London’s 101 Fastest Growing Business Development Startups

At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.

We’ve ranked the top 101 Business Development companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).

We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:

• Track record
• Executive leadership
• Market share
• Innovation
• ESG rating

Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Top Business Development Companies & Startups (London)

Future Planet Capital

Future Planet is a venture capital firm that seeks investment in potentially high-growth companies from research centers.

Bizagi

Bizagi is a global leader in digital process automation software.

HKA

HKA is a privately owned, independent provider of consulting business for the construction, manufacturing, and technology industries.

The DAO

The DAO is a digital decentralized autonomous organization and a form of investor-directed venture capital fund.

Charlie

Charlie is the HR software for small teams with big ideas.

Early Metrics

Early Metrics is the first startup rating agency.

Novicap

NoviCap is an online platform that allows businesses to receive early payments for outstanding invoices.

Rothesay Pensions Management

Rothesay Pensions Management Ltd is headquartered in England. The company’s line of business includes providing various business services.

The Twenty Minute VC

TheTwentyMinuteVC is a twenty-minute VC podcast about finance, business development, and investment.

Virgin Group

Virgin Group is an investment company focused on leisure, travel, tourism, mobile, broadband, TV, radio, music, finance, and health sectors.

Ebury

Ebury is a financial services company designed to empower small and medium-sized businesses that want to trade internationally.

pepperhq

The Pepper platform supports white label apps for mobile payment, discovery, digital loyalty, social media marketing, and actionable data.

Nordstar

Nordstar partners with transformational companies seeking strategic and operational expertise, advice, and capital

Workspace Group

Workspace are dedicated to giving our customers the perfect working environments to help them grow their business.

Opportunity Network

Opportunity Network (ON) is the community for select CEOs and private investors to grow their businesses worldwide.

HH Global

HH Global is the trusted marketing execution partner of the world’s leading brands.

Asoko Insight

Africa’s leading corporate information platform, providing market mapping solutions to investment firms, banks, corporates and governments.

Lexoo

Lexoo is a lawyer comparison marketplace that helps businesses choose a lawyer with confidence.

Civica

Civica is a market-leading specialist in digital solutions, critical software applications and outsourcing services.

Northzone

Northzone is an early-stage venture capital fund built on experience spanning multiple economic and disruptive technology cycles.

Capium Ltd

Empowering businesses and accountants, through one platform

Idea Drop

Idea Drop helps organisations capture, curate and action the best ideas from their people.

PwC

PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.

Augmentum Fintech

Augmentum Fintech is a FinTech fund that invests in early and later-stage FinTech companies.

Bethnal Green Ventures

Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) is Europe’s leading early stage tech for good VC.

HireHand

HireHand is an intelligent and fuss-free staffing platform for food businesses.

Telectic

Telectic applies artificial intelligence (AI) to interpret the Web and discover insights about the professional world.

Systemsync Solutions

Systemsync Solutionss provides iPaaS-based platforms that enable businesses to utilize workplace data exchange.

GOODFOLIO

Goodfolio is a social conscious invest platform that allows individual users to put their cash into businesses that share their moral views.

BSI

BSI Group, also known in its home market as the British Standards Institution, is a multinational business services

The Clubhouse

The Clubhouse is London’s leading business club, lounge and meeting space.

Planet First Partners

Planet First Partners is a purpose-led growth investment platform investing in “Better for People & Better for the Planet” companies

DeepMind

DeepMind aims to research and build safe artificial intelligence system to solve intelligence, to advance science and humanity.

Eden Block

Eden Block is a private, independent, research-centric investment vehicle dedicated to enriching the environments that make up Web 3.0.

TrueSight Ventures

TrueSight Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed deals.

Invest In Africa

Invest In Africa is a nonprofit organization that supports local businesses by offering access to finance, skills and markets.

I-Movo Limited

I-Movo Limited enables businesses to issue vouchers to their customers, which can then be redeemed securely at over 50,000 stores.

TableCrowd

TableCrowd is a real life business network that brings people together over food and drink.

BuyerDeck

BuyerDeck provides a portal for sales reps to manage deals with their buyer.

Somnus Scientific

Somnus Scientific develops a suite of products to measure blood propofol concentration in real-time and without blood sampling.

onkho

onkho helps accountants delight their clients and grow their business

International Blockchain Consulting

International Blockchain Consulting is an international blockchain consulting group that facilitates end to end ICO support.

Delivery Club

A technology platform for food delivery businesses to share drivers and GPS track all orders.

Quotable

Quotable is a global supply network that enables businesses to trade smarter with the help of AI.

The Crowd

The Crowd is a platform for the business community to share ideas and innovations.

Epiris

Epiris is an independent private equity firm.

PA Consulting Group

PA Consulting Group provides management consulting, IT consulting, and technology and innovation services.

NEXU

NEXU connects people to businesses through word-of-mouth recommendations.

Luno

Luno is a fully-featured user authentication system, giving users peace of mind with well above industry-standard security.

Azibo Group

Azibo Group is a private investment company that offers financial services.

Gauss Ventures

Gauss Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

Proxly

Proxly is a platform for businesses and developers to build their own engaging mobile experiences.

Kingfisher

Kingfisher PLC is a British multinational retailing company headquartered in London.

GMG Ventures

GMG Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund that invests in companies related to media-tech.

OrgVue

OrgVue offers SaaS solutions, business development, workforce analytics, software and management consulting services.

Capability and Innovation Fund

Capability and Innovation Fund empowers eligible bodies to enhance the products and services which are available to SMEs.

Dialectica

Dialectica offers on-demand information from industry specialists to improve business growth.

Orbit Partners

Orbit Partners facilitates personalized and private discussions between corporate leaders.

Strategy Insights

Strategy Insights is an advertising company that provides business development, market intelligence and international trading services.

Kuan Intelligence

Kuan Intelligence is a cross-border payment platform for E-Commerce backed by Blockchain Technology.

Foxtons

Foxtons is an estate agency with 67 offices in London and the Home Counties and 35 years of experience behind us.

Virgin StartUp

Virgin StartUp is on a mission to change the prospects of start-ups, for good.

Concrete

Concrete provides retail brands a platform to train and retain store staff.

Insightia

Insightia provides a wide range of information on listed companies, covering activist investing, proxy voting, and corporate governance.

Celer Technologies

Celer is a financial software company that creates modular systems that have the flexibility to meet today’s dynamic business environment.

Bizpora

Bizpora is a web-based platform that enables its users to meet people in their business trips.

Whitespace

We help businesses innovate, from the small things that can make a big difference to more-involved ‘Eureka!’ projects.

Renaissance Capital Partners

Renaissance Capital Partners invests funds in high-growth, innovative, and entrepreneurial businesses and also built environment projects.

Y TREE

Transforming personal finance.

Vivid Economics

Vivid Economics provides solutions in the environment, renewables, natural resources, carbon finance, green finance and urbanization areas.

BRCO – BrainStormers Group LTD.

Business Development | Strategic consultation | VC

Eave

Eave (formerly EarTex) is a startup developing the next generation of hearing protection and communication technology.

AskTina

AskTina is Monetise your Expertise

ChangeLabs

Changelabs partners with leading organizations to develop entrepreneurship and innovation programs.

Global Fund Media

Global Fund Media connects all the institutional investment sectors with actionable market intelligence.

System1 Group

System1 Group PLC is a marketing and brand consultancy, with proprietary market research

Spidergap

Spidergap is the employee-friendly 360 degree feedback tool.

John Laing Group

John Laing Group develops and operates privately financed public sector infrastructure projects.

Unleashed

Unleashed works with early-stage start-ups and scale-ups to build a better and more successful business.

AEGIS London

Aegis london is one of the most diversified Syndicates operating in the Lloyd’s of London market – trading under Syndicate 1225.

Zero 1

Zero 1 is a corporate venture building company that builds startups in partnership with leading corporations.

Everline

Everline provides a source of credit for entrepreneurs looking to expand their businesses, manage working capital, and fill cash gaps.

fivesquid.com

fivesquid offers a platform that enables its users to trade skills and services, and earn cash.

Tungsten Corporation

Tungsten Corporation was founded in February 2012 by Edmund Truell and Danny Truell.

Optial

Optial is a successful global supplier of Enterprise-wide EHS, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC).

swiftscale

Taking companies further, faster

Few&Far

Few&Far helps companies stand out, build teams, and set the foundation for growth.

B2B International

B2B International is a specialist business-to-business market research consultancy that has grown through bringing together the skills of

Applied AI

Applied AI is a scaleup growth programme for applied AI companies that are focused to solve real-world problems.

Mid Group

The Mid Group is a dynamic construction, investment and development company based in the UK and Middle East.

Alwin Technologies

The Global Blockchain Development Company for Various Kind of Business Applications

SuperCharger Ventures

SuperCharger Ventures is a EdTech accelerator dedicated to business development.

Eugene M. Edwards ICS

Certified Bank Instrument Provider SBLC / BG

Wranx

Create a highly skilled workforce that generates more sales and makes more customers happy.

Quadmark

Quadmark specializes in learning solution services that offer sales enablement and design consulting courses for business development.

Marwyn Capital Investments

Marwyn Capital Investments is a private equity and venture capital firm investing in development stage through to later stage.

BUILDILY

Buildily is venture builder and online accelerator platform which supports early stage entrepreneurs and startups

LETO

LETO focuses on lean software development applying cutting-edge technologies on unique, innovative way.

Shub.one

Shub.one is a business networking platform that allows professionals to network, promote, expand, and grow their business or careers.

DAN Global

DAN Global provides online platforms, industry knowledge and various tools to support digital agencies and global community of marketers.

Colvir Software Solutions

Colvir Software Solutions was established in Great Britain as a software company.