What Sunrise setting does

Sunrise Setting is a UK-headquartered B2B publishing services firm founded in 1985 in Brixham, south-west England, providing onshore copy-editing, typesetting, project management, developmental editing, proofreading, and indexing for academic publishers, learned societies, professional bodies, and individual authors. Its core delivery is production management of academic journals and books — over 500 publications per year — with named customers including Cambridge University Press, Wiley, Sage Publications, Emerald Publishing, Manchester University Press, Royal Society of Chemistry, BCS, CERN, the European Respiratory Society, and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The company's technology backbone is SWAN, a proprietary cloud-based copy-editing management system that coordinates a curated network of 230+ specialist freelance copy-editors and integrates with client editorial systems (e.g., Editorial Manager) as a virtual workflow extension. Typesetting is XML-first using InDesign, Arbortext, and LaTeX (including MathJax for mathematical content).

Following Lumina Datamatics' acquisition of a majority stake on 9 December 2022, Sunrise Setting operates as the parent's onshore editorial and project-management division, bundling its UK-based services with Lumina's offshore production scale and tooling — specifically MARS (manuscript assessment), XEditPro (collaborative editing), and Arty (accessibility alt-text). Services are fee-based, quote-per-project, and sold primarily through direct enterprise relationships, industry events (London Book Fair, IPG conferences), and referrals. The business model is professional services with optional offshore cost leverage through the parent.

Name

Sunrise setting

Legal name

Sunrise Setting

Website

https://sunrise-setting.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Sunrise Setting is a UK-based B2B publishing services firm providing onshore copy-editing, typesetting, and project management to academic publishers, learned societies, and individual authors. Founded 1985, it operates as Lumina Datamatics' onshore editorial division following its 2022 acquisition.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Publishing Production Services

NAICS

Support Activities for Printing (323120), Support Activities for Printing (32312)

SIC

Service Industries For The Printing Trade (2790), Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

Editorial & Production Services (Copyediting, Proofreading, Formatting, Typesetting) (MPAJAJAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Self-Publishing Platforms (KDP-style Marketplaces & Portals) (MPAJAJAA), Ghostwriting & Collaborative Writing Services (MPAJAJAI)

Keywords

• Copy editing services
• Academic typesetting
• Journal project management
• Publishing production services
• Self publishing support

Headquarters

HQ city

Brixham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Professional Publishing Services: Fee-based professional services including copy-editing, project management, typesetting, developmental editing, proofreading, and indexing for publishers, organizations, and individual authors. Revenue derived from project-based fees, with services available separately or as integrated packages.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Sunrise Setting provides professional publishing production services — primarily copy-editing, typesetting, and project management — for academic publishers, learned societies, non-publishing organizations and individual authors. Operating as the onshore editorial and project-management division of Lumina Datamatics, it pairs UK-based specialist editorial staff with offshore delivery, manages a network of 230+ subject-specialist freelance copy-editors through its proprietary SWAN system, and supports full journal/book workflows from peer review through final print- and web-ready output.

Product overview

Sunrise Setting offers a comprehensive suite of publishing production services centered around copy-editing, typesetting, project management, and self-publishing support. The company operates as Lumina Datamatics' onshore editorial and project management division, providing services for academic journals and books. Core offerings include copy-editing (with specialization in biomedical science, history, linguistics, literary theory, mathematics, and philosophy), typesetting (using XML workflows in InDesign, Arbortext, or LaTeX), and full or partial project management for publishers. Supporting services include developmental editing, proofreading, and indexing. The company leverages its proprietary SWAN cloud-based copy-editing management system to coordinate freelance copy-editors. Services can be combined with offshore offerings through Lumina Datamatics for integrated onshore/offshore publishing workflows.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Copy-editing Specialist copy-editing for academic and trade publications, delivered by a managed network of 230+ subject-specialist freelance copy-editors via the proprietary SWAN workflow system.
• Typesetting XML-first typesetting in InDesign, Arbortext and LaTeX (with MathJax/MathML support), producing print-ready PDFs, web-ready files, ebook files, and XML output with format conversions and graphic redrawing.
• Project Management Comprehensive journal and book production project management including peer review management, editorial workflow, copyright handling, author/editor/printer liaison, copy-editing, typesetting, proofreading, indexing and final XML/ePub output.
• Self-publishing Services End-to-end self-publishing support for individual authors, including developmental editing, production scheduling, style consistency, illustrator/printer sourcing, and individually purchasable copy-editing, typesetting, proofreading, indexing and author correction collation.
• Developmental Editing Early-stage manuscript development helping authors define book/chapter aims, target reader relevance, structure, detail levels and topic focus.
• Proofreading Proofreading delivered as part of self-publishing support or integrated project management workflows.
• Indexing Indexing services delivered as part of project management or self-publishing support.

Quantifiable outcome

• More than 500 journal issues, books and other publications produced annually
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Lumina Datamatics (Technology Tools)coreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration of Lumina Datamatics technology tools: MARS (manuscript assessment), XEditPro (digital editing with author query capability), and Arty (alt text generation for accessibility compliance). Sunrise Setting quality-controls and refines outputs from these tools.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Cenveo Publisher Services: Cenveo offers publisher services covering editorial, composition, and digital content workflows for journal and book publishers. It is a comparable provider of outsourced production services to academic publishers, competing for the same customers as Sunrise Setting.
• Apex CoVantage: Apex CoVantage provides XML-first content production, editorial services, and digital publishing solutions for academic, scholarly, and trade publishers. It is a direct competitor in the outsourced editorial and production services space Sunrise Setting serves.
• Westchester Publishing Services: Westchester Publishing Services delivers editorial, production, and project management services to academic and trade publishers, including copy-editing, typesetting, and full project management — a directly comparable service portfolio to Sunrise Setting.
• SPi Global (Sapura Group): SPi Global is a major content solutions provider offering editorial, typesetting, and production services to academic, STM, and trade publishers globally. It competes directly with the combined Lumina Datamatics/Sunrise Setting onshore-offshore publishing services offering.
• Enago (Cactus Communications): Enago provides English-language copy-editing, manuscript editing, and publication support services to researchers, publishers, and academic institutions. It competes with Sunrise Setting in editorial services for academic and scientific content.
• Editage (Cactus Communications): Editage offers professional copy-editing, translation, and publication support to researchers and academic publishers. It is a direct competitor in the academic editing services market that Sunrise Setting serves.
• Lumina Datamatics: Parent company and direct peer: Lumina Datamatics provides the offshore content and publishing services that Sunrise Setting pairs with its onshore UK offering. Both deliver copy-editing, typesetting, and project management to academic and trade publishers, making them direct comparables — and now operationally integrated.
• Innodata Inc. Innodata provides content engineering, editorial, and digital publishing services for publishers and information services companies. It operates a similar hybrid onshore/offshore model for academic, STM, and trade publishing customers and competes directly for editorial services contracts.

Emerging players

• Hurix Digital: Hurix Digital provides digital publishing, editorial, and content production services including typesetting and XML workflows for academic and STM publishers. It overlaps with Sunrise Setting's typesetting and digital output capabilities.
• Replica Press / KGLR Editorial: Replica Press offers full-service journal management, copy-editing, typesetting, and project management for academic society publishers. It targets a similar customer base of learned-society and academic journal publishers served by Sunrise Setting.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sunrise-setting-limited

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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