Directory

Perscitus

PEPre-SeedSeedSeries A+VC

Perscitus LLP is an independent, London-based investment consultant providing services to a multi-asset portfolio with a focus on direct private equity and venture capital investments across a range of sectors and stages. The firm's direct investment portfolio spans more than 80 companies, with a preference for pre-Series A and small UK buyouts.

Phoenix Court

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Growth

Phoenix Court is a London-based multi-stage investment group founded by Saul and Robin Klein, and is the home of the LocalGlobe, Latitude, Solar and Basecamp funds.

Pi Labs

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Incubator / Accelerator

Pi Labs is Europe's first and leading proptech-focused venture capital firm, based in London. Founded in 2014, it invests at the pre-seed to Series A stage in technology companies transforming the built world, covering sustainable construction, smart buildings, and climate-conscious property technology. The firm has made approximately 100 investments across 15 countries over three funds and has achieved 19 exits, and also operates a competitive accelerator programme for early-stage proptech startups.

Picus Capital

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Foreign

Picus Capital is a Munich-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015, investing at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages in technology-driven startups globally. The firm has made over 170 investments across fintech, HR tech, climate/energy, healthtech, and logistics, and counts several unicorns in its portfolio including Personio and Enpal. It operates nine offices worldwide, including in London and New York.

Pitchdrive

VCPre-SeedSeedForeign

Pitchdrive is an operator-led pre-seed & seed VC backing Europe

Piton Capital

VCSeries A+Growth

Piton Capital is a London-based venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 2010 that invests exclusively in online businesses with network effects, such as marketplaces, exchanges, and platforms. The firm backs companies across all sectors where network effects provide a structural competitive moat, typically investing from Series A through Series C with ticket sizes ranging from €200k to €20 million. Notable portfolio companies include Booksy, McMakler, and Wunder Mobility.

Playfair

VCPre-Seed

Playfair Capital is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2013, investing exclusively at the pre-seed stage across the UK and Europe. The firm takes a high-conviction, low-volume approach, making approximately 6 investments per year with cheque sizes of £100k–£1.5m, and has backed over 70 companies including Thought Machine, Andela, and Omnipresent. It currently invests from its £57 million Fund 3.

Plexal

CoworkingEcosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsIncubator / Accelerator

Plexal is an innovation and growth company that provides co-working space, runs accelerator programmes and delivers innovation consultancy, partnering with government, startups and industry to solve societal challenges through technology. Founded by Delancey in 2017, it is headquartered at Here East on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, with additional locations in Shoreditch, Manchester and Cheltenham; it runs Cyber Runway, the UK's largest cyber accelerator, in partnership with the NCSC.

Plug and Play

Incubator / AcceleratorPre-SeedSeedVCForeign

Plug and Play Tech Center is a global innovation platform and startup accelerator founded in 2006 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The organisation runs vertical-specific accelerator programmes across fintech, insurtech, health, retail, mobility, and many other sectors, connecting startups with corporate partners and investors across more than 60 locations worldwide. It has been ranked the most active startup accelerator in the world and has backed companies including Onfido, Honey, and Albert.

Plural

VCSeedSeries A+

Plural is a European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2022 by experienced technology founders including co-founders of Wise and Skype. The firm backs ambitious European startups from seed through Series B, with a focus on artificial intelligence, deep and frontier tech, climate and energy, and defence technology, aiming to have GDP-level impact on Europe.

Point72

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm founded in 2014 that deploys fundamental equities, systematic, macro, private credit, and venture capital strategies across more than 200 investing teams. The firm manages approximately $50 billion in assets and employs over 3,300 people globally, with offices across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia including a UK office in St James's, London.

Pollen Street

PESeries A+Growth

Pollen Street Group is a London-listed private capital asset manager focused on financial and business services, with over £8 billion in AUM across private equity and private credit strategies. Founded in 2013 as a spin-out from Royal Bank of Scotland, the firm invests in and builds businesses across the financial services ecosystem, with offices in London, Austin, and Abu Dhabi.

Portage

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Portage is a global fintech and financial services investment platform within the Sagard group, originally known as Portag3 Ventures, that backs companies from seed to Series C with capital, a global investor network, and value creation expertise. The firm manages $6.4 billion in assets across 130+ portfolio companies in 15 countries, with offices in Toronto, Montreal, New York, Paris, and London.

Portfolio Ventures

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+

Portfolio Ventures is a London-based angel fund and early-stage investor, founded in 2014 and billing itself as the UK's best-connected early-stage investor. The PV Angel Fund deploys cheques of £200k to £500k into UK-based fintech, insurtech, B2B SaaS, and enterprise software companies at pre-seed through Series A stage. The firm is authorised and regulated by the FCA and has backed over 200 companies, building a network of more than 1,000 investors.

Praetura Ventures

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+

Praetura Ventures was a Manchester-based venture capital firm founded in 2019, focused on early-stage, high-growth businesses in the North of England and wider UK, investing via EIS and other funds with cheques of £200k to £8m. In June 2025, Praetura Ventures merged with Edinburgh-based Par Equity to form PXN Group (trading as PXN Ventures), a £670m AUM investment platform with offices in Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, and London, championing founders across the North of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

Presidio Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthCorporateForeign

Presidio Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Corporation, founded in 1998 and based in Silicon Valley, investing in technology companies across enterprise IT, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, digital media, mobility, IoT, fintech, and robotics. The firm has invested in more than 200 companies and helps US startups access Sumitomo's global network and the Japanese market. In 2022, Presidio Ventures Europe was launched with a UK base in London to focus on deep tech, energy, mobility, agri-food, and healthcare.

Project A Ventures

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Foreign

Project A is the early-stage VC for entrepreneurs building the next generation of European icons. Since 2012, we’ve partnered with 130+ founding teams at the earliest and most decisive stages.

Project Europe

Incubator / AcceleratorVC

Project Europe is a cohort-based accelerator and investment programme launched in March 2025 to support the next generation of technical European founders under the age of 25. Backed by 20VC, Point Nine, and Adjacent alongside over 150 leading European founders, it invests €200,000 in exchange for 6.66% equity and pairs each founder with a top European entrepreneur as a dedicated mentor.

Prosus

CorporateVCForeign

Prosus is the power behind the world's leading lifestyle e-commerce brands.

QED Investors

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

QED Investors is a leading global fintech-focused venture capital firm founded in 2007, with over $4 billion in assets under management and a portfolio of 250+ companies across the US, UK, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. The firm invests exclusively in financial services technology, spanning credit, lending, insurance, wealth management, and embedded finance, and has backed major fintech disruptors including Nubank, Credit Karma, Remitly, Klarna, and SoFi. QED was co-founded by former Capital One executives who bring deep operational expertise to their portfolio companies.

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.