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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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

£62m

-27%

Accurx

Patient communication for healthcare professionals

Health and Beauty

Health and Beauty

£36m

30%

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

£143m

-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

£452m

-42%

0 jobs

Checkout.com

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

Finance

Finance

£1453m

-9%

Cleo

AI personal finance assistant

Finance

Finance

£109m

24%

Codat

Universal API for small business data

Finance

Finance

£135m

96%

Credit Kudos

Using financial behaviour to measure creditworthiness

Finance

Finance

£9m

15%

0 jobs

Cutover

Connecting teams and technologies through Collaborative Automation

Software

Software

£43m

-9%

Duffel

API toolkit for selling flights online

Travel and Transportation

Travel and Transportation

£45m

-31%

0 jobs

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

£68m

-40%

Form3

Payment technology platform

Finance

Finance

£173m

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%

Gousto

Recipe boxes delivered to your door

Consumer

Consumer

£289m

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

£811m

-36%

0 jobs

Impala

Platform connecting hotel software providers with hotel inventory and services

Consumer

Consumer

£26m

36%

0 jobs

Infogrid

AI for sustainable buildings

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

£84m

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

£94m

27%

Moneybox

Saving and investing app

Finance

Finance

£88m

35%

0 jobs

Multiverse

Providing equitable access to economic opportunity for everyone.

Education

Education

£329m

96%

Onfido

Automated identity verification

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

£173m

-13%

Paddle

Payments, tax, and subscriptions solution for SaaS

Finance

Finance

£231m

-3%

Primer

We are a unified payments infrastructure

Finance

Finance

£58m

-23%

Privitar

Solving data privacy challenges for enterprises

Security

Security

£118m

-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%

Revolut

Comprehensive financial services platform

Finance

Finance

£1364m

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

£45m

6%

0 jobs

Snyk

Developer security platform

Security

Security

£1262m

-21%

Streetbees

Consumer intelligence platform

Data

Data

£44m

-11%

Thought Machine

Cloud native banking platform

Finance

Finance

£444m

22%

Tiney

Digital marketplace for childcare

Education

Education

£6m

9%

Mission

Tiney's mission is to enable affordable childcare for parents, high-quality early education for children and amazing careers for childminders.

B2C
Marketplace
Education
Training
Learning
Toys
Childcare
Kids

12M Employee Growth
9%
Gender Diversity
50% 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 Tiney great?

Employees mention: Meaningful work, Inspiring mission and My opinions are valued

Examples of people progressing

Founders

Brett Wigdortz (CEO)

Founded Teach First in 2002 and was CEO for 15 years before founding Tiney.

Edd Read (CTO)

Previously CTO and co-founder of graze.com where he worked for 9 years.

John Newbold (CPO)

Founded 383, one of the UK's top Digital Product Studios and also works as a UK Angel Investor.

Diversity & Inclusion at Tiney

Lucy Devine headshot
Lucy Devine
Head of People

Total funding - £6.1m

Last 2 fundraises

Jan 2019

£1.1m

SEED

Jan 2020

£5m

SEED

This company has top investors

Last 2 fundraises


201920202021£1.1m£5m

Tiney's take on their challenges in 2021

Brett Wigdortz headshot
Brett Wigdortz
Founder and CEO

2020 has been an incredibly tough time for the majority of the population. The need for high quality, accessible and affordable childcare has never been so important. At tiney, we've had our busiest, most exciting time this year. We've trained almost a hundred childminders, had 7,000 applications during the first lockdown, designed an award winning education framework and have built this through a delightful app experience.

Internally, our team at tiney has grown from 15 to 40, we can't quite believe how we've been able to build such a world class team of early years experts and tech startup people from companies like GoCardless, Monzo and Uber. Our mission in 2021 is going to be all about scaling, for us to reach our mission of unlocking the potential of every child, we need to open thousands of tiney home nurseries.

Otta's take on Tiney

Theo Margolius headshot
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta

Finding childcare is often a difficult and costly process and there is a declining number of childminders across the UK, with limited talent development and lack of a clear path in this area. Tiney's platform provides training, onboarding, development, and ongoing support for childminders.

For those seeking childcare the company helps to tackle three key issues of discovery, trust and affordability. Tiney is transforming the perception of early-years care to be thought of as early-years education and the training they provide reflects this change.

The company is not only enhancing access to great childcare but is also improving early years education and providing educators a pathway to build their careers in childcare. As well as this, Tiney is growing rapidly; after expanding to Manchester and Yorkshire in 2022, it has now grown to operate across the whole of England.

The panel's take on Tiney

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Saul Klein
Co-founder and Partner at LocalGlobe

Tiney is a platform enabling individuals to start and manage pre-school programmes out of their homes — and a marketplace for parents to search for and pay for that childcare. It’s run by three experienced co-founders: Brett Wigdortz, who previously led the fastest growing non-profit organisation in the UK, TeachFirst; Edd Read (CTO), who previously founded Graze, the healthy snack company that sold to Unilever; and, John Newbold (CPO) who founded one of the UK’s leading design studios.

Tiney is hiring for 3 jobs on Otta!

Trint

Transcription software

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

£9m

-5%

0 jobs

TrueLayer

A payments network built for growth

Finance

Finance

£216m

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

£55m

102%

0 jobs

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