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 306 organisations across 20 cities.
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Data Centre Expo Global 2027
Data Centre Expo Global 2027 runs 3-4 February at Olympia London, part of the TechEx Global series covering AI and high-density computing, energy efficiency, power and cooling innovation, and connectivity for the data centre ecosystem. It is co-located with TechEx's AI & Big Data, Cyber Security & Cloud and other enterprise-tech shows.
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David Silver
Reinforcement-learning pioneer who led the AlphaGo and AlphaZero projects at DeepMind, and a founder of Ineffable Intelligence. He is one of the most cited researchers in modern AI.
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Davor Hebel
Managing Partner and Head of Europe & Israel at Eight Roads Ventures, the global venture platform backed by Fidelity. He leads the firm's growth-stage investments in European and Israeli software, fintech and consumer companies.
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Dawn Capital
Dawn Capital is a London-based venture capital firm specialising in B2B software, backing European enterprise-technology companies from Series A through growth. One of Europe's largest dedicated B2B software investors, it focuses on areas including fintech, cybersecurity, data and enterprise SaaS.
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Deliveroo
Deliveroo is a London-based food delivery platform founded in 2013 by Will Shu and Greg Orlowski. The company connects consumers with restaurants, grocery stores, and convenience retailers through its app and rider network. Deliveroo went public on the London Stock Exchange in March 2021. The company operates across the UK, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and has invested heavily in its Editions dark kitchen network and its advertising platform for restaurant partners. Deliveroo competes with Uber Eats and Just Eat in its core markets and serves millions of consumers monthly.
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Depop
Depop is a social commerce marketplace for buying and selling secondhand fashion, popular among Gen Z users. Founded in London and acquired by Etsy in 2021 for $1.6 billion, Depop combines social-media-style profiles and feeds with peer-to-peer transactions. The platform has over 30 million registered users and is a leading player in the circular fashion economy.
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DEScycle
Deep-tech company using Deep Eutectic Solvents — non-toxic, low-energy salts — to recover critical and precious metals from e-waste and industrial waste via a modular, distributed platform. Backed by EU Horizon, EIC Accelerator, SPRIND, Innovate UK and a Mitsubishi partnership.
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Develop:Brighton 2026
The UK's leading games-industry conference, marking its 20th anniversary in 2026. For games-startup founders and developers it offers business and publishing tracks, an indie showcase, and an expo — strong for funding conversations, partnerships, and hiring across the UK games ecosystem.
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Develop:Brighton 2027
Develop:Brighton's next edition is confirmed for 13-15 July 2027, save the date, following a 2026 edition that marked its 20th anniversary with over 5,800 attendees. The UK's leading games-industry conference offers business and publishing tracks, an indie showcase, and an expo.
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Dexory
Dexory is a UK-based warehouse intelligence company that combines autonomous mobile robots with AI software to give logistics operators real-time visibility into their inventory. Founded in 2015 as BotsAndUs, it rebranded to Dexory in November 2022 after pivoting toward warehouse inventory intelligence. Its purpose-built robots autonomously scan warehouses and feed data into the DexoryView cloud platform, which builds real-time digital twins of facilities for inventory tracking and operational optimisation. The company serves sectors including third-party logistics, retail, manufacturing, and air cargo, and is headquartered in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.
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DIGIT Expo 2026
Scotland's biggest tech showcase — 1,500+ delegates, 60+ exhibitors, and 40+ speakers, free to attend, at the EICC Edinburgh. A cost-effective day for a Scottish founder or developer to meet enterprise buyers, exhibit, and tap the national tech community.
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Digital Transformation Week Global 2026
Enterprise-focused conference at ExCeL London featuring sessions on digital strategy, modernization, and technology-enabled organizational change. Co-located with major tech expos attracting thousands of enterprise buyers and IT decision-makers. Valuable for B2B startups offering digital transformation tools, change management platforms, and workflow automation.
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Digital Transformation Week Global 2027
Digital Transformation Week Global 2027 runs 3-4 February at Olympia London as part of TechEx Global. Billed as the executive summit for CIOs, CDOs and enterprise transformation leaders, it covers strategy and change management, AI and automation, human-centred culture, data and analytics, and scalable platforms.
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DTX (Clarion Events)
Organiser of the Digital Transformation EXPO (DTX) series in London and Manchester, part of Clarion Events. DTX brings digital, data, cloud, cyber and AI teams together to explore practical enterprise transformation, with exhibitors, keynote stages and networking for technology buyers and innovators.
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DTX London 2026
Digital Transformation EXPO London returns to ExCeL London for two days covering cloud, cybersecurity, data, AI/ML and infrastructure. Co-located with UCX, it draws digital, data and innovation teams from major organisations alongside technology providers and startups. Free to attend.
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eCommerce Expo 2026
A two-day commerce event at ExCeL London for B2C and B2B online-retail professionals, with 200+ solution providers and CPD-accredited content across ten theatres on AI-driven shopping, fulfilment and growth. Co-located with Technology for Marketing and Parcel & Post Expo.
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Edinburgh International Festival 2026
The world's largest arts festival includes a significant digital-arts and creative-technology strand, with immersive installations, AI-generated art exhibitions, and creative-tech showcases. Edinburgh during August is also a magnet for informal tech-community meetups and founder dinners organized by the Scottish startup ecosystem. While not a pure tech event, it's a key cultural moment for creative-tech, content-tech, and entertainment startups looking to connect with media buyers and cultural institutions.
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Edinburgh International Festival Society
The Edinburgh International Festival Society is the charitable body responsible for producing the Edinburgh International Festival, one of the world's premier performing arts events held every August since 1947. The Society presents world-class opera, theatre, music and dance across 24 days, bringing artists from over 40 countries to Edinburgh. It is a company limited by guarantee incorporated in Scotland (SC024766) and a registered Scottish charity (SC004694), headquartered at The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh.
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Eight Roads Ventures
Eight Roads Ventures is the global venture capital platform of Fidelity, tracing its roots to Fidelity Ventures (1969). Headquartered in London for its European and Israeli operations, it invests exclusively from Fidelity's balance sheet rather than raising external LPs — a structure that affords long holding horizons. The European arm has deployed four successive funds, growing from £100M to a $450M fourth fund (2021), within a global platform managing over $5bn across Europe, Israel, India and Asia. The London team focuses on growth-stage and scale-up investments, writing $5–50M cheques into companies past product-market fit (roughly Series A–C) in SaaS and enterprise software, fintech, healthtech, consumer technology and climate tech. Notable European portfolio companies include Spendesk (France), Hibob (Israel/UK), Funnel.io (Sweden), Tibber (Norway), Swan (France) and Amenitiz (Spain); key exits include InnoGames (€260M to MTG, 2016), Compte-Nickel (BNP Paribas, ~€200M, 2017) and Made.com's 2021 London IPO. The team is led by Managing Partner Davor Hebel with partners Lucile Cornet and Michael Treskow.
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Eileen Burbidge
Eileen Burbidge MBE is a British-American venture capitalist and Founding Partner of Passion Capital, an early-stage London VC she co-founded with Stefan Glaenzer in 2008, with notable portfolio companies including Monzo and GoCardless. A computer science graduate of the University of Illinois, she built her early career at Apple, Sun Microsystems, and Skype before moving to London in 2004. She served as the UK Treasury's special envoy for fintech from 2015 and was appointed MBE for services to entrepreneurship the same year.
