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BABA

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherBritish

The British African Business Alliance (BABA) is a diaspora-led network for business leaders, investors, and development organisations focused on Africa. Its objective is to encourage investment, business partnership, enterprise, and the creation of sustainable jobs across the African continent and within the UK.

Basis Capital

VCOtherBiotech & Life SciencesBritish

UK early-stage VC backing founders building alternatives where public services are failing, across health, housing, energy, and infrastructure.

Batch.Space

CoworkingOtherBritish

Batch.Space is an independent creative studio and fabrication workspace in East London, operating out of the Hackney Depot — a conversion of an old bus garage in Hackney. The space supports a community of makers, artists, designers, and creative professionals with workshop facilities including CNC machinery, laser cutting, power tools, co-working desks, and event spaces. The batch.space domain redirects to hackneydepot.com, reflecting the operator's current trading name.

BeatpulseLabs

StartupAIBritish

London-based AI data infrastructure company that creates custom multimedia training datasets — voice, video, music, and radar — for enterprise AI models.

Beaumont Capital

VCSaaSAIBritish

Beaumont Capital is an Oxford-based investment and advisory firm providing angel and growth equity funding to early-stage businesses, with a particular focus on marketing technology and data companies. The firm takes an active role in its portfolio companies, offering strategic management support and governance alongside capital, and works with investors spanning EIS, VCT, growth funds, and venture debt.

Beechat Network Systems

StartupDefenceBritish

Zero-trust, low-SWaP tactical SDR radios, secure NFC tags and mesh firmware (Kaonic 1S) for military mesh comms and autonomous-system C2.

Beer & Young

Professional ServicesOtherBritish

Beer & Young (now operating as B Y Consulting / BYC) is a long-established UK angel network and capital-raising intermediary founded in 1998, connecting SMEs with a national network of private investors for growth, turnaround, and acquisition finance. The firm does not run formal pitching events but instead arranges direct introductions between businesses and suitable investors.

BioCorteX

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

AI-first biotechnology company using microbiome knowledge graphs and biological emulation to model drug-bacteria-host interactions and improve drug discovery and development decisions.

Blue Garage

CoworkingConsumerClimateBritish

Blue Garage is South London's makerspace and creative co-working hub, offering access to a fully equipped makerspace including wood and metal workshops, 3D printers, screen printing, textile labs and photography studios alongside flexible desk and studio space. It supports hardware startups, makers, designers and solo founders through its Blue Factory prototyping and small-batch fabrication service. The hub opened in December 2024 in Lewisham and operates as a social enterprise.

Blue Wire Capital

VCFinanceSaaSBritish

London-based seed-stage VC firm backing early-stage startups across fintech, SaaS, edtech, and sustainability; portfolio includes Deliveroo and Monzo.

Bracket

StartupFinanceAIBritish

AI-native treasury intelligence platform automating treasury, FX and cash management for mid-market finance teams, replacing manual spreadsheet workflows.

C7 Ventures

VCOtherBritish

C7 Ventures is a small Birmingham-based investment firm incorporated in November 2022, operating across a range of investment vehicles and providing consultancy within the investment industry. The firm is based in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, and focuses on early-stage opportunities.

Calculus Capital

VCFinanceAIBritish

London-based EIS and VCT fund manager founded in 1999, pioneering tax-efficient venture capital investment in UK technology, healthcare, and creative industries.

Capital Enterprise

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherAIIncubator / AcceleratorBritish

Capital Enterprise is a not-for-profit membership organisation and ecosystem body that serves as London's startup expert network, connecting and energising the capital's entrepreneurial ecosystem. Incorporated in 1993, it acts as the membership body for enterprise support service providers and collaborates with investors, universities, local authorities, accelerators, and incubators to accelerate early-stage startups across AI, MedTech, and deep tech.

CarbonCell

StartupClimateBritish

Materials startup developing plastic-free foam from biochar and natural polymers as a drop-in replacement for expanded polystyrene, polypropylene, and polyurethane foams in packaging and insulation.

CarbonLaces

StartupClimateFinanceBritish

Climate-fintech platform delivering energy and carbon intelligence for the built environment, combining AI tools with satellite and earth-observation data to scale decarbonisation finance and digital monitoring, reporting and verification (D-MRV).

CaseCraft.AI

StartupLegalAIBritish

AI-powered access-to-justice platform for UK small claims, guiding claimants and defendants through court-ready filings and early dispute resolution.

Catalyst Venture Partners

VCOtherBritish

Catalyst Venture Partners is a Bath-based venture capital and corporate finance advisory firm founded in 1999, specialising in early-stage investments in technology companies with strong intellectual property across sectors including environmental technology, healthcare, software, media, and telecoms in the UK and Western Europe.

Centre for Entrepreneurs

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherBritish

The Centre for Entrepreneurs (CFE) is a UK entrepreneurship foundation formed from a merger of a think tank and the New Entrepreneurs Foundation in 2017. It delivers entrepreneurial development programmes, conducts research on entrepreneurship, builds entrepreneurial communities, and engages policymakers and the public to foster a more entrepreneurial UK.

Cerve

StartupLogisticsSaaSBritish

API-first infrastructure and standardised protocol to digitise the global food supply chain, providing product data and automated workflows for retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers.

CheMastery

StartupOtherBritish

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

Cogna

StartupAIBritish

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

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.

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.