Tech companies in the City of London
The City of London is home to 146 of London's best tech companies, led by Fintech (55).
Number 1 of the 22 London boroughs on the map. 26 of these companies are hiring, with 400 open London roles between them. 104 hold a visa sponsor licence. Together they have raised $5.6B+ in disclosed equity.
- Fintech55
- Other28
- AI24
- Crypto16
- Climate12
- Defence5
- Health5
- Deeptech1
Fintech(55)
- Funding Circle$375M
Lending platform that gives small businesses fast loans, funded by institutional investors.
SME lending · Well known - 9fin$250M
AI-powered data and analytics platform for debt and credit market professionals.
Credit Market Data · Well known - ComplyAdvantage$108M
AI platform that screens customers and transactions for money laundering, sanctions and fraud risk.
AML Regtech · Well known - Alfa Financial Software
Sells Alfa Systems, software that lenders use to run asset finance and leasing businesses.
Asset finance software · Well known - ClearBank
Clearing bank giving fintechs and banks UK payments access, accounts and embedded banking.
Banking Infrastructure · Well known - CMC Markets
Online trading and investing platform offering CFDs, spread betting, forex and share dealing to retail and institutional clients, plus white-label trading technology for partners.
Online trading · Well known - FNZ
Wealth management platform providing technology and administration infrastructure to banks, insurers and asset managers.
Wealth Platform · Well known - IG Group
Online trading platform offering spread betting, CFDs, share dealing, options and crypto trading to retail and professional clients.
Online trading · Well known - IntegraFin
IntegraFin runs Transact, an investment platform for UK financial advisers and their clients, and sells software to advice firms including the Curo CRM.
Investment platform · Well known - LSEG
LSEG provides financial market data and analytics, indices, risk intelligence and market infrastructure including exchanges and clearing.
Market data · Well known - Monzo
UK digital bank with app-based current accounts, savings and business banking.
Neobank · Well known - Payhawk
Spend management platform combining corporate cards, expenses, payables and accounting for finance teams.
Spend Management · Well known - Paysafe
Payments group offering merchant payment processing, digital wallets such as Skrill and Neteller, and online cash solutions such as paysafecard.
Payments · Well known - Sumsub
Identity verification, KYC, KYB, transaction monitoring and fraud prevention platform used by 4,000+ companies.
Identity Verification · Well known - Teya
Card payments, business accounts and funding for small local businesses across Europe, formerly SaltPay.
Merchant Payments · Well known - Trading 212
Commission-free app for trading and investing in stocks, ETFs and ISAs.
Retail investing · Well known - Zego
Tech-led motor insurer for gig workers, fleets and everyday drivers, using telematics to price policies.
Insurtech · Well known - Bank of London£150M
Wholesale bank offering accounts, payments, clearing and agency banking to banks and fintechs.
Clearing Bank · Fastest growing - Primer$170M
Unified payments infrastructure letting merchants connect, optimise and manage many payment providers from one platform.
Payments Orchestration · Fastest growing - INSTANDA$85M+
No-code platform that lets insurers and MGAs build, configure and distribute insurance products.
Insurtech · Fastest growing - ZILO€64.5M
Cloud-native transfer agency and investor servicing software for global asset and wealth managers.
Transfer Agency Software · Fastest growing - Apron£42.7M
Payments platform that lets small businesses and accountants collect, approve and pay invoices in one place.
SME Payments · Fastest growing - Griffin$52M
Fully licensed UK bank offering API-first banking-as-a-service so fintechs can build financial products.
Banking-as-a-service · Fastest growing - TransFICC$50M
Low-latency API connecting banks and asset managers to fixed income and derivatives trading venues.
Trading Infrastructure · Fastest growing - Timeline£17.3M
Planning software, model portfolios and investment platform for UK financial advisers.
Wealthtech · Fastest growing - Checkboard$9.58M
Client onboarding and verification platform covering identity, AML checks, proof of funds and payments for regulated firms.
Regtech · Fastest growing - LemonEdge
Fund accounting and operations software for private equity firms, fund administrators and family offices.
Fund Accounting · Fastest growing - MillTech
Platform that automates FX hedging and cash management for fund managers and corporates.
FX And Treasury · Fastest growing - Paymentology
Cloud-based card issuer-processor that lets banks and fintechs launch physical and virtual cards.
Card Issuer Processing · Fastest growing - Proxymity
Proxymity runs a digital network that connects issuers, intermediaries and investors for proxy voting and shareholder identification.
Proxy voting · Fastest growing - Sokin
Global business payments platform with multi-currency accounts, FX and cross-border payouts for companies.
B2B Payments · Fastest growing - Verto
B2B cross-border payments and FX platform focused on emerging market currencies, especially Africa.
Cross-Border Payments · Fastest growing - Ki Insurance$500M
Lloyd's first fully digital, algorithm driven syndicate that lets brokers get instant specialty insurance quotes.
Algorithmic Insurance · Up and coming - Kroo£72M+
Licensed UK digital bank paying interest on current accounts, with savings, ISAs and loans.
Neobank · Up and coming - Token.io$90M
Account-to-account payment infrastructure that lets banks, fintechs and payment companies offer Pay by Bank, variable recurring payments and payouts through one API.
Open banking payments · Up and coming - Sharegain$75M
Sharegain provides securities lending as a service so brokers, private banks and custodians can lend out clients' stocks, bonds and ETFs for income.
Securities lending · Up and coming - APEXX Global€40.4M
APEXX runs a payment orchestration platform that lets enterprise merchants route payments across providers through a single API.
Payment orchestration · Up and coming - Novatus Global$40M
Regulatory reporting software and consulting that helps banks and asset managers check, fix and manage transaction reporting.
Regtech · Up and coming - Sprive£13.3M
Sprive is an app that helps homeowners pay off their mortgage faster through automatic overpayments, partly funded by cashback from everyday shopping.
Mortgage app · Up and coming - Saturn$15M+
AI platform that automates admin and compliance paperwork for financial advice firms.
AI for financial advisers · Up and coming - Incard£10M+
Business accounts, cards, cashflow and treasury tools for fast-growing digital companies.
SME business banking · Up and coming - Artificial Labs
Specialty insurance platform for brokers and underwriters, covering algorithmic underwriting and delegated authority.
Insurtech · Up and coming - Codat
APIs linking small business accounting and banking data to banks and lenders for faster credit and advice.
Business data APIs · Up and coming - Finbourne Technology
Cloud data management platform that gives asset managers and banks a consolidated view of their investment data.
Investment data · Up and coming - Form3
Cloud platform that runs account to account payment processing for Tier 1 banks and fintechs, including Nationwide.
Payments Infrastructure · Up and coming - Genesis Global
Genesis Global provides a low-code application development platform for financial institutions.
Capital markets software · Up and coming - Juice
Revolving credit lines of £50K to £1M for UK SMEs, paired with free cash runway forecasting tools.
SME lending · Up and coming - Kord
FCA-regulated onboarding, ID and AML checks, and payments platform for estate agents, law firms and conveyancers.
Compliance and Payments · Up and coming - NayaOne
Digital sandbox and vendor marketplace that lets banks and insurers test and validate new technology vendors quickly.
Fintech Sandbox · Up and coming - Neudata
A marketplace and research service that helps investment firms find, evaluate and price alternative and market datasets.
Alternative data · Up and coming - Pollinate
A white-label platform banks use to onboard and serve small business merchant services customers.
Merchant services · Up and coming - Raylo
Subscription and leasing platform for phones, laptops and consumer electronics, with brand partners like PlayStation, LG and Dyson.
Device Subscriptions · Up and coming - Superscript
Digital insurance broker selling business insurance to small firms and high-growth tech companies.
Insurtech · Up and coming - Vitesse
Treasury and payments platform for insurers that manages claim funds and pays claimants, vendors and reinsurers across the insurance value chain.
Insurance payments · Up and coming - Wrisk
Platform that lets car makers launch and run their own branded motor insurance products.
Embedded insurance · Up and coming
Other(28)
- Deliveroo$1.53B
Online food and grocery delivery marketplace connecting restaurants, shops and riders, now part of DoorDash.
Food Delivery · Well known - HungryPanda$275M+
Food delivery app focused on Asian restaurants and groceries, operating across ten countries including the UK, US, France and Australia.
Food delivery · Well known - Endava
NYSE-listed software engineering and IT services firm building digital products and platforms for enterprise clients.
IT services · Well known - GlobalData
GlobalData sells subscription data, analytics and AI tools that give companies intelligence on their industries and markets.
Data analytics · Well known - Learning Technologies Group
LTG provides digital learning and talent management software and services to large organisations through businesses including GP Strategies and Open LMS.
Workplace learning · Well known - Mimecast
Mimecast sells email security and human risk management software to organisations.
Email security · Well known - Team Internet Group
Team Internet runs domain name management, online product comparison and search advertising services for brands, publishers and consumers.
Domains and ad tech · Well known - Trainline
Rail and coach ticketing app and website selling tickets across the UK and Europe.
Rail ticketing · Well known - Treatwell
Online booking marketplace and salon management software for hair and beauty businesses across Europe.
Beauty booking · Well known - Trustpilot
Trustpilot runs an online platform where consumers publish reviews of businesses and businesses manage and display them.
Online reviews · Well known - Plentific$140M
Property operations software for landlords and housing providers to manage repairs, contractors and compliance.
Proptech · Fastest growing - Duel$21M
Duel is a software platform that lets consumer brands build, manage and pay communities of creators, ambassadors and customer advocates.
Marketing tech · Fastest growing - Zero Gravity£7.6M
Zero Gravity is an online platform that gives students from low-opportunity backgrounds mentoring and AI tutoring to help them reach top universities and careers.
Edtech · Fastest growing - Arbolus
Expert network platform that connects investors and consultants with industry experts through calls, video Q&A and searchable AI transcripts.
Expert network · Fastest growing - Ben
AI-native platform for companies to design, manage and scale employee benefits globally.
Employee Benefits · Fastest growing - Yoti
Digital identity and age verification provider, known for its ID wallet and AI age estimation.
Digital Identity · Fastest growing - Vorboss£250M
Builds and runs a dedicated full fibre network that sells high-speed internet connectivity to businesses in central London.
Business fibre · Up and coming - Qogita$88.1M
B2B wholesale marketplace for branded health and beauty products across Europe.
B2B Wholesale Marketplace · Up and coming - Vortexa$60M+
Real-time data and analytics platform tracking energy cargoes and freight flows for traders and shippers.
Energy analytics · Up and coming - Tyk$40.5M
Open-source API gateway and API management platform used by enterprises to run and govern their APIs.
API Management · Up and coming - Learnerbly£18.5M
Platform where employees spend company learning budgets on courses and coaching from 100+ providers, with retraining-based outplacement for departing staff.
Workplace learning · Up and coming - Element
Element makes secure, self-hostable chat and collaboration apps built on the open Matrix protocol.
Secure messaging · Up and coming - Gravity Sketch
Immersive 3D design and collaboration tool that lets product teams sketch and review designs in VR and on desktop.
3D design software · Up and coming - ID5
Identity infrastructure that lets publishers, advertisers and ad tech platforms recognise users for digital advertising.
Ad tech identity · Up and coming - Lyst
Global fashion shopping platform that lets shoppers search and buy products from thousands of brands and retailers in one place.
Fashion marketplace · Up and coming - proSapient
Tech-led expert network and primary research platform connecting investors and consultants with industry experts.
Expert Network · Up and coming - Unily
Enterprise intranet and employee experience platform used by large companies for internal communications, knowledge and collaboration.
Employee experience · Up and coming - Vita Mojo
Restaurant operating system covering ordering, kitchen management and reporting for hospitality brands.
Restaurant software · Up and coming
AI(24)
- Solve Intelligence$55M
AI platform that helps patent attorneys draft, prosecute and litigate patents faster.
Patent AI · Fastest growing - SolveAI$50M
Enterprise platform that lets employees build and deploy custom AI applications using natural language instead of code.
Enterprise AI Apps · Fastest growing - Fyxer AI$40M
AI assistant that sorts your inbox, drafts email replies and takes meeting notes.
AI Email Assistant · Fastest growing - Maze$31M
AI agents that investigate code and cloud vulnerabilities and flag only the ones that matter.
AI Cloud Security · Fastest growing - FYLD
AI platform that turns frontline video into safety and risk insights for infrastructure and utility fieldwork.
Field Operations · Fastest growing - Mimica
Task mining platform that records how enterprise staff work and maps processes for AI agents and automation.
Process Intelligence · Fastest growing - NexGen Cloud
GPU cloud provider behind Hyperstack, offering AI compute and sovereign AI infrastructure in Europe.
GPU Cloud · Fastest growing - SourceWhale
AI recruitment platform that combines candidate sourcing, multichannel outreach, call notes and CRM for recruiting agencies.
Recruiting Automation · Fastest growing - Xapien
AI research platform that automates due diligence and background checks on people and companies for banks, law firms and corporates.
Due Diligence AI · Fastest growing - TurinTech AI$20M
TurinTech builds Artemis, a multi-agent AI platform that optimises, validates and modernises code.
Code optimisation · Up and coming - Cogna$19.75M
Uses AI to build custom operations software for utilities, logistics and field service companies.
AI enterprise software · Up and coming - Doubleword$15M
Inference platform that lets enterprises run open-source AI models on their own infrastructure, cheaply.
Self-hosted LLM inference · Up and coming - General Reasoning$10.9M
General Reasoning is an AI research company training models for long-horizon reasoning and releasing tools such as OpenReward for agent training environments.
AI research lab · Up and coming - Artificial Societies$5.35M
Simulates how audiences and stakeholders will react, so companies can test decisions before making them.
Audience simulation · Up and coming - Pharosyn$3M
AI platform that helps pharma teams make commercial, portfolio and competitive intelligence decisions faster.
Pharma commercial AI · Up and coming - Crimson$2.5M
AI case intelligence platform for litigation lawyers, used by firms like Dentons, A&O Shearman and Duane Morris.
Legal AI · Up and coming - Hook
AI platform for B2B software companies that predicts customer churn and expansion and automates customer success workflows.
Customer success · Up and coming - Nodes & Links
AI platform for scheduling, risk and project controls on large construction and infrastructure projects.
Construction Project Controls · Up and coming - Quix
Data platform that ingests real-time engineering and test data for hardware teams, with AI agents that automate analysis, dashboards and workflows.
Engineering data · Up and coming - Quorso
AI platform that turns retail data into daily priorities and actions for store and field leaders.
Retail Operations AI · Up and coming - Stotles
AI platform that helps companies find, qualify and bid for public sector contracts.
GovTech sales · Up and coming - Supercede
AI reinsurance intelligence platform helping brokers and cedents run client work and programme placement.
Reinsurance AI · Up and coming - thymia
AI that detects health signals like fatigue, stress and depression from short voice samples.
Voice Biomarkers · Up and coming - Umony
Captures, archives and analyses financial firms' communications across mobile, chat, email, voice and video, using AI to flag misconduct.
Compliance · Up and coming
Crypto(16)
- B2C2
Institutional crypto liquidity provider and OTC market maker, majority-owned by Japan's SBI Holdings.
Institutional Liquidity · Well known - CF Benchmarks
FCA-regulated crypto index provider whose bitcoin reference rate prices major US spot bitcoin ETFs.
Crypto Benchmarks · Well known - Wintermute
Algorithmic trading firm that provides liquidity across crypto markets and is expanding into traditional markets.
Market Making · Well known - Komainu$100M
Regulated digital asset custodian offering custody, staking, tokenisation and collateral services to institutions.
Institutional custody · Fastest growing - Elliptic
Blockchain analytics used by exchanges, banks and governments for crypto compliance and risk screening.
Blockchain analytics · Fastest growing - Wirex
Crypto and stablecoin payments app and card issuer, a principal member of Visa and Mastercard.
Stablecoin payments · Fastest growing - Aztec$117M
Privacy-first Ethereum layer 2 using zero-knowledge proofs, plus the Noir language for private smart contracts.
Privacy Layer 2 · Up and coming - GFO-X$50M
FCA-regulated UK trading venue for centrally cleared digital asset futures and options for institutional investors.
Crypto Derivatives Venue · Up and coming - ClearToken$10M
Builds clearing, payment and settlement infrastructure for institutional digital asset markets, regulated in the UK.
Digital Asset Clearing · Up and coming - Clearmatics
Researches and builds blockchain protocols and peer-to-peer platforms for decentralised financial markets.
Decentralised market protocols · Up and coming - Fiat Republic
Banking and payments API that gives crypto platforms regulated fiat accounts, virtual IBANs and payment rails.
Crypto Banking API · Up and coming - Haruko
Portfolio and risk management software for institutional crypto funds and trading firms.
Portfolio & risk software · Up and coming - Outlier Ventures
London venture firm and accelerator investing in early-stage crypto and AI startups.
Web3 venture accelerator · Up and coming - Ownera
Builds FinP2P, an interoperability network letting banks trade and settle tokenised assets across blockchains and ledgers.
Tokenisation Infrastructure · Up and coming - Zodia Custody
Bank-backed crypto custodian offering custody, staking, trading and settlement services to institutions.
Institutional custody · Up and coming - Zodia Markets
Institutional digital asset brokerage for cross-border crypto and stablecoin trading with same-day settlement.
Institutional Crypto Brokerage · Up and coming
Climate(12)
- Lightsource bp
Global developer and operator of utility-scale solar, wind and battery storage projects, owned by bp.
Solar And Storage · Well known - Natcap£15M
Software platform that helps companies and investors measure, report and act on nature and biodiversity risks, including TNFD and CSRD disclosure.
Nature risk data · Fastest growing - Converge
Uses AI, wireless sensors and data to optimise concrete mixes and cut cement emissions in construction.
Concrete Decarbonisation · Fastest growing - Arenko£25M
Arenko's Nimbus software controls and trades grid-scale battery storage assets in energy markets.
Battery trading software · Up and coming - Meatly£17.4M
Makes cultivated chicken for pet food from cells, the first company to sell cultivated meat for pets.
Cultivated Meat · Up and coming - Altruistiq
Climate data platform for food and beverage firms, covering corporate and product carbon footprints and supplier decarbonisation.
Carbon Accounting · Up and coming - char.gy
Installs and runs on-street EV chargers for residents without driveways across UK councils.
EV Charging · Up and coming - Greenpixie
Emissions and sustainability data for cloud and AI infrastructure, helping IT teams cut carbon and cost.
Cloud Emissions Data · Up and coming - Kita
Kita is a Lloyd's coverholder that sells insurance against delivery, failure and political risk for carbon and natural capital projects.
Carbon insurance · Up and coming - Mondra
Platform that builds digital twins of food supply chains to measure product-level carbon, cost and risk for retailers and suppliers.
Food supply chain carbon · Up and coming - Osprey Charging Network
Osprey builds and runs a UK network of public rapid and ultra-rapid EV charging hubs.
EV charging · Up and coming - Volteras
Provides a single API that streams connected vehicle and charger data from 30+ automakers to fleets and energy companies.
EV data API · Up and coming
Defence(5)
- UFORCE$50M
Builds combat-proven unmanned air, land and sea systems, including Magura sea drones, for allied militaries.
Unmanned Systems · Well known - Anduril UK
UK arm of Anduril, supplying autonomous systems and Lattice software to British defence customers.
Autonomous Defence Systems · Well known - Agon$30M
Builds synthetic battlefields where autonomous defence systems and military AI are trained and tested.
Defence AI Simulation · Fastest growing - Delian Alliance Industries$14M
Builds low-cost autonomous defence systems including targeting systems, surveillance towers, drones and software.
Autonomous systems · Up and coming - Adarga
AI software that helps defence and security teams analyse large volumes of information and make faster decisions.
Defence Intelligence AI · Up and coming
Health(5)
- Semble
Practice management and electronic health record platform for private outpatient healthcare providers.
Practice Management Software · Fastest growing - AstronauTx£48M
Biotech developing drugs that improve sleep architecture to treat Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurological disorders.
Neuroscience biotech · Up and coming - Scarlet$17.5M
Notified body that certifies software and AI medical devices for the EU and UK markets.
AI Medical Device Certification · Up and coming - Frontier Health$16M
Builds Juno, an AI agent that takes on admin work in NHS hospitals to cut delays in patient care.
NHS Admin AI · Up and coming - Entia
Entia makes Liberty, a home finger-prick blood analyser that returns results in minutes and shares them with the patient's healthcare professional.
Home diagnostics · Up and coming
Deeptech(1)
Other boroughs
- Westminster 123
- Camden 105
- Islington 105
- Hackney 90
- Southwark 58
- Tower Hamlets 48
- Hammersmith and Fulham 34
- Lambeth 21
The borough comes from each company's London postcode (ONS data via postcodes.io). For 35 of the 146 that is the Companies House registered office, so the team may work elsewhere. How we verify addresses