King's Cross is home to 28 of London's best tech companies, led by AI (14).
The rebuilt railway lands north of the stations, home to Google, DeepMind and a growing AI cluster.
- AI14
- Health7
- Fintech4
- Other2
- Climate1
AI(14)
- Isomorphic Labs$2.7B
Alphabet spinout led by Demis Hassabis using AI to design new drugs.
AI drug discovery · Well known - Wayve$2.5B
Builds end-to-end AI driving software that lets cars drive themselves without detailed maps.
Autonomous driving · Well known - Recursive$650M
AI lab building self-improving AI to automate research and discovery, with offices in London and San Francisco.
Self-improving AI · Well known - Google DeepMind
Alphabet's main AI research lab, behind Gemini and AlphaFold, founded and headquartered in London.
Frontier model lab · Well known - Odyssey
AI lab building general world models that generate interactive, real-time video simulations.
World Models · Well known - Tessl$125M
Platform for building, testing and sharing skills and context that guide AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor.
AI Coding Agents · Fastest growing - Inherent$50M
AI lab building AI scientists that work with researchers to speed up scientific discovery.
AI For Science · Fastest growing - Capsa AI$18M+
AI platform that indexes a private equity fund's documents and data to speed up deal work.
AI for private capital · Fastest growing - Ethos
AI expert network that profiles specialists from their papers, code and other work, then matches them with companies for consulting projects and full-time roles.
AI expert matching · Fastest growing - Kaedim$15.8M
AI platform that turns sketches, photos and briefs into production-ready 3D assets for games, product design and e-commerce.
Generative 3D · Up and coming - HelmGuard
HelmGuard uses AI agents to run security and compliance assessments, including third-party risk reviews and AI governance.
Security compliance · Up and coming - Magentic
Magentic builds AI agents that handle procurement work for manufacturers, from supplier selection and negotiation to orders and invoices.
Procurement agents · Up and coming - Outerlimit
Outerlimit is a security and authorisation layer that checks identity, policy and context before an AI agent's action runs.
AI agent security · Up and coming - Prima Mente
AI biology lab that builds foundation models from its own data to diagnose and treat brain disease.
Brain foundation models · Up and coming
Health(7)
- CHARM Therapeutics$150M+
AI-driven drug discovery company developing a next-generation menin inhibitor for acute myeloid leukaemia, based in London and Cambridge.
AI Drug Discovery · Fastest growing - Purespring Therapeutics£115M
London gene therapy company targeting kidney podocytes to treat diseases such as IgA nephropathy.
Kidney Gene Therapy · Fastest growing - Alchemab Therapeutics
Develops antibody therapeutics found in the immune systems of disease-resilient people, using AI on antibody repertoires.
Antibody Discovery · Fastest growing - Beacon Therapeutics
Clinical-stage gene therapy company developing treatments for retinal diseases such as X-linked retinitis pigmentosa.
Ophthalmic Gene Therapy · Fastest growing - CoMind
Builds non-invasive bedside devices that monitor brain blood flow and pressure in critically ill patients.
Neuromonitoring · Fastest growing - C the Signs
AI tool that scans patient records to flag people at risk of cancer and guide doctors to the right tests.
Cancer detection AI · Up and coming - Ori Biotech
Makes IRO, an automated closed-system platform for manufacturing cell and gene therapies from R&D through commercial production.
Cell therapy manufacturing · Up and coming
Fintech(4)
- M-KOPA$358.1M
M-KOPA sells smartphones, solar systems and other assets on pay-as-you-go credit to underbanked customers in Africa.
Asset financing · Well known - XTX Markets
Algorithmic trading firm and electronic market maker trading over $250bn a day across 35 countries.
Algorithmic Trading · Well known - Model ML$87M
AI workflow platform that turns financial data into client-ready decks, memos and reports for banks and investors.
AI for finance · Fastest growing - LemFi$85M
App for immigrants to send money home and access financial services across 30+ countries.
Remittances · Fastest growing
Other(2)
Climate(1)
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