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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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

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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

Mission

To help businesses simplify and optimise their supply chains with end-to-end visibility, supplier payments, and insights.

B2B
Logistics
Freight
Analytics
Supply Chain
SaaS
API
Cloud Computing

12M Employee Growth
63%
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 Beacon great?

Employees mention: Tech & tools, Meaningful work and Nice people

Examples of people progressing

Founders

Fraser Robinson (CEO)

Prior to Co-Founding Beacon, Fraser led Uber’s Business in EMEA and before that held senior roles in technology and e-commerce startups for over two decades.

Dmitri Izmailov (COO)

Prior to Co-Founding Beacon, Dmitri was the General Manager of Uber in Russia and prior to that worked as a Management Consultant in New York.

Diversity & Inclusion at Beacon

  • Our culture at Beacon is founded on inclusivity and equal opportunity. We see inclusion as the ability to be your authentic self in an environment where we embrace diversity of all types, including thought, openness, and honesty.
  • By embedding our #Authentic&Inclusive value in everything we do at Beacon, we are creating a culture where our employees feel that they belong, and can truly innovate.
  • For more information on initiatives and policies see our recent inclusion blog post 👉 https://beacon.com/news-dib/

Total funding - £51.7m

Last 2 fundraises

Jun 2020

£12m

SERIES A

Oct 2021

£39.8m

SERIES B

This company has top investors

Last 2 fundraises


202020212022£11.9m£39.8m

Beacon's take on their challenges in 2021

Fraser Robinson headshot
Fraser Robinson
Founder and CEO

The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced how central a resilient supply chain is to our customers’ business success. We aim to give customers greater visibility & control as we move their freight – and provide deeper data-driven insights into their supply chain. 2020 has been an extremely busy year for Beacon; we have quadrupled the size of our team and our customer numbers have also grown significantly.

In addition to our London office, we recently opened a new office in Hong Kong in an important strategic development for the company: a large proportion of our cargo originates in Asia and it is important for us to have a local presence to provide better service to our customers. In 2021, we are aiming to substantially grow our team, further develop our technology, as well as, expanding our global footprint – to offer exceptional service, reliability and transparency to our ever-growing customer base.

Otta's take on Beacon

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Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta

The trillion-dollar freight forwarding industry is ripe for disruption, with 43% of the market dominated by just ten firms. Starting out as a digital freight forwarding company for SMEs, Beacon has used its experience of the customer journey and the pain points for shippers to develop a SaaS platform that gives supply chain visibility and management tools to the array of stakeholders within the supply chain.

Beacon's goal is to empower its customers, which it does by connecting supply chain data, providing them with analytical tools for rapid decision-making and giving them access to growth capital. This range of services, flexibility of its platform, and its time as a freight forwarding company allows Beacon to meet the needs of disparate stakeholders across the supply chain, from buyers to logistics managers. This has given it a major edge against its competitors' inflexible enterprise solutions.

Beacon has received funding in a Series B round with participation from Jeff Bezo. With the backing of industry leaders and its large and growing customer base, Beacon appears to be poised for future success.

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Finance

£143m

-9%

Blink

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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%

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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