This article showcases our top picks for the best English Publishing companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Publishing 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 Publishing Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Wonderbly
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Wonderbly is a full stack publishing company from London.
Minute Media
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Minute Media is a media and technology brand focused on two main pillars—platform and content.
Permutive
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Rebuilding data in advertising to protect privacy
Perlego
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Perlego is an unlimited eBook subscription service for academic and professional content.
Zephr
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Zephr is a technology platform for media companies to grow their subscription revenue.
Yieldify
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Yieldify creates smart and simple marketing technology products that predict customer behaviour.
Echobox
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Echobox is the leading AI-driven social media platform for publishers.
BibliU
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BibliU is an educational content platform that provide eTextbooks that work for academic libraries.
DeepCrawl
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DeepCrawl is a web crawler that helps in maintaining positive technical site health.
Hipgnosis Songs Fund
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Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited offers investors a pure-play exposure to songs and associated musical intellectual property rights
Grabyo
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Grabyo is the premium video editing and publishing platform built for live, social and mobile.
Zapnito
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Zapnito is the expert online community platform. We connect brands with their communities.
Deep Zen
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AI company focusing on audiobook production and voiceovers with an audiobook marketplace (audiowhale.com)
Proactive
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Proactive is an international news and media organization providing coverage of companies in the small to mid-capitalization range.
Financial Times
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The Financial Times is a business news organization providing essential news, comments, data and analysis for the global business community.
Reedsy
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Reedsy connects authors and publishers with the world’s best editors, designers, and marketers to create high-quality books.
Dianomi
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Dianomi is a global leader in content marketing.
Unbound
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Unbound is an online crowd-funded publisher that allows authors to pitch their book ideas directly to readers.
GiveMeSport
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GiveMeSport is a print-based sports publication which celebrates athleticism in all its diverse forms.
Bonhill Group
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Bonhill Group operates as a B2B media company.
Clicksco
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Clicksco collects and analyses information, brand, products, and services data from on and offline sources.
Blue Duck Education
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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.
Tech.eu
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Tech.eu provides tech news, data, market intelligence, and insights into startup activity.
SPARKLANE
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SaaS Predictive Lead Scoring Solution – Sparklane help marketer and sales people to target “the most likely to buy” companies
Bibblio
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A digital publishing content recommendation technology to increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences.
Aggregion
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Intellectual property licensing and rights governance platform
unrd
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unrd is creating a new genre of entertainment by combining Hollywood quality plots with mobile storytelling techniques.
Informa
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Informa is a business intelligence, academic publishing, knowledge and events group.
Bazaar Daily UK
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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.
infloAi
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infloAi is a London-based software company building proprietary AI technology to make content creation simple, fast and affordable
Videoplaza
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Our mission is to empower broadcasters & video publishers to build profitable and sustainable businesses in the internet-delivered TV worl
Mogul News
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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.
Overleaf
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An academic authorship tool that allows seamless collaboration and effortless manuscript submission, all underpinned by cloud-technology.
Woto
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Woto provides a free publishing tool. to create and share contents.
Great British Chefs
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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.
Courier
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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.
1854 Media
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1854 Media is an award-winning digital media organisation
ckbk
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ckbk is the ultimate digital subscription service for cooks.
Movellas
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Movellas is a social and interactive community for teenagers to read, write, and share their stories.
Devolver Digital
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Devolver Digital is a video game company that publishes online and offline games for the distinguished gamer and their refined taste.
Welbeck Publishing Group
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Welbeck Publishing Group focus on illustrated non-fiction and children’s books for the co-edition market.
Argus Media group
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Argus Media group is a global energy and commodity price reporting agency.
Icon
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Icon is an international architecture and design magazine.
Booxscale
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Booxscale is the creator of next generation transaction platform of aggregated on-demand businesses to surface within publisher websites.
The Tab
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The Tab is a university news network run by people who like being first.
SCORRERS
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Scorrers is a global giveaway and webshop platform founded by FC Barcelona player Ivan Rakitic.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is an independent non-profit organization that pursues in-depth journalism into organizations.
Gaijin Entertainment
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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
Level Up Media
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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.
The Memo
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Online publication covering technology, innovation and the changing face of business.
READBUG
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READBUG is a curated reading experience that brings you independent, classic, cult and award-winning magazines for a monthly membership.
Infinite Mixed Reality
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Infinite Mixed Reality is a full-service virtual reality and augmented reality agency.
Digital Extremes
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Digital Extremes ranks as one of the world’s top independent development studios in the interactive entertainment industry.
Appticles
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Creating, distributing and monetizing mobile HTML5 applications.
Flooved
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Flooved is a provider of interactive social e-textbooks with personalized content for students and professors.
Euromoney Institutional Investor
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Euromoney Institutional Investor is a leading international business to business media group.
Warc
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Warc helps companies grow their businesses by offering advertising best practices, evidences, and insights from popular brands.
Haymarket
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Haymarket is a media and information company that creates award-winning specialist content for international audiences.
tibit
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pocket change for the internet — tips and tiny payments spent without a second thought.
Springer Nature
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Springer Nature is a leading global research, educational and professional publisher, home to an array of respected and trusted brands
RollUp Media
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RollUp Media is a content creation platform that connects independent publishers, advertisers and writers.
How.to
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How.to is an early-stage discovery platform and managed Marketplace
Eagle-i Music
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Eagle-i Music is an independent music publishing company with a global centralized database hub.
Erly Stage Studios
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An Education Venture Studio and digital publishing business, our mission is to make learning fun through engaging content and technology.
Time Out Group plc
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Time Out is a leading global media and entertainment business
Tilda Publishing
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Tilda Publishing builds beautiful websites and tell stories without any code.
Scoop Magazine
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Scoop Magazine offers a bi-monthly printed magazine for designed to inspire and nurture a love of reading and stories.
Macmillan
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Macmillan Publishers Ltd is one of the largest and best known international publishing groups in the world.
News UK
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News UK is a great company full of talented, dedicated and creative people.
The Kernel
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The Kernel is an online magazine that offers comments, reviews, and analysis about the European technology industry.
Dennis Publishing
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Dennis Publishing is one of the leading independently owned media companies in the UK.
Silicon
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Silicon UK, is the authoritative UK source for news, features and reviews of business technology.
Lexology
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Lexology is a web-based service that provides company law departments and law firms with the practical intelligence.
HIT Entertainment
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HIT Entertainment is one of the world’s leading pre-school entertainment companies.
Kauris Ltd
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Kauris Ltd. develops LAMOOVA promoting clubbing trough App, Animation Film and Series, Comics and Website, AR / VR.
Admixer Technologies
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Ad-tech company that develops and maintains SaaS products in the field of digital advertising management.
Jellybooks
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Jellybooks helps authors and publishers develop traction by identifying and reaching out to the most influential readers.
DataPress
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DataPress is a privately held company that is an engine for publishing data.
Resident Advisor
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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.
Days Of The Year
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Expert curators of the world’s weird, funny and wonderful holidays.
MedArkive
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MedArkive is a SaaS pharma educational Content.
HELLO
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HELLO! is the world’s leading royal and celebrity news brand.
The Independent
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The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published by Independent Print Limited.
EMAP Publishing (UK)
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EMAP is a business-to-business multiplatform media group, whose brands inform, inspire and connect within the sectors they operate in.
Law Business Research
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Law Business Research is a leading provider of business information, legal analysis tools and networking for the global legal markets.
Blue Crow Media
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Blue Crow Media is an independent publisher.
The Economist Group
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The Economist Group is the leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs.
DMG Media
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DMG media is a consumer media company engaged in print and online newspaper publishing.
LICKD
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Pre-cleared commercial music licensing for YouTube and Online Video Creators.
Immediate Media Co.
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Immediate Media Co. is a special interest content and platform company.
MIRROR.CO.UK
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MIRROR.CO.UK is the online edition of The Daily Mirror, which is one of Britain’s tabloid newspapers.
Hindawi
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Hindawi is a commercial publisher of peer-reviewed and fully OpenAccess research journals and papers.
Kolabtree
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Find & hire experts, top postdocs & PhDs, as research collaborators for your academic or business projects.Speed up your research work!
Alberto Statti Blogger
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Alberto Statti is a blogger and content creator, you may have seen his works online.
The Ozone Project
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The Ozone Project is a transparent and brand-safe platform offering advertisers direct access to an audience for programmatic advertising.
Mobango
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MOBANGO is a mobile community enabling mobile users to publish, convert and share user generated content with others.