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Defence tech in London
London’s defence-tech ecosystem combines the country’s established defence base with one of Europe’s deepest pools of software, AI and venture expertise. BAE Systems, Dstl and Babcock sit alongside Anduril UK, Helsing and Palantir UK, while NATO Innovation Fund and In-Q-Tel connect founders to capital shaped explicitly around national security. The result is a particularly cross-disciplinary cluster, where advances in AI, cyber, space and quantum can move between specialist teams, major contractors and defence customers within the same city.
81 organisations
- BAE SystemsCorporate
- ScaleScaleup
- ADS GroupEcosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions
- Anduril UKCorporate
- AxonCorporate
- Babcock International GroupCorporate
- DstlGovernment
- IFSCorporate
- In-Q-TelVC
- KBRCorporate
- Leonardo UKCorporate
- NATO Innovation FundVC
- National Wealth FundGovernment
- Palantir UKCorporate
- Project A VenturesVC
- QuantexaScaleup
- UFORCECorporate
- ViasatCorporate
- techUKEcosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions
- ARX RoboticsStartup
- AalyriaScaleup
- Atlantic BridgeVC
- CHAOS IndustriesScaleup
- Cambridge AerospaceScaleup
- CosineScaleup
- FacultyCorporate
- FractileScaleup
- Harmattan AIScaleup
- HelsingScaleup
- Inocea GroupCorporate
- Kraken Technology GroupScaleup
- Longwall VenturesVC
- NominalScaleup
- Ora GlobalVC
- PhysicsXScaleup
- PluralVC
- PoolsideStartup
- SatVuScaleup
- UKI2SVC
- ValarianStartup
- 4GDScaleup
- 7percent VenturesVC
- AdargaScaleup
- AronditeScaleup
- BodytrakScaleup
- CETaSEcosystem Bodies, Catapults & Institutions
- CervusScaleup
- ExTracScaleup
- Firgun VenturesVC
- HadeanScaleup
- Labrys TechnologiesScaleup
- Lodestar SpaceStartup
- MagdriveStartup
- Materials NexusScaleup
- Occam IndustriesStartup
- Offset LabsStartup
- Online OceansStartup
- RefuteStartup
- Roark AerospaceStartup
- SECQAIStartup
- Serendipity CapitalVC
- SkyralScaleup
- Solus PowerStartup
- SpacefluxScaleup
- Stanhope AIStartup
- SteelRock TechnologiesStartup
- StirlingXStartup
- StriderScaleup
- SuperseedVC
- The RC DenStartup
- Twin TrackVC
- WaiV RoboticsStartup
- AugurStartup
- Beechat Network SystemsStartup
- Dirac LabsStartup
- GreenjetsScaleup
- IsembardStartup
- MARSSScaleup
- Mutable TacticsStartup
- Thesiger Capital GroupVC
- VizgardStartup