Top 15 ESports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in May 2026

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• Lumar (formerly Deepcrawl) — Deepcrawl empowers the world’s leading brands to harness their full revenue potential through the one initiative most businesses overlook – technical SEO. Its market-leading SaaS Technical SEO platform is used every day by thousands of enterprise businesses including leading brands like Adobe, eBay, Microsoft, Twitch, Canva, and Paypal. Inaddition, all 6 major global group agencies utilize DeepCrawl to achieve results for their clients: WPP, Omnicom, Publicis, Havas, IPG, and Dentsu.
• ResponseTap — ResponseTap came about over a few beers in a university bar, and a conversation between Ross and Richard about the disconnect between online and offline customer journeys. Within two years, they had launched their campaign level tracking project, the first in Europe to be integrated with Google Analytics. Two years later and visitor level trackingwas live, the business had 100 customers and ResponseTap had joined the Telegraph's Tech Start-Up 100 most promising techology start-ups in Europe. Today, having raised £4m in funding, the business has 80 staff, 50 new customers every month, offices in London, Manchester and Atlanta, and billions of web visits, phone calls and associated transactions processed every day.
• Flywheel.io — Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT.

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• CARS24 — Buy & sell used cars, get car loans, check new car info with CARS24. Explore services like paying challan, car scrapping, maintenance, driver hire, and more.
• Fnatic — Fnatic is the world's leading esports organisation, with a winning legacy of 17 years and counting in over 28 different titles.

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• Fnatic — Fnatic is the world's leading esports organisation, with a winning legacy of 17 years and counting in over 28 different titles.

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• IUDRO — to University Drone Racing

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• AND Global — AND Global is a Financial Technology as a Services company that provides everything that a modern digital bank needs and more. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Central Region, Singapore.
• Altilium Clean Technology — Sustainable, low carbon battery materials. Altilium is a UK-based clean technology group supporting the transformation of the global energy sector from fossil-based to zero-carbon.
• Green Rubber — Vinod Sekhar’s team has already resolved the issue.Willis released a announcement and said,Having resolved the issue, I will keep maintain a shareholding place in the company and I wish the company, the directors and my other traders the very best for future decades.The recycle place will take advantage of the procedure that Vinod Sekhar’s dad hasdesigned known as De-Link to make “green rubbers”. The De-Link procedure will devulcanise old and used car tires then revulcanise them and turn them into different new rubberized items such as automobile car tires and shoes bottoms.Datuk Vinod B. Sekhar is the President and Chief Executive of The Petra Group, the Malaysian-based technology conglomerate with interests ranging from rubber recycling, biofuels and biotechnology to financial software.

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• Qashio — Qashio is a spend management platform that allows people to monitor costs, make payments with app credit cards, and handle payables. Founded in 2021 and is based in Dubai.
• Lentesplus — Lentesplus.com brings the Latin American contact lens market online and into the 21st century, offering competitive prices between 20% and 30% below market standards. The company offers clients ease and efficiency, delivering the correct product straight to their homes or offices, in many cases on the same day as the order was placed. With a strongfocus on customer service, Lentesplus makes reordering contact lenses as simple as two clicks. Currently have operations in Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina
• Parallax — Parallax offers a cross-border payments platform for freelancers, remote workers, and businesses. The service enables receiving international client payments, holding funds in USD, exchanging currencies, and sending money to domestic bank accounts and mobile wallets. Users manage balances and transfers through a web app with quoted rates anditemized fees. The platform supports global payouts and recurring disbursements to partners and team members. Compliance measures include identity verification and transaction monitoring aligned with regulatory standards. Documentation and support resources guide account setup, funding, and cash-out.

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• Heliogen — Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company unlocking the power of sunlight to replace fossil fuels.
• Medly Pharmacy — Free Same-day Prescription Delivery to Wherever You Are. Welcome To The Future of Pharmacy. Join For Free. CALL OR TEXT 718-782-7539.
• Motif — Unleashing the promise of plant-based foods

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• Zenobe Energy — Zenobe Energy ( formerly known as Battery Energy Storage Solutions Limited) is the largest independent owner and operator of battery storage in the UK. We transform the way grid operators and businesses use power to reduce costs, improve reliability and benefit the environment.
• Warehouse Reit — Warehouse Reit functions as a closed-ended investing firm. The company aims to hold a diverse portfolio of freehold and long-leasehold warehouse properties, including those in the trade counter, industrial or manufacturing, storage and distribution, and retail warehouse sub-sectors. Investment and provision of local urban warehouses are thecompany's sole operating segment. Rent and other sources of income are its main sources of income.
• Gore Street Energy Storage Fund — Gore Street Capital Limited whose track record is predominantly focused on energy and infrastructure and has also successfully acquired and managed storage assets, is an entity authorised and regulated by the financial conduct authority that provides investment services.

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• Roro — Roro is a new mobile gaming studio that creates imaginative play experiences using Unreal Engine. Roro is a small, nimble company with a clear vision wanting to expand with more craftspeople who can help build the future.
• Spogen.ai — Spogen.ai is a speaking AI assistant that improves machinery operation and maintenance efficiency.
• IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.

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• Appetito — Buy all your groceries and household essentials from your online supermarket. Order from the comfort of your home at your finger tips.
• GRACIA.AI — Gracia is revolutionizing spatial computing offering immersive volumetric (aka spatial) videos that provide full viewpoint freedom. This means you can step into the video and experience it from any perspective. AI-powered technology and natural parallax effects in VR enable the indistinguishable transfer of real events into the digital world,delivering a feeling of truly being there.
• Cloud Retail — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services

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• LAM'ON — LAM'ON OOD was created with the intention of creating a product that would be recyclable or compostable, improve environmental and human health safety, and readily replace the existing petroleum-based plastic solutions.
• Bitloops — Bitloops is an AI-powered application development platform that enables organizations to develop, maintain, and operate complex web applications with ease. It helps you easily modify system designs, deploy applications to production, and manage changes, new features, and products. The platform enables teams to innovate quickly and grow the productor business without compromising the product's usability, extendability, or maintainability. Bitloops makes it simpler than ever to create high-quality software utilizing best practices and techniques like DDD, BDD, TDD, hexagonal architecture, clean architecture, ports and adapters, CQRS, and event sourcing suitable for extending legacy systems as well as new initiatives.
• Outfindo — Making bikes & e-bikes buying easy

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• Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
• Residently — Simplifying the rental process: from finding the perfect pad to furnishing and sourcing expert local home services, all at the tap of a button.
• The Cookaway — The Cookaway offers an exciting range of world cuisine menus put together by our expert chefs and available to buy as a recipe box.

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• Stan — Stan has built a platform that allows esports fans to collect, play and trade digital collectibles such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their favorite esports players and content creators, through which they can win physical and virtual world perks and rewards such as getting a chance to meet their favorite players.
• Qloud Games — Qloud Games is an independent game studio developing Loftia.
• Final Boss Sour — Final Boss Sour is a gaming-themed snack brand offering a healthier alternative to traditional sour treats. Inspired by retro gaming aesthetics, our snacks deliver bold flavors and a fun experience for gamers of all ages.

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• Biorelate — The most advanced data curation in biopharma
• TeamFeePay — TeamFeePay is a software company for football club management.
• Cooper Software — Helping you transform operations by designing and implementing ERP solutions that meet the unique requirements and challenges faced by your business.

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• Administrate — Administrate is a comprehensive, configurable training management platform that helps organizations streamline enterprise learning and development. Organize, deliver, plan, automate, analyze, and scale your training program effectively -- all through one system. Deliver multi-modality learner experiences, maximize training resources, anddemonstrate business results with insight-rich reporting. Hundreds of organizations serving millions of learners choose Administrate to manage their training program.
• Warwick Acoustics — Warwick Acoustics believe in creating products that are designed from the ground up in order to deliver the best personal audio listening experience available to customers.
• Melius Cyber — Melius Cyber continuously monitors an organization's IT network, testing security and protecting it from the latest threats.