Directory

Clyde Blowers Capital

PESeries A+Growth

Clyde Blowers Capital is an independent mid-market private equity investment firm based in East Kilbride, Glasgow, Scotland, owned by its management team. The firm has led buyout investments since 1999, focusing on Western-headquartered engineering and industrial businesses across energy, utilities, renewables, and related sectors, having invested over £700 million across its history.

Co-Laboratories

CoworkingIncubator / Accelerator

Co-Laboratories is a community-led lab operator providing flexible, affordable laboratory and office space for early-stage life science and biotech startups. The company partners with property owners such as British Land to deliver co-working labs across London and Cambridge, including a 6,500 sq ft co-working lab at Regent's Place in Euston, developed with British Land. Incorporated in November 2021, it also offers fit-out consultancy and lab management services to property partners.

Co-op Ventures

CorporateIncubator / Accelerator

Co-op Ventures is the innovation and new business unit of The Co-operative Group, established to develop and launch challenger businesses in markets where Co-op's values and difference can add real value. Based at the Co-op's Manchester headquarters, it targets sectors with unmet customer needs and uses digital business models to create new Co-op enterprises.

Coatue

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthPEForeign

Coatue Management is an American technology-focused lifecycle investment platform founded in 1999, operating across venture, growth, and public equity strategies. The firm backs early-stage startups through to late-stage and public companies, with a particular focus on technology and innovation, and manages funds across private and public markets.

Colorintech

CommunityIncubator / Accelerator

Colorintech is a UK-based nonprofit (Community Interest Company) working to increase racial diversity and inclusion in the tech industry, running pathways and programmes for students, professionals, entrepreneurs and policy advocates, backed by major tech companies.

Comhar Capital

PEGrowth

Comhar Capital is a Leeds-based private equity firm established in 2018 that provides direct capital and hands-on operational support to growth-orientated, owner-managed businesses in the UK. The firm's name derives from the Gaelic word for 'partnership', reflecting its collaborative ethos, and it has backed companies across sectors including ecommerce, consumer goods, and software.

Common Magic

VCSeries A+

London-based solo-GP pre-seed and seed fund by Sarah Drinkwater, backing European and US founders building products with community as a core moat.

Concentric

VCSeedSeries A+

Concentric is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Denis Shafranik and Kjartan Rist, with offices in London and Copenhagen, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. It partners with sector-defining founders across Northern Europe to invest in technology companies across fintech, enterprise software, and digital media, typically deploying €0.5–5 million over the life of each investment.

Concept Ventures

VCPre-Seed

Concept Ventures is Europe's largest dedicated pre-seed fund, backing founders from concept stage through their first rounds of funding. The firm invests up to $1.5M in first rounds and focuses on AI, robotics, synthetic media, supply chain, enterprise software, and healthcare.

Conception X

Incubator / Accelerator

Conception X is a not-for-profit venture-building platform and the largest cross-university deep technology programme for PhD researchers across Europe, supporting them to launch startups based on their proprietary research. Founded in 2018 within UCL's Faculty of Engineering, it runs the Venture Scientist 100 fellowship and investment-readiness programmes, and has helped create over 200 deep tech startups valued at more than £1 billion. In 2025 it also launched an angel syndicate to fund European deep tech PhD founders.

Concrete VC

VCPre-SeedSeed

Concrete is an early stage PropTech investment firm based in London, helping driven founders with solid technology and Real Estate credentials to change the world of the built environment. We give you the expertise to hone your digital business, and the introductions to take and own the market quick

Connect Ventures

VCPre-SeedSeed

Connect Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2012, specialising in pre-seed and seed stage product-led companies across Europe. The firm operates as a partner-only, high-conviction team that leads or co-leads rounds of $500k to $5 million, investing across sectors including AI, cybersecurity, deep tech, data infrastructure, fintech, and health. Notable early investments include TrueLayer, which went on to become a unicorn.

Conviction Investment Partners

VCPre-SeedSeed

Conviction Investment Partners is a UK-based angel investment syndicate and early-stage venture firm recognised as one of the top three angel investment groups in the UK by the UK Business Angels Association. It focuses on post-revenue, high-growth B2B SaaS companies in Europe and the UK, investing tickets of £100,000–£500,000 and deploying capital on a 'just-in-time' basis tied to portfolio company growth targets. The firm won the UKBAA 'Best New Entrant to the Ecosystem' award in 2019.

Cool Initiatives

VCPre-SeedSeed

Cool Initiatives is a specialist early-stage investor in EdTech based in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, and part of the Cool Milk group. Founded by philanthropist Jon Thornes MBE, it provides funding and operational expertise to UK-based education technology businesses focused on improving school administration and teaching efficiency.

Copper Street Capital

PEGrowth

Copper Street Capital LLP is a London-based alternative investment firm focused on extracting value from the capital structures of non-mainstream European banks, investing primarily in subordinated debt. Established in 2015 with its fund launched in August 2016, the firm is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and registered with the SEC as an Exempt Reporting Adviser. Its strategy is intentionally capacity-constrained to preserve nimbleness and runs a concentrated, high-conviction portfolio.

Cornerstone VC

VCSeries A+

London-based pre-seed and seed stage VC fund with a "people before product" philosophy, backing diverse tech founders across AI, fintech, health tech, and more.

Corsair

PEGrowthForeign

Corsair Capital is a specialist global private equity firm founded in 1992, focused on investments in the financial services and business services industries. It operates across Buyouts and Infrastructure platforms, with approximately $9.8 billion in invested capital across North America and Europe, and maintains offices in New York and London.

Crane

VCPre-SeedSeed

Crane Venture Partners is a London-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Krishna Visvanathan and Scott Sage. The firm makes high-conviction investments at the earliest stages, backing ambitious founders from inception through seed in foundational technology companies including AI, machine learning, developer tools, and enterprise software. Crane manages approximately $450 million in assets under management across portfolios in Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Creandum

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Creandum is a leading European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2003, with hubs in Stockholm, Berlin, London, and San Francisco. It backs ambitious founders building global, category-defining technology companies from Seed stage onwards, with a portfolio including Spotify, Klarna, Depop, Trade Republic, and Bolt.

Creative UK

Ecosystem Bodies, Catapults & InstitutionsSeedSeries A+Grantmaker

Creative UK, formerly Creative England (founded 2010), is a not-for-profit independent network for the UK creative industries, formed in November 2021 following the merger of Creative England and the Creative Industries Federation. It supports, invests in, and champions creative businesses and talent across the United Kingdom, operating a £35 million investment fund for creative businesses alongside programmes spanning film, television, games, and digital media.

Creator Fund

VCPre-SeedSeed

Creator Fund is a London-based venture capital firm backing scientific founders — PhD students, professors, and academic researchers — building deep technology companies out of European university research. The firm invests at pre-seed and seed stages across AI, quantum, robotics, life sciences, and materials science, with teams embedded across university campuses throughout Europe.

Creator Ventures

VCPre-SeedSeed

Partnering with AI-native consumer companies and the software supporting them.

Crescent Capital

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

Crescent Capital is a Belfast-based venture capital fund manager founded in 1995, focused on investing in Northern Ireland companies operating in the information technology, life sciences, and manufacturing sectors. The firm has raised over £60 million to date from government, private, and institutional investors, and manages the North Ireland Growth Fund, providing portfolio companies with capital, strategic guidance, and access to its business network.

Crowdcube

ScaleupPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Funding Platform

Crowdcube is Europe's largest equity crowdfunding platform, founded in 2011 in Exeter as the world's first equity crowdfunding site. The platform enables individuals to invest in early-stage and growth-stage private companies in exchange for equity, with minimum investments from £10, and has facilitated over £1.5 billion in investments from more than 2 million registered investors across more than 1,600 businesses. Notable portfolio companies include Revolut, Monzo and Freetrade.