Directory

Ballpark Ventures

VCSeedPre-Seed

Ballpark Ventures is a boutique venture capital fund founded in 2010 by experienced entrepreneurs investing their own capital. The firm backs early-stage technology startups across Europe, with a focus on mobile, retail, media, and SaaS sectors, typically investing £1–5 million per deal.

Barclays Accelerator

Incubator / AcceleratorSeedCorporate

Barclays Accelerator was a fintech accelerator programme launched in 2014 and operated in partnership with Techstars under the Rise brand, supporting global fintech startups through mentorship, co-working hubs, and introductions to large financial institutions. The programme operated hubs in London and New York and had over 120 alumni before being formally wound down by mid-2025.

Baring Vostok

PESeries A+Growth

Baring Vostok Capital Partners is a private equity firm founded in 1994 and incorporated in Guernsey, historically focused on investments in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The firm has raised over $3.7bn across five private equity funds and invested in more than 67 companies across technology, media, telecoms, financial services, consumer, and natural resources; following the closure of its Russian business operations after 2022, the firm's principal registered office is in Guernsey.

Base 10 Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+

Base 10 Ventures is a technology-focused venture capital firm specialising exclusively in identity management and cybersecurity, founded in 2016 by Paul Tourret and Steve Waite — both previously co-founders of GMO GlobalSign. The firm invests at startup phase or during significant pivots, adopting an immersive venture-build approach, and operates from offices in London and Boston.

Basis Capital

VCSeries A+

UK early-stage VC backing founders building alternatives where public services are failing, across health, housing, energy, and infrastructure.

Battery Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthPEForeign

Battery Ventures is a global, technology-focused investment firm founded in 1983 with offices in the United States, Europe, and Israel. The firm invests across application software, infrastructure software, consumer technology, and industrial tech/life science tools, backing companies from seed stage through to private equity buyout. Battery has raised more than $16 billion since inception and is currently investing from its 15th flagship fund, capitalised at $3.25 billion.

Bayes Entrepreneurship

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademia

Bayes Entrepreneurship is the entrepreneurship hub of Bayes Business School at City St George's, University of London, providing support to students, alumni and external founders through mentoring, pitch nights, workshops and the City Launch Lab incubator. It also oversees access to the Bayes Entrepreneurship Fund, a £10 million investment programme for early-stage UK companies.

Beaumont Capital

VCSeedSeries A+Pre-Seed

Beaumont Capital is an Oxford-based investment and advisory firm providing angel and growth equity funding to early-stage businesses, with a particular focus on marketing technology and data companies. The firm takes an active role in its portfolio companies, offering strategic management support and governance alongside capital, and works with investors spanning EIS, VCT, growth funds, and venture debt.

Beringea

VCSeries A+GrowthForeign

Beringea is a transatlantic venture capital firm with over 30 years of growth investing experience, managing more than $900m across a portfolio of more than 60 companies. The firm backs rapidly scaling entrepreneurial companies in the UK and Europe at Series A and Series B, as well as Midwest US companies at Series A and beyond, operating offices in Farmington Hills, Michigan and London.

Bespokeist Partners

VCSeries A+

Bespokeist Partners is a London-based investment firm that backs growing, innovative companies across technology, healthcare, mobility and food tech.

Bessemer Venture Partners

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) is one of the world's oldest and most active venture capital firms, founded in 1911 and tracing its roots to the Carnegie Steel empire. The firm invests from early stage through growth and has supported over 420 portfolio companies across AI, cloud, consumer, cybersecurity, biotech, and fintech, with more than 150 IPOs and deSPACs. BVP manages approximately $20 billion in assets under management and maintains offices globally including in San Francisco, New York, and London.

Better Space

CoworkingIncubator / Accelerator

Better Space is an affordable co-working space, community hub, and social enterprise incubator in Islington, London. Established in 2021 as a joint venture between City St George's University of London, City Ventures, and Islington Council, it provides workspace and support for purpose-driven entrepreneurs, freelancers, and social enterprises. The space operates from The Ray Farringdon building under a ten-year partnership.

BiG Angels

VCSeedSeries A+Pre-Seed

Business Investors Group (BiG) is an angel investment network established in September 1997 by a group of successful entrepreneurs, providing equity finance and business support to owner-managers and high-growth businesses across the North East of England and Cumbria. BiG can invest from £25,000 up to £1 million and above, syndicating with other financial partners where needed, and has assisted more than 100 companies, deploying over £35.5 million over its history.

Big Issue Invest

Grantmaker

UK social investment arm of the Big Issue Group, providing impact loans and equity to social enterprises and charities since 2005.

Black Valley

CommunityIncubator / Accelerator

Black Valley is a London-based organisation founded in September 2020 by Leke Sholuade with a mission to discover, nurture, and place top Black tech talent, and to support Black-led startups through its Founders Accelerator programme. The accelerator connects early-stage founders with a network of over 200 mentors from companies including Goldman Sachs, Accenture, and Hitachi, and provides access to pre-seed investors and angel networks. Black Valley also runs a recruitment service placing Black tech professionals in roles across the industry.

BlackFin Capital Partners

PESeedSeries A+GrowthVCForeign

BlackFin Capital Partners is an independent European private equity firm founded in 2009, focused exclusively on financial services companies across Europe. The firm operates two strategies: asset-light buyouts through its PE funds, and early-stage fintech and insurtech investment through its BlackFin Tech VC strategy. It has offices in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, and London, and manages over €2 billion in assets.

Blackfinch Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+

Blackfinch Ventures is the venture capital arm of Blackfinch Group, a Cheltenham-based investment specialist, investing in innovative technology-enabled UK companies via EIS and VCT structures. It backs early-stage and growth-stage businesses across deeptech, fintech, and the energy transition, with individual investments of £200k–£2m. The firm manages over £125m in combined EIS and VCT assets across a portfolio of more than 40 companies.

Blackstone

PEGrowthForeign

Blackstone Inc. is the world's largest alternative asset manager, founded in 1985 and headquartered in New York City, with over $1.3 trillion in assets under management. The firm invests across private equity, real estate, infrastructure, credit, and hedge fund strategies for institutional and individual investors globally. It is publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Blenheim Chalcot

Incubator / AcceleratorVC

Blenheim Chalcot is one of the UK's leading venture builders, originating, building, and scaling technology-focused companies from its Scale Space campus in White City, London. Founded in 1998, it has built over 60 ventures across fintech, edtech, media, and software, with portfolio companies collectively generating over £500 million in annual revenue and employing more than 3,000 people. It operates globally across offices in London, Mumbai, and Tampa.

Blue Earth

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

We seek to address the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges, aiming for measurable impact alongside attractive and market-rate financial returns.

Blue Wire Capital

VCSeries A+

London-based seed-stage VC firm backing early-stage startups across fintech, SaaS, edtech, and sustainability; portfolio includes Deliveroo and Monzo.

Bowmark Capital

PESeries A+Growth

Bowmark Capital is a leading private equity investment firm founded in 1997 and headquartered in London, specialising in growth companies valued at up to £300 million across Data and Insight, Managed IT Services, Software, and Tech-enabled Business Services sectors. The firm has a team of over 50 professionals, manages approximately £2 billion in funds under management, and has completed more than 50 investments since inception.

Braveheart Investment Group

PESeedSeries A+VC

Braveheart Investment Group plc was a UK-listed investment company (AIM: BRH) that provided equity, loan and mezzanine funding to small- and medium-sized enterprises, primarily in the technology sector across the UK and Ireland. Founded in 1997 and quoted on AIM since 2007, the company rebranded to Truetide plc (AIM: TRUE) in 2025, with a registered office in Glasgow and an operational base in Barnsley, England, and continues to make equity investments in both listed and unlisted technology-focused growth businesses.

Bregal Investments

PESeries A+Growth

Bregal Investments is an international private equity firm providing a platform for direct investment and fund-of-funds teams across North America and Europe, with over 300 professionals and more than €19 billion of assets under management. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in London, it is part of COFRA Holding, a privately held group owned by the Brenninkmeijer family. Bregal invests in mid-market companies across diverse sectors through majority control equity, minority equity, and credit investments.