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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.

Insight Partners

VCSeries A+GrowthPEForeign

Insight Partners is a global venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1995, headquartered in New York City, with over $90 billion in regulatory assets under management as of 2025. The firm invests in software and internet businesses across growth and late stages, with a deep focus on fintech, cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and healthcare technology. Insight Partners has backed more than 875 companies worldwide, with over 55 portfolio companies having achieved an IPO.

Intrepid Growth Partners

VCSeries A+Foreign

Growth-stage VC firm backing machine intelligence companies, with offices in Toronto and London; led PhysicsX's $300M Series C.

Invest in Change

VCSeedPre-Seed

Invest in Change is an Edinburgh-based angel group founded in 2018 that connects angel investors with purpose-led, impact-focused start-ups. The organisation focuses on early-stage seed investments in companies that aim to generate profit whilst creating a positive social or environmental impact, spanning sectors such as software, education, healthcare and community.

Investing Women Angels

VCPre-SeedSeed

Investing Women Angels is Scotland's first all-female angel investment syndicate, incorporated in 2013 and based in Edinburgh. It backs early-stage, predominantly female-founded and female-led businesses across Scotland, having invested over £2.3 million across more than 25 companies. The organisation also runs education and community programmes to increase the number of women participating in angel investing.

Investment For Growth & Jobs NI

GovernmentGrantmaker

Investment For Growth & Jobs Northern Ireland is the official portal for the Northern Ireland 2014–2020 European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and European Social Fund (ESF) programmes. Managed by the Department for the Economy and the Department of Finance, it supported economic development, job creation, and business growth across Northern Ireland using EU structural funds, and is now in the programme closure phase.

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.

Iona Star Capital

VCSeedSeries A+

IONA STAR is an operator-managed venture capital fund dedicated to accelerating technology innovation with artificial intelligence and data.

JC Flowers

PEGrowthForeign

J.C. Flowers & Co. is a leading private equity investment firm dedicated to investing globally in the financial services industry. Founded in 1998, the firm has deployed more than $18 billion of capital across over 70 portfolio companies in 19 countries, targeting banking, insurance, specialty finance, fintech, and asset management. The firm maintains offices in New York, London, and Miami.

JOIN Capital

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Foreign

Join Capital

JPMorgan Chase

CorporateSeries A+GrowthVCForeign

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a leading global financial services firm and one of the largest banking institutions in the United States, headquartered in New York City. It operates across consumer and community banking, commercial banking, investment banking, and asset and wealth management, and maintains a strategic investments unit that backs fintech and technology startups.

JRJ Group

PESeries A+Growth

JRJ Group is a partner-led global private equity investment firm founded in 2009 and headquartered in London, with a core focus on the financial services sector. The firm provides capital, deep operational expertise, and strategic guidance to mid-sized European businesses, working closely with management teams to build long-term growth platforms.

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.

Jenson Ventures

VCPre-SeedSeed

Jenson Funding Partners (trading as Jenson Ventures) is an FCA-regulated, B Corp-certified venture capital firm specialising in SEIS and EIS investments in early-stage UK companies. Founded in 2012, the firm has invested over £32 million across 165+ businesses and has 11 successful exits with an average multiple of 4.69x. Jenson takes a purpose-led, inclusive approach to venture investment across all sectors.

Jump Trading

CorporateVCForeign

At Jump, traders, builders, and researchers solve the hardest market problems, improving models, tools, and systems that power global trading.

Juno Capital

VCSeedSeries A+

Juno Capital is a London-based specialist alternative asset manager and investment syndicate, founded in 2011, that provides capital to a network of wealthy individuals and family offices. The firm focuses on venture investment in UK-based B2B SaaS businesses at the seed and scale-up stage, with investment tickets typically ranging from £1 million to £6.2 million.

KKR

PEGrowthForeign

KKR is a leading global private equity and alternative asset management firm managing investments across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, and credit.

KPMG Acceleris

VCSeedSeries A+Professional Services

KPMG Acceleris is an FCA-regulated venture capital advisory firm based in Manchester, operating as a joint venture between KPMG UK and Acceleris Capital (founded 2000). The firm arranges new capital for SMEs and makes direct investments in technology-based companies, supporting early-stage through to growth-stage businesses across technology, life sciences, and ESG-related sectors. It offers funding, investment advisory, and strategic services to founders and investors across the UK, with a track record of introducing over £150 million into UK SMEs.

Kadmos Capital

VCSeedSeries A+

Dedicated to finding the exceptional humans and companies responsible for progress and backing them early on.

Kathaka

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+PE

Kathaka is a single-family office deploying capital and strategic resources into investment and philanthropic endeavours.

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.

Kelvin Capital

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthPre-Seed

Kelvin Capital is a Glasgow-based angel investment syndicate founded in 2009 that backs growth-stage companies across technology, life sciences, and electronics manufacturing. The group has deployed over £150 million into more than 35 portfolio companies alongside other angel syndicates and venture capital firms, and also operates the Kelvin Capital Catalyst Fund targeting established EBITDA-positive UK businesses facing succession or expansion inflection points.

Kennet Partners

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

Kennet Partners is a London-headquartered venture capital firm founded in 1997 that focuses exclusively on bootstrapped and capital-efficient B2B SaaS technology companies in Europe and the US. The firm typically provides the first external funding to founder-owned software businesses and has over €1.3 billion in cumulative assets under management across six funds. Kennet also maintains offices in Silicon Valley and Frankfurt.

Kero

VCSeedSeries A+

Kero (formerly known as Kero Development Partners) is a UK-based early-stage investment firm that backs innovative engineering businesses with patented or patentable technologies. Founded in 2017, the firm focuses on clean tech, renewable energy, advanced materials, and industrial innovation, providing both capital and operational support to its portfolio companies. Notable portfolio companies include Power Roll (flexible solar film) and ZELIM (unmanned rescue vessels).