Directory

UKI2S

VCPre-SeedSeedGrantmaker

The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) is one of the UK's largest pre-seed venture capital funds with over £110 million AUM, publicly funded and managed by Future Planet Capital (Ventures) Limited. It invests in early-stage science and technology spinouts across defence and security, engineering biology, fusion energy, space, and knowledge assets. Created in 2002 as the Rainbow Seed Fund, the initiative has generated approximately £25 of private investment for every £1 deployed, having backed over 70 companies.

UKSE

PEPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Government

UK Steel Enterprise (UKSE) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Steel, established in 1975 to support business growth and economic regeneration in communities affected by changes in the steel industry. It provides equity investment and loan finance of up to £1 million to small and medium-sized enterprises, and has invested over £123 million in British businesses, helping to create nearly 85,000 jobs.

Unbound

VCSeries A+Growth

Unbound is a London-based growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017, focused on backing fast-growing technology companies from Series B onwards across global developed and emerging markets. The firm describes itself as operators and company builders rather than traditional investors, emphasising long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs. Its portfolio includes Cars24, Forto, Motorway, Databricks, and Snowflake.

Vaultt

StartupIncubator / Accelerator

Vaultt is where your work gets you hired, not your CV. Show real projects, find your people and get matched to real opportunities on proof, not paper. Free to join on web and iOS.

Velocity Capital

VCSeries A+

UK-based SEIS and EIS fund manager investing in early-stage technology and eCommerce businesses from seed to Series A.

Venntro Ventures

Incubator / AcceleratorPre-SeedSeed

Venntro Ventures was the incubator arm of Venntro Media Group, based in Windsor, UK, launched in 2015 to invest in and incubate dating and lifestyle start-ups. It offered entrepreneurs investment capital, operational expertise, office space, and access to a consumer base of over 45 million users across its network. Venntro Media Group entered administration in August 2024 and its assets were sold to Ambervine Limited; Venntro Ventures is no longer active.

Ventura Capital

VCGrowth

Ventura Capital is a Dubai-based investment firm, founded in 2012, that provides investors with exposure to growth-stage, pre-IPO technology companies through deal-by-deal co-investments and committed capital funds. Its portfolio has included well-known names such as Spotify, Coursera, Xiaomi, Uber and Lyft.

Venture Founders

VCSeries A+Growth

Venture Founders is a UK-based venture capital firm investing in post-Series A, B2B and B2B2C fintech and SaaS scale-up technology businesses. The firm is composed of entrepreneurs, operators and financial services experts who take a patient capital approach unconstrained by traditional fund dynamics. It has been investing since 2014 and holds a portfolio of over 35 companies.

Venture Space

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademiaCoworking

Venture Space is an incubator workspace operated by CityVentures, the entrepreneurship hub of City St George's, University of London, situated in the Franklin Building near Barbican. It provides co-working space, mentorship from Entrepreneurs in Residence, networking with founders, and priority access to monthly demo nights with investors. The workspace is open to City students, graduates, and entrepreneurs from the surrounding London area and has supported nearly 800 companies collectively raising over £20 million.

Ventures Together

VCPre-SeedSeed

Ventures Together is an invite-only angel investor community of 150+ experienced UK startup founders and operators who invest collectively in pre-seed and seed-stage companies. The community has completed over 300 investments since launching active deployment in 2021, investing between £50,000 and £250,000 per company, and co-invests alongside top-tier funds including Sequoia, Index Ventures, and LocalGlobe. It operates as VT Community Limited, an Appointed Representative of The Fund Incubator Limited, authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 948338).

Vibe Coding Collective

CommunityIncubator / Accelerator

Join thousands of new creators building with GenAI in pubs, studios, and community spaces around the globe!

Victoria House Life Sciences

CoworkingIncubator / Accelerator

Victoria House is a Grade II listed building in Bloomsbury, London, converted by Oxford Properties and Pioneer Group into a 300,000 sq ft life-sciences hub that officially launched in September 2025. It offers incubator labs, fully fitted laboratories, write-up and office space, and shared specialist equipment for early-stage to multinational life-sciences companies, academic institutions and biotech firms. The building sits within London's Knowledge Quarter, close to UCL, GSK and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Viola Credit

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

Viola Credit is a global, technology-driven alternative credit asset manager with over $4 billion in assets under management. The firm provides tailored credit solutions to tech-driven companies across three strategies: asset-backed lending, growth lending, and customer growth financing. It is part of the Viola Group, Israel's leading technology-focused investment group, and operates offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.

Virgin StartUp

Incubator / Accelerator

Virgin StartUp is a UK not-for-profit organisation founded in 2013 by the Virgin Group to help entrepreneurs start and grow businesses through access to government-backed Start Up Loans of £500–£25,000, mentoring, and community support. It is an accredited delivery partner of the British Business Bank's Start Up Loans scheme and has disbursed over £100 million to UK founders. Every loan recipient is paired with a dedicated business advisor and receives 12 months of post-funding support.

Virtu

CorporateVCForeign

Virtu Financial is a publicly traded American financial technology company that provides market making, execution services and trading technology across global asset classes.

Visionaries Club

VCSeries A+Foreign

European early-stage VC firm backing B2B founders and climate deep tech, with offices in Berlin and London and a network of industrial family entrepreneur LPs.

Vitruvian Partners

PESeries A+Growth

Vitruvian Partners is an international private equity firm founded in 2006 and headquartered in London, specialising in growth buyout and growth capital investments in middle-market companies across Europe, the US and Asia. The firm backs ambitious, high-growth businesses with investment sizes ranging from €25 million to over €600 million, and manages over €7 billion across its funds.

Värde Partners

PEGrowthForeign

Värde Partners is a global alternative investment firm specialising in credit and credit-related assets, with approximately $15 billion in assets under management. Founded in 1993, the firm invests across asset-based finance, real estate lending, corporate credit, and Asia private credit in both public and private markets. It is 100% partner-owned and maintains offices in Minneapolis, London, Singapore, Luxembourg, New York, and Mumbai.

WM Enterprise Investment Division

VCSeedSeries A+

WM Enterprise Investment Division is the venture capital arm of WM Enterprise Ltd, a Birmingham-based privately owned consultancy and fund manager founded in 1982. The division provides equity investment primarily to small and medium-sized enterprises across the Midlands, North West, and South East of England, operating five differentiated funds and having raised over £90 million with more than £50 million invested.

Warburg Pincus

PESeries A+GrowthVCForeign

Warburg Pincus is a leading global growth investor and private equity firm founded in 1966, managing more than $100 billion in assets across private equity, real estate, and capital solutions strategies. The firm invests across Consumer, Energy Transition, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrials, and Technology, with an active portfolio of over 215 companies and more than 15 offices globally including London. Warburg Pincus has invested in more than 1,100 companies across 40+ countries since its founding.

Warwick Investment Group

PEGrowthForeign

Warwick Investment Group is a SEC-registered investment adviser founded in 2010, managing approximately $1.8 billion in assets across real estate and natural resources globally. The firm specialises in European multifamily residential real estate (with a strong UK focus), upstream energy, and royalties, investing on behalf of pension funds, foundations, endowments, and insurance companies. Warwick has approximately 130 staff across offices in New York, London, Dallas, and Oklahoma City.

Waterland PE

PEGrowthForeign

Waterland Private Equity Investments is an independent private equity firm founded in 1999 and headquartered in Bussum, Netherlands. The firm partners with ambitious entrepreneurs to build future-proof companies through buy-and-build strategies, focusing on mid-sized businesses with revenues of €10–200 million. It operates across 11 offices in 9 European countries with over 200 professionals and more than €14 billion in investor commitments.

Wayra

Incubator / AcceleratorSeedSeries A+CorporateVCForeign

Wayra is Telefónica's corporate venture capital and open innovation arm, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Madrid. It invests €150k–€5M in technology startups across Europe and Latin America, with a focus on areas aligned with Telefónica's strategic priorities such as AI, cybersecurity, IoT, fintech, and digital health. Wayra has invested over €245 million in more than 1,100 startups, maintaining an active portfolio of over 530 companies.

Wellcome

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsGrantmaker

Wellcome is a global charitable foundation and one of the world's largest funders of biomedical research, established from the estate of Sir Henry Wellcome. It funds scientists and researchers across the world to improve human and animal health, and advocates for policy change to address urgent global health challenges.