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Barclays Entrepreneur Awards Hall of Fame

A round award statue with the Barclays logo engraved on the centre from The Barclays Entrepreneur Awards

Barclays Entrepreneur Awards Hall of Fame

The previous national awards recipients come from a wide range of industries across the UK.

The Barclays Entrepreneur Awards celebrate entrepreneurs for their exceptional innovation, and for creating social change and growth that’s moving the UK forward.

Watch highlights of the 2024 awards ceremony and see our previous winners.

Good evening everyone.

I am delighted to be your host for the Barclays Entrepreneur of the Year awards.

Tonight is about celebrating the bold visionaries, the innovative thinkers and brilliant entrepreneurs.

When you're an entrepreneur and a founder, you're never really off but it's finding times that you're either in that space of work or you're with family.

It's trying to really engineer my work around my life rather than my life around my work.

I'm going to borrow that one, I like that.

I don’t think a lot of people realise just how much support and passion there is for us to succeed in doing what we do.

We've got a small startup and we're trying to tackle a really big problem.

So we need big friends, and we need support from all sorts of different places.

And so this is just great publicity.

Just to be associated with Barclays just at the minute, it's just phenomenal.

The people in Barclays have just been so supportive.

I think moving forward, the testament that this award brings us will be absolutely vital when speaking to stakeholders, investors.

It really gives that validation in terms of what we're trying to achieve for patients.

I think any kind of recognition like this just adds credibility to what we're doing, and it shows that people care about it as well.

It just lifts me and my team up to receive this sort of appreciation of what we do and it just spurs us to keep going and hopefully, loads of PR so the whole world hears about what we're trying to do to help people, help people.

Previous winners

  • 2024
    • Start-up Award, sponsored by Barclays Business Banking – Kelpi
    • High Growth Company Award, sponsored by Propel – Red Run Ltd
    • Scale Up Company Award, sponsored by Propel – Airship Interactive
    • Innovation in AI Award, sponsored by Visa – causaLens
    • Innovation in Climate Tech Award, sponsored by Visa – QLM Technology Ltd
    • Innovation in Health and Sciences Award, sponsored by Barclays Eagle Labs – Microplate Dx Ltd
    • Innovation in Games Award, sponsored by Barclays Eagle Labs – Silver Script Games
    • Business Resilience Award, sponsored by Barclaycard Payments – Faithful Friends Pet Crematorium Ltd
    • Serial Entrepreneur Award, sponsored by Barclays Private Bank – Adam Hadley
    • Outstanding Contribution Award, sponsored by Barclays Business Banking – Simon Squibb
  • 2023
    • Start-up Award, sponsored by FreshBooks – Microplate DX
    • Scale-up Award, sponsored by Propel – iCare24 Group
    • Social Award, sponsored by Visa – Nemi Teas
    • Sustainability Award, sponsored by Smart Pension - Zedify
    • International Expansion Award, sponsored by Barclays - OnePlan
    • Eagles Lab Innovation Award, sponsored by Eagle Labs – RAB-Microfluidics
    • Games Award, sponsored by Barclays Games & Creative Team - GameMaker
    • Barclaycard Payments Award, sponsored by Barclaycard Payments – Sports Feet Ltd
    • Outstanding Contribution Award, sponsored by Barclays Private Bank - Erika Brodnock MBE
    • People’s Choice Award, sponsored by Visa – Wharf Street Strategies
  • 2022
    • Start-Up Award, sponsored by FreshBooks - Katrick Technologies
    • Scale-Up Award, sponsored by Propel - Onto
    • Social Award, sponsored by Smart Pension - Niyo Group
    • Sustainability Award, sponsored by Kriya - Used Kitchen Exchange
    • International Expansion Award, sponsored by Barclays - Lisa Angel Ltd
    • Eagles Lab Innovation Award - Phenotypeca
    • Games Award - Uplift Games
    • Barclaycard Award - Rocketeer Enterprise Ltd
    • Outstanding Contribution to UK Entrepreneurship – Dr Riam Kanso
    • People’s Choice Award – Wharf Street Studios

     

  • 2021
    • Start-Up Entrepreneur of the Year, sponsored by Barclays – Hertility Health
    • Scale-Up Entrepreneur of the Year, sponsored by Propel – Itch
    • Social Entrepreneur of the Year, sponsored by Smart Pension – Changes UK CIC
    • International Expansion of the Year, sponsored by Nimbla - ChickenGuard
    • Icon of the Year Award, sponsored by MarketFinance – Harry Destecroix
    • Eagle Labs Innovation Award – Yoello
    • Barclaycard Next Level Award – T.H.Burroughs Family Butchers
    • Rise FinTech Company of the Year – CreditEnable Ltd
    • Outstanding Contribution to UK Entrepreneurship – Brent Hoberman CBE
    • People’s Choice Award – BeoBia Ltd
  • 2020
    • Start-Up Entrepreneur of the Year - Resi 
    • Scale-Up Entrepreneur of the Year - Speechmatics
    • Social Entrepreneur of the Year - BioSure (UK) Ltd
    • International Expansion of the Year - Demica Limited
    • Icon of the Year - Sharmadean Reid MBE 
    • Eagle Labs Innovation Award – KYMIRA
    • Barclaycard Next Level Award - Fashion Crossover London
    • Rise FinTech Company of the Year - Simudyne
    • Outstanding Contribution to Entpreneurship  - Hermann Hauser
    • People’s Choice Award  - Bella & Duke
  • 2019
    • Start-up Entrepreneur of the Year – Snag Group
    • Scale-up Entrepreneur of the Year – Oxbotica
    • International Expansion of the Year – Endomag
    • Social Entrepreneur of the Year – Invisible Cities
    • Icon of the Year – Nigel Toon (Graphcore)
    • Rise FinTech Company of the Year – Chainalysis
    • Eagle Labs Innovation Award – Moodbeam
    • People’s Choice Award – Snag Group
    • Outstanding Contribution to UK Entrepreneurship – Stephen Welton
  • 2018
    • Start-up Entrepreneur of the Year – PhoreMost Ltd.
    • Scale-up Entrepreneur of the Year – Perkbox
    • International Expansion of the Year – Ruroc Ltd.
    • Social Entrepreneur of the Year – Limitless Travel Ltd
    • Icon of the Year – David Cleevely
    • Rise FinTech Company of the Year – Shieldpay
    • Eagle Labs Innovation Award – Sure Chill
    • People’s Choice Award – Gordon Sanghera
    • Outstanding Contribution to UK Entrepreneurship – Jenny Tooth OBE 
  • 2017
    • Start-up Entrepreneur of the Year – Mike Lawton, Oxford Space Systems
    • Scale-up Entrepreneur of the Year – Doug McLean, Tiffin Sandwiches
    • Female Entrepreneur Icon of the Year – Clare Roberts, Kid Planet Day Nurseries
    • Male Entrepreneur Icon of the Year – Darrin Disley, Horizon Discovery
    • Eagle Labs Innovation Award – Stan Boland, FiveAI
    • Rise FinTech Award – Stuart Lacey, Trunomi
    • Social Entrepreneur of the Year – Mike Britton, Goodwill Solutions
    • Barclays Award for Outstanding Contribution to UK Entrepreneurship – Sherry Coutu, Founders4Schools
    • Barclays Colleague’s Choice Award – Jason Bannister, Oak Furniture Land
  • 2016
    • Start-up Entrepreneur of the Year – Victoria Molyneux, Want That Trend
    • Social Entrepreneur of the Year – Chris Barker, Spirit Healthcare
    • Male Icon Entrepreneur of the Year – Eben Upton, Raspberry Pi
    • Female Icon Entrepreneur of the Year – Bethany Koby, Technology Will Save Us
    • Colleague’s Choice Award – Lloyd Greenfield, Glow Green

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