2021 Go:Tech Awards - Finalists Supplement by Business Leader magazine

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BEST MOBILE TECHNOLOGY AWARD YOUR FINALISTS: BfB Labs Intouch With Health Ltd (Synopsis) NetSupport Ltd

Second Nature SkinVision

Mike Sauders CEO, Synopsis

BFB LAB BfB Labs is a multi-award winning health tech venture that develops human-centered digital therapeutics for better youth mental health that can thrive in diverse health ecosystems. BfB Labs fuses evidenced therapies with immersive gaming to create effective, engaging and scalable user experiences packed in therapeutic mobile gaming apps.

NETSUPPORT NetSupport is a UK-based developer of corporate and education software solutions, delivering classroom observation and assessment, classroom instruction, remote control, IT management and more. Since 1989, the company has produced tried and trusted products that have an installation base today of more than 18 million users in over 120 countries.

SKINVISION Gavin Matthews, UK Director is a National Innovation Accelerator fellow, a certified business and leadership coach and has 20 years experience in Healthcare Technology; his passion is in being part of a sustainable, patient-centric healthcare system. As UK Director for SkinVision, Gavin is working to empower people to manage their own skin care and promote greater awareness of the risks of skin cancer.

SYNOPSIS Synopsis enables hospitals to manage the entire pre-operative assessment – from initial questionnaire through to postoperative outcomes digitally, reducing cancellation rates and risk, and increasing patient throughput and theatre utilisation. The Synopsis platform has been used complete over 120,000 patient pre-operative assessments and has contributed to an average saving of £1.4m per NHS Trust. Synopsis is a VitalHub company.

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CLEAN TECH AWARD YOUR FINALISTS: AkzoNobel Ashington Dotted Kaluza

Ovo Energy Skyrora

Nick Turnbull HSES&S Manager, AkzoNobel

Stephen Fitzpatrick CEO, OVO Energy

AKZONOBEL ASHINGTON

KALUZA

The Ashington site forms part of the UK&I decorative paints supply chain for AkzoNobel and manufactures their leading decorative paint brands Dulux, Dulux Trade, Armstead, Cuprinol, Polycell and Hammerite. Ashington is a brand new site that is designed to be the world’s most sustainable paint plant of its kind.

Kaluza is the leading intelligent energy platform powering the future of energy. From revolutionising billing to smart electric vehicle charging, Kaluza’s technology is empowering some of the biggest energy suppliers to better serve millions of customers. Its real-time cloud platform transforms supplier operations, reducing cost to serve and boosting customer engagement.

OVO ENERGY OVO Energy was founded in 2009 and redesigned the energy experience to be fair, effortless, green and simple for all customers. The company has spent the last 10 years investing in the market-leading technology, customer service operations and digital products to help members cut their carbon emissions. OVO is on a mission through its sustainability strategy ‘Plan Zero’ to tackle the most important issue of our time; the climate crisis, by bringing customers with them on the journey towards zero carbon living. OVO Energy has committed to being a net zero carbon business and achieve bold science-based carbon reduction targets by 2030, while helping members halve their carbon footprint at the same time.

Powered by Kaluza, suppliers can invest in innovating for tomorrow’s customers and drive decarbonisation with smart, low carbon technologies that not only reduce energy bills, but lay the foundations for a more flexible energy system.

SKYRORA Skyrora develop environmentally optimised orbital launch vehicles for the global small satellite market. The Scotland-based company conduct all phases of design, manufacture and launch operation. Skyrora’s experienced team of specialists approach each mission with rigour, ensuring payloads reach orbit quickly, safely and with minimal environmental impact.

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AI/MACHINE LEARNING AWARD YOUR FINALISTS: Afiniti Featurespace Luminance

Papercut Tessian Sensyne Health plc

Martina King CEO, Featurespace

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Zia Chishti CEO, Afiniti

Featurespace™ is the world leader in enterprise financial crime prevention for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering. Featurespace invented the proprietary technology Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and Automated Deep Behavioral Networks, delivered through the ARIC™ platform; a realtime machine learning software platform, risk scoring events in over 180 countries to prevent fraud and financial crime.

AFINITI

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Afiniti is the only applied artificial intelligence (AI) provider of enterprise behavioral pairing solutions. The company uses patented AI to identify and predict valuable patterns of human interaction in order to pair individuals on the basis of behavior, leading to more successful customer interactions and measurable increases in profitability.

Luminance is the leading artificial intelligence platform for the legal profession used by 300 customers worldwide. Luminance uses machine learning to read and form an understanding of documents, helping lawyers to perform the rapid and rigorous reviews across practice areas including due diligence, regulatory compliance, property portfolio analysis and eDiscovery.

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PAPERCUT Papercup is on a mission to make all the world’s videos watchable in any language. Using state-of-the-art machine learning, Papercup has created an AI system capable of translating people’s voices into other languages. The delivery is indistinguishable from human speech and can also retain characteristics of the speaker’s voice.

TESSIAN

Tim Sadler CEO, Tessian

Tim Sadler is the CEO and co-founder of human layer security company Tessian. He leads the company to achieve its mission of protecting every business’s mission by securing the human layer and empowering people to do their best work, without security getting in the way. Since 2013, Tim has raised $60m from leading venture capital funds.

Lord Paul Drayton CEO, Sensyne Health

SENSYNE HEALTH Lord Paul Drayson is CEO of Sensyne Health, and an engineer and science entrepreneur who has over 25 years of experience in founding and leading successful businesses in food manufacturing, bioscience and motorsport research and development. Sensyne Health is a UK clinical AI company, working to connect patients, clinicians and researchers, which collectively help healthcare professionals deliver better patient care while curating vital data to support the next generation of medical research.

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BEST USE OF VR/AR AWARD YOUR FINALISTS: One Big Circle Oxford Medical Simulation Rocketmakers

The Leadership Network Virtualware

ONE BIG CIRCLE Bristol-based SME One Big Circle specialises in intelligent video. They capture, transmit and analyse data in complex and challenging environments, and use AI to enable organisations and operators to see what they need to see. Their innovative technology increases safety, efficiency and security in a range of industries.

OXFORD MEDICAL SIMULATION Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS) is a multi-award-winning healthcare simulation company that delivers virtual reality clinical experiences on-demand, bridging the gap between training and clinical practice. OMS immerses learners in evidence-based simulation to improve patient care without risking patient lives.

THE LEADERSHIP NETWORK Nathan Robinson founded The Leadership Network (TLN) in 2013 to help senior executives innovate and reduce waste across theglobal supply chain. After training 1000+ organisations worldwide, Nathan and TLN launched Gemba; a state-of-the-art virtual reality learning platform that helps the global workforce improve and stay competitive in the digital era.

VIRTUALWARE Unai Extremo, is a computer engineer and tech innocator, who is the founder and CEO of Virtualware, a unique organisation pushing the boundaries of virtual reality since 2004. The main purpose is to promote the vast potential of VR and accelerate its adoption helping companies and institutions to create a sustainable future that moves society forward.

Emily Kent Co-Founder One Big Circle

Nathan Robinson CEO The Leadership Network

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MOST INNOVATIVE USE OF SOFTWARE YOUR FINALISTS: AuthO Finboot iProov Ltd

mPro5 (Crimson Tide) Thousand Eyes Paman – The Medication Support Company

Eugenio Pace Co-Founder Auth0

IPROOV Andrew Bud CBE is the Founder and CEO of iProov, the Londonbased provider of large-scale, face-based authentication services to the private and public sectors worldwide. iProov has pioneered the delivery of Genuine Presence Assurance, providing strong verification that an online user is the right person, a real person, authenticating right now.

MPRO5 AUTH0 Eugenio Pace co-founded Auth0 in early 2013 with CTO and ‘brother-in-arms’ Matias Woloski while living 7,000 miles apart. This kick-started Auth0’s remote working culture that is still the norm today with over 800 employees. Pace has spent his entire professional career easing the developer journey by creating industry-standard tools, content, and services for cloud-based computing, mobility, and identity.

FINBOOT Finboot is the SaaS company behind MARCO, a unique production-ready suite of blockchain middleware solutions that unlock blockchain for enterprises, making their processes and supply chains more efficient, secure, transparent and auditable. Finboot Chairman and Co-founder Nish Kotecha is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 30 years of professional and entrepreneurial experience.

Used in over 260,000 sites, from hospitals to your supermarket, mpro5 is configured to allow organisations to streamline and automate operations. Highly scalable, secure and available on monthly subscription, mpro5’s team tailor and maintain the platform, letting organisations refine, automate and adapt processes maximising efficiency and ROI.

THOUSAND EYES ThousandEyes, a part of Cisco, delivers internet and cloud intelligence. The ThousandEyes platform provides the only collectively powered view of the internet, enabling enterprises to see, understand, and improve digital experiences from every cloud to every employee and customer.

PAMAN PAMAN is a COVID-secure telehealth service which ensures people take their medicines correctly. It’s been developed by the Stockport-based Medication Support Company. The firm use the latest advances in AI to give people access to digital health and care. Breaking down the digital divide is a company priority.

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IT/TELECOMS SUPPORT AWARD YOUR FINALISTS: Agilitas I.T Solutions Ltd Blackstar Solutions MaxContact

PureComms SaltDNA

AGILITAS IT SOLUTIONS As the leading provider of customer driven IT channel services, Agilitas are passionate and committed to demystify technology for our channel partners, making sure that every digital problem is solved with a business solution. Partners include value-addedresellers, managed service providers, system integrators, born in the cloud firms, vendors and distributors.

Richard Eglon Marketing Director Agilitas IT Solutions

BLACKSTAR SOLUTIONS Blackstar Solutions are a trusted telecoms provider who deliver best-of-breed business communication solutions. Their technical expertise are matched by their passion for delivering the highest quality solutions and support services. Blackstar pride ourselves on having long-established customer relationships. Their five-star Trustpilot rating speaks volumes for a positive experience and their customer-first approach.

MAXCONTACT MaxContact is a cloud-based contact centre as a service provider. With unrivalled technology, a 100% UK-based team, MaxContact offers secure, feature-rich solutions that drive business productivity and efficiency. MaxContact is one of the fastest-growing contact centre specialists in the UK with a 97% customer satisfaction rate.

SALTDNA Joe Boyle has founded a multi-award-winning cybersecurity company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, that builds secure enterprise mobile communications solutions. SaltDNA offers ‘Peace of Mind’ for organisations who value their privacy, by giving them complete control and secure communications, to protect their trusted relationships and stay safe. Also, creating the first company to provide a solution for encrypted communications between devices with centralised control for the enterprise. SaltDNA’s product provides secure voice, messaging, conference calling, broadcasting and image or file transfers for busy executives. SaltDNA’s customers include global law firms, financial institutions, defence and security clients, oil and gas companies and large enterprises.

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FINTECH BUSINESS OF THE YEAR YOUR FINALISTS: Apiax AG Blend Network Coinpass

Cardstream Mode Satago

Jeff Hancock Co-Founder & CEO Coinpass

Soldo

MODE Mode is a LSE-listed FinTech group that was created with a vision: to help accelerate the world’s transition to a truly digital financial system by building a next-generation ecosystem that combines the best of payments, investment, loyalty, and digital assets.

SATAGO Satago is a three-in-one cash management platform that helps business owners and accountants protect against risk, manage debtors and access finance, all in one place. With £23.4bn currently owed across the UK in unpaid invoices, Satago helps small businesses get paid on time, improve cashflow and get back to business.

SOLDO COINPASS Coinpass is a UK-based cryptocurrency exchange platform. Registered with the FCA, coinpass.com caters to investors, traders and businesses wanting to buy, sell, trade and hold bitcoin with fast deposits, secure storage and high-quality support. The firms vision is to blur the lines between financial services and crypto onto a single digital layer.

Founded in 2015 by tech veteran Carlo Gualandri, Soldo is one of Europe’s fastest-growing fintech companies. In 2019, the company raised a $61m Series B funding round led by Battery Ventures and Dawn Capital with the participation of Accel and other existing investors - the largest round of funding ever secured by a pay and spend automation company.

CARDSTREAM Cardstream is a payments gateway independent of individual acquirers, markets or geographical locations, giving it unlimited ability to integrate globally into any trading market, acquirer or locality. Its innovative route to market is via channel Partners, whose merchant customers often occupy niche or specialised market verticals.

Jonathan Rowland Executive Chairman Mode

Carlo Gualandri Founder Soldo

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TECH ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR YOUR FINALISTS: Adam Sharpe - Cardstream Brian Allen - Rovco Fidelma McGuirk - Payslip

Harjit Moore – Freeze Debt Nathan Robinson - The Leadership Network Yann Murciano - Blend Network

ADAM SHARPE

NATHAN ROBINSON

CARDSTREAM

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Eight years ago, Adam Sharpe, Owner-CEO, saw two major weaknesses in the market: payments processes were userunfriendly; and service providers were rigid. Cardstream’s ‘oneclick API’, ‘dare to share’ collaborative philosophy were born. Cardstream would and did become the unseen backbone for a vastly expanded range of payment gateways and ancillaries.

Nathan founded The Leadership Network (TLN) in 2013 to help senior executives innovate and reduce waste across the global supply chain. After training 1000+ organisations worldwide, Nathan and TLN launched Gemba; a state-of-the-art virtual reality learning platform that helps the global workforce improve and stay competitive in the digital era.

FIDELMA MCGUIRK

Yann Murciano CEO Blend Network

PAYSLIP McGuirk has over 20 years’ experience scaling international business and leading multi-national teams, Global HR& IT functions. McGuirk identified the need for an automation and integration technology solution to help multinational employers standardise and centrally manage their global payroll. Founding Payslip in Westport, Ireland in 2016, it now has teams and clients across the US and EU markets.

Fidelma McGuirk Co-Founder & CEO Payslip

YANN MURCIANO BLEND NETWORK Yann is CEO at Blend Network. He was previously an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, working in London as Global Head of Base Metals Trading. Prior to the decade he spent there, Yann was part of the ABN Amro team where he worked as an FX Option Trader. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Economics and a Master of Sciences in Banking - Finance & Insurance from Paris Dauphine, and a Master of Arts in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis University. His pioneering spirit enabled the establishment of high-value P2P lending to aid UK SMEs and key investment vehicles for independent lenders and institutions.

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TECH DEALMAKER OF THE YEAR YOUR FINALISTS: SaltDNA Shoosmiths LLP

Stephenson Law TLT LLP

Nina Searle Coporate Partner TLT LLP

SaltDNA’s product provides secure voice, messaging, conference calling, broadcasting and image or file transfers for busy executives. SaltDNA’s customers include global law firms, financial institutions, defence and security clients, oil and gas companies and large enterprises.

SHOOSMITHS LLP James Klein is a Corporate Partner and Head of Shoosmiths’ Technology sector. Advising across all core legal disciplines from their 13 UK locations, their dedicated technology sector team specialises in three key areas; connected technology, life sciences and data centres. Passionate advocates for tech, TLT actively support and sponsor Tech London Advocates, The Coalition for a Digital Economy and the Start-up Leadership Programme.

STEPHENSON LAW Stephenson Law challenges the legal industry by offering unparalleled service and expertise without the typical corporate stuffiness. The firm helps support high-growth tech companies with a range of matters, from fundraises to IP and acting as an external legal team for companies.

TLT LLP TLT are a top 50, full service commercial law firm built on ambition, innovation and a dedication to client service delivery. Their dynamic fast growth team is led out of their award-winning corporate practice, supporting a wide variety of funders and investors, from business angels to institutional funds working on investments from seed rounds through series A, B, C and D.

Joe Boyle Co-Founder & CEO SaltDNA

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BEST TECH START-UP AWARD YOUR FINALISTS: Blend Network Edgify

Found Fractory

IPification Luminance

Payaca

Roxana Mohammadian-Molina Chief Strategy Officer Blend Network

(L-R) Ofri Ben-Porat & Nadav Israel CEO & Co-Founder Edgify

Matt Franklin Founder Payaca

BLEND NETWORK Blend Network is a peer-to-peer (P2P) property lending marketplace that connects lenders directly with borrowers. Lenders can lend from £1,000 to property-secured loans and earn up to 12% per annum. Blend Network loans are secured against a first-charge on the property. The platform is designed to be simple to use and once registered, investors can browse through available loans, pick & choose the loan they’d like to lend to and simply lend. Blend Network is

backed by some of the world’s most well-known private investors and leading family offices. These include Cyrus Ardalan, former Vice Chairman of Barclays and current Chairman of OakNorth Bank and Citigroup Global Markets Ltd, the Family Office of Publicis Group Chairman Maurice Levy and Jean-Philippe Blochet, the Co-founder of one of the leading macro hedge funds with $40bn in assets under management.

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EDGIFY Edgify specialises in using ‘edge devices’, rather than the cloud, to train deep learning models for a range of industries. By using an edge device for the analysis and training of information it reduces the risks, costs and time associated with transferring sensitive data to or from an external server. This allows businesses to train on the entirety of their data, and reach accuracy levels never achieved before. These new obtainable accuracies can generate both high financial rewards in some verticals (retail, intelligent homes, manufacturing), and lifesaving solutions in others (autonomous cars, medical).

Stefan Kostic CEO IPification

FOUND Headed up by Founder Lance Plunkett, Found is an innovative and agile tech start-up which has created B2C and B2B products in the insurtech and lost property sectors. Found have developed leading edge technology to disrupt the insurance sector. With the company being built on a culture of learning and innovation, whilst supporting and developing its talented and awesome people.

IPIFICATION IPification is building the backbone for mobile authentication of today and tomorrow. By verifying the device, SIM and phone number via IP address, patented technology developed by IPification is enabling mobile user authentication, phone verification, and fraud prevention solutions. Readily available across numerous countries and regions, IPification is trusted by some of the leading technology, payment, and OTT companies. As part of Benefit Vantage Limited, the leader in Asia for providing security and data backup solutions headquartered in Hong Kong, IPification has offices and representatives operating in the US, UK, Serbia, Switzerland, Bosnia, Brazil, India, Vietnam and Pakistan.

LUMINANCE Martin Vares CEO Fractory

FRACTORY Fractory’s mission is to change the face of sheet metal manufacturing by utilising the very latest in technology. Engineers can upload their CAD files for instant prices and lead times. This significantly reduces the overhead costs in engineering by diminishing the time spent on making drawings and getting quotes from manufacturers.

PAYACA Founded by Matt Franklin, Payaca is an intuitive suite of apps that allows small businesses to display customer finance options, as well as send quotes, estimates and invoices, all from a smartphone, tablet or computer. The software leads to businesses winning more from the jobs they quote for, while helping them see an increase in their average job value.

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COVID-19 BUSINESS HERO AWARD YOUR FINALISTS: Merlinsoft Ocucon

Scenesaver Tended

Shoothill Zego

Caroline Friedman Founder Scenesaver

Gary Trotter CEO Ocucon

OCUCON

SCENESAVER

With more than 20 years’ experience in the security industry, Gary Trotter has a proven track record of advising major clients on their security requirements. He is acknowledged by leading industry titles as an expert in his field, regularly advising on security matters and technology trends within the sector.

Scenesaver is the free website, launched during lockdown, to help the theatre world, to support and incentivise creatives, make theatre accessible to all and provide theatregoers with their fix of theatre. A hub showing performances from small theatres worldwide, users pay a virtual ticket that is given to the performers.

Gary’s passion for innovation and cutting-edge technology, along with his ambition to provide the best in customer service has led him to become the Co-founder of Ocucon, a multiaward-winning retail technology company that provides clients with truly innovative security solutions.

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ZEGO Leo Scott Smith Founder Tended

TENDED Tended is a deep-tech startup that develops intelligent wearable solutions to address pressing safety challenges across industries. The company was founded in 2017 by Leo Scott Smith who has grown it into a fast-growing company with solutions in use by world-leading organisations to improve employee safety.

Zego is a ‘New Mobility’ insurance provider, powering opportunities for people and businesses by saving them time and money. Zego’s customers across the UK and Europe use vehicles to earn money. Zego believes the problem with traditional insurance is that it holds businesses back. It’s too expensive and time consuming - but it’s essential. Zego solves this problem by designing products for the way customers want insurance to work, saving them time and money. Since its inception in 2016, Zego has protected over 200,000 vehicles for thousands of businesses, from sole traders to fleets to global corporates. Zego has raised $65m in funding and was the first UK insurtech to be awarded an insurance license. More recently, Zego was accepted into the Tech Nation Future 50 2020 cohort and won Tech Company of the Year 2020.

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Rod Plummer Managing Director & Co-Founder Shoothill

At Shoothill they know the software industry inside and out and dedicate themselves to fully understand a business and its needs. Their skillset allow them to show the difference technology can make. The firm’s key focus, supported by business savvy leadership, experienced systems analysts, and talented developers, is about creating the ideal solution for its clients.

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