Directory

AgriWebb

ScaleupSaaSForeign

Australian livestock farm-management SaaS helping producers capture and analyse data to improve efficiency and sustainability of grazing operations. Founded in Sydney in 2014, the company has expanded globally including a UK presence.

AgrigateOne

StartupLogisticsBritish

Cloud platform digitising the fresh-produce supply chain by aggregating data from disparate systems to give growers and buyers real-time global visibility.

Aibuild

ScaleupAISaaSBritish

AI software for large-scale robotic additive manufacturing: AiSync cloud platform plus AiMaker robotic end-effector and AiCell enclosure for industrial 3D printing.

Aide Health

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesBritish

Digital platform for remote monitoring and self-management of long-term conditions including asthma, type-2 diabetes, IBD and heart disease.

Albora Technologies

StartupSpaceBritish

GNSS/PNT deep-tech company delivering hardware-agnostic, cloud-based SaaS positioning (ALCORE algorithm) with centimetre-level accuracy in GNSS-challenged urban and industrial environments.

Alderley Park Ventures

VCOtherBritish

Alderley Park Ventures is a seed investment fund managed by Pioneer Group (formerly BioCity), providing pre-seed and seed funding to early-stage life sciences companies based at or connected to Alderley Park in Cheshire. The fund typically invests between £50,000 and £500,000 in therapeutics, diagnostics, medical technologies, and digital health.

Allye Energy

StartupClimateBritish

Designs and manufactures mobile and portable battery energy storage systems (BESS) built from repurposed second-life EV battery packs, for grid-connected and off-grid deployment.

Alma Angels

VCOtherBritish

Alma Angels (trading as The Alma Community) is a London-based angel investment community that backs women founders and co-founders building technology or IP-rich ventures with global ambitions at pre-seed and seed stage. The community has trained over 600 leaders and changemakers and supported more than 250 women-founded ventures, generating $1.6 billion in enterprise value, and hosts the annual Alma Summit.

Andrena VC

VCFinanceAIBritish

Andrena Ventures is a London-based solo GP pre-seed and seed fund launched in April 2024, with a debut fund of approximately €11 million. The fund backs founders — particularly those spinning out of leading European fintech companies — across fintech, AI, climate, and B2B software, investing tickets of €100k–€400k across the UK and Europe.

Angel Academe

VCFinanceCybersecurityBritish

Angel Academe is an award-winning UK angel investor network and EIS fund dedicated to backing exceptional female founders. Founded in 2014, the network connects early-stage startups — where at least one founder is a woman holding significant equity — with over 400 active angel investors, the majority of whom are women. The network has supported more than 48 businesses and helped them raise over £150m in total from angels, VCs and family offices.

Angelgroups

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherBritish

Angelgroups is a UK-based angel network founded in 2015 that intelligently matches angel investors with ambitious, high-growth SMEs across all sectors. The network runs monthly pitching events and operates an online platform enabling angels to browse investment opportunities, invest individually or as part of a syndicate, and typically facilitates raises of between £100k and £500k.

Angels Den

ScaleupOtherFunding PlatformBritish

Angels Den is the UK and Europe's largest and longest-running angel-led investment network, founded in 2007. It connects over 21,000 investors with early-stage companies and SMEs, offering vetted SEIS/EIS-eligible investment opportunities, pitch events, and portfolio management tools. The platform has funded over 500 startups since its inception.

Anglia Capital Group

VCOtherBritish

Anglia Capital Group is an angel investor network founded in 2014, supporting innovative early-stage and growth businesses across Norfolk and Suffolk in the East of England. The group holds regular pitching events and invests both capital and business expertise into start-ups with disruptive potential. It is dedicated to fostering high-growth entrepreneurship in the East Anglian region.

Anima

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

AI-powered care enablement platform for NHS primary care, providing online consultations, automated triage and a real-time multiplayer clinical dashboard to reduce administrative burden on clinicians.

Another Earth

StartupSpaceAIForeign

Deep-tech generating AI-powered synthetic satellite/EO data (fully labelled, multispectral, temporally consistent) to train and test Earth-observation AI models for environmental monitoring and risk simulation.

Apadmi Ventures

VCSaaSAICorporateBritish

Apadmi Ventures is the investment and venture arm of Apadmi, a Manchester-based mobile app development company founded in 2009. It acts as a strategic technology partner and investor in highly scalable early-stage start-ups, providing both capital and technical direction. The venture arm made several investments between 2015 and 2019, including in edtech and consumer mobile platforms.

Apron

StartupFinanceBritish

Business payments and invoice processing platform helping SMEs and accountants pay suppliers and manage cashflow.

Arbeit Studios

CoworkingOtherBritish

Arbeit Studios is a London-based creative workspace operator that transforms empty buildings into affordable studio spaces for artists, designers, makers, startups, and small businesses. Managing over 250 units across 19 sites in East and North London boroughs, it maintains very high occupancy rates and also runs galleries and a programme of exhibitions, workshops, and events under its WORK/Series banner.

Arborea

StartupClimateBiotech & Life SciencesBritish

Synthetic-biology company using its patented BioSolar Leaf platform to cultivate photosynthetic microalgae at scale, producing carbon-negative proteins and food ingredients as nature-positive alternatives to conventional food inputs.

Archangels

VCOtherBritish

Archangels (formerly Archangel Investors Limited) is the longest continuously operating business angel syndicate in the world, established in 1992 and headquartered in Edinburgh. The syndicate invests in early-stage, IP-rich technology and life sciences companies based in Scotland, typically committing £250,000–£2 million per deal. With a network of around 120 members, Archangels has invested over £160 million in innovative Scottish companies.

Arondite

ScaleupDefenceAIBritish

Hardware-agnostic AI software ('connective tissue') that links and orchestrates multiple autonomous systems, robots and sensors for safe human-machine teaming in defence/critical industries.

Artificial

ScaleupFinanceAIBritish

Artificial Labs builds digital broking and underwriting technology for the specialty and commercial insurance market, headquartered in London and backed by a $45M Series B round closed in 2026.

Arāya Sie Fund

VCFinanceAIBritish

Joint pre-seed/seed VC fund by Arāya Ventures and Sie Ventures backing women-led startups in healthcare, fintech, deeptech, and climate across the UK and Europe.

Asterix Health

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesSaaSBritish

London healthtech connecting GMC-registered remote GPs to NHS primary care practices via its DoctorOS platform, raising £2.1m pre-seed in 2026.