Tech Nation has revealed the 33 regional winners of its nationwide competition Rising Stars.
The shortlist of the UK鈥檚 most exciting and innovative early-stage scaling tech companies was selected by a panel of industry experts.
The companies, all at seed-to-pre-Series A funding or generating annual revenues up to 拢1.5 million, will compete at the Rising Stars semi-final in January 2020.
The top 20 will then pitch to a high-profile panel at the grand final in February to become one of Tech Nation鈥檚 10 Rising Stars.
With a prize package built to significantly raise the profile of the winning companies on both a national and international level, the competition is designed to help them become the world-leading tech companies of the future.
Companies will have their profile raised throughout the competition and have access to pitch coaching to enable them to compete to the best of their ability.
Furthermore, they will have the opportunity to pitch to over 200 high profile investors and corporate leaders.
Now in its second year, demand for the competition from early-stage founders has seen a 39 per cent rise in applications compared to 2018.
Esme Caulfield, competitions lead at Tech Nation, said: 鈥淎s the UK鈥檚 only early-stage tech scale-up competition, Rising Stars is an incredible opportunity for companies across the whole of the UK.
鈥淲e are hugely excited to shine a light on these early-stage scaleups across the nation and to support in creating opportunities for them to scale their business and one day become the UK鈥檚 next generation of tech leaders.鈥�
Rising Stars 2.0 regional winners
East of England
Aitrak (Holkham, Visual Optimisation)
Conundrum (Cambridge, Industrial Autopilot)
Foundries.io (Cambridge, Devices & IoT)
London
ClearGlass (London, Fintech)
CoGrammar (London, Tech for Good)
Gener8 (London, Adtech & Marketing)
Midlands
Shopper.com (Birmingham, Ecommerce & Marketplace)
StaffCircle (Leicester, SaaS)
Fluence World (Birmingham, AI)
North East
Apricity Compliance (Darlington, Fintech)
Block Matrix (Newcastle, Fintech)
Starfeb (Newcastle, SaaS)
North West
tootoot (Manchester, SaaS)
UrbanChain (Altrincham, Blockchain/AI & Energy)
Culture Shift (Manchester, Tech for Good)
Northern Ireland
Bluesona (Belfast, Fintech)
P茅arla铆 (Newry, Adtech & Marketing)
Pitchbooking (Belfast, Ecommerce & Marketplace)
Scotland
Talking Medicines (Glasgow, Healthtech & Biotech)
Neatebox (Edinburgh, Tech for Good)
Drinkly (Edinburgh, Ecommerce & Marketplace)
South East
Sparkbox (Southampton, SaaS)
IMGeospatial (Slough, Tech for Good)
Seakr (Slough, Tech for Good)
South West
Codices Interactive (Truro, Digital Entertainment)
Filmily (Totnes, Adtech & Marketing)
(Exeter, Data Analytics)
Value Xd – An ideal ecosystem for ESG/impact assessment and reporting
Wales
We Build Bots (Cardiff, AI)
Resooma (Cardiff, Ecommerce & Marketplace)
Moneyshake (Newport, Fintech)
Yorkshire
SeeAI. (Leeds, Healthtech & Biotech)
Branswer (Leeds, Adtech & Marketing)
Cooperative Innovations (Leeds, Digital Entertainment)