health and Beauty

Health and Beauty

£50m

39%

0 jobs

Wagestream

Bringing employees financial freedom

Finance

Finance

£86m

50%

0 jobs

Yapily

Secure API for banks

Finance

Finance

£56m

102%

0 jobs

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