Chief executive Matthew Scullion, 40, co-founded this business in 2011 after convincing three of his former bosses to invest. Its software collates data from multiple sources, loads it into a cloud-based data warehouse and converts the data so it can be analysed. The company has about 600 customers, including GE, Siemens and Amazon, across 40 countries, and sales hit £6.5m last year. It has raised $60m in funding to date, including $35m in June from Battery Ventures, Sapphire Ventures and Scale Venture Partners. Matillion has dual headquarters in Manchester and Denver, Colorado, as well as offices in New York and Seattle.