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VC-backed Companies in the UK: 50+ Active Firms (2026)
VC-backed companies in the UK use institutional venture capital to scale high-growth products and technology-led services.
Buying centres in this cohort usually sit where a funded product or platform can turn into repeatable revenue: sales and customer operations, product and engineering leadership, finance teams assessing unit economics, and specialist functions with a clear workflow pain point. Customer focus tends to skew towards commercial buyers rather than grant-funded or purely local service markets, with mid-market and enterprise procurement appearing more relevant than very small-business self-serve. Engagements are typically framed around growth capital use cases: moving from founder-led sales to repeatable channels, adding implementation capacity, or proving that a specialist service can behave more like a product business.
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The UK cohort contains 51 actively trading companies in this list, a deliberately narrow slice of the venture market rather than a census of every business that has ever raised external capital. Together they report 880 employees, giving the page a visible employment footprint while still leaving it weighted towards lean growth businesses rather than mature corporate groups. That matters for researchers: the list is more useful for studying commercially active, institutionally funded operators than for estimating the total number of venture-funded entities ever incorporated in the UK.
Venture capital is not a regulatory category in itself. Obligations tend to attach to the activity being scaled: regulated financial products, clinical or safety-critical services, data-intensive platforms and consumer-facing subscriptions all bring different approval, conduct, privacy and disclosure burdens. Market structure is shaped as much by capital governance as by statute. Investors usually expect board reporting, audited controls as revenue develops, defensible intellectual property and a credible route to exit, while customers often test financial resilience before committing to a young supplier.
Early-commercial weight in the cohort points to continued sorting between firms that can professionalise sales and those that remain dependent on investor-funded experimentation. Follow-on capital appears likely to favour companies with clearer margins, shorter payback periods and evidence of repeatable procurement, rather than broad claims about addressable markets. Acquirers may also be more selective, especially where buyers can purchase technical teams, customer contracts or intellectual property without absorbing a full venture cost base. The result is likely to be a thinner, more disciplined scale-up pipeline.
51
Active firms
2026
11
Above £5M
Reported revenue
14
Recent incorporations
Since 2022
Key facts
About 21% of the trading cohort reports turnover above £5M (11 of 51 firms) — the rest sits below that revenue band.
27% of the cohort was incorporated since 2022 (14 firms), so a sizeable share is in its first few filing cycles.
Institutional venture capital is used to fund product development, hiring and market entry before profits can cover those costs.
Returns depend on scale rather than early cash generation, so the category tends to suit products and technology-led services with delayed payback.
Business models range from software and IP-heavy products to companies using venture funding for customer operations and go-to-market teams.
Employee counts can diverge from commercial maturity, particularly where software or intellectual property carries much of the operating model.
Top UK VC-backed companies
ACI Worldwide
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsDevelops and supplies software platforms for electronic payments processing. Provides payment orchestration, bill payment, card issuing and acquiring, real-time payments connectivity, and fraud and…
Serves B2B customers including banks, payment processors, merchants, billers and central payment infrastructures, across sectors such as financial services, airlines, auto finance, fuel retail,…
Financial Health
StableStable · 0% CAGR over 4y
Location
Develops AI-based decisioning software for financial services. Provides a cloud platform that integrates data, analytics and workflow tools to automate credit risk assessment, fraud and identity…
Sells to B2B financial services and commerce firms, including banks, credit unions, fintechs, payments providers, telcos, auto finance, BNPL, consumer lending, credit card, digital banking, embedded…
Location
Trajectory
4y · 2023–NowDevelops an AI-based financing platform that integrates with financial automation systems to provide invoice financing and working capital to mid‑market businesses. Uses real-time financial data and…
Serves B2B middle-market enterprises, particularly CFOs and finance teams seeking working-capital finance integrated into financial workflows, and partners with process automation platforms used by…
Financial Health
Insufficient historyInsufficient history
Location
Trajectory
1y · 2025–NowProvides AI cloud infrastructure platform enabling organisations to train, fine‑tune and deploy machine learning models. Offers GPU compute instances, private cloud deployments, cluster management…
Serves sovereign entities, telecom operators and large enterprises building or operating AI clouds, plus AI teams needing GPU compute across sectors such as biotech, finance and technology.
Financial Health
Insufficient historyInsufficient history
Location
Provides cloud-based AI decisioning platform for financial services to manage credit risk, fraud detection, identity verification and compliance across the customer lifecycle, with data integration,…
Serves B2B financial services and commerce organizations, including banks, credit unions, fintechs, payments providers, telcos, auto finance, BNPL, consumer and SME lenders, credit card issuers,…
Location
SEEDLEGALS LTD
Trajectory
3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides an online platform and legal support for startups and investors, offering company formation, founder and employment agreements, cap table management, share option schemes, fundraising…
Serves startup founders and early-stage companies, plus angel investors and syndicates, with emphasis on UK SEIS/EIS funding and investment processes.
Financial Health
StableStable · 3% CAGR over 2y
Location
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides a software platform for employers to manage employee benefits programmes, including flexible spending allowances, benefits enrolment, rewards and recognition, and total reward statements,…
Sells to HR, reward and benefits teams at global enterprises and multinationals managing complex employee benefits across countries, plus benefits brokers supporting employer clients.
Financial Health
StrongStrong · Hiring · 130% CAGR over 4y
Location
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsDevelops and operates a software platform for managing employee benefits. Enables organisations to administer global benefit programmes, enrol staff in core and flexible benefits, manage allowances…
Sells to businesses with global workforces, especially HR and finance teams at enterprises and fast-growing scale-ups managing employee benefits, insurance and allowances across multiple countries.
Financial Health
StableStable · Hiring · 12% CAGR over 4y
Location
TRUELAYER GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides open banking infrastructure and APIs that enable businesses to connect to bank accounts, onboard users, initiate account‑to‑account payments, and manage payouts. Operates a Pay by Bank…
Sells to enterprise and growth-stage online merchants across Europe, including ecommerce, travel, food delivery and financial services brands handling high-volume consumer checkout and payouts.
Financial Health
StableStable · -73% CAGR over 4y
Location
Easol Limited
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides an all‑in‑one software platform for experience and event businesses to build branded websites, sell tickets and packages, process payments, manage bookings, run CRM and marketing campaigns,…
Serves B2B experience operators and creators, including music event organisers, entertainment and competitive socialising venues, and adventure businesses.
Financial Health
StrongStrong
Location
Signal Media Limited
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsDevelops AI software that monitors and analyses news, social media and other external data sources to provide risk and reputation intelligence. Platform offers dashboards, alerts and reports for…
Serves large enterprises and Fortune 500 companies, particularly risk, corporate communications, PR, reputation, ESG and regulatory affairs teams.
Financial Health
WeakWeak · -67% CAGR over 4y
Location
Trajectory
3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsDevelops an open banking payments platform that aggregates bank account data and provides identity verification, credit decisioning, and account‑to‑account payment processing, enabling businesses to…
Serves B2B customers including financial institutions, fintech companies, utility providers, retailers and large enterprises managing payments, customer onboarding, credit decisions and collections.
Financial Health
HealthyHealthy · Hiring · 58% CAGR over 2y
Location
Sonrai Analytics
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsDevelops cloud-based analytics software for precision medicine research. Provides tools and pipelines to integrate genomic, multi‑omic and imaging data, supporting biomarker discovery, patient…
Serves B2B precision medicine and biopharma organisations, including scientists, clinicians and drug development teams working on target discovery, biomarker development, clinical trials and patient…
Financial Health
StrongStrong · Hiring · 40% CAGR over 4y
Location
Develops cloud-based customer experience and contact centre software that uses AI to automate service interactions, route enquiries, assist agents, analyse conversations, and manage workforce…
Serves enterprises and SMBs with contact centres and customer service operations, targeting CX, operations, workforce engagement and digital transformation teams across sectors.
Location
Develops cloud-based customer experience and contact centre software. Provides AI-driven automation, conversational AI, voice and omnichannel routing, workforce management, analytics, and knowledge…
Serves enterprise businesses and contact centre operators, targeting customer service, CX, operations and workforce management leaders responsible for large-scale customer interactions.
Location
ANTERIOR LTD
Trajectory
2y · 2024–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 2 filingsDevelops and deploys artificial intelligence software for health insurance plans, providing modular AI tools that automate and manage clinical and administrative workflows such as prior…
Serves B2B healthcare payers, especially health plans and large insurance enterprises with clinical operations and prior authorization teams adopting AI.
Financial Health
StrongStrong · Hiring · 498% CAGR over 1y
Location
Ibex Medical Analytics
Develops artificial intelligence software for digital pathology that analyses tissue slide images to detect cancer and other diagnostic features. Provides tools such as prostate, breast and gastric…
Serves pathologists, pathology labs, hospitals, health systems and diagnostic solution providers involved in cancer diagnosis, with additional audiences in biopharma and clinical research.
Location
Provides embedded finance technology and funding products for small and medium‑sized businesses through partner platforms. Offers working capital, merchant cash advances, buy‑now‑pay‑later and…
Serves B2B platform partners, payment providers and marketplaces that serve small and medium-sized businesses, alongside SMB merchants seeking funding through those partner ecosystems.
Location
Provides embedded finance technology and funding products that allow platforms and partners to offer small business financing, including working capital, buy‑now‑pay‑later and on‑demand capital,…
Serves B2B platform partners, including payments providers, marketplaces, ecommerce platforms and business software ecosystems, that support small-business merchants and customers.
Location
Provides embedded finance technology and funding products for small and medium‑sized businesses through partner platforms. Offers working capital, seller and merchant financing, and buy‑now‑pay‑later…
Sells to B2B partners such as platforms, payments providers and other ecosystems that serve SMBs, and to small and medium-sized businesses seeking embedded funding through those partners across…
Location
Mambu Tech Limited
Trajectory
3y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides a cloud-based SaaS core banking platform used by banks, fintechs and financial service providers to build and operate financial products. Offers modular systems for lending, deposits and…
Serves banks, building societies, credit unions, fintechs, digital wallets, payment service providers, retailers and corporates building financial products globally.
Financial Health
StableStable · -33% CAGR over 2y
Location
Develops and operates a cloud-based payment processing platform for financial institutions. Provides APIs that connect banks and fintechs to payment schemes such as FPS, BACS, SEPA and ACH, with…
Sells to financial institutions, banks, fintechs and payment service providers needing access to UK, EU and US payment schemes through enterprise-grade infrastructure.
Financial Health
Insufficient historyInsufficient history
Location
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsDevelops treasury management software that aggregates financial data from banks and systems to provide cash visibility, forecasting and liquidity management. Platform supports global payments,…
Serves CFOs and finance teams at businesses with multi-entity, multi-currency operations, plus startups, financial institutions, banks, and HR/EOR platforms across Asia Pacific.
Financial Health
StrongStrong · Hiring · 32% CAGR over 4y
Location
Develops cloud-based customer experience and contact center software. Provides AI-powered tools for omnichannel customer engagement, automation, workforce engagement management, customer journey…
Serves enterprises and public-sector organisations with contact centres and customer engagement teams, especially in banking, healthcare, retail, insurance and government, across global markets.
Location
Develops a mobile app that uses AI to analyse users’ bank transactions, track spending, provide budgeting insights, automate savings goals, and offer financial guidance. Also provides features such…
Serves individual consumers (B2C), particularly younger adults and mobile app users seeking everyday money management support for budgeting, savings goals, spending control and credit-building.
Location
Trajectory
5y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides cloud-based software for customer service and contact centres, including AI-driven automation, omnichannel routing, voice services, workflow orchestration, workforce engagement management,…
Sells to businesses, from SMBs to large enterprises, that run customer service and contact centre operations. Targets CX, contact centre, operations and service teams across industries seeking AI,…
Financial Health
StableStable · 0% CAGR over 4y
Location
Visiopharm
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsDevelops AI-driven digital pathology and image analysis software for biomedical research and clinical diagnostics, including tools for tissue analysis, spatial biology, multiplex imaging, IHC quality…
Serves pathology research and diagnostic organisations, including pathologists, research scientists, clinical labs, hospitals, and pharma or biotech teams working on tissue-based disease research and…
Financial Health
DistressedDistressed · -10% CAGR over 4y
Location
Trajectory
4y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsDevelops software platform for private capital firms to manage fund and deal operations, including cap table tracking, waterfall calculations, investor reporting, document management, compliance…
Serves private capital firms and related law firms, targeting fund investment, legal, finance, audit and compliance teams, plus portfolio company managers and limited partners involved in private…
Financial Health
StableStable
Location
Trajectory
3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides a payments and financial reconciliation platform for the insurance industry. Software integrates bank, payment provider and policy administration data to automate premium collection,…
Sells to B2B organisations in the commercial insurance sector, including MGAs, insurance brokers and insurers, particularly finance, operations and technology leaders managing premiums, settlements…
Financial Health
HealthyHealthy · Hiring · 100% CAGR over 2y
Location
YuLife
Provides group life insurance and employee benefits through a digital platform that includes wellbeing programmes, health-related rewards and engagement features designed to support employee health…
Serves businesses seeking employee life insurance, wellbeing benefits and rewards, particularly HR and people teams responsible for staff benefits and engagement.
Location
DATABOOK LABS UK LTD
Trajectory
4y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsDevelops a software platform that provides guided selling tools for enterprise sales teams, including account planning, territory design, account scoring, pipeline analysis, and AI‑driven coaching…
Serves B2B enterprise go-to-market teams, including sales and revenue operations, GTM leaders, account executives, BDRs, and ABM/marketing teams in organisations with large, complex sales motions.
Financial Health
StrongStrong · Hiring · 57% CAGR over 4y
Location
Ezbob UK. Limited
Trajectory
2y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 2 filingsDevelops digital lending platform software for banks, payment providers, and marketplaces. Provides tools for loan origination, credit lines, revenue‑based financing, customer onboarding, and…
Sells to banks, financial institutions, payment service providers, acquirers, marketplaces and retailers seeking to offer or expand digital lending and embedded finance products to their customers.
Financial Health
HealthyHealthy · Hiring · 100% CAGR over 1y
Location
RASA Technologies Limited
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsDevelops conversational AI software that enables organisations to build and operate AI agents and chatbots. The platform provides tools for natural language understanding, dialogue management, API…
Sells to enterprises and public sector organisations needing AI agents for customer support, sales, and operations, especially in finance, retail, government, insurance, healthcare, telecoms, and…
Financial Health
WeakWeak · Hiring · 24% CAGR over 4y
Location
Provides a digital wallet and payment app that aggregates multiple bank and credit cards, enabling contactless and online payments through a single card or device. Offers features including…
Sells to consumers who use multiple payment cards, including everyday shoppers, travellers, online buyers and mobile wallet users seeking card consolidation, cashback, foreign spending and flexible…
Location
Beyondmath Limited
Trajectory
2y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 2 filingsDevelops AI-based physics simulation software that models fluid dynamics, thermal and other physical processes. Platform allows engineers to upload geometry, run simulations and analyse results to…
Sells to engineering and R&D teams in automotive, aerospace, energy, defense, semiconductors, construction, telecommunications and electronics companies that rely on physics simulation and design…
Financial Health
StrongStrong · Growing, Hiring · 75% CAGR over 1y
Location
Trajectory
3y · 2024–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsDevelops an AI-powered quality assurance and training platform for customer support teams. Software analyses support tickets, automates QA audits, generates performance insights, runs simulated…
Sells to B2B customer support and customer experience teams, including CX managers, L&D managers, CS quality assurance leads, support team leads and agents in companies operating helpdesk-based…
Financial Health
WeakWeak · Hiring · 52% CAGR over 1y
Location
Trajectory
2y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 2 filingsDevelops non-endoscopic diagnostic technologies for gastrointestinal diseases. Produces capsule sponge cell-collection devices and molecular tests, including EndoSign, used to detect and monitor…
Sells to healthcare providers and clinical researchers involved in gastrointestinal and oesophageal care, including community care settings focused on early detection and monitoring of Barrett’s…
Financial Health
StrongStrong · Hiring · 166% CAGR over 1y
Location
Develops synthetic biology technology to reprogram induced pluripotent stem cells into specific human cell types. Supplies iPSC‑derived cells, disease model cells and CRISPR‑ready cells, and provides…
Serves life sciences researchers in biotech, pharmaceutical and academic labs, especially teams working on drug discovery, disease modelling, CRISPR screening and cell therapy development.
Location
CMR Surgical
Develops and manufactures robotic surgical systems for minimally invasive procedures. Its Versius platform is a modular, portable robot used by surgeons in operating rooms, supported by training,…
Serves B2B healthcare customers, including hospitals, clinics, surgeons and surgical teams adopting robotic systems for minimal access surgery across specialties such as thoracic, general,…
Location
Provides data analytics, technology platforms and contract research services for life sciences and healthcare organisations, including clinical trial management, real‑world health data analysis,…
Serves global life sciences and healthcare organisations, including pharmaceutical manufacturers, emerging biopharma, medtech, generics and consumer health companies, plus payers, providers,…
Location
GCE CLIN SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Trajectory
3y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides data analytics, technology platforms, and contract research services to pharmaceutical and healthcare organisations, supporting clinical trials, real‑world evidence studies, regulatory…
Serves B2B and public-sector buyers in life sciences and healthcare, including pharmaceutical manufacturers, emerging biopharma, generics and MedTech firms, plus government, payers, providers,…
Financial Health
DistressedDistressed · -23% CAGR over 2y
Location
Provides data analytics, technology platforms and contract research services to pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare organisations, including clinical trial management, real‑world health data…
Serves life sciences and healthcare organizations, including pharmaceutical manufacturers, emerging biopharma, generics, MedTech, consumer health firms, payers, providers, government bodies, patient…
Location
Provides data analytics, technology platforms and consulting services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare organisations, including clinical trial management, real‑world health data…
Serves B2B and public-sector customers in life sciences and healthcare, including pharmaceutical manufacturers, emerging biopharma, generics, MedTech, consumer health firms, payers, providers,…
Location
Trajectory
3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides a configurable data platform for go-to-market teams to map target markets, enrich company and contact data, define personas, prioritise accounts, segment prospects, and sync data with sales…
Sells to commercial, revenue operations and sales development leaders at B2B companies, particularly teams running account-based, SDR-led or programmatic go-to-market strategies from startup to IPO…
Financial Health
StrongStrong · Hiring · 98% CAGR over 2y
Location
MARSHMALLOW TECHNOLOGY LTD
Trajectory
2y · 2019–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 2 filingsProvides motor insurance primarily for people new to the UK, using proprietary pricing and fraud models to assess risk without local credit history. Sells policies online and via a mobile app, and…
Serves consumers who have recently moved to the UK, especially drivers seeking car or van cover, and other marginalised customers whose circumstances make mainstream insurance pricing less suitable.
Financial Health
HealthyHealthy · Hiring · 46% CAGR over 1y
Location
Trajectory
3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides cloud software for finance teams to manage quoting, billing and revenue recognition for custom B2B contracts. Platform extracts contract terms, automates invoicing, supports usage‑based and…
Serves finance and revenue operations teams at B2B software companies, especially SaaS businesses with custom contracts, usage-based or hybrid pricing, and scaling sales motions from startup to IPO.
Financial Health
WeakWeak · Hiring · 7% CAGR over 2y
Location
Provides online business loans and credit lines to small and medium-sized businesses. Offers short‑term financing from £1,000 to £1 million with online application, rapid approval, flexible repayment…
Serves small and medium-sized UK businesses seeking short-term finance, including retailers and firms needing working capital, invoice, asset, vehicle, property or tax funding.
Location
Provides software platforms for banks, merchants and payment providers to process and orchestrate digital payments, including real‑time and card payments, bill payment services, fraud detection,…
Sells primarily to businesses in payments and financial services, including banks, payment processors, merchants, PSPs, billers and enterprises in sectors such as airlines, auto finance, gaming, fuel…
Location
Develops laboratory instrumentation and technology for rapid protein production and screening. Its eProtein Discovery system uses cell‑free protein synthesis and digital microfluidics to design,…
Sells to life sciences researchers and R&D teams in drug discovery, protein design and related biotech/pharma fields, including scientists working on membrane proteins, antibody fragments and other…
Financial Health
Insufficient historyInsufficient history
Location
Recursion
Develops an AI‑driven drug discovery platform that uses cell imaging, biological datasets, and machine learning to identify disease targets and design drug candidates. Conducts preclinical and…
Targets pharmaceutical and biotech industry partners, plus technology and data partners in life sciences; its medicines pipeline is aimed at oncology and rare disease patient populations.
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How UK VC-backed companies work and how to sell to them
What they do
VC-backed companies usually earn revenue from software, infrastructure, data products, managed platforms or specialist services that can be packaged into repeatable contracts. Pricing tends to mix annual subscriptions, usage-based fees, transaction fees, licences and onboarding charges, with services used either to implement the product or support higher-value customers. Engagements often start as paid pilots, departmental roll-outs or narrow workflow deployments, then expand if the buyer can see adoption and budget ownership. Pure ad-supported models are less common in this kind of B2B cohort unless audience scale is central to the commercial model.
Who they sell to
Most sell to commercial buyers in mid-market and enterprise organisations, rather than relying on consumer self-serve or local service demand. The buying group typically includes a functional sponsor, a finance approver and a technical or security reviewer, with CTO, CFO, Head of Procurement, VP Engineering, Head of Operations and revenue leadership roles appearing often. Sales cycles tend to move from founder-led credibility to direct sales, with partner-led routes used where implementation or sector access matters. Procurement becomes more formal when the product touches regulated workflows, customer data, payments or core operational systems.
What they buy
Most VC-backed firms tend to spend on cloud infrastructure, data tooling, security review, CRM, billing, revenue operations, analytics, observability, product management, HR systems and finance controls. Earlier commercial teams often need sales development support, customer onboarding capacity, recruitment, compensation advice and marketing operations; later-stage teams add board reporting, contract management, procurement support and internal policy work. Professional services spend usually sits around accounting, tax, legal, audit preparation, employment advice and intellectual property protection. Sellers with implementation, integration or compliance support can be relevant where the company is trying to move from founder-led delivery to a more repeatable operating model.
Why and how to sell to them
Venture-backed buyers tend to evaluate vendors when a funding round, senior hire, revenue target or enterprise customer demand exposes gaps in process. Common triggers include a new finance lead tightening controls, a commercial leader trying to reduce payback periods, an engineering team needing better reliability evidence, or a board asking for clearer metrics. Outbound works better when it links the offer to capital efficiency, faster procurement readiness, lower operational risk or cleaner reporting, rather than broad claims about growth. Proof of short implementation effort, clear ownership and limited disruption usually matters because these firms are often stretching small teams across several board-level priorities.
How this list is built
Data sources
This list is built from UK Companies House filings, XBRL accounts data, and semantic analysis of each company's public website. Revenue and headcount figures come from the most recent filed accounts; where the company has not filed, values are estimated using a model trained on filed history and peer benchmarks and are labelled as estimates.
Classification
Rather than relying solely on SIC codes, Firmbase classifies each company semantically: the company's website is crawled, an AI model reads what the company actually sells, and the company is placed into the relevant industry and subsectors. SIC codes are used as one signal but not the only one. This means a company that registered under a generic SIC code but pivoted into (for example) fintech is correctly identified as fintech, not as its original SIC category.
Freshness
The underlying company data is refreshed from Companies House continuously; filings appear in the list within days of submission. The curated list ordering is regenerated when the underlying data moves meaningfully (company count changes by more than 5%, a new company enters the top-ranked segment, or the filed-revenue numbers for the top firms change). You can see the last-updated timestamp near the top of the page.
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