Holborn & Bloomsbury is home to 64 of London's best tech companies, led by Fintech (16).
Chancery Lane, Fleet Street's north side and the squares of Bloomsbury.
- Fintech16
- AI15
- Other15
- Climate6
- Crypto4
- Defence4
- Health4
Fintech(16)
- Thought Machine$510M
Cloud-native core banking software (Vault) used by large banks to replace legacy systems.
Core banking software · Well known - ComplyAdvantage$108M
AI platform that screens customers and transactions for money laundering, sanctions and fraud risk.
AML Regtech · Well known - Payhawk
Spend management platform combining corporate cards, expenses, payables and accounting for finance teams.
Spend Management · Well known - PPRO
Local payment methods infrastructure for payment providers and merchants, covering 85+ markets.
Payments Infrastructure · Well known - Tandem Bank
Digital bank offering savings, mortgages and loans, with a focus on green home improvement lending.
Digital bank · Well known - Sequence$38M
Billing and quote-to-cash software that automates invoicing and revenue collection for B2B finance teams.
Billing automation · Fastest growing - 10x Banking
Cloud core banking platform that lets banks such as Westpac and Chase UK launch products faster.
Core banking software · Fastest growing - iwoca
Online lender giving small businesses in the UK and Germany fast, flexible working-capital loans.
SME lending · Fastest growing - YouLend
Embedded revenue-based financing platform that lets marketplaces, PSPs and ecommerce platforms offer capital to their merchants.
Embedded SME Financing · Fastest growing - Perenna$90M
Perenna is a UK bank offering long-term fixed-rate mortgages funded through covered bonds and savings deposits.
Mortgage lending · Up and coming - Benford$5.7M
Tech-led statutory audit firm running audits on its own platform, live in Norway and launching in the UK.
Audit Automation · Up and coming - Form3
Cloud platform that runs account to account payment processing for Tier 1 banks and fintechs, including Nationwide.
Payments Infrastructure · Up and coming - Juice
Revolving credit lines of £50K to £1M for UK SMEs, paired with free cash runway forecasting tools.
SME lending · Up and coming - Raylo
Subscription and leasing platform for phones, laptops and consumer electronics, with brand partners like PlayStation, LG and Dyson.
Device Subscriptions · Up and coming - Thredd
Issuer processing platform that lets fintechs and banks launch and run debit, credit, prepaid and virtual card programmes globally.
Issuer processing · Up and coming - Volt
Real-time account-to-account payment network and merchant accounts for businesses across the UK, EU and Australia.
Open Banking Payments · Up and coming
AI(15)
- Fractile$235M
Designs AI inference chips that run large models much faster and cheaper than today's GPUs.
AI inference chips · Well known - Solve Intelligence$55M
AI platform that helps patent attorneys draft, prosecute and litigate patents faster.
Patent AI · Fastest growing - SolveAI$50M
Enterprise platform that lets employees build and deploy custom AI applications using natural language instead of code.
Enterprise AI Apps · Fastest growing - Fyxer AI$40M
AI assistant that sorts your inbox, drafts email replies and takes meeting notes.
AI Email Assistant · Fastest growing - Maze$31M
AI agents that investigate code and cloud vulnerabilities and flag only the ones that matter.
AI Cloud Security · Fastest growing - Lightdash$19.4M
Open-source business intelligence tool built on dbt, with an AI analyst that answers data questions.
Business Intelligence · Fastest growing - Airspeed
AI agents that turn sales calls and deal data into actions for revenue teams. Formerly Glyphic.
Revenue AI · Fastest growing - FYLD
AI platform that turns frontline video into safety and risk insights for infrastructure and utility fieldwork.
Field Operations · Fastest growing - NexGen Cloud
GPU cloud provider behind Hyperstack, offering AI compute and sovereign AI infrastructure in Europe.
GPU Cloud · Fastest growing - Orbital
AI platform that automates legal work on residential and commercial real estate deals for law firms and property teams.
Legal AI · Fastest growing - Cogna$19.75M
Uses AI to build custom operations software for utilities, logistics and field service companies.
AI enterprise software · Up and coming - Artificial Societies$5.35M
Simulates how audiences and stakeholders will react, so companies can test decisions before making them.
Audience simulation · Up and coming - Holistic AI
Platform that helps enterprises inventory, audit and monitor their AI systems for risk and regulatory compliance.
AI Governance · Up and coming - Unitary
AI virtual agents that log into existing tools to automate manual operations work in insurance, financial services, healthcare and marketplaces.
AI Virtual Agents · Up and coming - UnlikelyAI
Neurosymbolic AI that gives precise, explainable yes-or-no decisions for banks, insurers and accountants.
Neurosymbolic AI · Up and coming
Other(15)
- HungryPanda$275M+
Food delivery app focused on Asian restaurants and groceries, operating across ten countries including the UK, US, France and Australia.
Food delivery · Well known - Learning Technologies Group
LTG provides digital learning and talent management software and services to large organisations through businesses including GP Strategies and Open LMS.
Workplace learning · Well known - Treatwell
Online booking marketplace and salon management software for hair and beauty businesses across Europe.
Beauty booking · Well known - Trybe$30M
Trybe provides booking, scheduling, payments and membership software for hotels, spas and leisure venues.
Hospitality software · Fastest growing - Nivoda
B2B marketplace connecting diamond and gemstone suppliers with jewellery retailers worldwide.
B2B Jewellery Marketplace · Fastest growing - Perlego
Subscription digital library giving students and professionals access to over 1.5 million academic and professional ebooks.
Digital Library · Fastest growing - Zero100
Research, benchmarking and peer network platform for supply chain and operations leaders at large companies.
Supply Chain Intelligence · Fastest growing - CybSafe$40M
CybSafe is a human risk management platform that measures and changes employee security behaviours with nudges, phishing simulations and automated interventions.
Cybersecurity · Up and coming - Atom Learning$25M
Adaptive online exam preparation platform for 11+ entrance exams through to GCSE, used by families, tutors and schools.
Edtech · Up and coming - Happl$16.6M
Software for multinational companies to design, run and analyse employee benefits across 160+ countries.
HR Benefits Software · Up and coming - Goodstack
Platform for corporate giving and nonprofit verification used by brands like Google, Atlassian and Canva. Formerly Percent.
Corporate Giving Infrastructure · Up and coming - Gravity Sketch
Immersive 3D design and collaboration tool that lets product teams sketch and review designs in VR and on desktop.
3D design software · Up and coming - MyEdSpace
Online platform offering live, interactive lessons from expert teachers for UK school students, with recordings, workbooks and homework.
Edtech · Up and coming - Secret Escapes
Secret Escapes is a members only travel club selling discounted hand picked hotel stays and holidays.
Online travel · Up and coming - Unily
Enterprise intranet and employee experience platform used by large companies for internal communications, knowledge and collaboration.
Employee experience · Up and coming
Climate(6)
- Lightsource bp
Global developer and operator of utility-scale solar, wind and battery storage projects, owned by bp.
Solar And Storage · Well known - Isometric$75M
Certifies carbon removal and other climate projects with AI-assisted verification and runs a public registry of credits.
Carbon Removal Certification · Fastest growing - Natcap£15M
Software platform that helps companies and investors measure, report and act on nature and biodiversity risks, including TNFD and CSRD disclosure.
Nature risk data · Fastest growing - Zevero$14M
Carbon management software that combines AI carbon accounting with in-house climate experts for footprints, product footprints and ESG reporting.
Carbon accounting · Fastest growing - Deep Green£200M
Builds and runs AI and HPC colocation data centres that capture waste heat and supply it to pools, district heating and other heat users.
Heat-reuse data centres · Up and coming - Mondra
Platform that builds digital twins of food supply chains to measure product-level carbon, cost and risk for retailers and suppliers.
Food supply chain carbon · Up and coming
Crypto(4)
- BCB Group$65.5M
Payments and banking rails for crypto firms, with FCA-authorised and EU-licensed entities.
Crypto payments · Fastest growing - Eunice$8M
AI agents that produce auditable due diligence reports on digital assets and private markets for institutions.
Digital Asset Due Diligence · Up and coming - Block Scholes
FCA-registered crypto derivatives data, volatility analytics, research and on-chain options pricing oracles for institutions.
Derivatives analytics · Up and coming - Outlier Ventures
London venture firm and accelerator investing in early-stage crypto and AI startups.
Web3 venture accelerator · Up and coming
Defence(4)
- UFORCE$50M
Builds combat-proven unmanned air, land and sea systems, including Magura sea drones, for allied militaries.
Unmanned Systems · Well known - Anduril UK
UK arm of Anduril, supplying autonomous systems and Lattice software to British defence customers.
Autonomous Defence Systems · Well known - Agon$30M
Builds synthetic battlefields where autonomous defence systems and military AI are trained and tested.
Defence AI Simulation · Fastest growing - Vizgard
AI vision software that turns defence and security cameras into autonomous threat detectors, including drones.
Edge Vision AI · Up and coming
Health(4)
- AstronauTx£48M
Biotech developing drugs that improve sleep architecture to treat Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurological disorders.
Neuroscience biotech · Up and coming - Birdie$52M
Care management, rostering and finance software for UK homecare providers.
Home Care Software · Up and coming - Scarlet$17.5M
Notified body that certifies software and AI medical devices for the EU and UK markets.
AI Medical Device Certification · Up and coming - TORTUS$4.4M
Clinician-founded AI assistant that listens to consultations and writes clinical notes, deployed across NHS trusts and GP surgeries.
Clinical AI Scribe · Up and coming
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