The 50 UK B2B tech startups to watch
Founders of UK business technology companies started in 2019 or later, chosen by the VETTDD editorial team from funding announcements, company results and Companies House filings, September 2026.
Eamon Jubbawy
Founder and CEO, Isometric
Isometric raised a $40m (£30m) Series A led by AVP in June 2026, extended to $50m (£37.5m) in September when Intercontinental Exchange joined. Jubbawy’s London company uses AI agents to check the data behind industrial climate claims, and says it has been contracted to certify more than 16 million tonnes of carbon removal for buyers including Microsoft and JPMorganChase. For UK companies buying removals or low-carbon materials, it offers audit-ready verification in hours rather than months.
Ben Freeman
Co-founder and CEO, Omnea
Omnea topped the Startups 100 index in January 2026 and joined Tech Nation’s Future Fifty in March, after a $50m (£37.5m) Series B that followed fivefold revenue growth. Pulse 2.0 reported in August that revenue had tripled again. Freeman’s London-built platform runs supplier intake, approvals and risk checks for Spotify, Monzo and Wise, and now takes purchase requests from AI assistants. For UK finance teams still managing suppliers by email and spreadsheet, it is a working alternative.
Stephen Whitworth
Co-founder and CEO, incident.io
Whitworth’s incident.io has been investing heavily in AI SRE, which investigates live outages and proposes fixes, and in July 2026 launched a program to migrate customers off Atlassian’s Opsgenie before it shuts in April 2027. Its $62m Series B in 2025 came with more than 600 customers, including Netflix and OpenAI. It gives UK engineering and IT operations teams a London-built alternative to PagerDuty at the moment many are forced to switch.
Vroon Modgill
Founder and CEO, Sokin
Sokin reported $45m (£34m) of audited net revenue for 2025 and a $90m (£67m) run-rate by mid-2026, growing more than 100% a year. Modgill raised a $50m (£37.5m) Series B at a $300m (£225m) valuation in December 2025 and a $100m (£75m) debt facility in January, and in September launched a connector that lets AI assistants prepare payments. For UK exporters and importers, it offers accounts, foreign exchange and payments in more than 70 currencies on one platform.
Quentin Scrimshire
Co-founder and CEO, Modo Energy
Modo Energy raised a £25m Series B led by Molten Ventures in December 2025 and a further $17m (£12.7m) from CIBC Innovation Banking in July 2026, $52m (£39m) in six months. Scrimshire’s London company provides benchmarks, forecasts and valuations for battery storage, renewables and data center loads, now across 15 energy markets, and is building Ko, an AI analyst. For UK investors and operators financing grid assets, it offers an independent view of what those assets should earn.
Steffen Wulff Petersen
Co-founder and CEO, Sona
Sona raised a $45m (£34m) Series B led by N47 in April 2026, taking its total funding past $100m (£75m). Petersen’s London company combines AI demand forecasting, scheduling, HR and payroll for shift-based employers in hospitality, retail, care and logistics, and is expanding in the US from New York. For UK frontline operators still running rotas and payroll on separate legacy tools, it offers one system that links staffing to demand and lets large customers build their own workflows on top.
Riya Grover
Co-founder and CEO, Sequence
Sequence raised a $20m (£15m) Series A led by 645 Ventures, with a16z, in December 2025, after 10x growth in annual recurring revenue that year. Grover’s London company automates billing, invoicing, collections and revenue recognition for B2B finance teams, with customers including Cognition, Legora and MoonPay, and in 2026 it added AI automations and hosted a finance conference in New York. For UK software companies moving to usage-based pricing, it takes manual invoicing out of the path to cash.
Ben Towers
Co-founder and CEO, Happl
Towers’s Happl raised an $11m (£8.1m) Series A led by Portage Ventures in May 2026 to expand its global employee benefits platform, which it says operates in more than 160 countries for customers including Moelis, Kainos and Hootsuite. The London company replaces country-by-country benefits administration with one system linked to HR and payroll software. For UK employers with staff overseas, it offers a way to cut the manual work and compliance risk of running benefits in many markets.
Sadra Hosseini
Co-founder and CEO, Ryft
Ryft closed a £20m Series B led by Gresham House Ventures in September 2026, which it described as the UK’s largest payments Series B of the year. Hosseini’s Manchester company says its processing volume tripled over the past year and more than 6,500 businesses now use it for split payments, seller onboarding and payouts. For UK platforms and marketplaces, it offers regulated multi-party payments infrastructure built outside London, and it has applied for an EU license to expand.
Franziska Kirschner
Co-founder and CEO, Intropy
Intropy raised an $11m (£8.2m) seed round led by Felix Capital in July 2026 and is opening a New York office. Kirschner’s London company connects to parts businesses’ ERP systems and makes inventory, pricing and obsolescence decisions automatically, and says it has processed more than $10bn (£7.5bn) of parts demand. For UK distributors, manufacturers and vehicle recyclers managing vast parts catalogs, it replaces periodic manual reviews with decisions that update as market conditions change.
Michelle You
Co-founder and CEO, Supercritical
Supercritical raised new funding led by Greencode Ventures in May 2026 to move into carbon removal project development. You’s London company has facilitated nearly 2 million tonnes of removals for more than 200 corporate buyers, including a 10-year, 1 million-tonne biochar offtake, and its vetting rejects 88% of the projects it assesses. For UK companies with net zero targets, it offers a vetted, audit-ready route into a market where supplier quality varies widely.
Rachel Curtis
Founder and CEO, Inicio AI
Curtis’s Inicio AI announced seven new clients in 2026, among them BNP Paribas Personal Finance, Tandem Bank, Evlo and High Court Enforcement Group, and won two Credit Strategy Credit Awards in June. Its conversational AI guides people in debt through the income and expenditure assessments that lenders and collectors use to set repayment plans. For UK banks, lenders and utilities, it offers an FCA-authorized alternative to long forms and rushed phone calls at the point where affordability decisions are made.
Yann Sarfati
Co-founder and CEO, Userled
Sarfati’s Userled climbed from 44th to 11th in the Startups 100 for 2026 and in the first half of the year shipped AI agents that build account-based marketing campaigns from a brief, along with contact-level LinkedIn personalization and an MCP server. Customers include Datadog, Canva and Stripe. For UK B2B technology vendors and their channel partners, it brings personalized campaigns within reach of small marketing teams that could previously target only a handful of accounts.
Ian Monk
Co-founder and CEO, Spotted Zebra
Monk’s Spotted Zebra launched AI Interview Agent in March 2026, running live two-way screening conversations with every applicant and scoring them against skills profiles the company says draw on almost a million assessments. Clients include Walt Disney, Virgin Media O2 and Paramount, and the company was named 25th in the Startups 100 for 2026. For UK employers handling high application volumes, it offers a consistent and auditable way to screen on skills rather than CVs as hiring AI comes under regulation.
Evangeline Atkinson
Co-founder and CEO, Noggin HQ
In August 2026 Noggin HQ received FCA authorization as a credit reference agency, which it says makes it one of a handful licensed in the UK in 10 years, and closed an oversubscribed £2.3m seed round led by Blackfinch Ventures. Atkinson’s Newcastle company uses permissioned bank transaction data to help lenders identify creditworthy people that traditional credit files miss. For UK lenders, it adds a regulated, cashflow-based data source that may widen approvals without loosening risk standards.