List of Venture Capital firms in London

Below is a list of venture capital firms operating in Europe. These are companies that mainly focus on IT, media and consumer Internet; some also cover healthcare. Note that the companies in the list below only includes some of the most active and largest venture capital firms, as there are hundreds and possibly thousands of venture capital firms in the UK alone, the majority focusing on very small investments.

Accel (www.accel.com) - global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage. Invested in Facebook, Macromedia, Walmart.com. The firm is based in Palo Alto, California with major offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London, and Shanghai

Advent Ventures (www.adventventures.com) - Advent Venture Partners is one of Europe's most successful growth and venture capital investors in market-leading tech and life sciences businesses. Based in London, it invested in video website Dailymotion

Allegro Capital (www.allegro-capital.com) - London-based $50M fund focused on seed  
and early-stage investments in the fashion and retail space (brands +  technologies)

Amadeus Capital Partners (www.amadeuscapital.com) - Based in Cambridge and London, they invest across the technology spectrum in industries that include communications and networking hardware and software, media, e-commerce, computer hardware and software, plus the medtech and cleantech sectors

Arts Alliance (www.artsalliance.co.uk) - invests in high growth companies in Europe with a particular focus on technology-enabled services. Key areas of interest include media & entertainment, mobile services, retail & logistics, marketing services, outsourcing and energy

Atomico (www.atomico.com) - Atomico is a London-headquartered venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Niklas Zennström, a co-founder of Skype, and invests in innovative technology companies.

Balderton Capital (www.balderton.com) - leading venture investor in the EU. They invest early stage and have nearly $2 billion of committed capital

Dawn Capital (www.dawncapital.co.uk) - early stage technology and IT businesses investor. Invested in advertising.com and Virgin Media.

DN Capital (www.dncapital.com) - London based, focused on digital media and software.

EC1 Capital (www.ec1capital.com) - London based early stage tech VC

Eden Ventures (www.edenventures.co.uk) - London and Bath based, seed investors in technology and IT businesses

Fidelity Growth Equity Partners (www.fidelitygrowthpartners.eu) - London-based venture capital arm of asset manager

Index Ventures (www.indexventures.com) - Well established VC fund based in London, Geneva and Silicon Valley, investing in Life Sciences and Information Technology. Famous for investments in Skype, Lovefilm, Betfair and MySQL.

Frog Capital (www.frogcapital.com) - Frog Capital is a London-based investment management business specialising in early and growth stage venture capital and private equity investments

MMC Ventures (www.mmcventures.com) - MMC are a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high growth, UK companies

Passion Capital (www.passioncapital.com) - Partnership of entrepreneurs and operators who are applying their experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies

Piton Capital (www.pitoncap.com) - Piton Capital is a London based venture capital firm investing in online marketplaces, exchanges and social networks. They invest between €100k to €1m at the early growth stage.

Scottish Equity Partners (www.sep.co.uk) - London and Glasgow based, it is one of Europe's leading growth equity and venture capital firms investing in sectors such as IT, energy and healthcare

Spark Ventures (www.sparkventures.com) - SPARK Ventures is a European early stage venture capital company making investments in early stage European (mainly UK) TMT and healthcare businesses

Wellington Partners (www.wellington-partners.com) - Based on London, Zurich, Munich and Silicon Valley, the firm invests in Digital Media, Cleantech, Electronics and healthcare