London Deep Tech is the strongest it has ever been. Here are the companies to join in the space.
1. Fractile — $220M Series B (May 2026; Accel, Founders Fund, Factorial); in-memory AI inference chips for
cheaper, faster inference.
2. Humanoid — $152M Series A (Jul 2026; Prime Movers Lab, Bosch, Schaeffler) at $1.35bn; industrial
humanoid and wheeled robots.
3. Quantum Motion — $160M Series C (May 2026; DCVC, Kembara); silicon-CMOS spin-qubit quantum
computers on standard chip fabrication.
4. Isomorphic Labs — $2.1bn Series B (2026, led by Thrive) after $600M (Mar 2025); AI drug-design engine
5. PhysicsX — $300m Series C for its AI-native engineering simulation.
6. Orbital Materials — $50M Series B (May 2026); AI-driven discovery of new materials for
datacentres and carbon capture.
7. Dexory — $80M Series B (2025, led by DTCP); autonomous warehouse robots plus an AI inventory
"digital twin".
8. Gaussion — €24.5M (~$28M) (Jun 2026; AlbionVC, UCL Technology Fund) after a $12M Series A;
magnetics that speed up battery charging.
9. Salience Labs — $30M Series A (2025); photonic switches for all-optical AI-datacentre networking.
10. Phasecraft — $34M Series B (Sep 2025; Plural, Playground Global, Novo Holdings); quantum
algorithms for near-term hardware.
11. Solena Materials — $6.7M seed (May 2025; Sir David Harding, Insempra); AI-designed proteinbased high-performance fibres.
12. Wave Photonics — pre-Series A (Jul 2025; Foresight, Parkwalk); design tools/components for
integrated photonics.
13. Oriole Networks — $22M Series A (Jan 2025); UCL spin-out building all-optical networking for AI
datacentres.
14. DEScycle — €12.2M Series A (Nov 2024; BGF, Vorwerk); deep-eutectic-solvent chemistry for ewaste metal recycling.15. Vaire Computing — $4M seed (2024); reversible, near-zero-energy computing chips for postMoore efficiency.
