Wayve
A London autonomous-driving company founded in 2017 in Cambridge by Cambridge ML PhDs…
London
is #5 in AI funding.
London sits in the upper half of the AI race — $6.8B of all-time AI capital across 17 orgs.One company — Wayve — is 51% of all AI funding in the London.
LIVE #5 OF 12 HUBS 96% OF UNITED KINGDOM UPDATED 2026-05-08
FUNDING
$6.8B
all-time AI capital raised
#5/ 12 AI ORGS
17
notable AI organisations
#4/ 12 NOTABLE MODELS
2
shipped to date
#7/ 12 OPERATIONAL MW
—
across 1 live DC
Where London sitsall hubs ranked by AI funding
RANK-SPACED · HEIGHT ∝ SQRT(FUNDING) NAVY = LONDON
London 96/100 rest of united kingdom 4/100
London =
96%
of United Kingdom's AI funding tracked.
Total AI funding in United Kingdom: $7.0B.
London: $6.8B.
London: $6.8B.
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF UNITED KINGDOM AI FUNDING
Top 9 of 17 AI orgs tile area ≈ funding
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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
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
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