Directory

GrowUp Farms

ScaleupOtherBritish

Vertical and indoor farm growing pesticide-free salad leaves and leafy greens at scale; operates a large automated vertical farm in Sandwich, Kent. The operational business was rescued from administration in December 2025 via a pre-pack deal backed by Sun Capital Partners, retaining 83 jobs.

Hambro Perks

VCSaaSProptechBritish

Hambro Perks was a London-headquartered international investment firm focused on private technology investing, partnering with founders across early to growth stages via venture, EIS, co-investment, debt and secondary funds. Founded in 2013, the firm rebranded as Salica Investments in 2024 following the departure of co-founder Dominic Perks and the passing of co-founder Rupert Hambro, and now manages 14 funds with over 126 active investments across fintech, healthtech, sustainability, and productivity sectors.

Headline

VCOtherForeign

Global venture capital firm investing in early- and growth-stage companies across the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America; portfolio includes Bumble, Mistral AI, and Farfetch.

Helsing

ScaleupDefenceAIForeign

European defence AI company building software for autonomous systems across air, sea and electronic-warfare domains; holds UK contracts across frontline commands and operates from multiple European capitals.

Highview Power

ScaleupClimateBritish

Long-duration energy storage pioneer building liquid air energy storage (LAES) plants to store excess renewable energy for the grid.

Holistic AI

ScaleupAI SafetyAIForeign

End-to-end AI governance, risk and compliance platform: AI system discovery and inventory, risk assessment, and audits against EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001.

Hoxton Ventures

VCSaaSAIBritish

Hoxton Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in London that invests in European technology startups with a Silicon Valley mindset. Founded in 2013, the firm backs pre-seed and seed-stage founders building companies in emerging market categories across sectors, taking an anti-thematic approach focused on maximising upside. Notable portfolio companies include Deliveroo, Darktrace, and Babylon Health.

Huckletree

CoworkingOtherBritish

Huckletree is a certified B Corp coworking and flexible office provider founded in 2014, operating nearly 300,000 square feet across eight locations in London, Manchester, and Dublin. The company serves over 4,000 members ranging from early-stage startups to established global businesses, with a focus on creating innovation ecosystems. A new 5,000 sqm London location was announced in April 2025.

Huma

ScaleupBiotech & Life SciencesBritish

Modular cloud platform consolidating data from medical devices and wearables for remote patient monitoring, decentralised clinical trials, and digital biomarker development.

Hummingbird VC

VCSaaSAIBritish

Hummingbird Ventures is a global seed-stage venture capital firm backing outlier founders building groundbreaking companies across AI, biotech, deep tech, fintech, gaming, healthtech, marketplaces, and SaaS. The firm invests with patient, long-term capital and partners across North America, EMEA, APAC, and South America.

IQ Capital

VCAISaaSBritish

IQ Capital is a European deep tech venture capital firm investing from pre-seed through to Series A and beyond, with a focus on frontier technologies including AI, quantum computing, robotics, advanced materials, and synthetic biology. Founded in Cambridge with offices in London and Cambridge, the firm has over $1 billion in assets under management, has backed over 100 deep tech companies, and has achieved more than 20 exits to global technology firms including Apple, Google, Meta and Oracle.

Iceotope

ScaleupClimateAIBritish

Sheffield-based pioneer in precision liquid cooling for AI, HPC, and data centre infrastructure, with 219 granted and pending patents.

Illuminate Financial

VCFinanceAIBritish

Illuminate Financial is a specialist venture capital firm investing in early-stage enterprise AI and fintech companies defining the future of financial services. With offices in London, New York, and Singapore, the firm combines capital with strategic connectivity to global financial institutions, having raised over $500 million across four funds and built a portfolio of 57 companies with 14 exits.

Imperial College Health Partners

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherBritish

Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) is the designated Health Innovation Network for North West London, bringing together NHS providers, universities and partners to support innovation and complex change in health and care. It hosts the Discover-NOW health data research hub and works on priorities including cardiovascular disease, children's mental health and patient safety.

Innotribe

Incubator / AcceleratorFinanceForeign

Innotribe is SWIFT's fintech innovation initiative, launched in 2009, running a global incubator and the annual Innotribe Startup Challenge — a competition connecting early-stage fintech startups with financial institutions, investors, and industry experts. The programme has engaged over 650 fintech startups worldwide and culminates at Sibos, the global financial services event.

Innovate UK Innovation Loans

GrantmakerOtherBritish

UK government loan programme run by Innovate UK Loans Ltd (a UKRI subsidiary) offering flexible R&D loans of up to £5m to UK SMEs with commercially promising innovation projects.

Inovia Capital

VCSaaSCybersecurityForeign

Inovia Capital is a full-stack Canadian venture capital firm managing over US$2.5 billion in assets, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Montreal with offices in Toronto, Calgary, San Francisco, and London. The firm invests across pre-seed to pre-IPO stages in technology-driven companies, with particular focus on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, digital health, fintech, and software. Inovia has backed more than 10 unicorns and facilitated over 66 exits, including the Lightspeed IPO.

Invoke Capital

VCAICybersecurityBritish

Invoke Capital is a technology-focused venture firm that founds, invests in, and advises fast-growing fundamental technology companies in Europe. With deep expertise in artificial intelligence, cyber security, and deep tech, the firm has a dedicated in-house R&D division and close ties to the University of Cambridge. Notable portfolio companies include Darktrace, Luminance, and Featurespace.

Isomorphic Labs

ScaleupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

AI-first drug discovery company spun out of Google DeepMind, building generative and predictive models (AlphaFold lineage) to design new medicines.

JamJar

VCConsumerSaaSBritish

JamJar Investments is a London-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 by the co-founders of Innocent Drinks. The firm invests £500k to £3m in category-defining consumer brands across Europe, with a portfolio including Deliveroo, Wild, Runna, Tails.com, Tony's Chocolonely, and Simba Sleep.

Kaluza

ScaleupClimateSaaSBritish

Intelligent energy software platform: real-time SaaS for utilities, device-level optimisation, demand response (Kaluza Flex) and smart-charging to balance the grid.

Kayne Partners

PESaaSMediaVCForeign

Kayne Partners is the growth private equity strategy of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, a Los Angeles-based alternative investment management firm. Established in 2002, Kayne Partners provides minority equity and debt capital of $10 million to $50 million to high-growth, privately held enterprise software and technology-enabled businesses in North America, with a focus on fintech, supply chain and logistics, healthcare IT, security and compliance, and media and telecommunications. The strategy has deployed over $740 million across platform investments and operates over $1.2 billion in total assets under management.

Kindred Capital

VCOtherAIBritish

Kindred Capital is a London-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015, known for its pioneering 'equitable venture' model in which every founder backed becomes a co-owner of the fund by receiving a share of carry. The firm invests at pre-seed and seed stages in mission-driven, technology-driven founders across Europe. Its portfolio includes companies such as RobCo, Cradle, and Lottie, and 54% of its Fund I portfolio successfully raised Series A funding within three years.

Knowledge Quarter

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherBritish

Knowledge Quarter (KQ) is an innovation district consortium of over 150 partner organisations situated within a one-mile radius of King's Cross in London, spanning academic, cultural, research, scientific, and technology institutions. Founded in 2014, it facilitates collaboration and knowledge exchange among members ranging from the British Library and Francis Crick Institute to Google.