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Top 25 Black-owned venture capital firms based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 137 black-owned venture capital firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 1,311 professional contacts across them, including 389 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers black-owned venture capital firms headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest black-owned venture capital firms based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Index Ventures partners with exceptional entrepreneurs – those with unique insight who are intrinsically driven to make their vision a reality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Newton Venture Program provides venture capital training and development for aspiring investors, practising investors, and others in the venture space.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world’s leading companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Helios is an Africa-focused private investment firm led by a predominantly African team, managing funds totalling $3.0 billion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're building a vibrant community of game-changers, community builders and passionate entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Northzone is a technology investment partnership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We've seeded impactful founders since at places like Citymapper, Improbable, Lovefilm, Moo, Wise and Zoopla.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ascension is an early-stage venture capital firm built and managed by exited operators and entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bethnal Green Ventures is Europe’s leading early-stage tech for good VC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2013 and managed by Pembroke Investment Managers LLP, Pembroke VCT plc backs growth-stage companies across the consumer, business services, and technology sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We invest in exceptional founders and support them with capital, strategic guidance, and access to a global network.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empowering Founders to Flourish The way we experience healthcare, live consciously, work productively, shop experientially and grow our wealth is transforming at rapid pace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Do it Now Now is a non-profit, open innovation organisation driven by the desire to bring social empowerment to Black communities, historically excluded from mainstream systems of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Passion Capital is a founder-first European venture capital firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lifted Ventures exists to increase the flow of early stage capital to female founders and the business benefits of backing women.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “TLCOM is an Africa-focused venture capital firm with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an early-stage diversity VC fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Fearless Adventures, shaping a future where fearless entrepreneurship can thrive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Black Valley, we work with start-up ventures and enterprise clients to transform how and who is empowered to build technology products and services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a double bottom line venture capital company, founded to support underrepresented entrepreneurs across Europe particularly the Afro-Caribbean diaspora.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lexham invests in companies that will shape tomorrow’s world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We target high-growth opportunities, supporting start-ups and early-stage businesses, aligning with investor interests, and unleashing entrepreneurship.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Esya.VC invests in great companies, funding at pre-seed, seed and beyond as well as co-founding to scale early stage start ups or build new ventures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Kindred we align our ambitions and achievements with our portfolio - in structure and in spirit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We identify markets where we look to make a meaningful and positive difference.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: black-owned venture capital firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names black-owned venture capital firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of black-owned venture capital firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name black-owned venture capital firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Black-owned venture capital firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 137 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among black-owned venture capital firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “black-owned venture capital firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names black-owned venture capital firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among black-owned venture capital firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 389 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names black-owned venture capital firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many black-owned venture capital firms are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 137 black-owned venture capital firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Index Ventures, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most black-owned venture capital firms?
London leads with 98 headquartered companies, followed by Birmingham (6) and Egham (2).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 389 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 137 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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