Directory

Evertrue Capital

VCSeries A+

UK early-stage venture capital fund founded by Yvonne Bajela in 2025, investing in technology startups across Europe.

Exponent

PEGrowth

Exponent is a UK and Ireland-focused private equity firm established in London in 2004, investing in mid-market businesses headquartered across Europe with enterprise values of €150–500 million. The firm operates from offices in London and Dublin and has raised over £3.8 billion across five funds. Its investment approach integrates sector specialists and industrial expertise across media, business and financial services, healthcare, consumer, and leisure sectors.

F-Prime Capital

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

F-Prime Capital is an independent venture capital firm affiliated with Fidelity Investments, with $5.3 billion under management and offices in Cambridge MA, London, and San Francisco. The firm invests in healthcare (therapeutics, medtech, and healthtech) and technology (enterprise software, fintech, frontier tech, and crypto), backing early-stage companies while remaining stage-agnostic for exceptional opportunities.

FSE Group

PESeedSeries A+GrantmakerGovernment

The FSE Group is a socially responsible Community Interest Company and one of the UK's largest Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs), managing over £395 million in equity and debt funds across 19 regional schemes. It provides equity finance up to £5 million and business loans from £25,000 to £2 million to high-growth SMEs, and operates an angel investor network connecting business angels with pre-vetted investment opportunities. The group covers multiple UK regions including the South East, London, East of England, South West, Scotland, and Yorkshire.

FTV Capital

VCSeries A+GrowthForeign

FTV Capital is a growth equity investment firm founded in 1998, specialising in financial technology, financial services, enterprise technology, vertical software, and healthcare technology. The firm has raised over $10 billion in capital and maintains offices in New York, San Francisco, Connecticut, and London, investing in companies globally through its Global Partner Network.

FW Capital

PESeedSeries A+Government

FW Capital is a UK-based fund manager providing debt finance and equity investment to small and medium-sized enterprises, primarily across the North of England, South West, and Wales. The firm manages government-backed funds including the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II), offering business growth loans from £100,000 up to £2 million and equity investment up to £5 million. FW Capital is part of the DBW Group and has invested in over 530 companies across the North West alone, with £559 million in funds under management.

Felix Capital

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

Felix Capital is a London-based venture capital firm investing at the intersection of technology and creativity, with a focus on digital lifestyle, consumer brands, and enabling technologies including B2B SaaS and AI. The firm backs early- to growth-stage companies across Europe and the US, with over $1.2 billion under management and a portfolio of more than 50 companies. It is Europe's first B Corporation-certified VC firm operating with over $1 billion in assets, and a UN PRI signatory.

Fidelity Growth Partners

VCSeries A+GrowthForeign

Fidelity Growth Partners Europe was the European venture capital arm of Fidelity International, founded in 2010 with an initial $150 million fund to invest in European technology companies including SaaS, e-commerce, and healthcare IT. In 2015 the firm rebranded as Eight Roads Ventures, bringing together Fidelity's global growth investment operations under a single brand. Notable portfolio companies included Notonthehighstreet, Wahanda, and AppsFlyer.

Fifth Third Bank

CorporateSeedSeries A+GrowthVCForeign

Fifth Third Bank is a major US regional bank headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, tracing its origins to 1858. Through its corporate venture arm, Fifth Third Ventures, the bank makes non-controlling minority investments in fintech companies and venture capital funds that align with its strategic priorities. Typical initial investment sizes range from $1 million to $15 million across stages.

Fifth Wall

VCSeries A+GrowthForeign

Fifth Wall is the largest venture capital firm focused on technology for the built environment and global real estate industry, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Angeles. The firm manages approximately $3 billion in commitments and capital under management across PropTech and climate tech for real estate, backed by over 115 strategic limited partners including CBRE, Hilton, and Marriott. It expanded into Europe in 2022 with a London office and a €140 million European fund.

FinTech Circle

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsPre-SeedSeedIncubator / Accelerator

FINTECH Circle is a London-based global fintech ecosystem platform and angel network with over 260,000 members comprising entrepreneurs, investors, finance professionals, and academic and government representatives. Founded in 2014, it is Europe's first fintech-focused angel investment network and offers education, events, advisory services, and community programmes for the fintech sector. It publishes bestselling fintech books and runs the FINTECH Circle Institute for professional learning.

FinTech Collective

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Foreign

FinTech Collective is a global early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 and based in New York City, with an additional office in London. The firm backs entrepreneurs reshaping financial services across capital markets, banking, payments, lending, wealth management, insurance, and DeFi, and manages over $800 million in regulatory assets across a portfolio of more than 96 companies.

Finance Birmingham

GovernmentSeedSeries A+GrowthPEVC

Finance Birmingham is an FCA-regulated investment manager owned by Birmingham City Council, founded in 2010 to provide alternative funding channels for SMEs in the West Midlands following the 2008 financial crisis. The firm manages regional and national funds on behalf of government and institutional partners, offering growth capital, sector-specific funding, and property investment to growing businesses. It spawned Frontier Development Capital in 2016 as a national debt finance operation.

Finance Yorkshire

GovernmentPre-SeedSeedSeries A+VC

Finance Yorkshire is a government-backed regional investment fund providing flexible debt and equity finance to SMEs across Yorkshire and the Humber, established in 2010. The fund offers seedcorn investment for early-stage companies, growth equity, and business loans ranging from £25,000 to £1.5 million, having invested over £170 million combined with its predecessor South Yorkshire Investment Fund across more than 860 companies. It was originally established using European Regional Development Fund money and continues to support business growth and job creation across the region.

Finch Capital

VCSeries A+GrowthForeign

Finch Capital is a European growth equity firm founded in 2013 as Orange Growth Capital, rebranding to Finch Capital in 2017, and managing over €450 million in assets. The firm invests in B2B software companies across financial technology and business technology sectors — including payments, insurance, banking, legal, HR, and compliance — targeting European-headquartered companies with €2–20 million in ARR and over 30% annual growth. It maintains offices in Amsterdam, London, and Dublin.

Firgun Ventures

VCSeries A+

London-based quantum-first VC firm investing in Series A/B quantum scale-ups across computing, sensing, and communications; targeting a $250M fund.

Flow Traders

CorporateVCForeign

Flow Traders is a publicly listed proprietary trading firm and one of Europe's largest market makers, providing liquidity across exchange-traded products, fixed income, currencies and digital assets globally. It also runs a dedicated strategic capital arm that invests in companies aligned with its mission of financial market transparency and innovation.

Form Ventures

VCSeries A+

London-based early-stage VC fund investing up to £1m in startups disrupting or building regulated markets, from pre-seed through pre-Series A.

Forward Partners

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+

Forward Partners was a London-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013, focused on seed and pre-seed investments in UK startups across AI, marketplaces, and e-commerce. The firm built a portfolio of over 70 companies including Cazoo and Zopa, before being acquired by Molten Ventures in a £41 million all-share deal that became effective in March 2024.

Foundation Ventures

Incubator / AcceleratorCommunity

Foundation Ventures is a London-based advisory and acceleration firm that helps Web3 and blockchain founders with legal, accounting, tokenomics and go-to-market support, connecting them to investors and partners through networking events and demo days.

Founders Factory

Incubator / AcceleratorVC

Founders Factory is a venture studio and startup accelerator that co-builds and funds early-stage startups alongside leading global corporate partners. Founded in 2015 by Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane Fox, it provides capital, operational support from a 60+ person operator team, and access to corporate networks across fintech, health, climate, deep tech, and industrials, with a portfolio of over 450 companies across five continents.

Foundervine

CommunityIncubator / Accelerator

Foundervine is an award-winning UK social enterprise and accelerator that supports entrepreneurs from underrepresented backgrounds to start and scale businesses. Founded in 2017 by Izzy Obeng, it runs immersive entrepreneurship labs and programmes such as The Foundry accelerator and the Barclays Black Founder Accelerator, and has supported over 1,600 businesses and more than 4,400 founders. It has been named twice by the Financial Times and Statista as one of Europe's most dynamic start-up ecosystems.

Francisco Partners

PEGrowthForeign

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.

Frog Capital

PESeries A+GrowthVC

Frog Capital is a London-based growth equity investor specialising in purpose-driven European software scale-ups, incorporated in February 2009. The firm deploys growth capital alongside its proprietary Scale-Up Methodology, providing operational support to technology CEOs seeking to grow rapidly. It is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.