Introducing Tech Nation’s 10 Rising Stars

Tech Nation recently announced the 10 winners of Rising Stars 2.0, the UK’s national startup competition, designed to showcase and raise the profile of the best early-stage tech companies from across the country.

The concept? Entrants are supported throughout the application process and given training and advice at each stage of the competition to enable startups to compete to their best ability.

The competition took place in London where 20 companies were selected by Tech Nation’s judging panel to pitch to a high profile panel and audience and try to be one of the 10 Rising Stars.

“The Rising Stars announced today are great examples of the strength of the UK tech ecosystem,” – Mike Jackson, entrepreneur success director of Tech Nation

The winning tech startups were…

We Build Bots from Cardiff, delivers AI-powered automation to the public sector, helping organisations deliver better, faster and cheaper citizen services. Leveraging bots, voice and conversational analytics, they help the public sector make better use of the data they collect, making it more predictive and more productive.

With a team in Southampton working in the retail and fashion space, Sparkbox uses machine learning to reduce stock, improve profitability, and prevent over-discounting by optimising prices. Their AI helps retail teams leverage their data, understand the impact of pricing decisions and make the most of the current inventory.

Truro based Codices Interactive provides viewers with a live interactive video platform, enabling any broadcaster to create interactive shows.

Glasgow’s Talking Medicines captures the digital voice of the patient, aggregating it into patterns of behaviours and commercialising it to brand managers in pharmaceutical companies through subscription access. They put patient-centricity at the core of what they do, aiming to improve the outcome of medicines.

Manchester-based Tootoot is a multi-award-winning software that supports the psychological safety and wellbeing of individuals within education, sport and the workplace. Tootoot provides a way for individuals to raise concerns to their organisation with complete confidentiality.

Hailing from Edinburgh and tackling personal loneliness and communication, the Neatebox “Welcome” platform removes barriers and promotes empathetic relationships between consumers and customer service teams, promoting real societal change and heralding a new age of understanding and communication.

London based CoGrammar integrates quality and affordable review of developers and aspiring coders, scaling the human review of code with African tech talent.

Birmingham’s Shopper.com is a community-driven global marketplace for online and offline voucher codes across thousands of e-commerce sites. It automatically applies the best value voucher code at checkout in one click for both mobile and desktop devices.

London based ClearGlass provides a digital platform for asset owners to collect costs and charges information using CTI Templates.

Foundries.io from Cambridge is addressing security and device management for IoT and Edge devices. FoundriesFactory is a self-service cloud solution that provides turnkey services to develop, secure, deploy and maintain embedded IoT and Edge compute products. They enable secure IoT devices and provide lifetime software maintenance at a fraction of current costs.