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Business to Business Services StartUp

This award category recognises any start-up in the UK delivering services to other businesses.

Cardiff StartUp

Construction & Building Services StartUp

This award category recognises any start-up operating in the construction and building services industries in the UK.

Consumer Services StartUp

This award category recognises any start-up operating in the consumer services industry in the UK.

Creative StartUp

This award category recognises those start-ups that are operating in the creative sector in the UK

Digital StartUp

This award category recognises those start-ups that are operating in the UK’s digital sector.

Education and Training StartUp

This award category recognises those ‘born global‘ start-ups who have been trading internationally since the business was established.

Fashion and Beauty StartUp

This award recognises the best new businesses in the fashion and beauty industry.

Fintech StartUp

Food and Drink StartUp

This award is open to food & drink brands and services that were set up in the last three years.

Global StartUp

Graduate StartUp

Green StartUp

This award category recognises start-ups developing those products, processes or services that are resulting in significant environmental improvements. 

Health and Wellbeing

High Street StartUp

This award is open to any new business that has been established on the high streets of the towns and cities of the UK during the last three years.  

Hospitality & Events StartUp

Innovative StartUp

This award is open to any innovation-driven start-up in the UK.

Marketing, Advertising & PR StartUp

Medtech & Healthtech StartUp

This award is open to those start-ups who are developing new products, services or solutions that are then used to save and improve people’s lives.

Mobile & Emerging Technologies StartUp

Newport startup

North Wales StartUp

Online Retail StartUp

This award is open to any start-up based in the online retail sector in the UK.

Professional Services StartUp

This award is open to any start-up operating in professional services sector.

Rebel StartUp

Recruitment StartUp

Rising Star Award

This award is given to those new companies that are less than one year old (launched after 28th Feb 2021).

Rural StartUp

This award is open to any start-up in the UK which is rurally-based (located outside towns with more than 10,000 resident population). 

Social Enterprise Start-Up

A social enterprise is defined as one with an asset lock in its constitution, volunteer involvement at board level and restrictions on private distribution of dividends. The award is open to any social enterprise in the UK that has been operating for less than three years.

Swansea Bay StartUp

 Technology Services StartUp

Tourism & Leisure StartUp

This award is open to any start-up based in the tourism and leisure sector in the UK. 

Valleys StartUp

This award is open to all start-up businesses based in the Valleys area, which is three years old or less.

Young Entrepreneur

This award is given to those aged 30 and under at the close of entries on 28th Feb 2022, who have established their own start-up in the previous three years.