216 companies added to London Mempool in September 2026
Each one passed the same checks as every company on the map. We also updated 169 existing companies.
Headlines at the end of September 2026
As of 30 Sep 2026, from Companies House- AI companies incorporated since 202335 of 76
35 of the 76 AI companies listed on London Mempool with a Companies House date were incorporated in 2023 or later (46%).
See AI companies - Median age of listed AI companies4 years
The median AI company listed on London Mempool was incorporated 4 years ago, against 7 years for all 213 listed companies with a Companies House date.
See AI companies - Most common SIC code62012
The most common SIC code among companies listed on London Mempool is 62012 (business and domestic software development), given by 70 of the 212 companies with SIC codes.
About SIC codes
2 companies listed on that day have since come off the map and are not counted.
- AI82
- Fintech67
- Crypto20
- Climate11
- Health10
- Other10
- Quantum7
- Defence6
- Deeptech3
Added (216)
- Nscale$3.7B
London AI cloud company that builds and runs GPU data centres across Europe and the US.
AI · Well known · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Isomorphic Labs$2.7B
Alphabet spinout led by Demis Hassabis using AI to design new drugs.
AI · Well known · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Wayve$2.5B
Builds end-to-end AI driving software that lets cars drive themselves without detailed maps.
AI · Well known · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Checkout.com$1.8B
Online payment processing for large merchants and enterprises around the world.
Fintech · Well known · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Zenobē£1.4B
Zenobe builds and runs grid-scale battery storage and provides charging, batteries and software to electrify bus and truck fleets.
Climate · Well known · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - ElevenLabs$781M
AI voice company making realistic speech, voice cloning and voice agents, with its main hub in London.
AI · Well known · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Recursive$650M
AI lab building self-improving AI to automate research and discovery, with offices in London and San Francisco.
AI · Fastest growing · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Starling Bank£500M+
Licensed UK digital bank that also sells its Engine banking software to other banks.
Fintech · Well known · Tower Hamlets · added 29 September 2026 - Quantexa$545M
Decision intelligence software that connects data to spot fraud, financial crime and risk for banks and governments.
AI · Well known · Lambeth · added 29 September 2026 - Synthesia$536M
AI video platform that turns text into videos with realistic AI avatars for business training.
AI · Well known · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Thought Machine$510M
Cloud-native core banking software (Vault) used by large banks to replace legacy systems.
Fintech · Well known · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - PhysicsX$487M
Physics AI platform that helps engineers in aerospace, auto and energy design and test products faster.
AI · Fastest growing · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Multiverse$420M+
Apprenticeship and upskilling programmes that train employees in tech, data and AI skills.
Other · Well known · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Nothing$420M+
Consumer electronics maker of smartphones, earbuds and headphones, founded by Carl Pei.
Other · Well known · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Funding Circle$375M
Lending platform that gives small businesses fast loans, funded by institutional investors.
Fintech · Well known · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Huma$300M+
Digital health platform for remote patient monitoring, clinical research and disease management apps.
Health · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Volta$300M
AI infrastructure company that finances, builds and runs AI compute. Offices in London, Palo Alto and New York.
AI · Fastest growing · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Fresha$285M
Booking marketplace and business software for salons, spas and wellness businesses.
Other · Well known · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Motorway$273M+
Online marketplace where private sellers list cars and verified dealers bid to buy them.
Other · Well known · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Flo Health$269.5M
Period, ovulation and pregnancy tracking app with over 70 million monthly active users.
Health · Well known · Tower Hamlets · added 29 September 2026 - 9fin$250M
AI-powered data and analytics platform for debt and credit market professionals.
Fintech · Fastest growing · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Fractile$235M
Designs AI inference chips that run large models much faster and cheaper than today's GPUs.
AI · Well known · Camden · added 30 September 2026 - Beamery$228M
AI workforce platform helping large enterprises hire, redeploy and reskill staff using skills intelligence.
AI · Well known · Islington · added 30 September 2026 - Stream (formerly Wagestream)$228M
Workplace finance app giving employees earned-wage access, savings, pensions and budgeting tools through their employer.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Basecamp Research$225M
Trains EDEN biological AI models on proprietary natural-world genomic data to design new medicines.
AI · Fastest growing · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - PolyAI$200M+
Builds voice AI agents that answer customer service calls for large companies.
AI · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Granola$192M
AI notepad that writes up your meeting notes without adding a bot to the call.
AI · Well known · Tower Hamlets · added 30 September 2026 - Modulr£150M
Payments infrastructure that automates payroll, supplier payments and collections for businesses and software platforms.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Flagstone£149M
Savings platform letting people and businesses hold cash across hundreds of accounts from 65+ banks in one place.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Tractable$185M
Computer vision AI that assesses car and property damage from photos to speed up insurance claims.
AI · Well known · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Fuse Energy$178M
Household energy supplier that also builds its own renewable generation, founded by ex-Revolut executives.
Climate · Fastest growing · Tower Hamlets · added 29 September 2026 - Cleo$176M
AI money app and chatbot that helps people budget, save and manage their spending.
AI · Well known · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Monument£135M
UK digital bank for mass-affluent savers and borrowers, with a banking-as-a-service tech arm, Monument Technology.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Primer$170M
Unified payments infrastructure letting merchants connect, optimise and manage many payment providers from one platform.
Fintech · Fastest growing · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Luminance$165M
AI platform that reads, negotiates and manages contracts for in-house legal teams.
AI · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Plentific$140M
Property operations software for landlords and housing providers to manage repairs, contractors and compliance.
Other · Fastest growing · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Fnality International$136M+
Bank-owned payment system that settles wholesale payments on a blockchain, backed 1:1 by central bank money.
Crypto · Fastest growing · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Tessl$125M
Platform for building, testing and sharing skills and context that guide AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor.
AI · Fastest growing · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - ZOE$118M
Gut health and nutrition company running large-scale studies and selling at-home tests and food products.
Health · Well known · Southwark · added 29 September 2026 - Attio$116M
AI-native CRM that builds itself around a company's data for go-to-market teams.
AI · Fastest growing · Islington · added 30 September 2026 - Lawhive$114M
AI-powered legal platform and law firm giving consumers and small businesses affordable access to vetted lawyers.
AI · Fastest growing · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Callosum$110M
Software that splits AI workloads across many different chip types to run them faster and cheaper.
AI · Fastest growing · Tower Hamlets · added 29 September 2026 - Encord$110M
Data platform AI teams use to curate, label and evaluate training data, especially for physical AI.
AI · Fastest growing · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Metaview$110M
AI recruiting platform with agents for sourcing, screening, interview notes and hiring reports.
AI · Up and coming · Tower Hamlets · added 30 September 2026 - ComplyAdvantage$108M
AI platform that screens customers and transactions for money laundering, sanctions and fraud risk.
Fintech · Well known · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Bud Financial$100M
AI platform that cleans and enriches bank transaction data for personalisation, lending and customer insight.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Komainu$100M
Regulated digital asset custodian offering custody, staking, tokenisation and collateral services to institutions.
Crypto · Fastest growing · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Sona$100M+
AI platform running scheduling, HR and payroll for frontline businesses in hospitality, retail and care.
AI · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - incident.io$96M
Incident management, on-call and status page platform with AI agents that help teams resolve outages.
Other · Fastest growing · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Causaly$93M
Agentic AI research platform and biomedical knowledge graph that helps pharma R&D teams find targets and biomarkers.
AI · Up and coming · Hackney · added 30 September 2026 - Kroo£72M+
Licensed UK digital bank paying interest on current accounts, with savings, ISAs and loans.
Fintech · Fastest growing · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - hyperexponential$91M
Pricing and underwriting platform for commercial insurers, now adding AI agents that process broker submissions.
AI · Fastest growing · Southwark · added 29 September 2026 - Model ML$87M
AI workflow platform that turns financial data into client-ready decks, memos and reports for banks and investors.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Relation$86M
Drug discovery company combining machine learning and human cell experiments to find new medicines.
AI · Fastest growing · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - LemFi$85M
App for immigrants to send money home and access financial services across 30+ countries.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - SatVu£60M
Builds thermal-imaging satellites that show heat and activity at sites like factories, data centres and energy plants.
Deeptech · Fastest growing · Lambeth · added 29 September 2026 - Omnea$75M
AI procurement platform that runs company buying, supplier onboarding and supplier risk management.
AI · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Lindus Health$73M
Tech-enabled research organisation running faster, fixed-fee clinical trials for biotech and pharma.
AI · Fastest growing · Southwark · added 29 September 2026 - Yapily$69M
Open banking API that lets companies pull bank data and start payments across thousands of European banks.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - BCB Group$65.5M
Payments and banking rails for crypto firms, with FCA-authorised and EU-licensed entities.
Crypto · Fastest growing · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Conduct$60M+
AI that helps IT teams understand, change and migrate complex enterprise systems like SAP.
AI · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Jack & Jill$60M
Two AI agents: Jack coaches job seekers, Jill recruits for companies, and they match each other.
AI · Fastest growing · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Isembard$59M
Network of software-run factories making precision parts for aerospace, defence and energy companies.
AI · Fastest growing · Southwark · added 29 September 2026 - Solve Intelligence$55M
AI platform that helps patent attorneys draft, prosecute and litigate patents faster.
AI · Fastest growing · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Birdie$52M
Care management, rostering and finance software for UK homecare providers.
Health · Fastest growing · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Griffin$52M
Fully licensed UK bank offering API-first banking-as-a-service so fintechs can build financial products.
Fintech · Fastest growing · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - NALA$50.4M
Money transfer app for diaspora sending money to Africa and Asia, plus the Rafiki B2B payments API.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Tower Hamlets · added 29 September 2026 - Latent Labs$50M
Generative AI lab designing new proteins and antibodies, founded by AlphaFold co-developer Simon Kohl.
AI · Fastest growing · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Velocity$48M
Stablecoin payments and treasury platform that lets banks, payment firms and businesses settle money instantly.
Fintech · Up and coming · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Fifth Dimension$40M+
AI analyst for real estate and real asset investors that speeds up underwriting and reporting.
AI · Up and coming · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Fyxer AI$40M
AI assistant that sorts your inbox, drafts email replies and takes meeting notes.
AI · Fastest growing · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Mindgard$38M
Lancaster University spinout that attacks and tests AI systems to find security holes before hackers do.
AI · Up and coming · Tower Hamlets · added 29 September 2026 - Sequence$38M
Billing and quote-to-cash software that automates invoicing and revenue collection for B2B finance teams.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Camden · added 30 September 2026 - Archax$36.5M
FCA-regulated London exchange, broker and custodian for tokenised real-world assets such as money market funds and bonds.
Crypto · Fastest growing · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Geordie AI$36.5M
Security and governance platform that lets enterprises discover, monitor and control their AI agents.
AI · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - V7$36M
AI agent platform (V7 Go) automating document-heavy work in finance, insurance and legal, plus data labelling tools.
AI · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - VEED$35M
Browser-based AI video creation and editing platform for generating, subtitling and branding videos without production skills.
AI · Fastest growing · Hackney · added 30 September 2026 - Epoch Biodesign$34M
Uses AI-designed enzymes to break down plastic and textile waste into recycled nylon polymers.
Climate · Up and coming · Islington · added 30 September 2026 - Prolific$33.4M
Platform supplying vetted human participants for research and for AI model training and evaluation.
AI · Fastest growing · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Paid$33.3M
Billing platform that helps AI agent companies price, track costs and prove value to customers.
AI · Up and coming · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Juro$31.5M
AI-native contract management platform for drafting, agreeing and managing contracts end to end.
AI · Up and coming · Islington · added 30 September 2026 - Bound$31M
Platform that helps businesses and VC funds see currency exposure and automate FX hedging.
Fintech · Up and coming · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Maze$31M
AI agents that investigate code and cloud vulnerabilities and flag only the ones that matter.
AI · Up and coming · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Adfin$30M+
Payments and finance automation that helps small businesses get paid on time, moving into AI credit control.
Fintech · Up and coming · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Gradient Labs$29.8M
AI agents that handle customer support, compliance and back-office operations for banks and fintechs.
AI · Fastest growing · Haringey · added 29 September 2026 - Mantic$29M
AI system that forecasts real-world events to help organisations make better decisions.
AI · Up and coming · Kensington and Chelsea · added 29 September 2026 - Ankar$24M
AI platform for the full patent lifecycle, from invention ideas to drafting and prosecution.
AI · Up and coming · Tower Hamlets · added 29 September 2026 - Applied Computing$20M+
Industrial AI that monitors, forecasts and optimises refineries, oil and gas and petrochemical plants.
AI · Up and coming · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Skyral$20M
Simulation and digital-twin software for defence, government and infrastructure decision-making.
Defence · Up and coming · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Cogna$19.75M
Uses AI to build custom operations software for utilities, logistics and field service companies.
AI · Up and coming · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Capsa AI$18M+
AI platform that indexes a private equity fund's documents and data to speed up deal work.
AI · Up and coming · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Searchable$18M
Tracks and improves how brands show up in answers from ChatGPT and other AI search engines.
AI · Up and coming · Southwark · added 29 September 2026 - Pydantic$17.2M
Company behind the Pydantic Python validation library, the Pydantic AI agent framework and Logfire observability.
Other · Up and coming · Wandsworth · added 29 September 2026 - Doubleword$15M
Inference platform that lets enterprises run open-source AI models on their own infrastructure, cheaply.
AI · Up and coming · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Finster AI$15M
AI-native research and analysis platform for investment banks and asset managers.
Fintech · Up and coming · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Saturn$15M+
AI platform that automates admin and compliance paperwork for financial advice firms.
Fintech · Up and coming · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Hertility$14M+
At-home hormone and fertility testing with specialist care for women.
Health · Up and coming · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Incard£10M+
Business accounts, cards, cashflow and treasury tools for fast-growing digital companies.
Fintech · Up and coming · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Arondite$12M
Defence software (Cobalt) that lets operators control mixed fleets of drones, robots and sensors from one platform.
Defence · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - geoSurge$12M
Shows brands how they appear in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini answers and how to improve it.
AI · Up and coming · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Intropy$11M
AI operating system for spare parts distributors covering demand forecasting, pricing and obsolescence decisions.
AI · Up and coming · Tower Hamlets · added 29 September 2026 - CodeWords$9M+
Lets non-coders build and run AI agents and automations by describing them in plain language.
AI · Up and coming · Kensington and Chelsea · added 29 September 2026 - Polaron$8M+
Imperial College spinout using AI to analyse and design advanced materials such as EV battery electrodes.
AI · Up and coming · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Stanhope AI$8M+
Builds brain-inspired AI that lets robots and drones adapt in real time on the device.
AI · Up and coming · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Kohort$7M+
AI forecasting and user acquisition agents that help mobile game studios grow profitably.
AI · Up and coming · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Covecta$6.5M
AI agents that help banks and lenders speed up commercial lending and credit work.
Fintech · Up and coming · Southwark · added 29 September 2026 - AI Score$6.4M
Governance platform that helps companies control risk, cost and use of AI tools and agents.
AI · Up and coming · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Dessn$6M+
Design tool that lets product teams design and prototype directly inside their real codebase.
AI · Up and coming · Tower Hamlets · added 29 September 2026 - Round$6M+
Treasury, payments and finance automation platform that helps businesses manage and earn on their cash.
Fintech · Up and coming · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Artificial Societies$5.35M
Simulates how audiences and stakeholders will react, so companies can test decisions before making them.
AI · Up and coming · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Tangible$4.3M+
AI-powered platform that helps hardware and climate companies raise and manage debt financing.
Fintech · Up and coming · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Pharosyn$3M
AI platform that helps pharma teams make commercial, portfolio and competitive intelligence decisions faster.
AI · Up and coming · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Wondercraft$3M
AI studio that lets teams create on-brand videos, podcasts and audio from text using AI voices, music and visuals.
AI · Up and coming · Camden · added 30 September 2026 - Ralio$2.5M
Guardrails, identity and audit layer that checks AI agent payments against company rules before they go out.
AI · Up and coming · Tower Hamlets · added 29 September 2026 - 10x Banking
Cloud core banking platform that lets banks such as Westpac and Chase UK launch products faster.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Aave Labs
Builds Aave, one of the largest decentralised lending protocols, plus related crypto products.
Crypto · Well known · Kensington and Chelsea · added 29 September 2026 - Abound
Consumer lender that uses AI and open banking data to judge affordability and offer fairer loans.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Tower Hamlets · added 29 September 2026 - Accurx
Messaging and communication software used by NHS GP practices and hospital trusts to talk to patients.
Health · Well known · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Adarga
AI software that helps defence and security teams analyse large volumes of information and make faster decisions.
Defence · Up and coming · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Allica Bank
Digital bank for established small and medium-sized businesses, offering accounts, savings and lending.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Apollo Research
AI safety company researching model scheming and selling Watcher, a monitoring tool for coding agents.
AI · Up and coming · Hackney · added 30 September 2026 - Arqit
Nasdaq-listed company selling quantum-safe encryption and post-quantum migration tools to governments, defence and telecoms.
Quantum · Well known · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Artificial Labs
Specialty insurance platform for brokers and underwriters, covering algorithmic underwriting and delegated authority.
Fintech · Up and coming · City of London · added 30 September 2026 - AutogenAI
Generative AI platform that helps companies and nonprofits write bids, proposals, grants and RFP responses.
AI · Up and coming · Islington · added 30 September 2026 - Automata
Robotic lab automation platform that runs life-science experiments end to end for pharma and biotech labs.
Deeptech · Fastest growing · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Axle Energy
Software that connects EV chargers, batteries and heat pumps to energy markets so they earn money supporting the grid.
Climate · Up and coming · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - B2C2
Institutional crypto liquidity provider and OTC market maker, majority-owned by Japan's SBI Holdings.
Crypto · Well known · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Block Scholes
FCA-registered crypto derivatives data, volatility analytics, research and on-chain options pricing oracles for institutions.
Crypto · Up and coming · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Capital on Tap
Business credit cards and spend management for small businesses in the UK and US.
Fintech · Well known · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Carmoola
App-based car finance lender that gives buyers a budget before they shop.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Carwow
Online car marketplace where dealers compete with offers to buy or sell your car.
Other · Well known · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Cera
Home healthcare provider using AI and data to deliver care visits and cut hospital admissions.
AI · Fastest growing · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Chip
App for saving and investing, offering savings accounts, cash ISAs and investment funds.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Civo
UK cloud provider offering Kubernetes, GPU compute and sovereign AI services from its own data centres.
AI · Up and coming · Islington · added 30 September 2026 - ClearBank
Clearing bank giving fintechs and banks UK payments access, accounts and embedded banking.
Fintech · Well known · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Clearmatics
Researches and builds blockchain protocols and peer-to-peer platforms for decentralised financial markets.
Crypto · Up and coming · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - ClearScore
Free credit scores and reports, plus a marketplace that matches users to loans and cards.
Fintech · Well known · Lambeth · added 29 September 2026 - Codat
APIs linking small business accounting and banking data to banks and lenders for faster credit and advice.
Fintech · Fastest growing · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - CoMind
Builds non-invasive bedside devices that monitor brain blood flow and pressure in critically ill patients.
Health · Fastest growing · Islington · added 30 September 2026 - Conjecture
AI safety lab building Cognitive Emulation, an architecture for more controllable and interpretable AI.
AI · Up and coming · Southwark · added 30 September 2026 - Copper
Institutional crypto custody, collateral and off-exchange settlement (ClearLoop) provider.
Crypto · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Cosine
UK sovereign AI lab training Lumen coding models and agents that run in secure or air-gapped environments.
AI · Up and coming · Hackney · added 30 September 2026 - Crypta Labs
Makes quantum random number generator hardware that supplies true randomness for encryption.
Quantum · Up and coming · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Crypto Quantique
Makes chip-level security (PUF roots of trust) and the QuarkLink platform to secure connected IoT devices.
Quantum · Up and coming · Southwark · added 29 September 2026 - Ebury
Cross-border payments, FX risk management and trade finance for businesses, majority-owned by Santander.
Fintech · Well known · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Elliptic
Blockchain analytics used by exchanges, banks and governments for crypto compliance and risk screening.
Crypto · Fastest growing · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Encode Club
Web3 and AI developer community running programmes, bootcamps and hackathons from a Shoreditch innovation hub.
Crypto · Up and coming · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Field
Develops, builds and runs large battery storage sites across the UK and Europe.
Climate · Fastest growing · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Genie AI
AI legal assistant that drafts, reviews and negotiates contracts for businesses and in-house teams.
AI · Up and coming · Southwark · added 30 September 2026 - Gigaton (formerly Carbon Re)
Self-learning AI control software that cuts fuel use and emissions in cement, glass, steel and mining plants.
AI · Up and coming · Southwark · added 30 September 2026 - GoCardless
Bank payment and direct debit network for recurring and one-off business payments.
Fintech · Well known · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Google DeepMind
Alphabet's main AI research lab, behind Gemini and AlphaFold, founded and headquartered in London.
AI · Well known · Camden · added 30 September 2026 - Gousto
Recipe box company delivering ingredients and recipes for home cooking.
Other · Well known · Hammersmith and Fulham · added 29 September 2026 - Greyparrot
AI cameras and software that identify waste on recycling lines so plants recover more material.
Climate · Fastest growing · Southwark · added 29 September 2026 - Hadean
AI and simulation software for military training, mission planning, wargaming and command and control.
Defence · Fastest growing · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Haruko
Portfolio and risk management software for institutional crypto funds and trading firms.
Crypto · Up and coming · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Helsing (London)
Munich-headquartered defence AI company building strike drones, underwater systems and battlefield software, with a London office.
Defence · Well known · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Humanoid
Builds industrial humanoid robots for factories and warehouses, headquartered in London.
AI · Fastest growing · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - iwoca
Online lender giving small businesses in the UK and Germany fast, flexible working-capital loans.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Kraken
Operating system software that utilities use to run billing, customer service and energy assets.
Climate · Well known · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - LabGenius TherapeuticsHealth · Up and coming · added 30 September 2026
- Lendable
Online consumer lender offering personal loans, credit cards and car finance using automated underwriting.
Fintech · Well known · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Limbic
Clinical AI for mental health services, handling patient intake, assessment and between-session support.
Health · Up and coming · Islington · added 30 September 2026 - LMAX Digital
Regulated institutional spot crypto exchange run by London's LMAX Group, a long-standing FX exchange operator.
Crypto · Well known · Kensington and Chelsea · added 29 September 2026 - Lodestar Space
Building autonomous AI to guide satellites that protect high-value assets in orbit.
Deeptech · Up and coming · Southwark · added 29 September 2026 - Marshmallow
Car and home insurance built for people overlooked by traditional insurers, including migrants to the UK.
Fintech · Well known · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Moneybox
App for saving, investing, pensions and Lifetime ISAs, aimed at helping people build wealth.
Fintech · Well known · Southwark · added 29 September 2026 - Monzo
UK digital bank with app-based current accounts, savings and business banking.
Fintech · Well known · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Moth
Builds quantum computing apps for music, games and media, including the consumer game Quantum Backrooms.
Quantum · Up and coming · Westminster · added 30 September 2026 - Nethermind
Builds the Nethermind Ethereum execution client plus blockchain security audits, research and engineering services.
Crypto · Fastest growing · Tower Hamlets · added 29 September 2026 - Numan
Online health clinic for weight loss, men's and women's health, with prescriptions and coaching.
Health · Fastest growing · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - OakNorth
Bank that lends to growing mid-sized businesses in the UK and US.
Fintech · Well known · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Octopus Energy
Renewable-focused gas and electricity supplier and Britain's largest household energy supplier.
Climate · Well known · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Ohme
Smart home EV chargers and app that charge cars when power is cheapest and greenest.
Climate · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - OpenPayd
Banking-as-a-service platform for accounts, payments, FX and stablecoin money movement for businesses.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Orbital Industries
Uses AI to design advanced materials and data centre cooling hardware, and is expanding into energy and semiconductors.
AI · Up and coming · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - ORCA Computing
Builds photonic quantum computers that run in normal data centres alongside AI and HPC systems.
Quantum · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Oriole Networks
Builds PRISM, a pure photonic switching network that speeds up AI data centres and cuts energy use.
AI · Up and coming · Islington · added 30 September 2026 - Outlier Ventures
London venture firm and accelerator investing in early-stage crypto and AI startups.
Crypto · Up and coming · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Paddle
Merchant-of-record payments platform that handles billing, tax and compliance for software companies.
Fintech · Well known · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Paymentology
Cloud-based card issuer-processor that lets banks and fintechs launch physical and virtual cards.
Fintech · Fastest growing · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - PensionBee
LSE-listed online pension provider that combines and manages people's pensions in the UK and US.
Fintech · Well known · Southwark · added 29 September 2026 - Phasecraft
Builds quantum algorithms so today's quantum computers can tackle real problems in materials and chemistry.
Quantum · Fastest growing · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Plum
Money app that automates saving and investing for users in the UK and several EU countries.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Prima Mente
AI biology lab that builds foundation models from its own data to diagnose and treat brain disease.
AI · Up and coming · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Quant Network
London company behind Overledger and Quant Flow, software that lets banks program money and connect to blockchains.
Crypto · Fastest growing · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Quantum Motion
Builds quantum computers on standard silicon chip technology, designed to fit in normal data centres.
Quantum · Fastest growing · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Revolut
Global finance super-app for banking, payments, investing and crypto, with a full UK banking licence.
Fintech · Well known · Tower Hamlets · added 29 September 2026 - Sokin
Global business payments platform with multi-currency accounts, FX and cross-border payouts for companies.
Fintech · Fastest growing · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Soldo
Company prepaid cards and spend management software giving staff controlled spending and finance teams oversight.
Fintech · Fastest growing · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Stability AI
Builds open generative AI models for images, video, audio and 3D, best known for Stable Diffusion.
AI · Well known · Kensington and Chelsea · added 30 September 2026 - SumUp
Card readers, point-of-sale and business accounts for small merchants.
Fintech · Well known · Southwark · added 29 September 2026 - Supercede
AI reinsurance intelligence platform helping brokers and cedents run client work and programme placement.
AI · Up and coming · City of London · added 30 September 2026 - Sylvera
Ratings and data that show buyers and investors how good carbon credits and climate projects really are.
Climate · Fastest growing · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Synthesized
AI platform that generates privacy-safe, production-like test data for software testing, migrations and AI agents.
AI · Up and coming · Hackney · added 30 September 2026 - Tem
AI-powered platform that lets businesses buy electricity straight from generators without wholesale markups.
Climate · Fastest growing · Wandsworth · added 29 September 2026 - Tembo
Savings and mortgage app that helps first-time buyers build a deposit and get onto the property ladder.
Fintech · Up and coming · Southwark · added 29 September 2026 - Teya
Card payments, business accounts and funding for small local businesses across Europe, formerly SaltPay.
Fintech · Well known · City of London · added 30 September 2026 - Tide
Business current accounts and admin tools for small businesses in the UK, India and Germany.
Fintech · Well known · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Trading 212
Commission-free app for trading and investing in stocks, ETFs and ISAs.
Fintech · Well known · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Trainline
Rail and coach ticketing app and website selling tickets across the UK and Europe.
Other · Well known · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Trent AIAI · Up and coming · added 29 September 2026
- Trilitech
London research and development hub building core protocol and apps on the Tezos blockchain.
Crypto · Up and coming · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - TrueLayer
Open banking payments network letting merchants take pay-by-bank payments across the UK and Europe.
Fintech · Well known · Islington · added 29 September 2026 - Vizgard
AI vision software that turns defence and security cameras into autonomous threat detectors, including drones.
Defence · Up and coming · Camden · added 29 September 2026 - Wealthyhood
Investing app for younger investors with saving, investing and automation tools in one place.
Fintech · Up and coming · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Wintermute
Algorithmic trading firm that provides liquidity across crypto markets and is expanding into traditional markets.
Crypto · Well known · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Wirex
Crypto and stablecoin payments app and card issuer, a principal member of Visa and Mastercard.
Crypto · Fastest growing · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Wise
Low-cost international money transfers and multi-currency accounts for people and businesses.
Fintech · Well known · Hackney · added 29 September 2026 - Xapien
AI research platform that automates due diligence and background checks on people and companies for banks, law firms and corporates.
AI · Up and coming · City of London · added 30 September 2026 - Yonder
Rewards credit card focused on travel, dining and going out, with points redeemable for flights and hotels.
Fintech · Up and coming · Hackney · added 30 September 2026 - Zego
Tech-led motor insurer for gig workers, fleets and everyday drivers, using telematics to price policies.
Fintech · Fastest growing · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Zepz
Parent of WorldRemit and Sendwave, apps for sending money from 50+ countries to 130+ countries.
Fintech · Well known · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Zilch
Buy now pay later and payments app funded partly by advertising, letting shoppers split purchases.
Fintech · Well known · Westminster · added 29 September 2026 - Zodia Custody
Bank-backed crypto custodian offering custody, staking, trading and settlement services to institutions.
Crypto · Fastest growing · City of London · added 29 September 2026 - Zopa
Licensed UK digital bank offering loans, credit cards and savings. It started out as a peer-to-peer lending pioneer.
Fintech · Well known · Tower Hamlets · added 29 September 2026
Notable changes (160)
- 10x Banking30 September 2026
- Last round: Growth investment, £40M from AshGrove Capital, Aug 2026 (after a $187M Series C in Jun 2021) → Equity and debt, £40M from AshGrove Capital, Aug 2026
- 9fin30 September 2026
- Tier: Fastest growing → Well known
- Total raised: $250M+ → $250M
- Aave Labs30 September 2026
- London address: 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London (registered office, likely a mail-forwarding address) → 9 Pembridge Road, London
- Postcode: WC2H 9JQ → W11 3JY
- Abound30 September 2026
- London address: 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE → 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London
- Accurx30 September 2026
- Last round: $38M, Dec 2021 → $38M, Sep 2021
- London address: 7 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3LT → 7 Curtain Road
- Adarga30 September 2026
- London address: 3-7 Temple Avenue, Temple, London → 3-7 Temple Avenue, Temple
- Adfin30 September 2026
- Tier: Up and coming → Fastest growing
- Last round: Series A, $18M, May 2026 (led by Index Ventures) → Series A, $18M, May 2026
- London address: 66 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NA → 66 Paul Street, London
- AI Score30 September 2026
- Last round: Seed, $5.4M, Aug 2026 → Seed, $5.4M, Sep 2026
- London address: 86-90 Paul Street, 3rd Floor, London → 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London
- Allica Bank30 September 2026
- Tier: Fastest growing → Well known
- Ankar30 September 2026
- Tier: Up and coming → Fastest growing
- London address: 2 Leman Street, London (registered office) → 2 Leman Street, London
- Applied Computing30 September 2026
- Tier: Up and coming → Fastest growing
- Total raised: $20M round plus GBP 9M seed → $20M+
- Last round: $20M (EUR 17.4M), Jul 2026 → $20M, Jul 2026
- London address: 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London (registered office; remote-first, HQ London) → 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London
- Archax30 September 2026
- Tier: Fastest growing → Up and coming
- Total raised: not set → $36.5M
- Last round: Series A, $28.5M, Nov 2022 (latest confirmed) → Series A, $28.5M, Nov 2022
- London address: 71-75 Shelton Street, London (registered office) → 71-75 Shelton Street
- Arondite30 September 2026
- Tier: Fastest growing → Up and coming
- Total raised: $12M+ → $12M
- Last round: Seed, $10M led by Index Ventures (part of $12M+ total), May 2025 → Seed, $10M led by Index Ventures, May 2025
- London address: 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London (registered office; London roles listed on Workable) → 5th Floor, 167-169 Great Portland Street
- Arqit30 September 2026
- Tier: Well known → Fastest growing
- London address: 3 Orchard Place, London → 1st Floor, 3 Orchard Place, London
- Artificial Societies30 September 2026
- Last round: Seed, $5.35M, Aug 2025 → Seed, $3.35M, Aug 2025
- Automata30 September 2026
- London address: 10 White Lion Street, London → 10 White Lion Street
- Axle Energy30 September 2026
- Tier: Up and coming → Fastest growing
- London address: 128 City Road, London (registered office; London roles on careers page) → 128 City Road, London
- Basecamp Research30 September 2026
- Total raised: not set → $225M
- Last round: Series C, $140M, Sep 2026 (led by S32, with NVIDIA and Menlo's Anthology Fund) → Series C, $140M, Sep 2026
- London address: Unit 315, Clerkenwell Workshops, 27 Clerkenwell Close, London → Unit 315, Clerkenwell Workshops, 27 Clerkenwell Close
- BCB Group30 September 2026
- Total raised: not set → $65.5M
- Last round: not set → Series A, $60M, Jan 2022
- London address: Bloomsbury House, 74-77 Great Russell Street, London → Bloomsbury House, 74-77 Great Russell Street
- Birdie30 September 2026
- Tier: Fastest growing → Up and coming
- London address: 4 Fulwood Place, London WC1V 6HG → 4 Fulwood Place
- Bound30 September 2026
- Tier: Up and coming → Fastest growing
- Total raised: $24.5M+ → $31M
- Last round: Series A, $24.5M (led by AlbionVC) → Series A, $24.5M, Feb 2026
- London address: 16 Great Chapel Street, London W1F 8FL → 16 Great Chapel Street, London
- Bud Financial30 September 2026
- Tier: Fastest growing → Up and coming
- Total raised: ~$100M → $100M
- Last round: Series B, $80M, led by TDR Capital → Series B, $80M, Jun 2022
- London address: 5th Floor, 167-169 Great Portland Street, London → 5th Floor, 167-169 Great Portland Street
- Callosum30 September 2026
- Total raised: $100M → $110M
- Capsa AI30 September 2026
- Tier: Up and coming → Fastest growing
- Total raised: ~$19.7M → $18M+
- London address: International House, 101 King's Cross Road, London, WC1X 9LP → International House, 101 King's Cross Road, London
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