
Encord
What they do:
The data layer for physical AI
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
This list has 16 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 3 of them are hiring right now. Largest teams: Encord, Heroic Labs, and HelixDB. Latest round: Sava raised €32.1M (Oct 9, 2026).

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The data layer for physical AI
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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Sava Technologies, a London-based HealthTech company developing a wearable biosensor platform that detects molecules just beneath the skin, today announced a €32.08 million ($36 million) Series B round to fund…
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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€32.1M · Series B · Oct 2026

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IMMIX, a London-based AI-native trading firm that helps payment companies exchange stablecoins between currencies, has raised €3.12 million ($3.5 million) in funding. The round was backed by Crane Venture Partners,…
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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€3.12M · Seed · Oct 2026

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Social Infrastructure for Games; Makers of Nakama game server, Satori…
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HQ: London, United Kingdom

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Billing infrastructure for AI
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HQ: London, United Kingdom

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The fastest & most scalable graph-vector database on the market
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HQ: London, United Kingdom

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Data platform for mission-critical real-time workloads
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HQ: London, United Kingdom

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Unlock wasted GPU capacity.
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HQ: London, United Kingdom

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Models that keep learning
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HQ: London, United Kingdom

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Monitor and fix product privacy issues before they block growth
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HQ: London, United Kingdom

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Swarms of agents acting like users to find bugs before release
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HQ: London, United Kingdom

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AI SRE For Teams on Kubernetes
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HQ: London, United Kingdom

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Persistent email inbox, phone number and secret storage for agents
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HQ: London, United Kingdom

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Agent swarms that make long-running tasks exponentially faster
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HQ: London, United Kingdom

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Build Backends. Fast.
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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Dynamical Scaling Virtual Machines as a Service
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
There are 16 startups on this list, last updated on Oct 15, 2026.
3 of them are hiring right now, including Encord, Autumn, and QuestDB.
By team size: Encord (150 employees), Heroic Labs (21 employees), and HelixDB (6 employees).
Latest rounds: Sava — €32.1M Series B (Oct 2026) and IMMIX — €3.12M Seed (Oct 2026).