shortlist
This year, a virtual Voting Panel meeting was held, in two sessions, on 17 and 22 September. The meeting was chaired by Ian Restall and each of the Voting Panel members confidentially allocated points to each company or individual, electronically, via our new Award Force platform. All Voting Panel members can be viewed here.
The virtual Voting Panel meeting produced a shortlist of four or more companies in each of the ten categories, which can be viewed below.
tech deal of the year award
Sponsored by |
- Just Eat Takeaway.com
- Metaswitch Networks Ltd
- SDL plc
- THG Holdings plc (The Hut Group)
tech journalist of the year award
Sponsored by |
- Martin Coulter/Business Insider
- Dan McCrum/FT
- Jamie Nimmo/Mail on Sunday
- Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch
tech growth business of the year award
Sponsored by |
- The Access Group
- Boku Inc.
- GB Group plc
- TransferWise Ltd
tech for good award
- Code First: Girls
- Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)
- Kooth plc
- Twinkl Ltd
tech investor award
- Herald Investment Management
- Hg
- IP Group plc
- LocalGlobe LLP
best use of tech in the digital economy award
Sponsored by |
- Babylon Health
- Deliveroo.co.uk
- Huma.com
- Revolut Ltd
tech innovation of the year award
- Ceres Power plc
- Featurespace Ltd
- Onfido Ltd
- Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd
- WaveOptics Ltd
tech businesswoman of the year award
Sponsored by |
- Anne Boden/Starling Bank
- Anna Brailsford/Code First: Girls
- Luciana Lixandru/Sequoia Capital
- Elona Mortimer-Zhika/IRIS Software Group
- Xenia Walters/SDL plc
tech CEO of the year award
Sponsored by |
- Steve Cliffe/Ultraleap Ltd
- Adolfo Hernandez/SDL plc
- Tim Steiner/Ocado Group plc
- Nigel Toon/Graphcore Ltd
tech company of the year award
Sponsored by |
- The Access Group
- Ceres Power plc
- Frontier Developments plc
- Ocado Group plc
- Revolut Ltd