Auquan translates complex financial problems from the fund management industry into mathematical challenges that its network of 10,000 independent data scientists can solve. London-based Auquann provides access to more data science talent than any single fund could ever hope to hire - and has already significantly improved the performance of some of the world’s biggest investment funds.

Co-founders Chandini and Shub Jain, are life-long math puzzle enthusiasts. They are also veterans of both finance and tech, having worked for the likes of Microsoft, Optiver and Gusto. Auquan is proving that the future of investment success is gamified and crowdsourced.

Ori are building a distributed edge-cloud platform through which developers are able to access edge computing capacity over distributed mobile networks on an as-consumed basis. At an infrastructure level, DNA connects and manages distributed compute, storage and network resources, orchestrating them to deliver applications at the edge of the network.

Ori are headquartered in London and led by a team of telecom entrepreneurs with 20 years combined experience in the sector, led by Mahdi Yahya CEO, and co-founders Simon Dowling CTO and Melissa Dore COO.

Pickr, Founded in 2017 by CEO Kane Halsey, the Norwich-based company helps service providers in the £28bn energy and utilities sectors reduce the cost and time of building and managing a flexible workforce. Using machine learning and intelligent automation, customers can fill their temporary, on-demand, and short-term hiring requirements within hours, saving thousands in recruitment agency fees.

Their goal is to be the connector that everyone in the sector turns to, providing the best opportunities for the unsung heroes who work in all conditions to keep our economy moving and removing the pain and cost of resourcing for businesses in the supply chain.

Kane is joined by Hayley Johnson COO - passionate about driving performance through building teams who relentlessly focus on the customer.

Innovation is a core corporate capability - new products and technologies are constantly being created, and the speed of change is too great to rely only on internal resources to innovate. Whether it is to buy, to build or to partner, corporates are investing more resources in the innovation agenda - and currently their only alternative to the kind of service Klydo offers is to pay a lot of money to external consultants. We love the vision and the team - and the clear use case.

The proposition is startlingly simple - recreate a virtual staff canteen using technology - but the logistical details are extremely complex, and we love the way this balanced team has mastered them. The opportunity is huge - in London alone there are 80,000 companies struggling with the logistical nightmare of lunchtime delivery, poor eating and health habits, and the disruptions to productivity and culture of people leaving the building to eat. Riya and Lyz have a passion for high quality service and a compelling product roadmap to bring better food to all office workers.

We saw a team of fantastic, responsive and clean thinking co-founders with the drive to break into a huge market.

Since 2010 over £2B+ worth of cars have been bought via carwow. Securing a total of £48M so far, from ourselves and other leading VCs, carwow have gone on to grown to over 200 employees

Traditional retailers are under pressure from eCommerce. ThirdEye delivers both cost savings and improves customer service to increase sales using existing CCTV infrastructure made infinitely smarter through the use of ThirdEye’s AI in the form of machine vision. Raz and CTO Peter have impeccable AI and engineering credentials which have persuaded the UK’s leading retailers to work with them.

Mapping is a fundamental technology of the digital age, and all the energy and R&D dollars were chasing urban and transportation mapping.

What Chris and Theo are doing abstracts the physical world of manufacturing into a software layer, allowing product designers and brands to move forward to the dream of making any product in any volume anywhere in the world - and at an affordable price.

Jeremy is product obsessed and passionate about helping client making data driven decisions and bringing real-time enterprise level insight to all companies. Great companies put consumers and data at the heart of every decision. Jeremy's mission is to make that possible for everyone, in every business, all of the time.