Mark Anderson
This article showcases our top picks for the best English Marketplace companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Marketplace 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
Top English Marketplace Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Monzo
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Monzo is a digital-only bank platform and marketplace that allows customers to access a range of products and services.
Celsius Network
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Celsius Network is a blockchain-based lending platform that is accessible through a free mobile app.
Depop
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Depop provides a mobile application that allows users to buy, sell, discover, and explore various things.
Bitstamp
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Bitstamp allows companies and individuals from all around the world to buy and sell bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, ripple, and bitcoin cash.
Fy
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Fy is a home, living, and lifestyle retail marketplace designed for millennial consumers.
Fresha
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Fresha provides an online platform for booking beauty and wellness appointments with local businesses.
Pollen
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Pollen builds, curates, and delivers the best travel experiences.
LMAX Group
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LMAX Group: Delivering a transparent, neutral, global marketplace for all participants
Treatwell
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Treatwell is Europe’s leading marketplace for booking hair and beauty appointments online.
Carwow
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Carwow helps efficiently connect car buyers to car dealers and makes buying a car easy and enjoyable.
Storm2
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Storm2 operates as a recruitment marketplace for fintech.
Motorway
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Motorway is the next-generation used car marketplace.
Sproutl
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Sproutl is a marketplace for gardeners living in the U.K.
Funding Options
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Funding Options is a business to business services marketplace platform operating in the UK and the Netherlands.
Fat Llama
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Fat Llama is a peer-to-peer rental marketplace which allows people to rent spare items to others nearby, fully insured.
Trouva
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Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
Airporttransfer
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AirportTransfer is a global marketplace for leading companies with advance standards in airport transportation.
Splyt
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Splyt is a B2B mobility marketplace that connects institutional supply and demand for ground-based transport.
Heroes
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Heroes is a technology-driven e-commerce company that acquires, operates, and scales small and medium-sized brands.
Student.com
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Student.com is a marketplace for international student housing, helping students find their home abroad.
Legal Nodes
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The all-in-one legal platform for global companies and freedom-seeking lawyers
LendInvest
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LendInvest is the leading marketplace platform for property finance.
The Plum Guide
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The Plum Guide is building a marketplace of the world’s best holiday homes.
Appear Here
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Appear Here is an online marketplace for retail space.
Origin
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Origin is the primary marketplace for fixed income borrowers and dealers.
LoveCrafts
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LoveCrafts is a start-up that builds social marketplaces for the crafts sector.
OneDome
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OneDome is the World’s First HomeBuying Platform
Fabriik
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We’re weaving together a digital asset marketplace to transform, hold, trade and grow every asset you own.
Karhoo
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Karhoo is a B2B marketplace connecting brands and taxi/PVH fleets around the world to deliver e-hailing straight from any website and app
Knoma
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Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Fund Ourselves
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Affordable short-term credit marketplace for hard working families
REPX
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Committed to building a global Reputation Marketplace through the marketing and sale of innovative retail and financial products
Victor
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Victor is a London, UK-based private jet charter marketplace.
Florence
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Florence is an online marketplace that connects vacant care home shifts to local nurses and carers looking for extra work
BUMP
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BUMP is a social peer-to-peer marketplace for authentic streetwear and sneakers.
Floom
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Floom is a tech-enabled marketplace for florists to sell their creations direct to customers.
Tempo
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Tempo is a recruitment platform that connects business support professionals with the best employers.
PeoplePerHour
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PeoplePerHour is a marketplace connecting small businesses and freelancers.
Beautystack
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A visual network marketplace for next generation Beauty Professionals
Feast It
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Feast It is an online marketplace that allows its customers to book independent caterers for their work or social events.
Thrift+
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An online marketplace for buying and selling second hand clothing, shoes, and accessories.
Hassle.com
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Hassle.com is an online marketplace that matches busy people with local, trusted cleaners.
Luxury Promise
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Luxury Promise is the marketplace for the world’s most exclusive & luxurious accessories powered by Artificial Intelligence
Axora
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B2B digital solutions marketplace and community for industrial innovators.
Stashbee
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Stashbee helps people looking for extra space by connecting them with trusted local people who have it to spare.
BABB
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BABB is a world bank for the micro-economy: a global marketplace for human innovation, financial autonomy and wealth creation.
Lykke
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Lykke is building a global marketplace for all asset classes and financial instruments.
PitchMe
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PitchMe is a skills-based talent marketplace introducing multilayered profiling of skills and innovative matching algorithms.
Rated People
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Rated People is an online recommendation service that connects homeowners with local, recommended tradespeople.
HeadBox
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HeadBox is an online marketplace for inspiring meeting, offsite and event spaces.
Lexoo
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Lexoo is a lawyer comparison marketplace that helps businesses choose a lawyer with confidence.
HouseTrip
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HouseTrip is an online marketplace enabling individuals and holiday rental management companies to rent out their properties to guests.
AkinovA
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AkinovA: an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of (re)insurance risks.
GeoDB
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GeoDB is building the first decentralized location data digital marketplace.
City Pantry
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City Pantry is an online marketplace where users can discover interesting food for next event.
Reedsy
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Reedsy connects authors and publishers with the world’s best editors, designers, and marketers to create high-quality books.
VenueScanner
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VenueScanner is a self-serve marketplace platform for event organisers to discover and book venues online.
homie.rent
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Homie is a tech startup that helps Londoners find great homes to rent.
Paperclip
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Changing the way people think about the things that they own.
DogBuddy
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DogBuddy is a peer-to-peer marketplace helping dog owners find trusted and local dog sitters.
London Stock Exchange
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London Stock Exchange is an online marketplace that enables stock brokers and traders to buy and sell stocks, bonds, and other securities.
Hire Space
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The UK’s leading venue marketplace. Memorable venues, all in one place.
FrontM
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FrontM provides a private-labeled application marketplace for airlines, cruises, shipping, and remote enterprises.
ClickMechanic
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ClickMechanic is an online marketplace for users to find mechanics. ClickMechanic has developed software that provides instant industry quoting functionality (an industry first!) which then matches customers with trusted and vetted mechanics through this matching algorithm. The London-based business now has over half of a million registered users and surpassed £8.5 million in booking revenue in 2020.
Nuji
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Nuji is a marketplace to discover the Internet’s best fashion and lifestyle products.
vendi
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vendi is an AI-assisted marketplace to buy and sell verified products.
Picfair
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Picfair is an open-to-all image licensing marketplace.
Everpress
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A global marketplace enabling creators to monetise their brand. No risk. No waste.
Envestors
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Envestors digital platform connects entrepreneurs and investors
Stowga
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Stowga is the on-demand marketplace for buying and selling warehousing and logistics services.
Skrap
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Skrap is an on-demand mobile marketplace for skip hire and other waste collection services.
Perfect Moment
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Perfect Moment is an online fashion marketplace that offers ski, surf, and activewear collections.
Snaptrip
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Snaptrip is a marketplace for people to discover the best last minute cottage holiday deals in the UK.
Crossflow – The Working Capital Marketplace
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We connect global businesses and their suppliers to funders for fast, flexible working capital finance powered by technology.
Encore Technologies
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Encore is an online network of musicians that enables them to access many performance opportunities in the music community around them.
Globechain
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Globechain is a B2B reuse marketplace connecting businesses to charities, creating social impact data.
NOT JUST A LABEL
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NOT JUST A LABEL (NJAL) IS THE WORLD’S LEADING DESIGNER PLATFORM FOR SHOWCASING AND NURTURING TODAY’S PIONEERS IN CONTEMPORARY FASHION
minicabit
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Smart marketplace to connect customers & business with all types of cab service providers of today and those in the mobility future
BUA FIT
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A web platform to connect fitness professionals and consumers for outdoor and online classes in a social way.
The Exchange Lab
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The Exchange Lab, a digital media marketplace, delivers campaigns evaluating the audience interactions to help its clients find prospects.
Seatwave
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Seatwave is an online marketplace that allows users to sell and buy tickets for live events in the UK.
Findr
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Findr is the marketplace for business partnerships.
hometouch
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hometouch is a home-care marketplace connecting families looking for home care to professional carers.
Vesta Property
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Vesta (www.vestaproperty.com) is a data-driven marketplace for buying and selling residential investment property.
Festicket
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Festicket is a marketplace to discover and book music festival tickets, accommodation, transfers and extras.
Tutor House
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High Growth B2C Marketplace for tutoring. Based in London, but operates thought he UK and abroad.
Equipment Connect
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Equipment Connect is the online marketplace for sourcing, financing and managing equipment.
Stride
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Deep jobs marketplace connecting sales talent with jobs at tech companies.
The RightsXchange
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Global B2B marketplace and enterprise solution for TV & Movie rights licensing
Maison Sport
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Maison Sport is a marketplace connecting ski instructors with people learning to ski
Truly Experiences
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Truly is a London-based gift marketplace.
Stan.Me
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StanMe is a marketplace that enables collaboration and co-selling of independent creators.
incrediblue
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incrediblue is a U.K.-based online marketplace for boat rentals that helps travelers plan their rides in advance.
