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August 14, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best English Publishing companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Publishing industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top English Publishing Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Wonderbly

Wonderbly

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Wonderbly is a full stack publishing company from London.

Minute Media

Minute Media

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Minute Media is a media and technology brand focused on two main pillars—platform and content.

Minute Media

Permutive

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Rebuilding data in advertising to protect privacy

Minute Media

Perlego

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Perlego is an unlimited eBook subscription service for academic and professional content.

Minute Media

Zephr

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Zephr is a technology platform for media companies to grow their subscription revenue.

Minute Media

Yieldify

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Yieldify creates smart and simple marketing technology products that predict customer behaviour.

Minute Media

Echobox

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Echobox is the leading AI-driven social media platform for publishers.

Minute Media

BibliU

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BibliU is an educational content platform that provide eTextbooks that work for academic libraries.

Minute Media

DeepCrawl

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DeepCrawl is a web crawler that helps in maintaining positive technical site health.

Minute Media

Hipgnosis Songs Fund

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Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited offers investors a pure-play exposure to songs and associated musical intellectual property rights

Minute Media

Grabyo

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Grabyo is the premium video editing and publishing platform built for live, social and mobile.

Minute Media

ContentCal

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B2B SaaS Content Marketing Platform

Minute Media

Zapnito

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Zapnito is the expert online community platform. We connect brands with their communities.

Minute Media

Deep Zen

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AI company focusing on audiobook production and voiceovers with an audiobook marketplace (audiowhale.com)

Minute Media

Proactive

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Proactive is an international news and media organization providing coverage of companies in the small to mid-capitalization range.

Minute Media

Financial Times

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The Financial Times is a business news organization providing essential news, comments, data and analysis for the global business community.

Minute Media

Reedsy

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Reedsy connects authors and publishers with the world’s best editors, designers, and marketers to create high-quality books.

Minute Media

Dianomi

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Dianomi is a global leader in content marketing.

Minute Media

Unbound

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Unbound is an online crowd-funded publisher that allows authors to pitch their book ideas directly to readers.

Minute Media

GiveMeSport

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GiveMeSport is a print-based sports publication which celebrates athleticism in all its diverse forms.

Minute Media

Bonhill Group

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Bonhill Group operates as a B2B media company.

Minute Media

Clicksco

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Clicksco collects and analyses information, brand, products, and services data from on and offline sources.

Minute Media

Blue Duck Education

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Blue Duck Education is the holding company behind Mangahigh.com which develops and publishes maths games for 11 to16 year-old students.

Minute Media

Tech.eu

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Tech.eu provides tech news, data, market intelligence, and insights into startup activity.

Minute Media

SPARKLANE

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SaaS Predictive Lead Scoring Solution – Sparklane help marketer and sales people to target “the most likely to buy” companies

Minute Media

Bibblio

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A digital publishing content recommendation technology to increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences.

Minute Media

Aggregion

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Intellectual property licensing and rights governance platform

Minute Media

unrd

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unrd is creating a new genre of entertainment by combining Hollywood quality plots with mobile storytelling techniques.

Minute Media

Smartology

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Digital advertising technology company

Minute Media

Informa

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Informa is a business intelligence, academic publishing, knowledge and events group.

Minute Media

Bazaar Daily UK

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Bazaar Daily (UK) is the British counterpart to Bazaar Daily News, a massive online news agency founded by Sultan H. Khane II.

Minute Media

infloAi

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infloAi is a London-based software company building proprietary AI technology to make content creation simple, fast and affordable

Minute Media

Videoplaza

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Our mission is to empower broadcasters & video publishers to build profitable and sustainable businesses in the internet-delivered TV worl

Minute Media

Mogul News

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Mogul News gives you the best content from the world’s leading publishers, such as the Financial Times, in one place.

Minute Media

Overleaf

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An academic authorship tool that allows seamless collaboration and effortless manuscript submission, all underpinned by cloud-technology.

Minute Media

Woto

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Woto provides a free publishing tool. to create and share contents.

Minute Media

Great British Chefs

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Great British Chefs premium food publisher with 1.3m social followers. We have 3,500 recipes from Britain’s and Italy’s Greatest Chefs.

Minute Media

Courier

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Courier is a stories of modern business reporting from London and around the world on startup culture. Published six times a year in print.

Minute Media

1854 Media

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1854 Media is an award-winning digital media organisation

ckbk

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ckbk is the ultimate digital subscription service for cooks.

Minute Media

Movellas

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Movellas is a social and interactive community for teenagers to read, write, and share their stories.

Minute Media

Devolver Digital

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Devolver Digital is a video game company that publishes online and offline games for the distinguished gamer and their refined taste.

Minute Media

Welbeck Publishing Group

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Welbeck Publishing Group focus on illustrated non-fiction and children’s books for the co-edition market.

Minute Media

Argus Media group

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Argus Media group is a global energy and commodity price reporting agency.

Minute Media

Icon

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Icon is an international architecture and design magazine.

Minute Media

Booxscale

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Booxscale is the creator of next generation transaction platform of aggregated on-demand businesses to surface within publisher websites.

Minute Media

The Tab

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The Tab is a university news network run by people who like being first.

Minute Media

SCORRERS

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Scorrers is a global giveaway and webshop platform founded by FC Barcelona player Ivan Rakitic.

Minute Media

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is an independent non-profit organization that pursues in-depth journalism into organizations.

Minute Media

Gaijin Entertainment

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Gaijin Entertainment is a fast growing game development company established in 2002. Gaijin’s team specializes in creation of games for

Minute Media

Level Up Media

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Level Up Media is a technology company that creates online destination for gaming and eSports fans to watch on demand video.

Minute Media

The Memo

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Online publication covering technology, innovation and the changing face of business.

Minute Media

READBUG

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READBUG is a curated reading experience that brings you independent, classic, cult and award-winning magazines for a monthly membership.

Minute Media

Infinite Mixed Reality

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Infinite Mixed Reality is a full-service virtual reality and augmented reality agency.

Minute Media

Digital Extremes

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Digital Extremes ranks as one of the world’s top independent development studios in the interactive entertainment industry.

Minute Media

Appticles

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Creating, distributing and monetizing mobile HTML5 applications.

Minute Media

Flooved

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Flooved is a provider of interactive social e-textbooks with personalized content for students and professors.

Minute Media

Euromoney Institutional Investor

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Euromoney Institutional Investor is a leading international business to business media group.

Minute Media

Warc

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Warc helps companies grow their businesses by offering advertising best practices, evidences, and insights from popular brands.

Minute Media

Haymarket

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Haymarket is a media and information company that creates award-winning specialist content for international audiences.

Minute Media

tibit

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pocket change for the internet — tips and tiny payments spent without a second thought.

Minute Media

Springer Nature

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Springer Nature is a leading global research, educational and professional publisher, home to an array of respected and trusted brands

Minute Media

RollUp Media

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RollUp Media is a content creation platform that connects independent publishers, advertisers and writers.

Minute Media

How.to

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How.to is an early-stage discovery platform and managed Marketplace

Minute Media

Eagle-i Music

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Eagle-i Music is an independent music publishing company with a global centralized database hub.

Minute Media

Erly Stage Studios

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An Education Venture Studio and digital publishing business, our mission is to make learning fun through engaging content and technology.

Minute Media

Time Out Group plc

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Time Out is a leading global media and entertainment business

Minute Media

Tilda Publishing

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Tilda Publishing builds beautiful websites and tell stories without any code.

Minute Media

Scoop Magazine

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Scoop Magazine offers a bi-monthly printed magazine for designed to inspire and nurture a love of reading and stories.

Minute Media

Macmillan

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Macmillan Publishers Ltd is one of the largest and best known international publishing groups in the world.

Minute Media

News UK

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News UK is a great company full of talented, dedicated and creative people.

Minute Media

The Kernel

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The Kernel is an online magazine that offers comments, reviews, and analysis about the European technology industry.

Minute Media

Dennis Publishing

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Dennis Publishing is one of the leading independently owned media companies in the UK.

Minute Media

Silicon

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Silicon UK, is the authoritative UK source for news, features and reviews of business technology.

Minute Media

Lexology

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Lexology is a web-based service that provides company law departments and law firms with the practical intelligence.

Minute Media

HIT Entertainment

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HIT Entertainment is one of the world’s leading pre-school entertainment companies.

Minute Media

Contentment Ltd

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Beautifully simple app publishing

Minute Media

Kauris Ltd

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Kauris Ltd. develops LAMOOVA promoting clubbing trough App, Animation Film and Series, Comics and Website, AR / VR.

Minute Media

Admixer Technologies

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Ad-tech company that develops and maintains SaaS products in the field of digital advertising management.

Minute Media

Jellybooks

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Jellybooks helps authors and publishers develop traction by identifying and reaching out to the most influential readers.

Minute Media

DataPress

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DataPress is a privately held company that is an engine for publishing data.

Minute Media

Resident Advisor

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RA is an online music magazine and community platform that’s dedicated to showcasing electronic music, artists and events across the globe.

Minute Media

Days Of The Year

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Expert curators of the world’s weird, funny and wonderful holidays.

Minute Media

MedArkive

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MedArkive is a SaaS pharma educational Content.

Minute Media

HELLO

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HELLO! is the world’s leading royal and celebrity news brand.

Minute Media

The Independent

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The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published by Independent Print Limited.

Minute Media

EMAP Publishing (UK)

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EMAP is a business-to-business multiplatform media group, whose brands inform, inspire and connect within the sectors they operate in.

Minute Media

Law Business Research

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Law Business Research is a leading provider of business information, legal analysis tools and networking for the global legal markets.

Minute Media

Blue Crow Media

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Blue Crow Media is an independent publisher.

Minute Media

The Economist Group

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The Economist Group is the leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs.

Minute Media

Bookboon

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Bookboon, is a publisher of eBooks

Minute Media

DMG Media

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DMG media is a consumer media company engaged in print and online newspaper publishing.

Minute Media

LICKD

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Pre-cleared commercial music licensing for YouTube and Online Video Creators.

Minute Media

Immediate Media Co.

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Immediate Media Co. is a special interest content and platform company.

Minute Media

MIRROR.CO.UK

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MIRROR.CO.UK is the online edition of The Daily Mirror, which is one of Britain’s tabloid newspapers.

Minute Media

Hindawi

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Hindawi is a commercial publisher of peer-reviewed and fully OpenAccess research journals and papers.

Minute Media

Kolabtree

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Find & hire experts, top postdocs & PhDs, as research collaborators for your academic or business projects.Speed up your research work!

Minute Media

Alberto Statti Blogger

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Alberto Statti is a blogger and content creator, you may have seen his works online.

Minute Media

Ketch

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Ketch is a Blogging Platforms company.

Minute Media

The Ozone Project

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The Ozone Project is a transparent and brand-safe platform offering advertisers direct access to an audience for programmatic advertising.

Minute Media

Mobango

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MOBANGO is a mobile community enabling mobile users to publish, convert and share user generated content with others.

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