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 Publishing 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 Publishing Companies & Startups (London)
ckbk
Founders | Jon Croft, Matthew Cockerill, Nadia Arumugam |
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ckbk is the ultimate digital subscription service for cooks.
Echobox
Founders | Antoine Amann |
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Echobox is the leading content automation platform
Zephr
Founders | James Henderson |
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Zephr is a technology platform for media companies to grow their subscription revenue.
Yieldify
Founders | Jay Radia |
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Yieldify creates smart and simple marketing technology products that predict customer behaviour.
Wonderbly
Founders | Asi Sharabi, Pedro Serapicos, Tal Oron |
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Wonderbly is a full stack publishing company from London.
ContentCal
Founders | Alex Packham |
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ContentCal allows users to collaborate, share, plan and publish content to drive engagement on social media.
Permutive
Founders | Joe Root, Tim Spratt |
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Permutive is an audience platform for advertisers and publishers to plan, build, and activate cohorts while keeping everyone’s data safe.
Proactive
Founders | Craig Ribton, Ian McLelland |
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Proactive is an international news and media organization providing coverage of companies in the small to mid-capitalization range.
Grabyo
Founders | Will Neale |
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Grabyo is the premium video editing and publishing platform built for live, social and mobile.
LICKD
Founders | Paul Sampson |
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Pre-cleared commercial music licensing for YouTube and Online Video Creators.
Zapnito
Founders | Charles Thiede, Jon Beer |
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Zapnito is the SaaS online community platform for intelligence-driven organizations.
Minute Media
Founders | Asaf Peled, Gilad Beiman, Yuval Larom |
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Minute Media is a media and technology brand focused on two main pillars—platform and content.
Deep Zen
Founders | Kerem Sozugecer, Taylan Kamis |
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AI company focusing on audiobook production and voiceovers with an audiobook marketplace (audiowhale.com)
Reedsy
Founders | Emmanuel Nataf, Matthew Cobb, Richard Fayet, Vincent Durand |
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Reedsy connects authors and publishers with the world’s best editors, designers, and marketers to create high-quality books.
Dianomi
Founders | Cabell de Marcellus, Rupert Hodson |
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Dianomi is a global leader in content marketing.
Unbound
Founders | Dan Kieran, John Mitchinson, Quentin George |
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Unbound is an online crowd-funded publisher that allows authors to pitch their book ideas directly to readers.
GiveMeSport
Founders | Jae Chalfin, Nick Thain |
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GiveMeSport is a print-based sports publication which celebrates athleticism in all its diverse forms.
Jet Media Network
Founders | Jesper Schertiger, Robin Shelley |
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Jet Media Network is a media network that creates change through the empowerment of communities.
Blue Duck Education
Founders | Mohit Midha, Toby Rowland |
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Blue Duck Education is the holding company behind Mangahigh.com which develops and publishes maths games for 11 to16 year-old students.
Bibblio
Founders | Mads Holmen, Rich Simmonds |
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A digital publishing content recommendation technology to increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences.
Financial Times
Founders | Gillian Tett, James Sheridan |
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Financial Times is a business news organization providing essential news, comments, data, and analysis for the global business community.
Jellyfish
Founders | Ed Bussey |
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Jellyfish is a ecommerce content production platform for online businesses.
inflo.Ai
Founders | Adam Benzecrit, Toby Cockayne |
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inflo.Ai is a London-based software company building proprietary AI technology to make content creation simple, fast and affordable.
Smartology
Founders | Mark Bembridge |
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Digital advertising technology company
unrd
Founders | Adam Lowe, Shib Hussain |
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unrd is creating a new genre of entertainment by combining Hollywood quality plots with mobile storytelling techniques.
SPARKLANE
Founders | Frédéric Pichard |
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SaaS Predictive Lead Scoring Solution – Sparklane help marketer and sales people to target “the most likely to buy” companies
FinancialJuice
Founders | Aamar Hussain |
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FinancialJuice is a free real-time news and financial content platform.
Bazaar Daily UK
Founders | Mohammed SHK, Taylor ‘TJ’ Wallis |
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Bazaar Daily (UK) is the British counterpart to Bazaar Daily News, a massive online news agency founded by Sultan H. Khane II.
Clicksco
Founders | Marcus Cent |
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Clicksco collects and analyses information, brand, products, and services data from on and offline sources.
Twizoo
Founders | John Talbott, Madeline Parra |
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Twizoo is a non-stop source of user-generated content from social media.
1854 Media
Founders | Marc Hartog |
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1854 Media is an award-winning digital media organisation
Mogul News
Founders | Rav Singh Sandhu |
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Mogul News gives you the best content from the world’s leading publishers, such as the Financial Times, in one place.
Bonhill Group
Founders | Unknown |
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Bonhill Group operates as a B2B media company.
Hipgnosis Songs Fund
Founders | Merck Mercuriadis |
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Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited offers investors a pure-play exposure to songs and associated musical intellectual property rights
Movellas
Founders | Joram Felbert |
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Movellas is a social and interactive community for teenagers to read, write, and share their stories.
Infinite Mixed Reality
Founders | Corrina McCann, Rosemary Reed |
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Infinite Mixed Reality is a full-service virtual reality and augmented reality agency.
Tech.eu
Founders | Adrian McShane, Alex Barrera, Ivo Spigel, Jon Bradford, Robin Wauters, Roxanne Varza |
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Tech.eu provides tech news, data, market intelligence, and insights into startup activity.
Informa
Founders | Unknown |
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Informa is a business intelligence, academic publishing, knowledge and events group.
Courier
Founders | Jeff Taylor |
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Courier is a stories of modern business reporting from London and around the world on startup culture. Published six times a year in print.
Woto
Founders | Ekin Caglar, Ian Collins, Yusuf Comez |
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Woto provides a free publishing tool. to create and share contents.
Gaijin Entertainment
Founders | Anton Yudintsev |
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Gaijin Entertainment is a fast growing game development company established in 2002. Gaijin’s team specializes in creation of games for
The Tab
Founders | Jack Rivlin |
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The Tab is a university news network run by people who like being first.
Level Up Media
Founders | John Rankin |
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Level Up Media is a technology company that creates online destination for gaming and eSports fans to watch on demand video.
Great British Chefs
Founders | Oliver Lloyd, Vimal Khosla |
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Great British Chefs premium food publisher with 1.3m social followers. We have 3,500 recipes from Britain’s and Italy’s Greatest Chefs.
Welbeck Publishing Group
Founders | Marcus Leaver, Mark Smith |
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Welbeck Publishing Group focus on illustrated non-fiction and children’s books for the co-edition market.
BibliU
Founders | Daniel Engelke, Dave Sherwood, Tao Mantaras |
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An EdTech innovator, BibliU’s platform enables colleges and universities with digital content management, automation, and analytics.
Zeddit
Founders | Jonathan Harris |
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Zeddit is the #1 way to grow your paid magazine audience
Erly Stage Studios
Founders | Farid Haque |
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An Education Venture Studio and digital publishing business, our mission is to make learning fun through engaging content and technology.
READBUG
Founders | Matthew Hammet, Matthew Hammett, Stephen Pini |
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READBUG is a curated reading experience that brings you independent, classic, cult and award-winning magazines for a monthly membership.
Appticles
Founders | Alexandra Anghel, Ciprian Borodescu, Ionut Ardeleanu |
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Creating, distributing and monetizing mobile HTML5 applications.
Bookboon
Founders | Thomas Buus Madsen |
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Bookboon, is a publisher of eBooks
Silicon
Founders | Dominique Busso |
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Silicon UK, is the authoritative UK source for news, features and reviews of business technology.
Fadew Inc
Founders | Shoaib Rahman |
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Fadew Inc is a British digital publishing holding company headquartered in London, England. It is the parent company of Fadew magazine.
Pharma intelligence
Founders | Unknown |
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Pharma intelligence helps in analysis, insight, and consultancy services for pharmaceutical, MedTech, and clinical research organizations.
Tilda Publishing
Founders | Nikita Obukhov |
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Tilda Publishing builds beautiful websites and tell stories without any code.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Founders | David Edwin Potter, Elaine Potter |
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is an independent non-profit organization that pursues in-depth journalism into organizations.
Country & Town House
Founders | Jeremy Isaac |
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Country & Town House is the print and digital media business.
The Memo
Founders | Kate Casey, Phoebe Simmonds |
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Online publication covering technology, innovation and the changing face of business.
Niume Limited
Founders | Alex Hughes, Daniel Gennaoui, Francesco Facca |
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Niume is the world’s first collaborative blogging platform. Create beautiful posts, reach an instant audience and monetise your content.
Aggregion
Founders | Nukri Basharuli |
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Intellectual property licensing and rights governance platform
How.to
Founders | Sahil Sheikh |
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How.to is an early-stage discovery platform and managed Marketplace
Flooved
Founders | Hamish Brocklebank |
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Flooved is a provider of interactive social e-textbooks with personalized content for students and professors.
Booxscale
Founders | Jozef Wallis, Max Moore, Nejc Penko |
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Booxscale is the creator of next generation transaction platform of aggregated on-demand businesses to surface within publisher websites.
Scoop Magazine
Founders | Unknown |
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Scoop Magazine offers a bi-monthly printed magazine for designed to inspire and nurture a love of reading and stories.
Warc
Founders | David Ogilvy |
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Warc helps companies grow their businesses by offering advertising best practices, evidences, and insights from popular brands.
tibit
Founders | Justin Maxwell, Pauline Hunter |
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pocket change for the internet — tips and tiny payments spent without a second thought.
SCORRERS
Founders | Ivan Rakitic |
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Scorrers is a global giveaway and webshop platform founded by FC Barcelona player Ivan Rakitic.
Icon
Founders | Daren Newton |
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Icon is an international architecture and design magazine.
News UK
Founders | Unknown |
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News UK is a great company full of talented, dedicated and creative people.
Law Business Research
Founders | Richard Davey, Sebastian O’Meara |
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A technology-enabled information services business powering the global legal industry with intelligence, analytics and performance data.
Blue Crow Media
Founders | Derek Lamberton |
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Blue Crow Media is an independent publisher.
Mobango
Founders | Fabio Pezzotti |
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MOBANGO is a mobile community enabling mobile users to publish, convert and share user generated content with others.
Lexology
Founders | Unknown |
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Lexology is a web-based service that provides company law departments and law firms with the practical intelligence.
Crypto Wire
Founders | Sam Enrico Williams |
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CryptoWire is DeFi and cryptocurrency-related press release wire and distribution platform.
DMG Media
Founders | Unknown |
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DMG media is a consumer media company engaged in print and online newspaper publishing.
Dennis Publishing
Founders | Felix Dennis |
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Dennis Publishing is one of the leading independently owned media companies in the UK.
Kauris Ltd
Founders | Didier Metelo |
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Kauris Ltd. develops LAMOOVA promoting clubbing trough App, Animation Film and Series, Comics and Website, AR / VR.
The Ozone Project
Founders | Unknown |
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The Ozone Project is a transparent and brand-safe platform offering advertisers direct access to an audience for programmatic advertising.
GL Education Group
Founders | Unknown |
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GL Education Group provider of educational assessment solutions for UK primary and secondary schools.
HIT Entertainment
Founders | Jim Henson, Peter Orton, Sophie Turner Laing |
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HIT Entertainment is one of the world’s leading pre-school entertainment companies.
Argus Media group
Founders | Jan Nasmyth |
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Argus Media group is a global energy and commodity price reporting agency.
New Beacon Books
Founders | Unknown |
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New Beacon Books is the Black publishing and bookselling entity.
Jellybooks
Founders | Andrew Rhomberg, Andy Roberts, Gary Aston, Jeff Abrahamson |
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Jellybooks helps authors and publishers develop traction by identifying and reaching out to the most influential readers.
Idler Academy
Founders | Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Tom Hodgkinson |
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The Idler is a quirky brand comprising online course business, quarterly journal, book publisher.
Dazed & Confused
Founders | Jefferson Hack |
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Dazed and Confused is an independent magazine that covers fashion and culture, predominantly through photography.
The Independent
Founders | Unknown |
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The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published by Independent Print Limited.
Euromoney Institutional Investor
Founders | Patrick Sergeant |
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Euromoney Institutional Investor is a leading international business to business media group.
Hindawi
Founders | Ahmed Hindawi, Nagwa Abdel-Mottaleb |
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Hindawi is a commercial publisher of peer-reviewed and fully OpenAccess research journals and papers.
Time Out Group plc
Founders | Tony Elliott |
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Time Out is a leading global media and entertainment business
Springer Nature
Founders | Julius Springer |
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Springer Nature is a leading global research, educational and professional publisher, home to an array of respected and trusted brands
MIRROR.CO.UK
Founders | Robert Maxwell |
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MIRROR.CO.UK is the online edition of The Daily Mirror, which is one of Britain’s tabloid newspapers.
MedArkive
Founders | Jacob Flindt, Shiv Kumar |
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MedArkive is a SaaS pharma educational Content.
Urban Times
Founders | Alexander Phillips, Charlie Hilton |
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Urban Times is a social content publishing platform for writers, bloggers and journalists.
NME
Founders | Unknown |
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The world’s number one source of music news, reviews, features, photos and video.
Admixer
Founders | Aleksey Boltivets |
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Admixer provides full-stack programmatic solutions for brands, publishers and advertising agencies.
Resident Advisor
Founders | Nick Sabine, Paul Clement |
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RA is an online music magazine and community platform that’s dedicated to showcasing electronic music, artists and events across the globe.
Fifty
Founders | Duncan McCrum, Jamie Scott, Simon Shaw |
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Fifty is a technology company focused on large scale analysis of Social Media data.
Chrysalis Vision
Founders | Chris Wright |
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Chrysalis Vision is working with writers to develop and produce ambitious and authored drama.
Econsultancy
Founders | Ashley Friedlein, Matthew O’Riordan |
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Econsultancy publishes research, analysis and advice on digital marketing, social media, e-commerce, SEO, mobile and tech for businesses.
Contentment Ltd
Founders | Michael Kowalski |
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Beautifully simple app publishing
IELTS Material
Founders | Harshith kulal |
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IELTS provides free study material for preparation of IELTS, which is an international standardised test of English language proficiency.