Best Display Technology Companies in England, United Kingdom
The 48 best Display Technology companies in England, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: SmartKem.
Ranked: Best Display Technology companies in England
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SmartKem Developer of application-specific organic materials for organic thin-film transistors | $55M | 19 mo ago | Public | Ian Jenks Chairman and CEO | 2009 | WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryWordPress+25 | 113 patents Patents concentrated in chemistry & materials | — |
| 2 | VividQ Developer of computer-generated holography for augmented and virtual reality displays | $30M | 23 mo ago | Series A | Darran Milne Ceo & Co-Founder | 2017 | Webflowcore-jsjQuery+13 | 81 patents Holographic waveguide AR/VR displays and optical combiner technologies for head-up systems | 1 award |
| 3 | Touchnetix Developer of advanced touch and force sensing solutions | $24M | 44 mo ago | Series A | Vegard Wollan CEO | 2010 | — | 166 patents Capacitive touch sensor hardware and methods for human‑machine interface devices | 1 launch |
| 4 | Pelikon Flexible liquid crystal (LC) layer based display solutions | $23M | 229 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Chris Barnardo Founder | 2000 | — | 100 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 5 | MasterImage Provides 3D Technology to cinemas and mobile devices | $15M | 184 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2004 | — | — | — |
| 6 | FlexEnable Manufacturer of flexible displays | $11M | 53 mo ago | Series B | Chuck Milligan CEO | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | 503 patents Flexible, stretchable liquid‑crystal display and optical cell technologies for border‑less screens | — |
| 7 | WaveTouch Provider of optical touchscreen technology enabling advanced touch and force detection | $11M | 62 mo ago | Series A | Jorgen Jensen Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Bodle Technologies Provider of smart material manufacturing technology for smart display applications | $11M | 67 mo ago | Series A | — | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Allfocal Optics Developer of nanophotonic technology for displays offering enhanced visual experiences | $9M | 21 mo ago | Series A | Daping Chu Co-Founder & CSO | 2022 | — | 10 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 2 job openings |
| 10 | Polar OLED Provider of liquid crystal-based polymer materials | $3M | 125 mo ago | Series A | Steve Kelly Co-Founder | 2008 | — | 4 patents Flexible transparent substrates for OLED device manufacturing and integration | — |
| 11 | PeroLED Manufacturer of light-emitting materials for display applications | $1M | 31 mo ago | Seed | Donal Bradley Co-Founder | 2019 | — | 20 patents Inkjet-printed perovskite LED materials, formulations, and device architectures | — |
| 12 | HYPERVSN Developer of holographic display technology and related software and hardware | $1M | 121 mo ago | Seed | Ala Dziamidava Co-Founder & COO | 2011 | Cart FunctionalityWordPressMySQL+30 | — | 1 launch |
| 13 | LOMOX OLED displays and lighting technology developer | $720K | 199 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2007 | — | 123 patents OLED emissive and charge-transport materials, organometallic ligands, silole mesogens | — |
| 14 | NeuDrive Developer of organic thin film transistor technology (OTFT) technology | $545K | 76 mo ago | Deadpooled | Christine Fisher Founder | 2010 | — | 22 patents Organic semiconductor sensors and polymer-based electronic devices for flexible electronics | — |
| 15 | Cambridge Display Technology Polymer organic light emitting diodes (P-OLED) | $517K | 139 mo ago | Acquired | Richard Friend Co-Founder | 1989 | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | 2,430 patents Organic OLED materials and thermally conductive polymers for advanced display technologies. | — |
| 16 | Power OLEDs Provider OLED products for energy management systems | $376K | 101 mo ago | Deadpooled | Tim Dempsey Founder & Director | 2013 | — | 21 patents Organic heterocyclic materials for OLEDs, organic LEDs, solar cells, and thin‑film transistors | — |
Top 12 Display Technology companies in England
#1
Public · Manchester, England · founded 2009 · 52 employees$55Mraised▾
Developer of application-specific organic materials for organic thin-film transistors. It develops organic semiconductor materials for the manufacture of flexible displays and electronics. It has applications in smartwatch displays and transistor backplanes. It also provides links and coatings for use in electronic devices.
- Dec 2024Post IPO$7.6M
- Dec 2024Grant (prize money)$1.1M
- Sep 2024Post IPO$152.4K
- Mar 2024Post IPO$347.5K
#2
Series A · Cambridge, England · founded 2017 · 9 employees$30Mraised▾
Developer of computer-generated holography for augmented and virtual reality displays. The technology enables images to be displayed at various focal distances. Digital items can be world-locked, allowing them to be in focus alongside real objects. The technology facilitates hand and gesture interactions without controllers or peripherals.
- Aug 2024Series A$7.5M
- Jul 2021Seed$15.2M
- Jul 2020Grant (prize money)$430.8K
- Dec 2019Seed$3.1M
#3
Series A · Cambridge, England · founded 2022$8.8Mraised▾
Developer of nanophotonic technology for displays offering enhanced visual experiences. The company’s technology aims to provide natural visual clarity and comfort. It focuses on compatibility and scalability in its display solutions. The technology is designed to make digital images more accessible.
- Nov 2024Grant (prize money)$1.9M
- Sep 2024Series A$3.6M
- Jun 2023Series A$3.1M
- Mar 2023Seed$259.1K
#4
Series A · Fareham, England · founded 2010 · 32 employees$23.5Mraised▾
Developer of advanced touch and force sensing solutions. These solutions utilize proprietary aXiom user interface chips and sensors, providing high-performance touch capabilities for various applications. The technology offers features such as high signal-to-noise ratio, water rejection, and force sensing. Products include touchpads, displays, and button solutions suitable for automotive, industrial, medical, and consumer electronics sectors. The company provides evaluation kits and technical support to facilitate product integration.
- Nov 2022Series A$12M
- Jun 2021Series A$11.5M
- Jan 2015Grant (prize money)$357.6K
#5
Series B · Cambridge, England · founded 2015 · 58 employees$11Mraised▾
Manufacturer of flexible displays. It uses an organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) technology with passive elements to develop flexible displays. This enables the volume production of thin and lightweight backplanes for flexible displays and sensors. The flexible backplane has versatile applications for a variety of front planes including OLCD and OLED displays, X-ray image sensors, fingerprint sensors, pressure sensors, and smart systems.
- Feb 2022Series B$11M
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)—
- May 2020Grant (prize money)$447.7K
- Apr 2020Grant (prize money)$355.3K
#6
Seed · Sedgefield, England · founded 2019 · 1 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Manufacturer of light-emitting materials for display applications. It develops light-emitting materials with strong electroluminescent properties and high colour purity that can be tuned across the visible spectrum. It has applications in manufacturing organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs), quantum dot light-emitting devices (QLEDs), and hybrid light-emitting devices.
- Dec 2023Seed$342.8K
- Mar 2022Seed$870.7K
#7
Series A · London, England · founded 2013 · 6 employees$10.9Mraised▾
Provider of optical touchscreen technology enabling advanced touch and force detection. This technology offers high accuracy and durability with multi-touch capability. It works with various input types including fingers, gloves, and styluses, enhancing user interaction across diverse applications.
- May 2021Series A$4.5M
- May 2017Series A$6.4M
#8
Series A · Oxford, England · founded 2015 · 11 employees$10.5Mraised▾
Bodle Technologies is a provider of smart material manufacturing technology for smart display applications. The company has developed an ultra-thin film that can control color and light with minimal power consumption. The technology works by generating color using an optical nanocavity, which is controlled by optically modulating the refractive index of the active layer (a phase change alloy). It also provides proprietary software to design the multilayer stacks of materials that produce the optical effect required. Finds applications in a range of areas including displays, smart glazing, security markings, ‘smart’ contact lenses, and artificial retina devices.
- Dec 2020Series A—
- Dec 2017Series A$8.5M
- Feb 2017Series A$2.1M
- Nov 2015Seed—
#9
Acqui-Hired · Bar Hill, England · founded 2000 · 11 employees$22.8Mraised▾
Flexible liquid crystal (LC) layer based display solutions
#10
Acqui-Hired · London, England · founded 2004 · 4 employees$15Mraised▾
MasterImage provides 3D Technology solutions to cinemas and portable devices. Its products include 3D cinema systems and a range of eyewear. For mobile devices, it provides glass-free stereoscopic displays (which don't require any headgear). It claims this provides benefits like high precision, high yield, easy scalability for mass production and high image quality. It claims to have customers across 100 countries with 99% retention rate. Its clients include AFM, Cinema City, Big Cinemas, Toho Cinemas, Empire Cinemas and many others world over. Some of its possible mobile use cases are 3D books, capture, games, etc.
- Mar 2011Series B$15M
#11
Series A · Leeds, England · founded 2008 · 2 employees$3Mraised▾
Provider of liquid crystal-based polymer materials. The platform exhibit and display technology to new levels by eliminating existing OLED scale and shape constraint. It has identified wearables, large displays at trade shows and events, signages, and more as its target market.
- Mar 2016Series A$2.5M
- Dec 2012Series A$202.5K
- Dec 2011Series A$377K
- Nov 2009Series A—
#12
Seed · London, England · founded 2011 · 119 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Developer of holographic display technology and related software and hardware. The company provides three-dimensional holographic displays for advertising and events. It offers solutions such as digital avatars, holographic humans, and interactive product discovery. The company also develops software suites and tools for creating three-dimensional content.
- 2016Seed$5M
- Feb 2015Angel$1.2M
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