2025 Startups 100 Index Opens For Entries 

Entries are formally open for the 2025 Startups 100, the seventeenth iteration of the distinguished Startups 100 Index, our showcase of the fastest-growing startups within the UK.

Organised by Startups.co.uk, the checklist is the longest-running of its type, with the primary Startups 100 Index being revealed again in 2008. 

Over virtually twenty years, it has given an early platform to a few of the UK’s most profitable startups, together with tech unicorns Revolut, Monzo, and Deliveroo.

Companies which have been based since 2019 now have slightly below 4 weeks to place themselves ahead to compete for one in every of 100 hotly-contested spots on subsequent 12 months’s checklist.

New companies needed for 2025 Startups 100

The Startups 100 Index is designed to recognise and have a good time the UK’s thriving and world-leading startup group. Annually, 100 game-changing firms are chosen from lots of of entrants to be named our ‘ones-to-watch’ for the 12 months forward.

To be able to apply, entrants want solely to be headquartered within the UK, and to have registered with Firms Home after 1 January 2019. 

These broad entry necessities have helped to make the Startups 100 one of the various enterprise indexes within the UK. Whereas the checklist is ranked, any startup from any trade has an opportunity of being named a Startups-100 featured enterprise. 

Earlier listees have ranged from vegan meals producer, THIS™, to social mobility startup, Zero Gravity, and inclusive gaming model, Frobelles.

The entry kind will shut on Friday 4 October 2024. After this time, the Startups.co.uk group, plus a panel of specialists, will start judging. The total checklist can be shared in early January 2025.

Entries are appraised on a number of standards corresponding to energy of idea and market alternative. Details about the judging course of may be discovered on the software web page.

“An unbelievable platform for startups”

Enterprise awards can typically include software charges that may delay new companies from getting into. However the Startups 100 is among the few that continues to be fully free to use to.

Even in immediately’s difficult inflationary surroundings, the index has no entry or itemizing charges, so that each founder feels welcome to use.

The choice means startups have all the things to achieve and nothing to lose by making use of. In earlier years, featured firms have reported seeing an uplift in shopper leads, web site visitors, model consciousness, and even investor curiosity.

George Lineker, founding father of YourBusinessNumber which positioned forty third within the 2024 Startups 100 Index, stated the accolade “gave YourBusinessNumber large consciousness and credibility.”

“The Startups 100 is an unbelievable platform for startups and SMEs,” Lineker added, “[featuring on the list] elevated curiosity within the enterprise and generated quite a lot of clients.”

‘COVID era’ of startups grows up

The 2025 index will mark the primary time that each one eligible entrants had been based throughout or post-COVID. With each entrant having been based after January 2019, it presents a wonderful alternative to take inventory of how the ‘COVID era’ of startups has matured.

A lot has modified up to now half decade. The 2024 index made historical past when it topped its first ever AI winner, Unitary. The tech-for-good content material moderation product is designed to confront fashionable challenges like on-line misinformation, hate speech, and abuse.

With the UK now established as a hotbed for AI expertise, subsequent 12 months’s checklist guarantees to be a equally spectacular showcase of cutting-edge know-how and innovation. 

Richard Parris, Managing Editor of Startups.co.uk, stated: “The Startups 100 has at all times been proud to champion new UK companies. However the newest Startups 100 is ready to be a really particular one. For the primary time, each single enterprise featured could have been based through the COVID pandemic, or in its aftermath when the price of dwelling disaster hit our nation so exhausting. 

“At a time when the UK, and the world at giant, was going through a few of its biggest challenges, entrepreneurs up and down the nation nonetheless discovered the inspiration to begin one thing of their very own. We are able to’t wait to recognise the perfect UK companies of the previous 5 years in our upcoming Startups 100 index.”

Are you a pioneering UK enterprise that belongs on our checklist? Go to the 2025 Startups 100 Index software web page and begin your entry!