Originally Published by Tech Nation on March 31, 2021
This week sees 30 UK tech scaleups join the inaugural Tech Nation International Growth Programme launched in Australia, Singapore, Japan and South Korea.
The new programme has been commissioned as part of the Digital Trade Network, by the UK Government, to help innovative tech companies access trade and investment opportunities between the UK and Asia Pacific and forge new partnerships in exciting new markets including Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Australia.
Tech Nation’s Unlocking Global Tech report found that the UK was the 5th greatest digital tech services exporter in the world in 2019. This position has been driven by a relatively high number of high growth exporting tech companies in the UK, many of which are yet to realise their full exporting potential.
Thinking globally is vital for Tech Nation. 80% of our latest Upscale cohort cited international expansion as their number one challenge, which is why the timing of these new Tech Nation International Growth Programmes is so pivotal.
It is an ideal time to boost the UK’s digital trade with the Asia Pacific region. Southeast Asia’s digital economy hit US$100 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow to US$300 billion by 2025 despite the challenges of COVID19.
By connecting and supporting some of the UK’s leading tech scale ups with international opportunities, the Tech Nation International Growth Programme hopes to help cement the UK’s position as a global tech powerhouse as it boosts exports and leverages the UK’s new global trade policy.
Tech Nation is working in collaboration the UK Department for International Trade, as well as Plug and Play, Intralink and Asia Market Entry, to deliver these International Growth Programmes for Tech Nation Alumni in Asia Pacific markets.
The first cohort of the International Growth Programme in Australia includes:
Cyan Forensics provide transformative new technologies to help law enforcement, social media and cloud companies find and block harmful content from paedophiles and terrorists.
Maxatta is a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Machine Learning (ML) fintech firm that is focused on automation in the front office. Led by a team of senior hedge fund managers, traders and engineers Maxatta are producing the next generation of agnostic robotic solutions that will increase productivity, scalability and insight across financial markets. UCL is an owner of the company and Maxatta is powered by IP and Know How generated by their world class Computer Science department. Maxatta is backed by AISeed the Machine Learning specialist VC.
Péarlaí provides shopping centres, city centres, charities and facility management companies with real time tracking through smart ID’s of individual customers & staff journeys through their physical stores, enabling highly targeted, relevant and timely promotional and advertising capabilities. Furthermore, through deep analytical data processing of the customer journey, retailers will be able to more accurately and reliably predict buying behaviours.
ISMS.online is an all-in-place cloud management system for information security, privacy, business continuity and other compliance work. It supports the fast & cost-effective implementation of an information security management system for organisations to manage ISO 27001 and other complementary global and local standards and frameworks.
Buddi uses the world’s most advanced technology to monitor the health and whereabouts of people. Buddi technology is used worldwide by health and criminal justice authorities, healthcare professionals and families.
nPlan helps their clients understand uncertainty and risk in construction projects using machine learning technology and the world’s largest dataset of construction schedules. Their insights are used to change the course of major capital projects, providing greater certainty and reducing costs. They are trusted by Shell, HS2, Kier, and many other clients around the world.
Giki provides free digital products to help people live more sustainably. Giki Badges is a mobile app to help people find more sustainable and healthy products in the UK supermarket. Giki Zero is an interactive, step by step guide to a sustainable life, which enables people to understand, track and reduce their environmental footprint.
LandTech is a SaaS platform for property development. It helps property professionals to find land, get planning and raise funding in a more streamlined way. With more than 1,800 clients, of which 80% are SME property developers, they have so far helped to add more than 10,000 new homes to the UK housing market.
Hadean is a distributed computing software company with a platform for large-scale, real-time connected applications. Our core solutions, Aether Engine and Muxer, deliver high performance distributed spatial computing and networking, making it easier and faster than ever to create virtual worlds and synthetic environments at unprecedented scale. Hadean’s technology is used by some of the world’s leading technology companies and scientific institutions including Microsoft, Minecraft, and the Francis Crick Institute.
SoPost has created the most powerful product sampling platform in the world, with a focus on relevance, data and analytics.
Dragonfly AI helps clients predict, analyse and influence human attention. Dragonfly AI was created to make content work harder in an over-saturated world, showing instantaneously what the human brain sees first.
The first cohort of the International Growth Programme in Singapore includes:
SeedLegals make it super easy for startups to raise investment and manage company equity — all at a fraction of the cost of traditional service providers. No paper. No law firms. No accountants. Everything’s done digitally on our platform. SeedLegals launched in 2016 as the world’s first (and remain the world’s only) automated legal service for funding rounds and today is the largest closer of funding rounds in the UK.
Wazoku is an innovative SaaS business helping to change the world one idea at time. Wazoku is the global home for all ideas, giving a voice and role to everyone in the innovation process.
Wondrwall is technology company dedicated to changing the way we live and how we use energy. Combining intelligent AI powered home automation, clean energy production and super efficient heating systems, our solution helps the worlds homes, save money, time and the environment.
Assuria provides trusted cyber security software solutions and managed security services that power Security Operations Centres, IT Protective Monitoring services and IT Assurance services in more than 20 countries worldwide.
Cambridge Intelligence build data visualization tools that make the world a safer place. From law enforcement to cyber security and fraud detection, we work with organizations around the globe. Every day, thousands of analysts rely on our software to ‘join the dots’ in data and uncover hidden threats.
Topolytics, based in Edinburgh, is a data analytics business that is making the world’s waste visible, verifiable and valuable. The company’s analytics platform WasteMap® ingests detailed data on commercial, industrial and post-consumer waste from many sources to generate actionable insights for waste producers, the waste industry, investors and regulators. WasteMap® applies machine learning and geospatial analytics to overcome the inaccuracies and data vacuums that currently hinder greater resource recovery globally. Topolytics is acknowledged by Cleantech Group, IDC, Frost & Sullivan, SAP and Google Cloud as a leading AI and analytics player in the €2Bn ‘waste tech’ sector. WasteMap® is at the centre of the UK Government’s prototype system that will digitally track all the UK’s waste. The company is building an international ecosystem of customers and data partners.
Dataswift provides Infrastructure for personal data access, storage, and portability. Dataswift liberates the value of personal data. Untethering it from central silos and distributing it to individual Personal Data Accounts. Fully owned, fully accessible, fully permissible.
Firefly is the platform for parent engagement and learning continuity. Every day, Firefly connects schools and homes, extending school life beyond the classroom.
Dynamify is an omnichannel food ordering platform, white-labelled by the world’s largest contract caterers who deploy the plug and play technology in their own branding within “off-the-high-street” restaurants (workplaces, universities and schools, hospitals, venues, and airport lounges).
Flexciton is an award-winning company that uses cutting edge technology to optimize the planning and scheduling decisions for the world’s most complex manufacturing plants – semiconductor wafer fabs. Flexciton’s mission is to apply cutting-edge technology to industrial data to make industrial efficiency improvements that would be impossible for a human to do on their own.
BankBI is a cloud based out of the box financial performance management application delivered via a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model. Available on any device, anytime and anywhere, BankBI offers senior management in banks, credit unions and the microfinance industry the chance to measure, monitor and manage their business in real time using industry standard ratios and dashboards. Based around the integration of a minimum data set, BankBI delivers rapid time to value and a guaranteed successful project outcome often not achievable from traditional business intelligence and data warehousing projects.
Everledger is the digital transparency company. Everledger develops technology to create a secure and permanent digital record of an asset’s origin, characteristics and ownership on the blockchain. This transparency helps industries respond to growing expectations for sustainable, verifiable sourcing.
The first cohort of the International Growth Programme in South Korea and Japan includes:
Featurespace is an award-winning Adaptive Behavioral Analytics solution for fraud prevention and AML transaction monitoring.
Hadean is a distributed computing software company with a platform for large-scale, real-time connected applications. Our core solutions, Aether Engine and Muxer, deliver high performance distributed spatial computing and networking, making it easier and faster than ever to create virtual worlds and synthetic environments at unprecedented scale. Hadean’s technology is used by some of the world’s leading technology companies and scientific institutions including Microsoft, Minecraft, and the Francis Crick Institute.
PPC Protect eliminates invalid ad clicks across paid search, display and video with automated & proactive click fraud prevention technologies.
Smartia is an industrial intelligence company, providing scalable AI solutions to connect & transform industrial data into actionable insights.
Cambridge Intelligence build data visualization tools that make the world a safer place. From law enforcement to cyber security and fraud detection, the company works with organisations around the globe. Every day, thousands of analysts rely on the software to ‘join the dots’ in data and uncover hidden threats.
Wazoku is an innovative SaaS business helping to change the world one idea at time. Wazoku is the global home for all ideas, giving a voice and role to everyone in the innovation process.
In addition, Tech Nation is also providing a series of webinars, bootcamps and interactive workshops over the next few months to support more UK tech scale ups looking to grow their businesses internationally.