Form Ventures
Form Ventures invests in UK-based startups that operate in markets with significant public policy exposure. Their strategy centers around the belief that startups disrupting old, regulated sectors or creating entirely new markets will inevitably face scrutiny from regulators and politicians. Form Ventures positions itself as a valuable partner to help these startups navigate the complex political and regulatory landscape, turning potential challenges into competitive advantages. They offer support in understanding and engaging with regulators and policymakers, enabling founders to move quickly and effectively. They recognize that even if policy and regulation seem irrelevant in the early stages, world-changing startups will eventually need to address these issues. Their approach seems to focus on proactive engagement and strategic management of regulatory and policy risks, making them uniquely positioned to support disruptive startups in regulated industries.
Fortune Green Capital Ltd
Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.
Fortunis Capital
Fortunis Capital invests in groundbreaking, innovative concepts that drive positive societal change while delivering financial returns. The firm emphasizes active portfolio support, collaboration, and alignment with investors' and investees' goals to accelerate growth and maximize impact. Their operations include R&D lending, growth finance, and direct venture capital, with a focus on UK-based businesses with global applications.
Forward Venture Capital
Forward Investments is a corporate venture capital platform focused on future-proofing the industrial utilities sector through strategic investments in transformative technologies. Backed by a large publicly listed industrial firm in the GCC region, they invest in businesses and funds that complement, disrupt, and elevate the next-generation utilities value chain. Their investment thesis centers on enabling the digital and operational transformation of the utilities and industrial sector through high-growth, B2B enterprise technologies. They invest across the full software and infrastructure stack, from enabling technologies to applied platforms, targeting companies that can integrate into or expand the future industrial ecosystem. They focus on three technology layers: Backend (Compute, Data Infrastructure, Edge), Middleware (Integration, Cloud Platforms, Operational Tech), and Application Layer (AI/ML, IoT, Cybersecurity, Automation). They aim to strategically create, preserve, and enhance value through every phase of the investment cycle across diverse industries and asset classes.
Foundation Ventures Ltd
Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.
Founder & Lightning
Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.
Founders Forum Group
Founders Forum Group (FFG) operates as a global community and a group of businesses aimed at empowering entrepreneurs across all stages of their journey. Their core strategy revolves around building and leveraging a peer-to-peer network of inspiring founders, pioneering investors, inventive CEOs, and impactful leaders. FFG facilitates connections, knowledge sharing, and deal-making through invitation-only forums held in iconic locations worldwide, addressing critical questions facing the tech industry. They are not solely an investment firm but provide investment opportunities, educational programs, professional services, and philanthropic initiatives. They aim to be key drivers of the startup ecosystem and provide opportunities for making friends, doing deals, and celebrating life, according to testimonials on their website. The group focuses on creating an environment where founders can openly discuss challenges and build relationships that can lead to business transactions. They support entrepreneurs from pre-seed to post-exit, evidenced by the range of services and businesses within the Founders Forum Group ecosystem, including venture studios, seed programs, and accelerator programs through Founders Factory. Their geographical footprint spans across Europe, Asia, North America, and the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia (MEASA). They also highlight specific locations such as London, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Tel Aviv, Mumbai, Paris, and Hong Kong. FFG also operates London Tech Week through a joint venture and spearheaded the relaunch of Tech Nation. They operate multiple sub-businesses and events and support entrepreneurs with a variety of needs. Their approach combines networking events, early-stage investment (through Founders Factory and firstminute capital), and community building to create a comprehensive platform for entrepreneurial success. The quotes from founders in various stages and industries emphasize the impact of the network on their journey and how it acts as a place where business relationships and deals are fostered. They aim to be more than just investors, as they also prioritize building relationships and supporting the personal and professional growth of their members.
Freedom Fund
The Freedom Fund is a global fund with the sole aim of helping end modern slavery. They act as a catalyst in the global effort to end modern slavery, working in the countries and sectors where it is highly prevalent. They invest in and partner with organisations and communities on the frontlines of ending slavery and exploitation. By partnering with survivors and those at risk of slavery, visionary investors, governments, and anti-slavery organisations, they bring together the knowledge, capital, and will needed to dismantle the systems that allow slavery to exist and thrive. Through their investments and support, they aim to shift power so that frontline organisations and communities can shape and drive the change required to bring modern slavery to an end. The Freedom Fund strengthens the frontlines by shifting power within the local and global systems that create the conditions for modern slavery to exist. They foster a movement by encouraging collaboration so frontline partners and local communities build their collective power. They build evidence by measuring and sharing evidence of what works to drive greater levels of investment into ending modern slavery. The Freedom Fund raises capital to direct funding and resources into slavery hotspots around the world. They partner with frontline organisations and communities in slavery hotspots – places across the world where slavery is highly prevalent. In each hotspot, they convene a network of grassroots organisations to work collaboratively toward shared objectives, multiplying their resources, impact and influence. They also invest in individuals, organisations and initiatives to grow and uplift survivor leadership in anti-slavery movements.
Friends Provident Foundation
Friends Provident Foundation is an independent charity focused on creating a fair and sustainable economic system that serves people and planet. They achieve this by connecting, funding, supporting, and investing in new thinking aimed at shaping a future economy that benefits everyone. The foundation acts as a catalyst for wider change through continuous experimentation and shared learning, embodying the change they advocate for by investing in social enterprises and aligning their financial resources with their values. Since its inception in 2004, following the demutualisation of Friends’ Provident Life Office, the foundation has been guided by Quaker values of equality, justice, and stewardship. This ethos is central to their operations and decision-making processes. They aim to improve access to financial services for marginalized communities and support the development of resilient economic communities across the UK. The foundation's approach includes grant-making to support projects and organizations working towards a fairer economy. They are also involved in initiatives like the Foundation Practice Rating, which aims to address inclusion, diversity, and accessibility issues within the economic sector. Furthermore, they actively engage in thought leadership, producing reports and resources related to economic policy and just transitions to a zero-carbon economy. Friends Provident Foundation's vision is to fund innovative ideas, connect them effectively, invest capital according to their values, and contribute to systemic improvements that will enable the economy to better serve both people and the environment. They prioritize learning and adapting, as evidenced by their work on operational principles and values statements, inviting feedback and accountability from partners and donors.
Frontier IP
Frontier IP operates with the purpose of creating high-value businesses from deep technology, focusing on intellectual property developed by scientists and engineers. Their approach involves identifying IP with commercial potential, often at an early stage through partnerships with universities, academics, and industry. They take founding equity stakes in companies in exchange for commercialization and support services. This includes IP protection, smooth business operations, and hands-on technology support. They focus on validating the technology and understanding its market potential, working closely with industry partners to understand market needs and demands. Their business model focuses on being capital efficient, driven by expertise and knowledge of underlying technologies and industrial processes. They place portfolio companies into clusters to exploit synergies in expertise and develop networks, offering advantages over sector-based approaches. They aim to accelerate time to market for companies and technologies in their core portfolio, providing corporate finance support and capital raising. Frontier IP also seeks investments from relevant industrial partners to bring value through industry connections and technology validation, beyond just capital. Frontier IP provides proactive, hands-on support, including commercialization services, technology validation, early industry engagement, and fundraising. They identify and evaluate IP, take material equity stakes in return for their services, validate technology and scale up market demand in partnership with industry, raise third-party funds, and generate value through potential deferred earnings realized upon exit. The firm emphasizes a different board and team composition compared to conventional IP commercialization firms or venture capitalists, drawing directors and employees from industry with extensive business experience. They focus on tackling fundamental challenges around climate, energy, water, health, and food through their portfolio companies.
Fulcrum Asset Management
Fulcrum Asset Management is an independent asset manager focused on delivering returns for clients through long-term relationships. Their investment approach is characterized by innovative research, a disciplined investment process, and effective risk management. They aim to be a trusted long-term partner for their clients. The firm operates on three core capabilities: Discretionary Strategies, Alternative Solutions, and Quantitative Strategies. Discretionary Strategies involve investing across a broad range of liquid markets, aiming for returns uncorrelated to broad market movements. Alternative Solutions focus on providing exposure to underrepresented assets through both liquid and illiquid alternatives. Quantitative Strategies bring together macroeconomics and quantitative finance insights to inform their investment decisions. Their investment strategy emphasizes shared values including excellence, integrity, innovation, collaboration, and sustainability. Fulcrum seems to leverage research extensively to generate insights and inform investment decisions, showcased through their 'Insights' section on their website. They are dedicated to providing the best possible service and investment outcomes, suggesting a client-centric approach.
Future Planet Capital (Ventures) Ltd
Future Planet Capital is an impact-led VC firm founded in the UK with a global outlook. Their investment strategy is to back high-growth companies that are benchmarked against top universities and innovation centers globally. The firm's mission is to invest in companies solving global challenges in a profitable way, mapping their investments against the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which include climate change, education, health, security, and sustainable growth. They manage over $460M in assets for public and private investors and have deployed an additional $200M through co-investment initiatives. Future Planet Capital has a track record of managing deep tech funds for entities like the UK government, British Business Bank, sovereign wealth funds, and local government pension funds. They leverage a proprietary algorithm that tracks over 500,000 inputs to systematically score and benchmark innovative companies worldwide. The firm emphasizes originating and benchmarking deals from founders and scientists emerging from leading universities and innovation centers. They provide seed, venture, and growth investment, sharing their experience, global reach, and network to help these companies realize their full commercial and impact potential. Future Planet Capital also focuses on creating innovative routes for pension investment into high-growth UK businesses, exemplified by the British Co-Investment Fund (BCF) in partnership with Mobius Life. This fund aims to channel pension investment into the UK's most innovative and impactful businesses, unlocking pension capital to invest in UK private markets and support significant fast-growing companies.
Future Planet Capital Regional
Future Planet Capital is an impact-led venture capital firm founded in the UK with a global outlook. Their investment thesis centers around backing high-growth companies that are addressing global challenges aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, such as climate change, education, health, security, and sustainable growth, with the expectation of generating profitable returns. They focus on companies emerging from top universities and innovation centers, providing seed, venture, and growth investments to help them scale. The firm aims to connect the biggest investors with the brightest minds by offering pension scheme managers access to UK venture investment across the whole of the UK, with the potential for higher long-term returns for savers.
GALLOS Technologies
GALLOS Technologies operates with a unique approach, functioning more like a company builder than a traditional venture capital firm. They focus on building security technology startups based on nation-state technologies, combining security expertise, investment know-how, and patient capital to create value. Their investment strategy centers around identifying and supporting solutions that address real-world security challenges, particularly in the realm of security operations, defense and resilience. The firm aims to unlock a company’s potential through its unique insight, connectivity, and access to hard-to-reach markets and distribution channels in the government and private sectors. The firm is committed to nurturing security innovation and helping companies fulfill their potential by being a force multiplier in their go-to-market strategy, customer introductions, and expanding their reach and capabilities. GALLOS emphasizes a shift in cybersecurity focus from defense to resilience, recognizing that organizations will inevitably face successful cyberattacks. They prioritize investing in resilience capabilities that enable rapid response and recovery. They are not just techies or investors who came late to security. They leverage their nation state-level security and technology insights to co-build world-class security technology companies. They aim to create meaningful value for their investments through what they call the "GALLOS Effect." Their approach involves a deep understanding of security challenges, leveraging expertise from national security, business, technology startups, and investor capital to create an ecosystem that helps build and grow technology companies capable of countering new and emerging security threats. GALLOS provides long-term capital and a strong network to scale successfully, supporting early-stage companies developing cutting-edge security technologies. GALLOS leverages unparalleled access to extensive commercial and governmental networks which help them optimize their investments and generate outsized returns. The team is composed of security, investment and commercial experts looking to collaborate with security technology innovators.
Global Innovation Fund
Global Innovation Fund (GIF) is an impact-focused investment firm that provides financial investment and strategic, post-investment support to accelerate growth and maximize impact for underserved communities. They combine financial investment with strategic, post-investment support to accelerate growth and maximise impact. GIF deploys flexible capital, utilizing grants, equity, and debt, to support early-stage innovations with proven potential to transform lives and progress toward scale. They de-risk and nurture high-potential innovations by providing deep technical, financial, and advisory support, along with connections to a powerful network of peer innovators and follow-on funders. GIF is committed to generating actionable insights and learnings that help innovators, partners, and the wider ecosystem learn, adapt, and make better decisions. The fund strategically prioritizes investments in Africa and Asia, focusing resources where the potential and need for scalable and sustainable change is greatest. GIF seeks innovations driving solutions across two critical thematic areas: building climate resilience and unlocking inclusive economic opportunities. GIF measures its impact by the amount of additional capital attracted to their innovations per dollar invested, the number of people expected to benefit, and the net social value created by their investments. For example, they report $8 in additional capital attracted per $1 invested, 157 million people expected to benefit by 2034, and $1.15 billion in net social value created by five of their earliest investments. GIF Growth offers a specific debt investment option, as demonstrated by their investment in 4G Capital, enabling the company to scale credit to both new and existing clients. By supporting on-lending to 4G Capital’s customer base, this investment promotes financial inclusion for GIF’s target beneficiaries, particularly underserved micro and small enterprises.
Goddess Gaia Ventures
Europe’s first dedicated venture platform for women’s health and performance, focusing on AI-driven solutions tailored to female-specific biology, addressing a $3.2T+ opportunity across health, performance, and longevity.
Goldacre
Goldacre is a specialist investment firm focused on digital infrastructure, particularly data centers. They utilize a hands-on approach, leveraging extensive expertise in funding, building, and operating digital infrastructure assets. The firm aims to deliver exceptional returns for its investors by building, owning, operating, and managing critical digital infrastructure assets, thereby securing their long-term profitability. Their investment strategy is based on deep market knowledge and established networks, which allows them to identify and capitalize on opportunities that can transform the real estate sector and broader aspects of how people live, work, and utilize property. The firm acts as a specialist advisor to funds, investors, and landowners.
Goldfinch International
Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind's mission is to build AI responsibly to benefit humanity, focusing on creating artificial general intelligence (AGI) and breakthrough technologies that can advance science, transform work, serve diverse communities, and improve billions of lives. Their strategy involves solving complex scientific and engineering challenges, combining research in machine learning, neuroscience, engineering, mathematics, simulation, and computing infrastructure. They use games and simulations to test and refine their AI systems, pioneering advancements in areas like deep reinforcement learning and protein structure prediction. Their approach emphasizes deep collaboration between AI labs, governments, academia, and civil society to ensure that AI is deployed to meet national priorities in science, education, resilience, and public services. They aim to broaden access to their frontier AI capabilities and work with governments and local institutions to accelerate the pace of progress and unlock new possibilities in science and education. The focus is now shifting towards more complex, open-ended challenges in mathematics, physics, and computer science with tools like Gemini Deep Think mode, emphasizing the importance of reasoning, generalization, and self-improvement in AI agents.
Greensphere Capital
Greensphere invests in science-backed businesses that address commercial challenges arising from climate stress and biodiversity loss, ensuring profitability and sustainability.
Gresham House Ventures
Gresham House Ventures is the growth equity division of Gresham House, focused on partnering with exceptional entrepreneurs to scale high-growth businesses. They aim to deliver transformational growth in their investee companies, offering more than just capital by providing insight, commercial experience, and a network of resources. They are bold in their approach to achieving excellence for both their investee companies and their own business. They understand the journey only truly begins after a company raises capital, offering support to navigate the challenges of growth through board representation, deploying their network, in-house experts, and a suite of supportive services. They invest across the lifecycle of a business, providing flexibility and transparency.
Growth Capital Ventures (GCV)
GCV invests in high-growth UK businesses and property developments that disrupt industries, drive operational efficiencies, and address critical undersupply (e.g., housing). Focuses on technology-driven startups, revenue-generating companies, and mission-driven ventures with scalable potential.
Growth Credit Partners
Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.
Guinness Ventures
Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.