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 Trading Platform 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 Trading Platform Companies & Startups (London)
FlowBank
| Founders | Charles Henri Sabet |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
FlowBank is a multi-asset trading platform that offers a wide range of online banking & investment services to brokers & corporate clients.
TradingView
| Founders | Constantine Ivanov, Denis Globa, Stan Bokov |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
TradingView provides traders and investors with charts, tools, and social networking.
Reef Finance
| Founders | Denko Mancheski |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Reef Finance is a DeFi platform that enables cross-chain integrations across various DeFi protocols.
Global Risk Partners
| Founders | Stephen Ross |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Global Risk Partners is an investment vehicle aimed at insurance brokers and managing general agents trading in the UK retail and global.
Cryptopay
| Founders | Dmitry Gunyashov, George Basiladze |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Cryptopay is a digital currency firms, offering crypto-wallets, debit cards, B2B payments, & investments.
Coinrule
| Founders | Gabriele Musella, Oleg Giberstein, Zdeněk Höfler |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Coinrule Catches the Next Market Opportunity on Your Behalf by Automating Your Investments
Calastone
| Founders | Ian Taylor, Philip Goffin |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Calastone is a global transaction network for the mutual fund industry.
Funderbeam
| Founders | Kaidi Ruusalepp, Urmas Peiker |
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Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes.
CIRCA5000
| Founders | Matt Latham, Tom McGillycuddy |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The investment platform of the human future
BidFX
| Founders | Jean-Philippe Male |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
BidFX is a cloud-based provider of electronic foreign exchange trading solutions for the global financial marketplace.
ThinkMarkets
| Founders | Faizan Anees, Nauman Anees |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Established in 2010, ThinkMarkets is a premium multi-asset online brokerage with headquarters in Chicago and offices globally.
Lykke
| Founders | Anton Golub, Richard Olsen |
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Lykke is building a global marketplace for all asset classes and financial instruments.
Nayms
| Founders | Dan Roberts, Theodore Georgas |
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Nayms is a Smart contract platform for the placement, trade, reporting and settlement of insurance risk.
VAKT Holdings Limited
| Founders | Unknown |
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VAKT Holdings Limited is a digital ecosystem for physical post-trade processing.
Claro Money
| Founders | Rob Brockington |
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Claro is a digital financial coach that empowers you to make smarter financial decisions every day.
OilX
| Founders | Florian Thaler |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
OilX is a oil sector that provides a global real-time oil supply-demand balance.
TransFICC
| Founders | Judd Gaddie, Steve Toland, Tom McKee |
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TransFICC is an e-trading technology company for banks and asset managers trading in Fixed Income and Derivatives markets.
Mizar
| Founders | Unknown |
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Mizar is a next-gen trading platform.
NovaFori
| Founders | Phil Bird |
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We build world-class marketplaces.
Vertex Market
| Founders | Alessandro Pecorelli |
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Peer to Peer (P2P) trading platform for Cryptocurrencies
AxeTrading
| Founders | Dinos Daborn, Mark Watters, Ralf Henke |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
AxeTrading specializes in providing effective technology solutions for the challenges facing fixed income sell-side.
Satoshi Systems Limited
| Founders | Saurabh Goyal |
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Satoshi Systems provides state of the art software solutions for the trading space, currently focusing on the commodity.
CEDEX
| Founders | Ronen Priewer, Saar Levi |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
CEDEX is a global diamond commodity exchange enabling people to liquidate and invest in diamonds as a new financial asset class.
BunkerEx
| Founders | Ishaan Hemnani, Willem Muller |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
A new world for Marine Fuel.
Kibo Finance
| Founders | Unknown |
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Kibo Finance provides borderless options trading with fair pricing and better rewards.
Nous
| Founders | Alexander Braylan, Justin Short, Michael Horgan, Ming Hiu Yau |
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Nous designs and develops virtual trading platform for financial market.
WealthKernel
| Founders | Joe Campbell, Karan Shanmugarajah, Yannick Brunner |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
WealthKernel is a supplier of infrastructure for companies looking to offer digital investment services.
Stockflare
| Founders | Shane Leonard |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Invest Easily (Stockflare Securities) & Pick Stocks (Stockflare Analytics)
ITI Capital
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
ITI Capital provides brokerage services on domestic and foreign financial markets.
Yanda
| Founders | Jonathan Price, Mario Stumpo, Steve Bailey |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Yanda is decentralising automated trading with cryptocurrencies.
Botin
| Founders | Federico Patiño |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
US stock market access for Latin Americans. Botin is an app to invest from $1 USD, with no minimums and no commissions per trade.
HighCastle
| Founders | Denys Goncharenko, Ulyana Shtybel, Ph.D. |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
One powerful platform for private companies to manage investment workflow, equity and debt securities
Trad3r
| Founders | Gianni Oconnor |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Trad3r is a social trading platform for stocks, celebrities, sports and friends.
ResonanceX
| Founders | Guillaume Chatain, Hariton Korizis |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The Low-Code Fintech Agility Platform
Sellar
| Founders | James Powell, Julian Bourne, Matt Pritchard |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Sellar is the new trade ordering experience for breweries selling beer directly to trade customers.
DMALINK
| Founders | Ashwind G. Soonarane, Michael Siwek |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
DMALINK is a data-centric trading and RegTech platform for professional Foreign Exchange traders globally.
Tootle
| Founders | Dominic Perks |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Tootle offers an online platform that enables its users to buy or sell used automobiles.
OctaFX
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
OctaFX offers online currency trading, forex trading, and forex education services.
FAC (Fund Admin Chain)
| Founders | Brian McNulty |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
FAC is a digital funds network for launching and trading investment funds.
StreetDots
| Founders | Atholl Milton, Darren Callcott |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
StreetDots creates smart street-trading platform.
Blockchain.com
| Founders | Benjamin Reeves, Nicolas Cary, Peter Smith |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Blockchain.com is a platform that offers ways to buy, hold, and use cryptocurrency.
ATFX
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
ATFX is an online broker regulated by the FCA(UK), CySec(CY), FSC(MU), & FSA(LLC). Their goal is to provide the absolute trading experience.
Swanest
| Founders | Cyril Lequeux, Nicolas Bindels, Silvan Schumacher, Youri Tolstoy |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Swanest is an intelligent online broker that empowers Do-It-Yourself investors.
Vortexa
| Founders | Etienne Amic, Fabio Kuhn |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Shaping the future of energy markets
IG Group
| Founders | Stuart Wheeler |
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IG is a provider of online trading and spread betting services.
Koia
| Founders | Unknown |
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Koia is an investment platform for alternate assets like fine wine, art, watches by common people.
KITE EDGE LTD
| Founders | Derek Ewing, James Flavin, Jeremy Phillips, Neil Scarth |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Customisable Search Platform for Asset Managers/Banks
West African Derivatives Exchange Ltd
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Derivatives Trading Platform
ARTSTAQ
| Founders | Roman Komarek |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
World’s first global real-time Art Exchange that prevents manipulation in the Art Market
NatWest
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
NatWest provides strategic advice and expertise, trading, financing, risk management, and transaction banking.
ETX Capital
| Founders | Philip Adler |
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ETX Capital is a fast-growing, dynamic financial spread betting and CFD trading company based in the City of London.
Infinox
| Founders | Robert Berkeley |
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Infinox provide online trading services to clients in the UK, EU and the rest of the world.
CryptoBrokerage
| Founders | Sheriff Olujide |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
BestecX by CryptoBrokerage is a decentralized cryptocurrency best execution trading platform
ShipServ
| Founders | Paul Henrik Ostergaard |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
ShipServ provides an online trading platform that helps marine and offshore buyers find suppliers easily and trade efficiently.
Equiti Group
| Founders | Mushegh Tovmasyan |
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Equiti is a well capitalised, multi-asset trading brokerage with a unique operating structure.
Maven Securities
| Founders | Unknown |
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Maven securities is a firm that implements both fundamental & quantitative trading & market making strategies in global financial markets.
Prowexx
| Founders | Rached Khanfir |
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Prowexx is a digital marketplace connecting International small producers to the British market buyers and helping bridge gaps between them.
Zikex
| Founders | Unknown |
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Zikex is one of the global top 100 cryptocurrency exchanges with authentic trading volume
Porter Finance
| Founders | Unknown |
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Porter Finance is the web’s fastest growing binary options trading platform.
AiX
| Founders | Jos Evans |
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AiX is an AI trading broker that uses the power of blockchain technology to give traders unprecedented insight and control.
ProTrade Group
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
ProTrade Group is a financial solutions firm that offers cryptocurrency brokerage, electronic trading systems and digital asset services.
Tallarium
| Founders | Stanislav Ermilov |
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Tallarium uses AI to provide enterprise data solutions and to enable the largest global traders making more informed trading decisions.
Miroma Group
| Founders | Marc Boyan |
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Miroma Group is an end-to-end marketing and communications collective offering ideation, creation and distribution services.
OSTTRA
| Founders | Unknown |
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OSTTRA provides digital solutions, networks, and communities for post-trade.
LCG
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
LCG is a provider of online trading services.
E-Global Trade & Finance
| Founders | Unknown |
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E-Global Trade & Finance is a trading company that provides IT infrastructure solutions.
Carbon Trade eXchange
| Founders | Wayne Sharpe |
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Carbon Trade Exchange is a global carbon exchange for all voluntary and regulated Carbon Credits with 24/7 web based electronic trading and technology to support any carbon market or exchange via license.
IronFX
| Founders | Markos Kashiouris, Peter G. Economides |
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IronFX is the award-winning Global Leader in Online Trading.
inventtory Ltd
| Founders | Christopher Romer, Jason Ornstein |
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inventtory is a trading platform that creates liquidity in the asset class Intellectual Property by employing Artificial Intelligence.
Axes
| Founders | Khaleel Musleh |
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Axes is a CFD’s Neo-Brokerage offering trading on all asset classes €0 Commission Free, Democratizing Finance for All.
Royal Capital Limited
| Founders | Unknown |
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Royal Capital is a crypto investment firm, applying professional trading, investing and portfolio management to digital assets.
Reactive Markets
| Founders | Unknown |
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Cutting edge institutional trading network for FX and Digital markets.
Zodia Markets
| Founders | Unknown |
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Zodia Markets is a digital asset trading platform that provides custody of digital assets, brokerage, trade, investments, and exchange.
MillTechFX by Millennium Global
| Founders | Eric Huttman |
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MillTechFX by Millennium Global is the FinTech affiliate of Millennium Global Investments, one of the largest specialist currency managers.
Tokenise
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Tokenise is a trading platform that helps startups and small companies to boost capital from investors as well as with tokenized securities.
AudaCity Capital
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
AudaCity Capital is a funding platform that provides trading education, investment and ancillary services to its clients.
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.
TradeStation
| Founders | Unknown |
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TradeStation is a financial firm that renders stock, trading, investment advice, asset management, and brokerage services.
Berkeley Futures Limited
| Founders | Unknown |
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Britannia provides investment and financial services to institutions, corporations, and net worth individuals globally.
C3 Post Trade
| Founders | Ashley Helm, Paul Gill, Rob Denham |
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C3 post trade platform is a web-based solution that easily wraps around both legacy and new systems to deliver efficiency and transparency.
Spread Co
| Founders | Unknown |
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Spread Co is an online platform that provides financial spread betting, CFDs, forex trading and execution-only share dealing services.
Babel Systems
| Founders | Unknown |
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Babel Systems is a state of the art, securities processing platform for online trading providers.
Trading.com
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Trading.com is an online trading platform that aggregates stock market data for trading practices.
C8 Technologies
| Founders | Ebrahim Kasenally, Mattias Eriksson |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
C8 Technologies specializes in developing financial software products.
Finpro Trading
| Founders | Unknown |
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Finpro Trading is a leading Forex broker that provides complete trading solutions for all the segments of market.
DupliTrade
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
DupliTrade provides financial, investing, stock exchange, and automated forex trading services.
Kerford Investments
| Founders | Unknown |
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Kerford Investments is an online trading platform that specializes in the FOREX market and precious metals.
THETA Trading Systems
| Founders | Abdullah Hiyatt, Paul Wallace |
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Capital Markets London based FinTech
Stellar Trading Systems
| Founders | Unknown |
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Stellar Trading Systems specialises in producing fast and powerful trading systems for the high frequency, high volume trader.
Equite
| Founders | Unknown |
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Equite is an online portal that provides cryptocurrency trading services.
ADSS London
| Founders | Unknown |
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ADSS London is an FCA regulated multi-asset trading firm.
J’JO
| Founders | Unknown |
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J’JO is an investment platform for retail investors that provides access to investments into crypto assets.
Alphachain Capital
| Founders | Unknown |
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Alphachain Capital provides trading, financial planning, investment, and asset management services for cryptocurrency and FX markets.
Equiti Capital
| Founders | Unknown |
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Equiti Capital provides a technological trading platform that offers bespoke forex, CFD liquidity and advisory services.
GCEX
| Founders | Lars Holst |
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GCEX provides advanced digital solutions that enable trading and management of diverse deep liquidity currencies and digital assets.
Onix Capital
| Founders | Unknown |
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Onix Capital is a global proprietary trading firm.
OTCX
| Founders | Nicolas Koechlin, Paul Stones |
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OTCX is an independent, multi-dealer RFQ platform designed for the Buy Side.
ACM Group (Alpha Capital Markets)
| Founders | Unknown |
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ACM Group is focused on providing customised execution, risk management, and liquidity to financial institutions.
Whitespace
| Founders | Unknown |
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Whitespace is a digital reinsurance trading platform.
Atlantic Trading
| Founders | Unknown |
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Atlantic Trading is a provider of exchange traded fixed-income option liquidity.
Parameta Solutions
| Founders | Unknown |
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Parameta Solutions develops a platform to access over-the-counter market data and information.
