Ellie Horvath
At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 Business Development companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Business Development Companies & Startups (London)
Future Planet Capital
| Founders | Douglas Hansen-Luke |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Future Planet is a venture capital firm that seeks investment in potentially high-growth companies from research centers.
Bizagi
| Founders | Gustavo Gomez, Marcel Manser |
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Bizagi is a global leader in digital process automation software.
HKA
| Founders | A. L. Hancox |
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HKA is a privately owned, independent provider of consulting business for the construction, manufacturing, and technology industries.
The DAO
| Founders | Unknown |
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The DAO is a digital decentralized autonomous organization and a form of investor-directed venture capital fund.
Charlie
| Founders | Ben Gateley, Rob O’Donovan, Tom Carrington Smith |
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Charlie is the HR software for small teams with big ideas.
Early Metrics
| Founders | Antoine Baschiera, Sebastien Paillet |
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Early Metrics is the first startup rating agency.
Novicap
| Founders | Federico Travella, Marc Antoni Macia, Nicolas Overloop |
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NoviCap is an online platform that allows businesses to receive early payments for outstanding invoices.
Rothesay Pensions Management
| Founders | Addy Loudiadis |
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Rothesay Pensions Management Ltd is headquartered in England. The company’s line of business includes providing various business services.
The Twenty Minute VC
| Founders | Harry Stebbings |
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TheTwentyMinuteVC is a twenty-minute VC podcast about finance, business development, and investment.
Virgin Group
| Founders | Richard Branson |
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Virgin Group is an investment company focused on leisure, travel, tourism, mobile, broadband, TV, radio, music, finance, and health sectors.
Ebury
| Founders | Juan Lobato, Salvador Garcia |
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Ebury is a financial services company designed to empower small and medium-sized businesses that want to trade internationally.
pepperhq
| Founders | Charles Hall, Matthew Scott, Simon Kelton, Stuart Hall |
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The Pepper platform supports white label apps for mobile payment, discovery, digital loyalty, social media marketing, and actionable data.
Nordstar
| Founders | Eugen Miropolski, Ole Ruch |
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Nordstar partners with transformational companies seeking strategic and operational expertise, advice, and capital
Workspace Group
| Founders | Raz Ghafoor |
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Workspace are dedicated to giving our customers the perfect working environments to help them grow their business.
Opportunity Network
| Founders | Brian Pallas, Enrica Sighinolfi, Julia Puig |
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Opportunity Network (ON) is the community for select CEOs and private investors to grow their businesses worldwide.
HH Global
| Founders | Howard Hunt |
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HH Global is the trusted marketing execution partner of the world’s leading brands.
Asoko Insight
| Founders | Greg Cohen, Rob Withagen |
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Africa’s leading corporate information platform, providing market mapping solutions to investment firms, banks, corporates and governments.
Lexoo
| Founders | Chris O’Sullivan, Daniel van Binsbergen |
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Lexoo is a lawyer comparison marketplace that helps businesses choose a lawyer with confidence.
Civica
| Founders | Simon Downing |
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Civica is a market-leading specialist in digital solutions, critical software applications and outsourcing services.
Northzone
| Founders | Bjorn Stray, Ingar Ostby, Karl-Christian Agerup, Tellef Thorleifsson |
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Northzone is an early-stage venture capital fund built on experience spanning multiple economic and disruptive technology cycles.
Capium Ltd
| Founders | Dave Jangid, Sanjay Bhiraju, Tushir Patel |
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Empowering businesses and accountants, through one platform
Idea Drop
| Founders | Charlie de Rusett, Owen Hunnam |
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Idea Drop helps organisations capture, curate and action the best ideas from their people.
PwC
| Founders | Jonathan Kogan, Martin Prescher, Samuel Lowell Price |
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PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Augmentum Fintech
| Founders | Richard Matthews, Tim Levene |
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Augmentum Fintech is a FinTech fund that invests in early and later-stage FinTech companies.
Bethnal Green Ventures
| Founders | Paul Miller |
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Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) is Europe’s leading early stage tech for good VC.
HireHand
| Founders | Scott Erwin |
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HireHand is an intelligent and fuss-free staffing platform for food businesses.
Telectic
| Founders | Iain McLaren, Jason Kingdon, Pedro Esteban, Sergi Martorell |
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Telectic applies artificial intelligence (AI) to interpret the Web and discover insights about the professional world.
Systemsync Solutions
| Founders | Will Lovegrove |
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Systemsync Solutionss provides iPaaS-based platforms that enable businesses to utilize workplace data exchange.
GOODFOLIO
| Founders | Omid Pakseresht |
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Goodfolio is a social conscious invest platform that allows individual users to put their cash into businesses that share their moral views.
BSI
| Founders | Alejandra Paredones, Christopher Foley, John Wolfe-Barry |
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BSI Group, also known in its home market as the British Standards Institution, is a multinational business services
The Clubhouse
| Founders | Adam Blaskey |
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The Clubhouse is London’s leading business club, lounge and meeting space.
Planet First Partners
| Founders | Frédéric de Mevius |
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Planet First Partners is a purpose-led growth investment platform investing in “Better for People & Better for the Planet” companies
DeepMind
| Founders | Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, Shane Legg |
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DeepMind aims to research and build safe artificial intelligence system to solve intelligence, to advance science and humanity.
Eden Block
| Founders | Lior Messika, Yoann Douieb |
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Eden Block is a private, independent, research-centric investment vehicle dedicated to enriching the environments that make up Web 3.0.
TrueSight Ventures
| Founders | Hampus Monthan Nordenskjöld, Igor Tikhturov, Oleg Tikhturov |
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TrueSight Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed deals.
Invest In Africa
| Founders | Unknown |
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Invest In Africa is a nonprofit organization that supports local businesses by offering access to finance, skills and markets.
I-Movo Limited
| Founders | David Tymm |
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I-Movo Limited enables businesses to issue vouchers to their customers, which can then be redeemed securely at over 50,000 stores.
TableCrowd
| Founders | Kate Jackson |
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TableCrowd is a real life business network that brings people together over food and drink.
BuyerDeck
| Founders | Gerald vanderpuye, Ilgvars Jecis |
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BuyerDeck provides a portal for sales reps to manage deals with their buyer.
Somnus Scientific
| Founders | Denis Lonergan |
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Somnus Scientific develops a suite of products to measure blood propofol concentration in real-time and without blood sampling.
onkho
| Founders | Emanur Rahman, Susan Rahman |
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onkho helps accountants delight their clients and grow their business
International Blockchain Consulting
| Founders | Mario Nawfal |
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International Blockchain Consulting is an international blockchain consulting group that facilitates end to end ICO support.
Delivery Club
| Founders | Krupa Patel, Mitesh Patel |
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A technology platform for food delivery businesses to share drivers and GPS track all orders.
Quotable
| Founders | Matthew Anstiss |
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Quotable is a global supply network that enables businesses to trade smarter with the help of AI.
The Crowd
| Founders | Unknown |
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The Crowd is a platform for the business community to share ideas and innovations.
Epiris
| Founders | Unknown |
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Epiris is an independent private equity firm.
PA Consulting Group
| Founders | Dr David Seymour, Ernest E. Butten, Tom H. Kirkham |
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PA Consulting Group provides management consulting, IT consulting, and technology and innovation services.
NEXU
| Founders | Warren Philbey |
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NEXU connects people to businesses through word-of-mouth recommendations.
Luno
| Founders | Robin Johnson |
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Luno is a fully-featured user authentication system, giving users peace of mind with well above industry-standard security.
Azibo Group
| Founders | Mayank Patel |
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Azibo Group is a private investment company that offers financial services.
Gauss Ventures
| Founders | Daniel Gusev |
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Gauss Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
Proxly
| Founders | Andy King, Jack Wall |
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Proxly is a platform for businesses and developers to build their own engaging mobile experiences.
Kingfisher
| Founders | Unknown |
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Kingfisher PLC is a British multinational retailing company headquartered in London.
GMG Ventures
| Founders | Alan Hudson, Denise Xifara |
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GMG Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund that invests in companies related to media-tech.
OrgVue
| Founders | Rupert Morrison |
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OrgVue offers SaaS solutions, business development, workforce analytics, software and management consulting services.
Capability and Innovation Fund
| Founders | Unknown |
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Capability and Innovation Fund empowers eligible bodies to enhance the products and services which are available to SMEs.
Dialectica
| Founders | Unknown |
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Dialectica offers on-demand information from industry specialists to improve business growth.
Orbit Partners
| Founders | Vincent Lambert |
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Orbit Partners facilitates personalized and private discussions between corporate leaders.
Strategy Insights
| Founders | Unknown |
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Strategy Insights is an advertising company that provides business development, market intelligence and international trading services.
Kuan Intelligence
| Founders | Jake Li, Kenneth Ma, Nessa Wu, Yan Zhang |
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Kuan Intelligence is a cross-border payment platform for E-Commerce backed by Blockchain Technology.
Foxtons
| Founders | Jon Hunt |
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Foxtons is an estate agency with 67 offices in London and the Home Counties and 35 years of experience behind us.
Virgin StartUp
| Founders | Richard Branson |
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Virgin StartUp is on a mission to change the prospects of start-ups, for good.
Concrete
| Founders | Tristan Rogers |
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Concrete provides retail brands a platform to train and retain store staff.
Insightia
| Founders | Unknown |
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Insightia provides a wide range of information on listed companies, covering activist investing, proxy voting, and corporate governance.
Celer Technologies
| Founders | Ben Cuthbert |
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Celer is a financial software company that creates modular systems that have the flexibility to meet today’s dynamic business environment.
Bizpora
| Founders | Facundo Villaveiran, Fred Caballero |
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Bizpora is a web-based platform that enables its users to meet people in their business trips.
Whitespace
| Founders | Andrew McCartney, Nick Magliocchetti, Paul Jenkinson |
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We help businesses innovate, from the small things that can make a big difference to more-involved ‘Eureka!’ projects.
Renaissance Capital Partners
| Founders | Unknown |
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Renaissance Capital Partners invests funds in high-growth, innovative, and entrepreneurial businesses and also built environment projects.
Y TREE
| Founders | Unknown |
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Transforming personal finance.
Vivid Economics
| Founders | Unknown |
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Vivid Economics provides solutions in the environment, renewables, natural resources, carbon finance, green finance and urbanization areas.
BRCO – BrainStormers Group LTD.
| Founders | Roger Grekos |
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Business Development | Strategic consultation | VC
Eave
| Founders | David Greenberg |
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Eave (formerly EarTex) is a startup developing the next generation of hearing protection and communication technology.
AskTina
| Founders | James Bradley, Tom Hunt |
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AskTina is Monetise your Expertise
ChangeLabs
| Founders | Jamal Khayyat, Karim Samra |
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Changelabs partners with leading organizations to develop entrepreneurship and innovation programs.
Global Fund Media
| Founders | Unknown |
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Global Fund Media connects all the institutional investment sectors with actionable market intelligence.
System1 Group
| Founders | Unknown |
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System1 Group PLC is a marketing and brand consultancy, with proprietary market research
Spidergap
| Founders | Unknown |
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Spidergap is the employee-friendly 360 degree feedback tool.
John Laing Group
| Founders | James Laing |
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John Laing Group develops and operates privately financed public sector infrastructure projects.
Unleashed
| Founders | Anouk Agussol |
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Unleashed works with early-stage start-ups and scale-ups to build a better and more successful business.
AEGIS London
| Founders | Unknown |
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Aegis london is one of the most diversified Syndicates operating in the Lloyd’s of London market – trading under Syndicate 1225.
Zero 1
| Founders | Damian Cristian, Finn MacCabe, Guy Conway |
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Zero 1 is a corporate venture building company that builds startups in partnership with leading corporations.
Everline
| Founders | Russell Gould |
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Everline provides a source of credit for entrepreneurs looking to expand their businesses, manage working capital, and fill cash gaps.
fivesquid.com
| Founders | Lovepreet Singh, Terry Koutsios |
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fivesquid offers a platform that enables its users to trade skills and services, and earn cash.
Tungsten Corporation
| Founders | Unknown |
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Tungsten Corporation was founded in February 2012 by Edmund Truell and Danny Truell.
Optial
| Founders | Chris O’Brien |
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Optial is a successful global supplier of Enterprise-wide EHS, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC).
swiftscale
| Founders | Alexander Sainty, George Johnston |
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Taking companies further, faster
Few&Far
| Founders | Nick Charalambous, Samm Green |
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Few&Far helps companies stand out, build teams, and set the foundation for growth.
B2B International
| Founders | Unknown |
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B2B International is a specialist business-to-business market research consultancy that has grown through bringing together the skills of
Applied AI
| Founders | Unknown |
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Applied AI is a scaleup growth programme for applied AI companies that are focused to solve real-world problems.
Mid Group
| Founders | Sahel Majali |
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The Mid Group is a dynamic construction, investment and development company based in the UK and Middle East.
Alwin Technologies
| Founders | Unknown |
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The Global Blockchain Development Company for Various Kind of Business Applications
SuperCharger Ventures
| Founders | Unknown |
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SuperCharger Ventures is a EdTech accelerator dedicated to business development.
Eugene M. Edwards ICS
| Founders | Eugene Edwards |
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Certified Bank Instrument Provider SBLC / BG
Wranx
| Founders | Jon Davies, Jon Davies, Phil Simmonds |
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Create a highly skilled workforce that generates more sales and makes more customers happy.
Quadmark
| Founders | Unknown |
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Quadmark specializes in learning solution services that offer sales enablement and design consulting courses for business development.
Marwyn Capital Investments
| Founders | Unknown |
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Marwyn Capital Investments is a private equity and venture capital firm investing in development stage through to later stage.
BUILDILY
| Founders | Elemi Atigolo |
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Buildily is venture builder and online accelerator platform which supports early stage entrepreneurs and startups
LETO
| Founders | Alex Berezovskiy, Oleg Gerasimenko |
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LETO focuses on lean software development applying cutting-edge technologies on unique, innovative way.
Shub.one
| Founders | Adrian Wheeler, Mark Fryer |
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Shub.one is a business networking platform that allows professionals to network, promote, expand, and grow their business or careers.
DAN Global
| Founders | Evren Kacar |
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DAN Global provides online platforms, industry knowledge and various tools to support digital agencies and global community of marketers.
Colvir Software Solutions
| Founders | Unknown |
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Colvir Software Solutions was established in Great Britain as a software company.
