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Faculty

CorporateAIDefenceBritish

Applied AI and decision intelligence company delivering AI software, consulting and AI-as-a-service for government (NHS, defence) and enterprise high-stakes operations.

Faraday Institution

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsClimateBritish

The Faraday Institution is the UK's flagship institute for electrochemical energy storage research, skills development, market analysis, and early-stage commercialisation, founded in 2017. It unites academic researchers and industry partners to advance battery technology, reduce manufacturing costs, and support the UK's clean energy and energy security goals. It operates as a registered charity and serves as a delivery partner for the UK Research and Innovation Battery Innovation Programme.

Fidelity Growth Partners

VCSaaSAIForeign

Fidelity Growth Partners Europe was the European venture capital arm of Fidelity International, founded in 2010 with an initial $150 million fund to invest in European technology companies including SaaS, e-commerce, and healthcare IT. In 2015 the firm rebranded as Eight Roads Ventures, bringing together Fidelity's global growth investment operations under a single brand. Notable portfolio companies included Notonthehighstreet, Wahanda, and AppsFlyer.

FinTech Collective

VCFinanceOtherForeign

FinTech Collective is a global early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 and based in New York City, with an additional office in London. The firm backs entrepreneurs reshaping financial services across capital markets, banking, payments, lending, wealth management, insurance, and DeFi, and manages over $800 million in regulatory assets across a portfolio of more than 96 companies.

Flock

ScaleupFinanceAIBritish

London-based commercial fleet insurtech that uses real-time telematics data to price risk dynamically and reward safer driving with premium rebates, FCA-authorised and backed by $38M Series B.

FluidStack

ScaleupAIForeign

On-demand GPU cloud delivering high-performance compute clusters, orchestration and monitoring for AI training and inference.

Fnality

ScaleupFinanceBritish

Blockchain-based wholesale payments and settlement infrastructure for institutions using tokenised central bank money.

Forward Partners

VCAIConsumerBritish

Forward Partners was a London-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013, focused on seed and pre-seed investments in UK startups across AI, marketplaces, and e-commerce. The firm built a portfolio of over 70 companies including Cazoo and Zopa, before being acquired by Molten Ventures in a £41 million all-share deal that became effective in March 2024.

Founders Factory

Incubator / AcceleratorOtherAIVCBritish

Founders Factory is a venture studio and startup accelerator that co-builds and funds early-stage startups alongside leading global corporate partners. Founded in 2015 by Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane Fox, it provides capital, operational support from a 60+ person operator team, and access to corporate networks across fintech, health, climate, deep tech, and industrials, with a portfolio of over 450 companies across five continents.

Founders Forum

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherCommunityBritish

Founders Forum Group is a global community and group of businesses dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs throughout their journeys, uniting founders, investors, CEOs and government leaders through invite-only forums in London, New York, Berlin and Singapore. The organisation co-hosts London Tech Week and runs programmes including Rising Stars, which connects promising founders with investors, as well as offering professional services spanning legal, HR, communications and investment support.

Founders Pledge

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherCommunityBritish

Founders Pledge is a global non-profit that enables tech entrepreneurs to commit a share of their personal proceeds from business exits to high-impact charities. It provides evidence-led research, expert philanthropy advice, and grant-making infrastructure to help members direct giving to the world's most pressing problems, with over 2,291 members from 45+ countries having pledged $13.6 billion.

Foxglove

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsLegalBritish

Foxglove is a UK-registered, not-for-profit community interest company that uses legal action, investigation and campaigning to challenge government and corporate overreach in technology and data. Its work spans AI accountability, data privacy, NHS data governance and the environmental impact of data centres. The organisation was co-founded in London in 2019.

Frontline Ventures

VCSaaSCybersecurityForeign

Frontline Ventures is a transatlantic venture capital firm founded in 2012, operating two complementary funds: a European Seed fund backing B2B software founders targeting the US market, and a US Growth fund supporting Series B-D companies expanding into Europe. The firm has offices in Dublin, London, San Francisco, and New York.

Fuel Ventures

VCSaaSBritish

Fuel Ventures is a London-based early-stage venture capital firm backing ambitious technology companies from pre-seed to Series A, with a focus on SaaS, marketplaces, and platforms. Founded by entrepreneur Mark Pearson, the firm operates EIS and SEIS-qualifying funds and has invested in over 200 UK tech startups. It is one of the most active early-stage tech investors in the UK, managing approximately £400 million in assets.

Future Planet Capital

VCClimateAIBritish

Future Planet Capital is an impact-led global venture capital firm that backs high-growth companies emerging from the world's leading universities and research ecosystems. The firm invests in companies addressing major global challenges including climate change, health, education, security, and sustainable growth, managing approximately $460 million in assets under management across a portfolio of over 160 companies.

Galaxy Digital Assets Fund

VCFinanceAIForeign

Galaxy Digital Assets Fund is the venture investment arm of Galaxy Digital, a global digital assets and blockchain financial services firm founded by Michael Novogratz in 2018. The fund invests in early-stage companies building infrastructure and applications for the onchain economy, including blockchain protocols, stablecoins, and tokenisation, and in June 2025 closed its inaugural external fund, Galaxy Ventures Fund I, at over $175 million.

Geordie AI

ScaleupCybersecurityAIBritish

Security and governance platform for AI agents, giving enterprises real-time visibility and control over agentic AI deployments to prevent agents going rogue. Backed by a $30m Series A led by Balderton Capital.

Geovation

Incubator / AcceleratorProptechOtherGovernmentBritish

Geovation is an innovation hub and accelerator programme initiated by Ordnance Survey in association with HM Land Registry, supporting early-stage start-ups that use location and property data to solve real-world challenges. Its Accelerator Programme provides equity-free funding, co-working space in its London hub, and access to a community of over 2,000 GeoTech and PropTech members. Since 2009 it has supported over 150 start-ups and helped raise more than £155 million in funding across its portfolio.

Global Tech Advocates

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherCommunityBritish

Global Tech Advocates is a volunteer-led, not-for-profit international grassroots tech community uniting the private sector across more than 40 cities and regions worldwide, with over 40,000 members including startups, scaleups, corporates, policymakers and academics. Founded in 2015 as an extension of Tech London Advocates (founded 2013), it facilitates knowledge exchange, networking, and advocacy to support the growth of the global technology sector. It operates under the same entity as Tech London Advocates.

Goodstack

StartupFinanceSaaSBritish

UK nonprofit-verification and giving infrastructure provider, formerly named Percent, offering an API-driven platform that lets software companies embed nonprofit verification, donation processing, and discount or benefit programmes for their users, backed by a database of verified causes across 240+ countries.

Gradient Labs

ScaleupAIFinanceBritish

Builds autonomous conversational and voice AI agents for regulated financial services, handling customer support, lending, disputes and KYC end-to-end. Deployed across institutions including Wise, Monzo and Zego.

Graphite Capital

PEOtherBritish

Graphite Capital is an independent UK mid-market private equity firm founded in 1981 as Foreign & Colonial Ventures Ltd, managing around £1.2 billion for institutional investors. The firm backs businesses valued at £30–150 million across education, recruitment, hospitality, healthcare, and professional services. It operates from a single office in Soho, London.

Gresham House Ventures

VCFinanceAIBritish

Growth equity division of Gresham House, investing £1m–£20m in UK high-growth companies across healthtech, fintech, AI, and enterprise software.

Griffin

ScaleupFinanceBritish

Licensed API-driven banking-as-a-service platform; a fully operational UK bank enabling embedded accounts and payments for fintechs and financial services businesses.