London’s 101 Fastest Growing Venture Capital Startups

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We’ve ranked the top 101 Venture Capital 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 Venture Capital Companies & Startups (London)

SFC Capital

Early-stage investor combining its own angel syndicate & seed funds to provide investors with diversified exposure to SEIS/EIS businesses.

LocalGlobe

LocalGlobe is a venture capital firm that focuses on seed and impact investments.

Startupbootcamp

Startupbootcamp is a global network of industry-focused startup accelerators that provides investment and mentorship services.

Atomico

Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.

Seedrs

Seedrs is a UK-based investment and crowdfunding platform.

MMC Ventures

MMC Ventures is an investment firm that invests in technology companies at Seed and Series A.

Entrée Capital

Entrée Capital is a venture capital firm that funds multi-stage startups and companies all over the world.

Concentric

Concentric invests in software technology business in the financial services, mobility, real estate, industrial, and logistics sectors.

Future Planet Capital

Future Planet is a venture capital firm that seeks investment in potentially high-growth companies from research centers.

Cushon

Cushon is a fintech company that provides investment, pension, financial wellbeing and workplace savings.

Pi Labs

Europe’s first and most active VC firm investing in early-stage proptech entrepreneurs.

Octopus Ventures

Octopus is a multi stage European venture capital investor specializing in health, money, deep tech, and consumer.

BACKED VC

BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders, at Seed, in Europe.

Connectd

Connectd is a product ecosystem that empowers founders, investors and advisors to make and manage connections.

Hambro Perks Ltd.

Hambro Perks is a London-headquartered international investment firm focused on private technology investing.

Foresight Group

Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.

Steadview Capital

Steadview is a tech-focused investment firm that invests in technology oriented businesses.

Notion Capital

Notion is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on technology and cloud computing markets.

Hoxton Ventures

We back Europe’s best global tech companies, before the rest of the world believes

Assiya Capital Partners

Assiya Capital Partners is a London-based private equity firm focused on growing companies.

CoinShares

CoinShares is a digital asset management firm that provides financial products and services for professional investors.

LDC

LDC is a private equity company which provides funds for buyouts and development capital transactions in UK unquoted companies.

Fund Ourselves

Short-term credit from the people to the people.

Molten Ventures

Molten Ventures is Europe’s largest listed tech VC firm. We inject the most visionary companies with energy to help them transform and grow.

SoftBank Vision Fund

SoftBank Vision Fund specializes in growth capital and social impact investments.

Anthemis Group

Anthemis Group is a global platform that cultivates change in the financial system by investing in, growing, and sustaining businesses.

Business Growth Fund

Business Growth Fund is an influential investor in small and mid-sized businesses.

Growth Capital Ventures

Growth Capital Ventures is a technology led financial services business.

Arix Bioscience

Arix Bioscience is a healthcare and life science company.

Early Metrics

Early Metrics is the first startup rating agency.

Parkwalk Advisors

Parkwalk is an investment management firm focused on UK-based technology companies that are spun out of UK university and research centres.

Clara

Your legal command centre: execute agreements, manage your stakeholders, and make more informed decisions, all from a single platform.

WestBridge Capital

WestBridge Capital is a private equity firm that invests between £10m and £20m in SMEs.

RLC Ventures

RLC Ventures is an award-winning VC which continues to back founders building global tech companies, from idea to exit.

Cinven

Cinven is an international private equity firm focused on building world-class global companies.

TreasurySpring

TreasurySpring is a financial technology firm dedicated to democratising short-term funding markets

Stride.VC

Stride.VC is a venture capital firm targeting seed stage startups in the UK and France

Piton Capital

Piton Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Flashpoint

Flashpoint is an international asset management firm investing in tech businesses.

The Twenty Minute VC

TheTwentyMinuteVC is a twenty-minute VC podcast about finance, business development, and investment.

Fabric Ventures

Fabric Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in scalable decentralized networks.

Virgin Group

Virgin Group is an investment company focused on leisure, travel, tourism, mobile, broadband, TV, radio, music, finance, and health sectors.

Standard Chartered Bank

Standard Chartered Bank is an international banking group.

Seraphim Capital

Seraphim Capital is dedicated to financing the growth of companies operating in the space ecosystem.

Felix Capital

Felix Capital is a venture fund that focuses on digital commerce, digital media, and information technology companies.

Sure Valley Ventures

Sure Valley Ventures is focused on investing at an early stage and helping software entrepreneurs grow and new technology companies.

Nordstar

Nordstar partners with transformational companies seeking strategic and operational expertise, advice, and capital

Digital Horizon

Digital Horizon is an international investment company that combines a venture fund and a venture builder. It invests at Series A onwards.

Kindred Capital

Kindred is an early stage venture capital fund based in London that practises equitable venture.

FintechOS

Building the future of financial technology

Kreos Capital

Kreos Capital is a growth debt firm that provides financing solutions for high-growth companies across Europe and Israel.

Kreos Capital

Kreos Capital is a growth debt firm that provides financing solutions for high-growth companies across Europe and Israel.

Capital on Tap

Capital on Tap is a fintech company that provides small and medium-sized businesses with credit cards.

24 Haymarket

24 Haymarket is an investment network of highly experienced investors and senior operators.

Apax Partners

Apax Partners is an independent global partnership focused solely on long-term investment in growth companies.

Talis Capital

Investing on behalf of a community of cross-sector entrepreneurs, we back founders who see the future differently.

Envestors

Envestors digital platform connects entrepreneurs and investors

Inflexion Private Equity

Inflexion is a mid-market private equity firm, investing in high growth businesses.

IAG, Image Analysis Group

IAG, imaging expert company helps to accelerate novel drug development by using the right analytical tools and modern trial infrastructure.

Vertex Market

Peer to Peer (P2P) trading platform for Cryptocurrencies

Playfair Capital

Playfair Capital is an early-stage fund backing founders building technology that changes the way people live and work.

Crane Venture Partners

VC firm investing into seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep tech companies in Europe.

The Rattle

The Rattle is a venture studio and incubator for provocative artists, hackers, inventors, and startups.

Permira

Permira is a global growth obsessed private capital investor.

Giant Ventures

Giant Ventures is a multi-stage, thesis-driven firm backing purpose-driven founders.

Venrex

A VC firm that backs creative founders to launch and build innovative businesses. 43% of investments have a female founder or co-founder.

Panmure Gordon

Panmure Gordon & Co has been connecting businesses with the capital to help them grow.

Generation Investment Management

Generation Investment Management is a private equity firm focused on integrated sustainability research and client alignment.

Public

Public is a venture capital firm that supports technology startups aiming to work more deeply with the UK’s public services.

LVP

London Venture Partners is a seed fund that focuses on the game ecosystem.

Northzone

Northzone is an early-stage venture capital fund built on experience spanning multiple economic and disruptive technology cycles.

Emerge Education

The only fund backed by the world’s leading education entrepreneurs

Bridgepoint

Bridgepoint is an international alternative asset fund management firm offering private equity and private debt lending solutions.

Ada Ventures

Ada Ventures is a venture capital fund, backed by entrepreneurs and a group of global, mission-aligned investors.

Forward Partners

Forward gives founders their best shot at success.

TIM Group

TIM Group is a provider of alpha-generating information technologies for the financial services industry.

Axxeltrova Limited

Axxeltrova is a tech-focused investment bank.

Mosaic

We back founders who are reimagining the world. We invest $1-10m early, in those building daring adventures across Europe.

Apis Partners

Apis Partners is a private equity asset manager focused on Financial Services in Growth Markets.

Pollen Street Capital

Pollen Street Capital is an independent alternative investment manager, focused on investing in the financial and business services sectors

RTP Global

RTP Global is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology investments.

West Hill Capital

West Hill Capital is a private equity and VC firm enabling investors the opportunity to invest in European businesses.

One Peak Partners

One Peak is a specialist private equity firm focused on growth stage technology and tech-enabled companies.

Ahren Innovation Capital

Ahren Innovation Capital is an investment institution that supports early stage companies at the intersection of deep science and deep tech

Augmentum Fintech

Augmentum Fintech is a FinTech fund that invests in early and later-stage FinTech companies.

Acuity Knowledge Partners

Acuity Knowledge Partners is a provider of research, analytics and business intelligence to the financial services sector.

Preqin

Preqin provides financial data and information on the alternative assets market.

AlbionVC

AlbionVC invests from seed through to Series B in B2B software and healthcare

Nauta Capital

Nauta Capital is a pan-European Venture Capital firm investing in early stage technology companies.

Dawn Capital

Dawn Capital is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on investing in the enterprise software and FinTech sectors.

Muniy

Muniy offers banking for everyone, extending the digital banking revolution to more aspects of people’s lives.

Millhouse LLC

Millhouse, Inc. PLC is a listed international diversified funds management business with its securities quoted on Deutsche Börse.

True.

True is a consumer-focused investment and innovation firm reimagining what good business looks like.

HighCastle

One powerful platform for private companies to manage investment workflow, equity and debt securities

MVM Life Science Partners

MVM Life Science Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in start-up, early stage, mid venture, late venture.

InReach Ventures

The AI powered VC focused on early-stage European startups

7percent Ventures

Ex-founders turned VCs, 7percent invests in early stage transformative and deep-tech startups and teams with moonshot ambitions.

Firstminute Capital

Firstminute Capital is an early-stage venture fund based in London, investing globally. Backed by 30 unicorn founders and global strategics.

Outward VC

Outward VC empower start-ups seeking to be the most important fintech companies in the world

Balderton Capital

Balderton is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on backing European-founded startups.

Samos Investments

Samos invests across a range of sectors including consumer internet, digital media, e-commerce, retail, and financial services/technology.