Directory

Creandum

VCSaaSAIForeign

Creandum is a leading European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2003, with hubs in Stockholm, Berlin, London, and San Francisco. It backs ambitious founders building global, category-defining technology companies from Seed stage onwards, with a portfolio including Spotify, Klarna, Depop, Trade Republic, and Bolt.

Create Connect

AcademiaOtherCommunityBritish

Create/Connect explores how creativity and community support trans and gender diverse young people’s wellbeing.

Creative AI Meetup

CommunityAIForeign

Presenting new AI developments and creative applications to technologists, artists and researchers

Creative UK

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsMediaGamingGrantmakerBritish

Creative UK, formerly Creative England (founded 2010), is a not-for-profit independent network for the UK creative industries, formed in November 2021 following the merger of Creative England and the Creative Industries Federation. It supports, invests in, and champions creative businesses and talent across the United Kingdom, operating a £35 million investment fund for creative businesses alongside programmes spanning film, television, games, and digital media.

Creator Fund

VCAIQuantumBritish

Creator Fund is a London-based venture capital firm backing scientific founders — PhD students, professors, and academic researchers — building deep technology companies out of European university research. The firm invests at pre-seed and seed stages across AI, quantum, robotics, life sciences, and materials science, with teams embedded across university campuses throughout Europe.

Creator Ventures

VCConsumerAIBritish

Partnering with AI-native consumer companies and the software supporting them.

Crescent Capital

VCOtherSaaSBritish

Crescent Capital is a Belfast-based venture capital fund manager founded in 1995, focused on investing in Northern Ireland companies operating in the information technology, life sciences, and manufacturing sectors. The firm has raised over £60 million to date from government, private, and institutional investors, and manages the North Ireland Growth Fund, providing portfolio companies with capital, strategic guidance, and access to its business network.

Cribl

ScaleupCybersecuritySaaSForeign

Cribl is built for IT and Security data and provides a unified data management platform for exploring, collecting, processing, and accessing that data at scale.

Crimson

StartupLegalAIBritish

London-based AI case intelligence platform for complex litigation and dispute resolution, helping lawyers analyse evidence, draft documents, and prepare for trial.

Crossfield Fusion

StartupClimateBritish

Developer of advanced compact fusion reactors aimed at carbon-free heat and electricity, plus fusion fuel-cycle applications like hydrogen isotope separation.

CrowdStrike

CorporateCybersecurityAIForeign

CrowdStrike is a leading American cybersecurity company founded in 2011, specialising in endpoint protection, cloud workload security, identity security, and threat intelligence through its Falcon platform. It serves organisations globally, helping them prevent, detect, and respond to cyber breaches. CrowdStrike is publicly listed on NASDAQ and employs over 10,000 people worldwide, with offices in the United Kingdom.

Crowdcube

ScaleupFinanceConsumerFunding PlatformBritish

Crowdcube is Europe's largest equity crowdfunding platform, founded in 2011 in Exeter as the world's first equity crowdfunding site. The platform enables individuals to invest in early-stage and growth-stage private companies in exchange for equity, with minimum investments from £10, and has facilitated over £1.5 billion in investments from more than 2 million registered investors across more than 1,600 businesses. Notable portfolio companies include Revolut, Monzo and Freetrade.

Crypto Investors London

CommunityFinanceBritish

"Crypto Investors London" is a Meetup group based in London that caters to analysts, quants, and traders who are interested in the cryptocurrency market. The group's focus is on the latest technology and innovations that can help streamline the workflow of trading digital assets and analyzing the ma

Crypto London

CommunityCrypto & Web3British

"Crypto London" is a Meetup group dedicated to exploring the exciting world of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. The group provides a platform for individuals who are interested in learning about the latest trends and developments in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.Thro

Crypto Quantique

ScaleupCybersecurityQuantumBritish

Quantum-driven semiconductor IP (QDID) generating unforgeable cryptographic keys on standard CMOS, plus the QuarkLink IoT security platform with post-quantum cryptography.

Crypto.com

CorporateCrypto & Web3FinanceFunding PlatformForeign

Buy, sell, store, and trade over 400+ cryptocurrencies on Crypto.com, a secure and trusted crypto exchange platform in the UK.

CryptoMondays London

CommunityCrypto & Web3British

We are a decentralized global community that shares a passion for crypto and how it's going to change the world in dramatic ways.CryptoMondays London was established in February 2018 with the aim of providing a fun and educational space where everyone is welcome, regardless of their crypto knowledge

Culture Amp

ScaleupSaaSForeign

Empower your teams and fuel positive change with performance, development, and employee engagement tools – all-in-one intuitive employee experience platform.

Curve

ScaleupFinanceConsumerBritish

Smart card and app that consolidates multiple bank cards into one, adding rewards and spend management.

Curvestone AI

StartupAILegalBritish

AI automation platform for regulated industries including financial services, legal and insurance; engineered to maintain end-to-end accuracy across multi-step, document-heavy compliance workflows.

CuspAI

ScaleupAIDeep TechBritish

We’re on a mission to unlock breakthrough materials needed to power human progress

Cvent

CorporateSaaSForeign

Cvent provides software to planners for event management, marketing and attendee engagement, and also helps hotels win business through our sourcing platforms.

CybSafe

ScaleupCybersecurityBritish

Behavioural science and data-analytics SaaS that measures and reduces human cyber risk via personalised security behaviour change (SebDB framework).

CybaVerse

ScaleupCybersecurityAIBritish

AI-powered all-in-one cybersecurity management platform giving SMEs and MSPs a unified view across their security landscape (CybaVerse AI).