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 Consulting 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 Consulting Companies & Startups (London)
FlowBank
| Founders | Charles Henri Sabet |
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FlowBank is a multi-asset trading platform that offers a wide range of online banking & investment services to brokers & corporate clients.
Spill App
| Founders | Calvin Benton, Gavin Dhesi |
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Spill is a startup that offers a message-based therapy app to help improve workplace well-being.
REG
| Founders | Michael Phair |
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REG provides an intelligence, analytics, and risk management software to the global insurance and financial services market.
Carbon Trust
| Founders | Unknown |
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Carbon Trust is to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy, by working with organisations to reduce carbon emissions now and develop.
Brunswick Group
| Founders | Andrew Fenwick, Louise Charlton, Sir Alan Parker |
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Brunswick Group LLP provides critical communications advisory services to businesses the United Kingdom and internationally.
WPP
| Founders | Jack Smith, Martin Sorrell |
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WPP creates transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, commerce, and technology.
Student.com
| Founders | JP Jones, Luke Nolan |
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Student.com is a marketplace for international student housing, helping students find their home abroad.
Minimum
| Founders | Chris Winchurch, Freddie Evans, Freddie Green |
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Minimum is a SaaS platform that lets you easily calculate, report on, and reduce the carbon footprint of your business.
Wazoku
| Founders | Simon Hill |
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An Enterprise Innovation Platform comprising: Idea Management, Open Innovation Marketplace, Innovation Consulting, Portfolio Management
SYSTEMIQ
| Founders | Jeremy Oppenheim, Martin Stuchtey |
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SYSTEMIQ supports disruptive early-stage digital/technology ventures with the potential to transform systems in the circular economy, energy
HKA
| Founders | A. L. Hancox |
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HKA is a privately owned, independent provider of consulting business for the construction, manufacturing, and technology industries.
Talmix
| Founders | Adam Riccoboni, Daniel Callaghan |
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Talmix has built a Business Talent Marketplace to allow companies to unlock the power of the extended workforce.
Util
| Founders | Abdel Wahab Turkmani, Stephen Barnett |
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Analytics to maximise environmental and social investment returns
Symphony Ventures
| Founders | David Brain, David Poole, Ian Barkin, Pascal Baker |
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Symphony is a professional services firm passionate about creating value for the world’s leading organizations.
Orbital Witness
| Founders | Edmond Boulle, Francesco Liucci, William Pearce |
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A LegalTech-meets-PropTech startup replacing legacy legal due diligence in property transactions with a legal risk rating.
TreasurySpring
| Founders | James Skillen, Kevin Cook, Matthew Longhurst |
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TreasurySpring is a financial technology firm dedicated to democratising short-term funding markets
LAB
| Founders | Unknown |
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LAB is a digital agency that offers a full suite of digital services.
Youth Business International
| Founders | Unknown |
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Youth Business International helps young people to start and grow their own business and create employment.
Ernst & Young
| Founders | Alwin C Ernst, Arthur Young, Jeffrey Stier |
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Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Earthly
| Founders | Oliver Bolton, Lorenzo Curci |
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Earthly is a platform that helps businesses remove carbon, restore nature and support the communities most impacted by climate change.
Oviva
| Founders | Kai Eberhardt, Manuel Baumann, Mark Jenkins |
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Oviva digitizes the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity through a unique behavior change platform.
Lane Clark & Peacock LLP
| Founders | Aaron Punwani |
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LCP is a firm of financial, actuarial and business consultants, specializing in the areas of pensions, investment, and insurance.
Darwinex
| Founders | Javier Colón, Juan Colón, Miguel Angel González |
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Darwinex allows independent traders around the world to quote their strategies and thus access investor capital.
Project Etopia
| Founders | Joseph Daniels |
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Project Etopia is a creating more economical and environmental developments through technological advancements.
MSQ Partners
| Founders | Peter Reid |
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MSQ Partners is a joined-up community of agencies, helping businesses build High EQ brands.
Precursive
| Founders | Andrew Mahood, James Albert Gasteen, Jonathan Corrie |
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Customer onboarding, resource management and professional services automation native on Salesforce.
CourtCorrect
| Founders | Ludwig Bull |
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CourtCorrect offers an AI-powered online legal system. We make it easy and affordable for people and companies to resolve legal disputes.
Tech Nation
| Founders | Gerard Grech |
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Tech Nation is focused on accelerating the growth of digital businesses across the UK.
First Mile
| Founders | Bruce Bratley |
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First Mile provide super simple, low cost recycling and waste services for businesses.
Founder and Lightning
| Founders | Matt Jonns |
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We partner with ambitious startup founders and equip them with the team, tools, expertise and scale to build highly successful startups.
ClearGlass
| Founders | Kunal Varma, Ritesh Singhania |
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ClearGlass is a digital intermediary between asset managers and pension funds.
more2
| Founders | Kevin McSpadden |
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We believe to be great, you have to be single-minded in your focus. Our focus is on growing retail businesses.
The Engine Group
| Founders | Peter Scott |
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A creative community that provides clients with best-in-class communications expertise under one roof.
Deloitte
| Founders | Surjadinata Sumantri, William Welch Deloitte |
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Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Ten10
| Founders | Gav Winter |
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Ten10 is a software testing consultancy provider that helps its clients manage the significant risks involved with software implementations.
Libryo
| Founders | Garth Watson, Malcolm Gray, Peter Flynn |
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Law as data, helping organisations know what their legal obligations are with a focus on ESG obligations data
The Up Group
| Founders | Clare Johnston |
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The Up Group company provides online recruitment, professional placement, and career consulting services.
Lexoo
| Founders | Chris O’Sullivan, Daniel van Binsbergen |
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Lexoo is a lawyer comparison marketplace that helps businesses choose a lawyer with confidence.
Hexa Wallet
| Founders | Unknown |
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Hexa Wallet primarily offers fintech services.
MUSO
| Founders | Andy Chatterley, Christopher Elkins |
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MUSO is a software company that provides anti-piracy solutions for enterprises.
Dartmouth Partners
| Founders | Logan Naidu |
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Dartmouth Partners is provides recruitment consultancy.
PawSquad
| Founders | Diwaker Singh, Francesco Cardoletti, Radu Georgescu |
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PawSquad is the leading provider of telehealth services for pets, offering access to the best veterinary advice anytime, anywhere, 24/7
Proxima Group
| Founders | Dan Nolan |
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Proxima Group is an advisory firm servicing large organisations.
Filament AI
| Founders | Doug Ayres, Phil Westcott |
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Filament helps clients to build proprietary AI capability within their organisation, through consultancy, solutions and tooling
makepositive
| Founders | Mark Richards |
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Makepositive is a business and technology consultancy that delivers innovation cloud engagement and platform.
DevicePilot
| Founders | Pilgrim Beart, Rob Dobson |
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DevicePilot provides Service Monitoring for connected devices
UniAcco
| Founders | Amit Singh, Sayantan Biswas |
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Trusted student accommodation prop-tech platform where students can compare, consult and choose their accommodation.
Innovify
| Founders | Maulik Sailor, Prakash Pilley, Ruchit Jani, Vikas Agarwal, Yoann Turpin |
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Innovify is a digital venture studio enabling startups and corporates to convert their ideas in to Most Lovable Products
Kantar
| Founders | Unknown |
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Kantar is the data investment management division of WPP, is a global insight, information, and consultancy network.
PTS Consulting
| Founders | Kevin Perrett |
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PTS Consulting is an IT solutions and project management company providing managed services and resourcing solutions internationally.
Panmure Gordon
| Founders | David Tabizel |
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Panmure Gordon & Co has been connecting businesses with the capital to help them grow.
IHS Markit
| Founders | Kevin Gould, Lance Uggla |
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IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
MXC Capital
| Founders | Ian Smith, Tony Weaver |
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MXC Capital is an investment and advisory group specializing in the technology, media and telecommunications sector.
Zenobe Energy
| Founders | James Basden, Nicholas Beatty, Steven Meersman |
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Zenobe Energy is the largest independent owner and operator of battery storage in the UK.
EXTREME
| Founders | Alistair Gosling |
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Brand led entertainment company with over 20 million connected fans, operating accross adventure parks, events, media and mobile network.
Open Data Institute
| Founders | Nigel Shadbolt, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Tim Berners-Lee |
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Open Data Institute is an organization thats works to lead the movement of the open data in the web.
Inhabit
| Founders | Cameron Epstein, Holly Mckay, Sam McKay, Shoniwa Marovatsanga |
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Inhabit is a web platform helping businesses achieve net zero.
National Energy Holdings
| Founders | Unknown |
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National Energy’s mission is to develop, finance and operate a minimum of 2GWp of renewable assets
Toraphene
| Founders | Gaute Juliussen |
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Toraphene is a biodegradable, compostable, and commercially-viable plastic packaging substitute and make plastic packaging obsolete.
PwC
| Founders | Jonathan Kogan, Martin Prescher, Samuel Lowell Price |
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PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
The Behavioural Insights Team
| Founders | Unknown |
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The Behavioural Insights Team is an organisation that was set up to apply nudge theory to try to improve government policy and services.
Acuity Knowledge Partners
| Founders | Joel Perlman |
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Acuity Knowledge Partners is a provider of research, analytics and business intelligence to the financial services sector.
Channel 3 Consulting
| Founders | John Howard |
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Channel 3 Consulting designs, implements and optimises digital transformation programmes for the health and care sector.
Akuraase Labs
| Founders | Shadrack Osei Frimpong |
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Akuraase Labs is a software company that connects community-level insights with entities to make informed CSR and ESG decisions.
Fabriq
| Founders | Benjamin Kott |
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Fabriq is an IoT platform for energy, resource and smart building data for smart connected spaces
CandidateX
| Founders | Jon Jacobs, Man Wong, Sunil Dial |
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Talent Platform
Tabled
| Founders | Paul Massey |
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Connected Workflows for improved collaboration across the stakeholders involved in legal and compliance.
Vala Health
| Founders | Shellane Crisostomo |
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Vala Health is a video consulting service that enables people to have health and social care appointments from home.
Legal Connection
| Founders | Guy Stern |
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Communication and collaboration platform for lawyers and their clients
Saberr
| Founders | Alistair Shepherd, Sam Mead |
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Award winning software for the new world of teamwork.
Sabio
| Founders | Seb Henkes |
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Sabio is an innovative unified communications and contact center services company.
proSapient
| Founders | Jordan Shlosberg, Margo Polishchuk |
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proSapient is a research platform that gathers networks of insights from executives and SMEs via global consultations and surveys.
Concentra
| Founders | Ben Knight, Rupert Morrison |
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Concentra is a UK-based business consulting and technology services company, serving clients across a number of economic sectors.
VISXA
| Founders | Mohamed Aboshanab |
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VISXA is a platform that connects immigrants and travelers with immigration and travel experts all around the world.
Future Thinking
| Founders | Unknown |
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Future Thinking provides its clients with insight across NPD and brand development, media and marketing communications.
Clifford Chance
| Founders | David DiBari |
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Clifford Chance is a multinational law firm that provides legal advisory services.
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.
ocxee
| Founders | Aniruddh Ramani, Meet Kotadia |
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We aim to make the student’s life hassle-free and easy. From accommodation, pickup/drop, flight bookings, Job assistance and much more.
Qualus
| Founders | Vikrant Pratap |
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Qualus helps tanneries save costs, lower their environmental footprint and improve quality in leather production.
Spacemade
| Founders | Dan Silverman, Jonny Rosenblatt |
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Spacemade builds flexible workspace solutions for the real estate industry.
The Consulting Consortium
| Founders | Joanne Smith |
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The Consulting Consortium (TCC) provide expert financial services compliance solutions to regulated financial services firms.
Delta Capita
| Founders | Joe Channer |
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Delta Capita is an International business & technology consultancy and managed services provider
TrueCircle
| Founders | Eamon Jubbawy, Rishi Stocker |
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TrueCircle is building a marketplace to support waste processing facilities in selling the verified material they reclaim.
ATFX
| Founders | Unknown |
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ATFX is an online broker regulated by the FCA(UK), CySec(CY), FSC(MU), & FSA(LLC). Their goal is to provide the absolute trading experience.
Collaborative Project Management Services (CPMS)
| Founders | Mat Baine |
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CPMS is a provider of programme management, commercial management, safety assurance.
RELAXER TECHNOLOGY
| Founders | Pingchuan Ma, xinran zhao |
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RELAXER TECHNOLOGY is an organization that lands and distribute innovate product and brands from China into the UK.
CorLife
| Founders | Adam Carey |
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CorLife is a digital-first platform that provides healthcare and clinical consultations.
AUSLANDSFINANZAMT
| Founders | Aleksei Slobodchikov |
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AUSLANDSFINANZAMT offers a full range of services for registration and annual maintenance of foreign companies for international business.
Concirrus
| Founders | Andrew Yeoman, Craig Hollingworth |
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Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
Contino
| Founders | Matt Farmer |
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Contino is a professional services consultancy providing a range of services for DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Pragmatic Agile practices.
matterlab
| Founders | David Flynn, Mark Thorley, Radu Gidei |
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Technology consulting and software development within the AEC (architecture, engineering and construction) and manufacturing sectors.
r10 Consulting
| Founders | Amechi Peirce-Howe |
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r10 Consulting is a consultancy that provides insurance services.
RoyaltyRange
| Founders | Asta Rudzikiene |
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RoyaltyRange is an intellectual property royalty rates database.
junee
| Founders | Unknown |
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junee specializes in the circular economy, b2b2c, sustainability, lunch, reusables, and office.
Big Data Partnership
| Founders | Mike Merritt-Holmes, Pinal Gandhi, Tim Seears |
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Big Data Partnership provides solutions that enable clients to extract insights from big data.
Better Capital
| Founders | Jon Moulton |
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Better Capital provides consultancy services to the general partners of the Better Capital Funds.
Blue Rubicon
| Founders | Fraser Hardie |
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Blue Rubicon is an award-winning consultancy that transforms the reputations of some of the world’s biggest organisations.
Lifelancer
| Founders | Jayesh Pandya, Priyesh Pandya |
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Lifelancer® is a Freelance & Remote Job Platform in Life Science, IT & Digital Health
Third Bridge Group
| Founders | Emmanuel Tahar, Rodolphe de Hemptinne |
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Third Bridge Group is a provider of research services to private equity and hedge funds.
Iris
| Founders | Stewart Shanley |
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Iris is an advertising agency that creates an innovation network of over 1000 people across 17 markets.
