Best GovTech Companies in London, United Kingdom
The 47 best GovTech companies in London, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Vivacity Labs.
Ranked: Best GovTech companies in London
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 | 41 mo ago | Series B | Yang Lu Non-Exec board advisor and Technical Founder | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+37 | 3 partnerships |
| 2 | Stotles Cloud-based platform for procurement management | $9M | 14 mo ago | Series A | Taj Kamranpour Co-Founder & COO | 2019 | WebflowGSAPAmazon Web Services+15 | — |
| 3 | Commonplace Online civic engagement platform for community development | $7M | 38 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2013 | HubSpot CMS HubLeafletMapbox.js+38 | — |
| 4 | Apolitical Provider of civic engagement platform for policy crowdsourcing | $5M | 22 mo ago | Series A | Robyn Scott Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+19 | 1 award |
| 5 | Armour Communications Provider of collaborative communication solutions | $3M | 78 mo ago | Acquired | Andy Lilly Director / Co-founder / CTO | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 6 | Spacehive Crowdfunding platform for civic projects | $2M | 141 mo ago | Seed | — | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 7 | Novoville Civic engagement platform | $2M | 67 mo ago | Seed | Fotis Talantzis CEO & Co-Founder | 2014 | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | 1 award |
| 8 | Smartmatic Electronic voting solutions | $275K | 103 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2000 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — |
| 9 | trellyz Resource management software for the government and nonprofits | $210K | 67 mo ago | Seed | Shelley Taylor Founder & CEO | 2012 | — | — |
| 10 | Spend Network Government transaction data | $186K | 46 mo ago | Funding Raised | Ian Makgill Founder : Spend Network / Public Procurement | 2013 | WordPressZohoMySQL+26 | — |
| 11 | Mastodon ETL for Big Data and open data management platform | $110K | 127 mo ago | Seed | — | 2012 | — | — |
| 12 | Hello Lamp Post Citizen engagement platform | $100K | 64 mo ago | Seed | Tiernan Mines Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | WebflowSplideSwiper+19 | — |
| 13 | Earthscope Provider of bushfire risk mapping and evacuation planning platform for governments | $31K | 77 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2016 | — | — |
Top 12 GovTech companies in London
#1
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—
#2
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
#3
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
#4
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
#5
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
#6
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
#7
Seed · London, England · founded 2011 · 12 employees$2Mraised▾
Spacehive is a crowdfunding platform for civic projects to improve neighborhoods. Partners with city councils and companies. Users can create projects or hives. Hives connect the project creators with like-minded people from city councils and companies and thereby receive funding. Manchester city, Bristol city, Mayor of London, and Deloitte are among the users of the platform. Claims to have facilitated $4.7 million in funding and about 68 villages, cities, and towns have projects on Spacehive.
- Nov 2014Seed$2M
#8
Funding Raised · London, England · founded 2013$186.3Kraised▾
Spend Network is a comprehensive and publicly available repository of government transaction data. Government and the businesses that sell to government can access this data on public purchasing. Spend Network has published over 30m transactions, worth in excess of £878bn. The company has grown out of Ticon, a small consultancy focused on government procurement and payments, founded by Ian Makgill and is based in UK.
- Oct 2022Grant (prize money)$186.3K
#9
Seed · London, England · founded 2012 · 2 employees$209.7Kraised▾
Trellyz is a resource management software for the government and nonprofits. The product offerings include LifeSpots, a service communication management solution with features such as real-time location-based information, collaborating with citizens and other departments, multi-channel communication, etc. The product is used by the government and nonprofits.
- Jan 2021Seed$55.7K
- Jan 2020Seed$94.7K
- Jan 2019Seed$269.6K
- Jan 2018Seed$188.1K
#10
Funding Raised · London, England · founded 2000 · 747 employees$275.3Kraised▾
Smartmatic is a provider of electronic voting solutions through its Election Management System (EMS) software, hardware, and audits. The solution offers end to end election management with features for pre-election which includes legal framework analysis, polling location management, and voter administration; Election management includes staff management, candidate administration, campaign monitoring, election logistics and post-election solutions. Election 360 is the software for managing election logistics, Real-Time Electoral Information and Identity Management Systems is for election commissions to maintain a clean voters list. Claims to have supported 3500 elections with 3.7B votes
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$275.3K
#11
Seed · London, England · founded 2013 · 18 employees$100Kraised▾
Hello Lamp Post is a citizen engagement platform. The platform allows citizens to select a street object with code and send messages through SMS, Whatsapp, and messenger and communicate. The features include community engagement, place marketing, tourism, cultural storytelling, etc.
- Apr 2021Seed$100K
#12
Seed · London, England · founded 2012 · 4 employees$109.8Kraised▾
Mastodon C develops open source products to help businesses and Government agencies manage and analyze their data. Products include - Kixi a platform to ingest and integrate batch and real time data to a single repository. Uses Hadoop, Cassandra and other open source technologies; Witan - a platform to support decision-making for cities. Developed in partnership with the Greater London Authority. Enables users to stress-test detailed versions and variations of projections and model what-if scenarios along with access management tools.
- Jan 2016Grant (prize money)$109.8K
- 2012Seed—
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