Directory

Mercia

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+GrowthPE

Mercia Asset Management PLC is a UK-based specialist asset manager founded in 2010, focused on supporting high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises across the regions of the United Kingdom. The firm provides capital across venture capital, private equity, private debt, and property development finance, with approximately £2 billion in assets under management. Mercia deploys between £100,000 and £10 million per investment and directs approximately 85% of its capital to businesses outside of London.

Mercia Ventures

VCSeries A+

UK venture capital firm backing ambitious founders at Series A and beyond, part of the Mercia Asset Management group.

Meridian Growth Capital

VCPre-SeedSeed

Meridian Growth Capital is a Southampton-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2009. It invests between £50,000 and £500,000 in seed and early-stage companies, with a focus on technology, telecommunications, biotechnology, and media sectors. The firm takes minority stakes and backs proven management teams across the UK, with notable exits including Blis (4x) and loveholidays.

Midven

VCPre-SeedSeed

Midven is a Birmingham-based venture capital fund manager, now operating as part of Future Planet Capital, that has been investing in early-stage, fast-growing SMEs in the West Midlands since 1993. The firm manages funds including the Midlands Engine Investment Fund and the West Midlands Co-Investment Fund, deploying up to £2m per investment into high-growth technology and SaaS businesses.

Monograph Capital

VCSeedSeries A+

Monograph Capital is a transatlantic venture capital firm that finds and funds early-stage life sciences companies, focusing on therapeutics, diagnostics and technology-enabled healthcare services.

Montagu

PEGrowth

Montagu is a mid-market private equity firm with origins dating to 1968 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in Frankfurt, Paris, Warsaw, Luxembourg, and New York. The firm specialises in carve-outs and management buyouts across five priority sectors: healthcare, financial sector services, critical data, digital infrastructure, and education. Montagu manages approximately €12 billion in assets.

Montreux Capital Management

PEGrowth

Montreux Capital Management is a boutique alternative investment firm founded in 2010 and based in Surrey, United Kingdom. It serves as investment adviser to the Montreux Healthcare Fund, which deploys a buy-and-build strategy to acquire and grow specialist care businesses across the United Kingdom, with a focus on adult care for those with acquired brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and learning disabilities.

Moonfare

Funding PlatformForeign

Moonfare is a private equity investing platform making top-tier funds available to retail and institutional investors at lower minimums.

Moonfire

VCPre-SeedSeed

Moonfire is a London-based, technology-driven venture capital firm founded in 2019 that invests at pre-seed and seed stages in early-stage European startups. The firm uses proprietary machine-learning models to source and evaluate investment opportunities at scale, and focuses on five areas: security and infrastructure, work and knowledge, capital and finance, gaming and community, and health and wellbeing.

Morgan Stanley Capital Partners

PEGrowthForeign

Morgan Stanley Capital Partners is the middle-market private equity platform of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, established in 1985. The platform makes control equity investments in North American middle-market companies with enterprise values of $75 million to $750 million across a broad range of industries. Its most recent vehicle, Fund VIII, closed at $3.2 billion in 2025.

Mosaic Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+

Mosaic Ventures is a London-based, thesis-driven venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Silicon Valley veterans. The firm focuses exclusively on AI application-layer companies and backs early-stage European founders at seed and Series A with cheque sizes of $1–10 million. Portfolio companies include Wise, Veriff, Parloa, and Habito.

Motherlabs

CoworkingIncubator / Accelerator

Motherlabs is the science accelerator and incubator component of ARC West London, a Brookfield-owned advanced research cluster in Hammersmith. Launched in July 2022, it provides eight fully fitted and managed CL2 containment laboratory spaces for early-stage science, technology and innovation businesses, with specialisms including biopharma, RNA therapy, and gene and cell therapy. The facility reached full occupation in early 2024 and sits within ARC's wider Refinery development, co-located with the Leap programme run by Imperial College's incubator.

Motive Partners

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

Motive Partners is a specialist private equity firm founded in 2016 that focuses exclusively on financial technology, with offices in New York, London and Berlin. The firm combines investment expertise with deep operational capabilities across wealth and asset management, banking and payments, insurance, capital markets, and AI and data analytics, and has raised $6.4 billion across its funds.

NATO Innovation Fund

VCSeries A+Foreign

The world's first multi-sovereign venture capital fund, backed by 24 NATO allies, deploying €1bn into deep tech startups across defence, security and resilience.

NEA

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is one of the world's largest and most active venture capital firms, founded in 1977 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Chevy Chase, San Francisco, and New York. The firm invests in technology and healthcare companies across all stages, from seed to growth, with more than $28 billion in assets under management. NEA has backed over 284 portfolio company IPOs and more than 500 mergers and acquisitions.

NEXT by Yodlee Interactive

Incubator / AcceleratorPre-SeedSeedForeign

NEXT by Yodlee Interactive was a fintech incubator and accelerator programme launched in August 2013 by Yodlee Interactive, described as the first financial technology incubator in Silicon Valley. The programme provided startups with $20,000 in funding, six months of free access to Yodlee's financial data API, dedicated technical support, and a series of bootcamps and Demo Day events. The programme later evolved into the Envestnet | Yodlee Launchpad following Yodlee's acquisition by Envestnet.

NIHR

GovernmentGrantmaker

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is the UK government's principal funder of clinical, public health, social care and translational research, funded by the Department of Health and Social Care. Established in 2006, it funds and enables world-class health and care research across England through a network of biomedical research centres, applied research collaborations and clinical research facilities.

NPIF II – PXN Equity Finance

VCSeries A+

Government-backed £100m equity fund under the British Business Bank's NPIF II programme, managed by PXN Ventures to invest up to £5m per business in Northern England.

NW Brown Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+

NW Brown Ventures was the venture capital investment arm of NW Brown & Co, a Cambridge-based wealth management and financial advisory firm founded in 1974. The venture arm made a small number of early-stage investments in UK technology and life sciences companies, with its last recorded investment in 2008. The parent company, NW Brown & Co, was acquired by Brown Shipley in 2019 and the venture arm appears to have been dormant for many years prior.

NX Hub

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademiaCoworking

NX Hub is the entrepreneurship and innovation initiative of Goldsmiths, University of London, based in New Cross, operating with a digital-first approach to deliver workshops and events for local entrepreneurs. It supports business start-up and growth through the Creative Business Exchange, a programme of workshops and networking events for creative businesses in Lewisham, as well as a local entrepreneur network for collaboration and learning. Its particular focus is on the creative and digital economy and underrepresented founders in the Lewisham area.

National Wealth Fund

GovernmentPE

Financing growth, powering change – £27.8bn for transformational UK projects

Nationwide

CorporateSeedSeries A+VC

Nationwide Building Society is the world's largest building society and a British mutual financial institution providing retail banking services including mortgages, savings, current accounts, and insurance. Through its venture arm NBS Ventures, Nationwide invests in fintech, data, cyber-security, regtech, and proptech startups at seed to Series A stage to support its strategic roadmap and benefit its members. The organisation is owned by its members rather than shareholders.

Neptune Investment Management

PEGrowth

Neptune Investment Management was an independent UK-based active fund manager founded in 2002 in Hammersmith, West London, offering a range of global, income, regional, and emerging market funds. The firm was acquired by Liontrust Asset Management in October 2019, with all Neptune funds subsequently rebranded under the Liontrust name and its investment team absorbed as the Liontrust Global Equity team. Neptune no longer exists as an independent entity.

Nesta

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsGrantmaker

Nesta is a UK research and innovation foundation and registered charity that designs, tests, and scales solutions to major societal challenges. Originally launched in 1998 as a government body funded by a National Lottery endowment, it became an independent charity in 2012 and works across areas including early childhood development, public health, and climate action. It combines applied research, policy development, venture building, and impact investment to drive systemic change.