There are moments in a company’s journey that feel less like milestones and more like collective exhale-and-smile moments. Landing at #14 in TechRound’s 100 Most Disruptive and Influential Startups is exactly that kind of moment for us.
You can read the full feature here: https://techround.co.uk/techround-100/14-foundernest
This is a win powered by team culture and customer love, and it gives us motivation to build with purpose – not noise, and this recognition feels especially meaningful. It’s a signal that the market sees the same thing our customers tell us every day: that intelligence doesn’t need to be complicated, and innovation teams deserve tools that finally work the way they do, rather than generic or traditional platforms that provide everyone with the same answers..
A culture built on curiosity, clarity, and doing the unglamorous work well
People outside the company often see the polished platform, the clean dashboards, the crisp insights. Inside FounderNest, though, this ranking feels like a nod to something less visible but more foundational: the culture that has shaped every sprint, every product decision and every conversation with a customer.
We’ve always believed that a great product comes from teams who listen more than they talk, who obsess over details that nobody else notices, and who take pride in removing friction rather than adding features for the sake of it. The culture here is humble but sharp, collaborative but demanding. It’s the kind of environment where ideas move freely, where engineers talk to customers, and where “good enough” rarely survives more than a few minutes.
That culture doesn’t scale through documents or handbooks, but more through the people who show up every day wanting to make something that genuinely matters to innovation teams around the world.
Recognition fuelled by customer trust and brutally honest feedback
No ranking like this happens in a vacuum. FounderNest’s rise is tied directly to the customers who challenge us, push us, and trust us with the way they scout, analyse and act on emerging technologies.
Some of the biggest corporates, innovation leaders and M&A teams across Europe, North America and Japan have played a massive role in this journey. Their feedback – sometimes flattering, sometimes painfully specific – is the backbone of our roadmap.
They’ve told us when our UI needed to be simpler.
They’ve told us when our insights needed to be sharper.
They’ve told us when something we believed was obvious… wasn’t.
And we listened. Which is why inclusion in TechRound’s list feels less like a badge for us and more like a shared achievement with the people building innovation pipelines, analyzing markets at speed and redefining what market intelligence looks like in 2025.
What’s next
Being listed at #14 is a moment to celebrate, but not a finish line. If anything, it’s a reminder that the work ahead is bigger, more ambitious and even more exciting. We’ll keep building with the same obsessive focus, the same curiosity and the same commitment to making innovation, R&D, strategy and M&A teams’ lives easier.
To the TechRound team: thank you for the recognition.
To our customers: thank you for the trust, the candour and the partnership.
To the FounderNest team: this one belongs to you.
Onwards — and with even more momentum.
