Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in United Kingdom (September 2026)

Portfolio highlights

• Bourn — Bourn's technology is designed to automate cash flow management, offering SMEs fast access to capital.
• Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
• Emblematic — The first AI-driven Agentic Automation platform, designed to fully automate and enhance the accuracy of Finance Operations, including Bookkeeping, IFRS/GAAP Compliance, Reconciliations, and more.

Portfolio highlights

• Keylr — Services partner for property managers. Book reliable, top-rated professionals for your properties with e-props.
• Furbnow — Furbnow - Your companion for home improvements for the future
• FlairMakers — FlairMakers provides a digital talent platform connecting hospitality businesses with vetted freelance professionals.

Portfolio highlights

• Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases
• Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
• Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.

Portfolio highlights

• PANTA — PANTA Index Technology is a pioneering fintech company founded by industry veterans to transform the index creation landscape. Our state-of-the-art, cloud-based SaaS solution empowers financial institutions to build and operate complex, bespoke indices and portfolios with unprecedented scale, speed, and precision.As the only pure-play technologyprovider in this space, we streamline the entire index lifecycle while offering advanced back-testing and simulation capabilities. PANTA aims to democratize index technology, enabling institutions of all sizes to innovate faster and make data-driven investment decisions. We're set to become the operating system for next-generation indexing, driving innovation and efficiency across the rules-based and quantitative investment landscape.
• Vouchsafe — Vouchsafe the world's first real-time fraud bureau. We provide one simple API that returns an instant fraud risk score for a set of customer details.
• Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.

Portfolio highlights

• Humanos — The Risk Network for AI https://t.co/RzfFeAgNCj
• PayPerks — PayPerks operates education and rewards solutions with our partners to improve the financial capability, financial health, and overall lives of millions of Americans.
• Monax — Monax offers a platform that leverages blockchain technology and offers a contract lifecycle management tool that permits consumers to easily procure lawyer-tested agreements and stay in full control of their business contracts as well as provides permission ledgers and smart contracts, enabling the finance, insurance, and construction sectors todevelop, customize, sell and reproduce legal products.

Portfolio highlights

• Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
• Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
• Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

Portfolio highlights

• nPlan — AI that forecasts project outcomes, creates scenarios of the future and helps mitigate risk across single projects and portfolios. Trained on over 750,000 past programmes.
• Stream — Stream is a financial services firm that allows employees to stream their earned wages into their accounts through an instant app. The app allows them to have complete control over when they get paid. It also effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans, and employee stress suffered from short-term, unplanned financial obligations. Thecompany aims to play a key role in reducing the poverty premium and preventing employees from entering cycles of debt caused by overdraft fees, high-interest credit, or payday loans.
• microagi — Accelerating embodied AGI

Portfolio highlights

• Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
• Artificial Labs — Build your future placement and underwriting strategy with Artificial's pioneering technology.
• Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.

Portfolio highlights

• geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
• Secondmind — Secondmind is Engineering AI software that helps engineers stay in control of rising complexity - reaching reliable answers faster with far fewer tests and simulations.
• Opensignal — Opensignal is the leading global provider of independent insights into network experience and market performance.

Portfolio highlights

• Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
• CameraMatics — Digitize fleet management to optimize performance. Onboard sensors, smart cameras, & apps to mitigate risk, manage safety & achieve sustainability goals.
• Modern Milkman — Modern Milkman is a Yorkshire-based milk delivery company.

Portfolio highlights

• sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
• Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
• Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.

Portfolio highlights

• geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
• Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
• Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Portfolio highlights

• Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
• GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
• Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.

Portfolio highlights

• Fuuse — Fuuse is an electric vehicle charge point management system that enables your chargers to deliver more for you and your drivers.
• PathXL — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
• Skylark Lasers — UniKLasers specialises in single frequency, continuous wave DPSS lasers at mid- to high power. Suitable for Raman, Holography, Interferometry, Microscopy, Metrology, Quantum Technologies, and more

Portfolio highlights

• Gardin — We believe in a world in which everyone has the right to access high quality, nutritious food that is good for you and for our planet. Our environmental issues are real, something, somewhere needs to change. Gardin promises to create the step-change required by deploying its technology.
• ABEX — Algorithmic Best Execution for digital assets driven by an ultra low latency, high frequency, agency trading engine and enhanced by deep quantitative research.
• sable bio — We provide comprehensive, quantified, and flexible Target Safety Intelligence to assist toxicologists, informaticians, and drug discovery scientists in delivering safe and effective new treatments.

Portfolio highlights

• Volo Commerce — Volo brings together data and intelligence from all over the commerce ecosystem and uses AI to provide real-time actionable insights.
• Endra — Endra is a purpose-built platform for modern MEP engineering. Generate 3D models and drawings, sync with Revit and enjoy coordinated design workflows.
• Pivot — Pivot operates as a fintech company.

Portfolio highlights

• Paypercut — Paypercut is a fintech startup that allows small and mid-scaled merchants to offer Buy Now, Pay Later at checkout via a single integration.
• Prolo — Prolo is an AI powered procurement experts for construction. Streamline material orders, get market-tested pricing from 185+ brands, and protect your margins.
• Infrawatch — Detect early. Multi-source infrastructure intelligence, delivered in real time, detections, context, and signals you can act on.

Portfolio highlights

• Kudwa — Kudwa is an AI-powered finance platform that unifies data, automates multi-entity consolidation, and gives leaders a trusted, real-time view of performance.
• Count Finance — Count Finance fintech company that offers all-in-one app for budgeting, automated savings, and smart investing solutions.
• WatchMyCompetitor — WMC is the market leading competitor monitoring tool. Use the latest AI tech and human analysts to monitor competitors and develop strategies.

Portfolio highlights

• Anrok — Anrok automates sales tax compliance across your financial stack, so you can grow your SaaS business in any market.
• OpenX — OpenX has the largest independent ad exchange network for publishers and demand partners, while maintaining the highest quality marketplace standards. Learn more.
• StorSimple — Learn how to migrate a StorSimple 8100 or 8600 appliance to Azure File Sync.

Portfolio highlights

• Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
• EverSettled — Navigate the probate process with confidence. We provide a free checklist, guidance, and support to help families find clarity in the chaos of loss.
• Peripheral Labs — Peripheral Labs provides technology for live media and spatial intelligence.

Portfolio highlights

• Tended — Tended creates advanced solutions to change how people work and improve employee safety across high-risk industries. Through a combination of wearable technology and behavioural science, Tended's main focus is to drive positive behavioural change, which has proven benefits on both an individual and organisational level.Tended'ssolutions are currently improving safety across industry-leading companies in sectors including construction, manufacturing, utilities and logistics.
• Holdson — Holdson is an electrochemical polishing machine tool supplier aiming to address the issue of inconsistent surface finishes on additive manufactured components.The technology is producing intellectual property through patents, providing a competitive advantage in the advanced machinery industry.
• PEAK:AIO — PEAK:AIO delivers software-defined storage for AI, enabling fast, scalable data infrastructure and optimized GPU utilization.

Portfolio highlights

• Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
• Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
• Robin — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Portfolio highlights

• geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
• Oshen — Oshen is a technology enterprise that creates miniature autonomous sailboats designed for persistent, wide-area ocean tracking.
• Gravitee — Open Source API Management Platform - Gravitee

Portfolio highlights

• elyndra — Echo by elyndra - Your voice. Their care. Spoken observation to complete documentation in seconds; giving back 2 hours daily for human connection that transforms lives.
• Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
• Infrawatch — Detect early. Multi-source infrastructure intelligence, delivered in real time, detections, context, and signals you can act on.

Portfolio highlights

• Apate.AI — Is the next generation of scam prevention and intelligence. We deploy advanced conversational AI bots combined with real-time insights to protect businesses, governments and communities globally.2
• Dex — One conversation with Dex. A shortlist of roles worth your time, and a direct introduction to the hiring manager once the match is right.
• Oshen — Oshen is a technology enterprise that creates miniature autonomous sailboats designed for persistent, wide-area ocean tracking.

Portfolio highlights

• Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
• Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
• Robin — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Portfolio highlights

• Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
• Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
• RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.

Portfolio highlights

• Reacta Biotech — Reacta Biotech has been established to develop, manufacture and commercialise oral food challenge materials to pharmaceutical standards of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
• Design and Supply — Design and Supply are specialist manufacturers and suppliers of Industrial Steel Doors and Architectural Products.
• MeOmics Technology — MeOmics Technology is a biotech company with a focus on improving the diagnosis and treatment of mental health illnesses. The company operates in the manufacturing industry and has a team of 9 employees. The team includes experts in Neuronal Cell Biology and Neuropsychopharmacology. The company's mission is to leverage technology to enhancethe understanding and treatment of mental health conditions.

Portfolio highlights

• qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
• Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
• SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.

Portfolio highlights

• Yodlee — Yodlee is a provider of financial applications that aims to make online banking more profitable. Yodlee's personal financial management, payments, and customer acquisition solutions unify all personal financial account information to deliver centralized way for users to manage their financial tasks.
• MobStac — Developer of a cloud-based mobile marketing platform designed to connect the digital and physical worlds through the use of innovative technology. The company's platform is based on the principals of proximity marketing and engage customers in a personalized, context-aware way that leverages indoor location and proximity, enabling businessesand brands to leverage BLE beacon technology to deliver context-rich experiences to their end users.
• Diligent — Diligent, a modern governance company, is the only comprehensive governance software provider featuring tools to improve and simplify modern day governance.

Portfolio highlights

• Lassie — AI that runs the doctor's office.
• Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
• Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.

Portfolio highlights

• SOLVE — SOLVE have developed novel transient flow techniques that extend the capabilities of current approaches. SOLVE’s products leverage technology for the efficient collection of data from chemical reactions, as well as predictive computational models tuned based on the collected data. Both the data by itself, as well as the models, are used to informthe reaction conditions and solvent mixtures applied to manufacture chemical compounds at different scales of production.
• Tolemy Bio — The AI-native virtual cell platform for therapeutic development and manufacture.
• Nila Elder Care — Nila acquires independent UK homecare agencies and runs them on our AI platform. Families get care they can count on; owners get a fair exit and a team that's looked after.

Portfolio highlights

• fileAI — Automate and analyze any file with AI. fileAI builds proprietary AI components for complex agentic workflow automation.
• Straiker — Security for agentic AI applications built from the ground up with fine-tuned models to protect and secure every layer of your agentic AI stack.
• Karta — The premium US charge card for the world's borderless people. Credit lines up to $200,000 based on your US assets. No Social Security number required.

Portfolio highlights

• KubeNet — We are KubeNet - a multi-award winning technology solutions provider based in Glasgow. Whether it's Managed IT, IT Support, Cloud, Connectivity, Voice or Cyber Security, we're by your side as your trusted technology partner.
• Tixserve — Secure, Trackable, Interactive Digital Tickets for Live Events
• ReadyGo Diagnostics — ReadyGo Diagnostics has invented a novel “Diagnostic Pen”. Low cost, intuitive to use from the raw sample, the ReadyGo Pen will be a game-changer in the newly emerging consumer diagnostics market, offering a yes/no answer in minutes, based on molecular analysis.

Portfolio highlights

• Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
• IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems. Deploy, manage, and scale AI-driven, data-rich industrial systems at the edge with our open edge data platform.
• Administrate — Manage instructor-led training with Administrate. Plan, schedule, communicate, resolve issues, and report on training operations from one platform.

Portfolio highlights

• Oraion — Your single source of truth for enterprise data
• Wassist — Launch your AI sales agent on WhatsApp for Shopify in under 60 seconds. Recover 30-50% of abandoned carts and increase conversions by 3x.
• Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.

Portfolio highlights

• NewBay — NewBay enables operators and device makers to deliver a lifetime of digital content experiences across any connected device such as mobile, PC, tablets and TV. The NewBay white label software platform powers cloud-based services for storing, sharing, accessing and organizing digital content. NewBay enables customers to monetize a wide range ofbranded services such as social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, notifications and converged messaging. NewBay is delivering highly successful commercial services for operators and device makers worldwide. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon and LG Electronics. NewBay is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator and device maker services. NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, USA; Atlanta, USA; London, UK; Sydney, Australia and Seoul, South Korea. NewBay was founded in 2002. Following acquisition in 2011, NewBay is a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM).
• Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
• GitGuardian — GitGuardian provides a platform for detecting and managing sensitive digital credentials and machine identities within software development environments. The company’s solutions scan source code repositories, cloud infrastructure configurations, and other development tools to identify exposed secrets such as API keys, security tokens, andcertificates that could be inadvertently committed. Its offerings include internal monitoring tools that help organizations observe secrets within private codebases and public monitoring capabilities to uncover leaks that occur in publicly accessible repositories. GitGuardian also supports governance over non‑human identities by maintaining inventories of machine accounts and associated credentials while offering contextual insights and workflows to assist security teams in prioritizing and addressing potential risks. The platform integrates with a variety of developer and security tools to bring visibility into hidden credentials across a technology stack and to support collaborative remediation activities. GitGuardian delivers automated detection paired with incident tracking features that assist in classifying exposures and guiding corrective actions throughout the software development lifecycle. The company’s technology targets security, DevOps, and compliance functions that aim to strengthen credential hygiene and reduce chances of unauthorized access within organizational systems.

Portfolio highlights

• Ascendx Cloud — Supercharge Salesforce with connected apps that streamline sales, automate data, and drive enterprise-scale growth - Salesforce Solutions By Ascendx
• Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
• Isembard — Reindustrialising the West

Portfolio highlights

• Zaro — Your context, your governance, your data with apps and agents on top. Owned by you, live in hours.
• Uncovr — Surgical video is the biggest dark data in medicine. We turn it into operative reports, billing codes, and clinical intelligence automatically
• Structured AI — Construction AI QA/QC software that automatically reviews drawing packages and catches errors, code issues, and coordination clashes before they reach the field.

Portfolio highlights

• Lateral UK — Lateral exists solely to reinvent health and wealth goods for fit, energetic adults over the age of 60, and has no plans to stop.
• Baobab — Protect your business against cyber attacks
• Artificial Labs — Build your future placement and underwriting strategy with Artificial's pioneering technology.

Portfolio highlights

• Embedd — Chips modelled as digital twins. Software, tests and simulations generated for any target.
• Plain — Plain, a new startup that wants to reinvent support tools. While the customer support space is a competitive industry with big tech companies like Intercom and Zendesk, Plain believes it has a different approach as it focuses on API integrations to make your company’s product and your support platform work hand in hand.
• Citymapper — The ultimate transport app - iPhone / Android / Web

Portfolio highlights

• Esper — Esper is the first cloud-based platform to help governments proactively manage public policy with better data and transparency.
• Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
• TAG Therapeutics — TAG Therapeutics develops precision medicine approaches for telomere pathologies and aging-related diseases, such as Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Short Telomere Syndromes

Portfolio highlights

• 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.
• LANDBAY — Your dedicated Landbay intermediary page for specialist buy-to-let mortgages. Partner with a lender who gives you direct decisions with a flexible approach and a full online application process.
• OurPetsLife — At OurPetsLife, our mission is to empower pet owners with innovative, reliable, and accessible Pet products trusted by the professionals. From dog food, supplements for pets, shampoo, pet treats, dental care & much more.

Portfolio highlights

• CSignum — Revolutionising underwater communications with electromagnetic technology for seamless data integration between surface & submerged devices.
• Returnal — Supercharge your sustainability journey with our buy-back tech. We invite you to own products through their 2nd and 3rd lifecycles through our buy-back model. Find out more today...
• Archangels — Established in 1992. Archangels is the oldest continuously operating business angel syndicate in the World. Investing in IP-rich tech & life sciences companies in Scotland, UK.

Portfolio highlights

• Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
• Aurora — The Operating System for High Performance Living
• OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback

Portfolio highlights

• Pockit — Open a prepaid account in 3 minutes online or in-app, get your contactless prepaid card in 2 working days with no credit check.
• Visium — We help companies unlock transformative and sustainable impact through artificial intelligence; delivering enterprise AI strategy, platforms & MLOps that scale securely and drive measurable ROI.
• Paypercut — Paypercut is a fintech startup that allows small and mid-scaled merchants to offer Buy Now, Pay Later at checkout via a single integration.

Portfolio highlights

• Talentir — Talentir runs global payouts, carries the liability and makes them profitable. Pay creators, sellers and freelancers in 180+ countries in seconds.
• Xylo — Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery.
• Steward — Steward is an end-to-end KYC/B onboarding experience built for an AI age.

Portfolio highlights

• ROLEY's — ROLEY’S is a beverage company that produces vitamin-enriched lager. Its drinks are formulated with B-vitamins such as B3, B5, B6, and B9 and contain minimal sugar and carbohydrates. The company aims to offer an alternative beer option that aligns with modern nutrition and wellness preferences.
• Emerald — Comprehensive in-clinic biomarker testing, GP-reviewed results with past health data integration and personalised action plan. Designed to help you understand your risks earlier and act with medical support.
• When in Rome | B Corp™ — We bring you craft wines made by small, independent producers and sold in convenient, eco-friendly bag-in-boxes at a great price with free delivery.

Portfolio highlights

• Mintago — Home - Mintago
• Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
• Artificial Labs — Build your future placement and underwriting strategy with Artificial's pioneering technology.

Portfolio highlights

• Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
• NeuralTrust — NeuralTrust is the leading security platform for generative AI, offering a unified command center for real-time defense and offense. Its open source AI gateway delivers the fastest performance in the market for managing LLM traffic, while its automated red teaming engine proactively uncovers vulnerabilities, ensuring robust protection for your AIsystems.
• Valeria HR — Valeria HR is a digitized workforce management platform driven by AI.