The Small Cap Awards
The Small Cap Awards is a once-a-year opportunity to recognise outstanding achievement focused on smaller quoted companies.
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Thursday 19th June 2025
Merchant Taylors Hall, London
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ABOUT
The Small Cap Awards
Inaugurated in 2013, the Small Cap Awards is an annual event celebrating and rewarding the finest in the sub-£350m market cap quoted company sector.
The Awards celebrates those professionals and companies that work within the AIM and Aquis communities and is attended by listed companies, institutions, fund managers, brokers and advisors.
The 2024 Awards took place on Thursday 13th June 2024 at One Moorgate Place in London
Awards Categories
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The Small Cap Awards 2025 Tickets
Individual Ticket
£240 + VAT
What’s Included?
• Champagne Reception
• 3-Course Dinner plus Tea/Coffee & Petit Fours for Each Guest
• ½ Bottle of Wine
Require multiple tickets? Choose the quantity on the next page.
Table Package (10 People)
£2000 + VAT
What’s Included?
• 1 x Table of Ten
• Champagne Reception
• 3-Course Dinner plus Tea/Coffee & Petit Fours for Each Guest
• 5 x Bottles of Wine
• 5 x Bottles of Water
Require multiple tables? Choose the quantity on the next page.
The Small Cap Awards 2025 Host & Speakers
Peter Dickson
Awards Host
Peter Dickson is the UK’s most prolific voiceover artist. He has enjoyed a stellar career spanning almost 40 years. He has voiced thousands of TV and Radio commercials, anchored awards ceremonies for some of the world’s biggest brands, launched countless products, appeared in many BAFTA award-winning TV and radio productions and he’s worked with most of the biggest producers and stars of UK entertainment.
Cally Beaton
Guest Speaker
Cally Beaton is a business leader, podcaster, writer, keynote speaker, and entrepreneur. Cally was the youngest and only female board member at ITV and later founded the award-winning consultancy Road Trip Media and served as Senior Vice President at ViacomCBS, managing brands like Nickelodeon and MTV.
Cally transitioned to stand-up comedy in her mid-40s, and regularly appears on shows like QI, The Apprentice: You’re Fired, and Pointless Celebrities, and is a popular voice on BBC Radio 4.
The Small Cap Awards 2025 Judges
Miles Nolan
Board Director, Sterling Investments & Board Adviser at Innovative Trials
2025 Awards Categories
IPO of the Year
Transaction of the Year
Company of the Year
Executive Director of the Year
Dividend Hero of the Year
Aquis Company of the Year
Sponsored by
Technology Company of the Year
ESG Company of the Year
Sponsored by
Analyst of the Year
Workplace Excellence Award
New Award for 2025
Investor Relations Success Award
Broker of the Year
Lifetime Achievement Award
2024 Awards
2023 Awards
2022 Awards
2021 Awards
2020 Awards
2019 Awards
2018 Awards
AWARDS SPONSORS
Small Cap Awards Sponsors
2025 CHARITY
The 2025 Awards Proudly Support
2024 Small Cap Awards Winners
IPO of the Year
Onward Opportunities Ltd
ESG of the Year
Eden Research Plc
Transaction of the Year
Journeo Plc – MultiQ transaction
Technology Company of the Year
Kooth Plc
Aquis Company of the Year
Equipmake Plc
Executive Director of the Year
Chris Smith – McBride Plc
Dividend Hero of the Year
Cohort Plc
Diversity, Inclusivity & Engagement Award
TPX impact Holdings Plc
Analyst of the Year
Charles Hall – Peel Hunt
Broker of the Year
Cavendish Capital Markets
Investor Relations Success Award
Cohort Plc
Company of the Year
IQGeo Plc
Lifetime Achievement
David Stirling
2023 Small Cap Awards Winners
IPO of the Year
EnSilica Plc
Transaction of the Year
Journeo – IGL acquisition
Company of the Year
Netcall Plc
Executive Director of the Year
Louis Hall – CEO of Cerillion Technologies
Dividend Hero of the Year
Bioventix
Aquis Company of the Year
National Milk Records
Technology Company of the Year
Equals Group
ESG Company of the Year
Eneraqua Technologies
Diversity, Inclusivity & Engagement Award
Bloomsbury Publishing
UK Smaller Companies Fund Manager of the Year
Artemis UK Smaller Companies
Analyst of the Year
Kai Korschelt – Canaccord Genuity
Journalist of the Year
Smit Berry – The Small Company Sharewatch
Lifetime Achievement
Tim Ward
2022 Small Cap Awards Winners
IPO of the Year
Saietta Group
ESG Company of the Year
TPXimpact Holdings Plc
Analyst of the Year
Julie Simmonds – Panmure Gordon
Journalist of the Year
Simon Thompson – Investors Chronicle
AQSE Company of the Year
Shepherd Neame Limited
UK Smaller Companies Fund Manager of the Year
Liontrust UK Micro Cap Fund.
Managers: Anthony Cross, Julian Fosh, Matthew Tonge, Victoria Stevens & Alex Wedge
Transaction of the Year
Avingtrans – Peter Brotherhood Proposal
Diversity & Inclusion
TPXimpact Holdings Plc
Executive Director of the Year
Neal Gandhi – TPXimpact Holdings Plc
Impact Company of the Year
Saietta Group
Technology Company of the Year
D4t4 Solutions
Company of the Year
Bloomsbury Publishing
Lifetime Achievement
David Evans
2021 Small Cap Awards Winners
IPO of the Year
Calnex Solutions
ESG Company of the Year
Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc
Analyst of the Year
Kevin Ashton, Singer Capital Markets
Journalist of the Year
Andrew Hore, AIM Journal
AQSE Company of the Year
DXS International
UK Smaller Companies Fund Manager of the Year
Gervais Williams and Martin Turner – Premier Miton Group
Director of the Year
Julian Baines, MBE, EKF Diagnostics
Company of the Year
EKF Diagnostics
Lifetime Achievement Award
David Stredder
2020 Small Cap Awards Winners
IPO of the Year
Diaceutics
Executive Director of the Year
David Cicurel – CEO of Judges Scientific
Journalist of the Year
Joanne Hart – Mail on Sunday
Analyst of the Year
Lorne Daniel, Finn Cap
VCT Manager of the Year
Amati AIM VCT PLC – Dr. Paul Jourdan, David Stevenson, Anna Macdonald
UK Smaller Companies Fund Manager of the Year
JPM UK Smaller Companies – Georgina Brittain and Katen Patel
Transaction of the Year
Kape Technologies – Private Internet Access
Innovative Financing of the Year
Yu Group PLC
Technology Company of the Year
Avacta
Impact Company of the Year
ITM Power
Company of the Year
Volex
Lifetime Achievement Award
Giles Hargreave
2019 Small Cap Awards Winners
IPO of the Year
Cake Box Holdings Plc
Company of the Year
Beeks Financial Cloud Group Plc
Executive Director of the Year
Mike Creedon, CEO –
Scientific Digital Imaging Plc
Impact Company of the Year
Kromek Group Plc
Analyst of the Year
George O’Connor, Technology –
Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited
Journalist of the Year
Simon Thompson –
Investors Chronicle
Fund Manager of the Year
Marlborough Nano Cap Growth
NEX Exchange Company of the Year
National Milk Records Plc
Lifetime Achievement Award
Andrew Buchanan
2018 Small Cap Awards Winners
IPO of the Year
K3 Capital Group plc
Company of the Year
ZOO Digital Group
NEX Exchange Company of the Year
Crossword Cyber Security
Executive Director of the Year
Bobby Kalar, CEO –
Yu Group PLC
Impact Company of the Year Sponsored by Impact Investment Network
Walls & Future
Fintech Company of the Year
FairFX Group
Transaction of the Year
Proactis Holdings PLC – Acquisition of Perfect Commerce
Analyst of the Year
Kevin Ashton, TMT Analyst – Cantor Fitzgerald
Journalist of the Year
Paul Scott – Stockopedia
Fund Manager of the Year
Nick Williamson – Old Mutual
UK Smaller Companies
Microcap Fund Manager of the Year
Guy Feld – Canaccord
(Hargreave Hale Limited)
Lifetime Achievement Award
Katie Potts
Special Services to Small Caps (posthumous award)
John Jenkins