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Cambridge Enterprise Ventures

VCSeries A+

University of Cambridge's early-stage equity fund investing in spinouts and startups founded by Cambridge academics, students, graduates, and alumni since 1995.

Cambridge Innovation Capital

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) is a leading venture capital firm founded in 2013 with a privileged relationship with the University of Cambridge, acting as its preferred investor. CIC specialises in deep tech and life sciences companies at Series A stage and beyond, with approximately £0.6 billion in assets under management and access to over £3.2 billion in co-investment capital.

Campus Capital

VCPre-SeedSeed

Campus Capital is the UK's first on-campus venture capital fund, founded in Sheffield in 2016 and now based in Manchester, investing at the earliest stages into innovative technology-enabled businesses across the UK. The firm operates a distinctive Student VC programme, enabling PhD, MBA, and undergraduate students to participate in real investment decisions alongside its investment committee, with university partnerships including Sheffield, Manchester, and Lancaster.

Cancer Tech Accelerator

Incubator / AcceleratorGrantmaker

The UK's largest cancer specific accelerator, supporting innovators, reasearchers, and academics to commercialise and validate their oncology solutions.

Capital Enterprise

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsIncubator / Accelerator

Capital Enterprise is a not-for-profit membership organisation and ecosystem body that serves as London's startup expert network, connecting and energising the capital's entrepreneurial ecosystem. Incorporated in 1993, it acts as the membership body for enterprise support service providers and collaborates with investors, universities, local authorities, accelerators, and incubators to accelerate early-stage startups across AI, MedTech, and deep tech.

Carbon13

Incubator / Accelerator

Carbon13 is a venture builder dedicated to the climate emergency, supporting entrepreneurs to build companies with the potential to reduce or remove at least 10 million tonnes of CO2e per year at scale. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Cambridge, it runs cohort-based Venture Builder programmes in Cambridge and Berlin as well as a Venture Accelerator for pre-seed startups, and has backed more than 90 climate tech ventures across sectors including energy, agriculture, materials, and the built environment.

Carlyle

PEGrowthForeign

The Carlyle Group is one of the world's largest global investment management firms, founded in 1987 in Washington DC. It specialises in private equity, real assets, and private credit across four continents, managing approximately $475 billion in assets under management.

Catalyst Venture Partners

VCSeedSeries A+

Catalyst Venture Partners is a Bath-based venture capital and corporate finance advisory firm founded in 1999, specialising in early-stage investments in technology companies with strong intellectual property across sectors including environmental technology, healthcare, software, media, and telecoms in the UK and Western Europe.

Centerbridge Partners

PEGrowthForeign

Centerbridge Partners is a global alternative investment manager founded in 2005, with over $38 billion in assets under management across private equity, private credit, and real estate strategies. The firm pursues upper-middle-market buyouts, distressed securities, and credit investments across sectors including financials, healthcare, industrials, technology and real estate. It is headquartered in New York with additional offices in London, Miami and Luxembourg.

Centrica Innovations

VCSeedSeries A+

Centrica Innovations is the corporate venture capital and innovation arm of Centrica plc, a FTSE 100 energy and services company, incorporated in September 2017. It invests in and partners with startups transforming energy, electric mobility, home services and distributed energy, with a committed fund of up to £100 million. The unit focuses on early-stage ventures that align with Centrica's strategic energy transition priorities.

Cerberus

PEGrowthForeign

Cerberus Capital Management is a global alternative investment advisor founded in 1992, managing approximately $70 billion in assets across credit, operational private equity, and real estate platforms. The firm specialises in value creation through business transformation, middle-market direct lending, and corporate credit. Its European operations are headquartered in Mayfair, London.

Channel 4 Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthCorporate

Channel 4 Ventures is the consumer venture capital arm of Channel 4, the UK public service broadcaster. It is the UK's largest media-for-equity fund, investing media budgets of £2m–£10m in high-growth consumer brands in exchange for equity, rather than deploying cash. The fund backs companies from seed to pre-IPO stage seeking to become UK household names.

Chariot Innovations

Incubator / Accelerator

Chariot Innovations is the wholly owned commercial arm of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), bridging the gap between academic research and enterprise. It supports LSHTM staff and students with commercialisation of inventions, spinout formation, technology development, and consultancy, translating global-health research into real-world benefit. Incorporated in November 2012, it operates from the LSHTM campus near Russell Square.

Charlotte Street Capital

VCPre-SeedSeed

Charlotte Street Capital is a pre-seed and early-stage venture capital firm based in London, founded in 2011. It focuses on being the first money in for UK B2B and B2B2C software startups, typically leading rounds of up to £300,000. The firm invests in online software businesses with demonstrated customer traction.

Charterhouse

PEGrowth

Charterhouse Capital Partners is one of Europe's longest-established private equity firms, founded in 1934 and headquartered in London. The firm focuses on mid-market European buyouts in the services, healthcare, specialised industrials and consumer sectors, targeting transactions of €150m–€1.5bn across the UK & Ireland, France & Benelux, Southern Europe, and DACH regions. It has raised over €17bn since inception and achieved B Corp certification in 2025.

Cherry Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+Foreign

Cherry Ventures is a leading European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012, with offices in Berlin, London, and Stockholm. The firm backs ambitious founders across a wide range of sectors including AI, fintech, SaaS, and consumer technology, investing primarily at seed stage with an 80% graduation rate from seed to Series A. It raised $500m in new funds in early 2025.

Cinven

PESeries A+Growth

Cinven is an international private equity firm founded in 1977, originally as part of the British Coal pension scheme, that became fully independent and partner-owned in 1995. The firm focuses on buyout investments across six sectors — Business Services, Consumer, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrials, and TMT — and operates from nine offices globally including London, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Madrid, New York, Luxembourg, Guernsey, and Hong Kong. It has raised over €50 billion across eight funds, with Fund 8 closing at €13.2 billion in 2023, and manages approximately €44 billion in assets.

Circularity Capital

PESeries A+Growth

Circularity Capital is a specialist private equity firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in Edinburgh, with an additional London office. The firm invests in growth-stage European businesses that are built on circular economy models — decoupling growth from resource consumption — across sectors including logistics, food production, e-commerce, and subscription services. Its investor base includes pension funds, fund-of-funds, insurance companies, and family offices; its second fund closed at €215 million in 2022, making it the largest specialist circular economy private equity fund in the world at the time.

Citi SPRINT

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Citi SPRINT (Spread Products Investments in Technology) is the strategic venture investing arm of Citi's Global Spread Products division, established in 2019. The team focuses on sourcing, executing, and managing principal equity investments in fintech lenders, private credit infrastructure providers, digital origination platforms, and asset-backed finance technology companies. It operates at the intersection of private credit, embedded finance, and corporate venture, and has co-invested alongside Citi Ventures and institutional partners such as Carlyle Group.

CityVentures

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademiaCoworking

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Clarence Centre

Incubator / AcceleratorAcademiaCoworking

The Clarence Centre for Enterprise and Innovation is London South Bank University's flagship incubation and co-working hub, housed in 17 Grade II listed Georgian terraces on the Southwark campus. It provides flexible office space, event facilities, and enterprise support to over 60 SMEs, student entrepreneurs, and non-profit organisations, and hosts LSBU's Research, Enterprise and Innovation team. The centre opened in September 2013 and won the RICS Regeneration Award for its restoration of the historic buildings.

Clarendon Fund Managers

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+

Clarendon Fund Managers Limited is a venture capital fund manager based in Belfast, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. It manages approximately £94 million of regional VC funds in Northern Ireland, including the Co-Investment Fund and the Investment Fund for Northern Ireland, and has invested in over 100 companies since 2001. The firm also manages HBAN Ulster, the Halo Business Angel Network in Northern Ireland, supporting investments from angel co-investors alongside its own funds.

Clean Growth Fund

VCSeries A+

UK climate-focused venture capital fund investing £500k–£5m in early-stage cleantech startups reducing greenhouse gas emissions, managing a £101m portfolio of 22 companies.

Clearbell

PEGrowth

Clearbell Capital is a UK-based private equity real estate fund management business incorporated in 2012, managing approximately £3.4 billion in assets. The firm specialises in value-add UK real estate across student accommodation, logistics, and single-family housing, operating thematic, discretionary, and advisory accounts. It is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.