Tech companies in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is home to 48 of London's best tech companies, led by AI (17).
Number 7 of the 22 London boroughs on the map. 14 of these companies are hiring, with 161 open London roles between them. 41 hold a visa sponsor licence. Together they have raised $2.1B+ in disclosed equity.
- AI17
- Fintech11
- Other7
- Climate6
- Health5
- Crypto1
- Deeptech1
AI(17)
- Granola$192M
AI notepad that writes up your meeting notes without adding a bot to the call.
AI meeting notes · Well known - Callosum$110M
Software that splits AI workloads across many different chip types to run them faster and cheaper.
AI Compute Orchestration · Fastest growing - Metaview$110M
AI recruiting platform with agents for sourcing, screening, interview notes and hiring reports.
Recruiting AI · Fastest growing - Fleek$45M
B2B marketplace and AI grading tools for wholesale secondhand clothing, linking suppliers with retailers in 100+ countries.
Secondhand Fashion · Fastest growing - Definely$40M
AI tools that help lawyers draft, review and understand complex contracts, used by Magic Circle and top US law firms.
Legal AI · Fastest growing - Mindgard$38M
Lancaster University spinout that attacks and tests AI systems to find security holes before hackers do.
AI security · Fastest growing - Ankar$24M
AI platform for the full patent lifecycle, from invention ideas to drafting and prosecution.
Patent AI · Fastest growing - Napier AI
AI anti money laundering platform for screening and transaction monitoring, used by over 150 financial institutions.
AML Compliance · Fastest growing - Trigger.dev$16M+
Open source platform for running AI agents and long background jobs in TypeScript.
Agent Infrastructure · Up and coming - Intropy$11M
AI operating system for spare parts distributors covering demand forecasting, pricing and obsolescence decisions.
Parts supply chain AI · Up and coming - Resolutiion$10.4M
Resolutiion is an AI platform that spots commercial dispute and delivery risk in large contracts for defence, energy and manufacturing firms.
Contract risk · Up and coming - Dessn$6M+
Design tool that lets product teams design and prototype directly inside their real codebase.
AI design tools · Up and coming - Adthena
A search intelligence platform that tracks competitor ads, brand bidding and visibility across Google Ads and AI search engines.
Search ad intelligence · Up and coming - Chattermill
An AI platform that pulls customer feedback from surveys, reviews, support chats and calls and explains what drives satisfaction scores.
Customer feedback analytics · Up and coming - Focaldata
Focaldata runs AI-assisted survey and qualitative research for brands, agencies, charities and political clients across 130+ markets.
Market research · Up and coming - nPlan
AI that forecasts schedule risk for construction and capital projects using data from 750,000+ past projects.
Construction Forecasting · Up and coming - Sable Bio
AI platform that helps pharma teams spot drug target safety risks earlier in discovery.
Drug Safety AI · Up and coming
Fintech(11)
- Starling Bank£500M+
Licensed UK digital bank that also sells its Engine banking software to other banks.
Neobank · Well known - Revolut
Global finance super-app for banking, payments, investing and crypto, with a full UK banking licence.
Neobank · Well known - Zopa
Licensed UK digital bank offering loans, credit cards and savings. It started out as a peer-to-peer lending pioneer.
Digital bank · Well known - NALA$50.4M
Money transfer app for diaspora sending money to Africa and Asia, plus the Rafiki B2B payments API.
Remittances · Fastest growing - Native Teams£14.9M
Employer of record, payroll and cross-border payments platform for companies hiring international teams.
Employer of Record · Fastest growing - Gemba£4.2M
Gemba is an FCA-authorised payment institution whose platform lets non-financial companies offer their own branded accounts, payments and cards.
Embedded banking · Fastest growing - Abound
Consumer lender that uses AI and open banking data to judge affordability and offer fairer loans.
Consumer Lending · Fastest growing - Ralio$2.5M
Guardrails, identity and audit layer that checks AI agent payments against company rules before they go out.
Agentic payments · Up and coming - Atoa
Payment gateway that lets UK businesses take Pay by Bank and card payments with lower fees and instant settlement.
Pay By Bank · Up and coming - Laka
Collective-model insurance for cyclists, e-bikes and green mobility fleets across the UK and Europe.
Micromobility Insurtech · Up and coming - Shufti
Shufti provides identity verification, KYC and AML screening software for businesses onboarding customers online.
Identity verification · Up and coming
Other(7)
- Journee
Surprise-trip platform that matches travellers to a booked itinerary of flights, stays and activities, revealing the destination at the airport.
Travel tech · Fastest growing - CybSafe$40M
CybSafe is a human risk management platform that measures and changes employee security behaviours with nudges, phishing simulations and automated interventions.
Cybersecurity · Up and coming - Easol$29.5M
Booking and commerce platform for businesses that sell travel, events and experiences.
Experience commerce · Up and coming - Connectd
Marketplace that matches startups with fractional executives, advisors and non-executive directors.
Fractional Talent Marketplace · Up and coming - CyberSmart
CyberSmart gives small businesses cybersecurity tools, staff training, Cyber Essentials certification and cyber insurance in one platform.
Cybersecurity · Up and coming - Goodlord
Lettings software that lets estate agents, landlords and tenants handle referencing, contracts, payments and insurance online.
Proptech · Up and coming - SecureFlag
Developer security platform offering hands-on secure coding training and threat modelling for enterprise engineering teams.
Application Security · Up and coming
Climate(6)
- Fuse Energy$178M
Household energy supplier that also builds its own renewable generation, founded by ex-Revolut executives.
Energy supplier · Well known - HIVED£45M
All-electric last-mile parcel delivery company serving online retailers, run on its own logistics software.
Electric Parcel Delivery · Fastest growing - Hypervolt
Designs smart home EV chargers with solar integration and app-based tariff control, sold in the UK and abroad.
EV Charging · Fastest growing - Better Dairy
Uses precision fermentation to make milk proteins without cows for uses such as infant formula and supplements.
Precision fermentation · Up and coming - Mission Zero Technologies
Electrochemical direct air capture machines that pull CO2 from the air for use or storage.
Direct Air Capture · Up and coming - Notpla
Makes seaweed and plant based packaging that replaces single use plastic.
Sustainable Packaging · Up and coming
Health(5)
- Flo Health$269.5M
Period, ovulation and pregnancy tracking app with over 70 million monthly active users.
Femtech · Well known - Neko Health
Runs clinics offering a full-body scan and same-visit doctor review to spot health risks early.
Preventive health · Well known - IMU Biosciences$60M
Maps the immune system in high resolution from blood samples to guide transplant and cancer treatment decisions.
Immune Profiling · Fastest growing - Cytospire Therapeutics
Develops multispecific antibodies that engage gamma delta T cells to treat solid tumour cancers.
Immuno-oncology · Fastest growing - AviadoBio
Develops gene therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, with its lead candidate AVB-101 in a Phase 1/2 trial for genetic frontotemporal dementia.
Gene therapy · Up and coming
Crypto(1)
Deeptech(1)
Other boroughs
- City of London 146
- Westminster 123
- Camden 105
- Islington 105
- Hackney 90
- Southwark 58
- Hammersmith and Fulham 34
- Lambeth 21
The borough comes from each company's London postcode (ONS data via postcodes.io). For 9 of the 48 that is the Companies House registered office, so the team may work elsewhere. How we verify addresses