RDVault, an investee company within the Deepbridge Life Sciences EIS portfolio, has won Tech Nation's fourth Rising Stars competition, which recognises the best early-stage technology scale-ups across the UK. 

According to data from Tech Nation, the North West is now home to nine of the UK’s tech ‘unicorns’, which are companies valued at over $1bn, and has received $975m in VC investment funding last year - a 43.7% increase on the $549m received in 2020. .  

Shoayb Patel, Founder of RDVault commented: 

“We’re very excited and honoured to be awarded this prestigious accolade from Tech Nation. Considering the impressive cohort and competition, we’re ecstatic about this amazing achievement." 

A panel of seven judges have selected this year's winners, all of which being supported by the UK Tech ecosystem as they are inducted into the Tech Nation alumni network. 

Esme Caulfield, Competitions Lead at Tech Nation, said: 

“This year’s Tech Nation Rising Stars 4.0 Winners demonstrate the very best of UK tech innovation. It’s been so exciting to see this year’s Rising Stars winners disrupting a wide variety of tech sectors. like fintech, lawtech and so many others, including - for the first time - deathtech. Perhaps even more excitingly, this is one of our most diverse cohorts yet, with the majority of winning companies having female founders or co-founders, and nearly three quarters hailing from outside of London.” 

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