Wayve
A London autonomous-driving company founded in 2017 in Cambridge by Cambridge ML PhDs…
United Kingdom
is #4 in AI funding.
United Kingdom sits in the top decile of the AI race — $7.0B of all-time AI capital across 19 orgs.AI investment in the UK has gone quiet — $7.0B raised all-time, but nothing new in the past year while US AI startups raised $208.8B in the same period.
LIVE #4 OF 40 COUNTRIES 2% OF WORLD UPDATED 2026-05-08
FUNDING
$7.0B
all-time AI capital raised
#4/ 40 AI ORGS
19
notable AI organisations
#3/ 40 NOTABLE MODELS
2
shipped to date
#5/ 40 OPERATIONAL MW
—
across 2 live DCs
Where United Kingdom sitsall countries ranked by AI funding
RANK-SPACED · HEIGHT ∝ SQRT(FUNDING) NAVY = UNITED KINGDOM
United Kingdom 2/100 rest of world 98/100
United Kingdom =
2%
of world AI funding tracked.
Total AI funding worldwide: $407.8B across 40 countries.
United Kingdom: $7.0B · rank #4 of 40countries.
United Kingdom: $7.0B · rank #4 of 40countries.
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
Top 9 of 19 AI orgs tile area ≈ funding
see all 19 orgs
ORG LATEST FUNDING
Feb 2026
$3.5B
Nscale
Sep 2025
$1.1B
ElevenLabs
A London voice-AI lab founded in 2022 by Polish high-school friends Mati Staniszewski…
Feb 2026
$781M
Isomorphic Labs
A London-based AI drug-discovery company spun out of DeepMind in 2021 as an Alphabet…
Mar 2025
$600M
Synthesia
A London AI video platform founded in 2017 by Victor Riparbelli, Steffen Tjerrild, and…
Jan 2026
$530M
Stability AI
A London-based generative AI company founded in 2019 by Emad Mostaque, best known for…
Jun 2024
$225M
PolyAI
A London-based enterprise voice AI company founded in 2017 by Nikola Mrkšić, Tsung-Hsien…
$200M
Granola
A London-based AI notetaker founded in March 2023 by Chris Pedregal (ex-Google, Socratic…
Mar 2026
$192M
T
Tractable
Jul 2023
$185M
Xelix
A London-based fintech company founded in 2018 specializing in agentic AI for accounts…
$185M
PhysicsX
A London-based AI engineering company founded in 2019.
$170M
CuspAI
A Cambridge, UK materials-discovery lab founded in 2024 by Chad Edwards (ex-Quantinuum)…
Sep 2025
$130M
Riverlane
A Cambridge, UK-based quantum computing company founded in 2016 by Steve Brierley as a…
Aug 2024
$125M
T
Tessl
Nov 2024
$125M
Humanoid
A London humanoid-robotics startup founded in 2024 by Artem Sokolov, with offices in…
$50M
L
Latent Labs
Feb 2025
$50M
Ankar
A London IP-software startup founded in 2024 by ex-Palantir operators Tamar Gomez and…
Dec 2025
$24M
Procure AI
A European procurement-automation company building an AI-native platform with 40+ agents…
Nov 2025
$13M
Anam
A London-based digital-humans startup founded in 2024 by Synthesia alumni Caoimhe Murphy…
Jul 2025
$11M
CLICK TILE → ORG PROFILE NAVY TILE = #1 IN UNITED KINGDOM
4 datacenters 50 MW planned
operational planned total: 50 MW
FACILITY POWER STATUS
CoreWeave Crawley (Digital Realty LHR15)
Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom
—
operational
CoreWeave London Docklands (Global Switch)
East India Dock, London Docklands, United Kingdom
—
operational
Nscale Loughton AI Campus
Loughton, Essex, United Kingdom
50 MW
planned
Stargate UK (Cobalt Park, North Tyneside)
Cobalt Business Park, North Tyneside, Newcastle, United Kingdom
—
planned
BAR HEIGHT ∝ MW · SORTED LIVE-FIRST, THEN POWER 2 LIVE / 4 TOTAL
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