Top 50 Transportation Startup Investors in United Kingdom (September 2026)

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• Anemo Labs — We develop highly selective polymer-based sensors to detect gas VOCs in the ppb range, in real-time. We combine custom hardware with Machine Learning to characterize smells
• FlairMakers — FlairMakers provides a digital talent platform connecting hospitality businesses with vetted freelance professionals.
• Pure Capture Innovations — Pure Capture Innovations develop the next generation of sustainable adsorbents to solve the emerging PFAS crisis, removing 'forever chemicals' contaminating our water and affecting public health

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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.
• 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.

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• 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.

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• AI Score — AI Score empowers organisations to harness AI safely
• Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
• 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.

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• xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
• K3 Metrology — K3 Metrology is a specialist metrology company commercialising laser‑based 3D coordinate measurement technology developed at the National Physical Laboratory. The company’s platform is designed to provide high‑accuracy, uncertainty‑aware dimensional data in large‑volume industrial environments, supporting inspection and assembly processes inadvanced manufacturing. Its systems integrate into production workflows where traceable measurements are required across complex geometries and large structures. The technology is applied in sectors such as aerospace, defence, and nuclear, where dimensional integrity and process control are critical.
• MoA Technology — We harness the principles of natural selection to accelerate discovery for better, safer herbicides so farmers can continue to feed the world.

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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.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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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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• Process Vision — Process Vision Ltd. Innovation in Natural Gas Monitoring. Revolutionary technology to improve operational excellence.

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• Cellexcel — Cellexcel is a biomaterials research company that develops technology for enhancement of water resistance of biomaterials.
• Kubos Semiconductors — Kubos Semiconductors is develop and commercialize cubic-GaN for high efficiency, low-cost LEDs using intellectual property.
• Advanced Electric Machines — Our magnet free motors help manufacturers build more sustainable vehicles and products. See how we can help you today.

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• ZML — ZML is a production inference stack, purpose-built to decouple AI workloads from proprietary hardware.
• Bios Life — Bios Life is a technology-enabled healthcare company built to empower individuals to proactively manage their cancer risk, redefining personalized cancer screening and survivorship.
• Fractile — Fractile is designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at 1/10th the cost.

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• 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.
• Neighbourhood — Neighbourhood transform unused spaces in restaurants, hotels and residences, into local hubs for co-working, creating and collaborating.

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• Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
• Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
• HelmGuard AI — HelmGuard develops an AI-driven trust infrastructure platform for security, compliance, and third-party risk management. The company provides an operational risk infrastructure layer that centralizes fragmented security, compliance, and vendor data into a structured repository. Its platform coordinates autonomous, domain-specific AI agents thatperform continuous data indexing, compliance mapping, automated vendor assessments, and real-time security tracking. HelmGuard includes a risk operating system, a zero-knowledge verification engine for selective disclosure and cryptographic-style proofs, and persona-specific risk intelligence reporting. These capabilities support first-party, third-party, and customer-facing workflows across sectors such as financial services, SaaS, and healthcare. The platform is used by security, risk, and compliance teams to maintain continuous oversight of internal controls, vendor posture, and regulatory obligations while generating tailored, natural-language reports for business stakeholders.

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• Revive — Revive! is the UK's leading mobile repairer of minor damage to car bodywork or alloy wheels. Interested in a franchise? Follow @revivefranchise.
• Big Potato Games — Big Potato is a board games company that's as versatile as its vegetable namesake.
• Ellis Recruitment Group — Ellis Recruitment Group provides specialist IT staff to enterprises across the world. Through our four brands, we provide an unparalled recruitment service.

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• 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

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• Kenoteq — Discover Kenoteq, pioneering the sustainable construction revolution with our innovative, ultra low-carbon building materials.
• QuickBlock — QUICKBLOCK delivers training environments, deployable infrastructure and force protection solutions for defence and security organisations worldwide.
• Singular Photonics — Singular Photonics is a startup that creates SPAD-based image sensors.

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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.
• 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.
• 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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• 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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• BeyondMath — AI-first approach to simulating the physical world
• Matta — Creating AGI to manufacture the impossible.
• Bumper — Split the cost of your car repairs and servicing into manageable monthly instalments with 0% interest. Fix it. Split it. Sorted.

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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.
• Artificial Labs — Build your future placement and underwriting strategy with Artificial's pioneering technology.

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• RevEng — RevEng.AI is a cyber security and artificial intelligence company that helps organizations understand their cyber security supply chain. RevEng.ai identifies fundamental components of closed-source program binaries and generates real-valued vector embeddings for each component.
• 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.
• SimplyCook — SimplyCook offers home recipe kits with easy step-by-step guides to cook restaurant-quality food in less than 20 minutes.SimplyCook boxes contain 4 easy to follow recipes and 4 ingredient kits. Each kit is designed to provide perfect taste-containing ingredient blends devised by professional chefs.

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• Mykor — Mykor develops and scales the next generation of building insulation that considers both human and planet health using industrial residues and mycelium for a 100% circular product.
• Metal Morph — Metal Morph's mission is to advance the transformation of wastewater treatment plants into circular supply chains.
• Sorted — Sorted is helping waste management companies to sort their recycled materials more efficiently.

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• AAZZUR — AAZZUR is an embedded finance platform helping businesses launch payments, cards, lending and financial services through flexible financial infrastructure.
• OnCare — Home care software | care management system
• SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.

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• Vertal — Vertal is a food waste recycling company
• Welding Engineers — Welding Engineers has been in business since 1966 and is a major independent door company specialising in the manufacture, installation, repair and maintenance of all types of Industrial Doors and Shutters, Steel Fabrication, Lift Gates and Shutters, Industrial Roofing and Structural Glazing.
• Industrial Engineering Plastics — Industrial Engineering Plastics delivers specialist thermoplastic fabrication, DW154-compliant ductwork, machining, and plastics distribution

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• cheMastery — Echo handles repetitive tasks with accuracy and precision, allowing your chemists to tackle high-value challenges.
• Vosbor — Vosbor is a digital grain & oilseed trading platform providing a spot and forward market to reconcile trade data & securely share documents.
• Paddington Robotics — Paddington Robotics specializes in implementation of AI, robotics, software and hardware solutions in real life.

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• Apron — Apron brings payments, expenses, and accounting together in one platform. Built for business owners, accountants, and finance teams.
• Gluster — Gluster is an open source, distributed file system that is capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling many clients. In order to simplify the task of storing and managing the growth of unstructured data, Gluster has created and delivered open source scale-out cloud storage software. It allows enterprises to combine large numbers ofcommodity storage and compute resources into a high performance, virtualized, and centrally managed pool. Gluster has been deployed by hundreds of global enterprises and service providers across industries including media, healthcare, consumer internet, energy, and biotech. It is based on a stackable user space design and can deliver high performance for diverse workloads. It has many attributes that includes: Scalability and Performance, Global Namespace, Elastic Hash Algorithm, Elastic Volume Manager, and Standards-based. Gluster is privately-held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
• StorSimple — Learn how to migrate a StorSimple 8100 or 8600 appliance to Azure File Sync.

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• 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.

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• VisioLab — Instantly scan products for self-checkout, using the iPad camera - no barcodes needed. Designed for speed, simplicity and human centricity.
• Bloom — Moved to @bloomsocial
• Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.

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• Chexy — Let your rent elevate your lifestyle. Chexy is the new standard for paying rent. We believe that tenants should be able to pay rent digitally and flexibly while building credit and earning rewards.
• Observable Space — OurSky is a modern developer platform for space applications. We provide real-time observational data and analysis of objects and activities in space. Built as an open, community-driven resource for the new space age engineer.
• Integral Privacy Technologies — Real-world data, ready for AI.

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• 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

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• KVector — KVector creates communication and sensing solutions with high gain and efficiency from X-band to sub-terahertz bands and beyond. Modern antenna systems are built by KVector.
• Anemo Labs — We develop highly selective polymer-based sensors to detect gas VOCs in the ppb range, in real-time. We combine custom hardware with Machine Learning to characterize smells
• Athernal Bio — Athernal Bio is developing targeted immunotherapies to treat blood cancer precursor conditions before cancers become established.

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• 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.

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• Mirna — Soon to be launched, our AI-powered MI:RNA platform is designed to detect a range of diseases prior to the development of clinical signs. This groundbreaking
• QuickBlock — QUICKBLOCK delivers training environments, deployable infrastructure and force protection solutions for defence and security organisations worldwide.
• Gutsy Health — Bloated after eating? Tired of feeling like sh!t? Are you really doing all the right stuff for your gut? We'll help you make good gut choices

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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.
• Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.

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• aXenic — aXenic are leaders in optical modulators for satellite and aerospace communications.
• Hubble Network — Connect a Bluetooth device to a global satellite network, delivering affordable, low-power tracking and monitoring for diverse industrial and commercial applications.
• Zeno Power — Clean, plug-and-play power, anywhere in the universe.

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• 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.
• 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