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Bridgepoint

PESeries A+Growth

Bridgepoint Group plc is one of the world's leading mid-market investors, listed on the London Stock Exchange as a FTSE 250 constituent, with approximately $98 billion of assets under management. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in London, the firm specialises in private equity, infrastructure, credit, secondaries, and private wealth across Europe and North America. Its private equity strategies span flagship mid-market buyouts via Bridgepoint Europe, lower mid-market via Bridgepoint Development Capital, and small-cap growth equity via Bridgepoint Growth.

Brighteye Ventures

VCSeries A+Foreign

Europe's largest dedicated EdTech VC, backing founders building learning, work, and skills platforms from Pre-Seed to Series A across Europe.

Britbots

VCPre-SeedSeedIncubator / Accelerator

Britbots (trading name of High Growth Robotics Limited) is a UK-based early-stage investment firm and studio focused on robotics, artificial intelligence, and automation technologies. It operates the British Robotics Seed Fund (SEIS/EIS) and a Scale-Up Fund, having backed over 50 companies whose collective independent fundraising exceeds £50 million, and provides strategic mentoring and an innovator visa endorsement service to portfolio companies.

British Business Bank

GovernmentGrantmaker

The British Business Bank is the UK government's economic development bank, wholly owned by HM Government. Founded in 2013 and incorporated as a plc in 2014, it improves smaller businesses' access to debt and equity finance by working through accredited lenders and fund managers, and is the largest provider of venture finance in the UK.

British Design Fund

VCPre-SeedSeed

An early-stage UK investment fund and angel network, managed by Sapphire Capital Partners, that backs purpose-led product design and manufacturing startups, offering both capital and mentoring support.

Brunel Entrepreneur Hub

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademiaCoworking

The Entrepreneur Hub is Brunel University London's centre for entrepreneurship and enterprise, based in the Bannerman Centre at the Uxbridge campus. It supports students and recent graduates (up to three years post-graduation) through one-to-one mentoring, workshops, a formal start-up incubator programme, and funding competitions with prizes ranging from £10,000 to £60,000. The Hub provides a structured pathway from early-stage idea development through market research, financial forecasting, and venture launch.

BuildHer Labs

CommunityIncubator / Accelerator

A hands-on founder-in-residence venture studio for female and non-binary operators. Sharpen thinking, pressure-test models, and get investor-ready.

Bullhound Capital

VCSeries A+

London-based venture capital arm of GP Bullhound, backing category-leading technology companies across AI, quantum, fintech, and consumer tech globally.

Burda Principal Investments

VCSeries A+GrowthForeign

Burda Principal Investments (BPI) is a division of Hubert Burda Media which provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies.

Byvp

VCSeedSeries A+Foreign

Our team of former founders backs phenomenal early-stage founders, providing empathetic support and invaluable connections to help them scale globally.

C7 Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+Pre-Seed

C7 Ventures is a small Birmingham-based investment firm incorporated in November 2022, operating across a range of investment vehicles and providing consultancy within the investment industry. The firm is based in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, and focuses on early-stage opportunities.

CAIS

Funding PlatformForeign

CAIS is the leading alternative investment platform, providing financial advisors with streamlined access to private equity, hedge funds, structured notes, and more.

CBPE Capital

PESeries A+Growth

CBPE Capital is a London-based independent private equity firm founded in 1984, investing in UK mid-market businesses with enterprise values of up to £150 million across sectors including business services, consumer, financial services, healthcare, and technology. The firm manages over £1.3 billion in assets and has nearly 40 years of mid-market investment experience.

CCEP Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+

CCEP Ventures is the corporate venture capital and innovation investment arm of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, focused on finding, funding and fostering transformative sustainability solutions to support the company's net zero 2040 ambition. The programme invests in startups across clean energy, water, packaging and supply chain technologies.

CD&R

PEGrowthForeign

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is a leading American private equity firm founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York, with an office in London. The firm pioneered an operational approach to private equity, combining financial investment with deep operating capability, and has invested in more than 100 companies across consumer and retail, financial services, healthcare, industrials, business services, and technology sectors in North America and Europe. CD&R has managed the investment of more than $40 billion across its funds, with an aggregate transaction value of approximately $175 billion.

CICC Capital

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

CICC Capital is the private equity investment platform of China International Capital Corporation (CICC), managing multiple RMB and USD funds that invest in technology, healthcare, advanced manufacturing and consumer companies across China.

CPP Investments

PEGrowthForeign

CPP Investments (formally the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, CPPIB) is a Canadian Crown corporation that manages the assets of the Canada Pension Plan on behalf of over 22 million Canadian contributors and beneficiaries. It invests across public and private equity, fixed income, real estate, infrastructure, and credit globally, with C$793 billion in assets under management as of March 2026. It is one of the world's largest institutional investors and a member of Canada's 'Maple 8' pension funds.

CRL

CoworkingIncubator / Accelerator

Central Research Laboratory (CRL) is the UK's leading accelerator and co-working space for hardware startups and product pioneers, offering 24/7 workspace, specialist prototyping facilities and business support programmes including the CRL Accelerator. Originally established in Hayes, West London in 2015 at the Old Vinyl Factory, it relocated in November 2023 to the Plus X Innovation hub in Slough, where it continues to support entrepreneurs developing physical products; between 2017 and 2023 the CRL Accelerator supported 69 companies across 10 cohorts.

CVC Capital Partners

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

CVC Capital Partners is a leading global private markets manager founded in 1981, with approximately €209 billion of assets under management across private equity, secondaries, credit, and infrastructure strategies. Headquartered in St Helier, Jersey, and listed on Euronext Amsterdam since April 2024, the firm operates through a network of 29 offices across EMEA, the Americas, and Asia.

Cabot Square Capital

PESeedSeries A+Growth

Cabot Square Capital is an independently owned London-based private equity firm, founded in 1996, specialising in long-term equity investment in small and mid-sized companies in the UK and Western Europe. The firm has a particular focus on financial services, property and infrastructure sectors, and manages funds including CS Capital Partners III, IV and V. It is regulated by the FCA and invests across start-up, buy-and-build, expansion and turnaround situations.

Calculus Capital

VCSeries A+

London-based EIS and VCT fund manager founded in 1999, pioneering tax-efficient venture capital investment in UK technology, healthcare, and creative industries.

Caledonia Investments

PESeries A+Growth

Caledonia Investments is a FTSE 250 self-managed investment trust company headquartered in London, incorporated in December 1928 and rooted in the Cayzer family's shipping business dating to the late 1800s. It is an equity investor with a diversified global portfolio spanning public companies, private capital, and funds, with a long-term compounding return philosophy. The Cayzer family retains a controlling shareholding of over 50%.

Cambridge Angels

VCSeedSeries A+Pre-Seed

Cambridge Angels is a leading UK business angel network founded in 2001, comprising up to 65 invitation-only members who are predominantly successful exited entrepreneurs from tech and healthcare. The network invests in early-stage companies across the Cambridge ecosystem and beyond, providing smart capital alongside operational expertise, and charges no fees to founders for pitching or carry.

Cambridge Capital Group

VCSeedSeries A+Pre-Seed

Cambridge Capital Group (CCG) is a business angel network of over 80 private investors, family offices, and venture funds that has been investing in hi-tech technology startups across the UK's Golden Triangle (Cambridge, London, Oxford) since 2000. The group has invested more than £50 million across a portfolio of over 100 startups, with a focus on seed and early-growth stage opportunities in sectors such as AI, medtech, biotech, cyber security, and deep technology.