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QM Enterprise Zone

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademiaCoworking

Queen Mary University Enterprise Zone (QME) is an innovation hub and co-working space backed by Queen Mary University of London, focusing on Digital Health, MedTech, and AI startups in East London. Funded by Research England as one of 20 University Enterprise Zones across the UK, it provides incubation space, training programmes, networking, and access to investors for STEM entrepreneurs. It is Queen Mary's latest innovation space, complementing the earlier Queen Mary BioEnterprises Innovation Centre launched in 2011.

QMB Innovation Centre

CoworkingIncubator / Accelerator

Queen Mary BioEnterprises (QMB) Innovation Centre is a 52,000 sq ft life science incubator in Whitechapel, wholly owned by Queen Mary Innovation, the technology transfer arm of Queen Mary University of London. The centre offers fully fitted CL2 wet labs, write-up suites, and shared facilities for early-stage and growing biotech and science companies, sitting on the university's Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry research campus. The entity was incorporated in 2007 and the purpose-built building began operations in 2010.

QUBIS

AcademiaPre-SeedSeedVCIncubator / Accelerator

QUBIS is the commercialisation and technology transfer arm of Queen's University Belfast, founded in 1984 to turn academic research into high-impact commercial ventures. It takes equity stakes in university spin-outs across digital, engineering, environmental, life science, and scientific sectors, and manages a seed investment fund that provides early-stage capital of £50,000 to £150,000 per company. QUBIS has helped create over 100 technology spin-outs, generating more than £100 million in total capital raised.

Qi3 Ventures

VCPre-SeedSeed

Qi3 Ventures (formerly Qi3 Accelerator) is a Cambridge-based active angel investor group that combines cash funding with hands-on business development and technical expertise to help early-stage technology companies commercialise their products. The group invests primarily in Space, High Value Manufacturing, and e-commerce sectors, and co-invests alongside networks including Cambridge Angels and London Business Angels.

RAW Venture Partners

VCPre-SeedSeed

RAW Venture Partners is an Edinburgh-based boutique angel investment group and family office vehicle founded in 2014. The firm assists IT entrepreneurs and early-stage businesses in gaining access to working capital, providing mentoring and angel or follow-on investment in companies across the UK, Europe, and the US. It has invested over $10 million in businesses worldwide.

Revolt Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+

Revolt Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage real estate and proptech technology companies, founded in 2018 and backed by MARK (formerly Meyer Bergman), a private equity real estate investment manager. The firm targets high-growth technology startups operating at the intersection of real estate, retail, and digital innovation.

River Capital

PESeedSeries A+GrowthVC

River Capital (formerly Alliance Fund Managers) is an FCA-regulated fund management company based in Liverpool, part of the MSIF group. It provides tailored debt, mezzanine, private equity, and venture finance solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises across the North West of England, and manages funds totalling over £100 million including a dedicated AI fund.

Roehampton Startup Accelerator

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademia

The Roehampton Startup Accelerator is a free programme run by the University of Roehampton for graduates seeking to develop business ideas or early-stage ventures. It offers structured workshops covering lean startup methodology, sales, legal matters and fundraising, alongside mentoring from entrepreneurs and investors, demo days, and hot-desking facilities on campus. The programme runs in cohorts, typically from September to December each year.

Royal Holloway Enterprise Hub

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademia

The Royal Holloway Enterprise Hub is the enterprise and entrepreneurship centre of Royal Holloway, University of London, providing workspace, workshops, mentoring, and business development support to students, staff, and nascent local entrepreneurs in the Egham area. Housed in the Emily Wilding Davison Building, it is part of Royal Holloway Innovation and acts as a gateway to the expertise of the university and its partner organisations. The Hub opened in January 2022.

SIS Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+Grantmaker

SIS Ventures is an Edinburgh-based impact investment arm of Social Investment Scotland, established in 2018 and authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority. The firm has invested in early-stage Scottish companies with high-growth potential that also deliver measurable social or environmental impact, and is Scotland's first signatory to the Operating Principles for Impact Management; it is not currently making new investments and is focused on managing its existing portfolio.

SWIG

GrantmakerPre-SeedSeedGovernment

South West Investment Group (SWIG) is a not-for-profit organisation established in 1989 and based in Truro, Cornwall, that provides loan finance and equity-linked investments to small and medium-sized businesses across the South and West Country. Since April 2009 the group has lent over £116 million across more than 5,700 businesses, helping to create and safeguard approximately 10,000 jobs and generate over £448 million in regional economic impact.

Saatchinvest

VCPre-SeedSeed

SAATCHiNVEST is a London-based early-stage venture capital fund operating within M&C Saatchi PLC. Founded in 2012, the fund backs technology companies at seed stage, typically investing up to £300k per deal. Portfolio companies include Citymapper, Farewill, Dojo, and Ometria.

Scale Space

CoworkingIncubator / Accelerator

Scale Space is a 200,000 sq ft innovation hub and co-working campus in White City, London, established as a joint venture between Imperial College London and Blenheim Chalcot in 2018. It supports over 100 innovative digital technology and life sciences businesses, offering flexible offices, co-working labs, and a growth network connecting members with venture builders, academics, and corporate innovators. The hub, which opened its first phase in 2020, is a central anchor of the White City Innovation District and also operates I-HUB and a Nottingham campus.

Seed Haus

Incubator / AcceleratorPre-SeedVC

Seed Haus is a non-profit pre-seed technology accelerator and investor founded in 2017 and based in Edinburgh, Scotland, focused on backing early-stage startups across Scotland's startup ecosystem. The programme provides pre-seed investment of approximately £18,000 in exchange for 8% equity, alongside mentorship, infrastructure support, and assistance with customer acquisition, marketing, and distribution. It is among Scotland's most selective tech accelerators, having attracted backing from prominent Scottish entrepreneurs and investors.

Seneca Partners

VCSeedSeries A+PE

Seneca Partners is an award-winning specialist SME investment business based in Haydock, North West England, founded in 2010. The firm deploys growth capital into SMEs through tax-advantaged vehicles including Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS), having invested over £130 million into more than 100 companies.

Serendipity Capital

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Serendipity Capital is a Singapore-founded global investment firm focused on B2B, dual-use technologies at the intersection of commercial value and national security, established in 2019. The firm operates as a permanent capital vehicle investing in early-stage to growth companies across quantum technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, space, autonomous systems, and cybersecurity, with offices in Singapore, Boston, and London.

Sixth Element Capital

VCSeedSeries A+

Sixth Element Capital (6EC) is a specialist UK venture capital fund manager focused exclusively on oncology. It manages the £70 million CRT Pioneer Fund, a dedicated oncology investment fund established in 2012 to bridge the gap between cancer drug discovery and early clinical development in Europe.

Smedvig Ventures

VCSeries A+

London-based VC arm of the Smedvig family office, investing €4-8m in B2B tech companies across Europe from early traction to scale.

Social Tech Trust

GrantmakerPre-SeedSeedIncubator / Accelerator

Social Tech Trust (formerly Nominet Trust) is an independent UK charity and the country's leading dedicated grant-maker in socially motivated technology. Founded in 2008 as the corporate foundation of Nominet, it has provided over £31 million in funding to more than 750 technology-for-good initiatives across the UK, with a focus on inclusion, healthcare, and equitable access; it also operates Social Tech Ventures, a flexible impact investment fund for aligned ventures.

StartUp Lab Ravensbourne

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademiaCoworking

StartUp Lab is Ravensbourne University London's entrepreneurial hub for students and alumni seeking to develop and launch creative and digital technology ventures. Based at the university's Greenwich Peninsula campus, it offers mentoring, business planning support, workshops from industry experts, and networking with investors, with the 6-month intensive Founder Programme as its flagship offering. The broader Incubation+ programme provides hot-desking, office space, MR/VR lab access, and accelerator support to graduates and external businesses.

Stride.VC

VCSeed

Stride.VC is a London-based seed-stage venture capital fund that backs early-stage technology companies primarily in the United Kingdom and France. Founded in 2018, the firm is sector-agnostic and focuses on partnering with entrepreneurs from the earliest stages of company building; it raised two funds totalling approximately £220 million but announced in 2023 that it would not raise a third fund.

Surrey Investors Club

VCSeedPre-Seed

Surrey Investors Club was an angel investment network incorporated in November 2016 and registered in Winchester, England, focused on seed-stage investments in UK companies. The club merged with Angels 5K on 1 January 2021 to form the Southern Angel Investors Club, with members from both clubs having collectively invested over £11 million across more than one hundred high-growth UK companies prior to the merger.

Sussex Innovation

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademiaCoworking

Sussex Innovation Centre is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Sussex, founded in 1996, providing office space, business support, consultancy, and accelerator programmes to startups, scale-ups, and established businesses. Based on the University of Sussex campus in Falmer, Brighton, it has supported more than 750 businesses since its founding and runs the AccelerateTech growth programme alongside its University of Sussex Business Angels investor network.

Symvan Capital

VCPre-SeedSeed

Symvan Capital is a London-based FCA-regulated venture capital fund manager specialising in EIS and SEIS investments in early-stage UK technology companies. The firm focuses on AI, machine learning, distributed ledger technology, and other enabling technologies, with over £57 million in assets under management and 56+ portfolio investments since 2013. Symvan offers an evergreen fund structure and takes a hands-on, collaborative approach with founding teams.