Martina King and Poppy Gustafsson CBE were among the big winners at GP Bullhound’s Allstars Awards 2025.
The awards celebrate the exceptional founders, investors, and leaders who are driving Europe’s technology ecosystem forward.
For over two decades, the Allstars Awards have recognised the visionaries shaping one of the world’s most dynamic and resilient tech landscapes.
The evening also featured a keynote by Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, former Director-General of MI5 and former Chair of the Wellcome Trust, who shared reflections on leadership and resilience.
One of the big winners on the night was Martina King, former CEO of Cambridge tech giant Featurespace, who retired following its £700m acquisition by Visa last year.
She won the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, while Tony Pepper, CEO and co-founder of Egress Software Technologies was highly commended.
The winner of the Allstars Hall of Fame Award was Poppy Gustafsson, CBE, who recently stepped down as UK Investment Minister after 11 months.
She was previously co-founder and former CEO of cybersecurity giant Darktrace.
This year’s ceremony spanned 14 categories, showcasing the breadth of achievement across the ecosystem.
The 2025 winners were:
- Exit of the Year: Ventech
- Entrepreneur of the Year: Martina King, formerly Featurespace
Highly Commended: Tony Pepper, Egress - Growth & Buyout Fund of the Year: Verdane
- Investor of the Year: Ed Lascelles, AlbionVC
- VC of the Year: Ventech
- Young Entrepreneur of the Year: Kamran Ansari, Kamran Ansari,
- Allstar Company Challenge: Prolific
- Software Company of the Year: Juro
- ESG Company of the Year: xFarm
- CSS Company of the Year: Tractive
- Digital Advertising Company of the Year: Croud
- Digital Transformation Company of the Year: CloudRock
- Digital Innovation in Arts & Culture Award: Artcrush & WHATCLASS
- Allstars Hall of Fame: Poppy Gustafsson, CBE
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