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

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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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• 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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• Obsero — Obsero is an AI search intelligence platform and consultancy designed for marketing and communications teams. The platform tracks, measures, and optimizes how brands surface, get cited, and are recommended across Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI search assistants.
• SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
• NEARHUMAN — Nearhuman develops intelligent safety systems for micromobility and other physical-world devices. The company focuses on edge AI and computer vision that run directly on vehicles such as e-scooters and e-bikes to detect hazards, monitor pedestrian proximity, and support real-time decision making. Its flagship product, Scootrr, is an AI-powered safety platform that enables on-device perception, automatic deceleration, and safety analytics without reliance on cloud connectivity. Nearhuman designs its technology to integrate with existing shared micromobility fleets, collaborating with operators, vehicle manufacturers, and research partners. The company also provides dashboards and tools that turn on-vehicle events into route-level safety intelligence for stakeholders such as fleet operators and city authorities. Its work spans hardware vision kits, embedded firmware, perception models, and supporting software for deployment and monitoring.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Camino — Camino Leisure Holdings is a Spanish bar and restaurant that serves authentic food and wines.
• Arran Aromatics —
• Boost Juice Bars UK — Boost Juice Bars UK offer a range of smoothies and freshly squeezed juice products.

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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.
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• Alchera Technologies — Alchera's AI-powered, cloud-based software platform provides real-time data on the movement of vehicles and pedestrians around cities and major infrastructure

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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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• QuantWare — QuantWare designs, develops and fabricates state-of-the-art superconducting Quantum Hardware with excellent specs, and good service.
• Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
• Amber Electric — Join the smart energy revolution. Amber Electric is a new way to buy electricity. Unlike traditional retailers, we pass through the real-time wholesale price, helping you save money and use more renewable power.

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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 — Artificial is the power between brokers and insurers in the specialty market. Underwriting technology and placement tools to move risk faster, with less in the way.
• Stoa Corporation — Save with Stoa and unlock premium perks upfront. Build better saving habits, protect your deposit, and enjoy real rewards with your Saving Score.

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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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• Discord — Discord is the easiest way to talk over voice, video, and text. Talk, chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.
• Vectra AI — Vectra AI delivers AI-native security and observability across network, identity, cloud, SaaS, and AI environments to reduce exposure, accelerate response, and strengthen cyber resilience.
• Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

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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.
• Octopus Deploy — Deploy software to multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments with Octopus Deploy, the continuous deployment software. Save 2000 hours per rollout, ensure reliable deployments, and automate routine tasks.

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• Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
• 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.
• Maven Robotics — Maven Robotics is building the world's leading general purpose AI robots.

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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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• 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.
• Living Optics — Living Optics is commercializing next generation imaging technology which leverages a compact camera system based on breakthroughs in hardware design and software processing.
• 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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• 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 — A global leader in the creation of Kids & Family IP across books, TV and digital platforms
• 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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• Neela Biotech — Transforming organic waste into carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuels through innovative biotechnology and AI.
• Stride Health Group — Digital health optimisation company, helping how people understand and optimise their health, fitness and longevity.
• Alchera Technologies — Alchera's AI-powered, cloud-based software platform provides real-time data on the movement of vehicles and pedestrians around cities and major infrastructure

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• 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.
• Fusionality — Fusionality is a Swiss fusion-technology company focused on measurement, control, and data systems for fusion devices.They combine expertise in fusion physics, control engineering, AI/ML, simulation, diagnostics, and real-time software.Their goal is to help fusion companies and research labs operate devices more efficiently and accelerate thedevelopment of commercial fusion energy.
• Affinity Labs — We build software companies with category-defining creators.

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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.

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• amber — info@amberoad.aiambeRoad is developing an intelligent enterprise search engine to help employees to find all relevant documents easily and quickly by integrating all company internal data sources into one search engine. Our solution allows access to all company-wide files from anywhere. Even if you don't exactly know what you are lookingfor, our cutting-edge AI will know because of a range of features implemented in our software.No need to tag documents manually, all in milliseconds - only one search request away.
• Credoxys — Credoxys develops organic electronic materials for OLED displays, OLED lighting, organic photovoltaics, and sensors. Its portfolio includes dopants and transport materials designed to influence charge transport, optical transmission, power consumption, and energy generation in organic electronic devices. The company also develops materials forscale-up and customer-specific applications.
• ENGO Eyewear — engo3 is a next generation heads up display built for endurance athletes. Instant, frictionless, hands free access to performance metrics with long battery life and an ultra lightweight form factor. Unlock your data, and experience an entirely new way to train and compete