Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best English Business Development companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Business Development industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top English Business Development Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Augmentum Fintech
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Augmentum Fintech is a FinTech fund that invests in early and later-stage FinTech companies.
Ebury
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Ebury is a financial services company designed to empower small and medium-sized businesses that want to trade internationally.
PwC
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PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Bizagi
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Bizagi is a global leader in digital process automation software.
Charlie
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Charlie is the HR software for small teams with big ideas.
Early Metrics
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Early Metrics is the first startup rating agency.
DeepMind
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DeepMind is the world leader in artificial intelligence for positive impact.
HKA
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HKA is a privately owned, independent provider of consulting business for the construction, manufacturing, and technology industries.
Virgin Group
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Virgin Group is an investment company focused on leisure, travel, tourism, mobile, broadband, TV, radio, music, finance, and health sectors.
Opportunity Network
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Opportunity Network (ON) is the community for select CEOs and private investors to grow their businesses worldwide.
Lexoo
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Lexoo is a lawyer comparison marketplace that helps businesses choose a lawyer with confidence.
Asoko Insight
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Africa’s leading corporate information platform, providing market mapping solutions to investment firms, banks, corporates and governments.
Workspace Group
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Workspace are dedicated to giving our customers the perfect working environments to help them grow their business.
Novicap
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NoviCap is an online platform that allows businesses to receive early payments for outstanding invoices.
pepperhq
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The Pepper platform supports white label apps for mobile payment, discovery, digital loyalty, social media marketing, and actionable data.
Rothesay Pensions Management
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Rothesay Pensions Management Ltd is headquartered in England. The company’s line of business includes providing various business services.
Nordstar
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Nordstar partners with transformational companies seeking strategic and operational expertise, advice, and capital
Idea Drop
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Idea Drop helps organisations capture, curate and action the best ideas from their people.
HireHand
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HireHand is an intelligent and fuss-free staffing platform for food businesses.
The Clubhouse
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The Clubhouse is London’s leading business club, lounge and meeting space.
Capium Ltd
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Empowering businesses and accountants, through one platform
Eden Block
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Eden Block is a private, independent, research-centric investment vehicle dedicated to enriching the environments that make up Web 3.0.
Telectic
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Telectic applies artificial intelligence (AI) to interpret the Web and discover insights about the professional world.
Systemsync Solutions
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Systemsync Solutionss provides iPaaS-based platforms that enable businesses to utilize workplace data exchange.
BSI
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BSI Group, also known in its home market as the British Standards Institution, is a multinational business services
onkho
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onkho helps accountants delight their clients and grow their business
TableCrowd
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TableCrowd is a real life business network that brings people together over food and drink.
NEXU
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NEXU connects people to businesses through word-of-mouth recommendations.
Civica
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Civica is a market-leading specialist in digital solutions, critical software applications and outsourcing services.
OrgVue
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OrgVue offers SaaS solutions, business development, workforce analytics, software and management consulting services.
Kingfisher
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Kingfisher PLC is a British multinational retailing company headquartered in London.
Bizpora
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Bizpora is a web-based platform that enables its users to meet people in their business trips.
I-Movo Limited
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I-Movo Limited enables businesses to issue vouchers to their customers, which can then be redeemed securely at over 50,000 stores.
The Crowd
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The Crowd is a platform for the business community to share ideas and innovations.
Concrete
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Concrete provides retail brands a platform to train and retain store staff.
John Laing Group
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John Laing Group develops and operates privately financed public sector infrastructure projects.
Quotable
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Quotable is a global supply network that enables businesses to trade smarter with the help of AI.
Renaissance Capital Partners
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Renaissance Capital Partners invests funds in high-growth, innovative, and entrepreneurial businesses and also built environment projects.
Angara Industries
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Angara Industries offers a breakthrough Cognitive Cleaning service to clients in Oil&Gas and other users of industrial heat exchangers.
Eave
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Eave (formerly EarTex) is a startup developing the next generation of hearing protection and communication technology.
Spidergap
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Spidergap is the employee-friendly 360 degree feedback tool.
Whitespace
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We help businesses innovate, from the small things that can make a big difference to more-involved ‘Eureka!’ projects.
ChangeLabs
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Changelabs partners with leading organizations to develop entrepreneurship and innovation programs.
System1 Group
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System1 Group PLC is a marketing and brand consultancy, with proprietary market research
Beehive Research Limited
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Beehive is a market research agency that loves working with its clients to discover, understand and transform their global organisations.
International Blockchain Consulting
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International Blockchain Consulting is an international blockchain consulting group that facilitates end to end ICO support.
Eugene M. Edwards ICS
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Certified Bank Instrument Provider SBLC / BG
Celer Technologies
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Celer is a financial software company that creates modular systems that have the flexibility to meet today’s dynamic business environment.
Zero 1
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Zero 1 is a corporate venture building company that builds startups in partnership with leading corporations.
BuyerDeck
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BuyerDeck provides a portal for sales reps to manage deals with their buyer.
Shub.one
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Shub.one is a business networking platform that allows professionals to network, promote, expand, and grow their business or careers.
Optial
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Optial is a successful global supplier of Enterprise-wide EHS, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC).
Mid Group
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The Mid Group is a dynamic construction, investment and development company based in the UK and Middle East.
Vivid Economics
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Vivid Economics provides solutions in the environment, renewables, natural resources, carbon finance, green finance and urbanization areas.
Virgin StartUp
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Virgin StartUp is on a mission to change the prospects of start-ups, for good.
Thorogood Associates
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Thorogood Associates specializes in consultancy and advice through providing business intelligence options and analytics.
Wranx
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Create a highly skilled workforce that generates more sales and makes more customers happy.
Quadmark
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Quadmark specializes in learning solution services that offer sales enablement and design consulting courses for business development.
Giroux Limited
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Giroux Limited combines world-class consultancy with data warehousing & analytics to provide the ultimate platform for insight & innovation.
Alwin Technologies
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The Global Blockchain Development Company for Various Kind of Business Applications
DAN Global
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DAN Global provides online platforms, industry knowledge and various tools to support digital agencies and global community of marketers.
Unleashed
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Unleashed works with early-stage start-ups and scale-ups to build a better and more successful business.
ECA International
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A number of leading international companies.
UpEffect
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UpEffect is a crowdfunding platform for companies dedicated to improving lives and the planet.
Arctane Group
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We’re an innovative holdings company in the digital media space.
BRCO – BrainStormers Group LTD.
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Business Development | Strategic consultation | VC
BearingPoint//Beyond
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BearingPoint//Beyond helps you reinvent your business model and grow from efficiency to innovation.
Zigaflow
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Zigaflow is a business management software that offers solutions to businesses to grow faster in the market.
BUILDILY
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Buildily is venture builder and online accelerator platform which supports early stage entrepreneurs and startups
Wellbeing Economy Alliance
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Wellbeing Economy Alliance is a global collaboration with a focus on changing the economic system.
Safecall
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Safecall provides an effective and efficient solution to help organisations in the UK.
World Forum Disrupt
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World Forum Disrupt focuses on creating a global platform that enables professionals to develop their knowledge and advance their careers.
Penna
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Penna is a global people management business with expertise spanning recruitment, people development and career transition.
Cashbook Finance
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FCA registered company offering Invoice Finance & Factoring services in the UK.
PROGRAM FRAMEWORK LIMITED
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Program Framework is a consulting firm that deals with portfolio,project & resource management & governance and business intelligence.
Kerdos Ventures
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Kerdos Ventures invest in early-stage companies with outstanding teams and ambitious founders.
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development
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Catholic Agency for Overseas Development is a nonprofit organization that helps people living in poverty across the world.
Black British Business Awards
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BBB Awards is an awards program that celebrates achievements of black people in British business.
The Samie Group LTD
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The Samie Group Ltd builds business relationships Globally. Our core business focus is Insurance, Investments, Real Estate & Banking.
Cobloom
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Cobloom is a marketing, sales, and customer solutions firm that is designed to grow business sales.
Uxbert
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Uxbert is a group of digital craftsmen with international expertise dedicated to helping your business grow located in London.
Safety Accreditation Solutions Ltd
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SSIP Safety Accreditation Advisors
Profit Partnerships Group
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Profit Partnerships Group provides business growth services for entrepreneurs.
EndorseFlow
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A creative content collaboration and proofing tool for businesses and freelancers
Real Business
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Read Business is an online platform that offers news, opinions, guides, interviews, advertising opportunities, and more.
The Supper Club
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The Supper Club is a collaborative networking group for CEOs and founders of privately held, high-growth businesses.
Few&Far
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Few&Far helps companies stand out, build teams, and set the foundation for growth.
E-Squared Systems
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E-Squared Systems is a business management software developer company.
SSAAS
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SSAAS offers services to start-up in strategic and operational involvement, sales execution and business development.
Caspia Consultancy Ltd
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Caspia Consultancy Ltd is a Business Development, Marketing Consultancy, Digital and Social Media Specialist Agency based in London, UK.
A League of Her Own
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Online community for female entrepreneurs
