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Elwood Technologies

ScaleupFinanceBritish

Institutional digital-asset trading infrastructure: end-to-end OMS/EMS/PMS and single API connecting institutions to exchanges, custodians and liquidity.

Emerald

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

GP-led, AI-powered preventive-health service offering 115+ biomarker blood tests with an assigned GP, personal dashboard, diagnosis and prescriptions.

EnAcuity

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

AI surgical-vision spinout developing computer-vision software that uses existing laparoscopy cameras to highlight tissue structures and pathologies for safer minimally invasive surgery.

Enhanced Fertility

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesConsumerBritish

Digital fertility care platform using at-home testing, remote diagnostics and machine learning trained on 1.4 million anonymised records to cut time-to-treatment from years to weeks.

Entocycle

ScaleupClimateBritish

Insect-farming technology company using optical sensors and software to convert organic waste into black-soldier-fly protein, fat and fertiliser for sustainable food and feed supply chains.

Envestors

Professional ServicesFinanceAIFunding PlatformBritish

Envestors is a UK-based FCA-regulated angel investment platform that connects sophisticated investors with early-stage and growth-stage businesses. Founded in 2004, it also provides a white-label digital investment platform for accelerators, incubators and angel networks, and is the only UK firm authorised by both the FCA and the Home Office to endorse international entrepreneurs under the Innovator Founder visa scheme. The platform has supported over 5,000 startups and facilitated more than £180m in funding from over 4,000 investors.

EpilepsyGTx

ScaleupBiotech & Life SciencesBritish

Gene-therapy spinout developing single-dose AAV gene therapy (lead programme EPY201) delivered locally to the seizure focus for focal refractory epilepsy.

Epiphany Capital

Professional ServicesSaaSFinanceBritish

Epiphany Capital is a Manchester-based boutique corporate finance advisory firm specialising in fundraising and M&A for high-growth technology and healthcare companies. The firm has raised over £110 million for clients across seed through Series B stages and advises on secondary transactions and exits across sectors including SaaS, fintech, healthtech, and deeptech.

Epoch Biodesign

ScaleupClimateAIBritish

AI-designed enzymes to biorecycle hard-to-recycle plastics and nylon textiles at low temperatures; building London biorecycling facility.

Equity Gap

VCOtherConsumerBritish

Equity Gap is an Edinburgh-based business angel syndicate established in 2010 to match investors with early-stage companies seeking funding. With around 150 active members, the syndicate typically invests between £100,000 and £500,000 at seed stage, often co-investing alongside Scottish Enterprise match funding, and maintains a portfolio of over 30 companies spanning consumer products, food and drink, life sciences, and SaaS. It has been recognised as Scotland's most frequent backer of female-led businesses.

Equity Ventures

PEOtherVCBritish

Equity Ventures Limited is a small UK private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1989 and headquartered in Cheltenham, specialising in management buyout transactions and early-stage venture capital investments. The firm co-invests with other venture capital firms, has managed funds in which HSBC and the European Investment Bank are investors, and provides advisory services to companies with annual revenues above £1 million. Past investments include consumer brands and technology companies across a range of sectors.

Essex Innovation

GovernmentOtherIncubator / AcceleratorBritish

Essex Innovation is a government-backed innovation support programme established in 2006 to help start-up and established businesses in Essex grow through mentoring, product development support, and access to grant funding. The programme works with experienced private sector business mentors on a one-to-one basis across strategic marketing, product development, manufacturing, engineering, and low-carbon innovation. It has worked with over 1,000 companies across Essex and operates in partnership with Essex County Council and regional development bodies.

Extend Robotics

StartupAIBritish

Immersive VR/XR teleoperation software (AMAS platform) letting users control commercial robotic arms via natural gestures on off-the-shelf headsets, plus embodied-AI training data.

Extend Ventures

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherBritish

Extend Ventures is a not-for-profit research organisation that uses data and machine learning to analyse and highlight systemic biases in venture capital funding, with a particular focus on ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic background. It publishes landmark reports on diversity in UK startup funding and has been acquired by Diversity VC to further embed data analysis into inclusive investing practices.

FALKIN

StartupCybersecurityAIBritish

Digital-safety and scam-prevention platform for financial services, helping banks and fintechs embed behaviour-aware AI protection into customer journeys across taps, clicks and messages.

FW Capital

PEOtherGovernmentBritish

FW Capital is a UK-based fund manager providing debt finance and equity investment to small and medium-sized enterprises, primarily across the North of England, South West, and Wales. The firm manages government-backed funds including the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II), offering business growth loans from £100,000 up to £2 million and equity investment up to £5 million. FW Capital is part of the DBW Group and has invested in over 530 companies across the North West alone, with £559 million in funds under management.

FabricNano

ScaleupBiotech & Life SciencesBritish

DNA-nanotechnology platform immobilising enzymes and cofactors in cell-free biocatalysis for sustainable chemicals and materials manufacturing.

Fertifa

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesBritish

Workplace reproductive-health benefits platform providing fertility, menopause and family-planning support for employers and employees across the UK and Europe.

Finance Birmingham

GovernmentOtherPEVCBritish

Finance Birmingham is an FCA-regulated investment manager owned by Birmingham City Council, founded in 2010 to provide alternative funding channels for SMEs in the West Midlands following the 2008 financial crisis. The firm manages regional and national funds on behalf of government and institutional partners, offering growth capital, sector-specific funding, and property investment to growing businesses. It spawned Frontier Development Capital in 2016 as a national debt finance operation.

Finance Yorkshire

GovernmentOtherVCBritish

Finance Yorkshire is a government-backed regional investment fund providing flexible debt and equity finance to SMEs across Yorkshire and the Humber, established in 2010. The fund offers seedcorn investment for early-stage companies, growth equity, and business loans ranging from £25,000 to £1.5 million, having invested over £170 million combined with its predecessor South Yorkshire Investment Fund across more than 860 companies. It was originally established using European Regional Development Fund money and continues to support business growth and job creation across the region.

Finch Capital

VCFinanceSaaSForeign

Finch Capital is a European growth equity firm founded in 2013 as Orange Growth Capital, rebranding to Finch Capital in 2017, and managing over €450 million in assets. The firm invests in B2B software companies across financial technology and business technology sectors — including payments, insurance, banking, legal, HR, and compliance — targeting European-headquartered companies with €2–20 million in ARR and over 30% annual growth. It maintains offices in Amsterdam, London, and Dublin.

Firgun Ventures

VCQuantumDefenceBritish

London-based quantum-first VC firm investing in Series A/B quantum scale-ups across computing, sensing, and communications; targeting a $250M fund.

Flagright

StartupFinanceAIForeign

AI-native AML / financial-crime compliance and transaction monitoring platform for fintechs and banks.

Flexciton

ScaleupAIBritish

Autonomous AI planning and scheduling software for semiconductor fabs, replacing rule-based dispatching to lift fab throughput and cycle time.