Revenue: £156.3m (+35%)
Headcount: 678
This acquisitive, West Sussex-based IT, telecoms and connectivity provider has grown by an average of 31% in its three most recent financial years (including by 35% in the 12 months ending 30 November 2022). It remained firmly on the M&A trail in 2023, snapping up Zest4 in January, &Partners in August and Boxx Communications in October (as well as RPM Communications in January 2024). Its vendor muckers include Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco, Gamma, Vodafone, Cloudflare and Microsoft.
Oxygen ice-breaker: In September 2022, Bowmark Capital-backed Focus tasked entrepreneur and adventure Neil Laughton with putting its Digital Workplace solution to the test in the Himalayas, at the height of over 7,000m above sea level.