Top 30 Local VC Funds & Investors in United Kingdom (September 2026)

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• StratoBayes — Automated stratigraphic correlation with quantified uncertainty, built on Bayesian statistical inference.
• Camena Bioscience — Camena Bioscience is a synthetic biology company that develops tools to engineer new synthetic biology applications. It has engineered new nucleic acid synthesis technology which improves the quality and speed of synthesis. Its multi-enzymatic technology takes one approach to DNA, RNA, and XNA synthesis, offering increased accuracy over existingPhosphoramidite synthesis technology.Camena Bioscience was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge.
• Warwick Acoustics Ltd — Warwick Acoustics is a UK-based technology company specialising in the development of HighRes Audio solutions for the automotive and headphone markets based on its patented High Precision Electrostatic Laminate technology (HPELs). Their ultra thin, lightweight HPELs deliver audiophile performance across a bandwidth several octaves greater thantraditional moving coil speakers in a form factor that is less than one quarter the weight, and one tenth of the thickness. In addition, HPELs offer designers unparalleled flexibility to shaped and form a speaker to individual design requirements.

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• 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.

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• Staff Heroes — Staff Heroes is the leading temp staffing platform revolutionising flexible work in London. Register free to start using our temp staffing platform today
• Funding Xchange — Funding Xchange is transforming and connecting the SME funding eco-system through digital eligibility and affordability assessment tools. Funding Xchange built its leading technology platform by connecting businesses with more than 70 funders to access indicative offers in 3 minutes and money in businesses’ bank accounts in 10 minutes.Funding Xchange’s Marketplace provides access to finance where businesses are engaging with their finance. Using its API-led technology, Funding Xchange is embedding its Marketplace in the largest Price Comparison Websites like MoneySuperMarket, delivering custom marketplaces to banks like NatWest and Monzo, integrating finance solutions in advisory platforms like Enterprise Nation and finance available within accounting software and payment providers own eco-system. Through FXE Technologies, the business white-labels its intelligent SME lending tools for banks, funders and brokers. Clients are able to deploy white-labelled, digitally-led customer journeys and market-facing intermediary portals, transforming operating costs and increasing look-to-book ratios while also empowering active portfolio risk management.The tools are powered by real-time access to validated transactional data and leverage insights into risk analytics and underwriting across a broad spectrum of SME funding solutions. The eligibility and affordability tools deliver the benefits of digital transformation without the risk of complex and costly technology projects. Funding Xchange was founded in 2014 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom.
• Crossflow - The Working Capital Marketplace — At Crossflow we believe that our tech and AI can change working cap finance market #workingcapital #finance #cashflow #ai # fintech #treasurymanagement

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• Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
• Amino —
• Double-Barrelled Brewery — Double-Barrelled Brewery is a business that specialises in brewing a variety of craft beers,

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• TMT ID — A leading provider of global mobile and device intelligence. We power leading identity providers, A2P SMS messaging companies and financial organisations.
• Granite Digital — Granite provides a wide range of digital solutions to businesses across Ireland, including digital strategy, web design, web development, digital marketing, seo and ppc consultancy and managed hosting.
• The Consulting Consortium — The Consulting Consortium (TCC) provide expert financial services compliance solutions to regulated financial services firms. We have developed an unsurpassed reputation for helping forward thinking firms achieve the important balance between profit and regulation. Having grown significantly over the past decade, we are now the largest independentprovider of compliance services in the UK. Our growth has been recently recognised by being placed 45th on the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 league, which lists Britain's top 100 fastest growing businesses.

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• Konsileo — With over 35 years of experience, Konsileo Commercial Insurance Brokers protect businesses and mitigate risks. Contact us on 020 8148 9492
• Healthera — Your local pharmacy, whenever you need it. Order medicine, treatments and more from over 1,700 pharmacies across the UK.
• Infogrid — Infogrid Helps Facilities Management And Estate Owners Deliver Truly Smart Buildings. Our Unique IoT Smart Sensors Can Be Installed In Seconds And Provide Automation And Optimization To Save You Time And Money.

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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.
• 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.

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• QuantWare — QuantWare designs, develops and fabricates state-of-the-art superconducting Quantum Hardware with excellent specs, and good service.
• Modo Energy — Energy market data, benchmarking, and projections. All in one place and backed by Modo Energy insights.
• Dexter Energy Services — Dexter helps asset-backed renewable traders maximize profits through accurate forecasts and price insights, day-ahead to real time.

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• Ben — Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalise benefits and reward.Our secret? Marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee Mastercards and financial infrastructure. That’s how Ben instantly adds employee choice to your existing benefits, unlocks access to hundreds of additional options through Ben Card, all whilesaving you time and money.
• Distil.ai — Distil.ai is a software platform that helps businesses to understand their customers’ behavior and identify buying signals.
• MRC Engineering — MRC Engineering Providing a different option to the UK Rail Industry for Telecoms Design. Nationally renowned design specialists who provide extraordinary ...

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• 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.

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• Flure — Flure is a dating app designed to create an open-minded environment for women to meet and converse with like-minded people.
• My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.
• Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.

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• Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.
• AI Clearing — AI-powered platform for construction progress tracking and quality control, supporting contractors and asset owners in energy, utilities, infrastructure, and civil construction projects.
• Meisterwerk — Meisterwerk provides a SaaS operating system for SMB field service and craftsman companies. They offer services that include operational planning, mobile time tracking, digital forms, information exchange, and their own workflows. Meisterwerk helps to communicate between the office and the workforce.

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• Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
• Quoroom — A single intelligent platform to manage capital raising,equity, debt and employee options
• Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.

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• Semmle — Semmle develops an engineering analytics platform to manage the software development process. Its platform serves both technical and strategic decision making by analyzing software code quality in the context of other data, such as development cost, source code, issue tickets, test coverage, team location, and version history. Semmle'sproducts include Engineering Analytics and Code Exploration. Its clients include Citi, Credit Suisse, Dell, Murex, Nordea, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Trafigura. It was founded by Oegerikus de Moor, Pavel Avgustinov, and Julian Tribble on December 28, 2006. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California with offices in Oxford in the United Kingdom and Denmark.
• 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.
• Sookasa — Barracuda Networks is the worldwide leader in Security, Application Delivery and Data Protection Solutions.

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• 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.

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• Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.

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• 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.
• Maven Robotics — Maven Robotics is building the world's leading general purpose AI robots.

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• Ably Realtime — Ably is the realtime platform built for scale and reliability. Power live chat, messaging, collaborative apps, and AI experiences that never drop.
• OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.
• OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.

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• Streetlife — streetlife.com, the local social network, has a simple aim: to help people across Britain make the most of where they live by connecting with nearby residents, groups, organisations and businesses.The streetlife.com team believes that better connected neighbours build stronger communities, and that digital media has a key role to play inbringing together people with busy routines or reduced mobility, to discuss and improve the local issues they care about.The site provides an easy way for locals to share practical information, advice, opinions, skills and resources. People sign up using their postcode, and can start and join conversations with others in their area. Users can customise their settings so they control how much information they receive, the areas they're interested in, and what they share about themselves.Main uses of the site include:- discussing nearby news, crime, planning proposals and public services- finding locals with common interests, organising and attending social groups and events- sharing skills and belonging with neighbours, from hedge-trimmers to spreadsheet skills- recommending and discovering local businesses and tradespeople- promoting, campaigning and volunteering for community projects and local causesstreetlife.com is a privately funded limited company headquartered in Covent Garden, London.Following a successful pilot in the London Borough of Wandsworth, streetlife.com is now available nationwide. The service is free for residents discussing local issues. Find out more and watch a short video narrated by Stephen Fry at www.streetlife.com.

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• Femeda — Femeda provides groundbreaking technology for the treatment of urinary incontinence for women worldwide. Get in touch today to find out more.
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• Greengage Lighting — Greengage was founded in 2008 and is based on site at the Roslin Institute Edinburgh University. Their presence at the universities campus for veterinary studies, demonstrates their focus on delivering innovative and applicable technologies to the agricultural sector. They work for farmers improving the overall well-being and productivity of theirlivestock.

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• Bakedin — Bakedin, a Basingstoke-based baking subscription service, provides premium home baking products featuring exclusive recipes by Michel Roux.The home baking kits are unique: they feature exclusive recipes by Michel Roux, one of the world's finest ever pastry chefs. They include all the dry ingredients bagged separately pre-cut baking paper andeven the tin to bake in giving authentic baking from scratch experience. Their baking kits are extremely popular as gifts and for baking with children as an activity that teaches them real cooking skills with a little less hassle and no waste.Their mug baking mixes use the same top-quality ingredients as their baking kits but enable to bake a brownie, cookie, or cake in a mug in the microwave in less than 2 minutes. They sell them in individual pots as well as in multipacks. These have quickly become their best selling products and have a very broad appeal.Bakedin was founded in 2013 by 3 friends - Joe, Anna, and Elaina - and is based in North Hampshire.
• Stitched — Made to measure curtains and blinds made from natural and sustainable fabrics. Book our end-to-end measuring and installation service in London.
• RazorSecure — RazorSecure provides rail cyber security solutions powered by machine learning, and designed to protect rolling stock, signalling and infrastructure systems

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• uberlife — uberlife is a real-world location-based socializing app to help people hang out more with their friends, network and new likeminded people around them, wherever they go.Users join the community by signing up with Facebook or Twitter and can also connect their Last.fm account.Users create real world "hangouts" showing where theyare going to be and when and broadcast these directly from the app through Facebook and Twitter to invite whoever is free to "come join". Anyone who joins can also invite their friends by broadcasting the hangout through their own networks.Adding tags to hangouts matches these to local uberlife users' interests too, as well as their Facebook Likes and Last.fm bands, to notify them that a hangout is taking place that they're interested in and to invite them to join.Users can check in to hangouts, post comments and upload photos creating a digital memory capture of the hangout and group photo display. These actions are also (soon to be) broadcast-able directly from the app through Facebook and Twitter that enables a live activity stream before, during and after the hangout.Users can follow other uberlife users that they'd like to hang out with to be notified when that person creates a nearby hangout. Users only become Friends in uberlife IF they are following each other AND they have attended the same hangout i.e. hung out in real life. All users earn a Connector Score when they create hangouts and connect people in real life. When two people join a hangout and then follow each other in uberlife, the "creator" boosts their Connector Score by one.
• ProFounder — ProFounder is a crowdfunding platform that enables entrepreneurs to raise investment capital from friends, family, and community members.
• Elemental Machines — The Elemental Machines platform distills a lab full of data onto a single dashboard. Turnkey sensors and real-time data monitoring make setup a breeze and surprises a thing of the past.

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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.
• Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
• martee ai — Reduce Wastage, Unlock Revenue, Maximise Profit. Martee ai is the only demand forecasting tool tailored for the food-on-the-go industry.

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• Hoop — Hoop is an app that helps families across the UK discover things to do with their kids.
• Curiscope — Inspiring curious kids to develop a love for Science. Their beautifully designed Augmented Reality products allow children to explore the world around them in ways they never thought possible.Their first product. The Virtuali-Tee is an Augmented Reality T-Shirt. Point their free app (on iOS & Android) at the 100% cotton supersoft tee andwatch it bring the Science of Anatomy to life.
• 1 Second Everyday — A modern day visual diary on iOS and Android.

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• Tenzo — Tenzo is a restaurant analytics and AI forecasting platform for restaurants, pubs and cafes. Tenzo makes running restaurants easy with full data visibility.
• Coolabi — Coolabi Group is a independent international media group and rights owner specialising in the creation, development and brand management of children’s and family intellectual property rights.The group, made up of Coolabi and Working Partners, has particular expertise in television, digital and books.The group also creates original seriesfiction for publishers and has created some 100 published series, consisting of over 1,000 books, sold in more than 40 languages. Four of these series, Warriors, Beast Quest, Animal Ark and Rainbow Magic have sold over ten million copies each.Coolabi Group has reached an agreement with Alibaba Pictures Group Limited for the film rights for Warriors. Alibaba Pictures intends to develop Warriors into a world-class fantasy movie which has David Heyman (Harry Potter) as producer. The Warriors book series has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.The group also includes Rights People, the world’s number one licensor of children’s fiction, and The Greenhouse Literary Agency, a specialist transatlantic children’s literary agency.
• Pimloc — Pimloc's deep learning platform enables private businesses and public organisations to protect sensitive or personal data in video, to maintain safe online environments and to manage video security.

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• Lingvist — Lingvist is an innovative language learning platform that uses artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning algorithms to make the learning process faster and more efficient.Lingvist is a subscription service for language learning, accessible via three platforms (web, iOS, and Android) worldwide.Lingvist waslaunched in 2013 and is operated from Tallinn, Estonia.
• Sendbird — Sendbird is the omnichannel AI agent platform enterprises choose to elevate customer experience, by initiating autonomous support & sales conversations, keeping humans in the loop for complex inquiries, and re-engaging customers with proactive business messages. Combining omnichannel AI and a battle-tested, award-winning communication APIs,Sendbird enables businesses to build AI agents and meaningful customer connections at scale. Trusted by 4,000+ leading apps—including DoorDash, Match Group, Noom, and Yahoo Sports—Sendbird powers over 7 billion conversations every month, offering exceptional reliability, security, and compliance that meet enterprise-level demands.Headquartered in California, Sendbird is backed by ICONIQ, SoftBank, Tiger Global, Y Combinator, and other reputable investors.
• GeoSpock — GeoSpock DB is the SQL powered high performance analytics database for connected device data. Unlock IoT, smart city and mobility use cases at any data scale.

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• 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.

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• Climingo — Climingo provides a vendor-neutral software platform for evaluating and selecting weather and climate data providers. The company focuses on helping organizations compare forecast performance using their own locations, decision thresholds, and operational requirements. Its platform benchmarks accuracy across multiple vendors, modelling assumptions,resolutions, update frequencies, and geographies. Users can validate historical performance, conduct multi-vendor comparisons, and identify provider combinations that align with operational risk and decision needs. Climingo primarily serves sectors that depend on high-stakes weather and climate decisions, such as energy, insurance, infrastructure, and climate risk management. The service is delivered as an online SaaS product, including self-service trials to support procurement workflows and operational planning.
• EcoNomad Solutions — EcoNomad Solutions is an agritech startup for the sustainability of smallholder farming around the world. The company develops sustainable, affordable, and reliable solutions that manage resources for smallholding farms and rural communities. It also delivers small-scale technology for sustainable resource management and agricultural wastereduction.EcoNomad Solutions develops a small-scale anaerobic biodigester and a range of supplementary products and services that will practically help small farms to overcome waste disposal issues and generate an additional revenue stream.EcoNomad Solutions was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England, UK.
• Dragonfly Technology Limited — Software moves fast, and businesses are losing out. They’re using outdated tools, while watching competitors make strides with AI-first tech. But the fact is, the way teams discover and choose software has been broken for years. Dragonfly is a platform designed to simplify the process of software discovery with clarity, objectivity, and speed.With Dragonfly's proprietary AI-driven technology, businesses can make smarter, faster decisions by connecting their existing tech stack to a dynamic, curated dataset of the world’s most performant tools, to instantly provides contextual, personalised recommendations tailored to your unique challenges, goals, and stage of growth.Dragonfly is built to eliminate the confusion and bias from software selection. No more spreadsheets, vendor hype, or guesswork. With Dragonfly, your team can stay aligned, cut waste, and fast-track research. Whether you're scaling fast or looking for an AI-driven tool to enhance productivity, Dragonfly has you covered today and tomorrow.

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• Navifare — Navifare is an AI-powered travel price optimization and metasearch platform that focuses on flight, hotel, and car rental price comparison. The platform analyzes flight offers users already found and searches for lower fares from online travel agencies and airlines. Users can upload screenshots, paste flight details, or use a Chrome extension thatoverlays a “Find Better Fare” button on major booking sites. Navifare exposes its price discovery capabilities via a web app, a REST API, and an MCP server for integration into AI assistants. It redirects users to partner sites to complete bookings and does not handle payments directly.
• Zerolook — Zerolook provides a flight-shopping API for online travel agencies, airlines, metasearch services, and AI travel applications. Its machine-learning model predicts flight prices and itineraries using historical fare data instead of recomputing every fare combination through a global distribution system or airline system. The API returns predicteditineraries, prices, and confidence scores for exploratory search, while customers route completed bookings through their existing distribution channels. Zerolook supports REST and MCP integrations and provides booking links to external airlines and online travel agencies.
• Exclaim Robotics — Autonomous mobile robots for the AI data center.

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• 1mind — Finding a therapist is hard, we can help. Get matched to a therapist near you with 1mind.
• Codility — The #1 online coding test & interview platform for enterprises. Assess technical talent with valid skill-based assessments and interviews.
• Proxigroup — Solving the lack of visibility and transparency in asset management.