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ScaleupCybersecurityBritish

Digital identity, authentication and fraud-prevention platform using behavioural biometrics and machine learning to verify users and protect against account takeover and scams.

Cambrian Robotics

ScaleupAIBritish

AI-driven 3D machine-vision software and camera hardware enabling existing robot arms to perform bin picking, kitting and pick-and-place tasks across variable lighting conditions.

Cambridge Aerospace

ScaleupDefenceDeep TechBritish

Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.

Cambridge Angels

VCOtherAIBritish

Cambridge Angels is a leading UK business angel network founded in 2001, comprising up to 65 invitation-only members who are predominantly successful exited entrepreneurs from tech and healthcare. The network invests in early-stage companies across the Cambridge ecosystem and beyond, providing smart capital alongside operational expertise, and charges no fees to founders for pitching or carry.

Cambridge Capital Group

VCAICybersecurityBritish

Cambridge Capital Group (CCG) is a business angel network of over 80 private investors, family offices, and venture funds that has been investing in hi-tech technology startups across the UK's Golden Triangle (Cambridge, London, Oxford) since 2000. The group has invested more than £50 million across a portfolio of over 100 startups, with a focus on seed and early-growth stage opportunities in sectors such as AI, medtech, biotech, cyber security, and deep technology.

Cambridge Enterprise Ventures

VCOtherAIBritish

University of Cambridge's early-stage equity fund investing in spinouts and startups founded by Cambridge academics, students, graduates, and alumni since 1995.

Cambridge Innovation Capital

VCAISpaceBritish

Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) is a leading venture capital firm founded in 2013 with a privileged relationship with the University of Cambridge, acting as its preferred investor. CIC specialises in deep tech and life sciences companies at Series A stage and beyond, with approximately £0.6 billion in assets under management and access to over £3.2 billion in co-investment capital.

Cambridgeshire County Council

GovernmentOtherBritish

Cambridgeshire County Council is the upper-tier local government authority for Cambridgeshire, England, headquartered at New Shire Hall in Alconbury Weald since 2021. It administers public services across the county and manages the Cambridgeshire County Council Pension Fund, which makes institutional investments including into alternative assets such as private equity and venture capital as a limited partner.

Camden Collective

CoworkingOtherCommunityBritish

Camden Collective is a registered charity (Charity No. 1148689) providing free hotdesking and subsidised fixed-desk and private office space for creative and entrepreneurial start-ups in Camden Town. It began in 2009 as a Camden Town Unlimited initiative responding to post-financial-crisis high street vacancy, becoming an independent charity in 2012. The organisation repurposes vacant and underused properties across the borough in partnership with Camden Town Unlimited and Euston Town.

Camera Intelligence

StartupAIMediaBritish

Camera Intelligence is an AI company building the camera of the future. The world's first AI-driven mirrorless camera, allowing you to create content faster.

Campus Capital

VCSaaSAIBritish

Campus Capital is the UK's first on-campus venture capital fund, founded in Sheffield in 2016 and now based in Manchester, investing at the earliest stages into innovative technology-enabled businesses across the UK. The firm operates a distinctive Student VC programme, enabling PhD, MBA, and undergraduate students to participate in real investment decisions alongside its investment committee, with university partnerships including Sheffield, Manchester, and Lancaster.

Canada Life UK

CorporateFinanceBritish

Canada Life UK is a long-established UK life insurance and financial services company offering retirement, investment, and protection products to individuals and advisers.

Canary Technologies

ScaleupSaaSForeign

Canary's award-winning hospitality software improves the guest experience, streamlines operations and boosts revenue. Trusted by 20,000+ hotels worldwide.

Cancer Tech Accelerator

Incubator / AcceleratorBiotech & Life SciencesDeep TechGrantmakerBritish

The UK's largest cancer specific accelerator, supporting innovators, reasearchers, and academics to commercialise and validate their oncology solutions.

Canonical

CorporateSaaSBritish

Canonical is a British technology company founded in 2004 that publishes and supports Ubuntu, the world's most widely used open-source Linux distribution. The company provides commercial support, security maintenance, and cloud infrastructure services to enterprises and governments worldwide. Canonical operates as a privately held firm with staff in over 70 countries.

Canva

ScaleupSaaSConsumerForeign

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.

Canvas Offices

CoworkingOtherBritish

Canvas Offices is a London-based flexible workspace provider founded in 2013 by two brothers, offering design-led private offices across 14+ locations in Shoreditch, Old Street, Clerkenwell, Farringdon, Holborn, Mayfair, and Dalston. The company creates bespoke, beautifully crafted office environments for businesses in tech and creative industries, consistently achieving around 97% occupancy.

Capita

CorporateOtherBritish

FTSE-listed business-process outsourcing and technology-enabled managed services company, delivering customer management, digital services, and pensions administration primarily for UK public-sector clients.

Capital Enterprise

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherAIIncubator / AcceleratorBritish

Capital Enterprise is a not-for-profit membership organisation and ecosystem body that serves as London's startup expert network, connecting and energising the capital's entrepreneurial ecosystem. Incorporated in 1993, it acts as the membership body for enterprise support service providers and collaborates with investors, universities, local authorities, accelerators, and incubators to accelerate early-stage startups across AI, MedTech, and deep tech.

Capsa AI

StartupFinanceAIBritish

AI operating system for private capital firms that indexes fund knowledge, accelerates due diligence, and automates workflows across the investment lifecycle.

Carbon Clean

ScaleupClimateBritish

Industrial carbon-capture company manufacturing the CycloneCC modular, skid-mounted capture units for deployment in cement, steel, refinery and energy facilities worldwide.

Carbon13

Incubator / AcceleratorClimateBritish

Carbon13 is a venture builder dedicated to the climate emergency, supporting entrepreneurs to build companies with the potential to reduce or remove at least 10 million tonnes of CO2e per year at scale. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Cambridge, it runs cohort-based Venture Builder programmes in Cambridge and Berlin as well as a Venture Accelerator for pre-seed startups, and has backed more than 90 climate tech ventures across sectors including energy, agriculture, materials, and the built environment.

CarbonCell

StartupClimateBritish

Materials startup developing plastic-free foam from biochar and natural polymers as a drop-in replacement for expanded polystyrene, polypropylene, and polyurethane foams in packaging and insulation.