# Top 50 Community VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in June 2026

## Octopus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

## Seedrs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage

Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.

## Ascension
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Internet

Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.

## JamJar Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage

We love, help & invest in early-stage consumer brands.

## Fuel Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

## MMC Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

MMC is a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high-growth UK companies. Investing in technology companies at Seed and Series A.

## QVentures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

QVentures sources, screens, and invests in top-tier start-ups from Seed to Series B. Our investors consist of Family Offices, Institutional Investors, UHNWIs, and Cashed-out Entrepreneurs. We look for disruptive companies with a proven product-market fit, set to scale from Seed to Series B. We focus on Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, Consumer Tech,FinTech, AdTech, EdTech, InsurTech and HealthTech and more. We look for quality management teams, large addressable markets, proven traction, sustainable business models, route to scale and quality investors.To apply for investment, please fill out this short form to be reviewed: https://qventures.typeform.com/to/zZPOWf

## Kindred Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund

## Salica
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships.

## Index Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

## The FSE Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology

FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

## Felix Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care

A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class

## Seedcamp
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.

## Nesta Impact Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Health Care, SaaS

Nesta Impact Investments backs innovative businesses that focus on creating social and environmental good

## Business Growth Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.

## Northstar Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.

## LocalGlobe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

## Foresight Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care

Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.

## Charlotte Street Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

First money in for UK software startups.


## Connect Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London.

## Edition Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Events, Music

Investment, advice and expertise for the entertainment and leisure industry

## Force Over Mass Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0.FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growthjourney.

## Forward Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Forward Partners is a venture capital firm in London specialising in technology businesses focused on eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI early-stage startups.

## Worth Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software

Tax Efficient Investments with the Start-up Series SEIS & EIS Fund. Our approach unearths compelling investment opportunities.

## SFC Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Discover the UK's leading SEIS Fund, offering tax-efficient investments in innovative startups. Join thousands of savvy investors and raise capital for your business with SFC Capital.

## Development Bank of Wales
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.

## Notion Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

## Speedinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more.
From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster.
Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together.
Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

## IW Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Restaurants

Support high-growth UK businesses and benefit from bespoke investment opportunities designed to offer long-term growth potential and significant tax relief through the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS).

## Calm/Storm VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Software

Calm/Storm is an exclusive founder network and venture capital firm. We invest in purpose driven founders changing our life & health for the better. Headquartered in Vienna, Austria we invest in early-stage companies all over Europe and the US. We focus on the pre-seed and seed stages but also invest up to Series A.

## Sustainable Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Biotechnology

Welcome to the home of Climate Tech. We are a full service ecosystem empowering sustainable start-ups to scale through community, investment, innovation and workspace.

## Downing Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

The opportunity for institutional investors to access leading UK early stage healthtech businesses

## Passion Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators who are applying our experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. We are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe, and we believe that the criticaldifferentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders. We take pride in the calibre and success of all of our founders and teams including but nowhere near limited to GoCardless, Tray.io, Mendeley, Digital Shadows, Adzuna, Smarkets, Ravelin, Tide, Marshmallow, Butternut Box, PolyAI, Lendable and Monzo Bank

## True.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail

A unique model for investing, innovating & growing

## Piper Private Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Fashion

We are the investment partner of choice for ambitious founders. Founded by entrepreneurs, we are a team of brand experts who have grown over 40 global brands.

## Par Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

## VNV Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Marketplace

VNV Global is an investment company with the business concept of using experience, expertise and a widespread network to identify and invest in assets with considerable potential for value appreciation. The company has a special focus on online marketplaces and businesses with strong network effects. The common shares of VNV Global are listed onNasdaq Stockholm, Mid Cap segment, with the ticker VNV.

## Active Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Retail, E-Commerce

Active Partners is a consumer-focused investment firm that partners with visionary founders to build the iconic brands of tomorrow.

## Pembroke VCT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Fashion, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Pembroke VCT PLC is a venture capital trust specializing in investments in any stage of business development. Their focus is on companies in the health and fitness, hospitality, apparel, and accessories, and media and technology sectors.

## Social Tech Trust
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Education

Social Tech Trust is a UK's leading dedicated investor of socially motivated tech.

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

## SOSV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

## Maven Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Maven is one of the UK's leading private equity and investment firms. We provide essential capital and expertise to help businesses unlock their potential.

## Beringea
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics

Beringea is an international investor in high growth US & UK businesses. With expertise in multiple sectors we are at the forefront of emerging trends.

## 24 Haymarket
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

24Haymarket is an investment network which included several highly-experienced private equity and venture capital investors, seasoned entrepreneurs, and senior operators. Investing up to £5 million in growth companies in the UK and Europe. They invested their own capital in direct alignment with entrepreneurs and actively support their growthagenda and join the board of the companies in which they invest. Since inception in 2011, 24Haymarket has invested in more than 50 high-growth businesses.

## Playfair Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

Playfair is a sector agnostic fund focused exclusively on pre-seed investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making six investments a year out of its third $70m fund and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Our 78% Series Agraduation rate is ~3x industry average. Playfair has backed 100+ companies since 2013, including Thought Machine, Orca AI, Protex AI, StackOne and Nory.

## Concentric
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Bitcoin

We partner with sector-defining founders across Europe to create new technologies that disrupt the status quo and solve the problems that matter.

## Redrice Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Retail, Wellness, Fashion

We support Founders creating premium consumer brands, platforms and related tech solutions.

## Emerge
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

Emerge Education is a European seed fund investing in founders solving the $8.5tn skills gap. Emerge provides founders with unrivalled education sector insights, as they're the only fund backed by the world’s foremost education entrepreneurs.

## Carthona Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.

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