Directory

Knowledge Quarter

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions

Knowledge Quarter (KQ) is an innovation district consortium of over 150 partner organisations situated within a one-mile radius of King's Cross in London, spanning academic, cultural, research, scientific, and technology institutions. Founded in 2014, it facilitates collaboration and knowledge exchange among members ranging from the British Library and Francis Crick Institute to Google.

Level39

Incubator / AcceleratorEcosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsCoworking

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.

London Machine Learning Meetup

Community

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.

MedCity

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions

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 & Institutions

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.

Mind the Product

Community

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.

Newable

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsIncubator / Accelerator

Newable is a London-based, employee-owned business support organisation founded in 1982 (originally as Greater London Enterprise, rebranded in 2016) that helps UK SMEs grow through finance, professional services, and workspace solutions. Its investment arm, Newable Private Investing (formerly London Business Angels), connects a network of over 500 angel investors with early-stage businesses in sectors including AI, medtech, robotics, fintech, and deep technology. The group employs approximately 1,200 people and supports over 43,000 SMEs annually.

ORE Catapult

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions

The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (ORE Catapult) is the UK's leading technology innovation and research centre for offshore renewable energy, established in 2013 by Innovate UK. It accelerates the creation and growth of UK companies in offshore wind, wave, and tidal energy, operating eight locations across the UK including the National Renewable Energy Centre in Blyth. The organisation employs over 300 people and collaborates with industry, government, and academia.

Onward

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions

Onward is the UK's leading centre-right think tank based in Westminster that develops bold and practical ideas to boost economic opportunity, build national resilience, and strengthen communities. It runs three research programmes covering the economy, the state, and social policy, and works closely with policymakers and businesses across the UK.

Open Rights Group

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions

Open Rights Group (ORG) is the UK's largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, founded in 2005. It campaigns, lobbies, and pursues legal action to defend privacy and free speech online, tackling issues such as mass surveillance, internet censorship, and AI governance.

Plexal

CoworkingEcosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsIncubator / Accelerator

Plexal is an innovation and growth company that provides co-working space, runs accelerator programmes and delivers innovation consultancy, partnering with government, startups and industry to solve societal challenges through technology. Founded by Delancey in 2017, it is headquartered at Here East on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, with additional locations in Shoreditch, Manchester and Cheltenham; it runs Cyber Runway, the UK's largest cyber accelerator, in partnership with the NCSC.

Satellite Applications Catapult

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions

The Satellite Applications Catapult is a world-leading technology and innovation company, part of the Innovate UK Catapult network, established in 2013 to grow the UK economy by supporting businesses to exploit satellite data and space technology. It works with companies of all sizes, researchers, investors and end-users to develop satellite-based products and services across sectors including defence, agriculture, environmental monitoring and connectivity.

ScaleUp Institute

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions

The ScaleUp Institute is a private sector, not-for-profit company dedicated to making the UK the best place in the world to scale up a business. Founded in January 2016, it collaborates with policymakers, corporates, financial institutions, and educators at local and national level to support high-growth firms. It publishes annual reviews, advocates for scaleup-friendly policy, and works with regional bodies across the UK.

Science Council

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions

The Science Council is a UK membership organisation for professional bodies and learned societies across the sciences, established by Royal Charter in 2003. It collectively represents over 320,000 scientists, science technicians, and science teachers, and works to promote professional recognition and the public understanding of science.

Silicon Milkroundabout

Community

Silicon Milkroundabout is the UK's largest tech jobs fair, held biannually in London and connecting mid-to-senior technology professionals with startups and scaleups. Founded in 2011, the free-to-attend event has introduced over 100,000 job seekers to companies including Monzo, Snap and DeepMind. Events cover engineering, product, design and data roles.

Startup Coalition

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions

Startup Coalition (formerly Coadec, the Coalition for a Digital Economy) is an independent advocacy organisation that shapes UK policy on behalf of tech startups and scaleups. Founded in 2010, it campaigns across three core pillars — access to talent, access to finance, and regulation — and has a network of over 3,500 startups and investors.

Stemettes

Community

Stemettes is an award-winning UK-based social enterprise and registered charity (operating as Stemette Futures) that engages young women and non-binary people aged 5 to 25 in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths (STEAM). Since its founding in 2013 it has reached over 73,000 young people through mentoring, hackathons, academies, and industry events.

TIGA

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions

TIGA is the not-for-profit trade association representing the UK video games industry, with members including independent games developers, digital publishers, technology businesses, and universities. It influences government policy, accredits university games courses, delivers industry awards, and publishes original research. Its stated vision is to make the UK the best place in the world to develop video games.

Tech London Advocates

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions

Tech London Advocates is a not-for-profit network of over 10,000 tech leaders, experts and investors who champion London as a global technology hub and campaign to address challenges facing the UK tech sector. With no government backing, members volunteer their time to support the grassroots tech community and give the private sector a voice in shaping the ecosystem. The organisation also operates 31 Global Tech Advocates networks across the world's fastest-growing tech cities.

Tech Nation

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions

Tech Nation is the leading growth platform and industry body for tech startups and their teams across the UK, offering practical knowledge, peer communities, and connections from seed stage through to scale. Founded in 2014, it now operates as part of Founders Forum Group and runs growth programmes, pitch competitions, and talent initiatives spanning AI, deep tech, climate tech, and other high-growth sectors.

The Payments Association

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions

The Payments Association is the UK's leading trade body and community for the payments industry, representing over 250 member organisations spanning banks, fintechs, merchants, and payment providers. It delivers events such as PAY360, publishes policy research, and runs working groups across areas including digital currencies, open banking, and financial crime. Founded in 2008 by Tony Craddock, it has since expanded to include communities in the EU and Asia.

Tileyard

CoworkingCommunity

Tileyard London is the world's largest independent music and creative industries campus, housing over 250 businesses including recording studios, music publishers, record labels, management companies and creative tech firms. Founded in 2011 by Paul Kempe and Nick Keynes, it offers co-working and studio space at Kings Cross for artists, producers and creative entrepreneurs, and also operates Tileyard North, Tileyard Education and Tileyard Music.

UCLPartners

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions

UCLPartners is a health innovation partnership based in London, bringing together NHS trusts, universities and industry to test, evaluate and scale healthcare solutions across NHS settings. Designated in 2009 as one of the UK's first Academic Health Science Centres, it focuses on areas including cardiovascular health, dementia, respiratory health and cancer.

UKBAA

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions

The UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) is the national trade association for angel and early-stage investment in the UK, re-launched in its strengthened role in 2012 and superseding the BBAA. It represents over 170 member organisations, connects the investment ecosystem from seed to Series A, and provides education, policy advocacy, and programmes designed to grow and diversify the angel investing community.