28 tech companies join Tech Nation’s Future Fifty programme

28 new late-stage tech companies have joined Tech Nation’s Future Fifty programme having already raised over £1.4 billion and employing nearly 6,000 people. The new cohort of Future Fifty 8.0 companies includes Ali Parsa’s Babylon Health; Zia Hayat’s Callsign; Lewis Z Liu’s Eigen Technologies and Co-Founders Arif Meharali & Imran Arshed’s The Plum Guide, among the cohort with alumni that includes some of the biggest names in UK tech such as Deliveroo, Funding Circle, Skyscanner and Partnerize.

Gerard Grech, Chief Executive, Tech Nation commented: “Future Fifty is one of the top scaling programmes in Europe, supporting companies at a critical stage of growth. I’m thrilled to be working with the very businesses that are driving this substantial growth and jobs in the UK economy through innovation. The companies joining Future Fifty 8.0 have already raised over £1.4bn and employ nearly 6,000 people – our ambitions for what they can achieve are as big as those of the entrepreneurs themselves.”

New companies in the Future Fifty 8.0

Babylon Health, London, Healthtech @babylonhealth

Babylon’s mission is to put an affordable and accessible health service in the hands of every person on earth. By combining technology with the best available medical expertise, they bring doctors and people closer together. Their technology gives people round-the-clock access to affordable, holistic healthcare services like digital health tools and digital doctor appointments

Callsign, London, Cybersecurity @Callsign

Callsign is an identity fraud, authorisation and authentication company. They solve challenges that organisations face in getting their users on to and interacting with their digital platforms easily and securely. They provide solutions to some of the world’s largest banks and offer “bank grade” identification to public and private sector clients of all sizes.

Eigen, London, AI @Eigen_Tech

Eigen is a research-led machine learning company based in London and New York. Their mission is to help individuals and organizations make the right decisions by unlocking the value of their qualitative data. Their simple, flexible natural language processing (NLP) product accurately extracts information from diverse types of documents at scale and can be integrated into clients’ workflows.

The Plum Guide, London, E-commerce @plumguide

Solving the lack of quality control in the home rental space, The Plum Guide ditches flawed user reviews and instead, sorts and scours hundreds of thousands of vacation homes, inviting roughly 1 in every 100 tested homes to join their elite inventory.

About the Tech Nation Future Fifty

The longest-running and most successful accelerator programme for late-stage tech companies in Europe, Future Fifty brings together the UK’s most successful tech companies. It enables them to build a powerful network, and allows them to problem-solve with peers.

Drawing help and advice from the wider tech community, the programme supports the cohort to achieve their global ambitions, create jobs and opportunities across the UK, and inspiring the next generation of tech entrepreneurs, founders and businesses.

For further information visit https://technation.io/news/future-fifty-cohort-2020/