Finance Birmingham

HelloDone Limited is a London-based company that provides an automated conversation platform tailored for transport, utilities, and home delivery sectors. The platform utilizes proprietary conversational AI to enhance the post-purchase experience for online retailers, enabling them to maintain customer relationships seamlessly through social messaging channels such as WhatsApp and Instagram. It facilitates various customer interactions, including obtaining quotes, booking services, managing bills and payments, and handling returns—all within the retailer's messaging channels. By automating approximately 85% of customer inquiries, HelloDone's AI allows retailers to efficiently manage order notifications, delivery changes, and other customer requests, while complex queries are directed to live customer service representatives. Established in 2016 and originally known as Dazzle Technology Limited, the company rebranded to HelloDone in February 2020.

Perpetuum Ltd. specializes in the engineering, manufacturing, and commercialization of electromagnetic vibration harvesting micro generators. Founded in 2004 and based in Southampton, United Kingdom, the company focuses on creating battery-free vibration energy harvesters and wireless sensor nodes for various applications, including rail, oil and gas, chemicals, power generation, and water treatment. Perpetuum's technology converts mechanical vibrations into electrical energy, enabling autonomous, maintenance-free wireless sensors that monitor equipment conditions and processes. This innovative approach enhances efficiency and safety in fleet management and services, particularly within the rail industry. As a technology spin-off from the University of Southampton, Perpetuum has established itself as a leader in vibration energy harvesting, providing practical solutions for wireless automation.

Cecence Limited is an award-winning innovation and engineering consultancy that specializes in lightweight composite materials. The company manufactures lightweight composite products for various sectors, including aerospace, marine, motorsport, and rail. In addition to product manufacturing, Cecence offers services such as architectural design, structural consulting, fire testing, 3D printing, and rapid prototyping. Their expertise extends to providing engineering solutions tailored to the oil and gas industry, making them a versatile player in the composite materials market.

Trolex a global supplier of gas and dust detection, connector solutions, strata monitoring and infotainment systems to the mining, hazardous industry and transportation markets.

Hills Numberplates trades primarily as a manufacturer of number plate components.

CoreLogic UK specializes in developing workflow management solutions and mobile survey applications tailored for the property services industry. The company provides integrated operational business management platforms that enhance workflow efficiency and facilitate data exchange for energy suppliers and chartered surveyors across the United Kingdom. Its product suite includes various tools such as Survey Hub, which assists panel managers with practice management; the SMART Survey App for RICS chartered surveyors conducting residential mortgage valuations; and ECO Hub, which helps energy suppliers manage obligations and reporting. Additional offerings include mobile applications for property assessments, legionella risk assessments, and technical monitoring, all designed to streamline operations and reduce workload while minimizing risk for clients in the lending, surveying, and energy sectors. Founded in 2005 and based in Solihull, CoreLogic UK aims to improve operational efficiency within the property services market.

Chrysalis Solmotive is a technology company that focuses on providing advanced software solutions for finance renewals. Its web-based application is designed to enhance customer retention processes specifically within the automotive sector. By offering specialized customer relationship management (CRM) tools, the company supports manufacturers, finance companies, and dealerships in improving customer loyalty and increasing the frequency of vehicle purchases.

GiveVision develops innovative software for smart glasses aimed at aiding individuals who are blind or partially sighted. Their technology functions as an intelligent companion, capable of recognizing text, people, places, and objects, and delivering pertinent information to users on demand. This enhances mobility and independence for users. Additionally, the company creates a wearable vision aid device that leverages augmented and virtual reality technology to assist those with severe sight impairments. This device is designed to restore vision for patients with untreatable sight loss, allowing them to see both up close and at a distance, thereby significantly improving their quality of life.

Formatzone, established in 2016 and headquartered in Birmingham, United Kingdom, focuses on the production, broadcast, distribution, and monetization of video entertainment formats. The company operates as a fast-track platform that facilitates the creation and dissemination of content on television and social media. Formatzone collaborates with both emerging and established creative talent, forming joint ventures to enhance its offerings in the competitive entertainment landscape.

Cube Precision Engineering to enable the company to produce new tooling for bumpers for the Land Rover Discovery.

Takestock Limited operates an online trading platform that facilitates the sale of unwanted stock, specifically targeting the food manufacturing and agricultural sectors in the United Kingdom. By connecting sellers of surplus items with potential buyers, Takestock aims to reduce waste and prevent products from being discarded. The platform allows users to trade a variety of goods, including food and beverages, hospitality equipment, packaging solutions, and food preparation and cooking equipment. With a significant amount of food waste occurring annually in the UK, Takestock seeks to address this issue by providing a marketplace that enables efficient transactions. Founded by a team with diverse experience in technology and food industries, the company emphasizes its commitment to turning excess inventory into cash for businesses while minimizing waste. Based in Chelmsford, Takestock is focused on creating a sustainable solution for unwanted stock.

Key Forensic Services specializes in delivering a comprehensive range of forensic science services tailored to the needs of the UK Criminal Justice System. As an approved supplier under the Home Office National Forensic Framework, the company is contracted by numerous UK police forces, the British Transport Police, and HM Revenue and Customs. Key Forensic Services offers a variety of solutions from strategically located sites across the UK, focusing on quality and value. Their offerings include expert testimony in court, continuing professional development training for scientific and investigative staff, and environmental monitoring of laboratories. Additionally, they provide quality control and anti-contamination testing of laboratory consumables, assisting law enforcement agencies in managing casework backlogs effectively.

Coventry Chemicals Ltd. develop, manufactures, and supplies cleaning liquids, powders, and tablet products to professional, retail, and export cleaning and hygiene requirements. Its products include bleaches, toilet and washroom cleaners, detergents, machine dishwashing powders and tablet products, antiseptic and anti-bacterial products, household cleaners, disinfectants, liquid soaps, laundry products, heavy duty cleaners and degreasers, hard surface cleaners, carpet and upholstery cleaners, and specialist cleaning products.

Magal Engineering is an automotive component and system supplier. The companies that form the Magal Group have led the field in automotive mechanical engineering for more than fifty years. With UK manufacturing becoming more and more competitive, modern management techniques and lean practices have allowed Magal Engineering to remain at the forefront of the automotive industry. Magal Engineering is an automotive component and system supplier, a UK based company with manufacturing facilities in the UK, France, Turkey, India, USA and China.Within the Global automotive market, the Magal name is associated with delivering complex design solutions, consistent quality, on-time delivery, a depth of engineering capability and competitive pricing. Magal is winning significant new business, much of it export, on the reputation of the Magal brand. Key products include thermal management systems and thermostats utilising both engineered plastic and aluminium housings, medium and light duty control cables, steering mechanisms, spare wheel carriers and puncture management, pedal boxes, jacks and manual handbrakes. Magal is recognized as a Tier 1 global strategic supplier to the major OEMs attaining preferred supplier status with Ford, Daimler, Jaguar Land Rover, Renault Nissan and PSA. A new addition to Magal is the supply and installation of high-end Industrial facades, window systems and curtain walling.

Radshape Sheet Metal essential tools needed to produce components for future Bentley vehicles.

LED lighting technology is the most important change the industry has seen since the invention of the electric light bulb, and it is progressing at a rapid rate. LightSense® LED panel lights provide high performance, direct replacements for traditional, less efficient lights. They offer substantial savings on energy consumption and provide a superior light for any environment.

Concurrent Thinking Limited, based in Warwick, United Kingdom, specializes in the design and implementation of large-scale computing infrastructures and software tailored for high-performance computing. The company offers innovative solutions for data center infrastructure management, including concurrentCOMMAND, which interfaces with various management systems to identify energy-saving opportunities, and concurrentCONTROL, a platform for comprehensive monitoring of power, environmental conditions, servers, and operating systems within data centers. Additionally, Concurrent Thinking provides essential support and maintenance services to enhance operational efficiency. The company serves a diverse clientele, including those in IT, environmental sectors, finance, and facilities management. Established in 2009 and originally named Retromaze Limited, it rebranded to Concurrent Thinking in June 2010.

Droplet is a mobile application that facilitates hands-free payments and enables users to accumulate rewards at their preferred establishments. The platform is designed to be transaction fee-free for merchants, providing an incentive for businesses to adopt the service. To date, Droplet has attracted 600 businesses and 19,000 users across three cities in the UK, with plans for expansion to 15 cities within the year. The app not only streamlines the payment process but also enhances customer engagement by offering instantaneous rewards for users.

Learning Labs is a team of former teachers, linguists, techies and professionals exploring how the latest technology can make language more accessible to every student.

The Learning Lab is a training and consultancy business delivering brain friendly learning experiences and inspired consultation to both the public and private sectors UK wide and beyond.

Shaylor Group is a regional contractor with a national presence.