Twenty one new businesses from across a range of sectors have been recognised at the 2024 North East, Yorkshire and the Humber StartUp Awards.
As part of the UK StartUp Awards programme established to highlight the success of startups across ten nations and regions, the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber StartUp Awards recognises the achievements of those amazing individuals who have had a great idea, spotted the opportunity and taken the risks to launch a new product or service.
As well as being recognised as the best in their sector in the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber, all the winners will now progress to the inaugural national UK StartUp Awards final where they will be competing against category winners from the rest of the UK. This will not only give them the opportunity to be crowned the best in their sector nationally but also to become the UK StartUp of the Year.
Supported nationally by Starling Bank, Airwallex, Chime Agency, Development Bank of Wales, EvaBuild, ForrestBrown, GiftRound, GS1 UK, Join Talent, OVHcloud, Project Simply, ScoreApp, SFC Capital and Welsh Government, Harriet Rees, CIO at Starling Bank says:
Over 70,000 new firms were created in the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber in 2023 and according to Professor Dylan Jones-Evans OBE, creator of the awards, this demonstrates the growing importance of entrepreneurs to the regional economy. He is also excited that the awards are, yet again, recognising the best new firms from Newcastle to York to Leeds and celebrating the amazing entrepreneurial talent from every corner of the region.
He said:
“Start-ups are the life of any economy and that is especially true in the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber where those new businesses are contributing to job creation, innovation, and prosperity across the whole of this entrepreneurial region. It’s been an honour and a pleasure to read the stories of those founders who have spotted the opportunity and taken the risk to launch their own venture. All of the winners have demonstrated that they deserve to win their categories and I’m looking forward to having the ‘best of the best’ from the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber competing at the UK final later this year”
The UK final will take place on September 12th at Ideas Fest – the festival for entrepreneurs, business leaders, disruptors, change-makers and decision-makers.
The winners from the 2024 North East, Yorkshire and the Humber StartUp Awards are:
- AI StartUp of the Year – Choppity
- Business to Business StartUp of the Year – Pan Galactic Developments
- Construction & Building Services StartUp of the Year – Green Leaf Engineering
- Consumer Products StartUp of the Year – Tidy Think
- Consumer Services StartUp of the Year – Mighty Minds Life Coaching for Kids
- Creative StartUp of the Year Zeeks – Art for Geeks
- Education & Training StartUp of the Year – The Collaborative Library
- Equity-Backed StartUp of the Year – Settld
- Food & Drink StartUp of the Year – WowzaBox
- Global StartUp of the Year – Sukate & Bezeboh
- Graduate StartUp of the Year – Choppity
- Green StartUp of the Year – Eutechtics
- Health & Wellbeing StartUp of the Year – Life Now Coaching
- Hospitality & Events StartUp of the Year – Reef App
- Innovative StartUp of the Year – Eutechtics
- Manufacturing & Engineering StartUp of the Year – FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics
- Marketing, Advertising & PR StartUp of the Year – Flying Duck Studio Lab
- Media & Entertainment StartUp of the Year – ThroughFilm CIC
- Medtech & Healthtech StartUp of the Year – STEPS Prosthetics
- Mobile & Emerging Technologies StartUp of the Year – Settld
- Professional Services StartUp of the Year – Herd Consulting
- Rising Star Award – IMAGINaiTION
- Rural StartUp of the Year – Samespace Coworking
- StartUp For Good Award – BlueJay Wellness CIC
- Young Entrepreneur of the Year – Judy Kulpa, ThroughFilm CIC
Check out the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber 2024 Winners
North East, Yorkshire and the Humber 2024 Winners
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