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Novalpina Capital

PEGrowth

Novalpina Capital is an independent European mid-market private equity firm founded in 2017 in London, focusing on control equity investments in companies with enterprise values of €200 million to €1 billion across the Benelux, DACH, France, Italy, and United Kingdom regions. The founding partners were removed from fund management by the firm's limited partners in 2021, with control transferred to a third-party manager, and the firm is no longer actively managed by its founders. The website remains live and the entity manages over €1 billion in total fund commitments.

One Peak

VCSeries A+

London-based growth equity firm investing in B2B software and tech scaleups from expansion stage through to IPO or exit.

Oxford Capital

VCSeries A+

Oxford-based venture capital firm investing over £500m into 100+ early-stage UK technology and science companies since 1999.

Oxford Science Enterprises

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+GrowthIncubator / Accelerator

Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE) is an independent investment company and venture builder operating in unique partnership with the University of Oxford, transforming cutting-edge scientific research into commercial companies. With a portfolio spanning life sciences, healthtech, and deep tech, OSE has invested over £3 billion alongside co-investors and supports approximately 40 core portfolio companies. It was formerly known as Oxford Sciences Innovation.

Palamon

PESeries A+Growth

Palamon Capital Partners is an independent mid-cap private equity firm founded in 1999 and headquartered in London. The firm provides equity to growing, asset-light service businesses across Europe, focusing on tech-enabled financial services, business services, healthcare, and consumer and education sectors. Palamon manages approximately €1.3 billion in funds under management and has invested across 43 companies in 12 European countries.

Par Equity

VCSeedSeries A+

Par Equity is an Edinburgh-based early-stage venture capital firm and investor network founded in 2008, specialising in high-growth technology companies across Scotland, Northern England, and Northern Ireland. The firm operates both an EIS fund and an angel investor network, offering seed to Series A investment. Par Equity has merged with Praetura Ventures and Praetura Investments in 2025 to form the PXN Group, a £670 million investment platform operating from Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds, and London.

Parkwalk

VCSeedSeries A+

Parkwalk Advisors is the UK's most active investor in university spinouts, specialising in backing deeptech companies emerging from British universities and research institutions via Enterprise Investment Scheme funds. The firm invests across seed to scale in deeptech, healthtech, and cleantech verticals, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence, quantum computing, life sciences, and clean energy. Founded in 2009, Parkwalk was acquired by IP Group in 2017 and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Passion Capital

VCPre-SeedSeed

Passion Capital is a London-based, founder-first venture capital firm founded in 2011, specialising in pre-seed and seed investments across AI, fintech, and enterprise software. The firm has backed over 100 companies including GoCardless, Monzo, Tide, Marshmallow, and PolyAI, and closed its fourth fund at $55 million in 2026.

Patron Capital

PEGrowth

Patron Capital is a European private equity real estate investment firm founded in 1999 and headquartered in London, focusing on opportunistic and value-add property investments across Western Europe. The firm has deployed over €5.5 billion of equity across more than 117 investments in 17 countries and manages multiple funds including a gender-lens Women in Safe Homes Fund.

Pi Labs

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Incubator / Accelerator

Pi Labs is Europe's first and leading proptech-focused venture capital firm, based in London. Founded in 2014, it invests at the pre-seed to Series A stage in technology companies transforming the built world, covering sustainable construction, smart buildings, and climate-conscious property technology. The firm has made approximately 100 investments across 15 countries over three funds and has achieved 19 exits, and also operates a competitive accelerator programme for early-stage proptech startups.

Picus Capital

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Foreign

Picus Capital is a Munich-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015, investing at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages in technology-driven startups globally. The firm has made over 170 investments across fintech, HR tech, climate/energy, healthtech, and logistics, and counts several unicorns in its portfolio including Personio and Enpal. It operates nine offices worldwide, including in London and New York.

Piton Capital

VCSeries A+Growth

Piton Capital is a London-based venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 2010 that invests exclusively in online businesses with network effects, such as marketplaces, exchanges, and platforms. The firm backs companies across all sectors where network effects provide a structural competitive moat, typically investing from Series A through Series C with ticket sizes ranging from €200k to €20 million. Notable portfolio companies include Booksy, McMakler, and Wunder Mobility.

Playfair

VCPre-Seed

Playfair Capital is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2013, investing exclusively at the pre-seed stage across the UK and Europe. The firm takes a high-conviction, low-volume approach, making approximately 6 investments per year with cheque sizes of £100k–£1.5m, and has backed over 70 companies including Thought Machine, Andela, and Omnipresent. It currently invests from its £57 million Fund 3.

Plexal

CoworkingEcosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsIncubator / Accelerator

Plexal is an innovation and growth company that provides co-working space, runs accelerator programmes and delivers innovation consultancy, partnering with government, startups and industry to solve societal challenges through technology. Founded by Delancey in 2017, it is headquartered at Here East on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, with additional locations in Shoreditch, Manchester and Cheltenham; it runs Cyber Runway, the UK's largest cyber accelerator, in partnership with the NCSC.

Plural

VCSeedSeries A+

Plural is a European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2022 by experienced technology founders including co-founders of Wise and Skype. The firm backs ambitious European startups from seed through Series B, with a focus on artificial intelligence, deep and frontier tech, climate and energy, and defence technology, aiming to have GDP-level impact on Europe.

Pollen Street

PESeries A+Growth

Pollen Street Group is a London-listed private capital asset manager focused on financial and business services, with over £8 billion in AUM across private equity and private credit strategies. Founded in 2013 as a spin-out from Royal Bank of Scotland, the firm invests in and builds businesses across the financial services ecosystem, with offices in London, Austin, and Abu Dhabi.

Portage

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Portage is a global fintech and financial services investment platform within the Sagard group, originally known as Portag3 Ventures, that backs companies from seed to Series C with capital, a global investor network, and value creation expertise. The firm manages $6.4 billion in assets across 130+ portfolio companies in 15 countries, with offices in Toronto, Montreal, New York, Paris, and London.

RAEng Enterprise Hub

Incubator / AcceleratorGrantmaker

The Enterprise Hub at the Royal Academy of Engineering, launched in April 2013, is the UK's top-ranked startup hub supporting engineering and deep-tech entrepreneurs through grants (over £19 million awarded), mentoring from Academy Fellows, and programmes including Enterprise Fellowships, the Shott Scale Up Accelerator, Leaders in Innovation Fellowships, and Regional Talent Engines. It has supported over 600 entrepreneurs who have collectively raised £3.8 billion and created more than 6,100 jobs, with regional hubs also operating in Liverpool, Newcastle, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

Redalpine

VCSeedSeries A+Foreign

Redalpine is a Swiss-founded multi-stage venture capital firm that has invested in software and science-driven companies across Europe since 2006. The firm takes a distinctive approach with a team split equally between scientists and operators, focusing on artificial intelligence, energy transition, health, and food security, with over $1 billion in assets under management.

Revaia

VCSeries A+Foreign

Paris-based growth equity VC firm backing European mission-driven tech companies from Series B to IPO; founded 2018, ~€600M AUM.

SEP

VCSeries A+Growth

Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) is a Glasgow-headquartered growth equity firm focused on European enterprise technology companies, with a particular emphasis on regulated and complex markets including capital allocation, payments, governance, and risk management. Founded in 2000, SEP has invested over £1 billion across its portfolio and maintains offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London. The firm backs founders with deep domain knowledge and proven deployments in demanding enterprise environments, investing typically £10–25 million per deal.

SFC Capital

VCPre-SeedSeed

SFC Capital (formerly Startup Funding Club) is the UK's most active early-stage investor, specialising in SEIS and EIS-qualifying startups. Founded in 2012, the firm operates an angel network, a leading SEIS fund, and a follow-on EIS fund, with over £150m in assets under management and more than 500 portfolio companies across sectors including B2B software, fintech, medtech, green technology and hardware.

Santander InnoVentures

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

Santander InnoVentures was the fintech-focused corporate venture capital arm of Banco Santander, established in 2014 with $200 million under management to invest globally in fintech startups at all stages. The fund backed companies including iZettle, Ripple, Kabbage, and Creditas. In September 2020 the fund was spun out and rebranded as Mouro Capital, with $400 million in allocated funds and a registered office in Fitzrovia, London.

Seedcamp

VCPre-SeedSeedIncubator / Accelerator

Seedcamp is a London-based European seed-stage venture capital fund, founded in 2007, that backs ambitious founders targeting global markets from day one. The fund has invested in over 400 companies across Europe, with notable portfolio companies including Revolut, Wise, Hopin, UiPath, and Synthesia. Seedcamp's latest fund (Fund VI) raised approximately $180 million to back around 100 seed-stage companies in areas including AI, cybersecurity, health tech, open-source software, and fintech.