Directory

Seraphim Space

VCSeedSeries A+Incubator / Accelerator

Specialist SpaceTech investment platform comprising early-stage VC funds, an accelerator programme and the LSE-listed Seraphim Space Investment Trust (SSIT). Managing over $550m in AUM, Seraphim invests globally at Seed and Series A in companies building the infrastructure and applications of the space economy.

Sigma Capital

PEGrowth

Sigma Capital Group is an Edinburgh-based specialist asset management group focused on the development, delivery, and management of build-to-rent (BTR) residential housing across the United Kingdom. The company manages approximately £2.7 billion in investments and has delivered around 13,100 BTR homes, operating under the Simple Life and Simple Life London brands. The business was taken private in 2021 following acquisition by PineBridge Benson Elliot.

Silverfleet Capital

PESeries A+Growth

Silverfleet Capital is an independent, partner-owned European mid-market private equity firm established in 2006 as a spinout from Prudential plc's private equity arm (formerly PPM Capital), with roots dating back to 1985. The firm specialises in buyouts of companies with an enterprise value of €25 million to €300 million across healthcare, business services, consumer, and manufacturing sectors, and has been focused on portfolio realisation since abandoning its third-fund raise in 2021.

Sovereign Capital

PESeries A+Growth

Sovereign Capital Partners is a leading UK mid-market private equity firm founded in 2001 and based in London, specialising in Buy and Build investment strategies. The firm manages £650 million in funds and focuses on four sectors: business and technology services, healthcare and pharma services, financial services and insurance, and education and training, investing £10 million to £120 million per transaction across more than 60 platform investments.

Sustainable Ventures

CoworkingVCIncubator / Accelerator

Sustainable Ventures is Europe's largest climate tech ecosystem, providing co-working spaces, SEIS/EIS investment, and venture support exclusively for climate technology startups and scaleups. Its flagship London hub occupies the fifth floor of the iconic County Hall building on the South Bank, with further hubs in Manchester, Glasgow, Belfast, and Cambridge. The organisation has supported over 1,000 startups, helping raise more than £1 billion in equity funding.

Syncona

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

Syncona is a British closed-ended life science investment trust that was established by the Wellcome Trust in 2012, before listing on the London Stock Exchange following a merger with the Battle Against Cancer Investment Trust in December 2016. The firm builds and funds a portfolio of life science companies focused on translating frontier science into transformative therapeutics, spanning pre-clinical through to commercial-stage businesses. Syncona Investment Management Limited operates as the investment manager from its London headquarters.

Synova

PEGrowth

Synova is an independent London-based private equity firm founded in 2007, managing approximately £1.7 billion of capital on behalf of institutional investors and family offices. The firm invests in mid-market UK companies across three interrelated sectors: Software & Data, Tech-Enabled Services, and Financial Services, with transaction values up to £250 million.

Talis Capital

VCSeedSeries A+

Talis Capital is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2009 that invests with high conviction at Seed and Series A stages across Europe and the US. The firm backs technology companies in areas including fintech, cybersecurity, deep tech, and digital health, with notable investments including Darktrace, Onfido, and iwoca.

Ten Eleven Ventures

VCSeries A+Foreign

Multi-stage global venture capital firm specialising exclusively in cybersecurity, with offices in Silicon Valley, Boston, Boulder, and London.

Toscafund

PEGrowth

Toscafund Asset Management is a London-based specialist investment manager founded in 2000, managing funds across UK small to mid-cap equities, global financials, commercial and residential property, private equity, and hedge strategies. The firm serves institutional investors, pension funds, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals with approximately $2 billion in assets under management, and also maintains offices in New York, Melbourne, and Hong Kong.

Triple Point

VCSeries A+

London-based FCA-regulated investment manager offering venture capital, private credit, social housing, and energy investments across institutional and individual markets.

UKI2S

VCPre-SeedSeedGrantmaker

The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) is one of the UK's largest pre-seed venture capital funds with over £110 million AUM, publicly funded and managed by Future Planet Capital (Ventures) Limited. It invests in early-stage science and technology spinouts across defence and security, engineering biology, fusion energy, space, and knowledge assets. Created in 2002 as the Rainbow Seed Fund, the initiative has generated approximately £25 of private investment for every £1 deployed, having backed over 70 companies.

Unbound

VCSeries A+Growth

Unbound is a London-based growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017, focused on backing fast-growing technology companies from Series B onwards across global developed and emerging markets. The firm describes itself as operators and company builders rather than traditional investors, emphasising long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs. Its portfolio includes Cars24, Forto, Motorway, Databricks, and Snowflake.

Viola Credit

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

Viola Credit is a global, technology-driven alternative credit asset manager with over $4 billion in assets under management. The firm provides tailored credit solutions to tech-driven companies across three strategies: asset-backed lending, growth lending, and customer growth financing. It is part of the Viola Group, Israel's leading technology-focused investment group, and operates offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.

Virgin StartUp

Incubator / Accelerator

Virgin StartUp is a UK not-for-profit organisation founded in 2013 by the Virgin Group to help entrepreneurs start and grow businesses through access to government-backed Start Up Loans of £500–£25,000, mentoring, and community support. It is an accredited delivery partner of the British Business Bank's Start Up Loans scheme and has disbursed over £100 million to UK founders. Every loan recipient is paired with a dedicated business advisor and receives 12 months of post-funding support.

Visionaries Club

VCSeries A+Foreign

European early-stage VC firm backing B2B founders and climate deep tech, with offices in Berlin and London and a network of industrial family entrepreneur LPs.

West Coast Capital

PEGrowth

West Coast Capital is the private investment vehicle of the Hunter family, founded in 2001 by Scottish entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter. The firm invests its own capital in founder-led, profitable private businesses across retail, property, healthcare, and technology sectors, with a minimum investment of circa £5 million and a long-term, relationship-driven approach. Profits are substantially reinvested philanthropically through The Hunter Foundation.

White Star Capital

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

White Star Capital is a global multi-stage technology investment platform founded in 2007, with offices in London, New York, Montreal, Toronto, Paris, Lisbon, Singapore, and Tokyo. The firm invests in technology companies from seed through to growth equity, with a particular focus on Series A and B rounds across fintech, digital assets, e-commerce, and consumer technology. It also operates a dedicated digital assets fund.

YFM Equity Partners

PESeries A+GrowthSeedVC

YFM Equity Partners is one of the UK's oldest independent private equity firms, founded in 1982, providing growth capital and management buyout funding of £3m–£15m to ambitious SMEs across the UK. With over £750 million in assets under management, YFM operates through both private equity funds and venture capital trusts (British Smaller Companies VCTs). The firm has offices across multiple UK regions including Leeds, London, Manchester, Birmingham, and Reading.

Zinc

Incubator / Accelerator

Zinc is a London-based inception-stage venture builder that turns raw talent into science-for-impact ventures addressing pressing challenges in human and planetary health. Founded in 2017, the organisation runs cohort-based programmes selecting 50–70 founders per cycle, guiding them through an intensive research phase focused on a single societal challenge, and invests in co-founded ventures at the earliest stage. Zinc also offers talent initiatives and innovation partnerships to build the wider science-for-impact ecosystem.

firstminute capital

VCSeed

firstminute capital is a London-based seed-stage venture fund investing in European founders building global technology companies, with $500M AUM and a network of over 130 unicorn founder backers. The fund backs companies across AI, deep tech, developer tools, SaaS, fintech, and healthtech, and has backed 11 unicorns at seed stage.

noa

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

noa (formerly A/O PropTech) is Europe's largest built-world venture capital firm, based in London, investing in pioneering founders and breakthrough technologies that decarbonise and digitise the built environment. The firm backs companies across structures, energy, materials, environments, mobility, and community, from early stage through to later-stage growth.

10x10

CommunityVC

10x10 is a UK-based community of Black founders, angel investors, and venture capitalists, founded in 2015 by Andy Davis as an informal support network that began as a WhatsApp group. The network connects Black entrepreneurs with capital and peer support through office hours, pitch sessions, and a Slack community, and has produced The Black Report in partnership with Google for Startups. The community has since expanded to include 10x10 Capital, an investment fund and AngelList syndicate investing in Black founders at pre-seed stage.

13books Capital

VCSeries A+

London-based fintech-specialist VC firm (formerly Element Ventures) investing at late Seed and Series A in European founders building financial technology.