City & Bank is home to 85 of London's best tech companies, led by Fintech (31).
The Square Mile around Bank, St Paul's and Moorgate.
- Fintech31
- Other16
- Crypto14
- AI9
- Climate8
- Health3
- Defence2
- Deeptech2
Fintech(31)
- Funding Circle$375M
Lending platform that gives small businesses fast loans, funded by institutional investors.
SME lending · Well known - Alfa Financial Software
Sells Alfa Systems, software that lenders use to run asset finance and leasing businesses.
Asset finance software · Well known - IG Group
Online trading platform offering spread betting, CFDs, share dealing, options and crypto trading to retail and professional clients.
Online trading · Well known - IntegraFin
IntegraFin runs Transact, an investment platform for UK financial advisers and their clients, and sells software to advice firms including the Curo CRM.
Investment platform · Well known - LSEG
LSEG provides financial market data and analytics, indices, risk intelligence and market infrastructure including exchanges and clearing.
Market data · Well known - Paysafe
Payments group offering merchant payment processing, digital wallets such as Skrill and Neteller, and online cash solutions such as paysafecard.
Payments · Well known - Teya
Card payments, business accounts and funding for small local businesses across Europe, formerly SaltPay.
Merchant Payments · Well known - Trading 212
Commission-free app for trading and investing in stocks, ETFs and ISAs.
Retail investing · Well known - Zego
Tech-led motor insurer for gig workers, fleets and everyday drivers, using telematics to price policies.
Insurtech · Well known - Bank of London£150M
Wholesale bank offering accounts, payments, clearing and agency banking to banks and fintechs.
Clearing Bank · Fastest growing - INSTANDA$85M+
No-code platform that lets insurers and MGAs build, configure and distribute insurance products.
Insurtech · Fastest growing - ZILO€64.5M
Cloud-native transfer agency and investor servicing software for global asset and wealth managers.
Transfer Agency Software · Fastest growing - Timeline£17.3M
Planning software, model portfolios and investment platform for UK financial advisers.
Wealthtech · Fastest growing - BMLL Technologies
BMLL provides historical order book data and analytics for equities, ETFs, futures and options from 100+ trading venues.
Market data · Fastest growing - MillTech
Platform that automates FX hedging and cash management for fund managers and corporates.
FX And Treasury · Fastest growing - Paymentology
Cloud-based card issuer-processor that lets banks and fintechs launch physical and virtual cards.
Card Issuer Processing · Fastest growing - Ki Insurance$500M
Lloyd's first fully digital, algorithm driven syndicate that lets brokers get instant specialty insurance quotes.
Algorithmic Insurance · Up and coming - Kroo£72M+
Licensed UK digital bank paying interest on current accounts, with savings, ISAs and loans.
Neobank · Up and coming - Sharegain$75M
Sharegain provides securities lending as a service so brokers, private banks and custodians can lend out clients' stocks, bonds and ETFs for income.
Securities lending · Up and coming - APEXX Global€40.4M
APEXX runs a payment orchestration platform that lets enterprise merchants route payments across providers through a single API.
Payment orchestration · Up and coming - Novatus Global$40M
Regulatory reporting software and consulting that helps banks and asset managers check, fix and manage transaction reporting.
Regtech · Up and coming - Sprive£13.3M
Sprive is an app that helps homeowners pay off their mortgage faster through automatic overpayments, partly funded by cashback from everyday shopping.
Mortgage app · Up and coming - Incard£10M+
Business accounts, cards, cashflow and treasury tools for fast-growing digital companies.
SME business banking · Up and coming - Artificial Labs
Specialty insurance platform for brokers and underwriters, covering algorithmic underwriting and delegated authority.
Insurtech · Up and coming - Finbourne Technology
Cloud data management platform that gives asset managers and banks a consolidated view of their investment data.
Investment data · Up and coming - Genesis Global
Genesis Global provides a low-code application development platform for financial institutions.
Capital markets software · Up and coming - Neudata
A marketplace and research service that helps investment firms find, evaluate and price alternative and market datasets.
Alternative data · Up and coming - Pollinate
A white-label platform banks use to onboard and serve small business merchant services customers.
Merchant services · Up and coming - Superscript
Digital insurance broker selling business insurance to small firms and high-growth tech companies.
Insurtech · Up and coming - Vitesse
Treasury and payments platform for insurers that manages claim funds and pays claimants, vendors and reinsurers across the insurance value chain.
Insurance payments · Up and coming - Wrisk
Platform that lets car makers launch and run their own branded motor insurance products.
Embedded insurance · Up and coming
Other(16)
- Deliveroo$1.53B
Online food and grocery delivery marketplace connecting restaurants, shops and riders, now part of DoorDash.
Food Delivery · Well known - Endava
NYSE-listed software engineering and IT services firm building digital products and platforms for enterprise clients.
IT services · Well known - GlobalData
GlobalData sells subscription data, analytics and AI tools that give companies intelligence on their industries and markets.
Data analytics · Well known - Team Internet Group
Team Internet runs domain name management, online product comparison and search advertising services for brands, publishers and consumers.
Domains and ad tech · Well known - Trainline
Rail and coach ticketing app and website selling tickets across the UK and Europe.
Rail ticketing · Well known - Trustpilot
Trustpilot runs an online platform where consumers publish reviews of businesses and businesses manage and display them.
Online reviews · Well known - Plentific$140M
Property operations software for landlords and housing providers to manage repairs, contractors and compliance.
Proptech · Fastest growing - Duel$21M
Duel is a software platform that lets consumer brands build, manage and pay communities of creators, ambassadors and customer advocates.
Marketing tech · Fastest growing - Zero Gravity£7.6M
Zero Gravity is an online platform that gives students from low-opportunity backgrounds mentoring and AI tutoring to help them reach top universities and careers.
Edtech · Fastest growing - Arbolus
Expert network platform that connects investors and consultants with industry experts through calls, video Q&A and searchable AI transcripts.
Expert network · Fastest growing - Ben
AI-native platform for companies to design, manage and scale employee benefits globally.
Employee Benefits · Fastest growing - Yoti
Digital identity and age verification provider, known for its ID wallet and AI age estimation.
Digital Identity · Fastest growing - Qogita$88.1M
B2B wholesale marketplace for branded health and beauty products across Europe.
B2B Wholesale Marketplace · Up and coming - Learnerbly£18.5M
Platform where employees spend company learning budgets on courses and coaching from 100+ providers, with retraining-based outplacement for departing staff.
Workplace learning · Up and coming - Element
Element makes secure, self-hostable chat and collaboration apps built on the open Matrix protocol.
Secure messaging · Up and coming - Lyst
Global fashion shopping platform that lets shoppers search and buy products from thousands of brands and retailers in one place.
Fashion marketplace · Up and coming
Crypto(14)
- B2C2
Institutional crypto liquidity provider and OTC market maker, majority-owned by Japan's SBI Holdings.
Institutional Liquidity · Well known - CF Benchmarks
FCA-regulated crypto index provider whose bitcoin reference rate prices major US spot bitcoin ETFs.
Crypto Benchmarks · Well known - Wintermute
Algorithmic trading firm that provides liquidity across crypto markets and is expanding into traditional markets.
Market Making · Well known - Komainu$100M
Regulated digital asset custodian offering custody, staking, tokenisation and collateral services to institutions.
Institutional custody · Fastest growing - Elliptic
Blockchain analytics used by exchanges, banks and governments for crypto compliance and risk screening.
Blockchain analytics · Fastest growing - Aztec$117M
Privacy-first Ethereum layer 2 using zero-knowledge proofs, plus the Noir language for private smart contracts.
Privacy Layer 2 · Up and coming - GFO-X$50M
FCA-regulated UK trading venue for centrally cleared digital asset futures and options for institutional investors.
Crypto Derivatives Venue · Up and coming - ClearToken$10M
Builds clearing, payment and settlement infrastructure for institutional digital asset markets, regulated in the UK.
Digital Asset Clearing · Up and coming - Clearmatics
Researches and builds blockchain protocols and peer-to-peer platforms for decentralised financial markets.
Decentralised market protocols · Up and coming - Fiat Republic
Banking and payments API that gives crypto platforms regulated fiat accounts, virtual IBANs and payment rails.
Crypto Banking API · Up and coming - Haruko
Portfolio and risk management software for institutional crypto funds and trading firms.
Portfolio & risk software · Up and coming - Ownera
Builds FinP2P, an interoperability network letting banks trade and settle tokenised assets across blockchains and ledgers.
Tokenisation Infrastructure · Up and coming - Zodia Custody
Bank-backed crypto custodian offering custody, staking, trading and settlement services to institutions.
Institutional custody · Up and coming - Zodia Markets
Institutional digital asset brokerage for cross-border crypto and stablecoin trading with same-day settlement.
Institutional Crypto Brokerage · Up and coming
AI(9)
- Mimica
Task mining platform that records how enterprise staff work and maps processes for AI agents and automation.
Process Intelligence · Fastest growing - Doubleword$15M
Inference platform that lets enterprises run open-source AI models on their own infrastructure, cheaply.
Self-hosted LLM inference · Up and coming - General Reasoning$10.9M
General Reasoning is an AI research company training models for long-horizon reasoning and releasing tools such as OpenReward for agent training environments.
AI research lab · Up and coming - Pharosyn$3M
AI platform that helps pharma teams make commercial, portfolio and competitive intelligence decisions faster.
Pharma commercial AI · Up and coming - Nodes & Links
AI platform for scheduling, risk and project controls on large construction and infrastructure projects.
Construction Project Controls · Up and coming - Quix
Data platform that ingests real-time engineering and test data for hardware teams, with AI agents that automate analysis, dashboards and workflows.
Engineering data · Up and coming - Supercede
AI reinsurance intelligence platform helping brokers and cedents run client work and programme placement.
Reinsurance AI · Up and coming - thymia
AI that detects health signals like fatigue, stress and depression from short voice samples.
Voice Biomarkers · Up and coming - Umony
Captures, archives and analyses financial firms' communications across mobile, chat, email, voice and video, using AI to flag misconduct.
Compliance · Up and coming
Climate(8)
- Converge
Uses AI, wireless sensors and data to optimise concrete mixes and cut cement emissions in construction.
Concrete Decarbonisation · Fastest growing - Arenko£25M
Arenko's Nimbus software controls and trades grid-scale battery storage assets in energy markets.
Battery trading software · Up and coming - Meatly£17.4M
Makes cultivated chicken for pet food from cells, the first company to sell cultivated meat for pets.
Cultivated Meat · Up and coming - Altruistiq
Climate data platform for food and beverage firms, covering corporate and product carbon footprints and supplier decarbonisation.
Carbon Accounting · Up and coming - char.gy
Installs and runs on-street EV chargers for residents without driveways across UK councils.
EV Charging · Up and coming - Greenpixie
Emissions and sustainability data for cloud and AI infrastructure, helping IT teams cut carbon and cost.
Cloud Emissions Data · Up and coming - Kita
Kita is a Lloyd's coverholder that sells insurance against delivery, failure and political risk for carbon and natural capital projects.
Carbon insurance · Up and coming - Osprey Charging Network
Osprey builds and runs a UK network of public rapid and ultra-rapid EV charging hubs.
EV charging · Up and coming
Health(3)
- Semble
Practice management and electronic health record platform for private outpatient healthcare providers.
Practice Management Software · Fastest growing - Frontier Health$16M
Builds Juno, an AI agent that takes on admin work in NHS hospitals to cut delays in patient care.
NHS Admin AI · Up and coming - Entia
Entia makes Liberty, a home finger-prick blood analyser that returns results in minutes and shares them with the patient's healthcare professional.
Home diagnostics · Up and coming
Defence(2)
- Delian Alliance Industries$14M
Builds low-cost autonomous defence systems including targeting systems, surveillance towers, drones and software.
Autonomous systems · Up and coming - Adarga
AI software that helps defence and security teams analyse large volumes of information and make faster decisions.
Defence Intelligence AI · Up and coming
Deeptech(2)
- Vaire Computing$4.5M
Designs reversible-computing chips that recover and recycle most of the energy used in computation to cut power use for AI workloads.
Reversible computing chips · Up and coming - Reelables
Reelables makes printable, battery-powered smart labels that track the location of shipments, cargo and inventory.
IoT tracking · Up and coming
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