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Valarian builds infrastructure for organisations operating in high-trust, high-stakes environments. Our core product, ACRA, is a secure, compartmentalised backbone designed to run and protect mission-critical applications — now proven at the edge in portable GPU clusters as well as in the cloud and on-premise. We developed ACRA when existing infrastructure failed to meet real-world risk — where segmentation breaks down, audit trails disappear, and lateral movement cannot be contained. Valarian is a UK-founded and UK-led company, and backed by leading defence and national security investors. We are a homegrown team with backgrounds across defence, secure communications, high-assurance systems, and enterprise software — engineers and operators who have worked in environments where a lost signal or a missed audit can carry real consequences. We design like users because we’ve been them.

Stormwater and sewer networks are under increasing pressure as a result of climate change, urbanisation, ageing infrastructure and more stringent compliance measures. At ManholeMetrics we offer affordable level monitoring and insights for cities, utilities, highway and rail authorities, to help with these growing operational, planning and compliance needs. Our radar-based level sensors are much like a smoke alarm—low-cost, long-life (10+ years) and easy to install (<10 mins with basic tools and our app)—making high-volume deployments possible. This data enables our platform to deliver powerful network insights. These include real-time and predictive alerts for overflows, blockages, inflow and infiltration to allow for targeted interventions. This network data in turn can inform capacity monitoring studies, capital improvement projects and hydraulic model calibration. Learn more about turning network insights into action—reducing costs, improving compliance, operations and planning—at www.manholemetrics.com and email us at contact@manholemetrics.com to book a demo.

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ufurnish.com is the UKs leading search and comparison website for home furniture and furnishings. The platform brings 100+ furniture retailers and all of their products into one website to make search simple for consumers. Our mission is to transform the way we all shop for furniture and furnishings for our homes. We realise that whilst people love their homes, they don’t always enjoy the process of finding the perfect items to turn their house into their dream home. That’s why we created the only website where you can search and compare the entire market in one place - giving you the confidence that you have made the perfect choice, every time! ufurnish.com was launched in 2020 by our founders Deirdre McGettrick and Ray Wright. The business is backed by leading investors and has a highly experienced management team, led by Deirdre as CEO and Irish Entrepreneur Pat McCann as Chairman.

Layered Reality was founded in 2017 by Andrew McGuinness. It started with the idea of using the latest digital, theatrical and physical techniques to transport experience seekers into another world. The first experience, SOMNAI, launched in London in March 2018 to widespread praise for its innovation. It is now featured in Digital Catapults Immersive Hall of Fame. Since then, Layered RealityTM has won multiple awards. Jeff Waynes The War of the Worlds: The Immersive Experience received the prestigious 2020 THEA Award for Innovation, described by the Evening Standard as the Oscars of the industry, as well as the award for Best Innovation at the British Youth Travel Awards in 2019. The Gunpowder Plot was created in partnership with Historic Royal Palaces. In 2021 it was the recipient of the Epic Megagrant by Fortnite developers, Epic Games. It has also been named one of the absolute best things to do around the world in 2022 by Time Out. In July 2025 Layered Reality launched Elvis Evolution, the first iteration of a 10 year global and exclusive agreement to tell Elvis Presleys story in the immersive space. Based at the Excel London the experience is a two hour long journey in Elvis shoes featuring three themed bars and two live bands. Recreated with incredible attention to detail…To make us feel like we are truly there - City AM Elvis Evolution puts a new spin in the saga... Will entertain younger audiences and delight older fans - Time Out Layered Reality has had experiences featured in the top 10% of all attractions globally for the past 6 consecutive years (TripAdvisor) and is widely recognised as a leader in immersive entertainment. "The future of entertainment" - Design My Night "An assault on all five senses" - Metro

ATG Entertainment is a world leader in live entertainment. Our portfolio of venues includes historic theatres, studio theatres, cinemas, conference spaces, and modern live music arenas. ATG Entertainment owns, operates or programmes 72 venues across Britain, the US and Continental Europe entertaining over 18 million audience members each year. Through our in-house Production companies and working closely with top producers and promoters ATG presents over 15,000 live performances annually, including Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Moulin Rouge, The Lion King, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Starlight Express as well as popular music and comedy shows. ATG also operates a leading ticketing platform processing more than 18 million tickets each year for musicals, plays, concerts, comedy shows and a variety of other live events. ATGtickets.com attracts more than 55 million unique visitors annually. Headquartered in London and Woking, the company also has offices in New York and Cologne.

Aslan supercharges employees pay, whilst reducing your costs. With everyday rewards, pension salary sacrifice, payroll savings, tax-efficient gifting and on-demand pay, Aslan helps your employees pay go further. Aslan’s financial wellbeing solution is trusted by companies to help them engage, attract and retain top talent by supporting the financial needs of the entire workforce. Whether it’s budgeting better, saving smarter, or feeling rewarded every day, Aslan empowers people to feel more in control of their money, and more valued at work. Employees get access to the Aslan app and Mastercard, giving them the flexibility to choose how and when they get paid, make their money go further, and save effortlessly from payroll. Employers save costs with pension salary sacrifice, and easy, tax-efficient gifting of Aslan points. Our clients not only save money but benefit from a fully engaged, financially confident and productive team.

Adevinta is a leading online classifieds group and champion for sustainable commerce across Europe and beyond. With digital marketplaces across many countries, our portfolio spans consumer goods, mobility, real estate, holiday rentals and jobs. Together, our marketplaces attract more than 120 million users every month and over a million businesses.

Wherever you are in Bourne Leisure, you’ll always be impressed, amazed and delighted. Last year, over four million people chose to spend their time at our parks, resorts and hotels. And there’s a good reason for that. It’s because every single one of the 16,500 team members who work here shares the same mission: give our guests a great time with memories that last a lifetime. All working together to create the UK’s most loved holiday and holiday home business. They work with our guests at our Butlins seaside resorts, a national treasure that’s delighted generations of people for over 80 years. They create grown-up breaks at our luxurious Warner Leisure Hotels and offer a real breath of fresh air at our Haven Holiday parks. They provide essential support at our Hemel Hempstead head office, 950 talented team members in a wide variety of roles – ranging from customer contact centre and guest services, to finance, IT, sales & marketing, purchasing, health & safety and much more. So whatever talent you have, we can help you make more of it. Whatever level you are at, we can help you go up in the world. Whatever role you are doing now, discover how far your role can take you. And as long as you can give our guests a great time, we’ll give you the opportunities of a lifetime.

The Nation’s Experience Capital, celebrating 50 years of memorable experiences. Officially opened in 1976, the NEC has grown into the UK’s most iconic event destination, comprising the NEC Campus, bp pulse LIVE, Utilita Arena Birmingham, the ICC, Vox conference venue, and a newly launched immersive experience venue.  Across its spaces, the NEC has welcomed over 153 million visitors to more than 36,000 events over the past 50 years.

The Azzurri Group is one of the UK’s largest and most successful hospitality investment platforms. We operate two leading national Italian full service brands, Zizzi and ASK Italian, the UK’s leading quick-service Italian, Coco di Mama and renowned Irish fast casual Mexican restaurant brand Boojum. Azzurri employs nearly 6,000 people, serving over 15 million meals annually in our growing estate of over 230 restaurants and stores. Across all of our brands we focus on what really matters to our customers – a memorable experience, high-quality food, great people, and beautifully designed restaurants and stores. The service is personal, the food delicious and the whole experience leaves you wanting more.

Ventrata is trusted by attractions and tour operators around the world, to help them grow and manage all the sales channels from a single platform. We offer 24/7 email, chat and telephone support and configure our solution for every client so that our technology is a perfect fit for your business.

Scandi Standard is the leading producer of chicken-based food products in the Nordic region, Ireland and Lithuania. We produce, market and sell ready to eat, chilled and frozen products under the well-known brands Kronfågel, Danpo, Den Stolte Hane, Naapurin Maalaiskana and Manor Farm. In Norway eggs are also produced and sold. Since 2013 our group has grown and we now have a revenue of 13,014 (2023) and approximately 3 300 employees. Vision: Better Chicken for a Better Life Mission: The Scandi Way – The way we work every day to become better and make a difference, promoting health and wellbeing for people, the chickens and our planet. www.scandistandard.com Scandi Standard – what sort of name is that? We are often asked why our company is called Scandi Standard. For us it really is quite straightforward: Scandi stands for Scandinavia, the region we originally come from, and Standard for the high standard we seek and maintain with regards to animal welfare and food safety. The combination of our Scandinavian origins and high operational standards helps us to strive every day toward our vision statement: “Better Chicken for a Better Life”.

We work across the entire value chain from seed to sip, delivering high-quality products and services at scale, consistently. Our total coffee solution includes private label roasting, branded coffee, world-class espresso equipment, single-serve capsules, data-driven support, category management and market insight. With global, regional and local expertise, we innovate and collaborate with many of Europes most dynamic retailers and out of home operators. Ueshima Coffee Company - Japans No.1 coffee - is now available in Europe. Built on the principles of craftsmanship, innovation and sustainability, our launch range delivers a line up of unique, sustainable and premium coffees that represent an authentic taste of Japan. Our range includes beans, roast and ground coffee, Nespresso® compatible aluminium capsules and coffee bags in three inspirational blends - Tokyo Roast, House Blend and Fuji Mountain. For more information visit www.ueshimacoffeecompany.com

Burleigh (Burgess & Leigh Ltd) has been crafting fine earthenware pottery in Stoke-on-Trent since 1851, and has operated from the iconic Middleport Pottery since 1889. Famed for its richly detailed transferware patterns and deep-rooted commitment to traditional techniques, Burleigh remains the only pottery in the world to continue the centuries-old method of underglaze tissue transfer printing by hand. Every piece is made using time-honoured skills passed down through generations of craftspeople. Today, Burleigh pottery is exported globally and can be found in luxury retailers, boutique hotels, and acclaimed restaurants across the USA, Japan, South Korea and beyond. Recent collaborations with world-renowned names and a renewed focus on storytelling and provenance have secured Burleigh’s place as a preeminent name in British ceramics. Burleigh is proud to represent Great Britain through its continued production of authentic, hand-finished pottery—all made at its historic factory in Middleport.

Valarian builds infrastructure for organisations operating in high-trust, high-stakes environments. Our core product, ACRA, is a secure, compartmentalised backbone designed to run and protect mission-critical applications — now proven at the edge in portable GPU clusters as well as in the cloud and on-premise. We developed ACRA when existing infrastructure failed to meet real-world risk — where segmentation breaks down, audit trails disappear, and lateral movement cannot be contained. Valarian is a UK-founded and UK-led company, and backed by leading defence and national security investors. We are a homegrown team with backgrounds across defence, secure communications, high-assurance systems, and enterprise software — engineers and operators who have worked in environments where a lost signal or a missed audit can carry real consequences. We design like users because we’ve been them.

Stormwater and sewer networks are under increasing pressure as a result of climate change, urbanisation, ageing infrastructure and more stringent compliance measures. At ManholeMetrics we offer affordable level monitoring and insights for cities, utilities, highway and rail authorities, to help with these growing operational, planning and compliance needs. Our radar-based level sensors are much like a smoke alarm—low-cost, long-life (10+ years) and easy to install (<10 mins with basic tools and our app)—making high-volume deployments possible. This data enables our platform to deliver powerful network insights. These include real-time and predictive alerts for overflows, blockages, inflow and infiltration to allow for targeted interventions. This network data in turn can inform capacity monitoring studies, capital improvement projects and hydraulic model calibration. Learn more about turning network insights into action—reducing costs, improving compliance, operations and planning—at www.manholemetrics.com and email us at contact@manholemetrics.com to book a demo.