Celebrating tech entrepreneurs at the 2024 Enterprise Awards

What a joy it was to celebrate founders and entrepreneurs from across the UK tech sector at the 12th Enterprise Awards dinner last night, held at the historic Drapers’ Hall in the City of London.

Many congratulations to the winners of the eight hotly contested awards, which recognise individuals for their vision, growth and innovation, who were revealed as:

• Enterprise Entrepreneur – Vishal Marria – Quantexa
• Emerging Entrepreneur – Gege Gatt – EBO
• Developing Entrepreneur – Thomas McHugh - Finborne
• ScaleUp Entrepreneur – Sam Horbye – Olsam Group
• Public Sector Entrepreneur – Emma O’Brien – Embridge Consulting
• Social Enterprise Entrepreneur – Scott Vincent – Digital Futures
• Deep Tech Entrepreneur – Darko Matovski – causaLens
• Female Entrepreneur – Uma Rajah - CapitalRise

As chair of the judging panel and co-host of the awards presentation, I know how high-quality the entrants were this year and how difficult that made the judging process, so many congratulations to everybody who was shortlisted as well, of course, as the winners!

On top of the eight main awards, Vishal Marria, CEO and Founder of Quantexa, also received the Judges’ Award as the only person over the years to have won all three categories for entrepreneurs as they grow their business – Emerging, Developing and now the Enterprise award. A unique achievement and inspiring role model for other UK entrepreneurs.

And of course, we were also delighted to see John O’Connell, founder and co-host of the Awards, surprise our esteemed former Chairman and TechMarketView’s co-founder, Richard Holway MBE, with a special ‘Wise Old Owl’ award, to celebrate his lifetime of achievements in the tech sector!

Once again the evening was a fantastic celebration of tech entrepreneurs in the UK at all stages of their scaling journey, ably organised, as ever, by John and the magnificent team at tx2events. TechMarketView is proud to be a long term supporter of the Awards - a big thank you to the clients and award finalists who joined us on our table last night and made the evening so enjoyable.

As well as being a chance to recognise the efforts and successes of tech founders and entrepreneurs, the event also continues to raise money for good causes with the financial surplus going to the WCIT Charity Fund and the raffle alone raising over £8k. Thank you to everybody who gave so generously.

Posted by Tola Sargeant at '08:58' - Tagged: awards