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Andrena VC

VCFinanceAIBritish

Andrena Ventures is a London-based solo GP pre-seed and seed fund launched in April 2024, with a debut fund of approximately €11 million. The fund backs founders — particularly those spinning out of leading European fintech companies — across fintech, AI, climate, and B2B software, investing tickets of €100k–€400k across the UK and Europe.

Anduril UK

CorporateDefenceDeep TechForeign

UK subsidiary of Anduril Industries, developing autonomous defence systems including drones, counter-UAS solutions, surveillance towers, the Lattice OS command software and ground robotics for allied militaries.

Angel Academe

VCFinanceCybersecurityBritish

Angel Academe is an award-winning UK angel investor network and EIS fund dedicated to backing exceptional female founders. Founded in 2014, the network connects early-stage startups — where at least one founder is a woman holding significant equity — with over 400 active angel investors, the majority of whom are women. The network has supported more than 48 businesses and helped them raise over £150m in total from angels, VCs and family offices.

Angel Capital Scotland

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsFinanceBritish

Angel Capital Scotland (formerly LINC Scotland) is the national association for business angels in Scotland, established in 1993 and based in Glasgow. The organisation represents approximately 2,000 active angel investors across around 20 structured angel syndicates, collectively investing over £100 million annually into early-stage Scottish companies. It advocates for its members at government level and is a founding member of Business Angels Europe.

Angel Investment Network

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherBritish

Angel Investment Network (AIN) is the world's largest online angel investment platform, founded in 2004 and headquartered in Twickenham, London. The platform connects entrepreneurs seeking funding with a global network of over 300,000 angel investors across more than 90 countries, operating country-specific portals and facilitating introductions between startups and investors at seed and early-stage across all sectors.

Angelgroups

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsOtherBritish

Angelgroups is a UK-based angel network founded in 2015 that intelligently matches angel investors with ambitious, high-growth SMEs across all sectors. The network runs monthly pitching events and operates an online platform enabling angels to browse investment opportunities, invest individually or as part of a syndicate, and typically facilitates raises of between £100k and £500k.

Angels Den

ScaleupOtherFunding PlatformBritish

Angels Den is the UK and Europe's largest and longest-running angel-led investment network, founded in 2007. It connects over 21,000 investors with early-stage companies and SMEs, offering vetted SEIS/EIS-eligible investment opportunities, pitch events, and portfolio management tools. The platform has funded over 500 startups since its inception.

Angels4Angels

VCFinanceBritish

Angels4Angels is a Cheltenham-based angel investment group that funds early-stage entrepreneurial ventures on behalf of high-net-worth investor syndicates. The group provides a free service to investors seeking equity returns from backing start-up and early-stage businesses, acting as operating partners to facilitate the investment process.

Angi

CorporateProptechConsumerForeign

Angi is a US publicly traded (NASDAQ: ANGI) digital marketplace connecting homeowners with pre-screened, rated home service professionals for repair, maintenance and improvement projects.

Anglia Capital Group

VCOtherBritish

Anglia Capital Group is an angel investor network founded in 2014, supporting innovative early-stage and growth businesses across Norfolk and Suffolk in the East of England. The group holds regular pitching events and invests both capital and business expertise into start-ups with disruptive potential. It is dedicated to fostering high-growth entrepreneurship in the East Anglian region.

Anima

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

AI-powered care enablement platform for NHS primary care, providing online consultations, automated triage and a real-time multiplayer clinical dashboard to reduce administrative burden on clinicians.

Animal Health Angels

VCBiotech & Life SciencesDeep TechBritish

UK angel investor network connecting entrepreneurs with experienced animal health professionals to fund early-stage animal health and veterinary businesses.

Ankar

StartupLegalAIBritish

Your AI Operating System for Patents

Another Earth

StartupSpaceAIForeign

Deep-tech generating AI-powered synthetic satellite/EO data (fully labelled, multispectral, temporally consistent) to train and test Earth-observation AI models for environmental monitoring and risk simulation.

Anthemis

VCFinanceAIBritish

Anthemis Group is a London-based early-stage venture capital and advisory firm founded in 2010, focused on investing in digitally native financial services, fintech, and insurtech companies globally. The firm backs entrepreneurs at the intersections of finance and technology, with a particular emphasis on equity and inclusion, including running a large early-stage fintech fund dedicated to female-founded companies. Anthemis also provides ecosystem-building services alongside its investment activities.

Anthropic

CorporateAIAI SafetyForeign

Anthropic is an AI safety company and public benefit corporation that develops large language models, most notably the Claude family of AI assistants. The company's mission centres on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, with safety research at the core of its work. Its products span consumer AI assistants, developer APIs, and enterprise solutions across sectors including healthcare, legal, and financial services.

Antler

VCAIFinanceIncubator / AcceleratorForeign

Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017, headquartered in Singapore and active across more than 30 locations worldwide, including London. The firm specialises in 'Day Zero' investing, backing exceptional founders from the very inception of their companies before a co-founder, product, or even a defined idea exists. Antler also operates Antler Elevate, a scale-up growth fund providing capital from Series A onwards.

Anvil Partners

VCEdtechBritish

Anvil Partners LLP is a London-based angel investment firm incorporated in 2003, investing in a broad range of early-stage businesses with a concentration in the biomedical and life sciences space as well as technology companies. The firm has participated in SEIS and EIS funding rounds and is a member of the UK Business Angels Association.

Apadmi Ventures

VCSaaSAICorporateBritish

Apadmi Ventures is the investment and venture arm of Apadmi, a Manchester-based mobile app development company founded in 2009. It acts as a strategic technology partner and investor in highly scalable early-stage start-ups, providing both capital and technical direction. The venture arm made several investments between 2015 and 2019, including in edtech and consumer mobile platforms.

Apater Capital

PEAIFinanceVCBritish

Apater Capital is a Leeds-based private equity and venture capital firm incorporated in November 2019, describing itself as the modern iteration of private equity. The firm targets investments in fourth industrial revolution sectors including social commerce, fintech, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and transformative health technology.

Apax Partners

PESaaSFinanceBritish

Apax Partners is one of the world's leading global private equity advisory firms, founded in 1972 and headquartered in London. The firm has raised approximately $80 billion in aggregate funds and invests across three core sectors: technology, services and healthcare, with strategies spanning global buyout, digital growth, mid-market Israel, global impact and credit.

Apiar

StartupConsumerBritish

British watchmaker using metal additive manufacturing (3D printing) and generative design to produce lightweight, complex-geometry luxury timepieces in small batches.

Apis Partners

PEFinanceBritish

London-headquartered private equity firm investing in tech-enabled financial infrastructure and services across Europe and growth markets, with $2.3bn AUM.

Apoha

StartupAIBiotech & Life SciencesBritish

Apoha builds the molecular data layer for AI, measuring how matter behaves to power discovery of medicines, food ingredients and new materials via its Liquid State Intelligence platform.