Winners of the Tech Rocketship Awards, the UK Government’s 2022 tech scale-ups programme open to participants across Europe, have been announced.
The awards are intended to identify the “brightest and best” tech companies and to accelerate their global growth through curated programmes connecting them to UK investors, incubators and High Potential Opportunity (HPO) clusters.
Alongside Digital Health, the award categories included AI, 5G, Agri-Tech, Cybersecurity, Climate Tech and a Trailblazers Award around Diversity in Tech.
Enbiosis from Turkey, a service that analyses the human gut microbiome using metadata and AI to provide personalised health and wellness solutions, took the ‘gold’ award for Digital Health.
In addition, the Trailblazers Award for promoting Diversity in Tech went to Resistomap from Finland, described as the “first end-to-end platform in the world” that monitors antibiotic resistance bacteria and pre-warns clients in case of a potential outbreak.
Chris Barton, His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Europe, commented: “There is no better place for ambitious tech companies to grow than the UK… Our tech sector is the home of forward-thinking innovators, venture capital, R&D clusters and opportunities for growth across the whole of the UK. Tech Rocketships will provide the lucky winners with a rocket-powered, fully-tailored direct route to the financiers, incubators, tech-savvy customers, and all the infrastructure needed to help them make that next great leap from ambitious scale-up to unicorn.”
Priya Guha, Venture Partner, Merrian Ventures & Non-Executive Director at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Digital Catapult, added: “I was thrilled to be part of the judging panel for this year’s Tech Rocketship Awards and to hear from some of the incredible European tech businesses that are looking to the UK to scale-up and go global.
“Whilst they represented a breadth of sectors from biotech to artificial intelligence to AgriTech, all of them will find the UK a great place to scale. In the UK, we have a wealth of diverse tech talent in researchers, developers and experienced scale-up leaders. We also have an open and welcoming business environment and competitive set up costs, all of which will be invaluable to these companies. The UK is rich in opportunity for tech businesses and I look forward to seeing how the UK will be part of the success stories for these fantastic award winners.”
