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BNVT Capital

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+

BNVT Capital (formerly 9900 Capital) is a London-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2023, investing in AI-first and technology-driven companies that address significant global challenges. The firm closed its debut $150 million Fund I in 2025 and has offices in London, New York, and Riyadh.

Ballpark Ventures

VCSeedPre-Seed

Ballpark Ventures is a boutique venture capital fund founded in 2010 by experienced entrepreneurs investing their own capital. The firm backs early-stage technology startups across Europe, with a focus on mobile, retail, media, and SaaS sectors, typically investing £1–5 million per deal.

Base 10 Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+

Base 10 Ventures is a technology-focused venture capital firm specialising exclusively in identity management and cybersecurity, founded in 2016 by Paul Tourret and Steve Waite — both previously co-founders of GMO GlobalSign. The firm invests at startup phase or during significant pivots, adopting an immersive venture-build approach, and operates from offices in London and Boston.

Bayes Entrepreneurship

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademia

Bayes Entrepreneurship is the entrepreneurship hub of Bayes Business School at City St George's, University of London, providing support to students, alumni and external founders through mentoring, pitch nights, workshops and the City Launch Lab incubator. It also oversees access to the Bayes Entrepreneurship Fund, a £10 million investment programme for early-stage UK companies.

Better Space

CoworkingIncubator / Accelerator

Better Space is an affordable co-working space, community hub, and social enterprise incubator in Islington, London. Established in 2021 as a joint venture between City St George's University of London, City Ventures, and Islington Council, it provides workspace and support for purpose-driven entrepreneurs, freelancers, and social enterprises. The space operates from The Ray Farringdon building under a ten-year partnership.

BiG Angels

VCSeedSeries A+Pre-Seed

Business Investors Group (BiG) is an angel investment network established in September 1997 by a group of successful entrepreneurs, providing equity finance and business support to owner-managers and high-growth businesses across the North East of England and Cumbria. BiG can invest from £25,000 up to £1 million and above, syndicating with other financial partners where needed, and has assisted more than 100 companies, deploying over £35.5 million over its history.

Black Valley

CommunityIncubator / Accelerator

Black Valley is a London-based organisation founded in September 2020 by Leke Sholuade with a mission to discover, nurture, and place top Black tech talent, and to support Black-led startups through its Founders Accelerator programme. The accelerator connects early-stage founders with a network of over 200 mentors from companies including Goldman Sachs, Accenture, and Hitachi, and provides access to pre-seed investors and angel networks. Black Valley also runs a recruitment service placing Black tech professionals in roles across the industry.

Blackfinch Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+

Blackfinch Ventures is the venture capital arm of Blackfinch Group, a Cheltenham-based investment specialist, investing in innovative technology-enabled UK companies via EIS and VCT structures. It backs early-stage and growth-stage businesses across deeptech, fintech, and the energy transition, with individual investments of £200k–£2m. The firm manages over £125m in combined EIS and VCT assets across a portfolio of more than 40 companies.

Braveheart Investment Group

PESeedSeries A+VC

Braveheart Investment Group plc was a UK-listed investment company (AIM: BRH) that provided equity, loan and mezzanine funding to small- and medium-sized enterprises, primarily in the technology sector across the UK and Ireland. Founded in 1997 and quoted on AIM since 2007, the company rebranded to Truetide plc (AIM: TRUE) in 2025, with a registered office in Glasgow and an operational base in Barnsley, England, and continues to make equity investments in both listed and unlisted technology-focused growth businesses.

Britbots

VCPre-SeedSeedIncubator / Accelerator

Britbots (trading name of High Growth Robotics Limited) is a UK-based early-stage investment firm and studio focused on robotics, artificial intelligence, and automation technologies. It operates the British Robotics Seed Fund (SEIS/EIS) and a Scale-Up Fund, having backed over 50 companies whose collective independent fundraising exceeds £50 million, and provides strategic mentoring and an innovator visa endorsement service to portfolio companies.

Brunel Entrepreneur Hub

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademiaCoworking

The Entrepreneur Hub is Brunel University London's centre for entrepreneurship and enterprise, based in the Bannerman Centre at the Uxbridge campus. It supports students and recent graduates (up to three years post-graduation) through one-to-one mentoring, workshops, a formal start-up incubator programme, and funding competitions with prizes ranging from £10,000 to £60,000. The Hub provides a structured pathway from early-stage idea development through market research, financial forecasting, and venture launch.

CBPE Capital

PESeries A+Growth

CBPE Capital is a London-based independent private equity firm founded in 1984, investing in UK mid-market businesses with enterprise values of up to £150 million across sectors including business services, consumer, financial services, healthcare, and technology. The firm manages over £1.3 billion in assets and has nearly 40 years of mid-market investment experience.

CCEP Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+

CCEP Ventures is the corporate venture capital and innovation investment arm of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, focused on finding, funding and fostering transformative sustainability solutions to support the company's net zero 2040 ambition. The programme invests in startups across clean energy, water, packaging and supply chain technologies.

CRL

CoworkingIncubator / Accelerator

Central Research Laboratory (CRL) is the UK's leading accelerator and co-working space for hardware startups and product pioneers, offering 24/7 workspace, specialist prototyping facilities and business support programmes including the CRL Accelerator. Originally established in Hayes, West London in 2015 at the Old Vinyl Factory, it relocated in November 2023 to the Plus X Innovation hub in Slough, where it continues to support entrepreneurs developing physical products; between 2017 and 2023 the CRL Accelerator supported 69 companies across 10 cohorts.

Cabot Square Capital

PESeedSeries A+Growth

Cabot Square Capital is an independently owned London-based private equity firm, founded in 1996, specialising in long-term equity investment in small and mid-sized companies in the UK and Western Europe. The firm has a particular focus on financial services, property and infrastructure sectors, and manages funds including CS Capital Partners III, IV and V. It is regulated by the FCA and invests across start-up, buy-and-build, expansion and turnaround situations.

Cambridge Capital Group

VCSeedSeries A+Pre-Seed

Cambridge Capital Group (CCG) is a business angel network of over 80 private investors, family offices, and venture funds that has been investing in hi-tech technology startups across the UK's Golden Triangle (Cambridge, London, Oxford) since 2000. The group has invested more than £50 million across a portfolio of over 100 startups, with a focus on seed and early-growth stage opportunities in sectors such as AI, medtech, biotech, cyber security, and deep technology.

Campus Capital

VCPre-SeedSeed

Campus Capital is the UK's first on-campus venture capital fund, founded in Sheffield in 2016 and now based in Manchester, investing at the earliest stages into innovative technology-enabled businesses across the UK. The firm operates a distinctive Student VC programme, enabling PhD, MBA, and undergraduate students to participate in real investment decisions alongside its investment committee, with university partnerships including Sheffield, Manchester, and Lancaster.

Carbon13

Incubator / Accelerator

Carbon13 is a venture builder dedicated to the climate emergency, supporting entrepreneurs to build companies with the potential to reduce or remove at least 10 million tonnes of CO2e per year at scale. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Cambridge, it runs cohort-based Venture Builder programmes in Cambridge and Berlin as well as a Venture Accelerator for pre-seed startups, and has backed more than 90 climate tech ventures across sectors including energy, agriculture, materials, and the built environment.

Chariot Innovations

Incubator / Accelerator

Chariot Innovations is the wholly owned commercial arm of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), bridging the gap between academic research and enterprise. It supports LSHTM staff and students with commercialisation of inventions, spinout formation, technology development, and consultancy, translating global-health research into real-world benefit. Incorporated in November 2012, it operates from the LSHTM campus near Russell Square.

Charlotte Street Capital

VCPre-SeedSeed

Charlotte Street Capital is a pre-seed and early-stage venture capital firm based in London, founded in 2011. It focuses on being the first money in for UK B2B and B2B2C software startups, typically leading rounds of up to £300,000. The firm invests in online software businesses with demonstrated customer traction.

Circularity Capital

PESeries A+Growth

Circularity Capital is a specialist private equity firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in Edinburgh, with an additional London office. The firm invests in growth-stage European businesses that are built on circular economy models — decoupling growth from resource consumption — across sectors including logistics, food production, e-commerce, and subscription services. Its investor base includes pension funds, fund-of-funds, insurance companies, and family offices; its second fund closed at €215 million in 2022, making it the largest specialist circular economy private equity fund in the world at the time.

Citi SPRINT

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Citi SPRINT (Spread Products Investments in Technology) is the strategic venture investing arm of Citi's Global Spread Products division, established in 2019. The team focuses on sourcing, executing, and managing principal equity investments in fintech lenders, private credit infrastructure providers, digital origination platforms, and asset-backed finance technology companies. It operates at the intersection of private credit, embedded finance, and corporate venture, and has co-invested alongside Citi Ventures and institutional partners such as Carlyle Group.

Clarence Centre

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademiaCoworking

The Clarence Centre for Enterprise and Innovation is London South Bank University's flagship incubation and co-working hub, housed in 17 Grade II listed Georgian terraces on the Southwark campus. It provides flexible office space, event facilities, and enterprise support to over 60 SMEs, student entrepreneurs, and non-profit organisations, and hosts LSBU's Research, Enterprise and Innovation team. The centre opened in September 2013 and won the RICS Regeneration Award for its restoration of the historic buildings.

Clarendon Fund Managers

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+

Clarendon Fund Managers Limited is a venture capital fund manager based in Belfast, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. It manages approximately £94 million of regional VC funds in Northern Ireland, including the Co-Investment Fund and the Investment Fund for Northern Ireland, and has invested in over 100 companies since 2001. The firm also manages HBAN Ulster, the Halo Business Angel Network in Northern Ireland, supporting investments from angel co-investors alongside its own funds.