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Top Cybersecurity Startups in the UK 2026

Private cybersecurity companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, ranked by disclosed lifetime funding, with links to company profiles and funding histories.

Known total funding for 72 of 100 ranked companies: $2.4B.

Showing top 100 matching companies · Ranked by total funding raised · Last updated

Methodology: up to 100 active companies matching this list's filters are ordered by disclosed total funding in USD. Companies whose latest round is one of: Grant, Private Equity, Debt Financing are excluded. Totals include recorded grants and other qualifying funding, not just equity. Open a company profile for its funding summary and available detail. How this data is built.

26
Unitary AI

AI-powered video content moderation platform using visual, audio, and text signals to detect harm...

London, United Kingdom11–50Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity
Series ATotal funding$24.6MOct 2023
27
Living Optics

Revealing the invisible with hyperspectral vision

Abingdon, United Kingdom11–50Agtech, Artificial Intelligence
Series ATotal funding$20.0M
28
Metomic

Helping modern businesses detect, classify and secure their AI and SaaS data

London, United Kingdom11–50Cybersecurity, SaaS
Series ATotal funding$20.0MFeb 2023
29
Device Authority

IoT identity management

Reading, United Kingdom11–50Cybersecurity
Series ATotal funding$19.9MJan 2024
30
Lunio

Invalid traffic prevention

Manchester, United Kingdom51–200Cybersecurity, SaaS
Venture RoundTotal funding$17.7MJul 2024
31
Sitehop

Sitehop is a UK-based cybersecurity company delivering FPGA-powered, quantum-ready encryption wit...

United Kingdom11–50Cybersecurity
Series ATotal funding$17.0MOct 2025
32
42Crunch

API security platform with design-time audit and runtime protection.

London, United Kingdom51–200Cybersecurity, Developer Tools
Series ATotal funding$17.0MMay 2021
33
Five ID

Palm-based biometric payment technology

London, United Kingdom1–10Cybersecurity, Fintech
SeedTotal funding$16.5MMay 2026
34
Hazy

Hazy was a synthetic data company enabling GDPR-compliant enterprise data sharing; acquired by SA...

London, United Kingdom11–50Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity
Series ATotal funding$14.9MMar 2023
35
Corrosion Radar

Corrosion monitoring using radar waveguides

Cambridge, United Kingdom11–50Cybersecurity
Series BTotal funding$12.8MJul 2024
36
IDlayr

Digital identity enablement

London, United Kingdom11–50Cybersecurity, Fintech
SeedTotal funding$12.0MFeb 2021
37
Post-Quantum

Post-Quantum is a UK-based company specialising in secure communications, authentication, encrypt...

London, United Kingdom11–50Infrastructure, Cybersecurity
Venture RoundTotal funding$11.2M
38
Cerbos

Open-source authorization layer and policy platform that externalizes access control for applicat...

London, United Kingdom1–10Cybersecurity, Developer Tools
SeedTotal funding$11.0MApr 2023
39
Soveren

Sensitive data observability and protection platform for Kubernetes-based application environment...

London, United Kingdom11–50Cloud, Cybersecurity
SeedTotal funding$10.1MFeb 2023
40
CultureAI

CultureAI helps security teams govern employee AI use through visibility, contextual controls and...

London, United Kingdom11–50Cybersecurity
Series ATotal funding$10.0MJul 2024
41
Outthink

Cybersecurity human risk management platform using AI to deliver adaptive security awareness trai...

London, United Kingdom51–200Cybersecurity, SaaS
SeedTotal funding$10.0MOct 2022
42
Droplet Computing

London-based cybersecurity company whose Droplet NeverTrust platform isolates applications so com...

London, United KingdomCybersecurity
SeedTotal funding$7.0M
43
Fortify AI

Autonomous fraud system for integrated risk operations

Cambridge, United Kingdom11–50Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity
SeedTotal funding$6.9MJun 2025
44
Simudyne

Artificially Intelligent Simulations for Financial Institutions.

London, United Kingdom11–50Cybersecurity, Data & Analytics
Series ATotal funding$6.0MApr 2019
45
Cyb3r Operations

B2B SaaS for collecting and sharing dark web cyber threat data.

London, United KingdomCybersecurity, SaaS
SeedTotal funding$5.5MJan 2026
46
Asset Reality

The world's first end-to-end solution for investigating, recovering, managing & selling seized cr...

London, United Kingdom11–50Crypto & Web3, Fintech
SeedTotal funding$4.9MJan 2023
47
Instil

Software engineering consultancy specializing in software engineering, AI & data, and cyber secur...

Belfast, United KingdomArtificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity
SeedTotal funding$4.8MApr 2021
48
innerworks.me

Innerworks is a B2B2C SaaS company helping businesses leverage their customers behavioral data, w...

London, United Kingdom1–10Retail, Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$4.0MAug 2025
49
Ohalo

Developer of an online data compliance platform designed to facilitate secured and automated data...

London, United Kingdom11–50Cybersecurity, Developer Tools
Series ATotal funding$3.5MJun 2024
50
Cyscale

Agentless CNAPP platform combining cloud posture management, vulnerability management, compliance...

London, United Kingdom11–50Cybersecurity
SeedTotal funding$3.2MMay 2022