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Excellarate made a business of the hard parts
Pharmacy systems. Insurance workflows. Software that has to keep working while it changes. Excellarate built its business inside these awkward problems, then became part of a much bigger engineering story.
Naimuri: The £25 Million Software Company Built for Problems That Cannot Leak
Naimuri grew by solving the sort of data problems that arrive wrapped in security constraints. Six years after QinetiQ bought it, the Salford firm is applying its lean creed to cloud platforms, graph analytics and the awkward economics of AI.
Aha!
Aha! is a bootstrapped, fully remote software company that makes the world's most widely used product development tools. Founded in 2013 by Brian de Haaff and Chris Waters, its suite - Roadmaps, Ideas, Whiteboards, Knowledge, Discovery, Teamwork, Develop, and the newer AI-driven Builder - helps product teams set strategy, gather customer feedback, prioritize features, and ship work people love. It reached profitability without venture capital and is used by more than one million product builders worldwide.