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CAST

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsAIBritish

CAST (Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology) is a UK registered charity that helps social impact organisations adopt digital technologies and AI for greater societal benefit. It offers programmes, training, toolkits, and consultancy to charities and funders seeking to embed digital ways of working.

CBI

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherBritish

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.

CBPE Capital

PEOtherBritish

CBPE Capital is a London-based independent private equity firm founded in 1984, investing in UK mid-market businesses with enterprise values of up to £150 million across sectors including business services, consumer, financial services, healthcare, and technology. The firm manages over £1.3 billion in assets and has nearly 40 years of mid-market investment experience.

CCEP Ventures

VCClimateBritish

CCEP Ventures is the corporate venture capital and innovation investment arm of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, focused on finding, funding and fostering transformative sustainability solutions to support the company's net zero 2040 ambition. The programme invests in startups across clean energy, water, packaging and supply chain technologies.

CD&R

PEOtherFinanceForeign

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is a leading American private equity firm founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York, with an office in London. The firm pioneered an operational approach to private equity, combining financial investment with deep operating capability, and has invested in more than 100 companies across consumer and retail, financial services, healthcare, industrials, business services, and technology sectors in North America and Europe. CD&R has managed the investment of more than $40 billion across its funds, with an aggregate transaction value of approximately $175 billion.

CDW

CorporateOtherForeign

The information technology products, expertise and service you need to make your business successful.Fast shipping, fast answers, the industry

CETaS

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsDefenceAIBritish

The Centre for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS) is a research centre hosted at The Alan Turing Institute, launched in 2022 as part of the Institute's Defence and National Security programme. CETaS conducts policy-focused research on the intersection of emerging technologies and national security, covering areas including AI, cybersecurity and privacy.

CGT Catapult

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsBiotech & Life SciencesDeep TechAcademiaBritish

The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult is an independent centre of excellence established in 2012 to advance the growth of the UK cell and gene therapy industry and accelerate the development of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs). It provides infrastructure, specialist manufacturing support, regulatory strategy, NHS adoption facilitation and skills training across sites in London, Stevenage, Braintree and Edinburgh.

CHAOS Industries

ScaleupDefenceDeep TechForeign

CHAOS Industries builds a multi-product portfolio powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN TM), giving military, commercial, and border teams the ultimate advantage: domain dominance.

CHARM Therapeutics

ScaleupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

Structure-based drug discovery using proprietary DragonFold 3D deep-learning to predict protein-ligand co-folding for hard targets, initially in oncology.

CICC Capital

PEOtherForeign

CICC Capital is the private equity investment platform of China International Capital Corporation (CICC), managing multiple RMB and USD funds that invest in technology, healthcare, advanced manufacturing and consumer companies across China.

CLTR

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsAI SafetyBritish

The Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR) is an independent UK nonprofit think tank focused on transforming global resilience to extreme risks, including extreme AI risks, extreme biological risks, and government risk management capacity. It conducts research and provides policy advice to governments and institutions to improve governance, processes and decision-making around high-impact, globally reaching threats. CLTR was founded in 2019 and is registered under the name Alpenglow Group Limited.

CMA

GovernmentConsumerBritish

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is the UK's principal competition regulator and a non-ministerial government department. It promotes competition and protects consumers across the UK economy, with the goal of driving economic growth and household prosperity. It assumed the functions of the former Competition Commission and Office of Fair Trading when it became fully operational in April 2014.

CMS

Professional ServicesLegalForeign

CMS is an international organisation of independent law firms established in 1999, providing legal and tax advisory services across banking and finance, corporate and M&A, dispute resolution, real estate, and technology. With over 80 offices in more than 50 countries and around 10,000 staff including 7,200 lawyers, it is one of the world's largest legal networks. The UK member firm, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, has a substantial presence across multiple UK cities.

CPP Investments

PEOtherFinanceForeign

CPP Investments (formally the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, CPPIB) is a Canadian Crown corporation that manages the assets of the Canada Pension Plan on behalf of over 22 million Canadian contributors and beneficiaries. It invests across public and private equity, fixed income, real estate, infrastructure, and credit globally, with C$793 billion in assets under management as of March 2026. It is one of the world's largest institutional investors and a member of Canada's 'Maple 8' pension funds.

CRL

CoworkingDeep TechIncubator / AcceleratorBritish

Central Research Laboratory (CRL) is the UK's leading accelerator and co-working space for hardware startups and product pioneers, offering 24/7 workspace, specialist prototyping facilities and business support programmes including the CRL Accelerator. Originally established in Hayes, West London in 2015 at the Old Vinyl Factory, it relocated in November 2023 to the Plus X Innovation hub in Slough, where it continues to support entrepreneurs developing physical products; between 2017 and 2023 the CRL Accelerator supported 69 companies across 10 cohorts.

CUBE

CorporateAILegalBritish

AI-powered regulatory intelligence and compliance automation platform that maps global regulations for banks, asset managers and other regulated institutions.

CUR8

StartupClimateBritish

Carbon removal intelligence and brokerage platform; curates portfolios of high-quality, durable carbon removals and packages them as a product for corporate buyers.

CVC Capital Partners

PEOtherForeign

CVC Capital Partners is a leading global private markets manager founded in 1981, with approximately €209 billion of assets under management across private equity, secondaries, credit, and infrastructure strategies. Headquartered in St Helier, Jersey, and listed on Euronext Amsterdam since April 2024, the firm operates through a network of 29 offices across EMEA, the Americas, and Asia.

CaSE

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherBritish

The Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) is the UK's leading independent advocate for science and engineering, arguing for increased R&D funding and better science policy. It represents over 115 scientific organisations including businesses, universities, professional bodies, and research charities, and was originally founded in 1986 as Save British Science.

Cabot Square Capital

PEFinanceReal EstateBritish

Cabot Square Capital is an independently owned London-based private equity firm, founded in 1996, specialising in long-term equity investment in small and mid-sized companies in the UK and Western Europe. The firm has a particular focus on financial services, property and infrastructure sectors, and manages funds including CS Capital Partners III, IV and V. It is regulated by the FCA and invests across start-up, buy-and-build, expansion and turnaround situations.

Calculus Capital

VCFinanceAIBritish

London-based EIS and VCT fund manager founded in 1999, pioneering tax-efficient venture capital investment in UK technology, healthcare, and creative industries.

Caledonia Investments

PEOtherBritish

Caledonia Investments is a FTSE 250 self-managed investment trust company headquartered in London, incorporated in December 1928 and rooted in the Cayzer family's shipping business dating to the late 1800s. It is an equity investor with a diversified global portfolio spanning public companies, private capital, and funds, with a long-term compounding return philosophy. The Cayzer family retains a controlling shareholding of over 50%.

Calibre

StartupAISaaSBritish

London-based AI startup building autonomous agents for the $200B+ testing, inspection and certification (TIC) industry, founded by ex-Palantir engineers.