Directory

Kriya

ScaleupFinanceBritish

Embedded B2B payments and credit platform (PayNow/PayLater) for retailers and marketplaces; formerly known as MarketFinance.

Lawhive

ScaleupLegalAIBritish

AI-native consumer law firm combining large language model automation with regulated human solicitors to deliver affordable legal services for individuals and SMEs across 12 practice areas. Backed by GV (Google Ventures) and raised €50 million in Series B funding in early 2026.

Lendable

ScaleupFinanceConsumerBritish

Technology-driven consumer lending platform offering personal loans, credit cards, and vehicle finance. Uses proprietary underwriting algorithms to provide fast credit decisions for UK borrowers.

Level39

Incubator / AcceleratorFinanceCybersecurityEcosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsCoworkingBritish

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.

Liberis

ScaleupFinanceBritish

Embedded finance platform providing revenue-based working capital to small businesses via partner ecosystems.

LocalGlobe

VCSaaSAIBritish

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.

London Machine Learning Meetup

CommunityAIBritish

The London Machine Learning Meetup is described as the largest machine learning and artificial intelligence community in Europe, with over 11,000 members. Organised by Martin Goodson of Evolution AI, it hosts regular talks and events featuring leading researchers and practitioners in machine learning and AI. Past speakers include Yoshua Bengio, Juergen Schmidhuber, and Andrej Karpathy.

Lyceum Capital

PEOtherSaaSBritish

Lyceum Capital is an independent mid-market private equity firm based in London that invests between £10m and £65m of equity in mid-sized UK businesses, partnering with entrepreneurial management teams to unlock growth. The firm specialises in technology and business services companies and has acquired over 125 businesses since its formation around 1999–2000, with approximately £800m in total capital raised across three funds.

MMC Ventures

VCAIBiotech & Life SciencesBritish

London-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in AI, data, fintech, and health tech companies at Seed and Series A across Europe.

Made Tech

ScaleupOtherBritish

Digital, data and technology delivery for the UK public sector: central and local government, health, national security and education.

MedCity

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsAIBritish

MedCity is the cluster organisation for London's world-leading health and life sciences sector, launched in April 2014 by the Mayor of London in partnership with the city's Academic Health Science Centres. It helps life sciences companies establish, expand, and thrive through expert guidance, professional networks, and actionable support across diagnostics, digital health, advanced therapies, and data-driven innovation. Since 2023 it has operated as part of London & Partners, London's growth agency.

Medicines Discovery Catapult

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherBritish

Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) is a national life sciences service dedicated to driving breakthroughs in medicine to improve patient outcomes, operating as part of the Innovate UK Catapult network. It provides UK innovators with access to advanced drug discovery technologies, specialised scientific expertise, and industry knowledge to de-risk early-stage drug discovery projects. The organisation hosts capabilities in radiochemistry, mass spectrometry, and advanced imaging at its Alderley Park site.

MeiraGTx

ScaleupBiotech & Life SciencesForeign

Clinical-stage developer of AAV gene therapies (eye disease, Parkinson's, salivary gland) with gene-regulation/riboswitch technology and in-house GMP viral vector manufacturing; listed on Nasdaq (MGTX).

Mercia

VCOtherAIPEBritish

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

VCSaaSAIBritish

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

Meticulous

StartupSaaSAIBritish

Meticulous records developer and user interactions with a web application and generates a continuously evolving suite of visual end-to-end tests from them, adding and retiring tests as the codebase changes so teams do not write or maintain them by hand. Founded by brothers Gabriel and Quentin Spencer-Harper, previously at Dropbox and Palantir.

Mills & Reeve

Professional ServicesOtherBritish

Mills & Reeve is a British law firm operating from seven offices across the United Kingdom, with approximately 1,400 employees and over 850 lawyers. The firm specialises in corporate and commercial law, real estate, health, education, insurance, technology, and private wealth, serving clients from FTSE 250 companies to fast-growth startups. It ranks among the UK's top 40 law firms by revenue.

Mind the Product

CommunitySaaSForeign

Mind the Product is the world's largest community for product managers, designers and developers, founded in London in 2010. It provides conferences, workshops, editorial content and a weekly podcast serving over 300,000 product professionals globally. The community was acquired by Pendo in 2022 and continues to operate as a standalone brand.

Mindspace

CoworkingOtherForeign

Mindspace is a global flexible workspace operator founded in 2014 in Israel, offering private offices, coworking memberships, meeting rooms, and event venues across 40+ locations in 20 cities in Europe, North America, and Israel. The company has London locations and has raised $72 million in funding.

Modulr

ScaleupFinanceSaaSBritish

Embedded payments platform providing accounts and payment infrastructure to businesses, including Revolut, Sage and Wagestream.

Moore Kingston Smith

Professional ServicesOtherBritish

Moore Kingston Smith is a London-based accountancy and business advisory firm founded in 1923, offering audit, tax, corporate finance, restructuring, payroll, and ESG advisory services. With over 75 partners and approximately 700 to 1,000 staff across six offices in and around London, it is the largest UK member of the Moore Global Network.

Mosaic Ventures

VCAIFinanceBritish

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.

Motive Partners

PEFinanceAIForeign

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.

Multiverse

ScaleupEdtechAIBritish

London-based AI workforce training platform offering apprenticeships and upskilling in AI, data and engineering, trusted by 1,500+ employers including Microsoft and John Lewis.