Tech companies in the London Borough of Hackney
The London Borough of Hackney is home to 90 of London's best tech companies, led by AI (27).
Number 5 of the 22 London boroughs on the map. 18 of these companies are hiring, with 89 open London roles between them. 75 hold a visa sponsor licence. Together they have raised $4.3B+ in disclosed equity.
- Shoreditch & Old Street 89
- +1 outside them
- AI27
- Fintech20
- Other14
- Climate12
- Health9
- Crypto4
- Defence2
- Deeptech2
AI(27)
- PhysicsX$487M
Physics AI platform that helps engineers in aerospace, auto and energy design and test products faster.
Industrial engineering AI · Well known - Encord$110M
Data platform AI teams use to curate, label and evaluate training data, especially for physical AI.
AI data infrastructure · Fastest growing - Jack & Jill$60M
Two AI agents: Jack coaches job seekers, Jill recruits for companies, and they match each other.
AI recruiting agents · Fastest growing - Origin$50M+
Origin is a platform that uses AI to consolidate and analyse employee benefits data for multinational companies.
HR benefits · Fastest growing - Prevalent AI$22M
Security data fabric that builds a knowledge graph of enterprise assets and identities for security teams.
Cybersecurity Data · Fastest growing - Applied Computing$20M+
Industrial AI that monitors, forecasts and optimises refineries, oil and gas and petrochemical plants.
Industrial AI · Fastest growing - GoodFit$13M
Go-to-market data platform that helps sales and marketing teams find, rank and target the right accounts.
GTM data · Fastest growing - Gizmo
AI study app that turns learning material into flashcards and quizzes for students.
AI education · Fastest growing - Vyntelligence
Agentic video intelligence platform that lets field workers and customers capture guided video to speed up jobs.
Field Video AI · Fastest growing - Causaly$93M
Agentic AI research platform and biomedical knowledge graph that helps pharma R&D teams find targets and biomarkers.
AI Drug Discovery · Up and coming - VEED$35M
Browser-based AI video creation and editing platform for generating, subtitling and branding videos without production skills.
AI Video Editing · Up and coming - Prolific$33.4M
Platform supplying vetted human participants for research and for AI model training and evaluation.
Human data for AI · Up and coming - Wonder Studios$15M+
AI-native studio making films, music videos and branded content with generative tools.
AI Film Studio · Up and coming - Matta$14M
Matta sells camera and sensor based AI agents and on-site hardware that detect defects, measure and trace parts on factory lines.
Industrial AI · Up and coming - Marker$13M
AI-assisted writing tool that helps writers develop their ideas and work from first idea to final draft, built to write with the writer rather than for them.
AI writing · Up and coming - Polaron$8M+
Imperial College spinout using AI to analyse and design advanced materials such as EV battery electrodes.
AI for materials science · Up and coming - Stanhope AI$8M+
Builds brain-inspired AI that lets robots and drones adapt in real time on the device.
Active Inference AI · Up and coming - Trint$7.8M
AI transcription and editing software that turns audio and video into searchable, quotable text for newsrooms and media teams.
Transcription · Up and coming - Kohort$7M+
AI forecasting and user acquisition agents that help mobile game studios grow profitably.
Mobile Game UA · Up and coming - Tracelight$3.6M
AI spreadsheet modelling agent that builds financial models, valuations and due diligence analysis for finance and consulting teams.
AI Financial Modelling · Up and coming - Advai
Advai builds a platform that tests AI systems for robustness, manipulation and compliance risks before and after deployment.
AI assurance · Up and coming - Apollo Research
AI safety company researching model scheming and selling Watcher, a monitoring tool for coding agents.
AI safety · Up and coming - Cosine
UK sovereign AI lab training Lumen coding models and agents that run in secure or air-gapped environments.
Coding agents · Up and coming - Elyos AI
AI agents that answer calls, book jobs and handle customer operations for plumbers, electricians and HVAC firms.
AI Agents For Trades · Up and coming - Sprout.ai
Sprout.ai uses AI to automate insurance claims handling, from document reading to policy checks and fraud detection.
Insurtech · Up and coming - Synthesized
AI platform that generates privacy-safe, production-like test data for software testing, migrations and AI agents.
Synthetic test data · Up and coming - VivaCity
AI computer-vision sensors and signal control that give cities live multimodal traffic data and smarter junctions.
Traffic sensing · Up and coming
Fintech(20)
- Checkout.com$1.8B
Online payment processing for large merchants and enterprises around the world.
Payments · Well known - Freetrade
Commission-free investing app for UK retail investors, offering shares, ETFs, ISAs and SIPPs.
Retail Investing · Well known - Lendable
Online consumer lender offering personal loans, credit cards and car finance using automated underwriting.
Consumer Lending · Well known - Wise
Low-cost international money transfers and multi-currency accounts for people and businesses.
Cross-border payments · Well known - Hokodo£129.5M
Lets B2B merchants and marketplaces offer buyers trade credit and pay-later terms at checkout, online and in store.
B2B payments · Fastest growing - Fnality International$136M+
Bank-owned payment system that settles wholesale payments on a blockchain, backed 1:1 by central bank money.
DLT Settlement · Fastest growing - Aspora$93M
Money transfer and banking app for the Indian diaspora, mainly used to send money home to India.
Remittances · Fastest growing - Adfin$30M+
Payments and finance automation that helps small businesses get paid on time, moving into AI credit control.
SMB payments automation · Fastest growing - Yaspa£14M
Instant bank payments and identity verification for gaming and other regulated merchants.
Payments · Fastest growing - Chip
App for saving and investing, offering savings accounts, cash ISAs and investment funds.
Savings and investing · Fastest growing - Navro
One API and contract for global payouts and collections across 200+ countries for international businesses.
Cross-border Payments · Fastest growing - Xelix
AI platform for accounts payable teams that catches duplicate payments, fraud and supplier statement errors.
AP Automation · Fastest growing - FintechOS$150M+
Software layer that lets banks and insurers design and launch financial products without replacing their core systems.
Banking software · Up and coming - Yapily$69M
Open banking API that lets companies pull bank data and start payments across thousands of European banks.
Open banking infrastructure · Up and coming - Round$6M+
Treasury, payments and finance automation platform that helps businesses manage and earn on their cash.
Treasury management · Up and coming - Tangible$4.3M+
AI-powered platform that helps hardware and climate companies raise and manage debt financing.
Hardtech debt financing · Up and coming - Emma
Budgeting and money management app that tracks spending, subscriptions and savings across bank accounts.
Personal Finance App · Up and coming - Runa
Payouts platform that lets businesses send gift cards, prepaid cards and bank transfers to recipients in 190 countries through one API.
Payouts · Up and coming - Wealthyhood
Investing app for younger investors with saving, investing and automation tools in one place.
Retail Investing · Up and coming - Yonder
Rewards credit card focused on travel, dining and going out, with points redeemable for flights and hotels.
Rewards Credit Card · Up and coming
Other(14)
- Colt Technology Services
Colt runs a global fibre network and sells connectivity, voice and data centre services to businesses and carriers.
Network infrastructure · Well known - Relay€43.1M
Runs a hyperlocal last-mile parcel delivery network for e-commerce retailers such as ASOS and Vinted.
Parcel Delivery · Fastest growing - Coadjute£23M
Network and compliance platform connecting estate agents, conveyancers and lenders to speed up UK property transactions.
Proptech · Fastest growing - Tracebit$25M
Deploys and manages security canaries, decoy resources that detect attackers inside cloud and enterprise infrastructure.
Cloud Security · Fastest growing - Ably$78M
Realtime pub/sub messaging platform that lets developers add live features to apps, used by HubSpot and Webflow.
Realtime Infrastructure · Up and coming - Duffel$56M
APIs that let businesses search, book and manage flights and hotel stays inside their own products.
Travel APIs · Up and coming - Snowplow$55M
Behavioural data platform that collects and streams customer event data for analytics and AI agents.
Behavioural Data · Up and coming - Harbr$38.5M
Harbr provides a platform that lets organisations run governed data marketplaces, data exchanges and data distribution deployed in their own cloud.
Data sharing · Up and coming - Blink£22.3M
Blink is a mobile app for frontline workers that combines company news, chat, forms, shift tools and an intranet in one place.
HR tech · Up and coming - hackajob
Hiring marketplace that matches companies with vetted software engineers and other tech professionals.
Tech recruiting · Up and coming - Intruder
Cloud vulnerability management platform that continuously scans internet-facing systems and prioritises the security weaknesses teams should fix first.
Cybersecurity · Up and coming - LandTech
LandInsight software that pulls together land registry, planning and other property data so developers can find and assess development sites.
Proptech · Up and coming - Northflank
Developer platform that deploys apps, databases and AI sandboxes on Kubernetes in any cloud.
Developer Platform · Up and coming - Spektrix
Ticketing, marketing, fundraising and CRM software for theatres, venues and other arts organisations.
Arts ticketing software · Up and coming
Climate(12)
- BeZero Carbon£76.7M
Independent ratings agency that scores the quality and risk of carbon credits for buyers and investors.
Carbon Ratings · Fastest growing - Field
Develops, builds and runs large battery storage sites across the UK and Europe.
Grid-scale battery storage · Fastest growing - Treefera
AI and satellite data platform that tracks the origin and risk of commodities like timber, cocoa and soy.
Supply Chain Intelligence · Fastest growing - ev.energy$41M
Software that orchestrates home EV charging, solar and batteries so utilities can run flexibility programmes.
EV smart charging · Up and coming - Abatable
Procurement, advisory and market intelligence platform for companies buying carbon credits and other environmental assets.
Carbon Markets · Up and coming - Beryl
Beryl designs its own bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters and runs shared hire schemes for UK towns and cities.
Micromobility · Up and coming - CUR8
Carbon removal platform that builds removal portfolios for companies and finances carbon removal projects.
Carbon Removal · Up and coming - Electron
Software platform that helps electricity utilities find, value and procure flexibility from distributed energy resources through local flexibility markets.
Grid flexibility · Up and coming - Piclo
Runs an online marketplace where grid operators buy energy flexibility from owners of batteries, EV chargers and other distributed assets.
Grid flexibility marketplace · Up and coming - Supercritical
Runs a marketplace where companies buy vetted permanent carbon removal credits such as biochar and BECCS.
Carbon removal · Up and coming - Sylvera
Ratings and data that show buyers and investors how good carbon credits and climate projects really are.
Carbon credit ratings · Up and coming - UNDO
Removes CO2 by spreading crushed silicate rock on farmland through enhanced rock weathering.
Carbon removal · Up and coming
Health(9)
- Accurx
Messaging and communication software used by NHS GP practices and hospital trusts to talk to patients.
NHS Communication Software · Well known - Florence$50M
Workforce platform for care providers covering rotas, payroll, compliance training, agency spend and access to vetted temporary care staff.
Care workforce software · Up and coming - HelloSelf£23.8M
HelloSelf matches people with accredited therapists and coaches for online sessions, with an AI companion tool used between sessions.
Mental health · Up and coming - Lantum$15M
Workforce scheduling platform that helps NHS GP practices and trusts roster staff and book locum clinicians.
Workforce software · Up and coming - 01Health
Clinical platform for specialist dental care, running the 32Co orthodontics and Aerox sleep medicine brands.
Dental AI · Up and coming - Dyad
AI that turns unstructured clinical documents into coded, structured data for GP practices, payers and providers.
Clinical data AI · Up and coming - Fiit
Fitness app with on-demand and live workout classes for home, gym and connected equipment, on phones, web and TV platforms.
Connected fitness · Up and coming - Mendelian
MHRA-registered software that searches GP electronic health records to flag patients who may have rare diseases.
Rare disease AI · Up and coming - Patchwork Health
Workforce software for NHS trusts covering staff banks, rotas, agency management and job planning, built by NHS doctors.
Healthcare Workforce · Up and coming
Crypto(4)
- Luno
Crypto investment platform owned by Digital Currency Group, serving 16 million users across Africa and Asia-Pacific.
Crypto Exchange · Well known - Ramp Network$134M
Provides fiat to crypto on-ramp and off-ramp infrastructure that apps and wallets embed to let users buy, sell and swap crypto.
Fiat-crypto ramps · Up and coming - Encode Club
Web3 and AI developer community running programmes, bootcamps and hackathons from a Shoreditch innovation hub.
Developer education · Up and coming - Quant Network
London company behind Overledger and Quant Flow, software that lets banks program money and connect to blockchains.
Programmable money · Up and coming
Defence(2)
- Labrys$25.5M
Builds Axiom, a mobile platform for verified identity, encrypted communications, task tracking and payments for defence, humanitarian and security teams.
Command and control · Fastest growing - Hadean
AI and simulation software for military training, mission planning, wargaming and command and control.
Defence Simulation · Up and coming
Deeptech(2)
- Sensat$65M
Sensat builds a geospatial digital twin platform that lets infrastructure teams plan and manage large construction and utility projects.
Infrastructure digital twins · Up and coming - Flexciton£21M
Planning and scheduling software that helps semiconductor fabs decide which wafers run on which tools and when.
Semiconductor software · Up and coming
Other boroughs
- City of London 146
- Westminster 123
- Camden 105
- Islington 105
- 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 27 of the 90 that is the Companies House registered office, so the team may work elsewhere. How we verify addresses