Top Tech Startups in United Kingdom in 2026

GAOTek Inc. is a leading US based supplier of test and measurement equipment for fiber optic, telecommunications, networks, PSTN, CATV, environment, chemical and bio-medical test and measurement instruments.

Product: Workforce Management System Type: Enterprise SaaS, fintech Target buyers: SMEs and enterprises

Instill AI is on a mission to make AI highly accessible to everyone. We build tools to streamline the process of distilling the value of unstructured visual data across all stakeholders in the modern data stack, to ultimately benefit all size organisations.

Robots are transforming the way we work. Machines in nearly every industry are smart, working autonomously, and creating huge opportunities for productivity. But these advancements also come with risks, especially when robots and people work together in unpredictable environments. If a security breach, an emergency, or even human error causes an autonomous system to fail, the effects could be catastrophic. FORT Robotics guards against those risks with a safety and security platform built specifically for smart machines. Our solutions help builders and users of robotic systems to accelerate development, mitigate threats, and stay in control. We believe that increased productivity should never come at the cost of human safety.

Our first product is an automated hair braider that reduces appointment times from hours to minutes, empowering stylists to triple their business and addressing the 8 billion hours spent braiding hair each year.

Siena AI is a developer of an autonomous chat platform that aims to transform the way it runs and interacts with consumers by combining human empathy and intelligent automation. The platform provides capabilities such as product information, order tracking, address changes, returns and product exchanges, subscription and retention management, allowing firms to conduct customer care and social media interactions autonomously.

i-Genie is the most exciting, emerging technology platform in the consumer insights industry, upending the multi-billion dollar consumer survey industry with modern AI and NLP techniques that gather rich data from the billions of Google Searches, social media and video posts, and product reviews online. Founded by consumer insight industry experts, we are already working with multiple blue-chip clients. i-Genie is a growing team of the most accomplished technologists and business minds in the retail and consumer insights industry and is growing rapidly with sales, engineering, data and marketing roles.

We're an early stage security startup founded by 2 experienced technical leaders from Tessian (former Head of Eng and former Lead Architect). Our product helps security teams quickly and accurately detect intrusions in their cloud environment using canaries. We're Series A stage and about to ramp up the company from 24 to 32.

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Midas is a platform for composable onchain investment products. It enables strategy managers to turn institutional strategies into compliant tokens that offer investors full transparency, instant redemptions, and native composability across DeFi protocols such as Morpho and Pendle. Midas products are compliant financial instruments that are issued with clearly defined investor rights, onchain transparency, and robust operational controls. Each product’s underlying investment strategy is managed and monitored by appointed strategy managers, such as BlackRock, Hyperithm and M1 Capital, with ongoing oversight of risk parameters and performance. Founded in 2024 by Dennis Dinkelmeyer (formerly Goldman Sachs), Fabrice Grinda (FJ Labs), and Romain Bourgois (formerly Ondo Finance), Midas is backed by leading investors including RRE, Creandum, Framework Ventures, HV Capital, Ledger Cathay and Coinbase Ventures. To date, Midas has powered over $1.7B in asset issuance and paid out $37M in yield.