United Kingdom startup ecosystem
The UK — and London in particular — remains Europe's deepest capital market for startups. World-class universities, a strong financial services sector, and a dense network of experienced operators make it a magnet for fintech, AI, and biotech ventures. Despite Brexit-related shifts, the UK continues to produce more unicorns than any other European country. The directory currently lists 317 organisations across 21 cities.
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Nevis
Nevis is an AI platform for the wealth management industry, describing itself as the first unified AI platform for wealth management. It automates advisors' administrative and operational workflows end-to-end, including meeting summaries and prep, intelligent search, client email drafting, task generation, and account opening with custodians. The company primarily targets Registered Investment Advisors. Founded in 2024 by three former Revolut employees, it is headquartered in London, and in December 2025 it acquired voice-AI startup Ledra AI.
Nicole Eagan
Co-founder of Darktrace and its long-time CEO and later Chief Strategy Officer, helping pioneer the 'immune system' approach to enterprise cybersecurity using machine learning.
Nigel Toon
Co-founder and CEO of Graphcore, the Bristol-based AI chip company building Intelligence Processing Units. A veteran semiconductor entrepreneur, he previously co-founded Picochip and XMOS.
Night of Ideas 2026 (London)
The Night of Ideas (La Nuit des Idées) is an annual global event organized by French cultural institutions, featuring free talks and debates on contemporary issues, held in London at the Institut français.
Niki Buys
Niki Buys is the co-founder and partner at Pledge Ventures, the venture capital arm of Founders Pledge, which invests in high-growth technology companies whose founders have made binding commitments to give a meaningful portion of their proceeds to charity. She spent over six years at Founders Pledge in roles including Chief Experience Officer before co-launching the fund in 2023 alongside CEO David Goldberg. Pledge Ventures operates on a rules-based model across sectors and geographies to create a flywheel between entrepreneurial success and social impact.
Nikolay Storonsky
Co-founder and CEO of Revolut, which he scaled from a multi-currency card into one of the world's most valuable fintechs, with tens of millions of customers and a full UK banking licence. A former derivatives trader, he is among Europe's most prominent fintech founders.
Nineteen Group
UK-based exhibitions organiser behind International Cyber Expo and other security and emergency-services events at Olympia London. Nineteen Group builds large-scale trade shows that connect global suppliers, government officials and security leaders with technology buyers.
Nivoda
Nivoda is a London-based B2B online marketplace for the global jewellery trade, founded in 2017. Its platform lets jewellers and retailers source diamonds (natural and lab-grown), coloured gemstones, melee, and made-to-order finished jewellery without holding their own stock. Nivoda layers technology onto the traditional diamond supply chain, offering virtual showroom tools, API inventory feeds for retailer websites, consolidated shipping and invoicing, risk-free returns, express delivery, and flexible trade-credit payment terms. It describes itself as the world's leading B2B diamond marketplace, serving jewellers internationally.
Nodes & Links
Nodes & Links is a Cambridge-based AI project controls company for major construction and infrastructure projects, legally Nodes & Links Limited. Its platform, built on years of project controls research, lets schedulers, project managers and executives interrogate live project schedules in natural language to get auditable answers on data integrity, delay and change management, risk, and reporting, grounded in models compatible with Primavera P6. The company is ISO 27001 certified and positions its AI as hallucination-proof because every answer traces back to a source within the customer's own project data.
Northern FinTech Summit 2026
FinTech North's pan-northern flagship, celebrating the fintech ecosystem across the North of England at the Guildhall in York. Useful for a Northern fintech founder wanting cross-regional investor and corporate connections in one summit rather than a single-city conference.
Northzone
Northzone is a prominent European venture capital firm with Scandinavian roots, known for early bets on companies like Spotify and Klarna. Founded in 1996 in Oslo (and now headquartered in Stockholm with a big presence in London), Northzone is an evergreen VC fund that has raised 9 funds to date. It invests from Seed and Series A up to Growth (Series B/C), typically focusing on consumer internet, fintech, and B2B SaaS. Northzone rose to fame as the earliest institutional investor in Spotify – it led Spotify’s $21M Series A in 2008 and remained a major shareholder until IPO. It was also an early backer of Klarna (led the $8M Series A in 2010) and other Nordic breakouts like iZettle (payments, acquired by PayPal) and Avito (Russian classifieds, acquired by Naspers). Over the years, Northzone expanded its geographic focus to include the UK, Benelux, and the US East Coast (they’ve invested in Wallapop in Spain, Personio in Germany, and Secret Escapes in UK, among others). The firm’s investment approach is relatively hands-on – partners often take board seats and leverage Northzone’s network for business development of their portfolio. With approximately €1.5 billion under management, Northzone typically writes initial checks of €2–10M and can follow on with much larger amounts. In 2022, Northzone raised a new €1B+ fund, reflecting growing LP interest in European tech. The team blends operational experience and finance acumen; notable partners include Pär-Jörgen Pärson (who led the Spotify deal) and Michiel Kotting (who sits on Personio’s board). Northzone often leads or co-leads rounds and likes to syndicate with US VCs when scaling globally. Beyond fintech and music tech, they have investments in healthtech (Kry), edtech (Kahoot!), crypto (Sovereign), and more – showcasing a broad thesis of “transformative tech.” Northzone’s steady success over 25+ years – producing multiple billion-dollar exits – has cemented its reputation as one of Europe’s top-tier venture firms, bridging the vibrant Nordic ecosystem with the rest of the continent.
Nothing
Design-led consumer electronics brand behind transparent Android smartphones and earbuds. Nothing is a startup based in London, United Kingdom at the growth stage. The company operates in the Consumer Electronics, Hardware space. Learn more at their website.
Notion Capital
Notion Capital is a London-based venture firm founded in 2009 by the team behind MessageLabs and Star — Jos White, Ben White, Stephen Chandler, Chris Tottman and Ian Milbourn — who built MessageLabs before its $700M sale to Symantec. The firm invests exclusively in European B2B software and fintech, with a sweet spot at Series A (companies at or near product-market fit, typically $1M+ ARR) and initial cheques of €1–8M. Across five venture funds and three growth vehicles Notion has raised over $1bn in total AUM; Fund V closed at its €300M hard cap in 2023 and Growth Opportunities III added $130M in 2025 to back the firm's best companies longer. Its thesis spans four software categories — Knowledge (AI-enhanced SaaS), Money (fintech), Labour (services-as-software) and Machines (software in physical environments, including defence). Marquee outcomes include Currencycloud (acquired by Visa for ~$963M, 2021) and GoCardless (acquisition by Mollie announced at ~$1.1bn, 2025), with a portfolio that also features Paddle, Mews, Quantum Systems, Workable, TestGorilla and Upvest.
Nscale
Nscale develops and operates AI-native infrastructure, including modular data center capacity optimized for high-density GPU workloads. The company focuses on sovereign and energy-efficient compute supply for enterprise and model providers, and has expanded rapidly through large infrastructure financing and strategic partnerships.
Nyobolt
Cambridge, UK battery company developing extreme fast-charge technology using tungsten-based anode chemistry. Its cells recharge to 80% in under five minutes, targeting industrial EVs, power tools, and consumer electronics. Raised a $60M Series C in 2024 at a reported $1B valuation.
OakNorth
OakNorth is a London-based fintech founded in 2015 that operates as a profitable digital bank and credit intelligence software provider. Its OakNorth Credit Intelligence platform uses AI and machine learning to help commercial lenders make better decisions for mid-market businesses, the segment typically underserved by traditional banks. The bank itself has lent over GBP 10 billion since launch and has been consistently profitable. OakNorth raised $1 billion from investors including SoftBank, reaching a valuation of $4.7 billion. The software platform is licensed to banks globally.
Ochre Bio
Ochre Bio is an Oxford-based biotech startup combining computational genomics, machine learning, and RNA therapeutics to develop treatments for chronic liver diseases. Founded in 2019, the company uses human donor livers and large-scale transcriptomic data to identify novel drug targets, then designs RNA-based therapies to address conditions such as NASH and liver fibrosis. Ochre Bio has raised significant venture funding and works with transplant centers to validate its candidates in perfused human organs.
Omnea
Omnea is a London-based procurement and spend management software company founded in 2022 by ex-Tessian executives Ben Freeman (CEO) and Ben Allen (CTO). Its AI-native platform provides a single front door where employees can make procurement requests in natural language, then orchestrates workflows across finance, legal, risk and IT, automating the full supplier lifecycle from intake and approvals to third-party risk management and renewals. The platform includes no-code workflow builders, supplier onboarding portals, RFx event management and integrations with hundreds of systems. Customers include Spotify, Wise, MongoDB, Adecco and PayPal.
Onfido
Onfido is a London-based identity verification company founded in 2012 that uses AI and biometric technology to help businesses verify user identities remotely. The platform combines document verification with facial biometrics to enable onboarding for financial services, sharing economy, healthcare, and other regulated industries. Onfido was acquired by Entrust in 2024 for approximately $400 million. Before the acquisition, the company had raised over $200 million and served customers including Revolut, Zipcar, and Bitstamp across 195 countries, processing millions of identity checks annually.
Open Banking Expo
Organiser of Open Banking Expo, the UK and Europe dedicated Open Banking, Open Finance and Smart Data event, alongside a global community, awards and content programme. The show convenes banks, fintechs, regulators and investors shaping data-driven financial services.
