Paysend: Boosting financial inclusion is a key mission

“I’m always making mistakes. But it’s about what you learn from those mistakes and how you take a business forward that matters,” says Ronnie Miller, a serial tech entrepreneur who is currently on his sixth business, Paysend.

Sosandar: We can be one of the UK’s biggest women’s fashion brands

Ali Hall and Julie Lavington ran a magazine before launching online fashion brand Sosandar. Thanks to their flair for marketing and focus on careful planning in the face of rapid change, the AIM-listed business is now among the UK’s fastest growing. In this article, they explain why they believe it has only scratched the surface.

Babylon Health: Scratching the surface of a $10tn industry

Babylon, which was founded in 2013 by Anglo-Iranian entrepreneur Ali Parsa, now has a presence in 15 countries. It helped a patient every six seconds in 2021, and is one of the world’s fastest-growing digital healthcare firms.

Beauty Pie: The pandemic forced us to grow quickly

Beauty Pie, the online beauty membership service founded by the serial entrepreneur behind Soap & Glory and FitFlop, saw turnover increase 140% during the Covid-19 pandemic as Britons quickly adapted to shopping online for makeup and skin products.

Interview – Jeremy Annis

The company, which helps governments and organisations automate the detection and investigation of threats from criminal activity such as money laundering, has been on a growth spurt since raising £28m in  September 2020 in a funding round led by US-based private equity firm Long Ridge. Annual revenue surged by 61% to £7.9m in the 2020 financial year and employee numbers have jumped by 45% in the past 18 months to 100.