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Rising stars: our pick of the companies growing fast in Yorkshire and the Humber

In the sixth part of our series covering the regions and nations of the UK, we look at the SMEs scaling up in Yorkshire and the Humber, as recommended by our readers
Amy Wilson
The Times
Leeds is a thriving hub for business in the Yorkshire and the Humber region
Leeds is a thriving hub for business in the Yorkshire and the Humber region
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Amy Wilson
The Times

When we published our first Times Enterprise Network rising stars series last summer, profiling fast-growing SMEs based outside London, feedback from readers included suggestions of other emerging companies driving growth in their local areas. So in this instalment of rising stars we focus on businesses recommended by readers, all with revenues over £1 million.

We look at three companies in Yorkshire and the Humber growing in data-matching technology, greetings cards and gifts and cutting-edge robotics:

The Data Shed, Leeds

Ed Thewlis and Anna Sutton, co-founders of The Data Shed. When they started the business the funding market in Yorkshire was very small. It has since improved substantially
Ed Thewlis and Anna Sutton, co-founders of The Data Shed. When they started the business the funding market in Yorkshire was very small. It has since improved substantially

Anna Sutton set up The Data Shed with her co-founder Ed Thewlis to solve her own problem: getting access to the customer data she knew was held within companies so that she could do her job as a marketing executive better.

She and Thewlis, a data