by Ekrem Duman | Aug 3, 2026 | British Tech Giants, Startup
⚡ TL;DRAVEVA is Britain’s biggest industrial-software company and one of its least famous. Rooted in a government-backed Cambridge research centre founded in 1967, it built the software that designs and runs power stations, ships, refineries and factories. After...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 3, 2026 | British Tech Giants, Startup
⚡ TL;DRSophos is one of Britain’s oldest and most successful cybersecurity firms — founded in Oxfordshire in 1985, long before ‘cyber’ was a household word. It grew from a two-person antivirus outfit into a global endpoint-security leader, was taken...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 3, 2026 | British Tech Giants, Startup
⚡ TL;DRDarktrace pioneered a genuinely new idea in cybersecurity: instead of hunting for known threats, its AI learns the ‘pattern of life’ of an organisation’s network and flags anything abnormal. Founded in Cambridge in 2013 by mathematicians and...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 3, 2026 | British Tech Giants, Startup
⚡ TL;DROcado started in 2000 as an online grocer with no shops, then made a radical pivot: it repackaged the robotic warehouses it built for itself into a technology platform it licenses to supermarkets worldwide — Kroger, Morrisons, Aeon, Lotte and more. It is...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 3, 2026 | British Tech Giants, Startup
⚡ TL;DRSage is Britain’s biggest software company you may never have heard of: founded in Newcastle in 1981 to sell accounting software to small businesses, it grew into a FTSE 100 firm serving millions of SMBs worldwide. Its story is a lesson in surviving three...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 3, 2026 | British Tech Giants, Startup
⚡ TL;DRArm designs the CPU architecture inside roughly 99% of the world’s smartphones, yet it has never manufactured a single chip. Founded in a Cambridge barn in 1990, it built a licensing-and-royalty model that turned intellectual property into one of...
