United Kingdom Startup Ecosystem Overview

Whether you need in-home dog boarding, pet sitting, dog walking, or day care, Rover connects pet parents with pet care providers who’ll treat their pets like family. Read more

Rebuilding data in advertising to protect privacy Read more

The World's First Instant Crypto-Backed Loans Read more

Fresha is a SaaS-enabled marketplace platform for beauty and wellness industry. Read more

Songkick is the great live music startup. Fans track their favorite artists so they never miss them live, and artists sell more tickets to their concerts. We are a small team, proudly based in east London, but with global reach. More than 9 million fans use us every month across web and mobile, 90% from outside the UK. We’ve built the most comprehensive live music database on the web and are the biggest independent concert site in the world. We make money by helping fans find and buy tickets to concerts, and have now grown our revenue to millions of dollars. Songkick is backed by two of the most highly regarded investors in the world: Index Ventures and Sequoia – we were Sequoia’s first UK investment. Read more

Paddle is trying to become the worlds easiest marketplace for digital content. Currently, the way we buy digital products online is broken. The scope of digital products has become so huge, everything from Music, to eBooks, to Software, Games and more. All of these products are spread across different stores, which all have different methods of consumption for different devices. Paddle wants to change this and make buying and using digital products easy, whatever your device may be. Read more

Culture Trip is a travel e-commerce brand with content at its core Read more

Cleo is an artificial intelligence startup that offers an intelligent assistant to help users in managing their finances. Read more

DICE is a curated platform that connects fans to live shows. Read more

Freeview is the biggest TV platform in the UK. Read more

Onfido is an ID verification solutions provider. Our document verification and facial biometrics technology lets your users verify themselves anywhere, anytime. Read more

LoveCrafts is a start-up that builds social marketplaces for the crafts sector. Read more

Zappi helps global brands make faster and better decisions to drive business growth. Read more

Selina is a fast-growing hospitality brand built for today’s nomadic traveler to help them live, work, and explore anywhere in the world. Read more

Carwow is a company that helps efficiently connect car buyers to car dealers. Read more

Most banks put themselves first. We're not most banks. In fact, we're the UK's first app only bank. But we don't just do it differently, we do it better. Our service is fast, fair and all about you. With our app, you take your savings and mortgages with you, wherever you go, 24/7. We’ve done away with fiddly keypads and long passwords. Instead, we use your face and voice as your password. Simple. After all, we are all about you. Read more

FaceIT is the gaming platform for professional competitions within online multiplayer video games. Read more

Yieldify creates smart and simple marketing technology products that predict customer behaviour. Read more

We’re here to help you thrive.With a quick application, dedicated account manager and fast decision, you can stay focused on your business while we focus on your loan. Taking your business to the next level has never been easier. Read more

Beamery helps companies attract, identify & engage with candidates on one unified platform, to deliver better talent acquisition - at scale. Read more

Flo is an AI-powered women’s health app that supports women at every stage of their reproductive cycle. Read more

PaySend is a fintech company that solves the universal problem to securely enable any bank card to send and receive money worldwide. Read more

Enjoy learning for life with free, online courses from top UK and international universities. Read more

Bulb provides affordable renewable energy for homes and businesses. Read more

Bitstamp is an online bitcoin marketplace that allows people from all around the world to safely buy and sell bitcoins. Read more

Located on a green field site in Ellon, north of Aberdeen, is our state of the art eco-brewery. One of the most technologically advanced in the world, from here we strive constantly to challenge people’s preconceptions about what beer is and how it can taste. Read more

Soccer Manager, a Preston, UK-based developer of an online football game. Soccer Manager allows players to manage their favourite team. Read more

Perlego is an unlimited eBook subscription service for academic and professional content. Read more

Synthesia provides next-gen visual content creation. Read more

Spoke London is a privately held company that provides better fitting, better looking men's clothes, sold exclusively online. Read more

Monese is an online banking platform that offers quick current account opening for all EU residents. Read more

LoopMe is closing the loop on brand advertising, using AI, attribution and analytics to deliver measurable uplift in brand outcomes. Read more

TransferGo is a digital international money transfers for migrants and businesses. Read more

Ubuntu is a Debian-based open source Linux operating system for PC, tablet, phone, and cloud platforms. Read more

Soldo is an all-in-one expense management solution that manages your business spending for you. All Soldo plans come with Mastercard® cards, a mobile app for employees, and a web console for administrators. Read more

Capital.com is an insurgent fintech on a mission to make the world of finance more engaging, accessible and useful. Read more

OnBuy is a UK online marketplace packed with great prices on millions of products from thousands of online retailers. Read more

Beauty Pie mission is to bring our members the world's best beauty products at totally transparent factory cost prices. Read more

Octopus Energy builds technology that reduces the cost of energy to improve customer experience. Read more

TaTaTu Enterprises is a blockchain-based video startup company. Read more

Oxford PV is a provider of perovskite solar cells. Read more

Introducing Marketinvoice (www.marketinvoice.com): Based in London, Marketinvoice is the UK’s first online platform allowing businesses to selectively sell the invoices of large business customers to raise flexible working capital. Businesses can register on MarketInvoice within 15 minutes, and once approved, can trade invoices due to be paid in 30, 60, 90 days. Funds are advanced instantly from a pool of global institutional investors. Since 2011 MarketInvoice has funded over £110 million worth of invoices, with 20% growth month-on-month in 2013. In August 2013 the UK Government became a buyer of invoices on the MarketInvoice platform, investing directly in UK SMEs looking to access working capital as part of the Business Finance Partnership.  Read more

Elvie is a British femtech company developing smarter technology for women. Read more

 Read more

Plentific is a SaaS platform that provides smart property management solutions for landlords and property managers. Read more

Salary Finance partners with employers to improve employee wellbeing by helping get people out of debt and into saving. Read more

Top10.com sorts through over half a million hotels to find the Top 10 for your criteria, anywhere in the world. We also compare deals from every major booking site to make sure you get the best price, every time. Read more

We are all lost, trying to find our way.  Read more