UMA wins the Northern Star Leadership Award
Northern Tech Awards
Since 2014, the annual Northern Tech Awards shine a light upon the leading technology businesses headquartered in the North of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Organised by GP Bullhound, the Awards provide a unique way of celebrating the innovative technologies and businesses developed in the region and recognise those who have contributed to their success.
The Northern Tech Awards Top 100 League Table is an acknowledgement of the 100 fastest-growing technology companies. The ranking is based on revenue growth over the last three years.
From the ‘Fastest Growing Technology Companies’ list, ten companies are selected by the Northern Tech judging panel made up of investors and industry experts, to present and compete for the special Judges’ Awards.
The Northern Tech Awards is free to enter. To qualify for entry to the Top 100, firms must have at least three years of revenue growth with a minimum revenue level of £500k in 2020.
The Northern Stars Awards, recognise innovation and achievements of tech businesses with revenues below this threshold.
The CEOs of the Top 100 companies and Top 10 Northern Stars are then invited to celebrate and receive their award at the Northern Tech Awards ceremony.
UMA wins the Northern Star Leadership Award
Rachel Swann, CEO, pictured right with Dr Vanessa Collingridge who presented the awards, and Dan Freed, Partner at YFM.
We were pleased to enter the Northern Star Awards as we’re not in a ‘tech cluster’, being based in Halifax, and are experiencing fast growth so it was really exciting when we were shortlisted as a finalist, and such a pleasant surprise when we actually won one of the four awards. There are so many great businesses – tech and otherwise – in the North and having representatives in the one room of fast growing, innovative and forward thinking tech businesses was both inspiring and, frankly, an endorsement of the business and the team. It helps with perspective which can sometimes be a bit blurred in a fast growing start up. Thank you again to GP Bullhound and all the judges – and we’ve made some great connections with some of the other finalists, too.