Directory

Kyndryl

CorporateOtherProfessional ServicesForeign

At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day.

L Marks

Incubator / AcceleratorOtherSaaSProfessional ServicesBritish

L Marks is a global corporate innovation firm that designs and delivers innovation programmes for major international organisations, including BMW, Lloyd's of London, and Sodexo. Founded in 2014, it operates an award-winning Innovation Lab model connecting corporates with startups, as well as a Venture Studio that builds new revenue-generating businesses from within client organisations, with a 78% deployment rate across more than 120 programmes in Europe, North America, and the Middle East.

LABS

CoworkingReal EstateBritish

LABS is a London-based flexible workspace provider founded in 2017 and backed by LabTech, a property portfolio valued at £2.5 billion. The company offers customisable private offices, coworking spaces, meeting rooms, and event venues across two central London campuses in Holborn and Camden, as well as a location in Cyprus. LABS serves over 6,000 people from more than 350 businesses of all sizes.

LBIC

CoworkingBiotech & Life SciencesDeep TechIncubator / AcceleratorBritish

The London BioScience Innovation Centre (LBIC) is London's first specialist life science bio-incubator, founded in 2000 and wholly owned by the Royal Veterinary College. It provides fully fitted, serviced CL2 laboratory and office space at its Camden campus and, since 2023, at The Apex within the King's Cross Tribeca development, and has supported over 200 biotechnology and life science companies since opening. LBIC is co-located with the RVC's Camden campus, adjacent to the Francis Crick Institute and the Knowledge Quarter.

LBS Launchpad

Incubator / AcceleratorOtherAcademiaBritish

LBS Launchpad is London Business School's startup incubator and pre-accelerator programme, run under the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital exclusively for LBS alumni founders. It provides mentorship, tailored workshops, financial bursaries, investor access, and a structured curriculum to help early-stage ventures progress from idea to scale. Since inception the programme has supported over 160 companies that have collectively raised more than £200 million and created over 1,500 jobs.

LDC

PEOtherConsumerBritish

LDC (formerly Lloyds Development Capital) is a mid-market private equity firm and subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group, established in 1981. The firm invests between £2 million and £100 million in management buy-outs, institutional buy-outs, and development capital transactions in UK-based businesses across sectors including business services, consumer, healthcare, ICT, industrials, media, and technology. LDC operates from a national network of offices across the UK.

LEAH / Impact First

CommunityOtherCoworkingBritish

Impact First (formerly the London EA Hub / LEAH) is a coworking space and career-development programme for effective altruism professionals in central London, originally founded by Arcadia Impact in 2022. The space provides desks for individuals working on high-impact projects across AI safety, biosecurity, global health, and animal welfare, alongside fellowships, career advising, and networking events for students and early-career professionals.

LISA

CommunityAI SafetyAICoworkingBritish

The London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) is a non-profit AI safety hub in central London that brings together organisations, researchers, and upskilling programmes working to ensure the safe development of advanced AI. It provides workspace and operational support to member organisations such as Apollo Research, BlueDot Impact, and IAPS, and runs programmes and fellowships to guide talent into AI safety careers. LISA also convenes the broader ecosystem through events for researchers, policymakers, and funders.

LOTI

GovernmentOtherAIEcosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsBritish

LOTI is London local government's collaborative innovation team, helping borough councils and the Greater London Authority use technology, data and innovation to improve public services and address London's biggest challenges. Founded in July 2019 and hosted at London Councils, it counts 27 boroughs, the GLA and London Councils among its members.

LRUG

CommunityOtherBritish

London Ruby User Group (LRUG, pronounced 'El Rug') is a monthly meetup for Ruby developers based in London, meeting on the second Monday of each month. It provides a forum for talks, discussion and socialising around the Ruby programming language. The group has been active since 2006 and is present on Mastodon via ruby.social.

LSE Generate

Incubator / AcceleratorOtherAcademiaCoworkingBritish

LSE Generate is the London School of Economics' home for entrepreneurship, supporting students and alumni to develop businesses at every stage since 2018. It operates the GenDen, a free co-working space on the ground floor of St Clement's Building, open to teams with at least one LSE-affiliated founder, and also runs incubator and accelerator programmes, a schools outreach programme, and a corporate innovation lab.

LSIP

VCOtherBritish

London & Scottish Investment Partners (LSIP) is a Scottish-based angel investment group founded in 2014, bringing together sophisticated investors from London and Scotland to back high-quality Scottish companies. The group focuses on seed and early-stage investments in sectors including life sciences, technology, energy, food and drink, and manufacturing, typically investing between £300,000 and £500,000 per deal into around six companies per year. LSIP is an active member of the Scottish Angel Network.

LTS Growth

VCOtherForeign

LTS Growth Platform

La Caisse

GovernmentFinancePEVCForeign

La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec est un groupe mondial d'investissement qui stimule la performance et le progrès, avec un actif net de 517 milliards de dollars.

LabGenius Therapeutics

ScaleupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

ML-driven antibody therapeutics company using its automated EVA platform to discover and optimise next-generation multispecific antibodies for solid tumour oncology. Rebranded to LabGenius Therapeutics following a £35 million Series B round in May 2024 led by M Ventures.

Labrys Technologies

ScaleupDefenceFinanceBritish

Veteran-founded defence software company whose Axiom platform delivers cryptographic trust, secure command and control, resilient communications, and compliant payments across military environments from frontline to headquarters.

Lake House

PEOtherMediaForeign

Lake House is a privately held investment company founded in 1995, with offices in London and Hong Kong. The firm is industry agnostic and has been involved in projects and investments in excess of US$15 billion across 15 countries, focusing on real estate, media, technology, transportation, and internet sectors. It invests in distressed, turnaround, and fast-growing innovative companies.

Lakestar

VCSaaSAIForeign

Lakestar is a pan-European venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Klaus Hommels, investing in disruptive technology-driven businesses from seed through growth stage. The firm manages over €2 billion across multiple funds and has offices in Zurich, Berlin, London, New York, and Hong Kong, with a portfolio that includes Spotify, Revolut, and Airbnb.

Land Talks: Reimagining Land for a More Abundant Britain

CommunityReal EstateProptechBritish

A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.

LandTech

ScaleupProptechSaaSBritish

UK proptech company providing land intelligence and digital planning software to property developers and planners. Its LandInsight platform consolidates UK land and planning data for site sourcing, while LandEnhance supports planning research and appraisal.

Landmark

CoworkingOtherBritish

Landmark Space is a UK flexible workspace provider founded in 2000, operating 36 professionally managed locations across six cities including London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Milton Keynes, and Reading. The company serves over 11,500 clients daily and offers private offices, virtual offices, meeting rooms, and coworking memberships. In 2018, Landmark rebranded following its merger with i2 Office, and subsequently acquired The Space portfolio in 2019 to expand its footprint further.

Lansweeper

ScaleupCybersecurityForeign

Get total asset visibility for every IT and security decision. Lansweeper delivers AI-native asset visibility and context teams trust to act with confidence.

Latent Labs

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

Generative AI company designing novel proteins de novo to make biology programmable for drug discovery and other life-science applications. Its web-based Latent-X platform enables researchers to design and optimise proteins without requiring computational expertise.

Latham & Watkins

Professional ServicesLegalForeign

Latham & Watkins LLP is a global law firm founded in 1934 in Los Angeles, providing transactional, disputes, and regulatory legal services across more than 30 offices in 14 countries. The firm has over 3,500 lawyers and is particularly active in M&A, private equity, capital markets, and energy infrastructure. UK offices are maintained in London and Manchester.