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RecordWhat it isPlaceLinksConfidence
Acyclic LabsCompaniesOpen-source tools and a managed platform for running many AI agents in parallel on long tasks.agent swarm infrastructureKey facts Team size 2 (YC profile, 2026-10); YC Fall 2026 batchLondonycombinator.com/companies/acyclicone source
AI ScoreCompaniesMakes software that shows organisations, as it happens, how their staff and systems use generative AI and AI agents, so they can control it.LondonCompanies House · tech.eu/2026/09/04/uk-startup-ai-score-raises-54 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
Artificial SocietiesCompaniesLondon company that simulates hard-to-reach audiences such as investors and policy influencers so firms can test decisions and messages.simulated audiencesKey facts Team of 18; YC Winter 2025; product Radiant claims 18 million+ responses for F100 firms (company claim); YC page lists Business Insider headline on a $5.35M round (2025-08-27)Londonycombinator.com/companies/artificial-societiesone source
ArtilCompaniesGives AI agents their own email addresses and phone numbers; also launched Fira, a financial-data MCP.agent identity infrastructureKey facts Team size 2 (YC profile, 2026-10); YC Winter 2025 batchLondonycombinator.com/companies/artilone source
Assembled (UK office)CompaniesSan Francisco firm selling customer-facing AI agents and support workforce management; opened a London office as its European base in 2025.support agents and workforce managementKey facts Founded 2018; Series B $51m (£37.8m) (2022, per linked report); named clients Etsy, Robinhood, Stripe (2025-06)Londonuktech.news/ai/assembled-opens-london-office-202one source
AtlaCompaniesTrains AI models whose job is to check and score the answers of other AI models.AI evaluationLondonatla-ai.com/jobs/research-engineer · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · ycombinator.com/companies/atlaone source
AttioCompaniesCustomer relationship management software built around AI tools and agents.
Profile
Legal name
Attio Ltd (as printed on the company site)
Founded
2017 (UKTN)
Founders
Nicolas Sharp — co-founder and CEO; Alexander Christie — co-founder and CTO (UKTN photo caption)
Chief executive
Nicolas Sharp — from null (co-founder)
Other leaders
Michael McBride (GV; former GitLab CRO) — board member from 2025-08; Alex Bard (Redpoint Ventures) — board member from 2023-03; Jeremy Lee — product marketing
Hq
London (England: London) — UKTN 2023
Other offices
null (2023: "20+ people across North America and Europe")
Headcount
25 — 2023-03 — https://www.uktech.news/saas/attio-series-a-20230303
What it does
A customer relationship management (CRM) system built around AI. Firms use it to track contacts, deals and emails; "Ask Attio" lets staff question all their CRM data in plain language.
Products
Ask Attio, on a "Universal Context" layer indexing records, emails and calls — 2026-02; App SDK (beta) — 2025-08; Attio Developer Platform (REST API, App SDK, App Store; low-code links to Zapier, n8n, Gumloop, Pipedream) — 2025-11
Customers named
OpenAI, Coca-Cola — https://www.uktech.news/saas/attio-series-a-20230303; Lovable, Granola, Modal, Replicate, Public — https://attio.com/blog/attio-raises-52m-series-b; Wispr Flow, Listen Labs, Obvious, Union Square Ventures, Railway, Taskrabbit, Wordsmith, Passionfroot, Snackpass (logos; names read from image file names) — https://attio.com/customers
Partnerships
Granola — app on the Attio platform, "installed by 1 in 5 Attio customers" — 2025-11; Slack, Linear, Pylon — builders on the developer platform — 2025-11
Usage or revenue as published
more than 2,000 customers — 2023-03 — UKTN; apps can reach "hundreds of thousands of Attio users" — 2025-11 — https://attio.com/blog/meet-the-attio-developer-platform; "5,000 paying customers" and "on track to 4x ARR growth this year" — 2025-08 — https://attio.com/blog/attio-raises-52m-series-b
Funding total as published
116m USD — as of 2025-08-27 — https://attio.com/blog/attio-raises-52m-series-b; https://www.uktech.news/ai/attio-ai-crm-series-b-20250827
Rounds found
2021-11 — Seed — 7.7m USD — Point Nine — Balderton, Headline, Passion Capital, angels; 2023-03-03 — Series A — 23.5m USD (19.6m GBP) — Redpoint Ventures (Alex Bard) — Balderton Capital, Point Nine, Headline, angels incl. Mathilde Collin; 2024-08 — round (name not given) — 33m USD — Redpoint Ventures, Balderton Capital and Point Nine (joint) — 01 Advisors (Dick Costolo); 2025-08-27 — Series B — 52m USD — GV — Redpoint Ventures, Balderton Capital, Point Nine, 01A (already DEAL-LC-036)
Status now
Active; London-founded AI CRM with 5,000 paying customers (2025) that bought the Inconvo team in July 2026.
Confidence
verified (Series A and Series B on primary and trade pages); 2021 seed, 2024 round and Inconvo deal single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

London (EC1M 4EA )Companies House · uktech.news/ai/attio-ai-crm-series-b-20250827 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/saas/attio-series-a-20230303verified
AutumnCompaniesOpen-source billing layer on top of Stripe that lets AI start-ups set usage, credit and subscription pricing.AI pricing and billing infrastructureKey facts Team size 5 (YC profile, 2026-10); says used in production by "100s of developers"Londonycombinator.com/companies/autumnone source
Blue PrismCompaniesRobotic process automation (RPA) software firm, delisted from the London Stock Exchange after a £1.24bn takeover by US group SS&C. acquiredrobotic process automationKey facts Over 2,000 clients (2022-02); £1.24bn takeover by SS&C after bidding contest with Vista Equity Partners (about £1.22bn) (2022-02); SS&C said it would keep the London headquarters (2022-02)Londonuktech.news/ai/blue-prism-takeover-delisting-202 · uktech.news/news/72289-20190620one source
BoltzbitCompaniesLondon start-up whose platform lets businesses build AI models without writing code.machine-learning platformsLondon (registered office) (NW1 3AD)Companies House · uktech.news/ai/boltzbit-seed-funding-20220316 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
Builder.ai (Engineer.ai Global Limited)CompaniesSold a service that let businesses order custom software apps assembled from reusable parts, marketed as driven by AI; it collapsed in 2025. wound_downLondon (E14 4HD, registered office in liquidation)Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · tech.eu/2025/05/20/ai-unicorn-builderai-confirmsverified
CallosumCompaniesBuilds software that matches each AI task to the best mix of chips and computers to run it.AI compute orchestration
Profile
Founded
2026 (UKTN roundup, 2026-08-21)
Founders
Jascha Achterberg — co-founder; Danyal Akarca — co-founder (both Cambridge-trained scientists who met during their PhDs)
Hq
London (England: London)
What it does
Systems software for mixed ("heterogeneous") computing: it sends each AI task to the cheapest suitable model and chip, and lets different AI models work together across different chip types.
Products
systems-level software for heterogeneous AI compute — 2026
Partnerships
Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) — investor — 2026-02
Rounds found
2026-02-26 — round (stage not stated) — 10.25m USD (7.5m GBP) — Plural — ARIA, angels; 2026-04-17 — UK Sovereign AI Fund names Callosum as its first investment (amount not stated); 2026-08-20 — Seed — 100m USD (73.5m GBP) — Atomico — Plural, DCVC, UK Sovereign AI Fund, angels (already DEAL-X-031 / DEAL-INV-002 / DEAL-SW-049 — three ids for one round)
Status now
Active; London systems-software company that raised a 100m USD seed in August 2026, the UK Sovereign AI Fund's first investment.
Confidence
single_source (all trade; no primary page opened)

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

LondonCompanies House · uktech.news/funding/uk-tech-funding-roundup-this · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · gov.uk/government/publications/uk-ai-hardware-pl · gov.uk/government/news/ai-firms-pioneering-drug-one source
Canonical (AI and MLOps products)CompaniesLondon-dated publisher of Ubuntu that ships Charmed Kubeflow and other open-source tools for training and serving AI models.open-source MLOps stackKey facts Charmed Kubeflow certified under NVIDIA DGX-Ready Software (2023-03-21); Charmed Kubeflow 1.9 GA with NVIDIA NIM and Triton serving (2024-08-01); Ubuntu certified on Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-8275 edge AI kit (2026-09-08)London (dateline)canonical.com/blog/scale-enterprise-ai-with-cano · canonical.com/blog/kubeflow-1-9-gaone source
CapturCompaniesLets businesses build their own image-recognition checks that run on a smartphone camera.computer visionLondonCompanies House · uktech.news/ai/image-recognition-startup-captur- · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · mmc.vc/portfolio/verified
causaLensCompaniesMakes software that works out cause and effect in business data and now sells AI agents that help companies make decisions.causal AI
Profile
Founded
2016 (UKTN 2021)
Founders
Darko Matovski — founder
Hq
London (England: London)
What it does
Builds "causal AI" software that models cause and effect in business and economic data to support forecasts and decisions.
Status now
Active per existing record; no 2025–2026 page opened this round.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

The Ark, Unit 7A, 201 Talgarth Road, London (W6 8BJ)Companies House · causalens.com/?p=10997 · businesswire.com/news/home/20240924312268/en · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
CausalyCompaniesMakes an AI research platform that reads biomedical papers and data so scientists at drug companies can find evidence and targets faster.
Profile
Founded
2018 (UKTN)
Founders
Yiannis Kiachopoulos — co-founder and CEO; Artur Saudabayev — co-founder
Chief executive
Yiannis Kiachopoulos — from null (CEO in 2023-07)
Other leaders
Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas (Index Ventures) — board member from 2021-05
Hq
London (England: London)
What it does
An AI research platform for drug discovery that reads scientific literature and data to help pharmaceutical researchers find disease targets and biomarkers.
Products
AI research platform for biomedical research — date null
Customers named
Gilead, Novartis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences — https://www.uktech.news/news/uks-machine-learning-startup-causaly-raises-12m-to-boosts-its-drug-discovery-ai-20210520
Usage or revenue as published
working with nine large pharmaceutical companies — 2021-05 — UKTN; deployed at 12 of the top 20 pharma companies — 2023-07 — UKTN
Funding total as published
about 71m GBP — as of 2023-07-14 — https://www.uktech.news/medtech/ai-biotech-research-platform-causaly-secures-45-8m-20230714
Rounds found
2021-05-20 — Series A — 17m USD (about 12m GBP) — Index Ventures — Marathon, Pentech, EBRD; 2023-07-14 — Series B — 60m USD (45.8m GBP) — ICONIQ Growth — Index Ventures, Marathon Venture Capital, EBRD, Pentech Ventures, Visionaries Club, angels incl. Alex Gorsky (already DEAL-SW-036)
Status now
Active per existing record; no 2025–2026 page opened this round.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

London (WC1X 0BJ)Companies House · uktech.news/medtech/ai-biotech-research-platform · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/news/uks-machine-learning-startup-caone source
CodeWordsCompaniesLondon start-up building AI agents that learn how a business runs and then build automations for non-technical staff.business automationLondonuktech.news/ai/agentic-building-tool-codewords-r · tech.eu/2026/05/07/codewords-raises-9m-to-bring-one source
CognaCompaniesLondon software firm that uses AI to build custom business applications for each client.London (WC2A 1QS)Companies House · tech.eu/2024/03/07/cognas-ai-powered-saas/ · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · technation.io/upscale-2026-cohort-announcement/verified
ComposalCompaniesSends swarms of AI agents to use a product as its customers would, finding bugs before release.London (—)ycombinator.com/companies/composal · ycombinator.com/companies/industry/Developer%20Tone source
ConductCompaniesAn AI system that maps large companies' customised legacy software so teams can understand and change it.
Profile
Founded
2024 (UKTN)
Founders
Jan Philipp Haas — co-founder and chief executive (founding team described as former Palantir staff)
Chief executive
Jan Philipp Haas — from 2024
Hq
London (England: London)
What it does
An "AI operating system" for complex company software. It starts with customised SAP systems, reading custom code, settings and links so staff can ask how their system differs from the standard and how parts connect to business processes.
Products
agentic AI tool for querying custom SAP systems — 2025; "AI operating system" for complex software estates — 2026
Partnerships
SAP — strategic investor in Series A — 2026-06-17
Rounds found
2025-09-19 — Seed — 12m USD (8.89m GBP) — Creandum — Lucid Capital, Booom, angels (already DEAL-LC-037, where lead was "not named"; Creandum is new detail); 2026-06-17 — Series A — 60m USD (44.72m GBP) — Index Ventures and ICONIQ (co-leads) — SAP, Creandum, Lucid Capital, Booom (already DEAL-LC-100)
Status now
Active; London company that raised a 60m USD Series A in June 2026 with SAP as a strategic investor.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

London (W1T 3ND)Companies House · uktech.news/ai/ai-operating-system-startup-condu · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/ai/agentic-ai-startup-conduct-raisesverified
Context.aiCompaniesAnalytics for developers of AI chatbots, showing where a large language model product performs well and where it fails.developer toolsLondonuktech.news/ai/context-ai-funding-google-2023083one source
ConveoCompaniesLondon firm whose AI moderator interviews real people on video and builds a searchable store of consumer insight for brands and agencies.AI-moderated video interviewsKey facts Team of 90; YC Summer 2024; YC page lists news headlines "Conveo raises $50M Series A" (2026-09-02) and "$5.3M" (2025-03-06)Londonycombinator.com/companies/conveoone source
CortexicaCompaniesLondon visual-search company, spun out of Imperial College, whose AI recognises what is in images and video, used by retailers. unknown (last report 2017-04)AI visual searchKey facts £2m from Touchstone Innovations (2017-04); £3.9m raised in the previous year (2017-04); customers John Lewis, Macy's, Zalando (2017-04); offices London and San Francisco (2017-04)Londonuktech.news/news/london-based-cortexica-gets-2m-one source
CosineCompaniesMakes Genie, an AI software engineer that fixes bugs, builds features and rewrites code on its own or with human developers.coding agents
Profile
Founded
2022 (UKTN)
Founders
Alistair Pullen — co-founder and CEO; Yang Li — co-founder, COO; Sam Stenner — co-founder (role not stated)
Chief executive
Alistair Pullen — from null
Hq
null (UKTN does not state)
What it does
Builds Genie, an AI coding agent ("Artificial Developer") that fixes bugs, builds features and refactors code alone or alongside human developers. Backed by Y Combinator.
Products
Genie — 2024-08
Usage or revenue as published
30% on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark (company claim) — 2024-08-13 — UKTN
Rounds found
2024-08-13 — round — 2.5m USD (1.9m GBP) — Uphonest and SOMA Capital — Lakestar, Focal and others (already DEAL-SW-019; Lakestar and Focal new detail)
Status now
Active per existing record; no 2025–2026 page opened this round.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

Models and products (3)
  1. Lumen Sovereign (Cosine) 2026-06-08 in training (target late 2026; commercial launch Q1 2027)Cosine's planned UK-trained frontier model, co-designed with 13 British banks, defence firms and others, to run inside customers' own systems.
  2. Lumen models (Lumen Sovereign 256K, Lumen Scout, Lumen Outpost) 2026 in development (alpha planned 2026 Q4; commercial launch planned 2027 Q1)Cosine's own model family; Lumen Sovereign is a planned frontier model that organisations can run on their own infrastructure, even air-gapped.
  3. Cosine coding agent (CLI, Desktop and Cloud) no date released (product)Cosine's autonomous AI software engineer that works alongside human developers through a command line, desktop app and cloud.
London (and San Francisco)tech.eu/2024/08/12/uk-ai-startup-cosine-raises-2 · gov.uk/government/news/ai-firms-pioneering-drug- · tech.eu/2026/04/17/cosine-goes-from-benchmark-le · ycombinator.com/companies/cosineone source
cubicCompaniesAI code-review service that checks pull requests, flags bugs and suggests fixes.AI code reviewKey facts Team size 6 (YC profile, 2026-10); says teams merge PRs 28% faster; users named in launch post: cal.com, n8n, Linux FoundationLondonycombinator.com/companies/cubicone source
Deeptide (Atlas ML; Papers With Code)CompaniesSmall London company behind Papers With Code, a free website linking machine-learning research papers to their code. dissolvedLondon (registered office) (NW1 3FG)Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · techcrunch.com/2020/02/10/facebook-quietly-acquiverified
DoublewordCompaniesLondon AI start-up; the lead says it makes software for running large language models, but no page opened in this session describes its product.
Profile
Hq
London (England: London)
What it does
null (UKTN description behind paywall)
Rounds found
2025-05 — Series A — 9m GBP — Dawn Capital, K5 Tokyo Black — angels (already DEAL-SW-040)
Status now
Active per existing record.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

Londonuktech.news/funding/uk-tech-funding-roundup-juic · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · gov.uk/government/news/ai-firms-pioneering-drug-one source
DtechtiveCompaniesSoftware that uses AI to improve the descriptions (metadata) of datasets so people can find them.data discoveryLondon (registered office only) (WC2H 9JQ )Companies House · techuk.org/membership/members/6d76791c-8e31-f011 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
DucoCompaniesCloud platform that helps banks and other financial firms standardise, check and match their data.data reconciliationKey facts Clients use it "globally at a strategic level" (2018-01); plans to grow headcount in Europe and US (2018-01)London (article tag)uktech.news/news/investment-news/data-firm-duco-one source
EncordCompaniesMakes software that AI teams use to organise, label and check the images, video, sensor and text data used to train models, with a focus on robots and vehicles.
Profile
Founders
Ulrik Stig Hansen — co-founder and co-CEO (earlier at J.P. Morgan, Emerging Markets; MS Computer Science, Imperial College London); Eric Landau — co-founder and co-CEO
Chief executive
Ulrik Stig Hansen and Eric Landau — co-CEOs — from null
Hq
London (England: London) and San Francisco — company says it is hiring "in both locations"
Other offices
San Francisco (Outside the UK) — opened in 2024
What it does
A data platform for teams building AI models. It helps them store, sort, label and check images, video, sensor and other data, with growing work in training data for robots ("physical AI").
Products
Encord Index (data curation) — by 2024; Encord Data Agents — 2024; SAM 2 support (within 48 hours of Meta's release) — 2024-07; EMG-1 open dataset (300+ hours of muscle-signal recordings with first-person video, with Wearable Devices) — 2026 (exact date not printed); Encord Data Labs (physical AI research division) — 2026
Customers named
Woven by Toyota, Skydio, Synthesia — https://encord.com/blog/encord-announces-60-million-series-c/; AXA, Voxel, Stanford Medicine, Tractable, Dyna, UiPath, Zipline, Path Robotics, Forterra, Hudl, Weave Robotics (logo strip) — https://encord.com/about-us/; Philips, Flawless AI — https://encord.com/blog/recap-2024/
Partnerships
Wearable Devices — EMG-1 dataset — 2026 (from press-page listing only)
Usage or revenue as published
"300+ of the best AI teams in the world use Encord"; platform data grew from 1 petabyte to over 5 petabytes in twelve months; revenue from physical AI customers up 10x — 2026-02-26 — https://encord.com/blog/encord-announces-60-million-series-c/
Funding total as published
110m USD — as of 2026-02-26 — https://encord.com/blog/encord-announces-60-million-series-c/; https://encord.com/about-us/ (two primary pages)
Rounds found
2024 — Series B — 32m USD — null — null; 2026-02-26 — Series C — 60m USD — Wellington Management — Y Combinator, CRV, N47, Crane Venture Partners, Bright Pixel, Isomer Capital (already DEAL-SW-006). Investors also listed on site: Harpoon, WndrCo
Open source
EMG-1 open dataset (no download figures published)
Status now
Active; London and San Francisco AI data platform that raised a 60m USD Series C in February 2026 and is moving into robotics training data.
Confidence
verified (funding total, two primary pages); Series B single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

London (EC2A 4NE)Companies House · bolsamania.com/nota-de-prensa/mercados/encord-se · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · tech.eu/2026/10/15/ai-europes-10-most-funded-comverified
Evidently AICompaniesOpen-source tool for monitoring and evaluating machine-learning and LLM systems in production.open-source ML monitoringKey facts Team size 2 (YC profile, 2026-10); YC Summer 2021 batch; GitHub evidentlyaiLondonycombinator.com/companies/evidently-aione source
EvoluteIQCompaniesAgentic AI platform that automates decisions and routine work for banks, insurers and healthcare firms.process automation
Profile
Founded
2019 (UKTN)
Founders
Sameet Gupte — co-founder and chief executive
Chief executive
Sameet Gupte — from 2019
Other leaders
Daina Spedding (Baird Capital) — board from 2025-09; Mark Donnelly (Baird Capital) — board from 2025-09
Hq
London (England: London)
Other offices
India; Sweden; United States (all Outside the UK)
What it does
Sells EIQ, an "agentic AI" platform that automates decisions and repetitive back-office processes for banks, insurers and healthcare firms.
Products
EIQ agentic automation platform — date null
Rounds found
2025-09-17 — growth capital — 53m USD (38.8m GBP) — Baird Capital — null (already DEAL-LC-040 / DEAL-PE-025)
Status now
Active per existing record; no 2026 page opened this round.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

London (EC2A 2AP )Companies House · uktech.news/ai/evoluteiq-secures-40m-growth-capi · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/funding/uk-tech-funding-roundup-thisverified
Faculty (Faculty Frontier)CompaniesSells AI services and Frontier, a software platform that helps organisations use data and AI models to make decisions; now owned by Accenture. acquiredLondon (EC1V 9BW)Companies House · apax.com/news-views/accenture-to-acquire-faculty · itpro.com/business/acquisition/accenture-faculty · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
Gecko SecurityCompaniesAI tool that finds, verifies and fixes security flaws in application code.AI code security testingKey facts Team size 2 (YC profile, 2026-10); says 30+ CVEs found in projects incl. Ollama, Gradio, RagflowLondonycombinator.com/companies/gecko-securityone source
GensynCompaniesA network that pools idle graphics processors around the world so developers can train machine-learning models more cheaply.
Profile
Founders
Harry Grieve — co-founder; Ben Fielding — co-founder
Hq
London (England: London)
What it does
A decentralised network for training machine-learning models. It links spare GPUs around the world, pays their owners, and uses cryptography to check the work, as a cheaper alternative to cloud providers.
Products
pay-as-you-go decentralised machine-learning compute protocol — date null
Funding total as published
50m USD (39.9m GBP) — as of 2023-06-12 — https://www.uktech.news/ai/gensyn-series-a-20230612
Rounds found
2021 — Pre-seed — 1.1m USD — 7percent Ventures and Counterview Capital — null; 2022-03-21 — Seed — 6.5m USD (4.92m GBP) — Eden Block — Galaxy Digital, Maven 11, Coinfund, Hypersphere, Zee Prime (already DEAL-LB-012); 2023-06-12 — Series A — 33.8m GBP — a16z crypto — CoinFund, Protocol Labs, Canonical Crypto, Eden Block, Maven 11, Peer VC, Zee Prime, Id4, M31 Capital, angels (already DEAL-LB-078)
Status now
Active per existing record; no 2025–2026 page opened this round.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

London (N1 7SR)Companies House · uktech.news/ai/gensyn-ai-startup-funding-2022032 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · joinef.com/portfolio/verified
Geordie AICompaniesMakes software that lets companies see which AI agents they run, what those agents can access and do, and the risks they pose.AI agent securityLondon (EC2A 4NA)Companies House · uktech.news/ai/geordie-ai-raises-22-3m-for-secur · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
GranolaCompaniesMakes an AI notepad that takes rough meeting notes, adds the transcript and turns conversations into usable notes and context for teams.productivity
Profile
Founded
2023 (UKTN: "Founded in 2023"); product launched 2024-05-22
Founders
Chris Pedregal — co-founder and CEO; other co-founder(s) not named on pages opened
Chief executive
Chris Pedregal — from null (co-founder)
Hq
London (England: London) — pages carry "Made with ♥ in Shoreditch" and "Designed in London, built for the world"
Other offices
San Francisco (Outside the UK) — job listings say "San Francisco Office"
What it does
An AI notepad for meetings. It listens to the call on the user's computer, without a bot joining, and merges the user's own jotted notes with the transcript into structured notes; teams can share notes in folders and "Spaces" and query them.
Products
Granola notepad — 2024-05-22; Granola 2.0 (shared team folders, chat with folders, Slack auto-posting) — 2025-05-14; Spaces, personal API, enterprise API, updated MCP server, SSO/SCIM admin controls — 2026-03-25
Customers named
Vanta, Gusto, Thumbtack, Asana, Cursor, Lovable, Decagon, Mistral AI — https://www.granola.ai/blog/series-c; Brex, Intercom, Linear, Replit — https://www.granola.ai/jobs
Usage or revenue as published
"Each day Granola transcribes millions of minutes of conversation." — 2026 — https://www.granola.ai/jobs; weekly users "grown 6x" since launch — 2024-10-23 — https://www.granola.ai/blog/series-a
Funding total as published
null (published rounds are 20m + 43m + 125m USD; no total printed)
Valuation reported
1.5bn USD — 2026-03-25 — https://www.granola.ai/blog/series-c; https://www.granola.ai/jobs (two primary pages; UKTN roundup does not state a valuation)
Rounds found
2024-10-23 — Series A — 20m USD — Spark Capital — AI Grant, Lightspeed, Betaworks, Firstminute Capital and others; 2025-05-14 — Series B — 43m USD — NFDG (Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross) — Lightspeed, Spark, angels incl. Guillermo Rauch, Amjad Masad, Tobi Lutke, Karri Saarinen, Lenny Rachitsky, Des Traynor (already DEAL-SW-029); 2026-03-25 — Series C — 125m USD (93.4m GBP per UKTN) — Index Ventures (Danny Rimer) — Kleiner Perkins (Mamoon Hamid), Lightspeed, Spark, NFDG (already DEAL-SW-030)
Status now
Active; London-based meeting-notes company valued at 1.5bn USD after its March 2026 Series C.
Confidence
verified (Series C on primary and trade pages); Series A single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

LondonCompanies House · uktech.news/ai/ai-notepad-granola-secures-unicor · businesswire.com/news/home/20250514342646/en/Gra · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
HadeanCompaniesLondon defence company that uses AI and spatial computing to simulate conflicts for training and planning.
Profile
Founded
2015 (UKTN 2022)
Founders
Craig Beddis — co-founder and CEO
Chief executive
Craig Beddis — from null
Other leaders
unnamed former Amazon executive appointed CTO — 2023-08 (headline only)
Hq
London (England: London)
What it does
Distributed computing and simulation software. It began with a cloud operating system and large-scale simulation engine for games and science, moved to "metaverse" infrastructure, and by 2026 is described by UKTN as an "AI conflict simulation" firm.
Products
HadeanOS ("cloud-first operating system") and Aether Engine (distributed simulation engine) — by 2019-03; metaverse-as-a-service infrastructure — 2022–2023
Customers named
Francis Crick Institute (Aether Engine for protein-protein interaction simulations) — https://www.uktech.news/news/draper-esprit-leads-over-7m-round-into-hadean-20190314; CCP Games (EVE Online; 14,000 players in one virtual space) — https://www.uktech.news/vr/hadean-raises-30m-for-metaverse-experiences-20220923
Partnerships
CCP Games — Aether Wars 10,000-player battle and EVE Online event — 2019; Epic Games — investor, Unreal Engine ecosystem — 2022-09
Rounds found
2017-05-08 — round — 2.6m USD — White Cloud Capital — null (UKTN headline only); 2019-03-14 — round — 7m GBP — Draper Esprit — Aster, London Venture Partners, Luminous Ventures, Entrepreneur First; 2022-09-23 — Series A — 30m USD (26.6m GBP) — Molten Ventures — 2050 Capital, Alumni Ventures, Aster Capital, Entrepreneur First, InQTel, Epic Games; 2023-03-24 — round — 5m USD (4.09m GBP) — Ericsson Ventures — Metrea Discovery, VU Venture Partners, Sanctor Capital, Tirta Ventures; 2026-03-12 — bridge round (already DEAL-SW-054)
Status now
Active; London simulation company that raised a bridge round in March 2026 (existing record).
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

London (EC2A 2AP)Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/defence-tech/ai-conflict-simulation- · uktech.news/vr/hadean-raises-30m-for-metaverse-eone source
HarbrCompaniesLondon platform that lets large organisations exchange and share big data sets securely.enterprise data exchangeKey facts Series A came six months after leaving stealth (2020-11)Londontech.eu/features/34153/today-in-european-tech-ha · uktech.news/featured/uk-tech-news-roundup-novembone source
HazyCompaniesMade software that produced artificial copies of sensitive datasets for banks and others to use safely; its software was sold to SAS in 2024. acquiredsynthetic dataLondon (N12 8LY, liquidators' address)Companies House · sas.com/en_gb/news/press-releases/2024/november/ · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · thestack.technology/synthetic-data-hazy-series-a · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
HelixDBCompaniesOpen-source database that combines graph and vector search so AI agents can store and recall context.graph-vector databaseKey facts Team size 6 (YC profile, 2026-10); YC Spring 2025 batch; GitHub HelixDB/helix-dbLondonycombinator.com/companies/helixdbone source
Hello Lamp PostCompaniesA chatbot attached to places, so people can text or scan a code to talk to a street, park or building.London (registered office) (E14 3QF )Companies House · applytosupply.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/ · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
HessianCompaniesEngineers map a client's workflows, then build and run AI agents on Hessian's platform to do that work.forward-deployed agent platformKey facts Team size 3 (YC profile, 2026-10); YC Spring 2026 batchLondonycombinator.com/companies/hessianone source
Human NativeCompaniesA marketplace where owners of text, images and video license their content as training data to AI developers. acquiredLondon (SE1 7PB)Companies House · businesscloud.co.uk/news/65bn-cloudflare-makes-s · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
Human Native AICompaniesMarketplace where AI developers license content from rights holders to train their models. acquiredLondon (SE1 7PB )Companies House · uktech.news/ai/human-native-ai-funding-20240604 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
HumanloopCompaniesMade software for managing prompts and for testing and monitoring apps built on large language models; its team joined Anthropic in 2025 and the product closed. wound_downLLM evaluationLondon (operating base as reported); registered office Cambridge (CB1 2LA)Companies House · techcrunch.com/2025/08/13/anthropic-nabs-humanlo · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.one source
HumbleCompaniesNo-code platform that lets non-technical staff build and share AI apps and automated workflows.London (—)cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/announcing · cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/graduatingone source
incident.ioCompaniesLondon incident-management platform building AI agents that investigate outages and propose fixes.AI SRE incident agentsKey facts Customers named: Netflix, Etsy, OpenAI, Airbnb (2025-04); 250,000+ incidents handled (2025-04); about 30 staff (2022-07); AI SRE "Investigations" launched 2025-07-02Londonincident.io/blog/incident.io-raises-62m · uktech.news/saas/incident-io-funding-20220713one source
InephanyCompaniesSoftware that optimises how large language models are trained, to cut training costs.machine-learning infrastructureLondon (WC2B 6NH)Companies House · uktech.news/ai/inephany-raises-1-7m-to-optimise- · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
inforcerCompaniesSecurity and management platform for managed IT service providers, described as an AI security platform.
Profile
Founded
2022 (UKTN: "launched in 2022")
Chief executive
Jamie Daum — from null (CEO in 2025-07)
Hq
London (England: London)
What it does
Software for managed IT service providers that look after many small firms' Microsoft 365 accounts, letting them set, roll out, back up and restore security policies across all clients at once.
Products
Microsoft 365 policy management platform for MSPs — 2022
Rounds found
autumn 2024 — Series A — 19m USD (14m GBP) — null — null; 2025-07-23 — Series B — 35m USD (25.8m GBP) — Dawn Capital — Meritech Capital; 2026-08-03 — round — 50m USD — not named (already DEAL-LC-109)
Status now
Active per existing record; this round adds its 2024 and 2025 rounds.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

Richmond, London (TW9 1SR )Companies House · tech.eu/2026/08/03/european-tech-weekly-recap-eu · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/saas/inforcer-raises-26m-to-bridge-gverified
Instill AICompaniesOpen tools that turn images, video, audio and text into structured data that AI applications can use. in_liquidationdata infrastructureLondon (as published)Companies House · uktech.news/ai/instill-ai-funding-deepmind-20230 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
InthCompaniesScans pull requests, code and websites for privacy problems and turns them into fixes; makes open-source consent library c15t.privacy code scanningKey facts Team size 3 (YC profile, 2026-10); YC Spring 2026 batchLondonycombinator.com/companies/inthone source
Kleene.aiCompaniesLondon cloud platform that extracts, loads and transforms company data so analysts and business users can work with it.ELT data platformKey facts Customers The Modern Milkman, Blue Light Card, VROMO (2021-04); planned support for Azure Synapse Analytics and Google BigQuery (2021-04)Londonuktech.news/big-data/kleeneai-raises-15m-to-builone source
LaminarCompaniesOpen-source tracing and debugging platform that records every LLM call and tool use by AI agents.AI agent observabilityKey facts Team size 6 (YC profile, 2026-10); users named: Browser Use, OpenHands, Rye.com, Alai (2026-03); default observability tool in Browser Use docs (2026-03)Londontech.eu/2026/03/17/agent-debugging-startup-lamin · ycombinator.com/companies/laminarone source
LeerooCompaniesLondon start-up whose AI learns a firm's knowledge and expert playbooks and runs data and AI programmes on its systems with human approval.trainable enterprise agentsKey facts Team of 3; YC Spring 2025; seeking pilots in banking, finance and healthcareLondonycombinator.com/companies/leerooone source
LifebitCompaniesLondon company whose federated platform lets researchers analyse sensitive genomic and health data where it sits, without moving it.federated research environmentsKey facts Genomics England contract covering a 135,000-strong cohort (2021-09); three-year NIHR BioResource trusted research environment contract (2026-09); three-year Boehringer Ingelheim renewal after 4+ years (2026-09); Singapore R&D centre with Synapxe (2024-02); Genomics England selected Lifebit for enhanced research environment (2026-07)Londonlifebit.ai/blog/lifebit-raises-60-million-access · uktech.news/news/investment-news/lifebit-gets-3mverified
LightdashCompaniesOpen-source business intelligence platform for companies' data stacks, run from London and San Francisco.open-source BIKey facts Seed $8.4m (2022-10); Series A £8m (2024-10); company jointly registered in US and UK (2022-10); runs "Lightdash University" training scheme (2022-10)Londonuktech.news/big-data/lightdash-raises-7-4m-20221 · uktech.news/funding/uk-tech-funding-roundup-thisone source
Lovable (UK base)CompaniesMakes a service that lets people build websites and software apps by describing them in plain English.AI app buildersSecond Home, 68 Hanbury Street, London (E1 5JL)Companies House · lovable.dev/careers/london-workplace-manager-2c0 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
Lua (Lua Global Inc)Companies"AgentOS" for building and running AI agents for sales, support and operations, sold through agencies and channel partners.mid-market agent OSKey facts Team size 5 (YC profile, 2026-10); says team built 300+ SMB agents for partnersLondonycombinator.com/companies/lua-global-incone source
ManaMindCompaniesAutonomous AI agents that play video games to find bugs and write reports while the game is being built.AI agents for game testingKey facts Design partners: Included Games, Crazy Labs (2026-04)Londontech.eu/2026/04/30/manamind-secures-15m-to-develone source
MetaviewCompaniesLondon start-up whose AI records and analyses job interviews, writing notes and reports for recruiters.AI interview notetakerKey facts more than 3 million interviews recorded (2025-06); users named include Sony, ElevenLabs, Deliveroo (2025-06)Londonuktech.news/ai/google-ventures-leads-25-5m-inves · uktech.news/funding/uk-tech-funding-roundup-orioone source
MeticulousCompaniesRecords real user sessions and replays them against each code change to catch interface bugs, including in AI-written code.automated UI testingKey facts Team size 15 (YC profile, 2026-10); YC Summer 2021 batchLondonycombinator.com/companies/meticulousone source
MimicaCompaniesLondon company that watches how staff do tasks and turns this into process maps used to train compliant AI agents.process intelligence for agentsKey facts Over 30 enterprise customers including multiple Fortune 500 firms (2025-09); ARR up more than 570% in 18 months (2025-09); Series B £19.5m (2025-09)Londonbusinesscloud.co.uk/news/mimica-raises-19-5m-to-one source
Mindset AICompaniesPlatform that lets software companies embed AI agents into their own products.developer toolsLondon (E1 5JL )Companies House · uktech.news/ai/embedded-agent-startup-mindset-ai · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
mlopCompaniesOpen-source experiment-tracking platform for teams training machine-learning models.ML experiment trackingKey facts Team size 2 (YC profile, 2026-10); YC Spring 2025 batch; GitHub org mlop-aiLondonycombinator.com/companies/mlopone source
Monolith AICompaniesMakes machine-learning software that engineers use to learn from physical test data so they can run fewer tests on products such as cars and batteries. acquiredLondon (SE1 9EA)Companies House · coreweave.com/news/coreweave-to-acquire-monolith · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/news/london-ai-startup-monolith-ai-fverified
MotivesCompaniesLondon start-up running qualitative consumer research and focus groups with AI interviewers for large consumer brands.AI-run focus groupsKey facts YC Summer 2025; case study with Wild (a Unilever acquisition) testing packaging conceptsLondonycombinator.com/companies/motivesone source
NeuracoreCompaniesSoftware and data infrastructure that robotics teams use to collect data and train robots with machine learning.Londonuktech.news/ai/neuracore-funding-free-academics-one source
NeuralSpaceCompaniesSpeech and language-processing tools for many languages, sold to developers and businesses. dissolvedspeech and language technologyLondonCompanies House · uktech.news/ai/neuralspace-funding-seed-20220920 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
NiaCompaniesAI assistant for software engineers that they can query through an API, Slack or the Cursor editor.developer toolsLondon (founder's base per source)uktech.news/ai/ai-startup-founded-by-18-year-oldone source
NorthflankCompaniesLondon developer platform that runs apps, databases and GPU AI workloads on its cloud or a customer's own cloud.developer platform with GPUsKey facts 35,000+ developers, 1m+ container deployments a month (2024 review); 18+ GPU types incl. NVIDIA H100, H200, B200, GB300 (product page, 2026-10); customers named: Sentry, Writer, Weights, Chai DiscoveryLondonnorthflank.com/blog/northflank-raises-22m-to-mak · northflank.com/blog/northflank-2024-pr-merged-apone source
NoxusCompaniesLondon start-up selling an "AI operating system" that lets businesses set up teams of AI agents to handle repetitive work under human guidance.enterprise automationLondonbusinesscloud.co.uk/news/ai-startup-on-google-grone source
OmetriaCompaniesMakes customer-data and marketing software for retailers that uses AI to predict which shoppers will buy and when.
Profile
Founded
2013 (UKTN)
Founders
Ivan Mazour — co-founder and CEO
Chief executive
Ivan Mazour — from 2013 (as of 2023-09)
Other leaders
Marieke Christmann (Octopus Ventures) — board from 2019-09; Eduardo Piedade (Sonae IM) — board from 2019-09
Hq
London (England: London)
Other offices
New York (Outside the UK) — 2023
What it does
A customer data and marketing platform for retailers. It builds a profile of each shopper and uses AI to predict who is likely to buy and when a customer is about to run out of a product, to time emails and messages.
Products
customer data and marketing platform — date null; "AI co-marketer" — in development 2023-09
Customers named
Feelunique, LoveCrafts, Wonderbly, Graze.com — https://www.uktech.news/news/investment-news/martech-startup-ometria-lands-6m-series-a-20171011; Fred Perry, Hotel Chocolat, Steve Madden, Emma Bridgewater — https://www.uktech.news/ecommerce/cibc-innovation-banking-ometria-20230915
Usage or revenue as published
about 200 retail brands — 2023-09 — UKTN (also about 200 retailer clients, 2019-09)
Funding total as published
70m USD (56.3m GBP) — as of 2023-09-15 — https://www.uktech.news/ecommerce/cibc-innovation-banking-ometria-20230915 (11m USD as of 2017-10)
Rounds found
2014-09-22 — round — 500k USD — null — null (headline only); 2015-10-01 — round — 2.5m USD — null — null (headline only); 2017-10-11 — Series A — 6m USD (4.5m GBP) — Summit Action — Sonae IM, Samos Investments, Adjuvo, Lance Batchelor, Alan Parker, Matt Cooper; 2019-09-24 — Series B — 21m USD — Octopus Ventures — Sonae IM, Summit Action, Samos, Adjuvo, ten angels; 2023-09-15 — funding — 8m GBP — CIBC Innovation Banking (already DEAL-SW-048)
Status now
Active per existing record; UKTN tag page shows no Ometria story after September 2023.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

London (registered office NW1 3ER)Companies House · uktech.news/ecommerce/cibc-innovation-banking-om · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/news/investment-news/martech-startup · uktech.news/guest-posts/funding/customer-marketione source
OpenDialogCompaniesA platform for designing and running chat-based AI assistants without writing code.conversational AILondon (WC2R 0EX)Companies House · uktech.news/ai/opendialog-ai-4m-20220524 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
PaidCompaniesMakes billing and pricing software that lets companies selling AI agents charge customers for the results the agents deliver.AI agentsLondon (EC1R 3AL)Companies House · techcrunch.com/2025/09/28/paid-the-ai-agent-resu · stories.eqtventures.com/articles/rewriting-the-r · geekwire.com/2025/paid-a-new-ai-agent-billing-st · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
Parloa (UK office)CompaniesBerlin-based AI agent platform for customer communications; opened its first London office in June 2026.enterprise voice AI agentsKey facts Series D $350m (£260m) at $3bn valuation (2026-01); unicorn since 2025-05; offices Berlin, Munich, New York, France, Spain; Milan from 2026-07-01 (2026-06)Londonuktech.news/news/berlin-based-unicorn-parloa-ope · tech.eu/2026/10/15/ai-europes-10-most-funded-comone source
ParsewiseCompaniesLondon start-up whose API extracts and checks data across many documents for insurance risk teams, AI agents and data pipelines.multi-document processing APIKey facts Team of 6; YC Spring 2025; customers UBS, Compre Group, Thinksurance; use cases submission intake and claim portfolio riskLondonycombinator.com/companies/parsewiseone source
PhoebeCompaniesAI agents that watch live software systems, diagnose problems as they appear and propose code fixes.developer tools
Profile
Founders
Matt Henderson — co-founder (former CEO of Stripe Europe); James Summerfield — co-founder (former chief innovation officer of Stripe Europe); the pair sold their first start-up, Rangespan, to Google in 2014
Hq
London (England: London)
What it does
AI agents that act as an "immune system" for software: they watch live system data, diagnose faults and propose code and infrastructure changes to fix them.
Products
Phoebe platform (public launch) — 2025-08-20
Customers named
Trainline (early access customer) — https://www.uktech.news/ai/phoebe-funding-google-ventures-20250820
Rounds found
2025-08-20 — round (type not stated) — 17m USD (12.6m GBP) — Google Ventures and Cherry Ventures (co-leads) — null (already DEAL-LC-035)
Status now
Active per existing record; no 2026 page opened this round.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

Londonuktech.news/ai/phoebe-funding-google-ventures-20one source
PlexeCompaniesOpen-source agent that turns a written problem description into a trained ML model served behind an API.prompt-to-model agentKey facts Team size 2 (YC profile, 2026-10); YC Spring 2025 batch; launch post created 2025-05-21Londonycombinator.com/companies/plexe · ycombinator.com/launches/NZ7-plexe-build-ml-modeone source
Prevalent AICompaniesLondon company selling an AI software platform to large organisations.
Profile
Founded
null ("Founded by alumni of GCHQ"; page description refers to a "nine-year history")
Founders
Paul Stokes — co-founder and CEO
Chief executive
Paul Stokes — from null
Hq
London (England: London)
Other offices
null (plans US expansion)
What it does
An "AI-powered data fabric" for security and risk teams. It cleans and links scattered company data into a single knowledge graph that the customer controls; clients include banks, telecoms firms and insurers.
Products
AI context engine / data fabric building a sovereign knowledge graph — date null
Rounds found
2026-08-24 — growth round, "the first primary capital raised by the firm" — 16.1m GBP — Integrity Growth Partners (Los Angeles) — null (matches DEAL-LC-116, 22m USD, 2026-08-19, investor "not named" — IGP is the new detail)
Status now
Active; London security-data company that raised its first outside capital, £16.1m, in August 2026.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

London (registered office)Companies House · tech.eu/2026/08/24/european-tech-weekly-recap-mo · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/cybersecurity/prevalent-ai-secures-1verified
PrivitarCompaniesLondon privacy software firm, joint winner of the UK-US PETs prize, bought by the US data company Informatica in 2023. acquiredprivacy engineering softwareKey facts Customers HSBC, NHS Digital and BT (2019-06); NHS Digital De-ID contract for de-identifying patient records (2018-06); joint 1st place, UK PETs prize, as STARLIT team with UCL and Cardiff University (2023-03); phase-one PETs prize winner (2022-11); acquisition announced 2023-06-14, completed by 2023-08-02Londonnasdaq.com/press-release/informatica-announces-i · gov.uk/government/news/at-summit-for-democracy-tverified
ProlificCompaniesRuns an online pool of checked, paid participants that researchers and AI developers use to collect human data and test AI systems.
Profile
Founded
2014 (UKTN)
Hq
London (England: London)
Headcount
over 100 — 2023-07-13 — https://www.uktech.news/ai/ai-review-software-20230713
What it does
An online platform where researchers and AI companies recruit and pay members of the public to take part in studies and to test and rate AI models.
Products
participant-recruitment and human-review platform — date null
Customers named
Google, University of Oxford, King's College London, Stanford University — https://www.uktech.news/ai/ai-review-software-20230713
Usage or revenue as published
about 120,000 active human reviewers; more than 100m USD paid to its reviewing community since launch; profitable since 2020 — 2023-07-13 — https://www.uktech.news/ai/ai-review-software-20230713
Rounds found
2023-07-13 — Series A — 25m GBP — Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises (co-leads) — null (already DEAL-SW-007)
Status now
Active per existing record; no 2025–2026 page opened this round.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

London (N13 4BS)Companies House · prolific.com/resources/series-a-fundraise · techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/prolific-raises-32m-to · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · ycombinator.com/companies/industry/aiops/londonverified
PydanticCompaniesMaintains Pydantic, free software that checks data in Python programs, and sells Logfire, a tool that shows developers how their software and AI apps are running.developer tools
Profile
Legal name
Pydantic Services Inc. (US entity named by UKTN; UK company per existing record)
Founded
2017 (open-source library created); company emerged from stealth 2023-02
Founders
Samuel Colvin — creator and founder
Hq
London (England: London) — UKTN gives Colvin as "London-based"
What it does
Maintains Pydantic, a widely used open-source Python library that checks data matches expected types, and builds paid cloud services and developer tools on top of it.
Products
Pydantic (open-source data validation library) — 2017; cloud services with free tier and usage-based pricing — planned 2023
Customers named
Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Meta (users of the library) — https://www.uktech.news/cloud/pydantic-sequoia-20230217
Usage or revenue as published
"around 48 million downloads a month" — 2023-02-17 — https://www.uktech.news/cloud/pydantic-sequoia-20230217
Rounds found
2023-02-17 — Seed — 4.7m USD (3.9m GBP) — Sequoia — Partech, Irregular Expressions, angels; 2024-10-01 — Series A — 12.5m USD — Sequoia (already DEAL-SW-020)
Open source
Pydantic — about 48 million downloads a month — 2023-02
Status now
Active per existing record; no 2025–2026 page opened this round.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

London (SW8 5EL)Companies House · techcrunch.com/2024/10/01/sequoia-backs-pydantic · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-validation-10-bil · uktech.news/cloud/pydantic-sequoia-20230217verified
QatalogCompaniesLondon-headquartered maker of collaboration software for distributed teams, linking tools such as Slack and Zoom.AI work hubKey facts Total raised £14.7m, nearly £12m in an October 2020 Series A (2022-04); 48 staff from 18 nationalities (2022-04); users include Nvidia, Twitter and Airbnb (2022-04)Londonuktech.news/news/founder-interviews/qatalog-founone source
QuixCompaniesLondon cloud platform for building real-time, event-driven data applications, started by four former McLaren engineers.real-time data streamingKey facts Earlier £2.3m seed (before 2022-11); Series A for product development and open-source work (2022-11)Londonuktech.news/saas/quix-series-a-20221114one source
RaycastCompaniesLondon productivity launcher for developers, with an extensions store and early team features (2021).Mac productivity launcherKey facts Daily active users over 11,000, up from 130 in October 2020 (2021-11); 20 million actions performed (2021-11); 100+ community extensions within a month of launching the Extensions API (2021-11)Londonuktech.news/funding/raycast-funding-public-beta-one source
Receipt BankCompaniesLondon bookkeeping platform that pulls data from receipts and invoices for accountants and small businesses. active (last confirmed)receipt and invoice extractionKey facts 200 staff (2017-08); total raised $65m (2017-07)Londonuktech.news/news/receipt-bank-lands-50m-series-b · uktech.news/news/michael-wood-of-receipt-bank-onone source
RossumCompaniesDocument-processing software that uses AI to read invoices and other business documents; bought by Coupa in 2026. acquireddocument processingLondon (registered office)Companies House · businesscloud.co.uk/live-blog/san-franciscos-cou · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · seedcamp.com/our-companies/verified
RunLocal AICompaniesAI agents that tune models to run on in-vehicle and robot chips such as NVIDIA Orin and Qualcomm.edge inference optimisationKey facts Team size 3 (YC profile, 2026-10); YC Summer 2024 batch; investors named: Y Combinator, 468 CapitalLondonycombinator.com/companies/runlocal-aione source
SecondmindCompaniesCambridge-founded AI company; the lead says it sells machine-learning software that helps car makers design and calibrate engines and vehicles (not verified here).
Models and products (1)
  1. GPflow, GPflux and Trieste (Secondmind Labs open-source libraries) 2026-10-31 (as read) released (open source)Secondmind Labs' open-source software for building Gaussian-process models, deep Gaussian processes and active-learning Bayesian optimisation.
London (registered office EC2V 6DN)Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/news/cambridge-ai-startup-prowler-io · secondmind.ai/secondmind-labs · secondmind.ai/verified
SecretariumCompaniesPrivacy technology provider behind DANIE, a consortium of banks and data providers that checks client data without exposing it.confidential computingKey facts DANIE platform launched 2020, used for client data quality, anti-money laundering and fraud checks (GOV.UK case study added 2023-06)London (Société Générale incubator)gov.uk/guidance/repository-of-privacy-enhancing-one source
SeldonCompaniesMade software for putting machine-learning models into live use, serving their answers and monitoring them; bought by US firm TrueFoundry in 2026. acquiredMLOps
Profile
Founded
2014 (UKTN)
Founders
Alex Housley — founder and CEO
Chief executive
Alex Housley — from 2014 (as of 2023-03)
Hq
null (UKTN 2020 notes a planned R&D lab in Cambridge)
Other offices
Cambridge R&D lab (planned 2020-11)
Headcount
null (2020 plan to "more than double the size of the team over the next 18 months")
What it does
Machine-learning operations (MLOps) software that companies use to deploy, run, monitor and explain machine-learning models in production; its open-source Seldon Core was its best-known project.
Products
Seldon Core (open source) — date null; MLOps platform for deploying, managing, monitoring and explaining models — date null
Customers named
Capital One — https://www.uktech.news/news/machine-learning-startup-seldon-raises-7-1m-series-a-from-albionvc-and-cambridge-innovation-capital-20201118; Rakuten, PayPal, Johnson & Johnson, Audi, Experian — https://www.uktech.news/ai/seldon-series-b-funding-20230316
Partnerships
Google, Red Hat, IBM, Amazon Web Services — named partners — 2020-11
Usage or revenue as published
Seldon Core "over 700,000 models deployed to date"; boilerplate "three millions installs" — 2020-11-18 — UKTN
Rounds found
2020-11-18 — Series A — 7.1m GBP — AlbionVC and Cambridge Innovation Capital (co-leads) — Amadeus Capital Partners, Global Brain (already DEAL-LA-052); 2023-03-16 — Series B — 20m USD (16.6m GBP) — Bright Pixel — AlbionVC, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners (already DEAL-LB-065)
Open source
Seldon Core — "over 700,000 models deployed" — 2020-11
Status now
Per existing records DEAL-SW-004 (liquidator FRP Advisory, March 2026) and DEAL-SW-005 (acquired by TrueFoundry, June 2026); not re-checked this round.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

London (EC4N 6EU, liquidator's address)Companies House · truefoundry.com/ar/press-room/truefoundry-acquir · sdxcentral.com/news/truefoundry-snaps-up-seldon- · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/ai/seldon-series-b-funding-20230316verified
SharebackCompaniesWorkplace platform giving employees secure AI assistants trained on their own company, department or project data.London (—)cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/announcing · cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/graduatingone source
SilicoCompaniesLondon start-up whose simulation software let firms test business decisions before making them. dissolveddecision supportLondonCompanies House · uktech.news/featured/ai-startup-silico-raises-3- · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
SmoothCompaniesTwo-person London start-up making an AI agent that operates a web browser on its own.AI browser agentKey facts Team of 2; listed in YC Fall 2024 (London list)Londonycombinator.com/companies/smooth · ycombinator.com/companies/location/londonone source
SnowplowCompaniesMakes software that collects and organises records of what customers do online, which companies use for analytics and to build data products.customer data
Profile
Founded
2012 (UKTN)
Founders
Alexander Dean — co-founder and CEO; Yali Sassoon — co-founder
Chief executive
Alexander Dean — from null (CEO in 2019-11)
Hq
null (UKTN 2019 does not state)
What it does
Software for collecting detailed behavioural data from websites and apps ("data creation"), which companies feed into analytics and AI models.
Products
Snowplow open-source data collection products — date null
Customers named
Strava, La Presse, The Economist, Weebly, Hudl, Auto Trader, Omio, Secret Escapes — https://www.uktech.news/news/snowplow-analytics-announces-4m-series-a-funding-20191114
Usage or revenue as published
"over 150 customers" — 2019-11 — UKTN; open-source products deployed "on over 600k websites, globally" (MMC Ventures) — 2019-11 — UKTN
Rounds found
2019-11-15 — Series A — 4m GBP — MMC Ventures ("our first VC investor") — null (already DEAL-SW-042)
Open source
Snowplow open-source products — over 600,000 websites — 2019-11
Status now
Active per existing record; no 2025–2026 page opened this round.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

London (EC2A 4HH)Companies House · uktech.news/news/snowplow-analytics-announces-4m · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
SolidatusCompaniesLondon software that maps how data flows through an organisation's systems, used by banks, drug firms and government.data lineageKey facts Four of the top 10 global systemically important banks in Europe and US as clients (2021-02); "doubled in size" in 2020 (2021-02); sectors include aerospace, manufacturing, telecoms and government (2021-02)Londonuktech.news/news/london-based-next-gen-data-manaone source
SolveAICompaniesMakes a no-code platform on which businesses describe the software they need and AI builds it, linked to their existing systems.AI app builders
Profile
Founded
2025 (UKTN)
Founders
Steve Basher — founder (former Palantir engineer)
Hq
London (England: London)
What it does
A no-code platform that lets staff in large organisations build their own business software, connected to older systems and within governance rules.
Products
no-code enterprise app-building platform — 2025
Funding total as published
null (two rounds disclosed: 5m USD seed, 45m USD Series A)
Rounds found
2026-02-26 (disclosed) — Seed — 5m USD (3.7m GBP) — Accel — null (already DEAL-SW-039); 2026-02-26 — Series A — 45m USD (33.3m GBP) — Google Ventures — Northzone, Mantic VC, NeverLift, angels (already DEAL-SW-038; other investors new detail)
Status now
Active; London no-code platform that disclosed 50m USD across seed and Series A in February 2026.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

London (EC4A 1JP)Companies House · uktech.news/ai/google-ventures-leads-solveais-33 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
Source.devCompaniesDeveloper platform that simplifies building and updating software for smart devices; chosen for Google's AI First UK accelerator.London (—)cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/graduating · seedcamp.com/our-companies/verified
SparklesCompaniesLets anyone in a team start coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode) on the company's GitHub code; each run ends as a pull request.team coding agentsKey facts Team size 2 (YC profile, 2026-10); YC Winter 2026 batchLondonycombinator.com/companies/sparklesone source
Splink (Ministry of Justice)Chips, models and productsFree, open-source tool built by the Ministry of Justice that links records likely to belong to the same person.probabilistic data linkageKey facts Used for MoJ Data First linked datasets in the ONS Secure Research Service and SAIL Databank; about 40 research projects supported (2024-12); linkage pipelines run weeklyLondongov.uk/algorithmic-transparency-records/moj-dataone source
Stanhope AICompaniesUCL spin-out building AI that makes decisions on its own, modelled on how the brain works.agentic AI
Models and products (1)
  1. Real World Model (Stanhope AI) 2026-02-12 in testing (drones and robotics)Stanhope AI's on-device AI framework based on active inference, a neuroscience theory, being tested in autonomous drones and robots.
LondonCompanies House · uktech.news/ai/stanhope-funding-ai-human-brains- · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · mmc.vc/portfolio/verified
SynthesizedCompaniesMakes software that generates realistic stand-in data so companies can test software and train models without using real customer records.synthetic dataLondon (E1 6HU)Companies House · techcrunch.com/?p=1956828 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · seedcamp.com/our-companies/verified
TesslCompaniesMakes a platform that gives AI coding agents structured, versioned instructions so software teams can build and maintain code with them.coding agents
Profile
Legal name
Tessl AI Ltd (site footer)
Founded
2024 (UKTN: Podjarny launched Tessl in February 2024)
Founders
Guy Podjarny — founder and CEO (previously founded Snyk; former CTO at Akamai)
Chief executive
Guy Podjarny — from 2024
Other leaders
Simon Maple — Head of Developer Relations
Hq
London (England: London) — registered office printed as 210 Pentonville Road, London
Other offices
null (runs AI Native DevCon events in New York; no New York office stated)
What it does
Tools for "spec-driven" software development, where people write specifications and AI coding agents write the code. Its registry holds specifications and evaluated "skills" that tell agents how to use libraries correctly.
Products
Spec Registry (10,000+ pre-built specs, open beta, free) — announced 2025-09-16, launch post 2025-09-23; Tessl Framework (specs kept in the codebase as agents' "long-term memory"; closed beta) — announced 2025-09-16; Skills on Tessl, "the package manager for agent skills", with evaluations for over 2,000 skills — 2026-01-29
Usage or revenue as published
"more than 10,000 pre-built specs" — 2025-09-23 — https://tessl.io/blog/tessl-launches-spec-driven-framework-and-registry; review evaluations for "over 2,000 skills" — 2026-01-29 — https://tessl.io/blog/skills-are-software-and-they-need-a-lifecycle-introducing-skills-on-tessl
Funding total as published
125m USD — as of 2024-11-14 — https://tessl.io/blog/announcing-our-series-a-for-ai-native-software-development/; https://www.uktech.news/tech-hubs/snyk-founder-guy-podjarny-raises-125m-for-ai-software-development-platform-tessl-20241114
Valuation reported
750m USD ("up to") — 2024-11-14 — UKTN only — single_source
Rounds found
2024-04 — Seed — 25m USD — boldstart ventures and GV — null (already DEAL-SW-009); 2024-11-14 — Series A — 100m USD — Index Ventures — Accel (already DEAL-SW-008; Accel is new detail)
Status now
Active; London-based maker of spec-driven development tools and an agent-skills registry, led by founder Guy Podjarny.
Confidence
verified (funding total on primary and trade pages); valuation single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

210 Pentonville Road, London (N1 9JY)Companies House · tessl.io/about · uktech.news/tech-hubs/snyk-founder-guy-podjarny- · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · snyk.io/blog/snyk-tessl-partnership/verified
throxyCompaniesLondon company running B2B outbound sales with AI agents plus human sales staff, aimed at manufacturing, logistics and other traditional industries.AI outbound sales agentsKey facts Team of 55 across London and Cape Town; YC Spring 2025; books on average 8 to 12 qualified meetings per client a month (company claim)Londonycombinator.com/companies/throxyone source
TraceCompaniesLondon start-up whose platform hands work between AI agents and people, used by 30+ companies to automate routine tasks.human-AI workflow orchestrationKey facts Team of 3; YC Summer 2025; more than 30 companies use it (YC launch post); YC page lists a news headline that Trace raised $3M (2026-02-25)Londonycombinator.com/companies/trace-soone source
Trent AICompaniesMakes security software, run by AI agents, for teams building AI agents, to keep their code, infrastructure and running systems secure.AI agent securityLondon (registered office EC2A 4NA)Companies House · uktech.news/ai/trent-ai-raises-9-7m-to-boost-its · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · tech.eu/2026/04/07/openai-and-spotify-leaders-baverified
Trigger.devCompaniesDeveloper platform, tagged open source by Y Combinator, for building and running managed AI agents and workflows.London (—)ycombinator.com/companies/trigger-devone source
TurinTechCompaniesUCL spin-out whose Artemis platform uses evolutionary AI to optimise and check enterprise code.AI code optimisationKey facts $20m total raised (2025-03); Intel uses Artemis internally (2025-10); Artemis launched at NVIDIA GTC (2025-03-18); Artemis developer preview (2025-12)Londonturintech.ai/news/turintech-reveals-20m-in-backi · uktech.news/news/founder-interviews/turintech-foone source
UnaricCompaniesBuys and combines Salesforce add-on software into a suite of AI-powered applications and agents.London (EC2V 6DN )Companies House · tech.eu/2025/10/09/unaric-expands-its-uk-ai-foot · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
UnifyCompaniesStarted with a router sending each prompt to the best LLM provider; now building models that keep learning.LLM routing; continual learningKey facts Team size 3 (YC profile, 2026-10); YC Winter 2023 batchLondonycombinator.com/companies/unifyone source
UnitaryCompaniesMakes AI that checks photos and videos for harmful content, so online platforms can moderate what users post.
Profile
Founded
null (founders met in 2019 on Entrepreneur First)
Founders
Sasha Haco — co-founder and CEO; James Thewlis — co-founder (formerly Facebook AI Research)
Chief executive
Sasha Haco — from null
Hq
London (England: London)
Headcount
null (doubled before 2023-10)
What it does
AI that checks videos and images for harmful content, used by online platforms for content moderation.
Products
video content-moderation AI — date null
Usage or revenue as published
"analysing six million videos every day"; "seven figures of annual recurring revenue" (Ian Hogarth, Plural) — 2023-10-03 — UKTN; up to 25,000 video frames a second — 2023-03 — UKTN
Rounds found
2023-03-07 — round — 8m USD (6.7m GBP) — Plural — angels incl. Carolyn Everson (already DEAL-SW-027); 2023-10-03 — Series A — 15m USD (12.3m GBP) — Creandum — Paladin Capital Group, Plural (already DEAL-SW-028)
Status now
Active per existing record; no 2025–2026 page opened this round.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

LondonCompanies House · uktech.news/tech-hubs/london/unitary-series-a-20 · tech.eu/2023/03/07/keeping-tabs-on-nsfw-or-other · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
V7CompaniesMakes software for labelling images, video and documents to train AI models, and a tool that uses AI models to process business documents.
Profile
Founded
2018 (UKTN)
Founders
null (UKTN names Alberto Rizzoli as CEO only)
Chief executive
Alberto Rizzoli — from null (CEO in 2022-11)
Hq
London (England: London)
What it does
Software that automates the labelling of images and video used to train computer-vision AI; it describes itself as "the data engine to build and improve AI for computer vision".
Products
automated data-labelling platform — date null
Rounds found
2022-11-29 — Series A — 33m USD (27.4m GBP) — Radical Ventures and Temasek (co-leads) — Air Street Capital, Amadeus Capital, Partech, angel investors with machine-learning backgrounds (already DEAL-SW-016; other investors are new detail)
Status now
Active per existing record; no 2025–2026 page opened this round.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

60 Margaret Street, London (W1W 8TF)Companies House · businesscloud.co.uk/news/v7-raises-27m-to-help-t · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · technation.io/unveils-latest-cohort-of-tech-scalverified
Vibe Kanban (formerly bloop)CompaniesTool for planning and reviewing code written by coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex; formerly the code-search start-up bloop.coding-agent orchestrationKey facts Team size 10 (YC profile, 2026-10); YC Summer 2021 batch; GitHub bloopaiLondonycombinator.com/companies/vibe-kanbanone source
VoltaCompaniesLondon company that finances, builds and runs large AI data centres, with its own software, for AI labs. Scope edge: may belong on the data-centres page.Londonuktech.news/ai/volta-emerges-from-stealth-with-7one source
WluperCompaniesBuilt conversational AI for voice assistants with deep knowledge of one subject, starting with in-car navigation; the company was liquidated and dissolved in 2025. dissolvedconversational AILondon (registered office was 322 High Holborn until May 2024)Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified

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