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Largest Horizontal SaaS Public Companies in the UK
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
RELX, Sage, Computacenter, Shawbrook Group and Clarivate.
 | RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers in various industries. The company serves sectors such as science and medical research, risk management, and legal. In addition, RELX organizes large-scale digital and face-to-face events such as industry trade shows. Around 60% of revenue is generated in North America and about 20% in Europe. | $34 | -35% | $60B | $70B | 5.3x | 13.3x | ||
| The Sage Group is a U.K.-based provider of accounting and enterprise resource planning, or ERP, software, predominantly to customers in the U.S. and Europe. The company was founded in 1981 and historically sold on-premises software products with perpetual software licenses. However, the company is transitioning toward cloud connected and cloud native products, sold via software-as-a-service, or SaaS, contracts. Sage’s main cloud native products include Sage Accounting, for small businesses, and Sage Intacct, which Sage acquired in 2017, for midsize businesses. | $12 | -27% | $11B | $13B | 3.9x | 15.1x | ||
| Computacenter PLC is an IT infrastructure services provider that advises organizations on IT plans and manages customer infrastructure. The company offers user support, devices, applications, and data to support the customers through consulting, as well as the implementation and operation of networks and data center infrastructures on or off customers' premises. Computacenter operates infrastructure operation centers and group service desks across Europe, South Africa, and Asia, providing user support in multiple languages. The company's segments include the U.K., Germany, Western Europe, North America, and International, with Germany accounting for the majority of revenue. | $62 | +92% | $6B | $6B | 0.5x | 12.2x | ||
| Shawbrook Group PLC is a specialist savings and lending bank operating in the United Kingdom. It focuses mostly on poorly served customer segments across the small to medium-size enterprise and retail market of the island nation. Shawbrook's primary markets include property, business, and consumer finance. The company has grown since its founding through mostly acquisitions. Net operating income mostly derives from asset finance, commercial mortgages, and secured lending. Shawbrook emphasizes customer service, and reputation. | $4 | -- | $2B | $3B | 3.2x | - | ||
| Clarivate is a data, information, and software workflow solutions company serving customers primarily in academia, government, law, life sciences, and healthcare. The company was formerly part of Thomson Reuters before being sold to private equity as an independent company in 2016. In 2019, Clarivate went public on the New York Stock Exchange. Around half of the company’s revenue is generated in the Americas, while Europe, Middle East, and Africa account for around a quarter. | $3 | -39% | $2B | $6B | 2.4x | 5.8x | ||
| Rezolve AI PLC is an AI-powered solutions company, specializing in enhancing customer engagement, operational efficiency, and revenue growth for the retail and e-commerce sectors. The company's product, Brain Commerce, powered by its proprietary Large Language Model (LLM) brainpowa, transforms the online shopping experience. By surpassing traditional site search and product discovery tools, Brain Commerce improves conversion rates, increases average order value (AOV), and reduces cart abandonment. The company has one reportable segment, which is cloud-based services. Geographically, the company generates revenue from Canada, the United States, Mexico, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Japan, with the majority of revenue generated from the United States. | $3 | -7% | $1B | $1B | 25.3x | (20.2x) | ||
| GB Group PLC provides identity intelligence solutions through its three divisions Location, Identity, and Fraud. It offers electronic ID Verification services, ID Registration, ID Engage, and ID Trace and Investigates software and services. GB Group's technology supports customers in traditional banking, government, utilities, retail, transport, and newly emerging industries such as eCommerce, online gaming, cryptocurrency, and mobile payments. The company has a geographical presence in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Australia and generates revenues from the sale of software and rendering of services. | $3 | +5% | $766M | $877M | 2.3x | 9.4x | ||
| Auction Technology Group PLC is a digital marketplace operator that powers the discovery and sale of curated secondary goods through trusted online platforms. The Group operates curated auction and list-price marketplaces and provides value-added services, including seller marketing, integrated payments, shipping solutions, cross-listing capabilities, white-label auction technology, and partner network services. Its operations are organised into two reportable segments: Arts & Antiques and Industrial & Commercial, across which it operates multiple specialist marketplaces. The majority of revenue is generated from the Arts & Antiques segment. Geographically, it serves the United Kingdom, Mexico, Germany, and the United States, with the majority of revenue generated from the United States. | $6 | -3% | $715M | $870M | 4.6x | 11.3x | ||
| NCC Group PLC is a holding company. The provision of independent advice and services to customers through the provision of software resilience and Cyber Security services. The Group reports its business segment: the Cyber Security division. The reporting segments provide distinct types of service, and within the reporting segments, the operating segment provide a homogeneous group of services. The company operates in the UK, North America, APAC, and Europe, and the majority of revenue comes from the UK. | $2 | +4% | $561M | $575M | 1.4x | 10.9x | ||
| Cerillion PLC is a charging, billing, and customer relationship management software company. It has three operating segments, including Services, Software, and Other. The services segment relates to revenue from providing services to customers on new implementation projects and enhancements. The software segment relates to support and maintenance revenue derived from people using the software. The geographical segments are Europe, Asia Pacific, MEA, and the Americas. The majority of revenue is derived from Europe. | $18 | -13% | $537M | $498M | 8.2x | 15.2x | ||
| Netcall PLC is an enterprise software company. Its Liberty software platform with intelligent automation and customer engagement solutions helps organizations digitally transform their businesses faster and more efficiently, empowering them to create a leaner, more customer-centric organization. The company's customers span across the enterprise, healthcare and government sectors. | $2 | +10% | $288M | $270M | 4.2x | 20.4x | ||
| Arqit Quantum Inc is a cybersecurity company that has pioneered a symmetric key agreement technology that makes the communications links of any networked device or data at rest secure against current and future forms of cyber attack - even an attack from a quantum computer. The company delivers its symmetric key agreement technology via its product SKA-Platform. The firm operates in one segment, that is, the provision of cybersecurity services. The company operates and generates its revenue from UK. | $16 | -56% | $283M | $256M | 483.9x | (7.0x) | ||
| ActiveOps PLC is a leader in Management Process Automation, providing a SaaS platform to large enterprises with complex and often global back-offices. The group's software and embedded back-office operations management methodology enable enterprises to adopt a data-driven, scientific approach to organizing work and managing capacity. The group has two reporting segments, SaaS and Training and Implementation services. The Group generates the majority of its revenue from SaaS and operates across three regions: EMEIA, North America, and APAC, with the majority of its revenue coming from EMEIA. | $3 | +76% | $236M | $220M | 5.3x | 58.9x | ||
| dotDigital Group PLC is a software-as-a-service technology company, offering cross-channel marketing automation technology to marketing professionals. Its customer experience and data platform (CXDP) combines automation and AI to help businesses deliver hyper-relevant customer experiences at scale. The platform also allows Dotdigital's customers to automate personalised marketing experiences across web, email, SMS, WhatsApp, chat, push, social, ads, and other media. The group's operating segments are EMEA (its key revenue-generating market), the U.S., and the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. | $1 | -32% | $208M | $162M | 1.4x | 4.5x | ||
| Aptitude Software Group PLC is engaged in the provision of IT services and solutions, including software-based activity. It operates its business through the Aptitude Software Segment. Its Aptitude Software business provides a series of specialized financial management software applications, and the majority of the revenue is derived from software licenses, software subscription fees, maintenance, support, funded development, and related consultancy. It operates in two geographic regions, the United Kingdom and the Rest of the world, and the majority of its revenue comes from the United Kingdom. | $3 | -32% | $161M | $133M | 1.5x | 10.2x | ||
| Hybrid Software Group PLC is a software development company focused on productivity tools for the graphic arts industry. The company's segment includes Printing Software; Printhead Solutions and Enterprise Software. It generates maximum revenue from the Enterprise Software segment. Enterprise Software segment includes file preparation and workflow automation for print manufacturing. Printhead solutions includes electronics and software for industrial inkjet devices. Printing software includes graphic processing engines for fast and high-quality digital output. With UK, company also operates in Europe(excluding UK), North & South America, and Asia. | $5 | +15% | $152M | $141M | 2.2x | 9.2x | ||
| Brave Bison Group PLC is an independent digital media and social video broadcaster. The company is engaged in the provision of digital advertising and technology services to blue-chip companies, like social media advertising, influencer marketing, paid media services, and search engine optimization services, and it owns and operates a network of social and digital media channels. These channels principally exist on platforms such as YouTube, Snapchat, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram. | $1 | +43% | $133M | $130M | 1.8x | 14.0x | ||
| Team Internet Group PLC Formerly CentralNic Group PLC is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries, is involved in the provision of domain name services. The company provides registry services, distribution, and strategic consultancy. The business operates in three reporting segments, Domains, Identity & Software (DIS), Comparison and Search. The DIS segment comprises the former Online Presence segment and the Voluum SaaS business. The Comparison segment comprises VGL Publishing AG and its affiliate businesses, operating product comparison websites such as Vergleich.org. The Search segment represents the former Online Marketing segment, less Comparison and Voluum. The Search segment derives maximum revenue. Geographically, it operates in Americas, EMEA, and APAC. | $0 | -43% | $121M | $121M | 0.1x | 1.4x | ||
| 1Spatial PLC is engaged in providing Location Master Data Management (LMDM) software, solutions, and business applications. The company serves various industries such as Utilities, Government, Transportation and Infrastructure, Defence, and Engineering. Its product includes 1Integrate, 1Generalise, FME, Geocortex, and others. The company's geographical segments are UK/Ireland, Europe, United States, and Australia. | $1 | +55% | $117M | $122M | - | - | ||
| Intercede Group PLC is an independent developer and supplier of identity and credential management software. Its product portfolio includes MyID, an identity, and credential management system, RapID is the password killer for killer apps, and MyTAM enables Android app developers and service providers to deploy trusted applications to the trusted execution environment simply and cost-effectively. The company serves a diverse range of markets including governments, enterprises, app developers, and service providers. It has operational footprints across the United Kingdom, the Rest of Europe, the Americas, and the Rest of the world. The majority of its revenue is derived from the Americas. | $2 | -37% | $95M | $73M | 3.0x | 10.4x | ||
| Corero Network Security PLC is a network security solutions provider. The company offers Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) defense solutions for service providers, hosting providers and data centers, managed security service providers, and online enterprises. The company's key products are SmartWall Network Threat Defense System, Datapath protection, SecureWatch Analytics, Scrubbing protection, Edge mitigation, and Cloud mitigation. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from the USA. | $0 | -24% | $74M | $71M | 2.8x | 35.3x | ||
| Pulsar Group PLC is a technology-led company delivering SaaS products that address the fundamental business needs of customers in the marketing, communications, and media industries. Its portfolio includes Isentia which is the market's dominant media monitoring, intelligence, and insights solution provider; Pulsar, the audience intelligence and social listening platform; Vuelio, which provides monitoring, insight, engagement, and evaluation tools for politics, editorial, and social media in one place; and ResponseSource, the network that connects journalists and influencers to the PR and communications industry. | $1 | -3% | $70M | $81M | 1.0x | 5.8x | ||
| Skillcast Group PLC is engaged in providing management services to other entities in the group. The Group provides software and content subscriptions and related professional services to enable companies to transform their staff compliance. The company has two revenue streams: SaaS subscriptions - The Group provides subscriptions to its content and technology products to the customer for subscription periods that are typically twelve months. The revenue is recognized evenly over the period of subscription, and Professional services - The Group provides customized and standard content to its clients under fixed-price contracts. Geographically, it operates in the UK, Europe, and the Rest of the world. The company derives a majority of its revenue from the United Kingdom. | $1 | -5% | $54M | $37M | 1.8x | 14.6x | ||
| Celebrus Technologies PLC is a United Kingdom-based company that focuses on providing data solutions for its clients. The specific area of focus for the company is data and analytics related to consumers; the collection of data on how consumers interact with digital channels, the management and analysis of the data, and the implementation of cost-effective solutions to assist companies in getting real value from their data assets. The business group is operated through product groups that help them generate revenue, which mainly are such as Licenses, Celebrus Cloud Hosting, support and maintenance, Professional services, and Third party products. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from the United States of America, followed by the UK, Europe, and other regions. | $1 | -29% | $53M | $27M | 0.7x | 3.2x | ||
| PCI-PAL PLC is a holding company engaged in the peripheral component interconnect (PCI) and telephony services business. It operates as a specialist provider of secure payments solutions, including a cloud-based, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard compliant suite. Its business activities include accepting contracts across a range of market sectors including retail, services, leisure, public, and charity sector. It operates the business across the United Kingdom serving the other markets. It operates one business sector: the service of providing data secure payment card authorizations for call centre operations and this is delivered on a regional basis. The company operates in EMEA, North America and ANZ region, out of which it generates maximum revenue from EMEA. | $1 | -5% | $48M | $43M | 1.4x | 13.5x | ||
| Checkit PLC is a real-time operation management software company engaged in providing intelligent operations management platforms for desk less workforces, enabling operational agility and intelligent decision-making in large multinational and complex national organizations. The company's subscription business model offers optional plugins for smart sensor networks and workflow task management. Its solutions apply digital tools and monitoring to transform workforce management and incorporate physical assets into a digital ecosystem using Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and monitoring devices. The company has two operating segments; the United Kingdom, and The Americas. It derives a majority of its revenue from the United Kingdom. | $0 | +68% | $36M | $33M | 1.8x | 243.0x | ||
| Satsuma Technology PLC is a provider of AI-based conversational technologies. The company is focused on establishing AI-focused business. It provides subnet infrastructure and AI agent development to leverage on-chain agent ecosystems, deploying and managing subnet alpha tokens. | $0 | -- | $34M | $163M | 120776.8x | (170.6x) | ||
| Cirata PLC is a provider of collaboration software for the software development industry. The company offers Active Data Replication, a patented technology that enables the replication of continuously changing data to the cloud and on-premises data centers. The company serves data and source code management markets. In addition, the company offers cloud migration, cloud replication, data lakes, developer collaboration, and other related services. The company currently operates in geographical markets namely: North America, Europe, and the Rest of the World. The majority of the company's revenue is generated from North America. | $0 | -39% | $30M | $27M | 2.3x | (7.1x) | ||
| Iomart Group PLC is engaged in the provision of managed cloud services. The company's reportable segment includes Easyspace and Cloud Services. The Cloud Services segment provides managed cloud computing facilities and services, through a network of owned data centers to the larger SME and corporate markets. The Easyspace segment provides a range of shared hosting and domain registration services to micro and SME companies. It generates maximum revenue from the Cloud Services segment. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from the United Kingdom and also has a presence in the Rest of the World. | $0 | -38% | $27M | $174M | 0.9x | 3.8x | ||
| Vianet Group PLC is a provider of actionable management information and business insight created by combining data from the smart Internet of Things solutions and external information sources. Smart Zones include Data insight and actionable data services as well as design, product development, sale, and rental of fluid monitoring equipment. The business of the group is divided into two divisions: Smart Machines and Smart Zones. The company generates maximum revenue from the Smart Zones segment. Geographically, the company derives maximum of the revenue from the United Kingdom and has a presence in the Rest of Europe and the United States/Canada. | $1 | -30% | $25M | $26M | 1.3x | 4.7x | ||
| SysGroup PLC provides Cloud Hosting, Managed Services, and IT consultancy to medium and large enterprises. The company's operating segment includes Managed IT Services and Value Added Resale (VAR). It generates maximum revenue from the Managed IT Services segment. Managed IT Services segment provides managed services to customers as well as professional services. The value-added resale (VAR) segment provides all forms of VAR sales where the business sells products and licenses from supplier partners. Geographically, it derives the majority of its revenue from the UK and has a presence in the Rest of the World. | $0 | -12% | $20M | $16M | 0.6x | 13.3x | ||
| Zoo Digital Group PLC through its subsidiaries provides cloud technology services. Its services are used for digital content authoring, video post-production, and localisation for entertainment, publishing, and packaging markets. The company's operating segment includes Media Production and Software solutions. Media Production includes localisation and media services. It generates maximum revenue from the Media Production segment. Geographically, it operates in the United Kingdom and the United States, out of which it derives the majority of its revenue from the United States. | $0 | -32% | $15M | $17M | 0.3x | 15.4x | ||
| Shearwater Group PLC is a UK-based company focused on providing digital resilience solutions. The company delivers cybersecurity, network monitoring technologies, managed security services, Data Loss Prevention, Identity & Access Security, IT Solutions, Penetration Testing & Red Teaming, and other services. Its operating segment includes software and services. The company generates maximum revenue from the Services segment. Its geographical segments include the United Kingdom(UK) and Europe(excluding the UK), North America, and the Rest of the world, of which the majority of the revenue is derived from the UK. | $1 | -19% | $12M | $9M | 0.2x | (0.8x) | ||
| Blackbird PLC operates in the SaaS and cloud video market. It professional cloud video editing and publishing platform. Enabling remote editing, Blackbird provides rapid access to video content for the easy creation of clips, highlights, and longer form content to multiple devices and platforms. Its solutions are Blackbird provides cloud native video editing and publishing platform, and Technology licensing is an ultra-efficient core technology that powers video companies into the cloud. The group generates revenue in respect of the sale of Cloud-based professional video editing and publishing software. The product is sold using a software licensing and delivery model in which the software is licensed on a subscription basis. The company manages business as a single business segment. | $0 | -62% | $12M | $7M | 3.5x | (3.1x) | ||
| NARF Industries PLC is a cybersecurity company. It is focused on building a group capable of offering cybersecurity solutions in the USAÂ and abroad. The Group provides government research and development services (GR&D) and government solutions and services (GS&S). GR&D services principally comprise theoretical research into potential cybersecurity threats along with the development of source code to test cybersecurity defenses against those threats. GS&S services include the development of infrastructure and software to analyze potential threats and seek to reduce risks. | $0 | -13% | $11M | $14M | 4.6x | (6.3x) | ||
| Silver Bullet Data Services Group PLC is engaged in the provision of data and digital transformation services and tools that seek to deliver future-proofed solutions for the privacy-first, post-cookie era for marketing and advertising purposes. It has two operating segments; Customer experience services, and 4D Advanced contextual targeting and Insights outcomes engine. It derives the majority of its revenue from the United Kingdom. | $0 | -17% | $6M | $12M | 0.9x | (5.7x) | ||
| Dillistone Group PLC provides technology solutions and services to the recruitment industry. It is a provider of software and services that enable recruitment firms and in-house recruiters to manage their selection process and address the training needs of individuals. It carries brands like Voyager Software, a supplier of Infinity recruitment software, the Mid-Office Pay & Bill solution, Dillistone FileFinder, and others. The company's divisional segments include Ikiru People and Central. Its primary geographical markets are the United Kingdom, Europe, the Americas, Australia, and the Rest of the world. The majority of its revenue is derived from the United Kingdom. | $0 | -- | $5M | $7M | 1.1x | 4.2x | ||
| Catenai PLC is engaged in the provision of digital media and technology services. The Company specialises in IT solutions that solve commercial challenges and create opportunities for its clients, with an increasing focus incorporating AI into its platforms. | $0 | -- | $5M | $4M | 25.2x | (25.3x) | ||
| Cykel AI PLC is engaged to build AI tools that can interact with any UI, website, or API in response to natural language commands. | $1 | -- | $4M | $5M | - | - | ||
| Median | $1 | -15% | $95M | $122M | 2.2x | 9.3x |
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