DRIFT Named Among UK's Most Ground-Breaking New Businesses
● DRIFT Energy has been listed at #11 in the prestigious Startups 100 Index for 2025, which lists the top 100 startups with the highest growth potential for the year ahead
● DRIFT has also won the Startups 100 Sustainability Award, celebrating businesses that demonstrate innovative and impactful sustainability practices
The UK’s longest running index of disruptive new startups, the Startups 100, has released its 2025 edition and DRIFT Energy has made the list. DRIFT was also announced as winner of the Startups 100 Sustainability Award, recognising sustainability leaders that prioritise the health of the planet as part of their company mission.
Run by the UK’s most established website for entrepreneurs, Startups.co.uk, the Startups 100 offers a showcase of new businesses that demonstrate innovation, solid financials, opportunity in their market, a great concept, and a strong customer base or following. The list has previously identified brands including Monzo, Deliveroo and HelloFresh. Click here to see the full 2025 list.
DRIFT aims to drive the clean energy transition worldwide with high-performance sailing ships that harness deep ocean wind to produce green energy at sea. With a focus on innovation and sustainability, DRIFT is developing renewable energy partnerships that will benefit a range of energy transition stakeholders around the world.
Ben Medland, DRIFT Founder and CEO, said: “The UK is a hotbed of innovative startups tackling a multitude of important challenges of our time, so to be listed among them is a great honour. It’s also the ultimate motivation to keep working towards bringing our vision of ‘Oceans of Energy’ to life with a fleet of net positive energy ships.”
Editor of Startups.co.uk, Zohra Huda, commented: “Amidst the gloom-and-doom headlines, our annual Startups 100 Index provides a much-needed jolt of optimism. These 100 companies, a diverse list of innovators from every sector and region, show that the grit and ingenuity of entrepreneurship is still very much alive. Despite the challenges, the UK is still a fertile ground for disruption and world-leading technologies, and these companies will be leading the charge to recovery and growth in 2025.”
About the Index:
The Startups 100, run by Startups.co.uk, showcases the top 100 new UK businesses based on five key areas of analysis: finance, external validation, size of opportunity, innovativeness of idea and strength of concept. As well as celebrating the best small businesses in the UK, the list is also an opportunity to grow a community of like-minded entrepreneurs and business owners who support and advocate for each other.