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March 26, 2025

Why Vertice is the UK’s fastest-growing startup

The Sifted leaderboard topper uses AI to help customers cut spend on software and cloud


Éanna Kelly

3 min read

Roy and Eldar Tuvey, founders of Vertice

London-based Vertice, “a spend optimisation” platform that promises to save companies up to 25% on their SaaS and cloud bills, has seen its revenue grow 13x in two years. Today it tops the 2025 edition of the Sifted 100: UK and Ireland leaderboard. 

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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