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Builds domain-specific AI for analysing, generating and negotiating contracts, used by legal and compliance teams. Founded in Cambridge and headquartered in London.
UK companies putting AI to work inside large organisations.
Growth London
Builds domain-specific AI for analysing, generating and negotiating contracts, used by legal and compliance teams. Founded in Cambridge and headquartered in London.
Growth London
Builds enterprise voice assistants that handle customer-service phone calls in natural conversation. Headquartered in London, having spun out of Cambridge research.
Growth London
Builds decision-intelligence software that connects scattered data into a single view for fraud detection, anti-money-laundering and financial-crime analytics. Headquartered in London.
Growth London
Builds an AI video-generation platform that turns text into videos using synthetic avatars and voices, aimed at enterprise training and internal communications. Headquartered in London, having started as a UCL spinout.
Early-stage London
Develops foundation models for energy operations, combining physics-based modelling with machine learning to help operators run complex industrial facilities more efficiently. Its platform is called Orbital. Founded by Imperial College alumni and headquartered in London, with offices in Houston and Bengaluru.
Early-stage London
Builds autonomous AI agents for industrial workflows across sectors including aerospace, energy, logistics, and manufacturing. Founded in 2026, based in London and Paris, and emerged from stealth in mid-2026 with $38M in funding led by Blossom Capital and Accel.
Growth London
Builds an AI-powered talent platform that helps large organisations attract, manage, and retain employees, using a data model of skills and roles. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in London, with operations in the US, Germany, and Singapore.
Acquired Cambridge
Develops AI-based cybersecurity software that learns normal network behaviour to detect threats and respond to them autonomously. Headquartered in Cambridge.
Early-stage London
Provides a platform for enterprises to deploy, manage, and scale open-source and custom AI models on their own infrastructure, reducing reliance on external AI providers. Formerly known as TitanML. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in London.
Growth London
Buys independent UK letting agencies and rebuilds them around an AI platform that automates tenant screening, rent collection, maintenance, and compliance. Headquartered in London, and now among the UK's larger lettings operators.
Acquired London
Applies AI to decision-making for enterprises and the public sector, including work with the NHS, government departments, and companies across other industries. Founded in 2014, with a research-heavy team, and known for its work on AI safety and evaluation. Headquartered in London.
Acquired Cambridge
Builds real-time AI fraud-detection and financial-crime software for banks and payment firms, pioneering adaptive behavioural analytics. Headquartered in Cambridge.
Early-stage London
Builds AI agents that handle customer operations for financial services firms, automating support and back-office processes such as disputes and identity checks. Founded by a team from the digital bank Monzo. Headquartered in London.
Early-stage Oxford
Builds machine-learning software for high-stakes uses in defence, national security, government and insurance. An Oxford University spin-out headquartered in Oxford.
Growth Manchester
Develops a decision-intelligence platform that helps businesses use AI for commercial decisions such as pricing, inventory, and demand forecasting. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Manchester, with further offices in the US and India.
Growth London
Builds AI simulation software for engineering and manufacturing, used in aerospace, automotive, and defence to design and test physical products faster. Headquartered in London.
Growth London
Builds an NLP and machine-learning platform that analyses news, broadcast, regulatory and social data to track risk and reputation for large organisations. Headquartered in London.
Growth London
Builds computer-vision AI that assesses vehicle and property damage from photographs to automate insurance claims and repair estimates. Headquartered in London.
Early-stage London
Uses multimodal AI to moderate visual content at scale, reading what is in a video or image and the context around it to flag harmful material, combining AI agents with human review. Founded in 2019 by Sasha Haco and James Thewlis. Headquartered in London.
Early-stage London
Builds an AI training-data and annotation platform called Darwin, alongside V7 Go, a document-automation product for extracting and processing data. Headquartered in London.
Early-stage London
Builds a sovereign infrastructure control layer that lets governments and enterprises govern how their AI systems and critical workloads communicate, access data, and run. Headquartered in London, serving enterprise and defence customers.
The government has opened applications for its first Advisory AI Growth Lab, a regulatory sandbox that lets legal-technology firms trial AI tools within existing rules, with four regulators at the table. Legal services is the first sector, and the model is meant to be repeated across others.
Dwelly, a London proptech that buys UK letting agencies and automates them with AI, has raised $170M, about £128M, in a Series B co-led by EQT Growth and General Catalyst. It takes the two-year-old company past $260M raised in under a year, in one of the more unusual UK AI business models to attract serious money.
London company Valarian has raised $50M, about £37.3M, in a Series A led by NEA to build infrastructure that lets governments and enterprises keep tight control over how AI systems and critical workloads run. It is NEA's first defence and dual-use investment in Europe.