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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.
GrowthLondon
Builds domain-specific AI for analysing, generating and negotiating contracts, used by legal and compliance teams. Founded in Cambridge and headquartered in London.
GrowthLondon
Builds enterprise voice assistants that handle customer-service phone calls in natural conversation. Headquartered in London, having spun out of Cambridge research.
GrowthLondon
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.
GrowthLondon
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.
SeedLondon
A real-time AI governance platform giving organisations visibility and control over how generative and agentic AI is used across their operations: discovering AI assets, assigning ownership and risk profiles, monitoring usage, and keeping an audit trail. Headquartered in London.
Early-stageLondon
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-stageLondon
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.
Pre-seedNorthampton
A Northampton software and services company applying AI to operational automation. It connects AI with operational systems — support, workforce management, warehousing, ERP and analytics — to find operational friction and deploy governed, auditable automation, with human approvals and controlled system access built in. Its Avelo Discovery service diagnoses the problem and commercial case before automation; the Avelo One platform is the delivery layer.
GrowthLondon
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.
GrowthLondon
Builds AI software for precision manufacturing. Its flagship product, CAM Assist, plugs into existing CAM packages and automatically generates CNC machining strategies and toolpaths — work skilled programmers otherwise do by hand — reportedly completing up to 80% of a program in minutes. Headquartered in London.
AcquiredCambridge
Develops AI-based cybersecurity software that learns normal network behaviour to detect threats and respond to them autonomously. Headquartered in Cambridge.
Early-stageLondon
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.
GrowthLondon
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.
SeedReading
A Reading-based embodied-AI company that sells factory work rather than robots. Its AMAS platform lets an operator with no robotics background control a robot arm or humanoid remotely through an immersive 3D interface, with AI handling the routine parts of the task. Under its Result-as-a-Service model, customers pay for completed work instead of buying equipment.
AcquiredLondon
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.
AcquiredCambridge
Builds real-time AI fraud-detection and financial-crime software for banks and payment firms, pioneering adaptive behavioural analytics. Headquartered in Cambridge.
Early-stageLondon
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-stageLondon
Runs two AI agents on opposite sides of hiring: "Jack" works for a jobseeker's career, finding and making the case for roles, while "Jill" works for employers, sourcing and screening candidates. The result is a dual-agent recruitment marketplace pitched as making warm introductions at internet scale. Headquartered in London.
Early-stageLondon
A London healthtech company tackling the administration behind social care. Lottie began as a consumer marketplace for finding care homes and has expanded into software for care providers through its Found platform, which it is rebuilding as AI-native to automate enquiries, occupancy, billing and payments.
Early-stageLondon
Builds multi-agent AI "digital workers" (it calls them Mages) for procurement and supply-chain teams at large manufacturers. They turn fragmented data across ERP systems, spreadsheets and PDFs into decisions and actions — supplier selection, contract negotiation, order management and invoice processing — while keeping humans in control of key decisions. Headquartered in London.
GrowthLondon
Builds an "agentic recruiting" platform: AI agents that source candidates before they apply, screen inbound applications against the role brief, run structured screening conversations, and turn human interviews into usable notes — automating sourcing, review, interviewing and reporting. Began as an interview-intelligence tool. Headquartered in London.
Early-stageOxford
Builds machine-learning software for high-stakes uses in defence, national security, government and insurance. An Oxford University spin-out headquartered in Oxford.
GrowthManchester
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.
SeedLondon
Builds what it calls an "immune system" for software: swarms of AI agents that monitor, diagnose, and automatically fix software failures and outages, generating the code and infrastructure changes to resolve them. Founded by former Stripe Europe executives. Headquartered in London.
GrowthLondon
Builds AI simulation software for engineering and manufacturing, used in aerospace, automotive, and defence to design and test physical products faster. Headquartered in London.
SeedLondon
A London AI platform for financial advisers. PlannerPal started by automating the admin around client meetings — capturing notes and updating documents and CRM systems — and is building that into a "client intelligence" layer that links conversations, documents and CRM data. It is used by more than 250 UK advice firms.
GrowthLondon
Turns fragmented enterprise data into a continuously updated, sovereign knowledge graph that security teams and AI agents can query for context — what it calls a security data fabric. Applied to cybersecurity, exposure management, and wider enterprise AI. Founded by GCHQ alumni and headquartered in London.
SeedLondon
Sells an AI platform for commercial risk and dispute resolution. Its OctaviaCore engine reads the data a live contract generates — emails, invoices, project trackers, supplier messages — to flag delivery risk and emerging disputes before a formal claim is filed, then coordinates the steps to resolve them. Aimed at defence, energy, infrastructure and manufacturing. Headquartered in London.
GrowthLondon
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.
GrowthLondon
Builds computer-vision AI that assesses vehicle and property damage from photographs to automate insurance claims and repair estimates. Headquartered in London.
Early-stageLondon
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-stageLondon
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-stageLondon
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.
PlannerPal, a London platform that uses AI to handle the admin around financial advice meetings, has raised £4.3M led by Mercia Ventures. Already used by more than 250 UK advice firms, it is pushing beyond note-taking into a "client intelligence" layer — and into the UK mortgage market.
Reading-based embodied-AI startup Extend Robotics has raised £2.6M led by Skyworks Venture Capital Fund to scale its Result-as-a-Service model — where manufacturers pay for completed work rather than buying robots — and expand its network of remote operators who steer robot arms and humanoids with AI assistance.
Lottie, the London care scaleup backed by Accel and General Catalyst, has acquired the 25-year-old care-billing software firm CareMaster — its second acquisition in the sector. The pitch is AI-automated back-office admin, starting with billing and credit control, though much of the AI remains a roadmap rather than a shipped product.
Metaview, a London company, has raised a £45M ($60M) Series C led by Insight Partners to push its "agentic recruiting" platform — software that sources candidates, screens them, runs interviews and writes them up, with AI doing the work rather than just assisting. More than 7,000 companies already hire through it, and it is bringing an autonomous recruiting "coworker" to general release.
Magentic, a London startup founded by former OpenAI engineers, has raised a £13M Series A led by Felicis to build multi-agent "AI digital workers" that take on procurement and supply-chain grunt work for large manufacturers — with early customers said to include three of the world's ten biggest beverage companies.
Resolutiion, a London startup founded by a former Royal Air Force commercial lead, has raised £8M to build AI that reads the data a live contract throws off — emails, invoices, project trackers — to flag delivery risk and brewing disputes before a formal claim is filed, then coordinates fixing them. The round was led by LocalGlobe and Cherry Ventures.