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VCSeries A+Foreign

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.

Hoxton Ventures

VCPre-SeedSeed

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.

Hummingbird VC

VCSeedSeries A+

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

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Growth

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.

Illuminate Financial

VCSeedSeries A+

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.

Innotribe

Incubator / AcceleratorForeign

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

Grantmaker

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

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

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

VCSeedSeries A+

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.

JamJar

VCSeedSeries A+

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.

Kayne Partners

PESeries A+GrowthVCForeign

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

VCPre-SeedSeed

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.

Level39

Incubator / AcceleratorEcosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsCoworking

Level39 is Europe's largest technology accelerator for fintech, cybersecurity, retail, and smart-city companies, founded in 2013 by Canary Wharf Group and based on the 39th floor of a tower in Canary Wharf, London. It provides coworking space, mentorship, networking, and access to investors to over 180 startup and scaleup technology businesses, with member companies having raised over $942 million in total.

LocalGlobe

VCPre-SeedSeed

LocalGlobe is a London-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Robin and Saul Klein, focused on pre-seed and seed investments in technology companies. The firm has backed over 300 companies and counts multiple unicorns in its portfolio, including Wise, Citymapper, and Zoopla. LocalGlobe operates a family of funds including Latitude and Solar to provide continuous support from pre-seed through to IPO.

Lyceum Capital

PESeries A+Growth

Lyceum Capital is an independent mid-market private equity firm based in London that invests between £10m and £65m of equity in mid-sized UK businesses, partnering with entrepreneurial management teams to unlock growth. The firm specialises in technology and business services companies and has acquired over 125 businesses since its formation around 1999–2000, with approximately £800m in total capital raised across three funds.

MMC Ventures

VCSeries A+

London-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in AI, data, fintech, and health tech companies at Seed and Series A across Europe.

Mercia

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+GrowthPE

Mercia Asset Management PLC is a UK-based specialist asset manager founded in 2010, focused on supporting high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises across the regions of the United Kingdom. The firm provides capital across venture capital, private equity, private debt, and property development finance, with approximately £2 billion in assets under management. Mercia deploys between £100,000 and £10 million per investment and directs approximately 85% of its capital to businesses outside of London.

Mercia Ventures

VCSeries A+

UK venture capital firm backing ambitious founders at Series A and beyond, part of the Mercia Asset Management group.

Mosaic Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+

Mosaic Ventures is a London-based, thesis-driven venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Silicon Valley veterans. The firm focuses exclusively on AI application-layer companies and backs early-stage European founders at seed and Series A with cheque sizes of $1–10 million. Portfolio companies include Wise, Veriff, Parloa, and Habito.

Motive Partners

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

Motive Partners is a specialist private equity firm founded in 2016 that focuses exclusively on financial technology, with offices in New York, London and Berlin. The firm combines investment expertise with deep operational capabilities across wealth and asset management, banking and payments, insurance, capital markets, and AI and data analytics, and has raised $6.4 billion across its funds.

Newable

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Incubator / Accelerator

Newable is a London-based, employee-owned business support organisation founded in 1982 (originally as Greater London Enterprise, rebranded in 2016) that helps UK SMEs grow through finance, professional services, and workspace solutions. Its investment arm, Newable Private Investing (formerly London Business Angels), connects a network of over 500 angel investors with early-stage businesses in sectors including AI, medtech, robotics, fintech, and deep technology. The group employs approximately 1,200 people and supports over 43,000 SMEs annually.

Nicolas Cary

PersonPre-SeedSeedAngel

Co-founder and Vice Chairman of Blockchain.com; serial entrepreneur and London-based angel investor backing UK tech and fintech startups.

NorthEdge

PESeries A+Growth

NorthEdge Capital is a regional private equity firm headquartered in Manchester with additional offices in Birmingham and Leeds, managing over £1 billion in funds across five funds. Founded in 2009, the firm focuses on lower mid-market buyout and development capital transactions across the technology, healthcare, and business services sectors in the North of England and Midlands. It has backed over 48 businesses and employs around 7,600 people across its portfolio.

Notion Capital

VCSeedSeries A+

Notion Capital is Europe's leading early-stage business software investor, focusing exclusively on B2B SaaS, cloud services, and AI-driven software companies with global ambition. Founded in 2009 and based in London, the firm manages over $1 billion in AUM and has invested in more than 200 companies, including GoCardless and Tradeshift. It leads investments at an early stage and partners with founders throughout the journey from $1 million to $100 million in revenue.