Directory

Wavestone

Professional ServicesCybersecurityAIForeign

Global management and technology consulting firm with a London office in the City of London, specialising in cybersecurity, operational resilience, AI strategy, and digital transformation for financial services and life sciences clients.

West Coast Capital

PEConsumerProptechBritish

West Coast Capital is the private investment vehicle of the Hunter family, founded in 2001 by Scottish entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter. The firm invests its own capital in founder-led, profitable private businesses across retail, property, healthcare, and technology sectors, with a minimum investment of circa £5 million and a long-term, relationship-driven approach. Profits are substantially reinvested philanthropically through The Hunter Foundation.

White City Innovation District

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsAIClimateBritish

White City Innovation District is a collaborative innovation ecosystem established in 2017 as a partnership between Imperial College London and the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham. It is one of the UK's leading clusters for frontier industries including AI, life sciences, climate tech, and digital media, having created over 13,000 jobs and attracted over £6 billion in investment. The district brings together startups, global corporates such as Novartis and Airbus, and world-class research institutions across a growing campus in West London.

White Star Capital

VCFinanceAIBritish

White Star Capital is a global multi-stage technology investment platform founded in 2007, with offices in London, New York, Montreal, Toronto, Paris, Lisbon, Singapore, and Tokyo. The firm invests in technology companies from seed through to growth equity, with a particular focus on Series A and B rounds across fintech, digital assets, e-commerce, and consumer technology. It also operates a dedicated digital assets fund.

Women in Data

CommunityAIBritish

Women in Data is a UK-based community and membership organisation dedicated to addressing the underrepresentation of women in data science, analytics, and STEM. It provides professional networking, knowledge sharing, and diversity initiatives, with over 25,000 members across the UK and beyond, and runs one of the UK's largest annual data industry events.

YFM Equity Partners

PEOtherAIVCBritish

YFM Equity Partners is one of the UK's oldest independent private equity firms, founded in 1982, providing growth capital and management buyout funding of £3m–£15m to ambitious SMEs across the UK. With over £750 million in assets under management, YFM operates through both private equity funds and venture capital trusts (British Smaller Companies VCTs). The firm has offices across multiple UK regions including Leeds, London, Manchester, Birmingham, and Reading.

Yapily

ScaleupFinanceBritish

Open banking API infrastructure platform enabling payments and financial data access across Europe, with integrations across more than 1,900 banks in 19 countries.

Yoti

ScaleupCybersecurityBritish

Digital identity and age-assurance platform; a UK government-approved digital ID provider for right-to-work, right-to-rent and DBS checks.

ZOE

ScaleupBiotech & Life SciencesConsumerBritish

Nutrition science company offering at-home gut microbiome and blood-fat and blood-glucose testing with a personalised diet app, built on large-scale population research including the TwinsUK cohort. It publishes peer-reviewed research and serves customers in the UK and US.

Zava

ScaleupBiotech & Life SciencesBritish

Online doctor and digital pharmacy platform providing remote consultations, prescriptions and treatments at scale across the UK and Europe.

Zenobe

ScaleupClimateBritish

Grid-scale battery storage and EV fleet electrification specialist; owns and operates batteries and electric bus fleets, providing financing and charging-as-a-service to operators and network owners across the UK and internationally.

Zilch

ScaleupFinanceConsumerBritish

Direct-to-consumer buy-now-pay-later payments network that allows users to pay in instalments interest-free at any merchant, subsidised by targeted advertising. The company reached unicorn status and has over five million customers in the UK.

Zinc

Incubator / AcceleratorOtherClimateBritish

Zinc is a London-based inception-stage venture builder that turns raw talent into science-for-impact ventures addressing pressing challenges in human and planetary health. Founded in 2017, the organisation runs cohort-based programmes selecting 50–70 founders per cycle, guiding them through an intensive research phase focused on a single societal challenge, and invests in co-founded ventures at the earliest stage. Zinc also offers talent initiatives and innovation partnerships to build the wider science-for-impact ecosystem.

Zopa

CorporateFinanceConsumerBritish

UK digital bank holding a full FCA banking licence, originally founded as the world's first peer-to-peer lending platform. It now offers savings accounts, credit cards, and personal loans to UK consumers.

firstminute capital

VCAIFinanceBritish

firstminute capital is a London-based seed-stage venture fund investing in European founders building global technology companies, with $500M AUM and a network of over 130 unicorn founder backers. The fund backs companies across AI, deep tech, developer tools, SaaS, fintech, and healthtech, and has backed 11 unicorns at seed stage.

gunnercooke

Professional ServicesOtherBritish

gunnercooke is a leading fee-share commercial law firm with over 600 lawyers and advisors operating across 16 offices in the UK, US, Germany and Austria. The firm was incorporated in 2010 and serves clients across corporate, real estate, employment, banking, dispute resolution and emerging practice areas such as crypto and sports law.

hyperexponential

ScaleupFinanceAIBritish

Insurance pricing decision-intelligence platform (hx Renew) for P&C insurers and reinsurers to build, deploy and govern pricing models using machine learning.

iProov

ScaleupCybersecurityBritish

Biometric face verification and liveness authentication platform used by banks, governments and large enterprises to verify online identities and counter deepfake-based fraud.

mySociety

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherBritish

mySociety is a UK-registered charity and civic technology organisation that builds digital tools to help people engage with government and public life. Its products include FixMyStreet, TheyWorkForYou, and WhatDoTheyKnow, and its work reaches citizens in over 40 countries.

noa

VCProptechReal EstateBritish

noa (formerly A/O PropTech) is Europe's largest built-world venture capital firm, based in London, investing in pioneering founders and breakthrough technologies that decarbonise and digitise the built environment. The firm backs companies across structures, energy, materials, environments, mobility, and community, from early stage through to later-stage growth.

10x10

CommunityOtherVCBritish

10x10 is a UK-based community of Black founders, angel investors, and venture capitalists, founded in 2015 by Andy Davis as an informal support network that began as a WhatsApp group. The network connects Black entrepreneurs with capital and peer support through office hours, pitch sessions, and a Slack community, and has produced The Black Report in partnership with Google for Startups. The community has since expanded to include 10x10 Capital, an investment fund and AngelList syndicate investing in Black founders at pre-seed stage.

13books Capital

VCFinanceBritish

London-based fintech-specialist VC firm (formerly Element Ventures) investing at late Seed and Series A in European founders building financial technology.

1818 Venture Capital

VCFinanceBritish

Guernsey-based early-stage VC firm backing FinTech and InsurTech founders across the UK and Middle East since 2012, with 40+ portfolio companies.

2150

VCClimateProptechBritish

2150 is a European venture capital firm investing in technology companies that sustainably reimagine and reshape the urban environment, with offices in London, Copenhagen, and Berlin. Part of the Urban Partners platform, the firm backs entrepreneurs across the full urban stack — from how cities are designed and constructed to how people live and work — targeting so-called Gigacorns that can cut emissions at scale.