Top 20 Franchise VC Funds & Investors in United Kingdom (October 2026)

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• Vocca — Voice AI for healthcare: 1,500+ practices, 20+ specialties. Vocca answers every patient call, books into your software and follows up with patients, 24/7.
• StandardX — StandardX is a deep-tech company building the isotope refinery powered by a scalable, compact particle accelerator platform.
• Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.

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• AI Score — AI Score is the intelligence-led AI governance platform for enterprise. Monitor AI risk, prove compliance and capture value in real time. Book a demo.
• Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
• Affinity Labs — We build software companies with category-defining creators.

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• Kaizan — Kaizan is a Client Intelligence Platform for Client Success teams to retain and grow revenue
• Ryft — Say hello to unified payment processing with Ryft. Accept payments online and in person, automate split payments, and monetise transactions from one integration.
• Serve First — Serve First is an AI customer experience platform that turns real-time feedback into insights, helping drive smarter business decisions.

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• Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
• Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network
• Rana Energy — No. 1 Solar Community in Africa

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• 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.
• NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
• Stellar — At Stellar we bring perfect internet on the move to vehicles and passengers, leveraging the combined strength of cellular, wi-fi, and satellite networks, through AI and fully integrated solutions. We offer SaaS, data plans, and all-inclusive options for enterprise connectivity needs on the move.

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• Hoora — Hoora is a mobile gaming platform that offers an instant, scrollable feed of over 200 casual and arcade mini-games playable without downloads or waiting.
• Verso — Verso is an AI-powered qualitative market research platform that automates consumer insights at scale. It uses adaptive AI to conduct 1-on-1 video or voice interviews with consumers worldwide, turning open-ended conversations into structured, actionable insights in under a week.
• Netsec — Professional cybersecurity and managed IT services to protect your business 24/7.

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• Waniwani — Help users better understand your offers through personalized AI experiences.
• CardNexus — CardNexus provides a digital platform for managing, trading, and selling trading card collections.
• Macrodata Labs — Turn Physical AI data into training signal: 3D hand tracking, automated QA, and action labeling at scale for robot and egocentric datasets.

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• The UK Adviser Group / AdviserTech® — At The UK Adviser, our advisers deal with lenders on a day-to-day basis. Their experience means they can offer more than just mortgages

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• EPYR — Turning renewable power into high-temperature heat with thermal energy storage
• quartz — Quartz operates a personal wealth platform that brings financial accounts and assets into one dashboard. The platform learns about users' goals and provides personalized financial information based on portfolio data, market information, news, and other financial inputs. Users can review their wealth across categories such as property, stocks, and cryptocurrency. Quartz also provides account information services under its United Kingdom regulatory registration and is developing the product for launch.
• Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.

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• LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
• Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
• Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.

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• Alpa — Alpa is a financial platform designed for hospitality businesses like restaurants and franchises. Alpa provides real-time financial insights for hospitality operators by integrating POS sales data, bank transactions, and supplier invoices into live profit and loss statements, cash flow tracking, and AI-driven recommendations.

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• BYJU'S — BYJU’S is a global ed-tech company that provides highly adaptive, engaging, and effective learning solutions to more than 150 million students around the world. Founded in India in 2011, BYJU's mission is to make high-quality learning accessible to students everywhere.The BYJU's family of brands includes Disney-BYJU's Early Learn,BYJU's FutureSchool, Epic!, Osmo, Tynker, Toppr, and WhiteHat Jr., along with the company’s beloved flagship product, BYJU's: The Learning App. Together, BYJU's solutions support pre-K–12 education and a wide range of competitive exams.BYJU’S delivers a world-class learning experience with tools that sit at the crossroads of mobile, interactive content, and personalized learning methodologies. Byju's geography-agnostic solutions and 12,000+ teachers make learning engaging with visual and contextual programs that adapt to the unique learning style, skill level, and pace of each student. In addition, BYJU’S has innovative partnerships with some of the world's largest companies, including Disney and Google, to drive engagement and help even more students become active and lifelong learners.BYJU’S is backed by blue-chip investors including the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Sequoia Capital, Bond Capital, Silver Lake, BlackRock, Sands Capital Management, Alkeon Capital Management, Sofina, Verlinvest, Tencent, Prosus (previously Naspers Ventures), CPPIB, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Qatar Investment Authority, Owl Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Times Internet, Aarin Capital, and IFC. Since 2017, BYJU’S has completed more than 15 acquisitions, including companies in the U.S., UK, Austria, India, and Singapore. A 2021 Time 100 Most Influential Company, BYJU’S is headquartered in India, with operations in more than 21 countries globally and learning programs in more than 8 languages.
• VIPKID — VIPKid is a global education technology company that connects children with the world’s best teachers for real-time online English immersion learning.VIPKid’s mission is to inspire and empower every child for the future. VIPKid envisions a global classroom that empowers students and teachers through personalized learning, connection of culturesacross the world and the passion for lifelong learning. It believes that education is not one-size-fits-all, rather, all students are unique and the world is within their reach when connected with great teachers capable of personalizing learning and sparking curiosity.Founded in 2013 and formally launched in 2014, VIPKid has become China’s market-leading online education startup, attracting investment from Tencent, Coatue Management, Sequoia Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Yunfeng Capital, Matrix Partners, Learn Capital, Northern Light VC and Bryant Stibel, among others. The VIPKid platform currently connects over 500,000 paying students with over 60,000 teachers in the US and Canada.
• Z.ai — Z.ai develops artificial intelligence models and services built upon large-scale pretrained architectures. The company offers ChatGLM, a dialogue-focused language model series designed for smooth conversation and easy integration. It also provides Ying, a text-to-video model capable of generating short video clips from text or images, and AutoGLM,a voice-driven AI agent that performs smartphone tasks based on complex user instructions. Z.ai supports integration through an API platform and offers migration assistance for developers moving from other AI ecosystems. The company’s technology stems from research at Tsinghua University’s KEG lab and emphasizes general-purpose cognitive intelligence models.

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• NanoStruct — NanoStruct is a biotechnology company that develops nanostructured sensor chips to identify bacteria and pathogens in food.
• Resolutiion — Resolutiion provides AI-powered software for managing commercial conflict, delivery risk, and business relationship performance. The platform supports organizations with dispute detection, workflow automation, contract monitoring, issue resolution, and operational risk management across customers, suppliers, workforce teams, and commercialpartnerships. Its system uses AI-driven analysis to identify relationship friction, monitor delivery performance, and support structured resolution processes. Resolutiion also provides commercial intelligence tools, reporting, and collaboration features for enterprise delivery and governance management.
• Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer

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• Omniplex — Omniplex eLearning solutions provider that's changing the way businesses train.
• Panthera Biopartners — Take part in paid clinical trials with Panthera Clinic. We run safe, professional medical research studies across the UK for a range of health conditions.
• Bespoke Kitchen Foods — Bespoke Kitchen Foods is a food products supplier. They manufacture vegetarian products such as burgers, biscuits and bars, bespoke kitchen foods, fat chef burgers, vegetarian pies, freezer to table, specialty bread, tarts, quiches, puddings, pastry, and cheesecake, and food service suppliers a range of vegetarian savories, cakes, and desserts fora wide range of restaurants and pubs.

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• Gaia Learning — Gaia Learning are a special online school dedicated to children with additional needs. We help kids with ADHD, ADD, OCD, PDA and Autism, learn online.
• BreezeMove — BreezeMove is a software firm that provides property management, consulting, home buying, and selling solutions.
• Prorizon — Lifelong optimal health and performance

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• Nestcoin — Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
• Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.
• Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.

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• MittiLabs — Mitti Labs leverages satellite & AI technology to enable a positive impact for nature & small-holder farming communities
• Syntetica — Syntetica is a materials technology and climate technology company that develops chemical recycling technology for synthetic textiles. It uses proprietary green chemistry to convert nylon textile waste into virgin-quality recycled polymers, enabling circular production for the textile, automotive, and industrial materials industries. Its mission isto decarbonize synthetic materials by making high-quality recycled feedstocks commercially viable.The company's proprietary chemical depolymerization process separates and recovers Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6 from blended textile waste that would otherwise be difficult to recycle. The process operates under low-temperature, low-pressure conditions, removes dyes and finishes, and produces recycled raw materials that can be reintroduced into manufacturing without compromising quality. Syntetica's technology supports textile-to-textile recycling and is designed to reduce carbon emissions, landfill waste, and reliance on virgin fossil-based materials.
• MacroCycle Technologies — MacroCycle Technologies: Old Threads, New Possibilities.

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• Embedd — Chips modelled as digital twins. Software, tests and simulations generated for any target.
• Complaion — Complaion is a compliance technology company that provides software and professional services for regulatory compliance and management system certifications. Its platform helps companies manage certification processes, including gap assessments, policies and procedures, controls, evidence, internal audits, and certification renewals. The company supports standards and regulations such as ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 13485, ISO 37001, NIS2, and GDPR. Complaion also provides dedicated Lead Auditor support throughout certification and compliance processes. Its services include employee training, Data Protection Officer support, data protection impact assessments, penetration testing, and compliance-related funding assistance. The platform provides monitoring, audit management, document and evidence management, risk management, and compliance tracking capabilities. Complaion serves small and medium-sized businesses across industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, construction, logistics, professional services, food, and information technology.
• JustSolve — JustSolve is an agentic debt collection team that allows organizations to recover more, spending less.

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• 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.
• Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
• welevel — Building games with attitude

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• Peckwater Brands — Peckwater Brands is a delivery franchise for kitchen operators, and the fastest growing virtual brand company in the UK.