Ellie Horvath
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 Staffing Agency 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 Staffing Agency Companies & Startups (London)
Storm4
| Founders | Kayleigh Bottomley |
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Storm4 is a specialist GreenTech recruitment marketplace, connecting organizations with the senior talent to drive their mission.
Storm5
| Founders | Olivier Kerckhove |
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Storm5 are global RetailTech recruitment experts, connecting organizations with the talent to drive their mission.
hackajob
| Founders | Mark Chaffey, Razvan Creanga |
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Hackajob is a data-driven and engaging recruitment platform that matches top digital talent with exciting companies.
Rota
| Founders | Nick Bolton, Tom Williams, Will Taylor |
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SAAS Mobile and desktop Apps to provide Total Workforce Technology for the whole workforce (internal and external)
Phaidon International
| Founders | Adam Buck |
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We have a clear strategy and it is working to deliver us competitive advantage and superior financial results.
Bright
| Founders | James Uffindell |
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Bright is an online recruitment network that connects graduates, undergraduates and professionals with suitable job opportunities.
Rest Less
| Founders | Sara Stephens |
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Rest Less is a social impact business helping a generation of over 50s get the most from life.
Flowerbx
| Founders | Adam Wilkie, Whitney Hawkings |
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Flowerbx is an online, wholesale, flower-delivery service.
Placed App
| Founders | Jennifer Johansson |
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Placed is a mobile-first recruitment platform helping the high labour churn, service industries access permanent staff.
ParcelABC
| Founders | Andrew Benson, Andrius Balkunas |
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ParcelABC is a logistics company that unites thousands of local and international delivery companies.
Recruitment Smart Technologies
| Founders | Pawan Lokwani, Yusuf Jazakallah |
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SAAS, B2B, DeepTech, Talent Supply chain automation, HR, Recruitment
hundo.careers
| Founders | Esther O’callaghan Obe, Piers Collins, Scott Byrne-Fraser |
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hundo.careers is an end-to-end entry-level talent solution that helps forward-thinking companies engage with Gen Z talent.
The Up Group
| Founders | Clare Johnston |
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The Up Group company provides online recruitment, professional placement, and career consulting services.
APPII
| Founders | Adi Ben-Ari, Brian McNulty, Gary McKay |
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Using blockchain technology to quickly and simply verify identities, backgrounds (such as criminal history) and career history (CV / Resume)
CodeMonk.ai
| Founders | Maulik Sailor, Prakash Pilley, Shahriyar Ramezani |
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CodeMonk is a platform for companies to build and manage borderless tech team using pre-vetted top talent sourced from across the world
Syft
| Founders | Jack Beaman, Novo Abakare |
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Syft is the UK’s market leading flexible staffing platform.
Staff Heroes
| Founders | Mark Elwig, Zeki Mirza |
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Staff Heroes is an on demand & AI technology marketplace reinventing the world of work, connecting businesses and workers more efficiently.
1PS
| Founders | Tim Bailey |
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1PS provide funding and back office services to recruitment agencies.
MWS Technology
| Founders | Richard Alberg |
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MWS offer Aptem, our award winning, end-to-end, cost saving delivery platform for vocational training and employability
inploi
| Founders | Alexander Hanson-Smith, Chris Mackie, Matthew de la Hey |
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inploi is the future of talent engagement and job discovery.
HireHand
| Founders | Scott Erwin |
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HireHand is an intelligent and fuss-free staffing platform for food businesses.
Stride
| Founders | Aidan Cramer, Matt Sinderberry |
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Deep jobs marketplace connecting sales talent with jobs at tech companies.
BuzzHire
| Founders | Antoine Auberger, Nick Miller |
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A platform for employers to efficiently manage their flexible workforce.
ThriveMap
| Founders | Christopher Platts |
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Personalised pre-employment assessments for volume hiring
Rethink Group
| Founders | Unknown |
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Delivers recruitment and talent management services internationally to transform businesses into higher performing organisations
TEXpert AI
| Founders | Drishdey Caullychurn & Paras Daryanani |
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TEXpert AI uses artificial intelligence to provide hiring solutions in achieving workforce diversity.
TheJobPost
| Founders | John Caffery |
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TheJobPost connects employers with recruitment consultancies.
CIP Recruitment
| Founders | Unknown |
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CIP Recruitment provides bespoke recruitment solutions to a variety of clients across different fields.
Hunted
| Founders | Guy Tam, James Silverman |
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The biggest hurdle to growth for recruitment companies is finding and hiring recruitment talent.
Acacium Group
| Founders | Richard MacMillan |
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Acacium Group is a provider of health, life sciences, and social care staffing services to the health sector.
Labour XChange
| Founders | Jonathan Key, Paul Spillman |
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Labour xchange is a recruitment platform that matches workers and employers (mostly SMEs) on an hour by hour basis.
Highflyers
| Founders | Michele Cuccovillo |
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Recruitment platform where top financial services companies can find the best experienced professionals in the market
Careerjet
| Founders | Jean-Benoit Andrieu, Thomas Busch |
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Careerjet is a semantic analysis technology-based vertical search engine connecting various job vacancy listings globally.
Prism Digital
| Founders | Alex Dover, Nicholas Pedersen, Shashi Fernando |
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Prism Digital are a DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure focused Talent Partner.
Frameshift
| Founders | Unknown |
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Frameshift is a technology platform matching professionals with temporary work assignments.
Availo
| Founders | Nick Clement, Robert Bye |
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Meet then hire local freelancers
Cyra
| Founders | Seyed Saeid Masoumzadeh, Sheenu Chawla |
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Cyra aiming to make the hiring process cost effective for the employers of small to medium businesses, by providing AI recruiting assistant.
Aspire
| Founders | Paul Farrer |
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Aspire specialise in recruiting for the digital, media and marketing communications industry.
The SR Group
| Founders | Mark Brewer |
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The SR Group consists of specialist recruitment consultancies.
Tenth Revolution Group
| Founders | Unknown |
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Tenth Revolution Group is the global leader in cloud talent solutions, uniquely equipped to deliver digital transformation through people.
Red Commerce
| Founders | Richard Vercesi |
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Red Commerce is a global SAP recruitment firm, Red Commerce provides tailored resourcing and advisory services for businesses.
Salt Search
| Founders | Jacqui Barratt |
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Salt Search is a digital recruitment agency,connecting people and businesses within Creative,Marketing,Sales,and Technology.
Intelletec
| Founders | Jason Rumney |
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Intelletec is a growing technology businesses at the forefront of innovation to build their teams globally.
nGAGE Specialist Recruitment
| Founders | Unknown |
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nGAGE is extremely diligent about allowing recruitment businesses to join our fold.
Gradvert
| Founders | Michaela Reaney |
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UK’s leading graduate recruitment and training companies
Meet
| Founders | Hannah Donaldson, Paul McGuire |
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Meet is a recruitment solutions provider in the life sciences industry.
Broadbean
| Founders | Dan McGuire |
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Broadbean Broadbean develops software for the recruitment and staffing industry, aimed at cutting costs & time.
Spencer Ogden
| Founders | Sir Peter Ogden |
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Spencer Ogden is the global award-winning energy, engineering and infrastructure recruiter of choice.
Index.dev
| Founders | Sergiu Matei |
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At Index we help growing companies assemble world-class teams of software developers. We make it easy to scale your tech team – on demand.
Gradfuel
| Founders | Unknown |
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Gradfuel is an online platform that personalizes job assistants for graduates to find jobs.
Totaljobs Group
| Founders | Jon Wilson |
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Totaljobs Group, we currently run six job sites, each dealing with a totally different audience.
Lawrence Harvey
| Founders | Tom Glanfield |
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Lawrence Harvey is a recruitment company that offers recruitment service with a difference.
Stott and May
| Founders | Unknown |
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Stott and May provides intelligent executive recruitment for organisations across the UK, Europe and North America.
ZipShift
| Founders | Abhinav Swaminathan |
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Power Your Community. Find flexible shifts at thousands of local businesses.
SThree PLC
| Founders | Bill Bottriell, Simon Arber |
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SThree is a company and has three key elements are market specialisation, organic growth and homegrown management.
Deanslist
| Founders | Unknown |
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Deanslist is a social recruitment network for students and graduates in computing, IT, web, and engineering sciences.
Movemeon
| Founders | Nick Patterson, Richard Rosser |
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Movemeon is the global network of top-tier consulting trained professionals solving strategy, transformation & management challenges.
Spring Technology
| Founders | Dan Spring |
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Spring Technology is a staffing and recruiting firm specializing in IT and Telecommunications recruitment.
XML International
| Founders | Unknown |
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XML International (est. 2004) is a global staffing group, with our global HQ in London.
The Barton Partnership
| Founders | Nicholas Barton |
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The Barton Partnership is a niche Executive Recruitment firm providing permanent and interim solutions in strategy, transformation, and M&A.
HireXtra
| Founders | Anuhya Vuppala, Kumar Vuppala |
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AI Driven Crowd Staffing Platform for Employers & Hiring Agencies
Drake International
| Founders | Unknown |
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Drake International is a global recruitment company that offers online job search and staffing solutions.
Index
| Founders | Sergiu Matei |
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Index helps companies and organizations hire remote software developers and teams.
LMRE
| Founders | Bradley Bartlett, Louisa Dickins, Richard Lloyd |
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LMRE is placing talent into the proptech sector within UK and international real estate.
Etz Timesheet Solutions
| Founders | Unknown |
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Etz Timesheets are provided through a Software as a Service (SaaS) model in the cloud and has been tailor-built for the recruitment sector.
Outt.com
| Founders | Ben Oakley, Mark Rigby, Natalie Karr, Steve OBrien |
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OUTT.com is the UK’s job marketplace for care, connecting candidates and employers for shifts and vacancies, removing staffing agencies.
Premier Group
| Founders | Unknown |
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Premier Group is a global privately owned recruitment agency, offers high quality recruitment services.
Real Staffing
| Founders | Unknown |
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Real Staffing operates a bio technology based recruiting firm that places individuals in the pharmaceutical and medical device fields.
ElevateDirect.com
| Founders | Dan Collier, Mick Delaney |
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Productivity enhancement tool for recruitment across all workforce categories
Venatrix
| Founders | Elaine Tyler |
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Venatrix is a graduate recruitment solutions provider run by graduates for graduates.
PMP Recruitment
| Founders | Unknown |
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PMP Recruitment provides recruitment and facilities management services for multi-sector.
Hamlyn Williams
| Founders | Unknown |
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Hamlyn Williams is a global recruitment consultancy that offers staffing and recruitment services within regulated industries.
FiveTen Group
| Founders | Unknown |
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FiveTen Group is one of the world’s fastest growing professional and specialist recruitment consultancies.
PSD Group
| Founders | Unknown |
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PSD Group is a Specialists in international board, management and executive recruitment across a range of sectors and functions.
Few&Far
| Founders | Nick Charalambous, Samm Green |
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Few&Far helps companies stand out, build teams, and set the foundation for growth.
Findmework
| Founders | Bohus Pollak |
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Findmework Limited is startup company in area of activities of employment placement agencies and publishing activities
TechStream Group
| Founders | Unknown |
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TechStream Group is a talent solution provider that consists of four portfolio brands each focusing on unique technology streams.
Cititec
| Founders | Unknown |
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Cititec is a customer-driven technology recruitment firm.
Washington Frank International
| Founders | Unknown |
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Washington Frank International provides permanent and freelance ERP recruitment solutions.
DSJ Global
| Founders | Unknown |
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DSJ Global is a staffing agency that offers recruitment solutions to supply chain, procurement, technical operations and logistics sectors.
Huntress Search
| Founders | Unknown |
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white collar recruitment company
Ezekia
| Founders | Unknown |
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Ezekia offers CRM and assignment management systems for executive search firms to manage their end-to-end processes with ease.
Six Models London
| Founders | Unknown |
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Six Models London – Elite modelling platform based in centra London with links to over 120 modelling agencies
Vivid Resourcing
| Founders | Unknown |
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Vivid Resourcing is a consultancy that provides recruitment, staffing, job search and employment services for various sectors.
Elite Group Recruitment
| Founders | Laurent Halimi |
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Elite Group Recruitment is a technology focussed multi-disciplined search and selection firm.
Progressive Recruitment
| Founders | Unknown |
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Progressive Recruitment is a global leading, a specialist recruitment company, dedicated to providing fully compliant staffing solutions.
X4 Group
| Founders | Unknown |
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X4 Group is a recruitment company that offers contract and permanent hiring solutions.
NP Group
| Founders | Unknown |
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NP Group provides recruiting services to helps candidates & companies that offer recruitment process outsourcing & advisory services.
Trust In Soda
| Founders | Unknown |
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Trust In Soda offers recruitment and staffing services for data, design, product management, DevOps and software engineering sectors.
CyberStream
| Founders | Unknown |
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CyberStream is an information and cybersecurity talent acquisition solution provider.
Iglu
| Founders | Ozzi Jarvinen |
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Recruitment and relocation agency for the IT industry.
Talentpoint
| Founders | Unknown |
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Talentpoint is a company providing human resources and recruitment services.
I Pharm Consulting
| Founders | Unknown |
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I-Pharm Consulting is a recruitment company.
CEO Worldwide
| Founders | Patrick Mataix |
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CEO Worldwide is a Executive & Interim Management recruitment firm.
Gravitas Recruitment Group
| Founders | Unknown |
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Gravitas Recruitment Group specializes in recruitment services for a wide range of industries.
CCL Global
| Founders | Unknown |
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CCL Global provides workforce solutions.
Guidant Global
| Founders | Unknown |
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Guidant Global provides talent acquisition and managed workforce solution services.
La Fosse Associates
| Founders | Simon La Fosse |
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La Fosse Associates focus all our efforts on providing an outstanding service to our clients and candidates
BSM Group
| Founders | Tom Smith |
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BSM Group provides recruitment services.
Handle Recruitment
| Founders | Unknown |
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Handle Recruitment connects the clients with exceptional people that will power their brand, & they connect brilliant candidates with roles.
TalentintheCloud
| Founders | Darren Franks |
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TalentintheCloud is a specialist recruitment agency to the fintech and payments sector.
