The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 league table ranks Britain’s 100 private tech (TMT) companies with the fastest-growing sales over their latest three years. It is compiled by Fast Track and published in The Sunday Times each September, with an awards dinner in November, and alumni dinners during the year.
The closing date for nominations for the 2020 league table is 3 July 2020, with publication on 6 September 2020.
Tech Track 100 entry criteria
The closing date for nominations for the 2020 league table is 3 July 2020, with publication on 6 September 2020.
Tech companies
- Independent tech* company
- UK registered, unquoted, and not subsidiaries
- Sales of at least £250,000 in the base year (2016 or 2017)
- Sales of at least £5m in the latest year (2019 or 2020)
- Trading weeks in the base and latest years have to exceed 25
- Excluded companies include payday lenders, computer resellers and companies that are equal joint ventures, or majority-owned by quoted or other companies. IT consultancies and IT services companies are required to generate a significant proportion of their sales from proprietary technologies.
- We reserve the right to change the qualification criteria set out above and to make exceptions. This is not a competition; the compiler’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into
- Companies that do not meet the criteria can still be considered for the Ones to Watch programme. This is a selection of companies that have either achieved, or predict, good sales growth
* The definition of a technology company is based on the London Stock Exchange’s techMARK definition, i.e. “a company that shows a commitment to innovation, research and product development, and operates in sectors including software, internet, telecoms and biotech.”
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@Grabyo has partnered with @Reuters to help the media work remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. CEO Gareth Capon, said: “The demand for real time updates from trusted news sources is more important than ever right now.”@HiscoxUK #TechTrack100 #OTW https://t.co/YSFBocYyih
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Retirement house builder @McCarthyStone, has offered the UK government 300 apartments to use for older people recovering from coronavirus, or NHS key workers who need to stay close to hospitals #floated @GrantThorntonUK #TopTrack250 https://t.co/aTsYP8RCFw
.@Dyson is making at least 10,000 medical ventilators to help the NHS fight coronavirus, with founder Sir James Dyson saying: “the race is on to get it into production.” @HSBCUKBusiness #TopTrack100 https://t.co/zpIms2rEUq
.@Revolut launched in America yesterday. Co-founder Nik Storonsky said “now more than ever, people need to know exactly what is coming in and out of their account.” The digital banking app was valued at $5.5bn in Feb @HiscoxUK #TechTrack100
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.@INEOS is building a new hand sanitiser plant near Middlesborough. It will make a million bottles per month to help the NHS fight the coronavirus pandemic, and the firm is also planning to build another hand sanitiser plant in Germany @HSBCUKBusiness #TopTrack100
.@BrewDog is doing its bit to help with the coronavirus crisis. The brewer is producing Brewgel ‘punk sanitiser’ which it plans to give away for free to charities and community groups from next week @VirginAtlantic #FastTrack100
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Many thanks to our #ProfitTrack100 sponsor @UBS for co-hosting our networking dinner in London last night. 14 owners & shareholders – from 14 of Britain’s companies with the fastest-growing profits – swapped stories, insights and future plans. https://t.co/n2OANAiHW1
Tonight, Gordon Sanghera, co-founder and chief executive of DNA analysis company Oxford Nanopore Technologies will share his growth story with fellow owners & shareholders at our @UBS #ProfitTrack100 alumni networking dinner in London @nanopore https://t.co/4T8GQbDDF4
Types of company
Sales
£5m - £50mProfits
(£5m) - £10mAverage 3 year sales growth
40% - 300% paStaff
10 - 1,000Fast Track were the first people to put us on the map Matt Moulding, founder & CEO, The Hut Group
We continue to hire for both our UK and international offices, and the recognition that comes from Tech Track 100 is helpful in recruiting the best talent out there Gareth Williams, co-founder & chairman, Skyscanner
A rite of passage for any successful entrepreneurial company George Karibian, co-founder, Paymentsense
Tech Track 100 has provided a fantastic endorsement and very effective exposure for us as we've grown Hugo Amos, co-founder & chief strategy officer, Black Swan Data
Tech Track 100 is the most effective form of free marketing and networking available today Colin Smithers, founder & CEO, Redtail Telematics
It gives us instant recognition with employees, suppliers, investors and customers Jason Curry, CFO, Captify
Being on the Tech Track 100 is a fabulous proof point for our business, especially on recruiting great talent Guy Farley, co-founder and CTO, Bought By Many
Alumni success stories
Featured in 2002 with sales of £23m and floated in 2015 valued at £2.7bn
Featured in 2006 with sales of £143m, floated in 2010 and is now worth £6bn
Featured in 2011 with sales of £18m, floated in 2014 and was bought by Silverlake in May for £2.2bn
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