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Coding Black Females

CommunityEdtechBritish

Coding Black Females is a UK non-profit community organisation founded in 2017 to build, support, and educate Black women working in or entering tech. It runs bootcamps, meetups, and a #VisibleInTech campaign, and offers programmes in cloud engineering, software engineering, and full-stack development.

CogStack

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

AI/NLP software suite that searches and interprets structured and unstructured clinical data in patient records to support clinical decisions; formally spun out of KCL, UCL and NHS trusts in December 2025.

CogX

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsAICommunityBritish

CogX is a global AI and transformational technology events and intelligence organisation founded in 2017, running multi-stage festivals, leadership summits, and awards programmes in London and Los Angeles. It also operates the CogX Insights research platform and a suite of newsletters covering AI, climate tech, deep tech, and capital allocation. The organisation addresses the question of how humanity can get the next decade of technological transformation right.

Cogna

StartupAIBritish

AI 'service-as-a-software' platform generating custom precision software for under-served sectors including the public sector.

Cognism

ScaleupSaaSBritish

Cognism is a leader in premium sales intelligence, setting a new standard for data quality and compliance, trusted by over +4000 customers worldwide.

Cognition

ScaleupAIForeign

Cognition operates Devin, the first autonomous software engineer. Devin plans, writes, tests, and ships production code inside your existing workflows.

Cohere

ScaleupAIForeign

Cohere builds powerful models and AI solutions enabling enterprises to automate processes, empower employees, and turn fragmented data into actionable insights.

Collibra

ScaleupSaaSAIForeign

Collibra is the Enterprise AI Control Plane. Built over eighteen years of ontology engineering, it governs context and control across any data, any model, any agent — for AI leaders who need certainty at the speed of AI.

Colorintech

CommunityOtherIncubator / AcceleratorBritish

Colorintech is a UK-based nonprofit (Community Interest Company) working to increase racial diversity and inclusion in the tech industry, running pathways and programmes for students, professionals, entrepreneurs and policy advocates, backed by major tech companies.

Comhar Capital

PEOtherBritish

Comhar Capital is a Leeds-based private equity firm established in 2018 that provides direct capital and hands-on operational support to growth-orientated, owner-managed businesses in the UK. The firm's name derives from the Gaelic word for 'partnership', reflecting its collaborative ethos, and it has backed companies across sectors including ecommerce, consumer goods, and software.

Commerce.com

CorporateE-commerceSaaSForeign

Commerce helps businesses grow on their terms with flexible, connected tools like BigCommerce, Feedonomics and Makeswift.

CommerceIQ

ScaleupE-commerceAIForeign

From Amazon to Walmart, streamline sales, media & shelf ops with purpose-built AI powered by CommerceIQ’s unified platform.

Commercetools

ScaleupE-commerceSaaSForeign

Enterprise commerce infrastructure for AI agents. Build and operate commerce experiences across online, in-store, in-chat and agent-to-agent channels from one unified engine.

Common Magic

VCOtherBritish

London-based solo-GP pre-seed and seed fund by Sarah Drinkwater, backing European and US founders building products with community as a core moat.

ComplyAdvantage

ScaleupFinanceCybersecurityBritish

AI-driven AML, sanctions screening, KYC and financial-crime risk detection platform serving 3,000+ enterprises across 75 countries.

Concentric

VCFinanceAIBritish

Concentric is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Denis Shafranik and Kjartan Rist, with offices in London and Copenhagen, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. It partners with sector-defining founders across Northern Europe to invest in technology companies across fintech, enterprise software, and digital media, typically deploying €0.5–5 million over the life of each investment.

Concept Ventures

VCAISaaSBritish

Concept Ventures is Europe's largest dedicated pre-seed fund, backing founders from concept stage through their first rounds of funding. The firm invests up to $1.5M in first rounds and focuses on AI, robotics, synthetic media, supply chain, enterprise software, and healthcare.

Conception X

Incubator / AcceleratorDeep TechBritish

Conception X is a not-for-profit venture-building platform and the largest cross-university deep technology programme for PhD researchers across Europe, supporting them to launch startups based on their proprietary research. Founded in 2018 within UCL's Faculty of Engineering, it runs the Venture Scientist 100 fellowship and investment-readiness programmes, and has helped create over 200 deep tech startups valued at more than £1 billion. In 2025 it also launched an angel syndicate to fund European deep tech PhD founders.

Concirrus

ScaleupFinanceAIBritish

AI-driven specialty insurance underwriting platform ingesting satellite, AIS and IoT data to power risk analytics, pricing and portfolio management for marine, aviation and property insurers.

Concr

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

Applies computational frameworks from astrophysics (FarrSight platform) to integrate complex oncology datasets and identify biomarkers of drug response using significantly less data than conventional methods.

Concrete VC

VCProptechReal EstateBritish

Concrete is an early stage PropTech investment firm based in London, helping driven founders with solid technology and Real Estate credentials to change the world of the built environment. We give you the expertise to hone your digital business, and the introductions to take and own the market quick

Conduct

StartupAIBritish

Agentic AI platform to modernise and automate enterprise IT operations, starting with legacy ERP systems such as SAP.

Confluent

CorporateSaaSAIForeign

Confluent is an American data streaming company founded in 2014 by the creators of Apache Kafka, providing a fully managed cloud-native Kafka service and stream processing platform. Its products enable organisations to build real-time data pipelines and event-driven architectures across financial services, retail, telecoms, and other sectors. IBM completed an acquisition of Confluent on 17 March 2026 for approximately $11 billion; the brand and website remain operational as an IBM subsidiary.

Connect Ventures

VCAICybersecurityBritish

Connect Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2012, specialising in pre-seed and seed stage product-led companies across Europe. The firm operates as a partner-only, high-conviction team that leads or co-leads rounds of $500k to $5 million, investing across sectors including AI, cybersecurity, deep tech, data infrastructure, fintech, and health. Notable early investments include TrueLayer, which went on to become a unicorn.