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Innovate Finance

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsFinanceBritish

Innovate Finance is an independent membership association and the industry body representing the UK's global FinTech community, founded in 2014. It works to accelerate the UK's leading role in the financial services sector by directly supporting the next generation of technology-led innovators, spanning digital banking, payments, RegTech, and digital currencies.

Innovate UK

GovernmentOtherClimateGrantmakerBritish

Innovate UK is the UK's national innovation agency, operating as a council of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. It funds and supports organisations across the United Kingdom to develop new products, services, and processes, with an annual budget of approximately £919 million for FY2024/25. Its competitive grant programmes support businesses from proof-of-concept through to growth stage, spanning sectors including net zero, advanced manufacturing, quantum, and digital health.

Innovate UK Business Connect

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherGovernmentBritish

Innovate UK Business Connect is the strategic delivery partner to Innovate UK (part of UK Research and Innovation), formerly known as the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN). It brings together businesses, researchers, investors and partners across more than 22 industry sectors to connect them with funding opportunities, innovation programmes and expert support. The organisation runs programmes including Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and ICURe across the UK.

Innovate UK Innovation Loans

GrantmakerFinanceBritish

UK government loan programme run by Innovate UK Loans Ltd (a UKRI subsidiary) offering flexible R&D loans of up to £5m to UK SMEs with commercially promising innovation projects.

Innovation Warehouse

Incubator / AcceleratorOtherCoworkingBritish

Innovation Warehouse is a central London hub founded in 2010 by entrepreneurs and angel investors in collaboration with the City of London Corporation, originally offering coworking and incubation space for digital high-growth startups at its 10,000 sq ft Smithfield site. The organisation now operates primarily as a business investment and consultancy firm, providing investment-readiness programmes, mentoring, and access to its investor network for technology businesses seeking to scale or raise capital.

InnovationRCA

Incubator / AcceleratorOtherAcademiaBritish

InnovationRCA is the Royal College of Art's centre for entrepreneurship and commercialisation, providing incubation, IP strategy, business coaching, and accelerator programmes to design-led founders from the RCA community. Its programmes include a Pre-Incubator, Start-up Programme, and Creative Brands Accelerator, as well as the AngelClubRCA investor network. Based at the RCA's Battersea campus, it has supported ventures across sectors including agri-tech, med-tech, clean-tech, and fashion.

Inocea Group

CorporateDefenceDeep TechForeign

Its companies deliver complex, mission critical solutionsthat positively impact the world by protecting national and economic security,fulfilling acute business needs, and preserving our precious environment. Your mission is our purpose. Inocea acquired Davie in 2012. Davie is Canada’s largest shipbuilder. Established in 1825, Davie provides value-added, specialized products and services where leveraging its high-capacity fabrication capabilities to provide complex, engineered solutions to meet its clients’ needs. Its capability to provide end-to-end turnkey solutions as well as its strategic location in Eastern Canada makes Davie the partner of choice for clients across a broad range of industries from Offshore Oil & Gas to passenger vessels to defence. Visit Davie Shipbuilding.

Inovia Capital

VCSaaSCybersecurityForeign

Inovia Capital is a full-stack Canadian venture capital firm managing over US$2.5 billion in assets, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Montreal with offices in Toronto, Calgary, San Francisco, and London. The firm invests across pre-seed to pre-IPO stages in technology-driven companies, with particular focus on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, digital health, fintech, and software. Inovia has backed more than 10 unicorns and facilitated over 66 exits, including the Lightspeed IPO.

Inovo Robotics

StartupDeep TechBritish

Builds low-cost modular collaborative robot arms aimed at SMEs to automate repetitive manufacturing and machine-tending tasks.

Insider

ScaleupSaaSAIForeign

Insider One is the #1 Customer Engagement AI Platform for marketing teams. Unify CDP, personalization & journey orchestration to engage customers everywhere.

Insight

CorporateOtherProfessional ServicesForeign

Insight is a leading solutions and systems integrator — providing computer hardware, software, cloud solutions and IT services to business, government, education and healthcare clients.

Insight Partners

VCSaaSAIPEForeign

Insight Partners is a global venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1995, headquartered in New York City, with over $90 billion in regulatory assets under management as of 2025. The firm invests in software and internet businesses across growth and late stages, with a deep focus on fintech, cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and healthcare technology. Insight Partners has backed more than 875 companies worldwide, with over 55 portfolio companies having achieved an IPO.

Institute of Cancer Research

AcademiaBiotech & Life SciencesDeep TechEcosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsBritish

The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) is one of the world's leading cancer research organisations and a higher education institution, founded in 1909 and a member of the University of London. It specialises in identifying cancer genes, discovering novel cancer drugs, and developing precision radiotherapy, and has an outstanding record of drug discovery unmatched by any other academic centre in the world. The ICR operates across two sites in Chelsea and Sutton, working in close partnership with The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

Institute of Making

CommunityDeep TechAcademiaCoworkingBritish

The Institute of Making is a multidisciplinary research and making community based at University College London, exploring all aspects of materials and manufacturing processes across disciplines from molecular synthesis to architecture. It comprises a Materials Library and a MakeSpace workshop, offering membership to UCL staff and students as well as a public programme of open workshops and events. Founded originally at King's College London in 2010, it has been hosted at UCL since 2012.

Institute of Physics

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsDeep TechBritish

The Institute of Physics (IOP) is the professional body and learned society for physics in the UK and Ireland, with over 20,000 members worldwide. It promotes physics education, research, and careers, publishes journals through IOP Publishing, and advocates for the value of physics to society.

Intapp

CorporateSaaSAIForeign

AI-powered software solutions for professionals.

International House Brixton

CoworkingOtherCommunityBritish

3Space International House Brixton is London's largest affordable workspace, an 11-storey building operated by 3Space (Registered Charity No. 1136377, founded 2010) under its BuyGiveWork model, whereby revenue from commercial tenants cross-subsidises free space for community organisations, charities, and social enterprises. The building opened in autumn 2018 and provides fixed desks, private offices, and five community Give Hubs, delivering approximately 15 times the social value of a typical office according to an independent study. The lease with Lambeth Council runs until spring 2027.

Interstellar Space Technologies

StartupSpaceDeep TechBritish

In-space manufacturing and space-debris recycling company developing technology to identify, recycle and repurpose defunct space materials, with a long-term vision for the first space station dedicated to manufacturing.

Intrepid Growth Partners

VCAIForeign

Growth-stage VC firm backing machine intelligence companies, with offices in Toronto and London; led PhysicsX's $300M Series C.

Intruder

ScaleupCybersecurityAIBritish

Continuous attack-surface and vulnerability management SaaS for SMBs and mid-market companies, offering automated scanning across networks, web applications and cloud environments with prioritisation; recently launched AI pentesting agents.

Intuit

CorporateFinanceSaaSForeign

Intuit Inc. is a global financial technology platform best known for products including TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp, serving individuals, small businesses, and accountants. Founded in 1983, it is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with a significant UK office in London's Victoria district that supports its QuickBooks and related offerings across the UK market.

Invest NI

GovernmentOtherBritish

Invest Northern Ireland is the regional economic development agency for Northern Ireland, established in 2002 as part of the Department for the Economy. It helps local businesses compete internationally and attracts inward investment across sectors including technology, life sciences, financial services, agri-tech and creative technology. It also provides funding and support to early-stage ventures as part of its economic development mandate.

Invest in Change

VCOtherBritish

Invest in Change is an Edinburgh-based angel group founded in 2018 that connects angel investors with purpose-led, impact-focused start-ups. The organisation focuses on early-stage seed investments in companies that aim to generate profit whilst creating a positive social or environmental impact, spanning sectors such as software, education, healthcare and community.

InvestCloud

CorporateFinanceSaaSForeign

InvestCloud powers digital wealth with an AI-driven platform connecting advisors, institutions, and investors across the full investment lifecycle.