Directory

Goldman Sachs

CorporateSeries A+GrowthPEVCForeign

Goldman Sachs is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company founded in 1869, offering investment banking, securities, asset and wealth management, and consumer banking services globally. The firm operates a significant venture and growth equity arm — Goldman Sachs Growth Equity — with over $15bn in assets under management, investing from Series B upwards in fintech, SaaS, enterprise technology, consumer, and healthcare sectors. Goldman Sachs has a major London office and is one of the world's largest investment banks by revenue.

JPMorgan Chase

CorporateSeries A+GrowthVCForeign

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a leading global financial services firm and one of the largest banking institutions in the United States, headquartered in New York City. It operates across consumer and community banking, commercial banking, investment banking, and asset and wealth management, and maintains a strategic investments unit that backs fintech and technology startups.

Sequoia

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Sequoia Capital is one of the world's leading venture capital firms, founded in 1972, with approximately $56 billion in assets under management. The firm invests across seed, early, and growth stages in technology companies globally, with a track record that includes Apple, Google, Oracle, and many other landmark companies.

SoftBank

VCSeries A+GrowthCorporateForeign

SoftBank Group Corp. is a Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company and one of the world's largest technology investors. It operates the SoftBank Vision Fund, the world's largest technology-focused venture capital fund with over $100 billion in committed capital, investing in artificial intelligence, robotics, IoT, and other frontier technologies globally. The group has a significant UK presence through its London office in Mayfair.

UBS

CorporateSeries A+GrowthVCForeign

UBS Group AG is a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services firm headquartered in Zurich, operating in over 50 countries and considered the world's largest private bank. It provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services to private, corporate, and institutional clients, and operates UBS Next, a dedicated corporate venture capital portfolio of $200 million focused on fintech and technology investments.

20VC

VCSeedSeries A+

20VC is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Harry Stebbings, operating at the intersection of venture capital and media. The fund invests across seed and Series A stages in technology companies, with a focus on software, fintech, and artificial intelligence. The firm raised a $400 million third fund in 2024, split between seed-stage and Series A investments in Europe and the US.

3i

PESeries A+Growth

3i Group plc is a British multinational investment company specialising in private equity and infrastructure, listed on the London Stock Exchange. Founded in 1945 as the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation, it invests in mid-market companies headquartered in Europe and North America, as well as infrastructure assets in developed markets. It manages over £31 billion in assets under management.

83North

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

83North is a global venture capital firm with over $2.4 billion under management, investing in European and Israeli entrepreneurs who are building global, category-leading companies. The firm invests across all stages in both consumer and enterprise technology, with offices in London and Tel Aviv, and was formerly known as Greylock IL.

AEA Investors

PEGrowthSeries A+Foreign

AEA Investors is a leading global middle-market private equity firm founded in 1968 by the Rockefeller, Mellon, and Harriman family interests together with S.G. Warburg & Co. With approximately $19 billion in assets under management, the firm focuses on leveraged buyouts, growth equity, and private debt investments across industrial, consumer, healthcare, and business services sectors, with offices in New York, Stamford, San Francisco, London, Munich, and Shanghai.

ARIA

GovernmentGrantmaker

ARIA is a UK government-backed R&D funding agency, formally established in January 2023 as a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. It funds high-risk, high-reward research programmes across areas such as AI safety, climate resilience, robotics, and biotechnology, with an £800 million government endowment.

Aberdeen

PEGrowth

Aberdeen Group plc (formerly abrdn, Aberdeen Standard Investments, and Standard Life Aberdeen) is a United Kingdom-based wealth and investment management group headquartered in Edinburgh, managing approximately £548 billion in assets for individuals and institutions globally. The group traces its roots to Standard Life (founded 1825) and Aberdeen Asset Management (founded 1983), which merged in 2017, and rebranded from abrdn to Aberdeen Group plc in March 2025.

Accel

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Accel is a global venture capital firm founded in 1983 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, investing in early-stage and growth-stage technology companies from inception through all phases of private company growth. The firm has offices in Palo Alto, San Francisco, London, and Bangalore, and has backed companies including Facebook, Slack, Spotify, and Dropbox.

Accenture Ventures

VCSeries A+GrowthForeign

Accenture Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Accenture, managing a $250M fund with over 70 active investments in emerging technology companies. It focuses on AI, data, cloud, cybersecurity, and enterprise software startups, seeking to accelerate the adoption of cutting-edge technologies within Accenture's Global 2000 client base. The unit invests predominantly at Series A and growth stages and runs the Project Spotlight co-innovation programme.

Access Industries

PEGrowthVCForeign

Access Industries is a privately held global investment company founded in 1986, with offices in New York, London, and Mill Valley, California. It holds long-term positions across a diversified portfolio spanning media and entertainment, technology ventures, natural resources and chemicals, real estate, and biotechnology. Notable holdings include Warner Music Group, DAZN, LyondellBasell, A24, and Calpine.

Actis

PEGrowth

Actis is a London-headquartered global investment firm founded in 2004, specialising in sustainable infrastructure across growth markets in energy, digital infrastructure, long-life infrastructure, and real estate. The firm manages approximately $12.7 billion in assets under management across India, Latin America, South East Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and beyond. In October 2024, Actis joined forces with General Atlantic, creating a combined platform of approximately $97 billion in assets under management.

Adams Street Partners

PESeries A+GrowthVCForeign

Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager founded in 1972, managing approximately $70 billion in assets (as at December 2025) across primary, secondary, co-investment, growth equity, and private credit strategies. It serves more than 770 institutional investors and operates 14 offices worldwide, including a London office near Marble Arch.

Advent International

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

Advent International is a global private equity firm founded in 1984 with approximately $100 billion in assets under management and 600+ colleagues across five continents. The firm invests across five sectors — business and financial services, consumer, healthcare, industrials, and technology — in more than 44 countries. It operates from offices across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, including a UK presence in London.

Alex Chesterman OBE

PersonPre-SeedSeedAngel

British serial entrepreneur and angel investor; founder of LoveFilm, Zoopla, and Cazoo; awarded OBE for services to digital entrepreneurship in 2016.

Alumni Ventures

VCSeries A+Foreign

US-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that provides diversified startup investment funds for accredited individuals and institutions, with a London office.

Alvarium

PEGrowthForeign

Alvarium Investments was a London-based independent multi-family office and wealth management firm, originally established in 2009 as LJ Partnership before rebranding as Alvarium Investments in 2019. In January 2023, Alvarium merged with Tiedemann Group and listed on NASDAQ as AlTi Global (ticker: ALTI), an ultra-high-net-worth wealth and asset management business with approximately $90 billion in assets under management and administration as of early 2026.

Amadeus Capital Partners

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

Amadeus Capital Partners is a deep tech venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Anne Glover and Hermann Hauser, with offices in London, Cambridge, and Oxford. Having raised over $1.3 billion and backed more than 200 companies, the firm invests from seed to growth stage across three focus areas: Intelligence (AI, advanced computing, quantum), Human (health, medicine, wellness), and Planet (sustainability, energy, novel materials, space), with strong links to Cambridge and Oxford universities.

Amex Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Amex Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of American Express, investing in startups since 2011 that are transforming commerce, payments, fraud prevention, data analytics, and enterprise technology. It has backed over 70 startups including Stripe, Instacart, and Plaid, and collaborates closely with portfolio companies to drive innovation across American Express's global business.

Apax Partners

PEGrowth

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.

Apollo Global Management

PEGrowthForeign

Apollo Global Management is a high-growth global alternative asset manager founded in 1990, headquartered in New York City and publicly listed on the NYSE. The firm manages approximately $938 billion in assets under management across private equity, credit and real assets strategies, with offices across North America, Europe and Asia.