Best GovTech Companies in England, United Kingdom
The 134 best GovTech companies in England, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Forensic Analytics.
Ranked: Best GovTech companies in England
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forensic Analytics Company offers analytics tools for forensic analytics | $6.5B | 40 mo ago | 49 49 → 83 (+69%) · sector median +13% | 2013 | Steve Rick CEO | — | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 2 | Vivacity Labs Provider of smart traffic monitoring and smart traffic signal control 64AI top 25%Growth top 26%Moat top 31%Tech top 38% All 11 signals ▾AItop 25% Growthtop 26% Moattop 31% Techtop 38% Fundingtop 40% Patentstop 45% Innovationtop 49% Fin. healthtop 49% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 48% Globalbottom 40% AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) Growth: Headcount 42 → 77 (+83%) across vintages rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $19M | 40 mo ago | 77 77 → 99 (+29%) · sector median +13% | 2015 | Yang Lu Non-Exec board advisor and Technical Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+37 | 20 patents Adaptive traffic signal control and vehicle movement analytics for smart transportation systems | 3 partnerships |
| 3 | Clue Platform offering investigation and intelligence management software | $12M | 28 mo ago | 22 | 1987 | Clare Elford Chief Executive Officer | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+26 | — | 1 job opening |
| 4 | Stotles Cloud-based platform for procurement management | $9M | 12 mo ago | 11 | 2019 | Taj Kamranpour Co-Founder & COO | WebflowGSAPAmazon Web Services+15 | — | — |
| 5 | Commonplace Online civic engagement platform for community development | $7M | 36 mo ago | 30 30 → 17 (-43%) · sector median +13% | 2013 | — | HubSpot CMS HubLeafletMapbox.js+38 | — | — |
| 6 | adam Online platform for public service delivery | $7M | 60 mo ago | 69 | 2012 | Julian Young CEO | — | — | — |
| 7 | Apolitical Provider of civic engagement platform for policy crowdsourcing | $5M | 20 mo ago | 32 | 2015 | Robyn Scott Co-Founder & CEO | TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+19 | — | 1 award |
| 8 | Blackdot Solutions Investigation software solution provider | $5M | 16 mo ago | 46 46 → 52 (+13%) · sector median +13% | 2011 | Shaun Omahony Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | — | — |
| 9 | Armour Communications Provider of collaborative communication solutions | $3M | 76 mo ago | 25 25 → 18 (-28%) · sector median +13% | 2015 | Andy Lilly Director / Co-founder / CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — | — |
| 10 | Spacehive Crowdfunding platform for civic projects | $2M | 139 mo ago | 12 12 → 10 (-17%) · sector median +13% | 2011 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — | — |
| 11 | Novoville Civic engagement platform | $2M | 65 mo ago | 22 22 → 33 (+50%) · sector median +13% | 2014 | Fotis Talantzis CEO & Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | — | 1 award |
| 12 | One Planet Online platform to connect and collaborate with stakeholders for Governments | $2M | 34 mo ago | 4 | 2019 | Pooran Desai CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+32 | — | 1 launch |
| 13 | PreCog Systems Offers national security and law enforcement services | $1M | 63 mo ago | 3 | 2017 | James King Chairman & CEO | — | — | — |
| 14 | Bruhn NewTech Incident response for chemical and biological attacks | $761K | 54 mo ago | 2 | 1989 | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+19 | — | — |
| 15 | Smartmatic Electronic voting solutions | $275K | 101 mo ago | 747 | 2000 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — | — |
| 16 | Safe-Citizens Mobile-based application for public safety management | $250K | 46 mo ago | — | 2018 | Martin Hogan Co-Founder and CEO | — | — | — |
| 17 | trellyz Resource management software for the government and nonprofits | $210K | 65 mo ago | 2 | 2012 | Shelley Taylor Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 18 | Spend Network Government transaction data | $186K | 44 mo ago | — | 2013 | Ian Makgill Founder : Spend Network / Public Procurement | WordPressZohoMySQL+26 | — | — |
| 19 | Bronze Labs Provider of mobile application development and IoT services for goverment | $156K | 113 mo ago | — | 2011 | Richard Howells CEO | — | — | — |
| 20 | PolicyMogul Provider of policy crowdsourcing solutions | $152K | 91 mo ago | 1 | 2018 | Elliot Robinson Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 21 | Mastodon ETL for Big Data and open data management platform | $110K | 125 mo ago | 4 | 2012 | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | Hello Lamp Post Citizen engagement platform | $100K | 62 mo ago | 18 | 2013 | Tiernan Mines Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowSplideSwiper+19 | — | — |
| 23 | AVET Technology Provider of interview & meeting recording solution for law enforcement | $67K | 54 mo ago | 3 | 2015 | Jerry Thornton Founder | — | — | — |
| 24 | Earthscope Provider of bushfire risk mapping and evacuation planning platform for governments | $31K | 75 mo ago | 1 | 2016 | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 GovTech companies in England
#1
Series A · Letchworth Garden City, England · founded 2013 · 49 employees$6.5Braised▾
Developer of data analytics software designed to provide support and cost-effective cell site analysis. The company's software develops communications data cleansing, analytics and mapping tool that provides a range of features designed to process, query, present and output mobile phone call records, enabling clients to analyze complex, diverse data sets efficiently and create reports to an evidential standard.
#2
Series A · London, England · founded 2019 · 11 employees$9Mraised▾
Cloud-based platform for procurement management. The platform offers tools for engagement, organizing, collaboration, planning, etc. The platform offers tools for creating personalized feeds.
- May 2025Series A$13M
- Jun 2022Seed$6.5M
- Sep 2020Seed$2.1M
- Aug 2020Seed—
#3
Series A · Cambridge, England · founded 2011 · 46 employees$5.3Mraised▾
Blackdot Solutions is an investigation software solution provider for the intelligence and law enforcement community. Its product Videris transforms online information to counter terrorism, serious and organized crime, espionage, proliferation, corruption and terrorist financing cases. It collects online and internal data, analyzes and discovers links in a large data set. It presents all the data sets in the form of network chart, grid table, world map or timeline to easily share with colleagues and clients. Its data integration partners include Thomson Reuters, relativity, and BvD.
- Feb 2025Series A$5.6M
- May 2019Seed$2.3M
- Apr 2018Seed$2M
- Aug 2017Seed$263K
#4
Series A · London, England · founded 2015 · 32 employees$5.4Mraised▾
Provider of civic engagement platform for policy crowdsourcing. It also enable collaboration platform for policy formulation. Platform allows government officials to contact & engage experts in formulating policies and strategy solutions for governments. It also allows users to search for policies and programs which are implemented in other places.
- Oct 2024Grant (prize money)$2M
- Mar 2022Grant (prize money)$55.7K
- Mar 2022Series A$5.4M
- Apr 2020Grant (prize money)$1.5M
#5
Early Stage · Bristol, England · founded 1987 · 22 employees$11.7Mraised▾
Platform offering investigation and intelligence management software. It provides software for preventing harm and bringing justice to victims in society, spanning government, corporate, law enforcement, and sports organizations. Features include safeguard security, confidentiality and compliance, detect threats and conduct deep analysis to identify trends from intelligence, and more.
- Feb 2024Unattributed$5M
- Nov 2021Unattributed$6.7M
#6
Series B · London, England · founded 2015 · 77 employees$18.8Mraised▾
Provider of smart traffic monitoring and smart traffic signal control. The company delivers technology using sensors and AI computer vision for multimodal transport data. It offers insights into movements, speeds, turning behaviors, near miss incidents, and traffic flow. The company aims to help cities overcome transport challenges through sustainability, safety, and optimization.
- Feb 2023Series B$8.5M
- Jan 2021Series A$7M
- Jan 2020Seed$315.2K
- Oct 2018Seed$1.4M
#7
Acquired · London, England · founded 2013 · 30 employees$7Mraised▾
Online civic engagement platform for community development. It assists city councils, city administrators, property developers, and community people in understanding each other's demands, lowering risk and property development costs for agencies and developers. It enables people of the community to express their thoughts about specific sites in their neighbourhood. It is a platform for citizen participation that assists communities in engaging with more people in order to collect ideas for development of city.
- Jun 2023Series A$2.7M
- Jul 2020Series A$3.9M
- Aug 2014Seed$407.9K
- Sep 2013Seed$23.9K
#8
Seed · Wallington, England · founded 2019 · 4 employees$1.5Mraised▾
OnePlanet provides an online platform to connect and collaborate with stakeholders for Governments. It allows users to plan and create the places, products and services to live, collaborate with stakeholders, manage outcomes and opportunities. It enables users to share plans, manage outcomes and aline strategy. It caters solutions for local governments, communities, real-estate and education institutions.
- Jul 2023Seed$333.6K
- Jan 2021Seed$389.9K
- Apr 2019Seed$808.1K
#9
Acquired · Milton Keynes, England · founded 2012 · 69 employees$6.9Mraised▾
Online platform for public service delivery. It provides a platform to control and manage digital solutions for public sectors. It offers tools to connect and coordinate with citizens. It also offers various solutions for the healthcare, transport, social care, and housing sectors.
- Jun 2021Conventional Debt$6.9M
#10
Acquired · London, England · founded 2015 · 25 employees$2.6Mraised▾
Armour Comms is a provider of collaborative communication solutions. The product offerings include Armour Mobile/Desktop it provides voice calls, video calls, one-to-one and group messaging with automatically delete features once read, and Armour Blue/PTT is a field collaboration and communication solution. The solutions are offered for the government, military/defense, police/blue lights, finance, etc. The clientele includes Armed Forces Covenant, Cyber Essentials, Secure Corus, Nato, etc.
- Feb 2020Seed$2.6M
#11
Funding Raised · Salisbury, England · founded 1989 · 2 employees$761.2Kraised▾
Bruhn NewTech offers end-to-end emergency pre-planning and response solutions for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) attacks. CBRNe Information Management is a hazard prediction, warning, and reporting solution, taking in data from field sensors. SafeZone is an incident planning and response solution with features including What-If analysis, live- situation monitoring, decision support and incident reporting. Its solutions were deployed in the London and Athens Olympics, as well as in Syria and Libya war crises.
- Dec 2021Grant (prize money)$243.3K
- Aug 2018Grant (prize money)$58.4K
- May 2018Grant (prize money)$398K
- Apr 2018Grant (prize money)$61.6K
#12
Seed · London, England · founded 2014 · 22 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Novoville provides a civic engagement platform using which local governments collaborate with their residents. For Local Government, it provides a platform to engage citizen and optimize operation efficiency, provides features like citizen engagement, interactive communication, forms customization, polls & survey preparation, request routing, request management, campaign management, analytics, and reports. For the citizen, it provides a mobile-based application using which citizen can report issues, responds to polls & survey, interactive maps, search across forms, notifications, and others.
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$400.7K
- Apr 2019Seed$1.6M
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