Best Tech for Film & TV Companies in London, United Kingdom
The 136 best Tech for Film & TV companies in London, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: V-Nova.
Ranked: Best Tech for Film & TV companies in London
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | V-Nova Video and image processing software and embedded solutions provider | $67M | 58 mo ago | Series C | 67 67 → 99 (+48%) | Guido Meardi Co-Founder & CEO | Top 5M | 18 patents Adaptive video streaming and bitrate optimization for dynamic content delivery networks | 2 launchs |
| 2 | Flawless Developer of AI-assisted technology for editing and refining film performances | $34M | 55 mo ago | Seed | 1 | Scott Mann Co-Founder & Co-CEO | Top 5M | 52 patents AI-powered video editing and object/face landmark manipulation for visual media | 4 launchs |
| 3 | Papercup Provider of an AI-enabled video translation platform | $31M | 48 mo ago | Series A | 56 | Jesse Shemen Co-Founder & CEO | Top 5M | — | — |
| 4 | Zeebox App-based platform for sharing entertainment content recommendations | $22M | 173 mo ago | Series B | 106 | Anthony Rose CTO & Co-Founder | Top 50M | 5 patents Interactive TV program guide and personalized content delivery systems | — |
| 5 | Forbidden Video editing platform | $19M | 114 mo ago | Public | 28 | Ian McDonough CEO | — | 15 patents Video compression algorithms and efficient thumbnail navigation for long video editing. | — |
| 6 | TRX Online marketplace for buying and selling TV content | $15M | 92 mo ago | Series A | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | MUSO Platform offering brand protection software | $12M | 46 mo ago | Series A | 13 | Christopher Elkins Co-Founder & Chief Business Development Officer | Top 10M | — | — |
| 8 | Aframe Cloud platform for video collaboration | $10M | 170 mo ago | Deadpooled | 37 | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | iSize Technologies Codec-independent AI technology | $8M | 61 mo ago | Acquired | 3 | — | — | 36 patents AI-powered image upscaling, processing, and transmission for visual communication systems | — |
| 10 | Sonantic AI based text to speech solutions provider | $7M | 47 mo ago | Acquired | 11 | — | — | 13 patents Advanced expressive text-to-speech synthesis and voice modification technologies. | — |
| 11 | Monterosa Provider of a platform for gamified digital experiences and fan engagement | $6M | 50 mo ago | Series A | 53 | — | Top 50M | — | 1 launch · 2 partnerships · 3 awards |
| 12 | We Got POP Casting management platform | $5M | 100 mo ago | Acquired | 74 | — | — | — | — |
| 13 | Teletrax Broadcast monitoring and verification solutions provider | $5M | 36 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 4 | Laurence Moskowitz CEO & Chairman | — | — | — |
| 14 | The Collective Online platform offering lists of filming locations | $5M | 39 mo ago | Funding Raised | 22 | — | Top 5M | — | — |
| 15 | Blackbird Cloud-based video content management provider | $4M | 11 mo ago | Public | 28 28 → 43 (+54%) | Ian McDonough CEO | Top 5M | 29 patents Video compression, streaming, editing, and digital media tracking technologies | — |
| 16 | TV2U OTT video delivery solutions provider | $3M | 99 mo ago | Public | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Parrot Analytics Developer of global content demand measurement platform for TV content | $3M | 110 mo ago | Seed | 99 | Wared Seger Founder | Top 5M | — | — |
| 18 | FilmLight Color management solutions | $2M | 32 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | — | Top 5M | 9 patents Advanced image processing, multi-display control, and visual attention technologies for video/media systems | 2 awards |
| 19 | Grabyo Social sports and live video delivering and sharing platform | $2M | 138 mo ago | Seed | 78 | — | — | — | 1 job opening · 1 launch |
| 20 | Foundry Developer of software for visual effects, and animation industries | $2M | 45 mo ago | Acquired | 198 198 → 392 (+98%) | Jody Madden CEO | Top 500k | 4 patents Non‑invasive microwave-based medical devices for targeted tissue therapy | 1 launch |
| 21 | SMASH Online platform offering solutions for pitching scripts | $1M | 26 mo ago | Seed | 3 | — | Top 10M | — | — |
| 22 | Flairbox Online video based casting platform provider | $856K | 60 mo ago | Seed | 5 | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | Stagedoor Theatre guide platfom that helps to discover new shows | $810K | 50 mo ago | Seed | 4 | — | Top 5M | — | — |
| 24 | Usheru Cinema ticket discovery and booking platform | $653K | 38 mo ago | Seed | 26 | Catherine Downes Co Founder & COO | Top 10M | — | — |
| 25 | Electric Sheep AI-powered video editor and VFX platform | $500K | 15 mo ago | Seed | 4 | Jake Laver Co-Founder | Top 50M | — | — |
| 26 | Spitfire Audio Developer of virtual instruments and sample libraries for music creation | $297K | 13 mo ago | Acquired | 100 100 → 66 (-34%) | Christian Henson Co-Founder | Top 500k | — | — |
| 27 | WeLoveCinema Platform offering movie database | $212K | 80 mo ago | Funding Raised | 1 | — | Top 5M | — | — |
| 28 | This One Online movie tracking platform | $166K | 47 mo ago | Deadpooled | 3 | Johnny Hunter Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 29 | recdek App-based movie recommendation platform | $152K | 24 mo ago | Seed | 2 | — | — | — | 2 launchs |
| 30 | Beyondwords Provider of an AI audio CMS for publishers and content creators | $150K | 59 mo ago | Seed | 7 | James Macleod Co-Founder and COO | Top 5M | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 31 | ERA IT workflow solutions | — | 46 mo ago | Late Stage | 20 | — | — | — | 1 partnership |
| 32 | Ortana Media Group Cloud-based media asset management and orchestration solutions | — | 55 mo ago | Acquired | 8 | James Gibson Founder & CEO | — | — | 3 partnerships |
Top 12 Tech for Film & TV companies in London
#1
Public · London, England · founded 1998 · 28 employees$3.9Mraised▾
Blackbird is a cloud-based video content management provider. It provides video content management for enterprises. It provides live and non-live video workflow platforms to access, view, and clip the video content for publishing, conforms, and delivery to multiple platforms. It provides the platforms such as Blackbird Ascent and Blackbird Forte for workflow management. Blackbird Ascent provides the cloud-based video editor for the creations of sports, news, and event highlights videos. Blackbird Forte provides the post-production workflows for the video content.
- Jul 2025Post IPO$2.7M
- Feb 2024Post IPO$1.1M
#2
Seed · London, England · founded 2022 · 4 employees$500Kraised▾
AI-powered video editor and VFX platform. It is designed to accelerate and streamline the visual effects industry, for Film and TV production. It helps VFX artists focus on creativity by automating complex, time-consuming tasks such as rotoscoping through advanced AI technology.
- Feb 2025Grant (prize money)$633.2K
- Aug 2023Seed$500K
#3
Acquired · London, England · founded 2007 · 100 employees$297.5Kraised▾
Developer of virtual instruments and sample libraries for music creation. The company partners with studios and musicians to provide tools for composing. It offers a range of instruments, including strings, pianos, percussion, and woodwinds. The company also provides orchestral libraries and collaborative works.
- Apr 2025Grant (prize money)$297.5K
#4
Series C · London, England · founded 2011 · 67 employees$67.3Mraised▾
V-Nova is a London-based tech company group providing video compression solutions to multiple industry segments, including broadcasting, media, telecommunications, aerospace, security, video conferencing, medical imaging, video games, and telematics. V-Nova created and developed PERSEUS, an encoding technology based on principles underlying human vision, simultaneously offering improvements in compression, picture quality, and processing speed.
- Jul 2021Series C$38.8M
- Oct 2020Series B$22M
- Oct 2018Series A—
- Jun 2017Series A$5.7M
#5
Series A · London, England · founded 2015 · 56 employees$30.7Mraised▾
Provider of an AI-enabled video translation platform. It provides the translation of videos. It translates the voice track of videos into other languages. Allows users to upload videos, translate, and save them.
- Jun 2022Series A$20M
- Dec 2020Seed$10.7M
- Sep 2018Seed—
#6
Seed · London, England · founded 2020 · 1 employees$33.5Mraised▾
Developer of AI-assisted technology for editing and refining film performances. The company provides tools for dialogue replacement, localization, and performance transfer. It offers solutions for censorship editing, visual ADR, and campaign revitalization. The technology is available as a web application and Avid plugin.
- Nov 2021Seed$32.1M
- Mar 2021Seed$1.4M
#7
Seed · London, England · founded 2019 · 3 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Online platform offering solutions for pitching scripts. It offers solutions like Pitch Builder, Pitch Protector, Sales Estimator, Automated Legal Templates, and Talent Discoverer. It can be used for the content of various kinds like web series, short-form content, music videos, VR, and more.
- Mar 2024Seed$466.2K
- Jun 2022Seed$152.7K
- Dec 2021Seed$660.2K
#8
Acqui-Hired · London, England · founded 2002 · 4 employees$5Mraised▾
Broadcast monitoring and verification solutions provider. Enables entertainment studios, news, sport and government organizations, TV syndicators, direct response, and brand advertisers to determine when, where, and how their video content.
- Jun 2023Grant (prize money)$179.4K
- Dec 2018Grant (prize money)$142.3K
- Nov 2004Series A$5M
#9
Series A · London, England · founded 2009 · 13 employees$11.9Mraised▾
Platform offering brand protection software. It helps in protecting rights owners from piracy by limiting the distribution of unlicensed content and providing a complete range of anti piracy solutions across the film, TV, music, and publishing industries. The platform offers a big data solution on real time behavior across the piracy market, measuring global audience demand in real time, and helping rights owners to improve the value of content.
- Aug 2022Series A$3.9M
- Apr 2019Series A$4.5M
- Feb 2017Series A$3.4M
#10
Funding Raised · London, England · founded 2002$2.3Mraised▾
Filmlight provides color management solutions for every stage of production. Provides color grading through an integrated pipeline from pre-production to shooting, dailies, VFX, editorial, and finishing. Caters to production companies, post-production facilities, and film/TV studios. Works together at a file-based level and with other products in the production workflow. Winner of 2012 Primetime Emmy Award for significant innovations in TV technology and also Recognized by the UK government with Queen's Awards for Enterprise in 2005, 2006 and 2012.
- Oct 2023Grant (prize money)$497.4K
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$933.6K
- Jul 2017Grant (prize money)$433.9K
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$399.9K
#11
Funding Raised · London, England · founded 2007 · 22 employees$4.8Mraised▾
Online platform offering lists of filming locations
- Feb 2023Conventional Debt$4.8M
#12
Acquired · London, England · founded 2018 · 11 employees$6.9Mraised▾
Sonantic offers AI-based text to speech solutions provider. It provides a platform where users can enter text and the text will be converted to speech based on the AI mechanism. The text can be converted to various voices and languages. the algorithm of the product is such that it matches human speech.
- Jul 2022Series A$4.3M
- 2020Seed—
- Jul 2019Seed$2.6M
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