Explore London's tech ecosystem
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a global semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, designing and manufacturing CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and embedded processors for computing, gaming, data centres, and AI workloads. Its product lines include Ryzen processors, Radeon graphics cards, and EPYC server CPUs. The company has a significant UK design office at Cambridge Science Park.
AXA is a French multinational insurance and asset management corporation present in over 50 countries and serving more than 92 million clients worldwide. The group operates across property and casualty insurance, life and savings, health insurance, and asset management, and employs approximately 156,000 people. AXA is publicly listed and the AXA brand was established in 1985, with the group's origins tracing back to a French mutual insurer founded in 1817.
Adobe Inc. is an American multinational software company headquartered in San Jose, California, specialising in creative, marketing, and document management software. Its product portfolio spans Digital Media (Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro), Digital Experience (Adobe Experience Cloud for marketing and analytics), and document services (Acrobat and PDF). Adobe serves creative professionals, marketers, educators, and enterprises worldwide and employs over 30,000 people globally.
Airbnb, Inc. is an American online marketplace headquartered in San Francisco that facilitates short-term home rentals and experiences, connecting hosts with guests across almost every country in the world. Founded in 2008 and publicly listed on NASDAQ since 2020, the platform has hosted over two billion guest arrivals through more than five million host listings globally. Its business spans short-term accommodation, long-term stays, and curated local experiences.
Akamai Technologies is an American technology company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specialising in content delivery networks (CDN), cloud computing, cybersecurity, and DDoS mitigation services. Founded in 1998 as a spin-out from MIT, the company operates one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms, serving a significant portion of global web traffic. Its offerings span edge computing, zero-trust security, cloud delivery, and media streaming.
Alibaba Group is a Chinese multinational technology conglomerate founded in 1999, primarily known for its e-commerce platforms including Alibaba.com, Taobao, and Tmall. The group also operates Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun), one of the world's largest cloud computing providers, as well as digital media, logistics, and fintech businesses through Ant Group. In recent years the company has substantially invested in AI capabilities and reduced its non-core business footprint.
Allianz SE is a German multinational financial services company and one of the world's largest insurers and asset managers, headquartered in Munich. The group operates across more than 70 countries, serving over 125 million customers worldwide through its core businesses of insurance and asset management.
Amazon is a global technology and e-commerce conglomerate headquartered in Seattle, Washington, operating across online retail, cloud computing (Amazon Web Services), digital streaming, advertising, and artificial intelligence. It is one of the largest companies in the world by revenue and market capitalisation, employing over one million people globally.
Anthropic is an AI safety company and public benefit corporation that develops large language models, most notably the Claude family of AI assistants. The company's mission centres on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, with safety research at the core of its work. Its products span consumer AI assistants, developer APIs, and enterprise solutions across sectors including healthcare, legal, and financial services.
Apple Inc. is a global technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, designing and selling consumer electronics (iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch), software (macOS, iOS), and digital services (App Store, Apple Music, iCloud). It is consistently one of the highest-valued companies in the world and operates a major UK campus at Battersea Power Station in London.
Arm Holdings is a British semiconductor and software design company headquartered in Cambridge, England, that designs and licences CPU architectures and related intellectual property used in the vast majority of mobile devices and a wide range of computing products globally. The company does not manufacture chips itself but licenses its processor designs to semiconductor partners including Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, and many others. Arm returned to public markets via a Nasdaq IPO in September 2023 after being owned by SoftBank Group since 2016.
Atlassian is a global enterprise software company founded in Sydney, Australia in 2002, best known for its collaboration and developer tooling products including Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket. It serves hundreds of thousands of organisations worldwide and is publicly listed on Nasdaq (TEAM). The company has a UK registered office in London and operates globally across more than a dozen countries.
Autodesk is a global design and engineering software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, providing 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software including AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, and Fusion 360. It serves industries including architecture, construction, manufacturing, and media, and is listed on Nasdaq (ADSK). The company has UK offices including the Autodesk Technology Centre in Birmingham and a London location.
One of the world's largest defence contractors, headquartered in London and listed on the London Stock Exchange; designs and manufactures air, land and maritime systems including combat aircraft, submarines, electronic warfare, cyber and C4ISR solutions for governments and armed forces globally.
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, offering retail banking, wealth management, and investment banking services globally, with a significant London presence.
BlackRock, Inc. is the world's largest asset management firm, founded in 1988 and headquartered in New York City. It provides investment management, risk management, and advisory services to institutional and individual investors across equities, fixed income, alternatives, and multi-asset strategies. BlackRock manages approximately $14 trillion in assets under management globally.
Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.) is an American financial technology conglomerate comprising Square (merchant payments), Cash App (consumer finance), Afterpay (buy now, pay later), and Bitkey (bitcoin hardware wallet). Founded in 2009 and renamed Block in December 2021, the company is listed on the NYSE under ticker XYZ and serves millions of merchants and consumers worldwide. It has offices in London and Dublin.
Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held global financial technology, data, and media company founded in 1981. It is best known for the Bloomberg Terminal, which delivers financial data, analytics, and news to over 300,000 professional users worldwide. The company also operates Bloomberg News, Bloomberg TV, and a range of enterprise data and software solutions for financial institutions.
Broadcom Inc. is an American multinational technology company and leading designer, developer, and supplier of a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Its portfolio spans data centre networking, storage, broadband, wireless connectivity, and enterprise infrastructure software (including VMware). Broadcom serves markets including cloud, telecoms, enterprise, and industrial.
ByteDance is a Chinese multinational technology company founded in 2012 and best known as the parent of TikTok, Douyin, CapCut, and Toutiao. The company's products focus on short-form video, content discovery, social commerce, productivity tools (Lark), and gaming, reaching billions of users worldwide. ByteDance employs over 110,000 people and has offices in more than 30 countries globally, including London.
The CBI (Confederation of British Industry) is the UK's largest and most influential private business lobbying and advocacy organisation, incorporated by royal charter and founded in 1965. It represents approximately 190,000 businesses of all sizes and sectors, including over 1,100 corporate members and nearly 150 trade associations, and acts as the primary interface between UK industry and government.
Australian-founded graphic design and visual communication platform offering browser-based and mobile tools for creating presentations, social media graphics, videos, and documents. It operates a freemium SaaS model serving businesses and individuals across 190 countries, with offices worldwide including a UK base in London.
Cisco Systems is an American multinational technology conglomerate founded in 1984, specialising in networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment. Its product portfolio includes enterprise networking, cybersecurity, cloud collaboration, and observability solutions sold globally to enterprises and service providers. Cisco employs around 86,000 people worldwide and has substantial operations in the United Kingdom.
Cloudflare is an American cloud services company founded in 2009 that provides a global network platform for security, performance, and reliability. Its services include DDoS mitigation, CDN, Zero Trust security (SASE/SSE), DNS, and a developer platform for building cloud-native applications. Cloudflare's network spans over 335 cities in more than 125 countries and the company employs over 5,000 people worldwide.