Tech Nation has today unveiled the latest cohort of high-growth scaleups joining its Future Fifty programme, the UK’s most prominent initiative for high-impact tech ventures.
The 25 successful companies represent the UK’s most dynamic tech businesses, spanning sectors including AI, FinTech and health. Among this year’s cohort are digital wellbeing platform Healf, AI training platform Prolific and finance app LemFi.
The 25 startups have raised a combined £1.47 billion, and employ nearly 4,000 people across the UK and internationally. Nearly a quarter of the cohort is headquartered outside London – from Oxford AgriTech pioneers to Glasgow deeptech, Scottish biotech to South West defence AI – reflecting the depth of scaleup talent across every region of the UK.
Future Fifty has built the UK’s most powerful community of late-stage tech ventures, with nearly a third of the nation’s unicorns – including decacorns Revolut and Wise – amongst its alumni. Since its inception, Future Fifty has fast-tracked the growth of more than 300 ambitious companies, including 50+ unicorns, connecting best-in-class founders with expertise, insights and international connections. High-profile international missions to Singapore, New York, and Dubai have opened doors to leading investors, CEOs, and government leaders.
Carolyn Dawson OBE (pictured), CEO of Founders Forum Group, said: “Every year, more exciting companies build in the UK and Future Fifty is here to champion them and support their growth. These 25 founders are building in some of the most important sectors out there.
“We built this programme to back them with the connections, insights and global exposure they need to scale on their own terms – while making sure the UK keeps producing companies that compete on the world stage.”
Emily Turner, CEO of HSBC Innovation Banking, said: “The Future Fifty programme remains a powerful platform for the UK’s standout scaleups, and this cohort reflects the pace and maturity we’re seeing across the innovation ecosystem. In AI, deep tech and life sciences, we’re seeing businesses turn world-class research into real companies that can scale globally.
“The founders of these companies are attracting meaningful investment and creating skilled jobs that anchor value in the UK for the long term. HSBC Innovation Banking is proud to support Future Fifty as a founding programme member, and we’re committed to helping high-growth teams access the capital and expertise they need to build from the UK.”
Future Fifty 2026
Accurx – On a mission to solve healthcare productivity, helping every patient get gold-standard, efficient, and joined-up care.
Adarga – Building out the Sovereign AI Stack for Defence, Security and Resilience customers.
Apron – Payments platform that helps small to medium sized businesses digitize and simplify their end-to-end payments processes.
Artificial Labs – Building the foundations of modern specialty (re)insurance.
AviadoBio – Developing and translating groundbreaking science and precision delivery into life-changing medicines across neurodegenerative diseases.
Brainomix – Creation of AI-powered imaging biomarkers to enable precision medicine for better treatment decisions.
Chemify Ltd – Digitising chemistry and chemical discovery – code to molecules and molecules to code.
Doccla – Delivering Virtual Care at scale, trusted by the NHS and live across Europe.
Encord – Data layer for physical AI.
Evident Insights – Providing leaders in financial services with data, research and benchmarking to accelerate their AI transformation.
FintechOS – AI Platform for Financial Product Operations.
Griffin – UK bank that provides the regulated banking infrastructure for companies to build and embed financial products quickly and safely.
Healf – Personalised wellbeing platform that expertly curates the best products, rituals, and insights so that people can live well.
LemFi – Financial super-app for the global diaspora, combining remittances, credit, and savings into a single platform built for the 300M+ people living and working across borders.
Mimica Automation Ltd – Captures how work gets done inside an organisation, surfaces the highest value automation opportunities, and turns them into working agents.
Moa Technology – Discovering novel crop protection solutions to help farmers globally beat rising weed resistance.
Modo Energy – Designed for teams building, financing, and operating the energy transition – powered by bankable revenue forecasts, regulated benchmarks, and expert insights.
Origin – Enterprise Benefits Intelligence Platform That Turns Complexity Into Strategy.
Oxford Data Plan – Tracks revenue and other KPIs for more than 250 of the world’s largest listed companies, every day, giving investors a live view of company performance months before earnings are reported.
Prolific Academic Ltd. – Human data infrastructure platform powering AI development – connecting frontier labs and researchers with a verified, ethically-compensated participant network to generate the high-quality training, evaluation, and safety data that AI models require.
Recraft – Premium image generation and editing tool with a revolutionary AI model that thinks in design language.
Semble – Healthcare management platform that connects and orchestrates every stage of the patient journey, helping outpatient providers of all sizes deliver faster, safer and more patient-centred care.
Sona – AI-native platform that replaces legacy workforce management tools for frontline industries.
tem – Energy transaction infrastructure that replaces the web of intermediaries in the wholesale market, so businesses pay less for their energy and generators earn more.
Trogenix – Clinical-stage biotech developing precision cancer therapies that identify diseased cell states and behaviours, expose tumours to the immune system, and kill cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue.