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Best Agentic AI Companies in United Kingdom

The 40 best Agentic AI companies in United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Poly.

40companies tracked
$500.7Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
25have raised
Sources & further reading
  • The $196.6 Billion Agentic AI Revolution: Complete Market Analysis, St

Ranked: Best Agentic AI companies in United Kingdom

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderTech stackWeb popularityRecent signals
1Poly
Developer of conversational voice artificial intelligence agents for customer service
78News top 20%Funding top 24%Tech top 25%AI top 30%
All 11 signals ▾
Newstop 20%
Fundingtop 24%
Techtop 25%
AItop 30%
Moattop 31%
Fin. healthtop 36%
Growthtop 43%
Markettop 44%
Partnerstop 45%
Talenttop 45%
Globalbottom 45%
News: 8 BI events in 12 mo (of 24 tracked, 3 types) · +700% YoY
Funding: Raised $120M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 7 yrs (1.0/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 78/100
$120M10 mo agoSeries DEddy Su
Co-Founder
Cart FunctionalityWordPressApple iCloud Mail+33Top 500k—
211x
Developer of AI-powered digital workers for sales, RevOps, and go-to-market
$76M21 mo agoSeries BHasan Sukkar
Founder & CEO
Webflow EcommerceWebflowSalesforce+23Top 1M—
3Fetch.ai
Blockchain-based network for application and AI infrastructure
69Innovation top 28%Tech top 29%AI top 30%Funding top 31%
All 14 signals ▾
Innovationtop 28%
Techtop 29%
AItop 30%
Fundingtop 31%
Globaltop 32%
Patentstop 33%
Producttop 37%
Moattop 37%
Talenttop 38%
Partnerstop 41%
Customerstop 43%
Growthbottom 47%
Marketbottom 36%
Newsbottom 24%
Innovation: 14 patents (top 60% of patent-holders) · 12 filings since 2022 vs 2 in 2017-21
Tech: 33 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Vercel
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100
$62M20 mo agoSeries CThomas Hain
Co-Founder
Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+18Top 5M1 launch
4Diffblue
Developer of AI-powered autonomous unit testing tools for Java applications
57AI top 23%Tech top 27%Talent top 35%Innovation top 37%
All 13 signals ▾
AItop 23%
Techtop 27%
Talenttop 35%
Innovationtop 37%
Fundingtop 37%
Moattop 37%
Patentstop 46%
Producttop 46%
Growthbottom 48%
Marketbottom 39%
Globalbottom 37%
Fin. healthbottom 36%
Newsbottom 18%
AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company · Product described with: ai-powered
Tech: 45 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Ses, Amazon Web Services
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100
$46M17 mo agoSeries APeter Schrammel
Co-Founder & CTO
Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+32Top 5M—
5Maze
Provider of AI agents that identify and resolve cloud vulnerabilities
53Funding top 37%Talent top 45%Global bottom 48%Tech bottom 40%
All 4 signals ▾
Fundingtop 37%
Talenttop 45%
Globalbottom 48%
Techbottom 40%
Funding: Raised $30.6M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 2 yrs (1.0/yr)
Talent: 2 named leaders on record
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100
$31M14 mo agoSeries AAdrian Jozwik
Co-Founder & CPO
SkolengoApple iCloud MailMariaDB+19Top 10M2 launchs
6Ethos
Provider of AI-driven research platform complemented by human expert consultations
64AI top 23%Funding top 28%Market bottom 49%Talent bottom 49%
All 5 signals ▾
AItop 23%
Fundingtop 28%
Marketbottom 49%
Talentbottom 49%
Globalbottom 45%
AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company · Product described with: ai-driven
Funding: Raised $26.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100
$26M3 mo agoSeries ADaniel Mankowitz
Co-Founder & CTO
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7Conduct
Provider of AI platform for understanding and managing SAP customizations
27Talent top 28%Funding top 36%Global bottom 48%Tech bottom 39%
All 5 signals ▾
Talenttop 28%
Fundingtop 36%
Globalbottom 48%
Techbottom 39%
Marketbottom 25%
Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding: Raised $20.1M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 2 yrs (1.0/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 27/100
$20M11 mo agoSeedJan Haas
Co-Founder & CEO
Framer SitesReactPriority Hints+5Top 50M—
8Xapien Tech
Online background verification platform for candidates
$18M25 mo agoSeries A—WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+28Top 5M2 job openings
9Pydantic
Platform offering data processing frameworks
48AI top 8%Funding top 40%Growth top 45%Tech top 49%
All 7 signals ▾
AItop 8%
Fundingtop 40%
Growthtop 45%
Techtop 49%
Talentbottom 49%
Globalbottom 37%
Marketbottom 30%
AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company
Funding: Raised $17.2M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100
$17M23 mo agoSeries ASamuel Colvin
Founder
Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+11Top 500k2 job openings
10Phoebe
Developer of AI agents for software incident resolution and prevention
37AI top 20%Funding top 35%Talent bottom 49%Global bottom 45%
All 6 signals ▾
AItop 20%
Fundingtop 35%
Talentbottom 49%
Globalbottom 45%
Techbottom 44%
Marketbottom 25%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $17.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 37/100
$17M12 mo agoSeedMatt Henderson
Co-Founder & CEO
Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+12Top 50M—
11Opendialog Ai
AI-based conversational bots for customer support
$13M31 mo agoSeries ARonald Ashri
Co-Founder
———
12Auquan
AI Agents for institutional finance
$12M22 mo agoSeedShub Jain
Co-Founder
HubSpot CMS HubFacebook LoginLinkedin Sign-in+18Top 10M1 launch
13Outverse
AI based agents for customer support automation
$9M37 mo agoSeedJeylani Jeylani
Co-Founder
———
14Atla
Provider of a platform to evaluate and improve AI agents
$5M32 mo agoSeedMaurice Burger
Co-Founder & CEO
WebflowGSAPVWO+15Top 5M—
15Imandra
AI reasoning platform for trustworthy neurosymbolic AI systems and formal verification
$5M88 mo agoSeedGrant Olney Passmore
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Apple iCloud MailNode.jsRecharts+15Top 50M1 launch
16Capably
Enterprise AI management platform
$4M16 mo agoSeedRafa Pulido
Co-Founder & CEO
Node.jsHeadless UITailwind CSS+15Top 10M—
17Versori
AI-powered integration and workflow automation platform for enterprises
$4M38 mo agoAcquiredSean Brown
Co-Founder & CEO
WebflowVimeoAmazon Web Services+28Top 10M—
18Gradient Labs
AI agents to automate manual and repetitive tasks
$4M13 mo agoSeries ADanai Antoniou
Co-Founder
Framer SitesReactCloudflare+18Top 5M1 job opening
19Cosine
Developer of autonomous AI software designed to execute engineering tasks
$3M24 mo agoSeedSam Stenner
Co-Founder
Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceAsciinema+12Top 5M—
20Baresquare
Developer of agents that automate revenue performance, efficiency, data intelligence
$2M59 mo agoSeedGeorgios Grigoriadis
Founder & CEO — Launching World’s 1st Autonomous eCommerce Agent
Webflow EcommerceWebflowVimeo+22Top 50M—
21Mindset
Provider of diversified management consulting services
$2M16 mo agoSeries AJack Houghton
Co-Founder & CPO
WebflowVimeoAmazon Web Services+27Top 5M—
22Kavida AI
Developer of AI agents for procurement, sourcing, and sales automation
$2M36 mo agoAcquiredAnam Rahman
Co-Founder & CEO
Cart FunctionalityWordPressSentry+25Top 10M—
23Noxus
Developer of an AI platform for complex operational workflows
$2M18 mo agoSeedMiguel Ribeiro
Co-Founder & CPO
Framer SitesApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+12Top 10M8 job openings
24TurinTech
Provider of AI development services
$1M17 mo agoSeries ALeslie Kanthan
Co-Founder & CEO
Webflowparticles.jsGSAP+21Top 10M—
25Vortex IQ
Provider of AI agents designed for e-commerce automation and optimization
$1M26 mo agoSeedSambit Patra
Co-Founder and COO
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Top 12 Agentic AI companies in United Kingdom

#1
Series D · London, England · founded 2017 · 42 employees
$120Mraised
▾

Developer of conversational voice artificial intelligence agents for customer service. These software tools automate interactions by processing spoken language to handle inquiries, manage appointments, and resolve service requests. The technology integrates with existing enterprise systems to facilitate automated communication across voice, chat, and messaging channels. Engineering teams utilize provided development kits to build, deploy, and manage these automated agents within their own technical environments. The system tracks interaction metrics and provides analytical insights to monitor performance and manage automated workflows.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 78how this company ranks against its industry peers
News
top 20%
Funding
top 24%
Tech
top 25%
AI
top 30%
Moat
top 31%
Fin. health
top 36%
News: 8 BI events in 12 mo (of 24 tracked, 3 types) · +700% YoY · 7 high-value events (IPO/M&A/funding/contracts) in 12 mo
Funding: Raised $120M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 7 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Series D (Oct 2025)
Tech: 59 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 · Security: Auth0, Cloudflare Bot Management
Audience (LinkedIn): 83k LinkedIn followers — 20.7% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2025Series D$86M
  • Apr 2024Series C$50.2M
  • Jun 2022Series B$40M
  • Dec 2020Series B$14M
Founders & team
Eddy SuCo-FounderTsung-Hsien WenCo-Founder & CTONikola MrksicCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Khosla Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Amadeus Capital, Sands Capital Ventures, Passion Capital, Entrepreneur First
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailAstroAuth0
#2
Series A · London, England · founded 2024
$26Mraised
▾

Provider of AI-driven research platform complemented by human expert consultations. The company develops autonomous agents that leverage a network of human experts to conduct research. Its initial agent focuses on investment research, analyzing companies and markets, and facilitating expert consultations. The company plans to expand its agent offerings to include market research, competitive analysis, recruitment, business development, and enterprise intelligence. The platform offers subscription-based access to AI insights and expert connections.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 64how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 23%
Funding
top 28%
Market
bottom 49%
Talent
bottom 49%
Global
bottom 45%
AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company · Product described with: ai-driven
Funding: Raised $26.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) · Last round Series A (May 2026)
Audience (LinkedIn): 52k LinkedIn followers — 12.9% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • May 2026Series A$22.8M
  • Mar 2025Seed$3.2M
Founders & team
Daniel MankowitzCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
General Catalyst, 8VC, Conviction, Commonmagic, Interface Capital, Andreessen Horowitz
#3
Seed · London, England · founded 2024
$20.1Mraised
▾

Provider of AI platform for understanding and managing SAP customizations. It offers tools for technical analysis, semantic analysis, and continuous business understanding of SAP systems. The platform helps users map programs, tables, and dependencies within their SAP environment. It also identifies areas for streamlining, merging, or reverting to standard SAP configurations. The platform provides dependency mapping to understand the impact of changes. Security and compliance features are built into the platform.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 27how this company ranks against its industry peers
Talent
top 28%
Funding
top 36%
Global
bottom 48%
Tech
bottom 39%
Market
bottom 25%
Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding: Raised $20.1M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 2 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Seed (Sep 2025)
Global: Investors from 3 countries beyond United Kingdom
Audience (LinkedIn): 7k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2025Seed$13.3M
  • May 2024Seed$6.8M
Founders & team
Jan HaasCo-Founder & CEOHenry ThompsonCo-Founder & CTOPhilipp HoeferCo-Founder & CPO
Investors
Creandum, Lucid Capital, Booom
Tech stack
Framer SitesGoogle Font ApiHstsHttp/3MixpanelOpen Graph
#4
Series A · Oxford, England · founded 2016 · 42 employees
$46Mraised
▾

Developer of AI-powered autonomous unit testing tools for Java applications. The company provides an agent designed for generating high-quality Java unit tests. It delivers coverage with minimal developer effort, updating or removing tests as application logic changes. The agent analyzes code, generates JUnit tests, and tracks coverage.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 57how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 23%
Tech
top 27%
Talent
top 35%
Innovation
top 37%
Funding
top 37%
Moat
top 37%
AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company · Product described with: ai-powered
Tech: 45 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Ses, Amazon Web Services · Devops: Nginx
Talent: Analyst team rating 5/5 · 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated
Audience (LinkedIn): 5k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2025Grant (prize money)$1.3M
  • Oct 2024Series A$6.3M
  • Dec 2023Series A—
  • Nov 2022Series A$8M
Founders & team
Peter SchrammelCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
Oxford Science Enterprises, Goldman Sachs, Oxford Investment Consultants, IP Group, University of Oxford, Parkwalk
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser InsightsCloudflare Rocket Loader
#5
Series A · London, England · founded 2024
$30.6Mraised
▾

Provider of AI agents that identify and resolve cloud vulnerabilities. It offers a platform that ingests vulnerabilities from cloud vulnerability scanners. AI agents investigate each vulnerability in the context of the environment, remove false positives, and identify high-risk vulnerabilities. The platform provides mitigation and remediation actions to owners, shrinking vulnerability backlogs and helping to identify critical vulnerabilities. It uses intelligent workflows to prepare immediate mitigations for critical vulnerabilities and provides remediation options to engineering teams.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 53how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 37%
Talent
top 45%
Global
bottom 48%
Tech
bottom 40%
Funding: Raised $30.6M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 2 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Series A (Jun 2025)
Talent: 2 named leaders on record
Global: Investors from 2 countries beyond United Kingdom
Audience (LinkedIn): 6k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2025Series A$24.9M
  • Sep 2024Seed$5.7M
Founders & team
Adrian JozwikCo-Founder & CPOHarry WetheraldCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Theory Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Tapestry
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerApache TomcatApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#6
Seed · London, England · founded 2023
$17Mraised
▾

Developer of AI agents for software incident resolution and prevention. The agents investigate live data, diagnose emerging issues, and generate preemptive fixes. The AI models understand and connect data across diverse systems. The system proactively searches for answers, adds relevant facts, and predicts root causes. It generates pull requests to solve problems and proposes code changes to improve performance. The system reduces manual work and tracks common causes.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 37how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%
Funding
top 35%
Talent
bottom 49%
Global
bottom 45%
Tech
bottom 44%
Market
bottom 25%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $17.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Seed (Aug 2025)
Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2025Seed$17M
Founders & team
Matt HendersonCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Google Ventures, Cherry Ventures
#7
Series C · Cambridge, England · founded 2017 · 4 employees
$61.9Mraised
▾

Blockchain-based network for application and AI infrastructure. It provides open access, tokenized, decentralized machine learning network to deliver a self-organizing framework for transactions and the system consists of autonomous economic agents that are digital entities that can transact independently of human intervention and can represent people, machines, or themselves.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 69how this company ranks against its industry peers
Innovation
top 28%
Tech
top 29%
AI
top 30%
Funding
top 31%
Global
top 32%
Patents
top 33%
Innovation: 14 patents (top 60% of patent-holders) · 12 filings since 2022 vs 2 in 2017-21 · 6 new-product events in 24 mo
Tech: 33 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Vercel · Devops: Envoy
AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: machine learning
Audience (LinkedIn): 23k LinkedIn followers — 5.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2024Series C—
  • Mar 2023Series C$40M
  • Mar 2021Series B$6.9M
  • Feb 2019ICO$13.1M
Founders & team
Thomas HainCo-FounderToby SimpsonCo-Founder
Investors
Gda Group, DWF Labs, Outlier Ventures, Daim, 0c Ventures, LCG Ventures
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudinaryFont AwesomeGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#8
Series B · London, England · founded 2022 · 4 employees
$76Mraised
▾

Developer of AI-powered digital workers for sales, RevOps, and go-to-market. These digital workers automate tasks, operate around the clock, and offer multilingual capabilities. The digital workers integrate into existing tech ecosystems and learn continuously to improve performance. They identify prospects, engage leads, and aim to convert opportunities.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 29k LinkedIn followers — 7.2% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2024Series B$50M
  • Sep 2024Series A$24M
  • Aug 2023Seed$2M
Founders & team
Hasan SukkarFounder & CEO
Investors
Benchmark, Quiet Capital, SV Angel, Abstract Ventures, Lux Capital, Operator Partners
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser InsightsCore-Js
#9
Series A · London, England · founded 2023
$3.6Mraised
▾

AI agents to automate manual and repetitive tasks. Its agents utilizes machine learning techniques, including natural language processing and retrieval-augmented generation to automate manual and repetitive tasks including customer support, and self-service workflows.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 9k LinkedIn followers — 2.3% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: AI team
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2025Series A$13M
  • Aug 2024Seed$3.6M
Founders & team
Danai AntoniouCo-FounderDimitri MasinCo-Founder & CEONeal LathiaCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
LocalGlobe, Puzzle Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Exceptional Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, Andrena Ventures
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFramer SitesGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#10
Seed · London, England · founded 2018 · 42 employees
$11.5Mraised
▾

AI based data analytics for financial services. It offers a platform for creating custom datasets and receiving real time updates from unstructured data. It also offers a bot for analysis. It analysis new trends in markets, data, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 10k LinkedIn followers — 2.5% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2024Seed$4.5M
  • Oct 2023Seed$3.5M
  • Jun 2019Seed$1.3M
  • Feb 2019Seed$1.2M
Founders & team
Shub JainCo-FounderChandini JainCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Episode 1 Ventures, Peak XV Partners, Neotribe, Surge, Techstars, Stage 2 Capital
Tech stack
CdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFacebook LoginFramer Sites
#11
Series A · London, England · founded 2022 · 9 employees
$17.2Mraised
▾

Platform offering data processing frameworks. It supports python and offers a data validation solution. It also provides settings management using python type annotation. The platform highlights errors when data is invalid.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 48how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 8%
Funding
top 40%
Growth
top 45%
Tech
top 49%
Talent
bottom 49%
Global
bottom 37%
AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company
Funding: Raised $17.2M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr) · Last round Series A (Oct 2024)
Growth: Web rank 500,000 → 1,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Audience (LinkedIn): 34k LinkedIn followers — 8.4% of this cohort's audience
Hiring (LinkedIn): 2 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +2 · hiring: Agent Infrastructure Engineer (AI agents and sandboxes), Evals & Continuous Learning Engineer
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2024Series A$12.5M
  • Feb 2023Seed$4.7M
Founders & team
Samuel ColvinFounder
Investors
Sequoia Capital, Partech Partners, Irregular Expressions
Tech stack
CloudflareGoogle WorkspaceHstsHttp/3Next.JsNext.Js App Router
#12
Seed · London, England · founded 2023
$4Mraised
▾

Enterprise AI management platform. It enables companies to support operations with artificial intelligence. The platform provides an interface for businesses to build and customize AI engines, streamlining their workflow and decision-making processes. Features include customizable AI agents, integration capabilities, safety controls, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2025Seed$4M
Founders & team
Rafa PulidoCo-Founder & CEONicolas TresegnieCo-Founder
Investors
Boost Capital Partners, Concept Ventures, Araya Ventures, Haatch, Wayra, Koro Capital

Funding & investor landscape

$500.7Mtotal disclosed funding
25companies funded
59disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
AlbionVC3 rounds
Y Combinator3 rounds
Andreessen Horowitz2 rounds
Booom2 rounds
Cherry Ventures2 rounds
Citi2 rounds
Connect Ventures2 rounds
Creandum2 rounds
CyLon2 rounds
IQ Capital2 rounds

Notable founders

Eddy Su
Co-Founder · Poly
Tsung-Hsien Wen
Co-Founder & CTO · Poly
Daniel Mankowitz
Co-Founder & CTO · Ethos
Jan Haas
Co-Founder & CEO · Conduct
Henry Thompson
Co-Founder & CTO · Conduct
Peter Schrammel
Co-Founder & CTO · Diffblue
Adrian Jozwik
Co-Founder & CPO · Maze
Harry Wetherald
Co-Founder & CEO · Maze
Matt Henderson
Co-Founder & CEO · Phoebe
Thomas Hain
Co-Founder · Fetch.ai
Toby Simpson
Co-Founder · Fetch.ai
Hasan Sukkar
Founder & CEO · 11x
Prism market signals · United Kingdom · country-scoped Prism corpus, 888,282 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Agentic AI coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · United Kingdom

How research on Artificial Intelligence is moving in the United Kingdom

A read on the academic research around Artificial Intelligence — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,469 United Kingdom-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
200820162026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 30% → 47% across 2008–2026.
top research entities
  • University of Oxford114
  • University College London95
  • Imperial College London86
  • University of Edinburgh59
  • Oldham Council57
leading researchers
Anil Kumar Sharma · Lee Sharks · Anthony Coslett · Johannes Sigil · Andrew Zisserman · Ismail A Mageed · Rex Fraction · Andrea Vedaldi
▲ Breakthroughs742 · 51%
▲ 47%→52% share
▲1.1× share momentum0 median citations73% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (47%→52% of field), led by Artificial neural network.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Artificial neural network9→39
  • Architecture3→32
  • Key (lock)1→27
  • Pipeline (software)3→28
  • Scalability4→28
Newly emergingIdentity (music) 0→15 · Transformer 0→13 · Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) 0→12
Landmark Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition · 75,407 cites
◆ Advancements280 · 19%
▼ 22%→18% share
▼0.8× share momentum0 median citations69% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (22%→18% of field), led by Interpretability.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Interpretability1→10
  • Identification (biology)1→7
  • Pattern recognition (psychology)8→13
  • Context (archaeology)3→8
  • Segmentation4→8
Newly emergingRobustness (evolution) 0→13 · Perception 0→11 · Metric (unit) 0→8
Landmark Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition · 216,989 cites
▼ Concerns209 · 14%
▼ 19%→12% share
▼0.6× share momentum0 median citations60% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (19%→12% of field), led by Artificial neural network.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Artificial neural network1→9
  • Field (mathematics)2→8
  • Reliability (semiconductor)1→6
  • Transparency (behavior)1→5
  • Robustness (evolution)1→4
Newly emergingKey (lock) 0→11 · Identity (music) 0→9 · Language model 0→8
Landmark Reflecting on reflexive thematic analysis · 15,595 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · United Kingdom

Where artificial intelligence is researched across United Kingdom

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

London273 · +0.49
Hot · GraphAdvancing · Reinforcement learningOpportunity · MEDLINEConcern · Data science
Oxford124 · +0.52
Hot · Convolutional neural networkAdvancing · Computer visionOpportunity · Perception
Edinburgh74 · +0.41
Hot · AuraAdvancing · Bayesian probabilityOpportunity · Microwave Limb SounderConcern · Action (physics)
Cambridge63 · +0.65
Hot · GenomeAdvancing · Representation (politics)Opportunity · Perception
Manchester38 · +0.35
Hot · Hyperspectral imagingAdvancing · Artificial neural networkOpportunity · Radiance
Glasgow25 · +0.56
Opportunity · Adaptation (eye)
Bristol22 · +0.40
Hot · Causal inferenceOpportunity · Dice
Birmingham17 · +0.34
Hot · Code (set theory)Opportunity · Uncertainty quantification
PATENT SIGNAL · United Kingdom

Who's filing artificial intelligence patents in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom artificial intelligence patent filing is accelerating — 11,496 filings from 2,601 assignees (2016–2025), led by Deepmind TECH, Advanced RISC MACH, IBM; annual filings 157→1843.

11,496 filings2,601 assigneespeak 1920/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
  • Deepmind TECH1806
  • Advanced RISC MACH607
  • IBM604
  • Imagination TECH582
  • IBM UK572
  • British Telecomm457
  • IBM China Investment316
  • Graphcore245

Common questions

How many Agentic AI companies are there in United Kingdom?
Radar tracks 40 indexable Agentic AI companies headquartered in United Kingdom that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Agentic AI companies in United Kingdom?
The Agentic AI companies in United Kingdom on this list have raised a combined $500.7M in disclosed equity funding across 25 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Agentic AI company in United Kingdom?
Poly is the highest-funded Agentic AI company in United Kingdom, with $120M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Agentic AI companies in United Kingdom are funded?
25 of the 40 Agentic AI companies in United Kingdom on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Agentic AI unicorns are there in United Kingdom?
None of the Agentic AI companies in United Kingdom on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in United Kingdom Agentic AI companies?
The most active investors in United Kingdom Agentic AI companies on this list include AlbionVC, Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Booom, Cherry Ventures.
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