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 Innovation Management 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 Innovation Management Companies & Startups (London)
Pi Labs
| Founders | Dominic Wilson, Faisal Butt, Mary Criebardis |
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Europe’s first and most active VC firm investing in early-stage proptech entrepreneurs.
Mereo Biopharma
| Founders | Denise Scots-Knight |
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Mereo is a new UK-based speciality biopharmaceutical company.
Somo
| Founders | Carl Uminski, Dave Evans, Maani Safa, Nick Hynes |
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Somo, part of the CI&T family (NYSE: CINT), is a leading digital product agency, delivering digital ambitions at pace and scale.
Wazoku
| Founders | Simon Hill |
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An Enterprise Innovation Platform comprising: Idea Management, Open Innovation Marketplace, Innovation Consulting, Portfolio Management
Early Metrics
| Founders | Antoine Baschiera, Sebastien Paillet |
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Early Metrics is the first startup rating agency.
Vizibl
| Founders | Alex Short, Mark Perera |
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Vizibl is a global cloud platform that enables enterprise companies to manage their innovation lifecycle.
Locum’s Nest
| Founders | Ahmed Shahrabani, Nicholas Andreou |
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Locum’s Nest is an award-winning software platform, connecting healthcare professionals to vacant work through innovative technology.
SharpCloud Software
| Founders | Rusty Johnson, Sarim Khan |
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Data visualization software that transforms business data into engaging visual stories, helping you make smarter strategic decisions.
Weedingtech
| Founders | Ben Goldsmith |
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Weedingtech is a British company that designs and manufactures innovative weed control technologies for the amenity and utility markets.
Hypha Knowledge Integration
| Founders | Arpit Kaushik, Louis French |
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Hypha is a new Innovation Intelligence Platform that unifies people, knowledge, data, insights and strategy to drive growth.
GridDuck
| Founders | Gregor Hoefter, Richard Tolley |
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GridDuck is a cloud-based hardware, dashboard & API enabling control of your clients’ energy
NOVELTEA
| Founders | Lukas Passia, Vincent Efferoth |
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NOVELTEA is a premium alcoholic tea blend inspired by globetrotting travels.
Innovation Makers
| Founders | Unknown |
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Developed an innovative, award winning stroller – Omnio.
Rezonence
| Founders | Prash Naidu, Rowly Bourne, Tim Greatrex |
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Our mission is to fund journalism through high performance advertising.
Horizone
| Founders | Eleonora Rocca, Francesco Redaelli |
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Building innovation via Growence, Elle Innovation, Talentoo, & Dooers and media trademarks WomenX Impact, Crypto Coinference & Innovable.
HOOF
| Founders | Elliott Grant, Olly McGinn |
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HOOF is an innovative travel and location app which allows users to store, share and log their travels and experiences.
L Marks
| Founders | Stuart Marks |
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L Marks is the trusted partner for global businesses, powering corporate innovation and fuelling growth
Car Quids
| Founders | Edward Ronaldson, Henry Kirkness |
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Car Quids matches drivers with advertisers, helping brands connect with millions of people every day.
Techsixtyfour
| Founders | Colleen Wong |
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The UK’s coolest wearable mobile phone and tracker made just for kids.
Two Birds
| Founders | Alison Saunders |
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Two Birds offers delicious, energizing blend of super seeds and bee pollen seed cereals.
Overview Ltd.
| Founders | David Watkins |
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Overview develops, supplies and supports advanced sensor positioning technologies and specialist sensor systems.
&us
| Founders | Robert Fletcher Isaacs |
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&us is a community of problem solver individuals including strategists, designers, and coaches that help to create products and services.
Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science
| Founders | Stuart Walker |
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Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science is provides an international forum for industryand other healthcare stakeholders to meet, debate
AquAffirm
| Founders | David Sarphie |
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AquAffirm is a product development company commercializing technologies to address global biomedical and environmental issues.
Crafty Nectar
| Founders | James Waddington |
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Crafty Nectar provide a cider subscription service.
NewGalexy Services
| Founders | Robert Glennie, Sarvarth Misra |
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NewGalexy Services is a UK-based onshore legal process outsourcing business building technology products and solutions.
Ixty
| Founders | Ian Tyrrell, Nicholas Thurgood, Stephen Lindsay |
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Ixty is an innovative monetization platform that opens up the power of machine learning and intelligent analytics to everyone.
The Health-Tech Innovation LABS
| Founders | Barry Shrier, Farid Khan |
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The Health-Tech Innovation LABS (HTI-LABS) are a group of businesses that improve the healthcare sector.
Fjord
| Founders | Mark Curtis, Olof Schybergson |
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Fjord is a service design consultancy.
MAASI Enterprises
| Founders | Gabriele Marini, Leonardo Zanus |
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Leading Consulting, Advising and Temporary Management for Complex and Highly Regulated Enterprises
Brilliant Basics
| Founders | Anand Verma, Ralf Gehrig, Ted Kilian |
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Brilliant Basics is a global digital product and customer experience studio.
10x
| Founders | Hew Leith |
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10x is an award-winning data-driven innovation company. It creates the world’s most remarkable products and services.
Wellyx
| Founders | Marcus Davis |
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Wellyx is business management software for all fitness and wellness businesses. Wellyx has latest technology features to manage all tasks.
Creditable
| Founders | Sechaba Ngwenya |
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Creditable enables credit unions, lenders, businesses and individuals to give loans to their customers.
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.
IPL
| Founders | Unknown |
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When great minds and innovative technology come together, it’s amazing what can be achieved.
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.
ClearMacro
| Founders | Giles Adu, Mike Simcock |
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ClearMacro helps institutional investors integrate actionable insights from data into their portfolios to enable smarter decision-making.
Veolia UK
| Founders | David King |
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Veolia UK is part of a worldwide Group of companies.
Venturespring
| Founders | Cassandra Harris, Victoria Alexis |
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A digital transformation firm and early growth venture capital fund that match makes corporates with game changing startups.
Senzer
| Founders | Alex Hearn |
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Senzer Ltd. is a pharmaceutical company.
Pollen8
| Founders | Tom Humphreys |
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Pollen8 is a platform enabled innovation consultancy focused on strategy, technology and transformational change.
Ramp
| Founders | Dafydd Griffiths, Milen Nedev, Neil Cocker |
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The world’s fastest, smartest promo merch platform.
Freya
| Founders | Roxana P. Balan, Tudor Birlea |
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Freya designs and runs bespoke innovation programs for bold organizations.
Vitamin London
| Founders | Jacob Beckett |
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Digital innovation & production.
GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator
| Founders | Unknown |
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GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator builds synergies between start-ups and mobile operators to scale mobile services in emerging markets.
Made by Many
| Founders | Isaac Pinnock, Stuart Eccles, Tim Malbon, William Owen |
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Made by Many is an innovation consultancy that places equal focus on strategy and execution.
ENTIQ
| Founders | Claire Cockerton, Daan Weddepohl, Eric Van Der Kleij |
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Entiq is a global innovation and economy enabler, and a leader in innovation delivery, new venture development and ecosystem creation
Future London Academy
| Founders | Ekaterina Solomeina, Mohammed Saiful Hussain |
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executive school for creatives
Bow & Arrow
| Founders | Ben Slater |
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Boutique innovation consultancy
Butterfly London
| Founders | Bianca Cawthorne |
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Butterfly is a leading brand & innovation company that believes in the power of feelings That behind every choice they make.
Springwise
| Founders | James Bidwell, Reinier Evers |
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Springwise is the global innovation discovery engine
Adaptive Lab
| Founders | Unknown |
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Adaptive Lab are a digital innovation company.
Sketch
| Founders | David Yalland |
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Sketch is a London based venture-studio bringing to market some of the most disruptive and innovative mobile-led companies.
Pearlfisher
| Founders | Unknown |
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Pearlfisher is an independent design business with a single philosophy, 2 studios and 3 Partners.
CO:CUBED
| Founders | Jeremy Basset |
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CO:CUBED helps FTSE100 companies to embrace the startup revolution, by defining and executing their collaborative innovation capabilities.
AD2ONE
| Founders | Unknown |
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AD2ONE is an Innovation Management company.
Engine
| Founders | Joe Heapy, Oliver King |
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Engine is a service design consultancy with studios in London & Dubai.
Arc Medical Design
| Founders | Unknown |
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Arc Medical Design is a Medical company
Procyon
| Founders | Unknown |
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Procyon is an innovative technology company.
LGBR Capital London
| Founders | Unknown |
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LGBR Capital is one of the distributors in the UK market in terms of resources, breadth of product, AUM and geographies covered.
Parallel
| Founders | Christian Thümer, Matthew Falla |
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Parallel is a product development firm that helps companies develop proposals based on simulations and synthetic environments.
Sturgeon Ventures
| Founders | Seonaid Mackenzie |
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Sturgeon Ventures are the most established FCA Regulated Regulatory Incubator, having coined the phrase Regulatory Incubator in 2001.
Climate Exchange PLC
| Founders | Unknown |
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Climate Exchange PLC owns, operates, and develops exchanges to facilitate trading in environmental financial instruments.
Market Gravity
| Founders | Unknown |
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Market Gravity is a design consultancy helping companies create and launch innovative products and services.
Here East
| Founders | Unknown |
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Here East is London’s home for making.
HAUS of VENTURES
| Founders | Barbara Cichello McAlpine, Ken McAlpine |
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Strategic Innovation and Ventures Development
Giroux Limited
| Founders | Eric Giroux |
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Giroux Limited combines world-class consultancy with data warehousing & analytics to provide the ultimate platform for insight & innovation.
Enterprise Europe Network
| Founders | Unknown |
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EEN brings together 600 partner organisations in more than 50 countries to help your business innovate, grow and succeed in the EU market.
Fashion Innovation Agency
| Founders | Unknown |
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Fashion Innovation Agency develops software and online tools to improve marketing and advertising of fashion design.
Pacemakers.io
| Founders | Alessandro Hatami |
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Digital Innovation in Financial Services.
MCCM Innovations
| Founders | Unknown |
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MCCM Innovations assist businesses in becoming more efficient, reducing errors, and improving customer service.
Sense Worldwide
| Founders | Unknown |
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We help people to innovate.
Tech Connect
| Founders | George Johnston |
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Connecting large corporations with the leaders of emerging disruptive tech
Swayam Group
| Founders | Unknown |
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Swayam Group provides innovative technology solutions from ideation to execution.
Venture Agenda
| Founders | David Reynolds, Thomas Sutton |
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Venture Agenda supports mature organisations to prepare, engage and decide on emerging technologies and early-stage business
We Are Xpert
| Founders | Unknown |
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We Are Xpert is an UK based Innovation, brand and digital agency.
FEARLESSLY FRANK
| Founders | Ben Little, Wayne Guthrie |
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Fearless Frank is an innovation and marketing consultancy with experience in brand management, design, development and content creation.
Southgate Global
| Founders | Unknown |
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Southgate is evolving the industrial packaging and order fulfillment sectors through innovation, productivity, and trusted product brands.
ECHO Brand Design
| Founders | Nick Dormon |
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ECHO Brand Design is a design company that offers brands planning,brand designing and brands implementation services.
Myriada Systems
| Founders | Unknown |
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Enabling professional groups to forecast future events together: delivering greater accuracy & rich visualisations of market sentiment.
100%Open
| Founders | David Simoes-Brown |
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100%Open is a specialist open innovation agency that helps large organisations create value by innovating with others.
Map Project Office
| Founders | Edward Barber, Jay Osgerby |
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Map Project Office is a creative consultancy with a strategy-led approach to industrial and user experience design.
Venturebright
| Founders | Cristina Warren |
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Venturebright is a management consulting company.
Outworkers
| Founders | Flavian Alexandru |
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Top engineering talent at your fingertips!
Redefine Us
| Founders | Noam Kostucki |
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You want your organisation to be more successful: we can help you grow and innovate, prevent catastrophes and make the most of a new
Behave
| Founders | Unknown |
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Behave, a behavioural insights and innovation company.
Radical Path
| Founders | Unknown |
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Radical Path is an experience innovation company.
UNBOX LONDON
| Founders | Jimmy Kyriacou |
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Event Management Company
Riverlan
| Founders | Unknown |
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Riverlan assists in the delivery of projects that can benefit from innovation.
Future Mobile Technology
| Founders | Unknown |
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Future Mobile Technology is a young, innovative technology company pushing the boundaries of innovation, quality, design and affordability.
3D V360
| Founders | Marek Votroubek, Petr Bubenicek |
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The first 3D product photo stock in the world. We bring the 3D product photos = 3Doids.
Crowdoscope
| Founders | Michael Silverman |
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An Interactive Survey Tool for Social Collective Intelligence
Creative Console
| Founders | Unknown |
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Creative Console has been providing innovative IT solutions since 1994.
OOf
| Founders | George Liarikos |
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Innovative furniture empowering mobile work
AlgoMe Consulting
| Founders | Unknown |
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AlgoMe Consulting is a new type of consulting firm that focuses on helping Asset and Wealth Management firms.
SpottyEgg
| Founders | Unknown |
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SpottyEgg is an IT company that provides application development, product design, and innovation services.
Roirobot
| Founders | Jacobo Guerra |
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RoiRobot gives intense, rapid, and immersive education aimed at accelerating the life cycle and ROI of young innovative companies,
We Are London Ltd. (WAE)
| Founders | Unknown |
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We Are London Ltd. (WAE) is an innovative service design company.
Deepr
| Founders | Unknown |
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Deepr is a research lab that tackling culture, service design, and training problems.
Now Go create
| Founders | Unknown |
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Now Go Create – a crack team of creative training and leadership experts .
