{"id":49231,"date":"2016-11-17T22:45:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T22:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/?p=49231"},"modified":"2021-05-18T15:56:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:56:20","slug":"sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Sage Startups Business of the Year 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Start-up name:<\/strong> Onfido<br>\n<strong>Founders:<\/strong>&nbsp;Eamon Jubbawy, Husayn Kassai and Ruhul Amin<br>\n<strong>Started in:<\/strong> 2012<br>\n<strong>Based in:<\/strong>&nbsp; London<br>\n<strong>Business description:&nbsp;<\/strong>Intelligent background checking platform<\/p>\n<p>Boasting 1,000 business customers worldwide and a founding team of Oxford University graduates all aged under 30, Onfido is a true British start-up success story. And it was the stand-out business to take the overall title of Sage Startups Business of the Year at the Startups Awards 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/husayn-kassai-eamon-jubbawy-ruhul-amin-onfido\/\">Young Gun<\/a>-founded company follows in the footsteps of last year&rsquo;s overall winner Appear Here, and previous winners Beer52, Naked Wines, The Cambridge Satchel Company and BeatThatQuote.com.<\/p>\n<p>Onfido, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to update the laborious, expensive and often inaccurate manual processes of background checking, has gone from strength to strength in the last three years. It has scaled so quickly that it now employs 145 members of staff across its London and San Francisco offices.<\/p>\n<p>Its innovative solution, which can run database searches on everything from criminal history to education and anti money laundering checks, is solving a problem that plagues businesses the world over and has been adopted by some major names including Deliveroo and Hello Fresh.<\/p>\n<p>Now backed by $30m in funding after closing a $25m Series B round in April of this year, Onfido is set to build on its already impressive growth and bring identity verification &ldquo;out of the dark ages&rdquo; for companies of all sizes.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this space!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start-up name: Onfido Founders:&nbsp;Eamon Jubbawy, Husayn Kassai and Ruhul Amin Started in: 2012 Based in:&nbsp; London Business description:&nbsp;Intelligent background checking platform Boasting 1,000 business customers worldwide and a founding team of Oxford University graduates all aged under 30, Onfido is a true British start-up success story. And it was the stand-out business to take the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91469,"featured_media":49416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winners","category-winners-2016"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Sage Startups Business of the Year 2016 - Startups Awards by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sage Startups Business of the Year 2016 - Startups Awards by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Start-up name: Onfido Founders:&nbsp;Eamon Jubbawy, Husayn Kassai and Ruhul Amin Started in: 2012 Based in:&nbsp; London Business description:&nbsp;Intelligent background checking platform Boasting 1,000 business customers worldwide and a founding team of Oxford University graduates all aged under 30, Onfido is a true British start-up success story. And it was the stand-out business to take the [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Startups Awards by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-11-17T22:45:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-18T14:56:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/Sage-Startups-Business-of-the-Year-4.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"390\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"The Startups Team\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"The Startups Team\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"The Startups Team\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/#\/schema\/person\/b79c62a7ab4db88c1f4e6447ccddaa60\"},\"headline\":\"Sage Startups Business of the Year 2016\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-11-17T22:45:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-18T14:56:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/\"},\"wordCount\":241,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/Sage-Startups-Business-of-the-Year-4.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Startups Awards Winners\",\"Winners 2016\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2016\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/\",\"name\":\"Sage Startups Business of the Year 2016 - Startups Awards by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/Sage-Startups-Business-of-the-Year-4.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-11-17T22:45:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-18T14:56:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/#\/schema\/person\/b79c62a7ab4db88c1f4e6447ccddaa60\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/Sage-Startups-Business-of-the-Year-4.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/Sage-Startups-Business-of-the-Year-4.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":390},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Sage Startups Business of the Year 2016\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/\",\"name\":\"Startups Awards by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business\",\"description\":\"The UK&#039;s No.1 service for starting a business\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/#\/schema\/person\/b79c62a7ab4db88c1f4e6447ccddaa60\",\"name\":\"The Startups Team\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c8cd68a78d325e8bbe4f764947a9052a9f89e15edf1385ad33bf583be4d8962?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c8cd68a78d325e8bbe4f764947a9052a9f89e15edf1385ad33bf583be4d8962?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c8cd68a78d325e8bbe4f764947a9052a9f89e15edf1385ad33bf583be4d8962?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"The Startups Team\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/author\/thestartupsteam\/\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Sage Startups Business of the Year 2016 - Startups Awards by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Sage Startups Business of the Year 2016 - Startups Awards by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business","og_description":"Start-up name: Onfido Founders:&nbsp;Eamon Jubbawy, Husayn Kassai and Ruhul Amin Started in: 2012 Based in:&nbsp; London Business description:&nbsp;Intelligent background checking platform Boasting 1,000 business customers worldwide and a founding team of Oxford University graduates all aged under 30, Onfido is a true British start-up success story. And it was the stand-out business to take the [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/","og_site_name":"Startups Awards by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business","article_published_time":"2016-11-17T22:45:40+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-05-18T14:56:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":390,"url":"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/Sage-Startups-Business-of-the-Year-4.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"The Startups Team","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"The Startups Team","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/"},"author":{"name":"The Startups Team","@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/#\/schema\/person\/b79c62a7ab4db88c1f4e6447ccddaa60"},"headline":"Sage Startups Business of the Year 2016","datePublished":"2016-11-17T22:45:40+00:00","dateModified":"2021-05-18T14:56:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/"},"wordCount":241,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/Sage-Startups-Business-of-the-Year-4.jpg","articleSection":["Startups Awards Winners","Winners 2016"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2016","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/","url":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/","name":"Sage Startups Business of the Year 2016 - Startups Awards by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/Sage-Startups-Business-of-the-Year-4.jpg","datePublished":"2016-11-17T22:45:40+00:00","dateModified":"2021-05-18T14:56:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/#\/schema\/person\/b79c62a7ab4db88c1f4e6447ccddaa60"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/Sage-Startups-Business-of-the-Year-4.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/Sage-Startups-Business-of-the-Year-4.jpg","width":640,"height":390},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/sage-startups-business-of-the-year-2016\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Sage Startups Business of the Year 2016"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/#website","url":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/","name":"Startups Awards by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business","description":"The UK&#039;s No.1 service for starting a business","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/#\/schema\/person\/b79c62a7ab4db88c1f4e6447ccddaa60","name":"The Startups Team","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c8cd68a78d325e8bbe4f764947a9052a9f89e15edf1385ad33bf583be4d8962?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c8cd68a78d325e8bbe4f764947a9052a9f89e15edf1385ad33bf583be4d8962?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c8cd68a78d325e8bbe4f764947a9052a9f89e15edf1385ad33bf583be4d8962?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"The Startups Team"},"url":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/author\/thestartupsteam\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}