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Best Data Center Infrastructure Companies in London, United Kingdom

The 42 best Data Center Infrastructure companies in London, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Nscale.

42companies tracked
$7.4Bdisclosed funding
1unicorns
14have raised

Ranked: Best Data Center Infrastructure companies in London

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundEmployeesFounderTech stackWeb popularityRecent signals
1Backbone Connect
Data center and telecommunication services provider
——48
48 → 63 (+31%)
—PythonSalesforceAnimate.css+24Top 50M—
2BIS
Colocation data centers
——3David Pyemont
CEO
———
3City Lifeline
Data center and colocation services
——8Fraser Fisher
CEO
———
4Cloud Monkey
IaaS cloud platform and disaster recovery as a service
———Ross Cameron
Co-Founder
———
5Cloud One IT
Infrastructure as a service and Data Center colocation services for SMEs
——3George Vassiliou
CEO
———
6Colt Data Center Services
Datacenter colocation services provider
——5—SitecoreSentryAlgolia+22Top 5M2 expansions
7Comino Grando
Mobile data center cooling solutions provider
———Evgeny Vlasov
Co-Founder & CEO
Webflowcore-jsjQuery+15Top 10M—
8Concertim
Data center infrastructure management solutions
———Michael Rudgyard
Founder & CEO
———

Top 12 Data Center Infrastructure companies in London

#1
Nscale 🦄
Series C · London, England · founded 2023
$5.5Braised
▾

Provider of cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence and computing workloads. Services include access to graphics processing units, virtual machines, and bare metal nodes for model training and inference. The platform offers container orchestration, batch scheduling, and storage systems designed for high-throughput data processing. Automated tools manage system health, resource allocation, and performance monitoring across the infrastructure. Users access the resources through application programming interfaces to support development, testing, and deployment of machine learning models.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 89how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 11%
Partners
top 16%
News
top 21%
Growth
top 24%
AI
top 26%
Tech
top 30%
Funding: Raised $5.5B across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 3 yrs (2.0/yr) · Last round Conventional Debt (May 2026)
Partners: 9 contract events in 12 mo · Named contractor/client in 9 deals
News: 58 BI events in 12 mo (of 78 tracked, 8 types) · +314% YoY · 46 high-value events (IPO/M&A/funding/contracts) in 12 mo
Audience (LinkedIn): 66k LinkedIn followers — 7.2% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • May 2026Conventional Debt$790M
  • Mar 2026Series C$2B
  • Feb 2026Conventional Debt$1.4B
  • Sep 2025Series B$1.1B
Founders & team
Josh PayneFounder & CEO
Investors
Sandton Capital Partners, Kestrel0x1, Bluesky Capital, Florence Capital, Aker ASA, Blue Owl
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailBunnyCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookieyesDocusign
#2
Seed · London, England · founded 2016 · 18 employees
$4.4Mraised
▾

Developer of artificial intelligence platform for data processing and analysis. The platform provides tools for automating complex data workflows. It enables users to process and analyze large datasets. The platform supports various data formats and integration with existing systems.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 29how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 30%
Funding
top 42%
News
top 45%
Talent
bottom 49%
Tech
bottom 40%
Global
bottom 39%
AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence
Funding: Raised $4.4M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 4 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Seed (Dec 2025)
News: 2 BI events in 12 mo (of 8 tracked, 2 types) · Top themes: M&A, Funding
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2025Seed—
  • Oct 2025Seed—
  • Jan 2024Grant (prize money)$635.6K
  • Jun 2023Seed$3.9M
Founders & team
Eric TophamCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
SuperSeed, Forward Partners, D2 Fund, Atlas Venture, Martlet Capital, Deeptech Labs
#3
Acquired · London, England · founded 2014 · 13 employees
$304.3Mraised
▾

Operator of data centres engineered for advanced computing and artificial intelligence. These facilities provide secure and scalable environments for high performance computing infrastructure. Services include colocation and connectivity solutions designed to support intensive processing requirements. The infrastructure enables the hosting of accelerated computing hardware and cloud resources.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 29how this company ranks against its industry peers
Innovation
top 23%
Product
top 26%
Funding
top 29%
AI
top 45%
Moat
top 48%
Talent
bottom 42%
Innovation: 12 product lines · Deep-tech classification: Tech Hardware
Product: 12 distinct product lines · Company stage: Acquired
Funding: Raised $304M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 9 yrs (0.2/yr) · Last round Conventional Debt (Jan 2024)
Audience (LinkedIn): 18k LinkedIn followers — 2.0% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships (incl. Shell Energy) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2024Conventional Debt$263M
  • Oct 2021PE—
  • Feb 2019PE—
  • Feb 2017Venture Debt$41.3M
Founders & team
Douglas LoeweChief Executive Officer
Investors
Legal & General Capital, Infratil, Deutsche Bank, Downing, Hockham Gp Limited, Harlow Dc Carry Gp
Tech stack
Craft CmsPhpYiiYoutubeLitespeedGoogle Font Api
#4
Seed · London, England · founded 2021 · 129 employees
$801.4Mraised
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Operator of data centers providing colocation, connectivity, and related services. The company delivers secure environments for IT infrastructure, ensuring uptime and performance. Services include colocation, various connectivity options, and support for data center needs. The business offers platforms and networks designed to support efficient operations.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 55how this company ranks against its industry peers
News
top 23%
Funding
top 37%
Growth
top 39%
Market
top 43%
Fin. health
top 45%
Talent
bottom 49%
News: 4 BI events in 12 mo (of 56 tracked, 9 types) · +300% YoY · Top themes: M&A, Acquisition, Funding
Funding: Raised $801M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 5 yrs (0.2/yr) · Last round Conventional Debt (Apr 2023)
Growth: Revenue +3% YoY · 1 acquisition/expansion move in 24 mo
Audience (LinkedIn): 19k LinkedIn followers — 2.1% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships (incl. GERMAN DATACENTER ASSOCIATION e.V.) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2023Conventional Debt$801.4M
  • Oct 2021Seed—
Founders & team
Tesh DurvasulaCEO
Investors
Digital Realty, Abn Amro, Credit Agricole CIB, Scotiabank, NatWest, Santander
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookiebotDocusignGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag Manager
#5
Acquired · London, England · founded 2007 · 27 employees
$125Mraised
▾

Operator of data centers providing infrastructure for high density computing. These facilities offer physical space, power, and cooling systems designed to support compute-intensive applications. Services include the design, construction, and management of digital infrastructure environments. The business maintains technical facilities to house server hardware and networking equipment for processing and storing digital information.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2023Conventional Debt$100M
  • Jun 2020Series D$27M
  • Jan 2015Series D$98M
Founders & team
Dominic WardCEO
Investors
Wellcome Trust, Novator Partners, General Catalyst, Stefnir, Novator
#6
Series A · London, England · founded 2022
$16Mraised
▾

Developer of AI-designed hardware solutions for data center infrastructure. The company provides system-level engineering to ensure product deployment and performance. It offers modular data centers, dual-use chillers, and direct-to-chip cooling solutions. The company’s products are engineered to meet performance requirements, reduce energy use, and optimize thermal efficiency.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 9k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 2 product launches · 1 partnerships (incl. NVIDIA) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2024Series A$16M
Founders & team
James PollockCo-Founder & CTOJonathan GodwinCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Radical Ventures, Toyota Ventures
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag ManagerGsapHsts
#7
Acquired · London, England · founded 1997 · 764 employees
$313.4Mraised
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TelecityGroup is a provider of network independent data centres offering a range of flexible, scalable data centre and managed services. TelecityGroup specialises in the design, build, and management of highly connected and secure environments in which customers can house their technical, web and internet infrastructure. Each of its data centres acts as a connectivity and content hub facilitating the storage, sharing and distribution of data, content and media. TelecityGroup operates 24 network-independent data centres across seven European countries. The data centres are located in prime positions for commerce and connectivity including London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm, Manchester, Milan and Dublin.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2015Grant (prize money)$149.3K
  • Feb 2010Conventional Debt$313.3M
Founders & team
Anish KapoorCo-Founder
Investors
Europa, Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland
#8
Funding Raised · London, England · founded 1992 · 139 employees
$240Mraised
▾

Markley Group offers colocation and data center facilities. It offers data center with colocation space and high-density solutions, no markup on bandwidth. The data center is SAS to Type II compliant with more tha 40 carriers. The data center is redundant in power, cooling, and connectivity. The data center is located in Boston.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Armed Security Officer - DOD Clearance
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2015Conventional Debt$240M
Investors
TD Bank
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCrazy EggGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag Manager
#9
Acquired · London, England · founded 2011 · 444 employees
$105.7Mraised
▾

Six Degrees Group offers integrated managed communication services like datacenter co-location, managed hosting, cloud computing, Leased lines & MPLS and IP Voice services for all business needs. It serves medium-sized enterprises and mid-market corporate customers operating in finance, legal, manufacturing, retail, digital and media, property, professional services, charities, leisure and entertainment, mainstream business, and public sectors.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 36k LinkedIn followers — 4.0% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2015Conventional Debt—
  • Jul 2012PE$8M
  • Oct 2011PE$60M
Investors
Ardian, Penta Capital, Delta-v Capital, Maven Capital Partners
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookieyesCore-Js
#10
Acquired · London, England · founded 2005 · 23 employees
$29.7Mraised
▾

Provider of data center services

Investors
Cocoon Wealth, Kingsley Capital Partners, Lansdowne Partners, RIT Capital Partners, LakeWater Capital, North Star Investment Management
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpVideojsUikitWp Rocket
#11
Acqui-Hired · London, England · founded 2007 · 51 employees
$8.2Mraised
▾

Next Generation Data owns and operates data centers in the United Kingdom and internationally. Providing premium carrier- neutral customised data centre solutions, colocation & channel partner services. Claims to have created Europe’s largest Tier 3 data centre located between Cardiff and Bristol just off the M4, and is considered the no 1 'Tier 3' data centre outside of London

Funding rounds
  • May 2011Conventional Debt$8.2M
Investors
Finance Wales
Tech stack
WordpressUnbounceMysqlPhpAstraWp Rocket
#12
Series A · London, England · founded 2013 · 2 employees
$2.8Mraised
▾

Bigstep offers Full Metal Compute Instances, Solid Storage (SSD), Load Balancer and Firewall. It claims to have better performance as the nodes are not virtualized and are configured for improved performance. It also is built for Big Data by making deployments for Hadoop and other technologies easy and built in features of redundancy and other orchestration features. Servers and parts are exclusively supplied by HP and backbone network is entirely based on Cisco.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2016Series A$2.8M
Investors
OCA Ventures, Avocation Investments
Tech stack
PhpYoutubeNginxLinkedin Insight TagLinkedin AdsGoogle Tag Manager

Funding & investor landscape

$7.4Btotal disclosed funding
14companies funded
28disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Abn Amro2 rounds
Deutsche Bank2 rounds
Europa2 rounds
Finance Wales2 rounds
8090 Industries1 rounds
AITI Solutions1 rounds
Afina Corporation1 rounds
Aker ASA1 rounds
Aleph Capital Partners1 rounds
Antalya International Holdings1 rounds

Notable founders

Josh Payne
Founder & CEO · Nscale
Eric Topham
Co-Founder & CEO · OctaiPipe
Douglas Loewe
Chief Executive Officer · Kao Data
Tesh Durvasula
CEO · AtlasEdge
Dominic Ward
CEO · Verne
James Pollock
Co-Founder & CTO · Orbital Materials
Jonathan Godwin
Co-Founder & CEO · Orbital Materials
Anish Kapoor
Co-Founder · TelecityGroup
Keri Gilder
Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board · Colt
Dominic Rumsey
Founder & CEO · SUB1
Neil Cresswell
CEO · VIRTUS
Prism market signals · United Kingdom · country-scoped Prism corpus, 2,495,312 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Data Center Infrastructure coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH IN LONDON · Networking & Security

How research on Cloud Computing in London is moving

A read on the academic research around Cloud Computing in London — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 246 papers.

246 papers · stance +0.43 · 40% breakthrough · 28% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
top institutions
  • Imperial College London111
  • University College London37
  • Queen Mary University of London32
  • King\'s College London18
  • Brunel University of London12
leading researchers
Edward Gryspeerdt · Gryspeerdt, Edward · Sukhpal Singh Gill · Paulo Ceppi · Shiqiang Wang · Tippett, Anna
prism intelligence · tone & topics
92% positive · 4% critical tone
Artificial IntelligenceEnvironmentComputer ScienceSoftware DevelopmentMachine LearningBusiness
▲ Breakthroughs89 · 36%
▲ 20%→39% share
▲1.9× share momentum0 median citations81% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (20%→39% of field), led by Operating system.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Operating system1→9
  • Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution1→7
  • Server1→4
  • Overhead (engineering)1→3
  • Workflow1→3
Newly emergingPoint cloud 0→11 · Key (lock) 0→8 · Scalability 0→6
Landmark Software-Defined Networking: A Comprehensive Survey · 4,814 cites
◆ Advancements72 · 29%
▼ 38%→28% share
▼0.7× share momentum0 median citations71% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (38%→28% of field), led by Operating system.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Operating system1→3
  • Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution3→4
Newly emergingAerosol 0→8 · Cloud fraction 0→6 · Cloud condensation nuclei 0→6
Landmark Mobile Edge Computing via a UAV-Mounted Cloudlet: Optimization of Bit Allocation and Path Planning · 801 cites
▼ Concerns62 · 25%
▲ 22%→25% share
▲1.1× share momentum0 median citations74% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are rising (22%→25% of field), led by Aerosol.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Aerosol1→12
  • Key (lock)1→5
  • Computer security2→3
Newly emergingLiquid water path 0→12 · Satellite 0→12 · Replicate 0→9
Landmark Causes of Higher Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6 Models · 1,753 cites

Common questions

How many Data Center Infrastructure companies are there in London, United Kingdom?
Radar tracks 42 indexable Data Center Infrastructure companies headquartered in London, United Kingdom that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Data Center Infrastructure companies in London, United Kingdom?
The Data Center Infrastructure companies in London, United Kingdom on this list have raised a combined $7.4B in disclosed equity funding across 14 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Data Center Infrastructure company in London, United Kingdom?
Nscale is the highest-funded Data Center Infrastructure company in London, United Kingdom, with $5.5B in disclosed equity funding.
How many Data Center Infrastructure companies in London, United Kingdom are funded?
14 of the 42 Data Center Infrastructure companies in London, United Kingdom on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Data Center Infrastructure unicorns are there in London, United Kingdom?
1 Data Center Infrastructure company in London, United Kingdom on this list is valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in London, United Kingdom Data Center Infrastructure companies?
The most active investors in London, United Kingdom Data Center Infrastructure companies on this list include Abn Amro, Deutsche Bank, Europa, Finance Wales, 8090 Industries.
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