The London Underground of High-Growth Companies

12 Aug 2021 Hannah Skingle

London is at the centre of the UK’s flourishing high-growth ecosystem, with just over 1 in 3 ambitious businesses calling the Capital home.

Here at Beauhurst, we never tire of bar charts and line graphs. But, in the spirit of shaking things up a bit, we’ve created a brand new visual of the city’s top startups and scaleups, by mapping some of London’s best-funded companies onto each tube stop in Zone 1.

If you’re on a desktop device, simply hover over each company name to see the total amount of funding it’s received, its sector of operation, and the corresponding station. See the table below for the details in full.

Improbable

Monzo

Secret Escapes

Bought By Many

OneTrust

Hopin

Starling Bank

SaltPay

Moneyfarm

Rapyd

Capital on Tap

Privitar

WorldRemit

10x Banking

Babylon

OakNorth Bank

SumUp

PaymentSense

Howden Group Holdings

Sonovate

Lyst

Topia

DICE

Form3

Cera

FintechOS

deltaDOT

Cazoo

Soldo

Ten Group

Divido

Moonbug

Zopa

Lumeon

Quantexa

Moneybox

GYMBOX

Zenobe

Element

Zilch

Green Hedge

Voltaware

BLANC

Cromwell Place

Rogue City Hotel Group

Inspired

Estover Energy

Prodigy Finance

The Ink Factory

CloudSense

IOVOX

what3words

V-Nova

Smart

Founders Factory

Curve

Pulmocide

PPRO Group

Flexion Energy

PaySend

Gryphon Group

Pocket Living

Tandem

Station	Company name	Funds raised	Sector
Aldgate East	Improbable	£461m	Video games
Barbican	Secret Escapes	£247m	Consumer travel
Farringdon	Bought By Many	£357m	Insurtech
Old Street	OneTrust	£699m	Digital security
Liverpool Street	Monzo	£494m	Fintech
Moorgate	Hopin	£743m	Virtual events
St Paul's	Starling Bank	£585m	Fintech
Aldgate	Howden Group Holdings	£805m	Insurance
Tower Hill	Form3	£39.1m	Fintech
Bank	Lyst	£121m	Social shopping
Cannon Street	Cera	£100m	eHealth
Mansion House	SaltPay	£358m	Fintech
Monument	Sonovate	£144m	Fintech
Blackfriars	Topia	£93.2m	Business travel
Angel	DICE	£66.9m	M-commerce
Kings Cross St. Pancras	Moneyfarm	£89.0m	Fintech
Great Portland Street	Divido	£38.6m	Fintech
Baker Street	FintechOS	£55.6m	Fintech
Edgware Road	Rapyd	£563m	Fintech
Euston	deltaDOT	£81.8m	Life sciences
Euston Square	Cazoo	£445m	Automotive
Marylebone	Soldo	£192m	Fintech
Regents Park	Ten Group	£79.9m	Fintech
Warren Street	Moonbug	£207m	TV
Borough	Zopa	£296m	Fintech
Lambeth North	Lumeon	£58.0m	eHealth
London Bridge	Capital on Tap	£164m	Fintech
Southwark	Privitar	£122m	Digital security
Waterloo	Quantexa	£182m	Digital security
Waterloo East	Moneybox	£54.5m	Fintech
Elephant and Castle	GYMBOX	£52.4m	Gyms
Westminster	Zenobe	£228m	Cleantech
Victoria	Element	£270m	Materials tech
St. James's Park	WorldRemit	£314m	Fintech
Pimlico	10x Banking	£223m	Fintech
Sloane Square	Zilch Technology	£170m	Fintech
Hyde Park Corner	Babylon	£518m	eHealth
Knightsbridge	Green Hedge	£30.0m	Green energy
Earls Court	Voltaware	£4.48m	Internet of things
Gloucester Road	BLANC	£4.89m	Personal services
South Kensington	Cromwell Place	£6.18m	Galleries
Vauxhall	Rogue City Hotel Group	£21.0m	Hotels
Marble Arch	Inspired	£347m	Education
Tottenham Court Road	The Ink Factory	£143m	TV
Green Park	Estover Energy	£143m	Energy
Piccadilly Circus	Prodigy Finance	£202m	Fintech
Goodge Street	CloudSense	£83.6m	SaaS
Bond Street	OakNorth Bank	£637m	Fintech
Oxford Circus	SumUp	£961m	Fintech
Notting Hill Gate	IOVOX	£18.2m	Telecomms
Bayswater	what3words	£95.2m	Mobile apps
Paddington	V-Nova	£78.0m	Mobile apps
Queensway	Smart	£197m	Wealth management
Lancaster Gate	PaymentSense	£329m	Fintech
High Street Kensington	Founders Factory	£40.6m	Business services
Russell Square	Curve	£141m	Fintech
Chancery Lane	Tandem	£157m	Fintech
Holborn	Pulmocide	£125m	Pharmaceuticals
Covent Garden	PPRO Group	£243m	Fintech
Leicester Square	Flexion Energy	£150m	Energy
Charing Cross	PaySend	£116m	Fintech
Embankment	Gryphon Group	£180m	Insurance
Temple	Pocket Living	£209m	Property

How did we plot this map?

We took the postcode areas of each London Underground station and identified the best-funded companies in those same areas. Where there’s more than one station in a single postcode area, we’ve plotted the companies to the closest station. As a result, some companies may not be featured that have received more funding than those that are.

For example, GoCardless has raised £162m to date but isn’t featured here, as there are only three stations in its postcode area (EC1). Meanwhile, BLANC has raised just £4.89m, but is still the best-funded company in its small postcode area of SW7.

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