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London’s tech scene At a glance
Welcome
to London
With average early-stage startup funding almost A unique blend of talent, investment and innovation
double the global average1, London is one of the makes London a world leader in tech.
world’s leading technology hubs. London’s tech
scene: at a glance has been created to help you
navigate this exciting ecosystem and find the best London in numbers:
ways to expand your business in the UK capital.
World-class talent An innovative ecosystem
We’ve pinpointed tech hotspots and Find resources to help you spot 365,000 38
clusters, helping you work out whether opportunities and trends, secure staff and developers - the highest in Europe green companies, which have raised
$10bn combined in London
to set up close to giants such as Google partners, pitch to investors and win new
or Amazon, on the doorstep of potential business. London & Partners wishes you
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investors and clients, or in one of the many the greatest success in this remarkable
universities in the world’s top 40 and 25%
a deep pool of specialist AI and cyber of AI suppliers have at least one female
buzzy accelerators, incubators and low-cost world city. security courses founder, 8% more than the global tech average
collaboration hubs across the city.
Investment opportunities A bright future
“
In London, we have top talent right here on our doorstep.
It’s allowed us to build an interdisciplinary team that’s
£1.8bn
VC funding into tech companies
in 2018, the highest in Europe
12x
the predicted increase in connected
device usage by 2026
doing things no one else can. 36 2020
unicorns call London home - Google’s new UK headquarters opens;
more than Madrid, Stockholm and Amsterdam its first custom-designed building outside
DeepMind put together the US
1 2
Startup Genome Stack Overflow 3 Language Capital, CILT, 2010 4 London & Partners and PitchBook
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Tech Nation 6 Green Finance Initiative 7 Mayor of London 8 Cambridge Consultants
Lee Valley Park
Parliament
Gladstone Hill
Park Hackney
Hackney Marsh
83 82
Islington
Community
A snapshot of technology,
West Ham
Park
Camden Victoria
media and telecommunications 49
Park
Newham
Tower
companies in London.
9 27
Regent’s
25
Park 53 40
94
Hamlets
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100 1 42
10 69 13
48 98 3 105
81 73 12
39
8 20 58 50 76 15
Wormwood
93 32 96 47 106 108 65 33 59
Scrubs
97 70 75
99 56 87 18
66 35
114 24 22 17 14 64 CITY 45
67 30 7 43 54
72 113 2 104 51 71
118 36 95 41 44 110
68 16 78 107 46 80 116 111
91 109 74 88
117 63 19 119
77 103 5 6 90
79 85
23 52
Hyde Park 57 21 101 28
37 60
31
Kensington 61
Gardens
Holland 86 Green
Park Park
84 102
28
89 26 115
29 92
Kensington Southwark
Park
34 62
& Chelsea 11
4
55
Burgess
Park
1 Adobe 17 Capgemini 32 Dropbox 48 GoCardless 112 63 iZettle 79 PayPal 94 Songkick 108 Twilio
2 Adyen 18 ChargePoint 33 DueDil 49 Google 64 Just Eat 80 Pinterest 95 Sony Computer 109 Twitter Greenwich
Kano Southwark Entertainment
Battersea
3 Airbnb 19 China Mobile 34 eBay 50
Park HelloFresh 65 81 Pivotal 110Greenwich
Uber
4 Alcatel-Lucent 20 Cisco 35 EE 51 HCL 66 Kaspersky 82 Plexal 96 Spotify 111 Park
Unruly
5 Alibaba 21 Citymapper 36 Electronic Arts 52 HootSuite 67 King 83 The Pokemon 97 Square 112 Ustwo Games
6 Alipay 22 Criteo 37 eToro 53 Houzz 68 Klarna Company International 98 Stack Overflow 113 Vodafone
Bishop’s
7 Amazon 23 Park
DarkTrace 38 Etsy 54 HP 69 Last.fm 84 Qualcomm 99 Starling Bank 114 Wipro
8 Appcoach 24 Databricks 39 Eventbrite 55 Hutchison Whampoa 70 LinkedIn 85 Revolut 100 Stripe 115 WorldRemit
9 ASOS 25 Decoded 40 Expedia 56 Huawei Global Finance 71 Metail 86 Riot Games 101 Tableau Software 116 WP Engine
10 Atos 26 Deezer 41 Facebook 57 IBM 72 Microsoft 87 Salesforce 102 TATA Consultancy 117 YOOX Net-a-Porter
88 SAP Services Group
11 Babylon Health 27 DeepMind 42 FarFetch 58 ILM (Industrial Light & 73 Monzo
Magic) 89 Shazam 103 Telefónica Digital 118 Zendesk
12 Bossa Studios 28 Digital Shadows 43 FON 74 NTT Europe (Telefónica Innovation)
13 Box 29 Discovery 44 Framestore 59 Improbable 75 Okta 90 Siemens 119 Zomato
104 Theodo
14 BT Communications 45 General Assembly 60 Infosys 76 OpenTable 91 Snap Inc.
105 TransferWise
15 busuu 30 Dolby 46 Gett 61 Intel 77 OYO Rooms 92 Sky
106 TrustPilot
16 BuzzFeed 31 dotmailer 47 Glassdoor 62 Interactive Studios 78 Palantir 93 Slack
107 Twitch UK
Explore Spitalfields
18 Brick Lane Market
Top tip!
Starting at King’s Cross or Stratford, our 19 The Old Truman Brewery E1 6QL
By foot or public transport,
half day tour will take you through some 20 Second Home Spitalfields E1 5JL London is easy to get around.
For more on transport visit
21 General Assembly London E1 7PT
of east London’s tech hotspots. tfl.gov.uk
DLR to Canary Wharf
King’s Cross Shoreditch Canary Wharf
10 The Hoxton EC2A 4DP 22 Level39 One Canada Square E14 5AB Stratford
1 Eurostar terminal EC1R 5EY
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11 Rise London EC2A 4DP DLR to Stratford
2 Kings Place N1 9AG
12 Central Working Shoreditch EC2A 4BX
3 DeepMind N1C 4AG Stratford
13 Campus London, includes TechHub and 23 Here East, includes Plexal, BT Sport, Ford,
4 Digital Catapult NW1 2RA
Seedcamp EC2A 4BX London Cyber Innovation Centre E20 3BS
5 The Francis Crick Institute NW1 1AT
14 IDEALondon EC2A 2BB
45 or 46 bus to Clerkenwell Road
15 Open Data Institute EC2A 4JE
Rosebery Avenue
16 Boxpark E1 6HT
Canary Wharf
17 Tea Building E1 6JJ
King’s Cross
Walk to Spitalfieds
2 Spitalfield’s
Shoreditch 18
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10
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Hungry? 15
Stop by Shoreditch Grind 14
for a quick coffee and a 21
bite to eat.
shoreditchgrind.com
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Useful
contacts Grab a coffee Finding tech talent
London’s thriving tech scene at a glance. More than just a great brew: enjoy one
of the capital’s best coffees and mix with
London offers the best tech talent in
Europe. Find developers skilled in
the tech community. everything from ASP. net to Z/OS, and
specialists in every other discipline.
Talent and innovation Major annual events Allpress Espresso
uk.allpressespresso.com Graduate Talent Pool
graduatetalentpoolsearch.direct.gov.uk
Find partners, clients, funders and new ad:tech London Caravan
ideas at hundreds of tech events and london.ad-tech.com caravanrestaurants.co.uk London Startup Jobs
meet-ups across London. londonstartupjobs.co.uk
Advertising Week Europe Federation Coffee
Campus London europe.advertisingweek.com federation.coffee Propel
campus.co/london/en propellondon.com
Bett Kaffeine
StartupDigest bettshow.com kaffeine.co.uk Silicon Milkroundabout
startupdigest.com/digests/london siliconmilkroundabout.com
Cloud Expo Europe Lantana
Tech Nation cloudexpoeurope.com lantanacafe.co.uk SpecialistsGrid
technation.io specialistsgrid.com
Infosecurity look mum no hands!
TechHub infosecurityeurope.com lookmumnohands.com Stack Overflow
london.techhub.com/events stackoverflow.com/jobs
The Europas MakersCafe
Tech.London events theeuropas.com makerscafe.com Tech City Jobs
tech.london/events techcityuk.com/jobs
London Games Festival Origin Coffee
UK Tech News games.london origincoffee.co.uk Talent Pool
uktech.news/events talentpool.com
London Tech Week Ozone Coffee Roasters
londontechweek.com ozonecoffee.co.uk Talent Toolkit
jobsandtalent.london
NOAH Internet Conference Paper & Cup
noah-conference.com paperandcup.co.uk Unicorn Hunt
unicornhunt.io
PayExpo Prufrock coffee
payexpo.com/europe prufrockcoffee.com Work In Startups
workinstartups.com
Social Media Week Shoreditch Grind
socialmediaweek.org/london grind.co.uk
SVC2UK The Breakfast Club
svc2uk.com thebreakfastclubcafes.com
Wearable Technology Show Workshop Coffee Co.
wearabletechnologyshow.net workshopcoffee.com
Innovation Warehouse Techstars
For entrepreneurs working on high growth, high Global ecosystem for entrepreneurs
impact startup businesses techstars.com/program/locations/london
innovationwarehouse.org
The Bakery
JLAB The world’s first AdTech accelerator
John Lewis technology incubator thebakerylondon.com
jlab.co.uk
The Hoxton Mix
LawTech Eagle Lab in Partnership hoxtonmix.com
with the Law Society
The Trampery
labs.uk.barclays/lawtech
Spaces for entrepreneurship, creativity and
Level39 innovation
Europe’s largest technology accelerator space thetrampery.com
for finance, retail, cyber and future cities
technology companies
level39.co
Accelerators, incubators and MassChallenge
co-working spaces The most startup-friendly accelerator on
the planet
Find big brand mentors, sources of funding and a roadmap to success at these masschallenge.org
accelerators and incubators. Or set up office in some of the coolest co-working Plexal
spaces on the planet. Europe’s largest innovation ecosystem
on the site of London’s Queen Elizabeth
Olympic Park
plexal.com
Abbey Road Red CyLon
Realities Centre
abbeyroad.com/abbeyroadred World-leading cybersecurity accelerator
realitiescentre.com
cylonlab.com
Barclays Accelerator
Rise
FinTech accelerator powered by Techstars Dreamstake Ventures
FinTech community of rising startups and True
barclaysaccelerator.com dreamstakeventures.com
industry leaders Retail and fashion accelerator
Breed Reply Founders Factory thinkrise.com true.global
Funds and supports Internet of Things startups foundersfactory.com
RocketSpace Wayra
reply.com
GCHQ Cyber Accelerator Co-working space for high-growth startups Telefónica’s startup accelerator programme
Campus London Developing the UK’s cybersecurity ecosystem rocketspace.com includes Wayra UnLtd
Google’s space for entrepreneurs through accelerating innovative startups wayra.co.uk
Sport Tech Hub
campuslondon.com wayra.co.uk/gchq
sporttechhub.co.uk White Bear Yard
Central Working IDEALondon Hub for new startup and digital technology and
Startupbootcamp
Your business is more than just a job, this is more UCL and Cisco run Post Accelerator media companies
For global startups
than just an office idea-london.co.uk whitebearyard.com
startupbootcamp.org
centralworking.com
Impact Hub
TechHub
Collider For social entrepreneurship
Spaces around the world for tech entrepreneurs to
Accelerator dedicated to marketing and impacthub.net
meet, work, learn and collaborate
adtech startups
techhub.com
collider.ioUseful resources
City of London London Business Growth Hub
cityoflondon.gov.uk growthhub.london
Coworking London StartUp Britain
coworkinglondon.com startupbritain.org
Creative Entrepreneurs Tech Connect
creativeentrepreneurs.co tech-connect.co
Department for International Trade (DIT) Tech City UK
gov.uk/dit techcityuk.com
Digital Catapult Tech.London
digital.catapult.org.uk tech.london
Digital Marketplace techUK
Co-working space listings News and blogs
digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk techuk.org
AllBright Stay ahead of the digital curve with these Entrepreneur Handbook The Open Data Institute
entrepreneurhandbook.co.uk theodi.org
allbrightcollective.com news updates from around Europe and the
CoWorkingLondon
globe. Innovate Finance ukie
coworkinglondon.com innovatefinance.com ukie.org.uk
Business Insider UK
uk.businessinsider.com Innovate UK
Fora
foraspace.com innovateuk.org
Growth Business
growthbusiness.co.uk
Hubble
Easy online marketplace for finding office startups
space in London startups.co.uk
hubblehq.com
Tech.eu
Huckletree tech.eu/newsletter
huckletree.com
UKTN
Launch22 uktech.news
launch22.co.uk
Second Home
Workplace for entrepreneurs and creative
businesses to come together
Growth
secondhome.io
London & Partners’ Business Growth
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sohoworks.com
programme helps London SMEs to
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strategic solutions including mentoring,
Provider of shared workspace, community,
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wework.com opportunities across our London network.
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