Directory

West Coast Capital

PEGrowth

West Coast Capital is the private investment vehicle of the Hunter family, founded in 2001 by Scottish entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter. The firm invests its own capital in founder-led, profitable private businesses across retail, property, healthcare, and technology sectors, with a minimum investment of circa £5 million and a long-term, relationship-driven approach. Profits are substantially reinvested philanthropically through The Hunter Foundation.

Westmont Enterprise Hub

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademiaCoworking

The Westmont Enterprise Hub is the entrepreneurship and business incubation centre at the University of West London, based on the St Mary's Road campus in Ealing. It supports student founders, alumni, staff and local community entrepreneurs with co-working space, mentoring, workshops, and expert business advice to help turn ideas into viable businesses. The hub was established with support from the Westmont Hospitality Group and launched in February 2019.

White Star Capital

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

White Star Capital is a global multi-stage technology investment platform founded in 2007, with offices in London, New York, Montreal, Toronto, Paris, Lisbon, Singapore, and Tokyo. The firm invests in technology companies from seed through to growth equity, with a particular focus on Series A and B rounds across fintech, digital assets, e-commerce, and consumer technology. It also operates a dedicated digital assets fund.

Wilbe

VCSeries A+

London-based venture firm backing scientists and engineers from day zero, providing first-check capital, community, and lab space access.

Wintermute

ScaleupVC

A leading algorithmic trading firm, focused on harnessing the chaos of digital assets into liquid and efficient markets.

Wipro Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Wipro Ventures is the strategic corporate venture capital arm of Wipro Limited, established in 2015 with $500 million in capital commitments. It invests in early to mid-stage enterprise software companies across artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, data management, DevOps, and quality engineering. The portfolio comprises over 45 active companies, and portfolio firms gain access to Wipro's global enterprise customer base.

Wren Capital

VCPre-SeedSeed

Wren Capital is a London-based angel investment group founded in 2011 that invests in early-stage companies across science, engineering, and software. The firm typically deploys £50,000–£200,000 per funding round and has invested in over 60 companies spanning sectors from semiconductors and genome editing to medical devices and satellites.

Wyvern Seed Fund

VCPre-SeedSeed

Wyvern Seed Fund was an early-stage venture capital fund based in Bristol, owned by the Universities of Bristol and Southampton, that provided seed and growth capital to technology spin-outs and companies connected to its partner universities and the SETsquared Partnership. The fund typically invested up to £500,000 per company and has since been liquidated and ceased trading.

Xsolla

CorporateFunding PlatformForeign

Find out how you can launch, monetize and scale your video games worldwide, with no upfront costs, using Xsolla's comprehensive suite of tools and services.

YAAD's Black History Month Clubhouse

CommunityIncubator / AcceleratorCoworkingForeign

Multifunctional makerspace, co-working hub and 25+ social members

YFM Equity Partners

PESeries A+GrowthSeedVC

YFM Equity Partners is one of the UK's oldest independent private equity firms, founded in 1982, providing growth capital and management buyout funding of £3m–£15m to ambitious SMEs across the UK. With over £750 million in assets under management, YFM operates through both private equity funds and venture capital trusts (British Smaller Companies VCTs). The firm has offices across multiple UK regions including Leeds, London, Manchester, Birmingham, and Reading.

Zinc

Incubator / Accelerator

Zinc is a London-based inception-stage venture builder that turns raw talent into science-for-impact ventures addressing pressing challenges in human and planetary health. Founded in 2017, the organisation runs cohort-based programmes selecting 50–70 founders per cycle, guiding them through an intensive research phase focused on a single societal challenge, and invests in co-founded ventures at the earliest stage. Zinc also offers talent initiatives and innovation partnerships to build the wider science-for-impact ecosystem.

Zone29

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademiaCoworking

Zone29 is the University of Westminster's purpose-built nine-storey hub for careers and enterprise, located in Marylebone, which completed construction and opened in spring 2026. It offers entrepreneurship support through the WeNetwork programme, which provides tiered grants, workshops, mentoring, and co-working facilities to help students and graduates start and grow businesses, alongside digital skills labs, a maker space, podcast studios, and event space.

after hours

Incubator / AcceleratorCommunityForeign

all the weekends we're working.

firstminute capital

VCSeed

firstminute capital is a London-based seed-stage venture fund investing in European founders building global technology companies, with $500M AUM and a network of over 130 unicorn founder backers. The fund backs companies across AI, deep tech, developer tools, SaaS, fintech, and healthtech, and has backed 11 unicorns at seed stage.

fourteen17

VCSeries A+

fourteen17 is a UK-based venture capital limited liability partnership founded in 2012 and headquartered in Cobham, Surrey. The firm invests primarily at Series A stage in early-stage UK companies across media, ad-tech, SaaS, and enterprise software sectors. Portfolio companies include KidRated and Scoota.

noa

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

noa (formerly A/O PropTech) is Europe's largest built-world venture capital firm, based in London, investing in pioneering founders and breakthrough technologies that decarbonise and digitise the built environment. The firm backs companies across structures, energy, materials, environments, mobility, and community, from early stage through to later-stage growth.

qLegal

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademiaProfessional Services

qLegal is an award-winning pro bono commercial law clinic at Queen Mary University of London, providing free legal advice, workshops and resources to tech start-ups, entrepreneurs and non-profits. Postgraduate law students supervised by practising solicitors from leading firms advise on intellectual property, business structure, contracts and regulatory matters, combining legal education with direct support for early-stage ventures.

rule30

VCPre-SeedSeed

Rule30 is a London-based venture capital fund and AI research lab that uses an algorithmic decision engine to systematically identify and back outlier pre-seed and seed-stage founders across Europe and North America.