Top Software Startups in 2027

Pear Growth is a tech-first TikTok Shop agency in London. We are a registered TikTok Shop Partner, recognised by TikTok as a top five TikTok Shop Partner for FMCG. Our own software does the repetitive work, so our team spends its time on strategy, creators and LIVE. The agency We help UK brands grow sales on TikTok Shop through affiliate creator campaigns, TikTok LIVE shopping from our London studio, GMV Max and Spark Ads, and day-to-day shop management. Published results include The Antidotes (£888,731 in revenue), Qleen (£0 to £5k a day in 60 days with no ad spend), Vita Bright (£43,160 in revenue in 60 days from a cold start) and Ballers Bank UK (£132,043 in GMV from TikTok LIVE in 9 weeks). Lumo, our platform Lumo (lumoplatform.ai) is the software behind the agency, and brands can also use it directly. It runs a creator affiliate programme end to end. FitScore ranks 500,000+ indexed creators by predicted conversion for a product. Outreach goes out with automatic follow-ups until creators reply. A nine-stage pipeline tracks every creator and sample from first contact to revenue, and an AI strategist flags what changed and what to do next. Agentic builds We are also building AI agent systems that run the day-to-day work of a TikTok Shop for a brand, from creator activation and samples to reporting and ad checks, with a person approving each change. Brands can have us run the system for them as a managed service, or license it to run in their own stack. Who we are Our co-founders are Tom Stanley, a former TikTok employee, Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser, and Sahil Patel. We are a small team that sits where agency operations and product meet: the people building Lumo and our agents work alongside the people running client shops every day.

Digital Gateway builds an AI platform for employee onboarding, training, and competency assessment that captures how a company's best people actually work. And turns it into a system that ramps everyone else to the same level. Every growing company carries the same hidden risk: real performance lives in a few star employees' heads. When they leave, slow down, or get pulled into training juniors, the whole operation feels it. New hires take months to become useful, the same mistakes repeat, and the "how" never gets written down. Our platform fixes that. We extract the knowledge, skills, and decisions of a top performer and package them into a structured role map — a guided learning track of modules, materials, and hands-on assignments. New and existing employees move through the track, get assessed against real competencies, and are signed off by a mentor when they can actually do the job. Managers see, in one view, exactly what each person has mastered and where the gaps are. The result: new hires reach top-performer level in weeks instead of months, onboarding stops depending on your busiest people, and critical know-how becomes an asset the company owns — not something that walks out the door. Under the hood it's an assessment-and-training engine: define the role, capture the standard, assess against it, close the gaps. We start by embedding with a client to map their key role, then the platform scales that standard across the whole team — and every new role map makes the product smarter. We're a small, remote-first team based in Vancouver, building for companies that hire fast and can't afford six-month ramp times. If you want to help put a real onboarding- and-assessment standard inside every growing company — and get in early while the platform is being built — this is your team.