28 London-Based Startups You'll Want to Work For in 2023
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London is one of the top 3 startup ecosystems in the world, in terms of funding. London-based companies are pushing innovation across a number of industries including AI, blockchain, cyber security, and data analytics.
England’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson once claimed that 528k Londoners—which equates to 1 in 6 residents —worked in the startup industry.
The United Kingdom has gone to great lengths to remove barriers to innovation and business expansion, with lower corporate tax rates for companies engaging in research and development and the introduction of a start-up visa for entrepreneurs coming to the U.K.
Here are some of the hottest London startups hiring today:
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Website
- https://www.allplants.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- London
- About
We are Europe's fastest-growing vegan food startup - offering tasty, mindfully sustainable dinners, flash frozen and delivered nationwide. From a creamy Cashew Mac to a rich and spicy Jerk Jackfruit, each dish we deliver is 100% cool for vegans and packed full of plant-powered goodness.
At allplants, you'll have the opportunity to spark a revolution in the way our world eats, empowering healthier, happier diets, and a more mindful lifestyle better for our planet today and tomorrow.
And having launched only in early 2017, this is just the beginning.
- Industries
Specialty FoodsFoodtech
Help the world agree faster by making contracts frictionless, collaborative & accessible51-200 Employees- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- https://juro.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- London
- About
Juro is an all-in-one contract automation platform that helps visionary legal counsel and the teams they enable to agree and manage contracts in one unified workspace.
Living our values means knowing what to do when no-one's looking. They are the basis for how we behave, how we work with each other and how we make decisions. Oh, and we've also just been named London's #1 startup to work for in 2022.
- Industries
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- https://www.habito.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- London
- About
Habito is the world's first digital mortgage broker. Habito is using technology to bring the mortgage application process into the 21st century. A simple, honest and transparent way to help people find and apply for the best mortgage deal.
- Industries
Using the science of habit change, we're working for a world free of chronic conditions51-200 Employees- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- http://www.secondnature.io
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- London
- About
We’re here to help people take control of their health. By bringing together behavioural science, technology, and incredible people, our grand mission is to eradicate the global epidemic of chronic lifestyle diseases once and for all.
Our digital habit change programme – delivered digitally through mobile and web apps – helps people to improve their lifestyle, lose weight, and ultimately reduce their risk for conditions such as type 2 diabetes.
- Industries
- Diabetes
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Website
- https://www.florence.co.uk
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- London
- About
Florence is a pioneering online platform that is taking a fresh and intelligent approach to managing the healthcare staffing crisis. Built with the needs of nurses and healthcare providers at the forefront, Florence is a marketplace that cuts out the middleman and empowers healthcare managers to find the right staff with the right skills at the right time. At Florence, we all have a definitive mission - to help people receive the level of care they deserve!
- Industries
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Website
- http://www.farewill.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- London
- About
At Farewill we build the best products in the world for dealing with death. Beautifully designed, easy to use, built for taking care of the people you love.
In the last 12 months we’ve:
- Closed our £20m Series B
- Featured in the Top 20 Companies to work for in London in 2020/2021
- Featured in the The UK's 100 Best Mid-sized Companies to Work For 2021
- Featured in the UK's Top 5 scale-ups of 2021 in TNW's 100 hottest young European scale-ups list
- Ranked #3 in the UK's 100 Most Innovative & Disruptive Businesses
- Raised over £400m for charity
- Industries
- Burial & Cremation Industry Worldwide
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- http://www.thriva.co
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- London
- About
We’re building a personalized healthcare service that will change the way people approach their health.
We are trying to create a truly personalised product for each customer. That means delivering tailored insights and advice to each person based on their own health goals — whether that's trying to improve their sleep or live for longer. We’re also building a unique data set that will allow us to learn more than ever about people’s health and predict issues before they occur.
- Industries
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- YC FundedStartup funded by Y Combinator
- Website
- http://permutive.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- New York City, London
- About
At Permutive, we believe companies should be able to make big data actionable by anyone. We make this easy with a single, edge computing platform that’s used by the largest publishers in the world. Our API lets our customers programmatically collect, store, filter and react to any user event in real time; by providing a powerful query layer that means they can personalise every user experience on the fly. Our technology is fundamentally different. Every day we process billions of events across hundreds of millions of users - and we give results in milliseconds. We’ve built the world’s fastest Data Management Platform and the implications are huge.
- Industries
- Publishing
Jobs
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Valuation $1B+This company has a valuation of $1B or more
- Website
- https://motorway.co.uk
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- London
- About
With so many ways to sell your car, it can be overwhelming. At Motorway, we’re focused on building the best way. Our vision is to build a better car market for everyone. In our first 4 years, we've helped over 2.5 million car owners value and sell their car. We've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun.
- Industries
- Cars
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Valuation $500M+This company has a valuation of $500M or more
- Website
- https://form3.tech
- Employees
- 201-500
- About
Headquartered in London, the FinTech capital of the world, Form3 is an end-to-end Payments-As-A-Service Provider on a mission to building the most exciting and successful cloud-native banking technology company on the planet.
Founded in 2016, we now partner with over 25 of the most exciting and disruptive banks and regulated FinTechs in the world. A career at Form3 is much more than just a job. It’s an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind journey.
- Industries
- Startups
Jobs
3 weeks agoRemote only • United States
QuantexaConnecting Data, Empowering decisions across financial services501-1000 EmployeesActively Hiring- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Valuation $1B+This company has a valuation of $1B or more
- Website
- http://www.quantexa.com/
- Employees
- 501-1000
- Locations
- London
- About
Quantexa enables companies and institutions to make better decisions from their data. Quantexa’s technology uses real-time entity resolution with network analytics and AI to knit together vast and disparate data sets and derive actionable intelligence. They are led by a team of experts with a collective experience of over a century in advanced analytics and data focused solutions.
- Industries
Jobs
flatfair is a proptech startup on a mission to become the first digital tenancy mediator11-50 Employees- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- http://www.flatfair.co.uk
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- London
- About
Tenancy deposits are a pain... For a long time, deposits were the only type of rental security that could be trusted. But with over £5.2 billion locked up in deposit schemes and with it taking months to access them when needed, it’s safe to say deposits are slow and outdated. flatfair’s innovative rental solutions means that tenants secure a new home with a small check-in fee instead of paying for a costly deposit, whilst giving landlords up to double the protection of traditional deposits.
Now we’re looking to grow our team as we expand our business into new markets, as well as continuing to innovate our product.
- Industries
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Valuation $500M+This company has a valuation of $500M or more
- Website
- https://www.meetcleo.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, London
- About
Cleo was created to improve your financial health. Already, she’s helped 3 million people improve their relationship to money with simplicity and a sense of humour. She’s not a bank though. She’s an interface for the 99% – an AI assistant defining a new category, one that goes beyond saving up to actually changing how we feel about our finances.
We’re a product for the next generation. That means we’re meeting our users where they are and building the type of relationship they expect. It also means dropping the BS. In 5 years Cleo should be so intelligent, so engaging, that the relationship you have is unlike anything that’s come before.
- Industries
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Valuation $1B+This company has a valuation of $1B or more
- Website
- http://www.marshmallow.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- London
- About
A person without a credit history needs to drive to work. An unemployed person still needs to buy groceries. An expat without a UK driving licence needs to pick their kids up from school. We use technology to make it possible.
From our humble beginnings of offering affordable car insurance to UK newcomers, we’re now growing fast and thinking big. And we’re more determined than ever to take on the industry and change it for the better - for everyone.
- Industries
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- http://www.accurx.com/
- Employees
- 201-500
- Locations
- London
- About
At accuRx, we’re building the first patient-centred communication platform. Our products help doctors, nurses, pharmacists, administrators, carers and anyone else involved in a patient's care to communicate easily with patients and with each other. We believe this will transform how healthcare is delivered, improving patient outcomes, improving staff morale and increasing the efficiency of health systems.
- Industries
- Website
- https://web.convelio.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- New York City, London, Paris
- About
Convelio is a licensed freight forwarding startup evolving at the intersection of Tech, Logistics and the Art World. The startup specialises in the global shipping of high-end goods: paintings, sculptures, basically any valuable or bulky merchandise.
With 150+ colleagues scattered across Paris & London and now New York, Convelio has a strong start-up & international culture. We thrive in solving complex logistics issues for our clients, enabling both sellers and buyers in the art market. We are backed by proven technology, prominent VC’s, and boast a global network and the resources (€9 million Series A funding in Jan. 2020) to seize the market opportunity.
- Industries
- Platforms
ComplyAdvantageWe're fixing anti-money laundering & compliance with smart tech and better data501-1000 EmployeesActively Hiring- Responds within three weeksBased on past data, ComplyAdvantage usually responds to incoming applications within three weeks
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- https://complyadvantage.com/
- Employees
- 501-1000
- Locations
- New York City, Singapore, London, Lisbon, Cluj-Napoca
- About
ComplyAdvantage is helping firms rethink how they combat financial crime and comply with regulations (specifically around Sanctions, AML and CTF). The team is on a personal mission to combat the rising threat of terrorism and fight the negative impact on society of money laundering.
- Industries
- Software Compliance
Jobs
- Website
- https://wagestream.co.uk/
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- London
- About
We help eliminate the payday poverty cycle by giving employees the flexibility to stream their earned wages into their accounts whenever they need or want it. Wagestream was founded with the desire to be a strong cause for social good, in making it possible for workers to gain fast access to accrued earnings. Our aim is to play a key role in reducing the UK poverty premium and prevent employees entering cycles of debt, caused by high interest credit or pay day loans.
We are proud to have a social charter in our articles of association. We are a fast moving and dedicated bunch. We value individuality, honesty, integrity, a go-get attitude, team spirit and a sense of humour.
- Industries
- Social
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- http://www.yapily.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- London
- About
Yapily is fast growing and forward-thinking fintech start up whose ambition is to become the nerve system of the future economy. In an Open Banking world, financial services will be cheaper, faster and bespoke to each individual: we are enabling this revolution.
- Industries
- Developer APIsOpen Data
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Website
- https://vidsy.co/
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- London, New York, Los Angeles County
- About
At the cutting edge of video advertising, Vidsy is strategic partners with Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter while also being awarded Facebook’s Global Innovator for ‘Creativity in Video’.
Vidsy is on a mission to empower a million creators to make a living doing what they love. For more information visit vidsy.co
- Industries
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Website
- http://nested.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- London
- About
Nested is redefining estate agency in the UK. For too long, sellers have been subjected to unresponsive agents and broken processes. With a combination of groundbreaking technology and expert local agents, Nested is fixing the whole moving experience one problem at a time.
We're growing fast as one of the hottest London startups and are headed by experienced founders from two of London's biggest tech success stories.
- Industries
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- YC FundedStartup funded by Y Combinator
- Valuation $1B+This company has a valuation of $1B or more
- 4.1Highly ratedGoCardless is highly rated on Glassdoor, with 4.1 out of 5 stars
- 4.2Work / Life BalanceEmployees rate GoCardless 4.2/5 on Glassdoor for work / life balance
- Website
- https://gocardless.com/
- Employees
- 201-500
- Locations
- London
- About
GoCardless makes it easy to accept recurring payments online. We unify the world’s Direct Debit networks, simplify them, and open up access to everyone. By doing so, we are creating an entirely new type of payment network. Founded in 2011, we have quickly grown into one of Europe’s leading Direct Debit providers, processing over half a billion pounds a year for over ten thousand businesses.
- Industries
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- http://pento.io
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- London, Copenhagen, Remote
- About
We're building a new payroll product for European small/medium sized businesses! A very conservative market with old competitors and products = tons of potential. We are a remote-first team, which means we have no main office and you can work from wherever you want. We're all in on transparency, and a great work culture. We're backed by some of world's best investors such as Point Nine Capital, Seedcamp, and Hustle Fund, and... we're hiring!
- Industries
Build exciting products, with the latest technology used by millions of people every day51-200 Employees- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- YC FundedStartup funded by Y Combinator
- Website
- http://wegift.io
- Employees
- 51-200
- About
Digital incentives are a new way to create value and experiences; replacing gift cards, points, vouchers, rewards and payouts and in many cases, even cash. By combining financial capital with emotional capital, they transform basic transactions into meaningful interactions.
We’re building the core infrastructure for digital incentives to be stored, shared, sent and spent. Without banks, barriers, borders or boundaries. Enabling everybody to participate in the global economy. This is a massive undertaking, so we’re looking for people with big hearts, sharp mind.
- Industries
- Gift Card
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- https://askattest.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- New York City, London
- About
Attest is unique because it's a full stack solution. We give people access to an intuitive survey builder, highly engaged and diverse audiences of 100 million people across 80 countries, and an interactive analytics dashboard, as well as built-in research expertise to guide and upskill our clients. It’s the best of both worlds, in one platform that you can start using immediately, and unlocks entirely new ways of achieving repeatable growth.
- Industries
- B2B · SaaS · Mobile · Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
- Responds within three weeksBased on past data, TrueLayer usually responds to incoming applications within three weeks
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Valuation $1B+This company has a valuation of $1B or more
- Website
- http://truelayer.com
- Employees
- 201-500
- About
At TrueLayer, we build intelligent financial infrastructure that puts fintech at people's fingertips. Businesses use our global network, built on open banking and PSD2, to securely access financial data and enable instant payments.
We’ve grown from a UK leader in 2020, to a global provider in 2021, operating in 12+ countries around the world. The thing is, we're just getting started…
- Industries
- Developer APIs
Jobs
1 month ago£85k – £95kOnsite or remote • London+11 month ago€35k – €40kMilan
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Valuation $500M+This company has a valuation of $500M or more
- Website
- http://yulife.com/
- Employees
- 201-500
- Locations
- London
- About
What makes YuLife special? At YuLife we turn financial products into a force for good and help companies empower their employees to be healthier and happier in mind and body.
We live our values, and have created something pretty unique – a workplace where you are celebrated for everything that you are.
- Industries
- Startups
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