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 Hardware 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 Hardware Companies & Startups (London)
CityFibre
| Founders | Greg Mesch |
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CityFibre Infrastructure Holdings plc is the UK’s largest independent provider of fibre infrastructure in secondary cities
Beryl
| Founders | Emily Brooke, Philip Ellis |
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The UK’s leading micromobility company
ROLI
| Founders | Roland Lamb |
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ROLI is a London-based music technology company that produces musical instruments and software products.
dsp
| Founders | Phil Hingley |
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Award-Winning Microsoft & Oracle Databas
Mous
| Founders | James Day, James Griffith, Joshua Shires, Lucy Hutchinson |
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Mous is a fashion tech brand that designs and manufactures protective accessories.
Carv
| Founders | Jamie Grant, Pruthvikar Reddy |
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Carv is the first wearable dedicated to skiing that speaks to you as you ski, serving as a digital ski coach.
Softline
| Founders | Igor Borovikov |
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Softline Group provides IT solutions and services.
Crypto Quantique
| Founders | Kumi Thiruchelvam, Patrick Camilleri, Shahram Mossayebi |
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Crypto Quantique offers hardware based cyber-security solution for authentication and encryption in a wired local network.
Mytos
| Founders | Ali Afshar, Ignacio Willats |
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Mytos is building a fully-automated cell manufacture platform for Pharma
Joos
| Founders | Hann Zhao Liu, Josh Baah |
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Rent a power bank, charge your device on the move, and return anywhere in our multi-sector network; all through our app.
Pycom
| Founders | Bettina Rubek Slater, Daniel Campora, Fred de Haro |
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The world’s most integrated IoT Platform
Rahko
| Founders | Edward Grant, Ian Horobin |
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Rahko is one of the world’s most advanced teams in quantum machine learning
Claranet
| Founders | Ben White, Charles Nasser |
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Claranet is an expert in modernising and running critical applications and infrastructure.
Beeline
| Founders | Mark Jenner, Tom Putnam |
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Smart navigation, made simple. For a global community of adventurers
Emotech LTD
| Founders | Chelsea Chen, Hongbin Zhuang, Jan Medvesek |
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Emotech is an AI startup aiming to redefine the relationship between humans and technology.
Smart Audio Technologies
| Founders | Sandeep Chintala |
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AI noise reduction technology for voice communications
Zapper
| Founders | Ben Hardyment, Mat White |
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Zapper is buying unwanted stuff, no hassles, no funny business.
Kniterate
| Founders | Gerard Rubio, Tom Catling, Triam Zubeldia |
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Kniterate is an affordable and compact digital knitting machine for your workshop.
Bloomsbury AI
| Founders | Guillaume Bouchard, Luis R. Ulloa, Matko Bosnjak, Sameer Singh, Sebastian Riedel |
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Bloomsbury AI enables everyone to easily create their own question-answering system.
Pushme
| Founders | Dan Keene, George Kalligeros |
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BatterySwap Infrastructure-as-a-service
Nwave Technologies
| Founders | Yury Birchenko |
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Nwave eradicates the anxiety and frustration of inefficient parking by bringing real time sensor data to drivers and parking asset operators
Kano
| Founders | Alex Klein, Saul Klein, Yonatan Raz-Fridman |
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Kano provides a system of kits and coding platform that enables users to develop apps, games, and music.
Sensio Air
| Founders | Cyrille Najjar, Eve Tamraz Najjar |
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Sensio Air is a healthcare analytics company that helps people with asthma and allergy predict prevent and manage their symptoms.
Angee Technologies Ltd.
| Founders | Lukas Stibor, Miroslav Chmelka, Tomas Turek |
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Home IoT Platform to protect your home and privacy
Walnut Technology
| Founders | Yiheng Peng |
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Walnut Technology is an electric scooter research and development company.
GridDuck
| Founders | Gregor Hoefter, Richard Tolley |
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GridDuck is a cloud-based hardware, dashboard & API enabling control of your clients’ energy
Honeycomb Network
| Founders | Cameron Brown, Gabriel Yoong, Maysa Abadi, William Cox |
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An innovative technology start-up developing smart charging and storage infrastructure for electric scooters.
Yoto
| Founders | Ben Drury, Filip Denker |
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Yoto – The screen-free audio platform for kids.
Myneral Labs
| Founders | Bogdan Ionut Gheorghe, Max Boender |
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Myneral.me offers an all-encompassing platform for the metal and mining sector .
New Motion Labs
| Founders | Marcel Fowler |
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Mechanical Engineering
LM Technologies
| Founders | Michael Sims |
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LM Technologies Ltd, Design & Manufacture of Wireless Technology for Industry.
Berg
| Founders | Matt Webb |
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Berg is a cloud-based company that develops and commercializes cloud services for hardware innovators.
Celoxica
| Founders | Ian Page |
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Celoxica provides ultra-low latency market data access and order execution solutions for the advanced trading community.
FuroSystems
| Founders | Albert Nassar, Eliott Wertheimer |
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We are the direct to consumer brand for elegant, practical and high performance electric vehicles.
XYZ Reality
| Founders | David Mitchell, Murray Hendriksen, Umar Ahmed |
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XYZ Reality is disrupting the Construction Industry with a unique Augmented Reality solution able to reduce project costs by up to 20%
Comino
| Founders | Alexey Chistov, Eugeny Vlasov |
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Comino designs and manufactures unique liquid-cooled plug&play high performance PCs and servers.
Mujo Mechanics
| Founders | Douglas Higgins |
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Mujo Mechanics provides smart devices and intelligent cloud platform for a data-driven approach to musculoskeletal health.
Vinaya
| Founders | Dan Möller, Fabio Pania, Kate Unsworth |
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Vinaya provides lifestyle-enhancing technology products.
Jeotex
| Founders | Raja Tuli, Suneet Tuli |
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Jeotex is a leading developer of wireless web access products and services. We offer a series of wireless web access devices and related
Q-Branch Labs
| Founders | Bozhidar Genev, Jim McCoy |
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Cybersecurity protection for remote and work from home employees
Trackener
| Founders | Jeremie Charlet, Pauline Issard |
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Trackener is revolutionising the equine care with data and technology.
hereO
| Founders | Allon Gladstone, Daniel Ivesha, Gill Mendelson, Heriberto Diarte |
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HereO is a developer creating GPS watches for children as young as three.
viciniti by WICASTR
| Founders | Armine Saidi, David Esteves, Sarath Kumar Kumaraiah |
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PLATFORM TO SIMPLIFY EDGE COMPUTING DEPLOYMENTS
BleepBleeps – Smart Family
| Founders | Shaun Tollerton, Tom Evans |
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Cute, connected gadgets that make parenting magic.
Ding
| Founders | John Nussey |
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At Ding we make beautiful smart home products. Our first is a smart doorbell which allows you to talk with the person at your door.
BotBlox
| Founders | Josh Elijah |
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BotBlox specializes in creating tiny, affordable, and robust hardware solutions to complex engineering problems.
Sküma© Water
| Founders | Alexandre Mahe, Georges Khairallah, Tony Ho |
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Consumer electronics, Hardware, Water purifier, Water Mineralisation
Cupris Health
| Founders | Julian Hamann, Paul Thomas |
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Cupris Health develope communication software and smartphone-connected medical devices.
Friday Labs
| Founders | Marcus Tempte |
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Friday Labs brings simplicity to home automation. Our products combine beautiful design and great functionality.
Those
| Founders | Jim Rhodes |
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Those is a hardware startup making Joto, the robotic drawing board turning pixels into pen & ink.
Cambrian Intelligence
| Founders | Hamid Reza Zaheri |
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Cambrian Intelligence is building a teleoperation interface to intuitively control robots at a distance with hand.
Teslasuit
| Founders | Andrey Chuprin, Denis Dybsky, Dimitri Mikhalchuk, Sergei Nossoff |
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Teslasuit is a team of talented developers and designers, creating innovative products for XR and MedTech.
AquAffirm
| Founders | David Sarphie |
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AquAffirm is a product development company commercializing technologies to address global biomedical and environmental issues.
Eskesso
| Founders | Jose María Maestre Torreblanca, Pablo Nuñez Porras, Pedro Nuñez Porras |
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Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
RS Components
| Founders | J.H. Waring, P.M. Sebestyen |
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RS Components distributes electronic, electrical, and industrial components to the UK market.
CoMind
| Founders | James Dacombe |
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CoMind is a noninvasive neural technology company building next-generation neural interfaces.
Triggertrap
| Founders | Haje Jan Kamps |
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Triggertrap creates a variety of intelligent and creative camera triggering products
Little Riot
| Founders | Joanna Montgomery |
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Little Riot mission is to alleviate loneliness and empower people to use technology to communicate without staring at a screen.
Smiths Detection
| Founders | Unknown |
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Smiths Detection designs and makes advanced solutions to detect and identify threats including explosives, chemical agents, biohazards,
hiyalife
| Founders | David Gomez, Fernando Ripolles |
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Hiyalife is an app that allows users to organize their memories, build their life stories, and rediscover and share them.
Listal
| Founders | Tom Mascord |
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Listal is a social network that allows its users to list, rate, review, tag, and add images and videos to entertainment products.
HearToday
| Founders | Azadi Sheridan, Maxine Razavi, Mehdi Siami, Sam Nazarko |
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Help children with hearing loss get better access to education.
Kagoo
| Founders | Matthew Wilson, X X |
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Product comparison website for electricals
DRIP
| Founders | Aditya Parmar, Aditya Sakhuja |
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Automating unskilled bartending
Airlabs
| Founders | Matthew Johnson, Sophie Power |
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Airlabs is an exciting young startup with a patented technology that cleans polluted air.
FluidOne
| Founders | Unknown |
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FluidOne is offer high quality, secure data, voice and cloud solutions.
Total IT Global
| Founders | Unknown |
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Total IT Global is an IT infrastructure services provider that stays abreast in offering hardware and managed service solutions.
TG0
| Founders | Ming Kong |
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TG0 is an R&D start-up creating novel 3D controls.
Karakoram
| Founders | Josh Thomas |
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Karakoram is an award-winning innovation consultancy that creates breakthrough solutions for the world’s toughest humanitarian challenges.
Doordeck
| Founders | Michael Barnwell, William B. |
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Doordeck replaces traditional proximity cards with your smartphone.
CPUSH Ltd
| Founders | Unknown |
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CPUSH Ltd develops and sells connected devices for everyday life.
Craftybase
| Founders | Nathan Hawes, Nicole Pascoe |
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Craft inventory & project management
Planet Computers
| Founders | Janko Mrsic-Flogel |
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Planet Computers is a mobile device manufacturer.
Intelliboxes
| Founders | Som Sinha |
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Intellibox is a patented technology which makes it quick and easy for customers to sell their phone for cash.
Fusion Global Capital
| Founders | Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, Charlie Newark-French, Fiorangelo Salvatorelli |
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Fusion Global Capital is a growth-equity firm investing in b2b technology.
Boston Limited
| Founders | Unknown |
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Boston Limited continue the way in providing the latest high performance power optimised technologies.
Sportable
| Founders | Dugald Macdonald, Peter Husemeyer |
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Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences.
Inatech Solutions
| Founders | Ravindra Krishnappa, Srihari Vedante |
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Technology Consultant
Incube
| Founders | Rishi Chowdhury |
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Incube specializes in the fields of commercial real estate, proptech, and smart buildings.
Pandora Cine
| Founders | Pablo Damian Gallego |
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Pandora Cine is an innovation company created to improve the workflow of filmmakers.
Drift Innovation
| Founders | Unknown |
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Drift Innovation is a consumer electronics company located in London.
ApkPedia
| Founders | Unknown |
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Free Android Applications
One World Rental | Global IT Hire
| Founders | Unknown |
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One World Rental is the UK’s leading iPad hire, iPad rental, mac book rental, laptop rentals and tablet hire service in London.
ADV
| Founders | David Carr, David Fogel, Keith Teare, Lee Strafford, Michael Dimelow |
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ADV is a patient venture investment engine, designed to back generation-defining digital tech companies.
Matrix Booking
| Founders | Unknown |
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Matrix is working with customers to manage workplace resources and advise on the best strategies for preparing a return to the office.
UtterBerry
| Founders | Heba Bevan |
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UtterBerry provides smart sensor systems for infrastructure monitoring.
Spectral Core Ltd
| Founders | Unknown |
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Software vendor specialized in database solutions. Thousands of companies (including Fortune 500 companies) use our applications.
Ultra
| Founders | Teddy Rosen |
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Ultra provides application-engineered solutions in the key elements of mission critical and intelligent systems.
GraphicsFuzz
| Founders | Alastair Donaldson, Hugues Evrard, Paul Thomson |
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GraphicsFuzz offers automated reliability testing of GPU drivers.
WholesGame
| Founders | Unknown |
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Portal for Wholesalers of Video Games
Litho – Makers of Diorama
| Founders | Charlie Bruce, Nat Martin |
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LITHO is the input device for the real world.
Binatone Telecom
| Founders | Gulu Lalvani |
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Binatone has become a world leader in consumer electronics with innovation and imagination.
Globe Hunters
| Founders | Unknown |
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Cheap Flights, Cheap Flights Orlando
Tangible Benefit
| Founders | Unknown |
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Tangible Benefit provides hardware, IT infrastructure, advisory and managed IT services.
Blazon Agency
| Founders | Michael Raven |
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The Brand Launch Agency
C24 Technologies
| Founders | John Davies |
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C24 Technologies is a software company specializing in fast data and high velocity messaging solutions.
I-LAPS Artificial Intelligence Digital Coaching for Everyone
| Founders | Laurence Mahut, Mario De Duro, Paolo Mosconi, Stefano Brozzoni |
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i-LAPS™ transforms sports performance analysis to help you get better with real time analytics and insights
MyUtilityGenius
| Founders | Unknown |
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27, works for www.myutilitygenius.co.uk, convinced that small actions make the difference to save our Planet!
Technoworld
| Founders | Unknown |
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Technoworld is a leading technology retailer that sells laptops, desktops, chromebooks & audiovisual products.
lili
| Founders | Adam Wurf, Cristian Sutter, Del Titus Bawuah |
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Outdoor City pods offering flexible stay which can be accessed via smartphone or unique code on the move by the hour.
