Best Database Technology Companies in United Kingdom
The 37 best Database Technology companies in United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: SurrealDB.
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Ranked: Best Database Technology companies in United Kingdom
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SurrealDB Developer of a multi-model database for AI agents and applications 40Funding top 29%Talent top 38%Moat top 39%Growth top 45% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 29% Talenttop 38% Moattop 39% Growthtop 45% Newstop 45% Techtop 47% Globalbottom 43% Marketbottom 27% Funding: Raised $26.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 4 yrs (0.8/yr) Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $26M | 6 mo ago | Series A | Tobie Hitchcock Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceEmotion+17 | 3 launchs |
| 2 | Lightdash Provider of a platform offering business intelligence and analytics solutions | $19M | 25 mo ago | Series A | Hamzah Chaudhary Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | WebflowEmotionMobX+17 | 1 job opening |
| 3 | QuestDB Developer of an open-source time-series database designed for demanding workloads | $15M | 58 mo ago | Series A | Vlad Ilyushchenko Co-Founder | 2019 | Node.jsEChartsHeadless UI+14 | — |
| 4 | QuestDB Cloud based platform offering relational SQL time series data | $14M | 58 mo ago | Series A | Vladyslav Ilyushchenko Co-Founder & CTO | 2019 | — | — |
| 5 | Memgraph Developer of a graph database for real-time AI context solutions | $12M | 32 mo ago | Seed | Dominik Tomicevic Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+18 | — |
| 6 | TypeDB 🦄 Developer of a knowledge graph database for complex systems management | $11M | 31 mo ago | Seed | Haikal Pribadi Founder & CEO | 2015 | SanityScullyApple iCloud Mail+18 | — |
| 7 | ObjectBox Provider of an object-oriented database for edge computing platforms | $3M | 80 mo ago | Seed | Markus Junginger Co-Founder & CTO | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+11 | — |
| 8 | Ld8a Ledger database solutions provider | $198K | 79 mo ago | Seed | Luke Porter Founder & CEO | 2019 | — | — |
Top 8 Database Technology companies in United Kingdom
#1
Series A · London, England · founded 2021 · 3 employees$26Mraised▾
Developer of a multi-model database for AI agents and applications. The database unifies document, graph, time-series, relational, geospatial, and key-value data models. It offers integrated search and retrieval capabilities, including vector, full-text, and hybrid search. The platform provides real-time subscriptions, event triggers, and streaming updates. It also features built-in security with access controls and compliance.
- Feb 2026Series A$23M
- Jun 2024Series A$20M
- Nov 2022Seed$6M
#2
Series A · London, England · founded 2021 · 6 employees$19.4Mraised▾
Provider of a platform offering business intelligence and analytics solutions. The platform provides tools for data analysis, visualization, and reporting. It allows users to build custom agents and trust metrics. The platform offers features such as data governance, user activation tracking, and developer workflows. It also provides integrations and an open semantic layer.
- Aug 2024Series A$11M
- Oct 2022Seed$8.4M
#3
TypeDB 🦄Seed · London, England · founded 2015 · 15 employees$10.8Mraised▾
Developer of a knowledge graph database for complex systems management. The database uses a hypergraph model to represent entities, relationships, and nested concepts. It offers a query language built on programming paradigms, enabling logic embedding into the database. The system supports integration with applications through dedicated drivers for major languages.
- Jan 2024Seed$202.4K
- Mar 2023Seed$3.5M
- Apr 2022Seed$11.1K
- Jul 2020Seed—
#4
Seed · London, England · founded 2016 · 4 employees$11.5Mraised▾
Memgraph is a high-performance, in-memory graph database that powers real-time AI context. It serves as the graph engine for GraphRAG pipelines, AI memory systems, and agentic workflows - delivering sub-millisecond multi-hop traversals with full provenance for any system that needs structured, connected context alongside semantic search. The same architecture that makes Memgraph the context layer for AI also drives real-time graph analytics across fraud detection, network analysis, infrastructure monitoring, and other operational use cases where speed and connectivity matter.
- Dec 2023Seed$2.5M
- Nov 2020Seed$9.3M
- Dec 2016Seed$2.2M
- Jun 2016Seed$120K
#5
Series A · London, England · founded 2019$14.8Mraised▾
Developer of an open-source time-series database designed for demanding workloads. It offers features such as ultra-low latency, high ingestion throughput, and a multi-tier storage engine. The database supports standard SQL and open formats, facilitating data portability and integration with various tools. It is designed for real-time analysis, streaming materialized views, and time-series SQL queries.
- Nov 2021Series A$12M
- 2020Seed$500K
- Mar 2020Seed$2.3M
- Feb 2020Seed—
#6
Series A · London, England · founded 2019 · 3 employees$14.4Mraised▾
Developer of SQL open-source time-series database designed to process time-series data faster. The company's database is built on a single general-purpose AWS to execute multiple queries under a second on a dataset as well as ingests data via wire protocol, and line protocol, enabling companies to leverage real-time data processing in a wide array of use cases and industries, from financial data to IoT or DevOps observability.
#7
Seed · Berkhamsted, England · founded 2015 · 2 employees$3.4Mraised▾
Provider of an object-oriented database for edge computing platforms. The database uses POJOs to store the data and can be accessed from both desktops and mobile devices. It can be accessed via an API, supports unit tests on the desktops and mobile platforms and provides ACID properties similar to SQL databases. It is available as an open-source project and the code can be downloaded from GitHub. The company is an alumnus of the TechStars’ acceleration program in London of 2017 and claims that it has attracted more than 75,000 developers and 15,000 apps since it was launched, to date.
- Dec 2019Grant (prize money)$56K
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$54.7K
- Dec 2018Seed$2M
- 2017Seed$1.4M
#8
Seed · London, England · founded 2019 · 3 employees$198.1Kraised▾
Ld8a offers centralized ledger database solutions. The company offers FusionLDB. It offers the combined strengths of relational database functionality with the business requirement to hold verifiable data in an immutable ledger. Some of the features include serverless systems, series reporting, relational data modeling, etc.
- Jan 2020Seed$198.1K
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