UK's Department for Business and Trade Announces Winners of Unicorn Kingdom Pathfinder Awards, Backing Next Generation of Tech Scale-Ups

Published on 08/07/2025 at 18:03 | prnewswire.co.uk

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Four tech scale up companies announced as winners of the Unicorn Kingdom Pathfinder Awards (UKPA) across innovative categories such as AI and cyber security.Programme aims to nurture the world's most talented scale ups within the UK's tech ecosystem and help them establish a base in the UK economy.The UK has more unicorns than France and Germany combined and continues to be a prime destination for tech businesses from across the world.- Provides Intelligent Machine, IT & OT solutions that make smart decisions easy for customers. Grubtech - Empowers restaurants and grocery chains to adopt omnichannel capabilities without the burden of changing core solutions like point of sales.

Connected & Automated Mobility (CAM):

MooVita - Curates smart mobility solutions to roadworthy autonomous vehicles for urban municipalities worldwide. Bottobo - Specializes in developing robotics solutions designed to streamline industrial processes and enhance operational efficiency.

Cyber Security:

CyLock - AI-powered B2B SaaS cybersecurity platform that analyses any IT system automatically and remotely without the need for technical knowledge, installation, configuration or maintenance. Cyberdes - Cyberdes provides AI meets semiconductors in the field of cyber security.

Notes to Editors?

Full details of the awards can be found here: great.gov.uk/ukpa.More information on the Global Entrepreneur Programme can be found here: https://www.great.gov.uk/campaign-site/gep/The expert panel of judges included DBT Director of Investment John Edwards, Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser Tim Kay, Co-Founder of Blue Lake VC Lyuba Guk, and Group Operations Director of Founders Forum Ellie Steel.

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