This year’s #1 in Deloitte’s Fast 50 has been backed by Wealth Club investors

Journee, an online tour operator that matches people with surprise holiday experiences, ranks first in this year’s Fast 50 awards. The company achieved a 10,171% growth over the past three financial years.

Customers fill in a short online questionnaire and Journee does the rest: curating a suitable trip, booking flights, hotels and activities. For holidaymakers, this reduces days of travel planning down to just minutes. Journee provides clues and reveals the destination just a few days before departure. Journee also keeps in touch whilst they travel.

Journee was founded in 2019 by three former Depop colleagues who shared a love of travel and frustration with the shortcomings of the holiday industry.

The company has so far sent over 16,000 customers on holiday and garnered a Trustpilot rating of 4.8/5 (12 November 2025).

How to invest in companies like Journee

Journee is backed by Fuel Ventures via its Scale-up EIS and Follow-on EIS funds.

Experienced investors can get exposure to companies like Journee (albeit not likely Journee itself) by investing in the current iterations of the Fuel Ventures Scale-up EIS Fund and Fuel Ventures Follow-on EIS Fund, which are open for investment.

Ranked 5^th in this year’s Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 is personalised city tours platform City Unscripted, with 2,955% revenue growth over the past three financial years.

With City Unscripted, holidaymakers can get to explore a city with a local. It matches them with vetted hosts who, like a “friend in the city”, can take them on a premium, private tour tailored around shared interests.

When pandemic disruption brought global travel to a near standstill, the company took the opportunity to expand its offering by partnering with more hosts – and was ready to take advantage of the significant uptick in demand as soon as travel restrictions started to ease.

Since 2014, City Unscripted has delivered over 40,000 tours and experiences in more than 60 cities.

How to invest in companies like City Unscripted

Wealth Club investors backed City Unscripted – one of our single company investments – over several EIS fundraises between 2018 and 2023.

Experienced investors can get exposure to companies like City Unscripted (albeit not City Unscripted itself) by investing in Wealth Club’s single company deals.

Contract-management software company Summize is in the Deloitte Fast 50 for the second year running, ranked 10^th with revenue growth of 2,678% over the past three years (last year it ranked 8^th with 3,720% growth over four financial years). In June 2025, the company reported its fifth consecutive year of more than doubling its annually recurring revenue (ARR).

Summize’s software helps make reviewing and managing contracts less onerous for legal teams. Its AI highlights the most relevant clauses, so lawyers can quickly focus on them. The product suite integrates with widely used platforms such as Slack, Outlook, Gmail, and Salesforce – enabling clients to create, review and submit contracts within the business tools they already use. 

Summize’s clients include Revolut, Komatsu, Huel, Matillion, SeatGeek, Thought Machine, Fujifilm, Huel, and several Formula 1 teams, to name a few.

How to invest in companies like Summize

Summize is backed by the Maven VCTs and British Smaller Companies VCTs.

Existing and new shareholders in the Maven VCTs and British Smaller Companies VCTs could get some exposure to Summize, and similar companies. Both VCT offers are open and you can apply online.

Medical booking platform Scan.com has made it into the Deloitte Fast 50 for a second year in a row. Ranked 11^th again, it has grown revenues 2,622% over the past three financial years.

Scan.com’s online platform lets patients self-book medical imaging (such as an MRI, CT, ultrasound or mammogram) without needing a GP referral. It aims to enable them to get a scan appointment nearby within a few days rather than weeks.

Patients can compare prices and request what they need in a few clicks, including pre- and post-scan consultations and a fast-tracked report of results. 

Established in 2017, Scan.com is partnered with a network of healthcare providers across Europe and the USA – including Nuffield Health, Lyca Health and Alliance Medical. Between August 2022 and February 2025, the number of scans booked per month through Scan.com grew 1,596%.

How to invest in companies like Scan.com

Scan.com is backed by Triple Point Venture VCT. The company is part of its current portfolio – so existing and new shareholders in the VCT should get some exposure. The VCT is open and you can apply online.

Enterprise conversational AI creator PolyAI ranks #1 among AI companies and #14 overall in the 2025 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 – having achieved a 2,274% revenue growth rate over the past three years. The company ranked #15 overall last year.

PolyAI develops lifelike customer-service voice-AI – able to converse with customers, in multiple languages, even if they interrupt or change topics. It helps businesses handle a greater volume of calls, to a high level of service and customer satisfaction, without adding much overhead.

PolyAI’s clients across more than 45 languages include healthcare, utilities and big brands like Volkswagen, FedEx, Metro Bank, Marriott and the iconic Caesars Entertainment hotel and casino chain.

The Cambridge University spinout was founded in 2017 by three doctoral candidates with previous tenures at Apple, Google and Facebook.

How to invest in companies like Poly AI

PolyAI is backed by Amadeus Capital Partners, which has invested in it through its EIS Fund and institutional Early Stage Fund.

Experienced investors can get exposure to companies like PolyAI (albeit not PolyAI itself) by investing in the Amadeus Early Stage EIS Fund. The fund is currently closed, but you can register to be alerted when it opens.

Ranked #15 in this year’s Fast 50, AI-powered due diligence platform Xapien has achieved 2,107% revenue growth in the past three years.

Dubbed the ‘ChatGPT of due diligence’, Xapien can deliver an executive-level report on any person or organisation worldwide, within minutes. It gathers information from across the internet as well as proprietary databases – to generate a detailed report identifying money-laundering, bribery-and-corruption and ESG risks. It will also flag risky associations manual checks might miss.

Founded in in 2018, Xapien is used across the legal, financial services, risk consultancy, education and non-profit sectors. Clients include the University of Cambridge, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Pinsent Masons, and the UK’s first fully licensed Banking-as-a-Service platform, Griffin.

How to invest in companies like Xapien

Xapien is backed by the British Smaller Companies VCTs, two longstanding VCTs that focus on tech companies across various sectors. Existing and new shareholders in the VCTs should get some exposure to Xapien and companies like it – the VCTs are open and you can apply online.

Secret Food Tours returns to the Deloitte UK Fast 50 in 18^th place, having achieved 1,672% revenue growth over the last three financial years. It ranked seventh last year.

The company offers premium off-the-beaten-track tours and experiences for foodies: from finding where locals eat, to workshops with chefs and artisans, to not-for-the-fainthearted experiences like crocodile-tongue tasting.

Founded in 2013, its first tour began as a pub crawl in London but soon evolved to meet customers’ interests. Secret Food Tours now hosts hundreds of freelance tour guides across over 90 cities around the world on its platform, helping to boost hundreds of small, high-quality. It has received over 74,000 5-star reviews.

How to invest in companies like Secret Food Tours

Secret Food Tours is backed by Pembroke VCT. After a 5.3x partial exit in March 2025, the VCT maintains a stake in the company – so existing and new shareholders in the VCT should get some exposure. The VCT is open and you can apply online.

Cyber security platform Risk Ledger ranks 30^th in this year’s Fast 50, with a 964% revenue growth rate over the last three financial years.

Risk Ledger aims to help enterprises manage cyber security risks along their supply chains. It estimates 90% of UK enterprise security teams experienced at least one such incident in the past year – while 10% experienced three or more.

Risk Ledger’s third-party risk management platform onboards a client’s entire supply chain into an active network, so as to monitor their cyber security profile. It instantly identifies concentration risks, provides insights, and informs of emerging threats.

The company was founded in 2018 – and hailed by Forbes as one to watch, in its 2019 30 Under 30 report. It is now used by over 8,000 organisations, including Allica Bank, Octopus Investments, Grant Thornton, the NHS – and several UK government agencies, police forces and utility companies.

How to invest in companies like Risk Ledger

Risk Ledger is backed by the three long-established Northern VCTs.

The company is part of the current portfolio, so VCT shareholders – both existing and new – will get some exposure. The Northern VCTs are open – you can apply online.

Digital pension provider Penfold is ranked 33^rd in this year’s Deloitte Fast 50, with 935% revenue growth over the last three financial years.

Penfold’s platform offers fully-managed pensions for workplaces and the self-employed, that can be set up and tracked entirely via a mobile app. Launched in 2019, it is now used by over 100,000 people and 4,000 businesses.

The company aims to make it easier for more people, especially the young, to set up and manage a pension. It estimates around 43% of UK workers are not saving enough for retirement – and 49% of the UK's self-employed have no pension at all.

In approximately the year to March 2025, Penfold’s administered assets roughly doubled to c.£700 million. Its corporate clients include fintech group Paddle and San Francisco-based AI giant Anthropic.  

How to invest in companies like Penfold

Penfold is backed by alternative asset specialist Gresham House, via the two Baronsmead VCTs and the two Gresham House VCTs (formerly known as the Mobeus VCTs). Existing and new investors in these VCTs would have exposure to Penfold and similar companies.

The Baronsmead VCTs are open for investment and you can apply online.

The Gresham House VCTs are currently closed, but you can register to be alerted when they open.

Fintech platform Flagstone ranks 36^th in this year’s Deloitte UK Fast 50, following 845% revenue growth over the last three financial years. Last year, the company ranked 42^nd, having grown 699% over the previous four years.

Award-winning Flagstone is a cash deposit platform enabling businesses, organisations, family offices and high net worth individuals to place their cash into a choice of 60+ banks, with exclusive and market-leading interest rates. Clients can manage their multiple bank accounts through the single Flagstone portal.

At the end of December 2024, Flagstone reported that it was administering £16.2 billion in savings for its clients.

How to invest in companies like Flagstone

Wealth Club investors backed Flagstone – one of our single company investments – in 2022.

In 2024, they were given an early opportunity to partially exit at 1.87x the entry share price, when the company received a £108 million investment from a US private equity investor. Many opted to stay invested in full. Past performance is not a guide to the future.

Experienced investors can get exposure to companies like Flagstone (albeit not Flagstone itself) by investing in Wealth Club’s single company deals.

Corporate training platform Obrizum is 44^th in this year’s Deloitte UK Fast 50, with 662% revenue growth over the last three financial years.

A Cambridge University spinout in 2015, the multi-patented and award-winning Obrizum platform helps enterprises train employees faster, better and more cost-effectively. It is used by government organisations and some of the world’s largest companies, including PwC, O2, Capita, Merck and BAE Systems.

The cloud-based AI platform can create learning programmes in minutes and adapt them to the unique needs of each learner in real time. Smart assessments allow it to analyse competency in the subject and continually adjust where learners should go next – improving completion rates and accelerating learning time by 2-5x.

The company is headquartered in Cambridge, with offices in London and South Korea.

How to invest in companies like Obrizum

Guinness Ventures first invested in Obrizum in 2022 via the longstanding Guinness EIS fund, and thereafter via Guinness VCT in 2024 and 2025. Both the EIS and VCT look to offer scale-up capital to businesses with proven technology or services.

Guinness EIS is currently open for investment – investors can get exposure to companies like Obrizum (albeit not necessarily Obrizum itself).

Guinness VCT is also open for investment. Obrizum is in the current portfolio – so, new and existing investors would be investing in Obrizum and similar companies.