Singer Capital Markets is an award and dinner sponsor of Fast Track 100.

The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 league table ranks Britain’s 100 private companies with the fastest-growing sales over their latest three years

Fast Track is owned and run by Dr Hamish Stevenson who founded it in 1997 with support from Sir Richard Branson.

Over the past 20 years, Fast Track has created an alumni network of top-performing private companies and entrepreneurs. It has tracked the rise of many private growth companies such as chip designer ARM, Carphone Warehouse, Sophos, Just Eat and FreeAgent.

FreeAgent is a leading provider of cloud accounting software designed specifically for UK micro-businesses and freelancers. They started off with £8m in angel investment, debt financing and crowdfunding (2007-2015).

With the help of Singer Capital Markets, they completed a successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange raising a further £8m in November 2016.