Robert Wong

Select Star is a modern data governance platform that helps organizations manage and understand their data at scale - enabling AI, analytics, and self-service across the business. It automatically catalogs datasets, traces end-to-end lineage, and builds a shared business glossary and semantic layer, so teams can confidently work with trusted data. With a user-friendly data portal and built-in automation, Select Star supports use cases including data democratization, data governance, semantic layers, and cloud data migrations—serving as a foundational layer for enterprise AI and data initiatives. Select Star was acquired by Snowflake in December 2025.

BigML offers a highly scalable, cloud-based Machine Learning service that is easy to use, seamless to integrate, and instantly actionable. Now everyone can implement data-driven decision making in their applications. BigML works with small and big data. Machine Learning can be used to analyze and predict: ✓ customer behavior, to increase customer loyalty ✓ site visit behavior, to increase site conversion ✓diagnostics, to support health care, hardware maintenance, and many other areas ✓risk profiles, to process loan applications ✓stock levels, to optimize the supply of goods ✓and many, many other applications, where finding patterns in data creates new insights and using those patterns to predict creates new value. Our service is simple to use. You dont have to be an expert to benefit from Machine Learning technology. Just upload your data and start exploring.

Platfora, the leading big data discovery platform, was acquired by Workday in August, 2016. To learn more, visit Workday.com.

Agency 500 is an independent guide created to recognise, rank, and showcase leading agencies across the UK and beyond. Built for brands, businesses, founders, procurement teams, and decision-makers, Agency 500 helps organisations discover trusted agency partners across marketing, creative, digital, PR, advertising, branding, media, web, software, and specialist service categories. The agency market is crowded, fast-moving, and often difficult to compare. Agency 500 brings structure, visibility, and credibility to the sector by providing a central platform for agency profiles, rankings, insights, and recognition. For clients, Agency 500 makes it easier to identify the right agency based on expertise, sector experience, location, services, reputation, and proven capability. For agencies, it provides a trusted platform to demonstrate excellence, increase visibility, and stand alongside other recognised leaders in the industry. Our purpose is to make agency selection clearer, more transparent, and more informed — while celebrating the agencies shaping business growth, creativity, communications, and digital innovation. Agency 500 is the independent guide to leading agencies.

Fusion Fund invests in promising start-up companies who have technology barriers in their business models. We invest in many industries including connected industries (robotics, mobility), network technologies (connectivity, security), artificial intelligence (computer vision, NLP), and digital health/medical devices. Our sweet spot are the Seed and Pre-A rounds. In addition to the financial support we provide portfolio companies, the entrepreneurial Partners at Fusion Fund provide vision, strategy, product marketing, and guidance drawn from our diverse background.

Select Star is a modern data governance platform that helps organizations manage and understand their data at scale - enabling AI, analytics, and self-service across the business. It automatically catalogs datasets, traces end-to-end lineage, and builds a shared business glossary and semantic layer, so teams can confidently work with trusted data. With a user-friendly data portal and built-in automation, Select Star supports use cases including data democratization, data governance, semantic layers, and cloud data migrations—serving as a foundational layer for enterprise AI and data initiatives. Select Star was acquired by Snowflake in December 2025.

BigML offers a highly scalable, cloud-based Machine Learning service that is easy to use, seamless to integrate, and instantly actionable. Now everyone can implement data-driven decision making in their applications. BigML works with small and big data. Machine Learning can be used to analyze and predict: ✓ customer behavior, to increase customer loyalty ✓ site visit behavior, to increase site conversion ✓diagnostics, to support health care, hardware maintenance, and many other areas ✓risk profiles, to process loan applications ✓stock levels, to optimize the supply of goods ✓and many, many other applications, where finding patterns in data creates new insights and using those patterns to predict creates new value. Our service is simple to use. You dont have to be an expert to benefit from Machine Learning technology. Just upload your data and start exploring.

Platfora, the leading big data discovery platform, was acquired by Workday in August, 2016. To learn more, visit Workday.com.

Agency 500 is an independent guide created to recognise, rank, and showcase leading agencies across the UK and beyond. Built for brands, businesses, founders, procurement teams, and decision-makers, Agency 500 helps organisations discover trusted agency partners across marketing, creative, digital, PR, advertising, branding, media, web, software, and specialist service categories. The agency market is crowded, fast-moving, and often difficult to compare. Agency 500 brings structure, visibility, and credibility to the sector by providing a central platform for agency profiles, rankings, insights, and recognition. For clients, Agency 500 makes it easier to identify the right agency based on expertise, sector experience, location, services, reputation, and proven capability. For agencies, it provides a trusted platform to demonstrate excellence, increase visibility, and stand alongside other recognised leaders in the industry. Our purpose is to make agency selection clearer, more transparent, and more informed — while celebrating the agencies shaping business growth, creativity, communications, and digital innovation. Agency 500 is the independent guide to leading agencies.