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Top 25 Social enterprises investors based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 238 social enterprises investors headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,453 professional contacts across them, including 882 with verified work emails and 169 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.
This list covers social enterprises investors 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 6, 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 social enterprises investors based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
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| 1 | Partial evidence | 288 contacts → | |||
“We encourage you to follow Simon Rogerson, Founder & CEO of Octopus Group: We’re entrepreneurs and we’re investors, on a mission to back the people, ideas and industries that will…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Indirect evidence | 119 contacts → | |||
“UnLtd's mission is to reach out and unleash the energies of people who can transform the world in which they live.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Strong evidence | 116 contacts → | |||
“Better Society Capital is the UK’s leading social impact investor.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Partial evidence | 96 contacts → | |||
“Octopus Ventures, part of Octopus Group, is one of the largest and most active venture capital investors in the UK and Europe.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Strong evidence | 87 contacts → | |||
“Bridges for Enterprise (BfE) empowers early-stage social entrepreneurs to scale their ventures and expand their impact.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Partial evidence | 84 contacts → | |||
“We finance social change.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Partial evidence | 73 contacts → | |||
“Bridges is a specialist private markets investor.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Strong evidence | 50 contacts → | |||
“We are the UK’s strong voice for social enterprise, offering membership and network building for businesses with a social or environmental purpose.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Strong evidence | 49 contacts → | |||
“Social Investment Scotland (SIS) is a charity and social enterprise that provides loans to other charities, social enterprises and community groups across Scotland.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Indirect evidence | 46 contacts → | |||
“Big Issue Invest is the investment arm of the Big Issue Group, founded by visionary impact entrepreneurs John Bird and Nigel Kershaw.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Indirect evidence | 45 contacts → | |||
“More than two decades ago, Alfanar pioneered a new way of investing in the Arab region.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Strong evidence | 43 contacts → | |||
“We select the highest-potential small charities and social enterprises.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Indirect evidence | 41 contacts → | |||
“The Global Innovation Fund finds and funds innovations with the potential to transform the lives of people living in low-and middle-income countries.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Indirect evidence | 40 contacts → | |||
“Oxygen House focuses on impact investment in data analytics, education, sustainable property development, renewable energy, and city planning, leveraging patient capital for a…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Partial evidence | 38 contacts → | |||
“The Business Enterprise Fund (BEF) champions small and medium-sized (SME) businesses across the North by unlocking access to flexible finance to help them begin, expand, and…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Strong evidence | 37 contacts → | |||
“Firstport is Scotland’s development agency for start-up social entrepreneurs and social enterprise.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Partial evidence | 34 contacts → | |||
“Growing enterprise in communities.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Indirect evidence | 32 contacts → | |||
“Bethnal Green Ventures is Europe’s leading early-stage tech for good VC.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Indirect evidence | 29 contacts → | |||
“Founded in 2005, ETF Partners (The Environmental Technologies Fund) stands as Europe's original venture capital firm dedicated to sustainability and impact investing.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Indirect evidence | 28 contacts → | |||
“We support a range of organisations whose core purpose is to transform lives, communities and the environment.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Strong evidence | 28 contacts → | |||
“Singlify is a new social enterprise born out of the belief that technology will play a critical role in increasing the impact of social sector organisations on society.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Indirect evidence | 28 contacts → | |||
“InVance Capital is home to one of the fastest growing communities of prominent founders (current/exited), business leaders and VC enthusiasts investing in exceptional companies…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Strong evidence | 23 contacts → | |||
“Lendology is a B Corp, social enterprise SME lender based in Taunton, Somerset.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Indirect evidence | 22 contacts → | |||
“Advance Global Capital is a global impact investment management company.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Indirect evidence | 21 contacts → | |||
“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: company website · checked Sep 6, 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: social enterprises investors. 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 social enterprises investors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of social enterprises investors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name social enterprises investors. 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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Social enterprises investors based in the United Kingdom at a glance
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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 social enterprises investors, 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 “social enterprises investors”. 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 social enterprises investors), 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 social enterprises investors, 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, 882 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 6, 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.
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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 social enterprises investors, 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 social enterprises investors are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 238 social enterprises investors 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?
Octopus, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most social enterprises investors?
London leads with 129 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (10) and Edinburgh (6).
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 882 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 238 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 6, 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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