Directory

Kindred Capital

VCPre-SeedSeed

Kindred Capital is a London-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015, known for its pioneering 'equitable venture' model in which every founder backed becomes a co-owner of the fund by receiving a share of carry. The firm invests at pre-seed and seed stages in mission-driven, technology-driven founders across Europe. Its portfolio includes companies such as RobCo, Cradle, and Lottie, and 54% of its Fund I portfolio successfully raised Series A funding within three years.

Kineo Finance

VCSeries A+GrowthForeign

Kineo Finance is an international financing partner offering venture leasing, factoring, working capital and selective equity investments to hardware and technology scale-ups, primarily across Europe and North America.

King's Ventures

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademia

The Entrepreneurship Institute at King's College London is the university's central hub for entrepreneurial activity, commercialising and scaling innovations founded by King's students, staff, and alumni. It runs the 12-month King's Start-up Accelerator and King's Spin-out Accelerator, offering mentoring, workshops, office space, and investor connections. The portfolio has facilitated over £121 million in investment and supported more than 180 companies.

Kinnevik

VCSeries A+GrowthForeign

Kinnevik is a Swedish growth investment company founded in 1936, focused on backing ideas and founders in transformative sectors including software, health & bio, and climate tech. It takes active, long-term ownership stakes in unlisted companies primarily across Europe and the US, and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. Kinnevik also maintains a London office in Soho.

Koro Capital

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Growth

Koro Capital is a London-founded, solo-GP-style venture capital firm that invests directly in early-stage technology companies from pre-seed through Series A, while also allocating capital as a limited partner to other emerging and established venture and private equity funds.

L Marks

Incubator / AcceleratorProfessional Services

L Marks is a global corporate innovation firm that designs and delivers innovation programmes for major international organisations, including BMW, Lloyd's of London, and Sodexo. Founded in 2014, it operates an award-winning Innovation Lab model connecting corporates with startups, as well as a Venture Studio that builds new revenue-generating businesses from within client organisations, with a 78% deployment rate across more than 120 programmes in Europe, North America, and the Middle East.

LBIC

CoworkingIncubator / Accelerator

The London BioScience Innovation Centre (LBIC) is London's first specialist life science bio-incubator, founded in 2000 and wholly owned by the Royal Veterinary College. It provides fully fitted, serviced CL2 laboratory and office space at its Camden campus and, since 2023, at The Apex within the King's Cross Tribeca development, and has supported over 200 biotechnology and life science companies since opening. LBIC is co-located with the RVC's Camden campus, adjacent to the Francis Crick Institute and the Knowledge Quarter.

LBS Launchpad

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademia

LBS Launchpad is London Business School's startup incubator and pre-accelerator programme, run under the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital exclusively for LBS alumni founders. It provides mentorship, tailored workshops, financial bursaries, investor access, and a structured curriculum to help early-stage ventures progress from idea to scale. Since inception the programme has supported over 160 companies that have collectively raised more than £200 million and created over 1,500 jobs.

LDC

PESeries A+Growth

LDC (formerly Lloyds Development Capital) is a mid-market private equity firm and subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group, established in 1981. The firm invests between £2 million and £100 million in management buy-outs, institutional buy-outs, and development capital transactions in UK-based businesses across sectors including business services, consumer, healthcare, ICT, industrials, media, and technology. LDC operates from a national network of offices across the UK.

LSE Generate

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademiaCoworking

LSE Generate is the London School of Economics' home for entrepreneurship, supporting students and alumni to develop businesses at every stage since 2018. It operates the GenDen, a free co-working space on the ground floor of St Clement's Building, open to teams with at least one LSE-affiliated founder, and also runs incubator and accelerator programmes, a schools outreach programme, and a corporate innovation lab.

LSIP

VCSeedSeries A+Pre-Seed

London & Scottish Investment Partners (LSIP) is a Scottish-based angel investment group founded in 2014, bringing together sophisticated investors from London and Scotland to back high-quality Scottish companies. The group focuses on seed and early-stage investments in sectors including life sciences, technology, energy, food and drink, and manufacturing, typically investing between £300,000 and £500,000 per deal into around six companies per year. LSIP is an active member of the Scottish Angel Network.

LTS Growth

VCSeries A+GrowthForeign

LTS Growth Platform

La Caisse

GovernmentPEVCForeign

La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec est un groupe mondial d'investissement qui stimule la performance et le progrès, avec un actif net de 517 milliards de dollars.

Lake House

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

Lake House is a privately held investment company founded in 1995, with offices in London and Hong Kong. The firm is industry agnostic and has been involved in projects and investments in excess of US$15 billion across 15 countries, focusing on real estate, media, technology, transportation, and internet sectors. It invests in distressed, turnaround, and fast-growing innovative companies.

Lakestar

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Lakestar is a pan-European venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Klaus Hommels, investing in disruptive technology-driven businesses from seed through growth stage. The firm manages over €2 billion across multiple funds and has offices in Zurich, Berlin, London, New York, and Hong Kong, with a portfolio that includes Spotify, Revolut, and Airbnb.

Lavender Ventures

VCSeries A+

London-based pre-seed and seed stage venture capital firm investing in female health and wellbeing (femtech) companies.

Level39

Incubator / AcceleratorEcosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsCoworking

Level39 is Europe's largest technology accelerator for fintech, cybersecurity, retail, and smart-city companies, founded in 2013 by Canary Wharf Group and based on the 39th floor of a tower in Canary Wharf, London. It provides coworking space, mentorship, networking, and access to investors to over 180 startup and scaleup technology businesses, with member companies having raised over $942 million in total.

Lifearc Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+

LifeArc Ventures is the venture capital arm of LifeArc, a UK medical research charity, investing in seed to Series B therapeutics and medtech companies worldwide.

Lightspeed

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage global venture capital firm founded in 2000, with $25 billion in assets under management across the Lightspeed platform. The firm invests in enterprise, consumer, health, and fintech sectors from seed through later stages, with offices across the US, Europe, India, Israel, and Southeast Asia. Its portfolio includes Affirm, Snap, Anthropic, Rubrik, Epic Games, and over 500 companies globally.

Livingbridge

PESeries A+Growth

Livingbridge is a UK mid-market private equity firm founded in 1999 (formerly known as Isis Equity Partners until 2014), headquartered in London with offices in Manchester, Melbourne, and Boston. The firm invests in fast-growing companies valued up to £200 million across technology, services, healthcare and education, and consumer sectors. It manages over £2.5 billion in assets under management and has backed over 150 UK businesses since inception.

LocalGlobe

VCPre-SeedSeed

LocalGlobe is a London-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Robin and Saul Klein, focused on pre-seed and seed investments in technology companies. The firm has backed over 300 companies and counts multiple unicorns in its portfolio, including Wise, Citymapper, and Zoopla. LocalGlobe operates a family of funds including Latitude and Solar to provide continuous support from pre-seed through to IPO.

Long Arc Capital

PEGrowthForeign

Long Arc Capital is a private equity firm founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, focused on investing in and building growth-stage businesses across technology, financial services, business services, media, and telecommunications sectors in North America and Europe. The firm was founded by six partners and takes an active ownership approach, partnering closely with management teams to scale breakthrough businesses.

Longwall Ventures

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+

Longwall Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2008 and based at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, with over 18 years of experience commercialising UK academic research in deep technology. The firm manages four funds targeting start-up and early-stage companies across advanced manufacturing, clean energy, defence, life sciences, and space, investing between £500k and £2m per company, with a British Business Bank cornerstone commitment of £50m anchoring Fund 4's £100m target.

Lough Shore Investments

VCSeedPre-Seed

Lough Shore Investments is a Belfast-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that backs high-potential management teams in Northern Ireland and Ireland, focusing on seed and early-stage investments in technology, logistics, and financial services. The firm aims to bring portfolio companies to exit or IPO, with notable investments including Options Technology and SendMyBag.