Directory

Unbound

VCSaaSConsumerBritish

Unbound is a London-based growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017, focused on backing fast-growing technology companies from Series B onwards across global developed and emerging markets. The firm describes itself as operators and company builders rather than traditional investors, emphasising long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs. Its portfolio includes Cars24, Forto, Motorway, Databricks, and Snowflake.

Uncommon

CoworkingOtherBritish

Uncommon is a B Corp-certified flexible workspace operator with five coworking locations across London, offering private offices, dedicated desks, hot desks, meeting rooms, and event spaces. The brand was established in 2015 and has received significant backing from The Carlyle Group, which committed £150 million to expand the Uncommon platform alongside Adir Group.

Unframe

ScaleupAISaaSForeign

Go beyond generic tools with Unframe’s enterprise AI solutions - secure, governed, production-ready, and built to deliver measurable ROI fast.

United Robots

StartupAIBritish

Fleets of autonomous AI-driven industrial floor-cleaning/scrubbing robots for large crowded spaces (automotive, manufacturing, warehousing).

Unity

CorporateGamingSaaSForeign

Unity Technologies is a software company founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2004 as Over the Edge I/S, now headquartered in San Francisco, that develops the Unity real-time 3D development platform. Its game engine is one of the most widely used in the world, powering games, simulations, and interactive experiences across mobile, console, PC, VR, and AR platforms. The company is publicly listed on the NYSE under the ticker U.

Unmind

ScaleupBiotech & Life SciencesAIBritish

Workplace mental health and wellbeing platform using AI to deliver employee mental health support, measurement and clinical resources.

Untap Health

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesDeep TechBritish

Plug-and-play wastewater sensors that track pathogens (COVID, flu, norovirus) for early outbreak warnings in buildings.

UpGuard

ScaleupCybersecurityForeign

UpGuard is the only platform that unifies cyber risk management across your vendor supply chain, attack surface, and human workforce.

Urban Zoo

ScaleupSaaSMediaBritish

Urban Zoo is a UK sports technology company that builds Gamechanger®, an all-in-one platform-as-a-service for sports clubs, brands and federations covering web, app, streaming, content management, e-commerce and fan engagement. Founded in 2013 and based in Warrington, it works with over 60 professional clubs and governing bodies including Aston Villa, Everton and Celtic.

Us&Co

CoworkingOtherBritish

Us&Co is a flexible workspace operator providing private offices, dedicated desks, hot desks, meeting rooms, and event spaces in London and Dublin. Launched in 2016 at Monument in the City of London, the company subsequently expanded to Stratford in East London and St Stephen's Green in Dublin, catering to both start-ups and established businesses seeking professional shared environments.

VAST Data

ScaleupAISaaSForeign

VAST delivers the first AI Operating System, unifying storage, database, and compute to drive agentic computing and data intensive workloads. Learn more.

Vaire Computing

ScaleupAIBritish

Developing reversible (adiabatic) computing chips that recycle energy to drastically cut power for AI workloads; early tests claim ~50% energy savings.

Valarian

StartupDefenceAIBritish

Valarian builds sovereign digital infrastructure for governments, defence organisations and enterprises. Its ACRA platform turns Kubernetes into a hardened, policy-governed environment so AI workloads and sensitive applications run inside per-workload enclaves with customer-held keys.

Valerie

StartupBiotech & Life SciencesDeep TechBritish

Perimenopause wellness brand selling a liposomal 'Daily Essential' supplement (12 active nutrients) to support mood, energy and focus during perimenopause.

Vanta

ScaleupCybersecurityForeign

Vanta automates the complex and time-consuming process of SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI, and GDPR compliance certification. Automate your security monitoring in weeks instead of months.

Vantage Data Centers

CorporateReal EstateForeign

Vantage Data Centers provides innovative, scalable wholesale data center campuses to hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises across North America and Europe.

Vault

StartupCybersecurityBritish

Encrypted secure-messaging and identity-verification platform for regulated industries (finance, healthcare) - Mailock email encryption with multi-factor recipient identity checks.

Vaultt

StartupEdtechConsumerIncubator / AcceleratorBritish

Vaultt is where your work gets you hired, not your CV. Show real projects, find your people and get matched to real opportunities on proof, not paper. Free to join on web and iOS.

Veeam

CorporateCybersecurityForeign

Discover cyber resilient solutions for AI and data. See risk everywhere, move data securely, stay compliant, and accelerate safe AI all with Veeam.

Veeva Systems

CorporateBiotech & Life SciencesDeep TechForeign

Veeva delivers the industry cloud for life sciences with applications, agents, data, and consulting. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva serves more than 1,500 customers, ranging from the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs.

Vega

StartupCybersecurityAIForeign

Welcome to the post-SIEM era. Vega

Velocity

StartupFinanceBritish

Provides stablecoin treasury and settlement infrastructure that lets enterprises hold, transfer and settle funds on stablecoin networks alongside traditional banking rails.

Velocity Capital

VCOtherE-commerceBritish

UK-based SEIS and EIS fund manager investing in early-stage technology and eCommerce businesses from seed to Series A.

Venari Security

ScaleupCybersecurityQuantumBritish

Quantum-safe crypto-agility platform giving visibility into encrypted traffic and cryptographic assets for PQC readiness.