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Chariot Innovations

Incubator / AcceleratorBiotech & Life SciencesDeep TechBritish

Chariot Innovations is the wholly owned commercial arm of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), bridging the gap between academic research and enterprise. It supports LSHTM staff and students with commercialisation of inventions, spinout formation, technology development, and consultancy, translating global-health research into real-world benefit. Incorporated in November 2012, it operates from the LSHTM campus near Russell Square.

Charity Digital

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsEdtechBritish

Charity Digital is a UK non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting charities and voluntary organisations with digital transformation, providing educational content, training, software products, and events. Originally founded in 2001 as Charity Technology Trust (later known as Tech Trust), it rebranded as Charity Digital in 2019.

Charlotte Street Capital

VCSaaSBritish

Charlotte Street Capital is a pre-seed and early-stage venture capital firm based in London, founded in 2011. It focuses on being the first money in for UK B2B and B2B2C software startups, typically leading rounds of up to £300,000. The firm invests in online software businesses with demonstrated customer traction.

Charterhouse

PEFinanceBritish

Charterhouse Capital Partners is one of Europe's longest-established private equity firms, founded in 1934 and headquartered in London. The firm focuses on mid-market European buyouts in the services, healthcare, specialised industrials and consumer sectors, targeting transactions of €150m–€1.5bn across the UK & Ireland, France & Benelux, Southern Europe, and DACH regions. It has raised over €17bn since inception and achieved B Corp certification in 2025.

CheMastery

StartupDeep TechBritish

Lab-automation robotics company standardising and automating chemical R&D and small/medium-scale chemical manufacturing.

Checkmarx

CorporateCybersecurityForeign

Checkmarx agentic application security software platform Combines Hybrid scanning, AI-powered agents, and unified risk intelligence across every attack surface

Checkout.com

CorporateFinanceSaaSBritish

Global cloud-based payments infrastructure platform processing online payments for enterprise merchants worldwide.

Cherry Ventures

VCSaaSAIForeign

Cherry Ventures is a leading European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012, with offices in Berlin, London, and Stockholm. The firm backs ambitious founders across a wide range of sectors including AI, fintech, SaaS, and consumer technology, investing primarily at seed stage with an 80% graduation rate from seed to Series A. It raised $500m in new funds in early 2025.

Choco

ScaleupFoodtechAIForeign

Grow your margins with AI powered ordering, digital storefronts, sales tools and payment solutions. All built to drive your revenue growth, and save you time. Visit our website.

Cint

CorporateSaaSMediaForeign

Discover the power of Cint Exchange, the largest online marketplace. Join Cint to revolutionize your market research experience.

Cinven

PEFinanceBritish

Cinven is an international private equity firm founded in 1977, originally as part of the British Coal pension scheme, that became fully independent and partner-owned in 1995. The firm focuses on buyout investments across six sectors — Business Services, Consumer, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrials, and TMT — and operates from nine offices globally including London, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Madrid, New York, Luxembourg, Guernsey, and Hong Kong. It has raised over €50 billion across eight funds, with Fund 8 closing at €13.2 billion in 2023, and manages approximately €44 billion in assets.

Circularity Capital

PEClimateBritish

Circularity Capital is a specialist private equity firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in Edinburgh, with an additional London office. The firm invests in growth-stage European businesses that are built on circular economy models — decoupling growth from resource consumption — across sectors including logistics, food production, e-commerce, and subscription services. Its investor base includes pension funds, fund-of-funds, insurance companies, and family offices; its second fund closed at €215 million in 2022, making it the largest specialist circular economy private equity fund in the world at the time.

Cisco

CorporateCybersecuritySaaSForeign

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.

Citi SPRINT

VCFinanceAIForeign

Citi SPRINT (Spread Products Investments in Technology) is the strategic venture investing arm of Citi's Global Spread Products division, established in 2019. The team focuses on sourcing, executing, and managing principal equity investments in fintech lenders, private credit infrastructure providers, digital origination platforms, and asset-backed finance technology companies. It operates at the intersection of private credit, embedded finance, and corporate venture, and has co-invested alongside Citi Ventures and institutional partners such as Carlyle Group.

City of London Corporation

GovernmentOtherBritish

The City of London Corporation is the local governing body of the Square Mile, the historic financial district of London. With origins dating to the medieval period, it manages local government, policing and economic promotion for the City, and hosts one of the world's leading international financial and business centres.

CityVentures

Incubator / AcceleratorOtherAcademiaCoworkingBritish

From sparking your curiosity to helping you build a business, we

Civica

CorporateSaaSBritish

Cloud software and digital solutions for the public sector, covering local government, health, education, housing and central government applications.

ClaimSorted

StartupFinanceAIForeign

AI-powered insurance claims management platform acting as a next-generation third-party administrator (TPA) for insurers, settling claims at faster-than-industry speed.

Clarence Centre

Incubator / AcceleratorOtherAcademiaCoworkingBritish

The Clarence Centre for Enterprise and Innovation is London South Bank University's flagship incubation and co-working hub, housed in 17 Grade II listed Georgian terraces on the Southwark campus. It provides flexible office space, event facilities, and enterprise support to over 60 SMEs, student entrepreneurs, and non-profit organisations, and hosts LSBU's Research, Enterprise and Innovation team. The centre opened in September 2013 and won the RICS Regeneration Award for its restoration of the historic buildings.

Clarendon Fund Managers

VCOtherSaaSBritish

Clarendon Fund Managers Limited is a venture capital fund manager based in Belfast, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. It manages approximately £94 million of regional VC funds in Northern Ireland, including the Co-Investment Fund and the Investment Fund for Northern Ireland, and has invested in over 100 companies since 2001. The firm also manages HBAN Ulster, the Halo Business Angel Network in Northern Ireland, supporting investments from angel co-investors alongside its own funds.

Claude Community Events

CommunityAIForeign

A global community programme connected to Anthropic's Claude AI, organising meetups and events worldwide for people building with Claude to connect and share their work.

Clean Food Group

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesClimateBritish

Food-tech biotech using non-GMO yeast fermentation on surplus bread and food waste to produce sustainable palm-oil and fat alternatives (CleanOil) for food and cosmetics applications.

Clean Growth Fund

VCClimateBritish

UK climate-focused venture capital fund investing £500k–£5m in early-stage cleantech startups reducing greenhouse gas emissions, managing a £101m portfolio of 22 companies.

Clear Street

ScaleupFinanceForeign

Speed, Transparency and Scale for Sophisticated Investors.™