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The culmination of three months of scouring the nation for the most exciting and innovative new businesses can only mean one thing…<\/p>\n

The Startups 100 2018 is here<\/h2>\n

Ranking the UK’s 100 most awe-inspiring and fast-growth potential new businesses launched in the last three years, the Startups 100 2018 offers a deep-dive into the country’s thriving start-up landscape.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by DCMN<\/a> for its 10th anniversary year, this year’s index offers up inspiration and innovative ideas in abundance with the 100 start-ups arguably our most ambitious and diverse yet.<\/p>\n

Presenting businesses from a cross-section of industries, browsing the Startups 100 2018 you’ll read how start-ups are tackling post-natal depression and cancer head-on, you’ll see the in-roads being made to make renting fair-game for students and landlords alike, and you’ll learn how we can better educate ourselves – and our children – with the latest in edtech.<\/p>\n

Inspiration aside, the businesses featured in the Startups 100 2018 are having a powerful economic impact too.<\/p>\n

Collectively employing 1,981 staff with an average turnover of £1.5m, the 100 start-ups show just what can be achieved in the space of three years – and many less than two (the average age is just 1.92 years!).<\/p>\n

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The history of the Startups 100 – and its future<\/h2>\n

We launched the first ever Startups 100 index back in 2008 as a showcase of the 100 most exciting new businesses launched in the last three years.<\/p>\n

10 years on and 2008’s list makes for absolutely staggering reading<\/a>. £75m-turnover online print and design company MOO was there. As was Levi Roots’ Dragon-backed multi-million pound Reggae Reggae Sauce brand. Notonthehighstreet.com, founded by Holly Tucker MBE and Sophie Cornish MBE, now processes transactions in excess of £165m (£40.7m turnover to March 2017).<\/p>\n

The colourful organic food business Ella’s Kitchen, created by Paul Lindley and named after his daughter, has since been acquired by US food giant Hain Celestial Group and boasts revenue of £65m now. Vincent McKevitt’s salad chain Tossed remains in rude health. And BrewDog, Scotland’s craft brewer with attitude was valued at £1bn last year after a US private equity firm acquired a 23% stake<\/a>. Not bad for a start-up launched by two 24-year-olds in a garage!<\/p>\n

We were publishing pioneers at the time as no other publication had produced an index of that kind. And today, the Startups 100 remains the longest-running index to celebrate the best of Britain’s start-ups.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, what does that mean for our Startups 100 2018?<\/p>\n

Going by the successes of their predecessors, you might think they’ve got some pretty big boots to fill. However, we don’t suspect that will be a problem for this year’s cohort.<\/p>\n

With many already making their mark with customers and clients (more than a fifth of the businesses are already profitable while average turnover sits at £1.5m turnover) and investors (the 100 businesses have collectively raised more than £270m), in 10 years’ time we have no doubt that the names in the Startups 100 2018 will be just as familiar as the Startups 100 2008.<\/p>\n

How the Startups 100 2018 is decided<\/h2>\n

What makes for a Startups 100-worthy business? To start with, businesses that enter need to have to meet our eligibility criteria at the time of submitting an entry which means they must be:<\/p>\n