Southwark & London Bridge is home to 53 of London's best tech companies, led by Fintech (13).
The south bank from Blackfriars to Tower Bridge, around London Bridge and Borough.
- Fintech13
- AI11
- Health9
- Climate9
- Other7
- Deeptech3
- Quantum1
Fintech(13)
- Moneybox
App for saving, investing, pensions and Lifetime ISAs, aimed at helping people build wealth.
Savings and investing · Well known - SumUp
Card readers, point-of-sale and business accounts for small merchants.
Merchant payments · Well known - InvestEngine£4.4M
Commission-free ETF investing platform for individuals and businesses, with ISAs, pensions and managed portfolios.
Wealthtech · Fastest growing - Penfold
Digital workplace and personal pension provider for small businesses, employees and the self-employed, with a savings app.
Digital Pensions · Fastest growing - PensionBee
LSE-listed online pension provider that combines and manages people's pensions in the UK and US.
Pensions · Fastest growing - Tembo
Savings and mortgage app that helps first-time buyers build a deposit and get onto the property ladder.
Homebuying Savings · Fastest growing - Thirdfort£25M
ID verification, AML and source of funds checks for property, legal and accounting firms.
AML And ID Verification · Up and coming - Covecta$6.5M
AI agents that help banks and lenders speed up commercial lending and credit work.
AI for commercial lending · Up and coming - Diligent AI$2.5M
AI agents that automate KYC and AML compliance reviews for banks and fintechs.
AI Compliance · Up and coming - Bondaval
Technology-enabled trade credit insurance and non-payment guarantees that protect company receivables against buyer default.
Credit insurance · Up and coming - Flow Global
Credit scoring, disbursement and collections tech that lets lenders give fast working capital to small businesses in emerging markets.
SME Lending Infrastructure · Up and coming - Freemarket
Freemarket runs a payments network that lets businesses move money across borders, exchange currencies and settle payments from one real-time account.
Cross-border payments · Up and coming - Ripjar
Ripjar sells AI software that screens customers and transactions against sanctions, PEP, watchlist and adverse media data.
Financial crime screening · Up and coming
AI(11)
- hyperexponential$91M
Pricing and underwriting platform for commercial insurers, now adding AI agents that process broker submissions.
Insurance underwriting AI · Fastest growing - Raft$48M
AI agent platform that automates shipment paperwork and operations tasks for freight forwarders and customs brokers.
Logistics automation · Up and coming - Slamcore$45M
Vision AI that tracks forklifts and other warehouse equipment in real time and alerts operators to nearby pedestrians.
Spatial Intelligence · Up and coming - Searchable$18M
Tracks and improves how brands show up in answers from ChatGPT and other AI search engines.
AI search visibility · Up and coming - Kernel$14M
AI-native company and account data platform that resolves corporate entities and hierarchies for enterprise RevOps teams.
Revenue Data · Up and coming - Trumpet£6.7M
AI-powered digital sales rooms where sellers and buyers share content, action plans and proposals to close deals.
Digital Sales Rooms · Up and coming - Bolt Insight
AI-moderated consumer research platform, BoltChatAI, that runs qualitative interviews at quantitative scale for brands.
AI Market Research · Up and coming - Conjecture
AI safety lab building Cognitive Emulation, an architecture for more controllable and interpretable AI.
AI safety · Up and coming - Datamaran
Software that uses AI to monitor external ESG and regulatory risks for corporate risk and sustainability teams.
ESG risk analytics · Up and coming - Genie AI
AI legal assistant that drafts, reviews and negotiates contracts for businesses and in-house teams.
Legal AI · Up and coming - Gigaton (formerly Carbon Re)
Self-learning AI control software that cuts fuel use and emissions in cement, glass, steel and mining plants.
Industrial AI control · Up and coming
Health(9)
- ZOE$118M
Gut health and nutrition company running large-scale studies and selling at-home tests and food products.
Personalised Nutrition · Well known - Sweatcoin
Fitness app that turns daily steps into a digital currency users can spend on rewards.
Move-to-Earn Rewards · Well known - Unmind$82M
Workplace mental health platform offering therapy, coaching and an AI companion called Nova to employees.
Workplace Mental Health · Fastest growing - Lindus Health$73M
Tech-enabled research organisation running faster, fixed-fee clinical trials for biotech and pharma.
Clinical Trials · Fastest growing - Lottie$31M
Online marketplace helping families find and compare care homes and later-life care across the UK.
Elderly Care Marketplace · Fastest growing - Voy$73.7M
Online clinic providing prescribed treatment and clinical support for weight loss, menopause, hair loss and testosterone therapy.
Digital health · Up and coming - Apian£5M
Runs autonomous drone and ground robot delivery of blood samples and medicines between NHS hospitals.
Medical logistics · Up and coming - Hexarad
Teleradiology platform that matches scans to subspecialist radiologists and helps hospitals run imaging departments.
Teleradiology · Up and coming - Leucid Bio
King's College London spinout developing Lateral CAR-T cell therapies for solid tumours, now in a Phase I/IIa trial.
CAR-T Therapy · Up and coming
Climate(9)
- Believ
UK public EV charging network operator funding and running charge points for councils, businesses and drivers.
EV Charging · Fastest growing - Carbon Clean
Makes compact modular carbon capture units for heavy industry such as cement, steel and energy.
Carbon Capture · Fastest growing - Connected Kerb
Builds on-street and residential EV charging infrastructure for UK councils and businesses.
EV Charging · Fastest growing - Forest
London dockless e-bike sharing app with 1.5 million users riding across 18 boroughs.
E-bike Sharing · Fastest growing - Switchee
Smart thermostat and data platform helping social housing providers spot cold, damp and mould in homes.
Smart Housing Data · Fastest growing - About:Energy
About:Energy sells battery modelling and simulation software plus a battery cell data library (The Voltt) used to design and test battery packs virtually.
Battery modelling · Up and coming - Climate X
Climate risk data and analytics that show banks and asset managers how physical climate hazards affect asset values.
Climate Risk Analytics · Up and coming - Entocycle
Entocycle builds automated insect farming technology that turns food waste into insect protein for animal feed.
Insect farming · Up and coming - Tewke
Makes Tap, a touchscreen smart light switch that controls lighting, heating and music and monitors home energy use.
Home energy · Up and coming
Other(7)
- Canonical
Canonical publishes the Ubuntu Linux operating system and sells enterprise support and services around it.
Open-source software · Well known - Civica
Civica builds software for public sector bodies such as councils, healthcare, education and housing providers.
GovTech software · Well known - RVU
RVU runs consumer comparison and switching brands including Uswitch, Confused.com, Tempcover, Money.co.uk and Mojo Mortgages on a shared data platform.
Price comparison · Well known - Zoopla
UK property portal for buying, selling and renting homes, with home valuation tracking for owners and lead tools for estate agents.
Property portal · Well known - ThreatAware$25M
ThreatAware connects to an organisation's security tools to find every device and check that security controls are working.
Cybersecurity · Fastest growing - Cognism$123.5M
B2B sales intelligence platform that gives sales and marketing teams compliant contact and company data for prospecting and CRM enrichment.
Sales intelligence · Up and coming - Dotdigital
Customer engagement platform that lets brands run email, SMS and personalised marketing campaigns from their customer data.
Marketing automation · Up and coming
Deeptech(3)
- Plumerai$17M+
Licensable tiny AI software that runs people, vehicle and face detection directly on smart cameras.
Edge AI · Up and coming - Circuit Mind
AI electronics design platform that turns hardware architectures into verified schematics and bills of materials.
Electronics design AI · Up and coming - Crypto Quantique
Makes chip-level security (PUF roots of trust) and the QuarkLink platform to secure connected IoT devices.
IoT Chip Security · Up and coming
Quantum(1)
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