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Best AR VR Services Companies in England, United Kingdom

The 81 best AR VR Services companies in England, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Hobs 3D.

81companies tracked
$30.8Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
14have raised

Ranked: Best AR VR Services companies in England

#CompanyEmployeesDisclosed fundingLast roundFoundedFounderTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Happy Finish
Provider of AI consulting services
169—124 mo ago2004Rainer Usselmann
Co-Founder & Chairman
———
2EVR Holdings
Provider of virtual reality content creation services
87$5M114 mo ago2015Anthony Matchett
CEO
———
3Gravity Road
Provider of AR-based marketing services
60——2011Mark Boyd
Founder
———
4Mesmerise
Provider of AR and VR services
50$655K70 mo ago2016Andrew Hawken
Co-Founder & CEO
—2 patents
Personalized content recommendation algorithms for extended reality platforms
—
5Draw & Code
VR, AR and projection content for organizations
49——2011—WordPressMySQLPHP+23——
6The Dream
Provider of VR arcade services
42$1M88 mo ago2017————
7Embarklearning
Provider of health and social care training and qualification programs
38
38 → 30 (-21%)
——2011—WordPressMySQLPHP+32—1 partnership
8Hobs 3D
Provider of 3D printing, CGI, virtual reality, and model making services
33
33 → 22 (-33%)
$16M105 mo ago1969Eric Savant
Managing Director
WordPressPleskMySQL+204 patents
VR simulation platforms and data redaction processing technologies
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Top 12 AR VR Services companies in England

#1
Seed · London, England · founded 2018 · 19 employees
$1.4Mraised
▾

Provider of virtual reality services

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2022Seed$1.4M
Investors
Adjuvo
Tech stack
Beaver BuilderBootstrapCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#2
Seed · London, England · founded 2019 · 20 employees
$3.9Mraised
▾

Provider of AR VR based training services

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2022Seed$3M
  • Apr 2020Seed$245.4K
  • Feb 2019Seed$650K
Investors
Symvan Capital, BGF
#3
Seed · London, England · founded 2016 · 50 employees
$655.2Kraised
▾

Provider of AR and VR services

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2020Seed$115K
  • Oct 2018Seed$140.2K
  • Jun 2017Seed$250K
  • Apr 2017Seed$150K
Founders & team
Andrew HawkenCo-Founder & CEODaglar CizmeciCo-Founder
#4
Deadpooled · Birmingham, England · founded 2017 · 3 employees
$1.4Mraised
▾

Provider of 3D scanning and VR services

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2020Seed$1.4M
Investors
Insight Media Fund
Tech stack
WixReactGoogle CloudPolyfillLodashPriority Hints
#5
Series A · London, England · founded 1969 · 33 employees
$16.3Mraised
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Provider of 3D printing, CGI, virtual reality, and model making services

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 10.5% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 expansions announced in 12 mo
Founders & team
Eric SavantManaging Director
Investors
BGF
Tech stack
AutoptimizeContact Form 7Core-JsFont AwesomeGodaddyGoogle Analytics
#6
Public · London, England · founded 2015 · 87 employees
$5.3Mraised
▾

Provider of virtual reality content creation services

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2016Post IPO$35.9K
  • Sep 2016Post IPO$5.3M
Founders & team
Anthony MatchettCEO
#7
Deadpooled · London, England · founded 2017 · 42 employees
$1.1Mraised
▾

Provider of VR arcade services

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2019Seed$1.1M
Investors
Imbiba, Pringle Capital, The FSE Group
#8
Seed · Leeds, England · founded 2016 · 12 employees
$652.4Kraised
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Cooperative Innovations is a UK-based studio that develops immersive experiences in the areas of gaming, entertainment, architecture, and healthcare. The company leverages its proprietary technology that comes with functionalities like VOIP with lip syncing, gesturing via tracked controllers, 3D avatars with user customization, facial expressions & simulation of eye gaze, AI support to simulate models, among others. It also licenses its technology to other developers, publishers, and enterprises. In addition, the company provides development and consultancy services for augmented and virtual reality projects. Clientele includes BBC, Kite & Lightning, Framestore, INKPIX, to name a few.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 975 LinkedIn followers — 2.4% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 4 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Principal Engineer, Senior Engineer
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2019Seed$652.4K
Investors
Ascension
#9
Funding Raised · Telford, England · founded 2005 · 7 employees
$122.2Kraised
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Provider of audio & visual and event equipment hire services

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2019Conventional Debt$122.2K
Investors
BCRS
#10
Seed · Middlesbrough, England · founded 2008 · 18 employees
—raised
▾

Provider of animation, AR/VR, UX/UI, app development, and digital marketing services

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers — 2.6% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • May 2022Seed—
  • Jul 2020Grant (prize money)—
Founders & team
Dominic LusardiCo-Founder
Investors
UKSE, Gov
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpBootstrapWp RocketContact Form 7
#11
Seed · London, England · founded 2018 · 2 employees
—raised
▾

Developer of a spatial audio platform intended to create new kinds of mixed-reality audio experiences for brands, artists, and visitor attractions. The company's platform offers an online space for creating and delivering 6DoF spatial audio experiences at scale, so users can create, share, and listen to spatial audio across multiple devices, enabling brands, artists, and musicians to create and deploy deeply engaging immersive experiences to audiences everywhere.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2020Seed—
Founders & team
Gareth LlewellynCo-Founder & CEOJon OliveCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
Digital Catapult, Accelerator Academy
#12
Series A · Brighton And Hove, England · founded 2006 · 32 employees
—raised
▾

Make Real is a Brighton, UK-based company that develops virtual reality products and experiences for use at work, at home and on the move. Developed experiences include Apollo 11 Mobile VR, McDonald’s – Foodsteps VR Immersive Experiences and RS Racer among many. Clients include McDonald’s, Vodafone, Oculus, SSE, and Keltbray among many others.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 5.5% of this cohort's audience · 18 engagements/post (2.5× cohort median)
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2018Series A—
Tech stack
Backbone.JsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementDojoEmotionFlickity

Funding & investor landscape

$30.8Mtotal disclosed funding
9companies funded
14disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
BGF2 rounds
Digital Catapult2 rounds
AXM Venture Capital1 rounds
Accelerator Academy1 rounds
Adjuvo1 rounds
Ascension1 rounds
BCRS1 rounds
BetaDen1 rounds
CIDAUK1 rounds
CSM1 rounds

Notable founders

Andrew Hawken
Co-Founder & CEO · Mesmerise
Daglar Cizmeci
Co-Founder · Mesmerise
Eric Savant
Managing Director · Hobs 3D
Anthony Matchett
CEO · EVR Holdings
Dominic Lusardi
Co-Founder · Animmersion
Gareth Llewellyn
Co-Founder & CEO · MagicBeans
Jon Olive
Co-Founder & CTO · MagicBeans
Henry Stuart
Co-Founder & CEO · Visualise
Rainer Usselmann
Co-Founder & Chairman · Happy Finish
Ashish Limaye
CEO · Happy Finish
Vin Sumner
Founder & CEO · PixelMill
Prism market signals · United Kingdom · country-scoped Prism corpus, 3,538,176 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of AR VR Services coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH IN ENGLAND · Consumer & Industrial

How research on Ar Vr in England is moving

A read on the academic research around Ar Vr in England — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 43 papers.

43 papers · stance +0.36 · 24% breakthrough · 31% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
top institutions
  • University of the West of England23
  • University of New England8
  • Western New England University5
  • New England College2
  • Royal College of Surgeons of England1
leading researchers
Yu Hou · Davide Calandra · Helen M. Deeks · Michael B. O’Connor · Alessandro Visconti · Alex J. Jones
prism intelligence · tone & topics
98% positive · 2% critical tone
EducationHealthcareMental HealthHealthBusinessConstruction
▲ Breakthroughs10 · 23%
▲ 0%→19% share
3 median citations60% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→19% of field), led by Virtual reality.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Virtual reality5
  • Human–computer interaction4
  • Molecular dynamics3
  • Augmented reality2
  • Affordance2
Landmark Sampling molecular conformations and dynamics in a multiuser virtual reality framework · 154 cites
◆ Advancements19 · 44%
▲ 50%→52% share
▲1.0× share momentum0 median citations84% since 2021mostly empirical
Advancements are rising (50%→52% of field), led by Virtual reality.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Virtual reality1→10
Newly emergingHuman–computer interaction 0→7
Landmark Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety · 130 cites
▼ Concerns13 · 30%
▼ 50%→26% share
▼0.5× share momentum1 median citations62% since 2021mostly position pieces
Concerns are cooling (50%→26% of field), led by Virtual reality.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Virtual reality2→5
  • Augmented reality1→3
Landmark A research agenda for augmented and virtual reality in architecture, engineering and construction · 456 cites

Common questions

How many AR VR Services companies are there in England, United Kingdom?
Radar tracks 81 indexable AR VR Services companies headquartered in England, United Kingdom that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by AR VR Services companies in England, United Kingdom?
The AR VR Services companies in England, United Kingdom on this list have raised a combined $30.8M in disclosed equity funding across 9 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded AR VR Services company in England, United Kingdom?
Hobs 3D is the highest-funded AR VR Services company in England, United Kingdom, with $16.3M in disclosed equity funding.
How many AR VR Services companies in England, United Kingdom are funded?
9 of the 81 AR VR Services companies in England, United Kingdom on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many AR VR Services unicorns are there in England, United Kingdom?
None of the AR VR Services companies in England, United Kingdom on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in England, United Kingdom AR VR Services companies?
The most active investors in England, United Kingdom AR VR Services companies on this list include BGF, Digital Catapult, AXM Venture Capital, Accelerator Academy, Adjuvo.
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