Tech companies in the London Borough of Islington
The London Borough of Islington is home to 105 of London's best tech companies, led by AI (31).
Number 4 of the 22 London boroughs on the map. 29 of these companies are hiring, with 218 open London roles between them. 86 hold a visa sponsor licence. Together they have raised $5.9B+ in disclosed equity.
- AI31
- Fintech31
- Other15
- Health8
- Deeptech7
- Defence5
- Climate5
- Quantum2
- Crypto1
AI(31)
- 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 - Beamery$228M
AI workforce platform helping large enterprises hire, redeploy and reskill staff using skills intelligence.
Talent intelligence · Well known - Basecamp Research$225M
Trains EDEN biological AI models on proprietary natural-world genomic data to design new medicines.
AI Drug Discovery · Fastest growing - 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 - Attio$116M
AI-native CRM that builds itself around a company's data for go-to-market teams.
AI CRM · Fastest growing - Lawhive$114M
AI-powered legal platform and law firm giving consumers and small businesses affordable access to vetted lawyers.
AI Law Firm · Fastest growing - Latent Labs$50M
Generative AI lab designing new proteins and antibodies, founded by AlphaFold co-developer Simon Kohl.
Generative Protein Design · Fastest growing - mea€42M
Agentic AI platform that automates insurance operations across underwriting, claims, finance and broking.
Insurance AI · Fastest growing - Paid$33.3M
Billing platform that helps AI agent companies price, track costs and prove value to customers.
AI Agent Billing · Fastest growing - Ascendx
Buys and grows Salesforce-native apps for sales, service, workflow automation and CRM data protection.
Agentic CRM Software · 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 - Signal AI
AI platform that monitors global media and risk signals for reputation and risk teams at large enterprises.
Reputation Intelligence · Fastest growing - Skin Analytics
Makes DERM, a Class III CE marked AI device that triages skin cancer referrals for the NHS and insurers.
AI Dermatology · Fastest growing - Juro$31.5M
AI-native contract management platform for drafting, agreeing and managing contracts end to end.
Legal AI · Up and coming - RevEng.AI$19.2M
AI platform that analyses compiled software binaries for malware detection, decompilation and supply chain security.
Binary Analysis Security · Up and coming - Threedium€13M
AI platform that generates, edits and publishes 3D models and interactive 3D product experiences for brands and creators.
3D content · Up and coming - Anam$9M
Developer API and platform for real-time, photorealistic interactive AI avatars used in support, sales, tutoring and training.
Interactive AI Avatars · Up and coming - Throxy$6.2M
AI plus human outbound sales service that books meetings for companies selling into traditional industries.
Outbound Sales · Up and coming - AutogenAI
Generative AI platform that helps companies and nonprofits write bids, proposals, grants and RFP responses.
Proposal writing AI · Up and coming - autone
AI inventory planning software that helps fashion, beauty and home retailers buy, allocate and replenish stock.
Retail Inventory AI · Up and coming - Bitfount
Federated AI platform that lets clinical trial sponsors, hospitals and AI developers analyse patient data without moving it.
Federated AI · Up and coming - Civo
UK cloud provider offering Kubernetes, GPU compute and sovereign AI services from its own data centres.
Sovereign cloud · Up and coming - Colossyan
AI video platform that turns scripts and documents into avatar-led training videos for companies, with offices in Budapest and London.
AI Video · Up and coming - Helical
Virtual AI lab that post-trains biology foundation models on pharma companies' own data for target and biomarker discovery.
Drug discovery AI · Up and coming - Jacquard
AI agents that write, check and optimise marketing copy for email, SMS, push and paid social (formerly Phrasee).
Marketing content · 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 - Meticulous
Meticulous records how an app is used during development and uses AI to generate and maintain end-to-end tests.
Software testing · Up and coming - Oriole Networks
Builds PRISM, a pure photonic switching network that speeds up AI data centres and cuts energy use.
Photonic Networking · 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
Fintech(31)
- Cleo$176M
AI money app and chatbot that helps people budget, save and manage their spending.
AI Money Assistant · Well known - Allica Bank
Digital bank for established small and medium-sized businesses, offering accounts, savings and lending.
SME Banking · Well known - Capital on Tap
Business credit cards and spend management for small businesses in the UK and US.
SME Credit Cards · Well known - Ecommpay
Payment service provider that lets businesses accept card and local payment methods worldwide through its own gateway, acquiring and processing platform.
Payments · Well known - GoCardless
Bank payment and direct debit network for recurring and one-off business payments.
Payments · Well known - Marshmallow
Car and home insurance built for people overlooked by traditional insurers, including migrants to the UK.
Insurtech · Well known - OpenPayd
Banking-as-a-service platform for accounts, payments, FX and stablecoin money movement for businesses.
Payments Infrastructure · Well known - Paddle
Merchant-of-record payments platform that handles billing, tax and compliance for software companies.
Merchant of record · Well known - Tide
Business current accounts and admin tools for small businesses in the UK, India and Germany.
SME business banking · Well known - TrueLayer
Open banking payments network letting merchants take pay-by-bank payments across the UK and Europe.
Open banking payments · Well known - YuLife$206M
Group life insurance and employee benefits that reward staff for healthy habits through a gamified wellbeing app.
Insurtech · Fastest growing - 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 - Lightyear$58M
Investing app for stocks, ETFs and money market funds, available in 25 countries across the UK and Europe.
Investing App · Fastest growing - Capi Money£25.6M
Cross-border payments platform helping importers in emerging markets pay their overseas suppliers.
Cross-border Payments · Fastest growing - Wamo£9.3M
Digital business account for small businesses, offering business accounts, debit cards, currency exchange, invoicing and bulk payments through an app.
Business banking · Fastest growing - BMLL Technologies
BMLL provides historical order book data and analytics for equities, ETFs, futures and options from 100+ trading venues.
Market data · Fastest growing - Plum
Money app that automates saving and investing for users in the UK and several EU countries.
Savings app · Fastest growing - Modulr£150M
Payments infrastructure that automates payroll, supplier payments and collections for businesses and software platforms.
Embedded payments · Up and coming - Weavr$55M
Embedded finance platform that lets B2B SaaS companies add accounts, digital wallets and payment cards inside their products.
Embedded Finance · Up and coming - ClaimSorted$13.3M
AI-first third party administrator that handles insurance claims for carriers and MGAs.
Insurtech Claims · Up and coming - Balance$4.7M
Accounting firm for small businesses where AI agents do the bookkeeping and qualified accountants sign off.
AI Accounting · Up and coming - Cuvva
Cuvva sells temporary and flexible monthly car insurance through a mobile app.
Insurtech · Up and coming - Duco
SaaS platform that automates data reconciliation and controls for banks, asset managers and insurers.
Data reconciliation · Up and coming - Gen H
UK residential mortgage lender focused on helping first-time buyers get onto the property ladder.
Mortgage Lending · Up and coming - Moneyfarm
Digital wealth manager offering managed portfolios, ISAs, pensions and DIY investing to retail investors in the UK and Italy.
Wealth management · Up and coming - Multiply
Multiply sells AI software that helps financial advice firms automate client onboarding, annual reviews and personalised recommendations.
Advice software · Up and coming - QFEX
24/7 exchange offering perpetual futures on US equities, commodities and FX without a broker.
Trading Exchange · Up and coming - SeedLegals
Online platform that lets startups run funding rounds, manage cap tables and set up share option schemes.
Startup legal · Up and coming - Taptap Send
Mobile app for sending money internationally to friends and family in emerging markets.
Remittances · Up and coming - TransferGo
App for sending money abroad, offering international transfers, multi-currency accounts and business payments in 160 countries.
Money transfers · Up and coming - Xceptor
Xceptor sells a no-code data automation platform that banks and asset managers use to process and reconcile operational data.
Data automation · Up and coming
Other(15)
- Fresha$285M
Booking marketplace and business software for salons, spas and wellness businesses.
Beauty booking marketplace · Well known - Depop
Peer-to-peer fashion resale app where people buy and sell secondhand clothing, now owned by eBay.
Resale Marketplace · Well known - Farfetch
Farfetch runs an online luxury fashion marketplace selling products from over 1,400 brands, boutiques and department stores.
Luxury marketplace · Well known - ITRS Group
ITRS sells real-time IT monitoring and observability software, mainly to financial services firms.
IT observability · Well known - Ogury
Advertising platform that targets and measures campaigns using anonymised audience personas instead of tracking individual users.
Ad tech · Well known - YouGov
YouGov is an internet based market research and data analytics group that runs online panels with about 29 million members.
Research data · Well known - incident.io$96M
Incident management, on-call and status page platform with AI agents that help teams resolve outages.
Incident management · Fastest growing - Risk Ledger
Network where suppliers share one live security assessment with all their customers to manage supply chain cyber risk.
Supply Chain Security · Fastest growing - Permutive$105M
Privacy-first audience data platform that lets publishers and advertisers target ads without third-party cookies.
Privacy Adtech · Up and coming - Attest$85M
Attest is a consumer research platform that lets brands run surveys and AI-moderated interviews with real consumers.
Consumer research SaaS · Up and coming - Seatfrog$7.4M
Seatfrog is an app for buying train tickets, bidding on first class upgrades and changing train times with partner rail operators.
Travel tech · Up and coming - Kitt
Kitt provides managed offices in London, handling the space, fit-out, maintenance and facilities under one contract and monthly invoice.
Proptech · Up and coming - Stasher
Online marketplace for booking short-term luggage storage in shops, hotels and smart lockers.
Travel tech · Up and coming - tldraw
Infinite canvas SDK for React that lets developers build whiteboards, diagramming and canvas apps with multiplayer sync built in.
Developer tools · Up and coming - Whering
Whering is a digital wardrobe app where people catalogue their clothes, plan outfits and packing, and share styling ideas.
Fashion app · Up and coming
Health(8)
- Purespring Therapeutics£115M
London gene therapy company targeting kidney podocytes to treat diseases such as IgA nephropathy.
Kidney Gene Therapy · 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 - DrDoctor
Patient engagement platform for NHS trusts that handles appointment communications, self-booking, voice agents and missed-appointment prediction, integrated with hospital patient record systems.
Patient engagement · Up and coming - Limbic
Clinical AI for mental health services, handling patient intake, assessment and between-session support.
Mental health 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 - Sava
Builds a minimally invasive wearable biosensor that tracks glucose, lactate and other biomarkers in real time.
Wearable Biosensors · Up and coming - Thriva
At-home blood testing service covering 75+ health markers, with doctor-led insights on results and a dashboard that combines biomarkers with wearable data.
Home blood testing · Up and coming
Deeptech(7)
- Automata
Robotic lab automation platform that runs life-science experiments end to end for pharma and biotech labs.
Lab Automation · Fastest growing - Sen£7M
Sen operates cameras in orbit and streams live ultra high definition video of Earth from space.
Space video · Up and coming - MatNex£2M
Uses AI and quantum-mechanics simulation to design new materials, starting with magnets free of rare earths.
Materials discovery · Up and coming - BioOrbit
Builds autonomous units that crystallise biologic cancer drugs in microgravity to enable injectable versions.
In-Space Manufacturing · Up and coming - Blue Skies Space
Runs its own small science satellites and sells the data to universities by subscription.
Space Science Data · Up and coming - Reelables
Reelables makes printable, battery-powered smart labels that track the location of shipments, cargo and inventory.
IoT tracking · Up and coming - XYZ Reality
Makes an engineering-grade AR headset and platform that lets builders check work against design models on site.
Construction AR · Up and coming
Defence(5)
- Skyral$20M
Simulation and digital-twin software for defence, government and infrastructure decision-making.
Modelling and Simulation · Fastest growing - Augur$15M
Software that uses a site's existing cameras and sensors to flag abnormal behaviour in near real time at transport hubs, energy sites and large venues.
Security AI · Up and coming - Spaceflux£9M
Tracks satellites and debris from low Earth orbit to GEO using its own telescope network and AI platform.
Space Domain Awareness · Up and coming - Occam Industries€7M
Autonomy software that installs on existing military drones without redesigning them, adding autonomous detection, tracking and targeting to mass-produced FPV drones.
Drone autonomy · Up and coming - Seeing Systems
Builds low-cost modular autonomous strike drones and swarm software for UK and NATO militaries.
Autonomous Drones · Up and coming
Climate(5)
- Axle Energy
Software that connects EV chargers, batteries and heat pumps to energy markets so they earn money supporting the grid.
Energy flexibility software · Fastest growing - Hoxton Farms$35M
Grows real animal fat from cells in modular cultivators for use in meat and meat-alternative products.
Cultivated fat · Up and coming - Epoch Biodesign$34M
Uses AI-designed enzymes to break down plastic and textile waste into recycled nylon polymers.
Enzymatic Recycling · Up and coming - Seabound
Builds onboard carbon capture systems that trap CO2 from ship exhausts and turn it into limestone.
Maritime Carbon Capture · Up and coming - Winnow
AI system that automatically records and analyses food thrown away in commercial kitchens so operators can cut waste and food costs.
Food waste AI · Up and coming
Quantum(2)
Crypto(1)
Other boroughs
- City of London 146
- Westminster 123
- Camden 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 105 that is the Companies House registered office, so the team may work elsewhere. How we verify addresses