Directory

Flo Health

ScaleupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

Women's health app using AI for personalised period, fertility, pregnancy and menopause tracking; with over 77 million monthly active users and unicorn status achieved in 2024.

Fora

CoworkingOtherBritish

Fora is the consumer-facing flexible workspace brand of The Office Group, operating over 60 distinctive coworking and serviced office locations across London, Cambridge, Leeds, and Reading. Originally incorporated in 2015 and backed by Brockton Capital, Fora merged with The Office Group in 2022 and became the unified brand for all TOG locations in 2023.

Francis Crick Institute

AcademiaOtherEcosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsBritish

The Francis Crick Institute is Europe's largest biomedical research institute, located beside St Pancras station in London. Established through a partnership between the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL, Imperial College London, and King's College London, it brings together over 2,000 scientists, engineers, and support staff to conduct research into the fundamental biology underlying health and disease.

Francisco Partners

PESaaSCybersecurityForeign

Francisco Partners is a leading global private equity and credit firm founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in London and New York. The firm focuses exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled services businesses and has approximately $45 billion in capital raised to date, having invested in more than 450 technology companies since inception.

Fresha

ScaleupConsumerSaaSBritish

London-based beauty and wellness marketplace and booking platform for salons and spas, reaching unicorn valuation after an $80M growth round in 2026.

Freshfields

Professional ServicesOtherBritish

Freshfields LLP (formerly Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) is a Magic Circle global law firm with origins dating to 1743, headquartered in London. The firm employs approximately 5,700 people including 2,800 lawyers across 33 offices worldwide, and rebranded to its shortened name in October 2024.

Funding Circle

ScaleupFinanceBritish

UK-founded, London Stock Exchange-listed lending platform that connects small businesses with investors to provide fast business loans.

GBG

CorporateCybersecurityFinanceBritish

Digital identity verification, location intelligence and fraud prevention; powers billions of identity checks annually.

GDS

GovernmentSaaSBritish

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of the UK government, operating as part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Founded in 2011, it leads digital transformation across central government departments and the wider public sector, building and maintaining products such as GOV.UK, GOV.UK One Login, and GOV.UK Chat. GDS comprises specialists including product managers, software engineers, designers, and researchers.

GIC

GovernmentOtherAIPEForeign

GIC Private Limited (formerly Government of Singapore Investment Corporation) is Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, established in 1981 to manage the country's foreign reserves. GIC invests globally across developed and emerging market equities, fixed income, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure, with a mandate to preserve and enhance Singapore's reserves over a 20-year investment horizon. GIC maintains a London office serving as its primary EMEA hub, alongside offices in nine other global financial centres.

GLA

GovernmentOtherBritish

The Greater London Authority (GLA) is London's strategic regional government, comprising the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. Established in 2000 under the Greater London Authority Act 1999, it provides citywide leadership across areas including housing, transport, policing, planning, the environment, arts, culture, and economic development. The GLA relocated its City Hall to the Royal Docks in March 2022.

GP Bullhound

Professional ServicesSaaSAIVCBritish

GP Bullhound is a global technology investment bank founded in 1999 and headquartered in London, specialising in M&A advisory and capital raising for technology companies. The firm has advised on over 700 transactions totalling more than $58 billion in deal value, and also manages Bullhound Capital, an investment arm with over €1 billion in assets. GP Bullhound operates from 11 offices across Europe, the United States, and Asia.

GTCR

PEFinanceMediaForeign

GTCR is a leading Chicago-based private equity firm founded in 1980 that pioneered 'The Leaders Strategy', partnering with management leaders to identify, acquire and build market-leading companies. The firm invests in growth companies across Financial Services and Technology, Healthcare, Business and Consumer Services, and Technology, Media and Telecommunications sectors. GTCR manages over $40 billion in equity capital and has invested in more than 290 companies since inception.

GV

VCAICybersecurityCorporateForeign

GV, formerly Google Ventures, is the venture capital investment arm of Alphabet Inc., founded in 2009. The firm invests from seed through growth stages in technology and life sciences companies across North America, Europe, and Israel, with over $13 billion in assets under management and approximately 400 active portfolio companies. GV provides capital, operational support, and access to Google and Alphabet resources to help founders build transformative businesses.

General Atlantic

PESaaSAIVCForeign

General Atlantic is a leading global growth equity and private equity firm founded in 1980, with approximately $97 billion in assets under management across all strategies. The firm invests in high-growth companies across technology, financial services, healthcare, consumer, life sciences, and energy transition sectors, operating from more than 20 offices worldwide including its UK office in Mayfair, London.

General Catalyst

VCAIConsumerForeign

General Catalyst is a global venture capital firm founded in 2000, with over $43 billion in assets under management, investing from early-stage seed through to growth equity. The firm backs companies in technology, AI, healthcare, and financial services across offices in Cambridge MA, San Francisco, New York, London, Berlin, and Bangalore.

Generation

VCClimateAIPEBritish

Generation Investment Management is a London-headquartered, owner-managed sustainable investment partnership founded in 2004, managing approximately $33.8 billion in assets and holding B Corp certification. The firm is a pure-play sustainable investor integrating ESG factors into long-term global equity, Asia equity, growth equity, and private equity mandates, with additional offices in San Francisco.

Genomics England

GovernmentOtherBritish

Genomics England is a company wholly owned by the UK Department of Health and Social Care, established in 2013 to deliver the 100,000 Genomes Project. It provides digital systems and evidence to support genomic healthcare across the NHS and accelerates medical research by enabling access to genomic and clinical data.

GitLab

CorporateSaaSCybersecurityForeign

GitLab Inc. is a publicly listed all-remote software company founded in 2011 and incorporated in 2014, best known for its comprehensive DevSecOps platform. The platform provides source code management, CI/CD pipelines, application security testing, and AI-assisted development through the GitLab Duo Agent Platform.

Global Founders Capital

VCSaaSAIForeign

Global Founders Capital (GFC) is the venture capital platform of Rocket Internet, backing early-stage technology companies across all sectors and geographies from pre-seed through to growth stage. Founded in 2013 by Oliver Samwer, the firm operates from offices in Berlin, London, and over a dozen other global cities, and invests exclusively from Rocket Internet's balance sheet following a 2024 restructuring. Its portfolio of over 600 companies includes Revolut, Canva, Deel, HelloFresh, and Zalando.

GoCardless

ScaleupFinanceBritish

Bank-payment (direct debit / account-to-account) network for recurring and one-off payments for businesses.

Goodwin

Professional ServicesOtherForeign

Goodwin Procter LLP is a global law firm founded in 1912 and headquartered in Boston, specialising in private equity, investment funds, technology, life sciences, and real estate. The firm has around 1,800 attorneys across offices worldwide, including a substantial London office.

Gousto

ScaleupConsumerAIBritish

Direct-to-consumer recipe-box / meal-kit service delivering pre-portioned fresh ingredients with recipes; AI-driven supply chain.

Grant Thornton

Professional ServicesOtherBritish

Grant Thornton UK LLP is a leading professional services firm providing audit, tax and advisory services to businesses across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. The UK practice employs over 5,000 people led by 200+ partners across 23 offices, and is part of the Grant Thornton International network operating in more than 150 markets.