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12 of the most exciting tech companies in Manchester

Growth Business

It had produced its own fair share of tech companies: The Hut Group, Booking.com and Autotrader are some of its alumni. As the list below demonstrates, Manchester has its fair share of high-growth healthtechs, and has solidified itself as one of the main medtech hubs outside London alongside Cambridge, Oxford and Leeds.

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Salas O’Brien CEO Looks to Continue ‘Merger’ Spree

The Deal

“We had to take them out completely because we had to dribble out shares, and they weren’t excited about that.” The 30-year engineering industry veteran has the same open book mentality when it comes to discussions with the firm’s employee owners. The firm has more than doubled its head count since 2020.

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Tech unicorns UK – complete guide to the billion-dollar club

Growth Business

AI Bio: After leaving his family’s construction empire, Improbable founder Herman Narula is looking to build his own (virtual) world with Improbable. Starling, like Monzo, offers customers oversight of transactions in real time, but by increasing its SME market share by 7.5 17 – Improbable Value: $2bn Founded: 2012 What do they do?