The Hustle Awards have become a key fixture in the startup ecosystem, recognising the hard work, innovation, and resilience of young companies and their founders. This year’s ceremony promises to be a significant gathering of industry leaders, investors, and budding entrepreneurs.

Let’s take a deeper look at what’s to come this year…

The categories

As always, the Hustle Awards highlights a variety of categories that celebrate a wide and diverse range of founders and businesses. The categories this year are:

• Most Innovative Tech
• Early-Stage Innovation
• Founder of the Year
• Sustainability Award
• Inspirational Womxn of the Industry
• Rising Startup Award
• Most Successful Scaleup
• Outstanding Startups Support
• Social Impact Hero(es)
• Top Performing Team
• Workspace of the Year
• The final category, Reader’s Choice Award, has been voted for by you, the readers of Startups Magazine. The entire shortlist and winners were up to the judges, but this award is all down to the readers.

Entertainment

If we do say so ourselves, the Hustle Awards is one of the most important and fun nights of the startup calendar. With companies travelling to London from across the world, we bring together a diverse set of attendees, including startups and founders, investors, and key players within the tech industry, making the night perfect for expanding your network.

The night will be kicking off with welcome speeches by Anna Wood, the Editor of Startups Magazine, and sponsor Dell. Following up the welcome speeches comes a comedy set from the fabulous Doc Brown, who is sure to tickle a rib or two! He is also hosting the evening, so it is due to be a hilarious time.

After the ceremony comes even more free-flowing drinks and the evening entertainment: MT Collective. MT Collective are fresh, hip, and tonnes of fun – they handpick the best musicians to deliver an exceptional night of dancefloor packing live music.

All that dancing will get you hungry, so the food this time is provided by KERB. Gully and BBQ Dept will be serving up their delicious food.

Gully will be serving up:

Naan wrap or rice box with one of the following fillings:

• Chicken Tikka (GF, H)
• Paneer Masala (V, GF)
• Chick Pea & Saag (GF, Ve)

BBQ Dept will have the options, all served in a toasted brioche with slaw:

• Beef Brisket - 14-hour slow cooked beef brisket with blue cheese sauce, fig jam and crispy onion
• Oak Smoked Pork (GF Available) - Low n’ slow smoked pork shoulder with house BBQ sauce, pickles and crispy onion
• Pulled Jackfruit (GF Available) - spiced pulled jackfruit with house BBQ sauce, vegan cheese, pickles and crispy onion.

Come along and see what the hype is about

Grab a ticket to The Hustle Awards and have the night of your life! We are expecting to sell out, so grab your tickets ASAP.

Good luck to all of the shortlist, and if the awards sound of interest to you, register your interest for the Hustle Awards 2025 here.  

A big thank you to all of our sponsors: Anglia Unicorn, Dell Technologies, Northern Data Group, 514 Media, and Small Business Research + Enterprise Centre.