Manchester, United Kingdom · Startup Matillion is a Manchester-based data integration and transformation platform founded in 2011 that enables enterprises to load, transform, and orchestrate data across cloud data warehouses and lakes including Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, and Google BigQuery. The company raised over $300 million including a $150 million Series E at a $1.5 billion valuation. Matillion serves over 2,000 enterprise customers and is notable as one of the few UK tech unicorns headquartered outside London, representing Manchester's growing tech ecosystem.
Manchester, United Kingdom · Startup Summize is a Manchester-based legaltech company offering an AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform. Its SaaS technology is designed to unite legal teams and business stakeholders so they can draft, review and manage contracts more efficiently. Founded in 2018 by former general counsel Tom Dunlop and software engineer David Smith, the company counts customers such as Revolut among its roster. In early 2026 Summize raised $50 million to accelerate product development and global growth, building on an earlier Series A backed by YFM Equity Partners and Maven Capital Partners.
Manchester, United Kingdom · Person Thomas Anthopoulos is a professor at the University of Manchester specialising in printed and large-area electronics, semiconductors and optoelectronic devices for energy and sensing applications. He is a keynote speaker at NANOTEXNOLOGY 2026 in Thessaloniki.