Directory

Pear Bio

ScaleupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

Functional precision oncology; organ-on-a-chip and computer vision to recreate the tumour microenvironment and predict patient response to cancer drugs.

Pebl

ScaleupSaaSForeign

Hire, pay, and support talent across 185+ countries with Pebl. Our AI-powered Employer of Record platform and expertise make global HR simple and seamless.

Pembroke VCT

VCSaaSConsumerBritish

London-based Venture Capital Trust (~£273m) managed by Pembroke Investment Managers, backing growth-stage consumer, business-services, and technology companies across the UK.

Pendo

ScaleupSaaSAIForeign

Pendo feeds product context to the apps and AI agents you build or buy, so you can understand your users, act where it counts, and drive adoption and revenue.

Penningtons Manches Cooper

Professional ServicesLegalBritish

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP is a full-service UK and international law firm with roots dating to 1729, serving businesses, not-for-profits, and individuals across corporate, commercial dispute resolution, real estate, employment, family law, and personal injury matters. The firm has over 400 specialist lawyers across offices in London, the South of England, and internationally in Europe and Asia.

Pentech

VCSaaSAIBritish

Pentech Ventures is a UK venture capital firm founded in 2001 and headquartered in Edinburgh, with a further office in London, that focuses on seed and early-stage investments in software companies. The firm typically invests £500,000 to £2 million initially and is known for portfolio exits including FanDuel, Nutmeg, and Maxymiser.

Pentland Ventures

VCConsumerBiotech & Life SciencesBritish

Corporate venture arm of Pentland Group, a UK family-owned business, investing in health, wellness, and sustainability brands.

Peppy

ScaleupBiotech & Life SciencesDeep TechBritish

Employer-funded (B2B2C) digital health benefits platform giving employees access to specialist clinical support for menopause, fertility, men's health and family.

Peptone

ScaleupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

Uses AI and physics-based simulation to drug intrinsically disordered proteins, a hard-to-target class linked to cancer and neurodegeneration.

Perceptic

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

Perceptic is building an AI operating system for drug development, a shared intelligence layer connecting asset scouting, scientific evaluation, indication selection and clinical data across the drug lifecycle. Founded by former Palantir executives, it is based in London and raised a $12 million seed round in 2026.

Perk

ScaleupSaaSFinanceBritish

Perk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.

Permira

PESaaSAIBritish

Permira is a global private equity and credit investment firm founded in 1985 (as Schroder Ventures) with over €89 billion in total committed capital across funds. The firm invests in technology, consumer, healthcare, and services sectors, operating from 16 offices across Europe, North America, and Asia with a team of over 500 professionals.

Perplexity

ScaleupAIForeign

Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

Perscitus

PEOtherVCBritish

Perscitus LLP is an independent, London-based investment consultant providing services to a multi-asset portfolio with a focus on direct private equity and venture capital investments across a range of sectors and stages. The firm's direct investment portfolio spans more than 80 companies, with a preference for pre-Series A and small UK buyouts.

Pfizer

CorporateBiotech & Life SciencesDeep TechForeign

Pfizer is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies, developing medicines, vaccines, and therapies across oncology, rare disease, immunology, and infectious disease, with significant UK operations including London-based HTA, value and evidence, and R&D roles.

Pharmacierge

ScaleupBiotech & Life SciencesDeep TechBritish

Digital e-prescribing and medicine-delivery platform (mPrescribe app) for private clinicians, focused on Harley Street and private healthcare prescribing and dispensing.

PharosAI

StartupAIBiotech & Life SciencesBritish

King's College London spin-out building a platform that gives AI researchers and companies governed access to a broad spectrum of cancer-related datasets for AI-driven oncology research.

Pharosyn

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesDeep TechBritish

Pharosyn is optimizing decision-making for biopharma companies by automating complex commercial & clinical pharma competitive intelligence monitoring, strategy and forecasting workflows.

Phasecraft

ScaleupQuantumDeep TechBritish

Quantum algorithms and software company designing ultra-efficient algorithms to bridge near-term quantum hardware and real-world materials and optimisation problems.

Pheon Therapeutics

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesDeep TechBritish

Antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) specialist developing next-generation ADCs against a novel target overexpressed in a wide range of hard-to-treat solid tumours.

Phoebe

StartupAISaaSBritish

London-based AI startup (now operating as Coral) providing a governed data engine that gives AI agents a single SQL interface across enterprise SaaS applications, databases and internal systems, removing the need for bespoke per-source integrations.

Phoenix Court

VCOtherBritish

Phoenix Court is a London-based multi-stage investment group founded by Saul and Robin Klein, and is the home of the LocalGlobe, Latitude, Solar and Basecamp funds.

Physical I/O Community

CommunityAIDeep TechForeign

A community led by curiosity, design and engineering. Physical I/O connects people exploring intelligence in the physical world and building what comes next.

PhysicsX

ScaleupAIDefenceBritish

AI-native engineering and simulation platform applying deep learning surrogate models across the engineering lifecycle for aerospace, automotive, semiconductors, materials and energy.