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Top Contech Companies in the UK | 2026

Lily Ruaah,
 27 April 2026

UK contech companies raised £57.1m in 2025 — the biggest year on record for the sector — and 2026 has opened even more strongly, with £38.1m raised through the first quarter alone. In total, contech companies in the UK have raised £259m across all equity fundraisings tracked by Beauhurst, with 94% of that total arriving since the start of 2020.

We’ve ranked the top 25 contech companies by total equity raised (all data sourced from the Beauhurst platform).

What is contech?

Contech — short for construction technology — covers the application of software, hardware, and materials science to the design, construction, and management of the built environment. It spans site-monitoring sensors, BIM and augmented reality tools, AI-driven project planning, low-carbon building materials, and platforms that digitise procurement, subcontracting, and site communications.

Beauhurst tracks 132 active contech companies in the UK, up from 44 in the final quarter of 2015 — a 200% increase over the decade. Together, these companies have raised £259m, with £242m of that arriving since 2020 (94% of the sector’s all-time total). The 15 companies reporting full financials generated £1.03b in turnover, and the sector supports an estimated 6,908 employees across the UK.

Key findings

  • Converge tops the ranking with £41.0m raised. The West Midlands-based company develops sensors and real-time data analytics for construction sites, and accounts for 16% of all UK ConTech equity raised to date.
  • XYZ Reality (£34.4m, London) takes second place with augmented reality tools for viewing 3D construction models on site, followed by Foresight (£28.6m, London) in project management software, nPlan (£28.1m, London) in machine learning for construction outcomes, and Qualis Flow (£14.4m, London) in IoT environmental monitoring. The top five account for 57% of all equity raised in UK contech.
  • London hosts 12 of the top 25, followed by the South West (3) and the North East (2). The top 25 spans 11 UK regions in total — an unusually broad geographic footprint for a list of this size.
  • Venture-stage businesses dominate the top 25 (16), followed by growth-stage (5), with two seed-stage companies and two exited businesses. Notably, no established companies appear in the top 25 — a profile that marks contech out as the youngest sector we’ve analysed, with the entire leading cohort still in active growth phase.
  • The top 25 collectively raised £236m — 91% of the sector’s all-time total.

Methodology

To be included in this list of contech companies, companies must be:

  • Headquartered in the UK
  • Operating in the ‘ConTech’ Beauhurst industry classification
  • Listed as ‘Active’ on Companies House

We’ve then ranked these companies by total equity raised.

If you’re a Beauhurst subscriber, you can view this list directly in the platform and apply additional filters to refine the results.

Analysis accurate as of 24 April 2026. The table below is updated weekly to reflect the most recent data from the Beauhurst platform.

Top 25 contech companies in the UK

10.

Total amount raised: £185m
Total equity rounds: 5
Established: 2014
Location: Oxford

Oxa develops software designed to power driverless vehicles, with technology that uses features such as cameras and lasers in order to sense and navigate the surrounding environment. In 2023, the UK government announced that Oxa had been included in their Advanced Manufacturing Plan, setting out £150m of investment to supercharge the self-driving vehicle sector. They have received £185m to date through five rounds of fundraising, including £113m in December 2022, aimed at selling its software to a wider range of industries and growing worldwide.

9. Callsign

Total amount raised: £215m
Total equity rounds: 5
Established: 2010
Location: City of London

Focusing on creating smooth customer interactions, AI company Callsign has produced technology for passive authentication, fraud prevention, and intelligence. Its proprietary technology uses artificial intelligence to mimic how humans recognise each other. In October 2021, Visa choseCallsign as their preferred behavioural biometric and device intelligence identity partner across Europe. Callsign is the world’s fastest-growing behavioural authentication and intelligence company. It has raised a total of £215m in investment, across five funding rounds. The company’s main investors include JP Morgan, AllegisCyber, and NightDragon Security.

8. Lendable

Total amount raised: £216m
Total equity rounds: 7
Established: 2014
Location: Hackney

Lendable is a fintech company developing a peer-to-peer lending platform for consumer finance. The company’s AI software matches users with appropriate investors, leveraging artificial intelligence and automated underwriting to quickly approve loans. Lendable also offers loans to those with lower credit scores to provide a fairer borrowing solution. Lendable has raised £216m, across seven funding rounds, since 2014. It’s expanded to offices in New York, Nairobi, and Singapore, and has featured in several high growth lists: 2022’s FT 1000, the Deloitte Fast 50 in both 2019 and 2020, and the Fast Tech Track 100, also in 2019 and 2020. Additionally, in 2018, Lendable participated in Addleshaw Goddard’s AG Elevate accelerator programme for scaling fintech startups.

7. Huma

Total amount raised: £236m
Total equity rounds: 10
Established: 2011
Location: Westminster

​​Huma (previously Medopad) is developing a web-based portal for hospitals and healthcare professionals to contain, manage, and collect health records. This data is then accessible to patients through a mobile app. Alongside its main goal of managing healthcare data, Huma also works on digital health insights and has developed wearable technology to detect digital biomarkers and assess health in real-time. Huma has been working with many organisations around the world, including the NHS, to monitor COVID-19 patients remotely. The AI company has secured £236m in fundraisings, from investors including Healthbox, Nexus Investments, Bayer, and NWS Holdings. In 2020, the company acquired two businesses: stress and productivity biometric startup BioBeats, and Tarilian, an optoelectronic sensor company that makes technology for measuring blood pressure and heart monitoring. They have since acquired Alcedis, developers of a platform for the digitisation of clinical trials that can be integrated with third-party systems, and iPLATO, developers of an app that improves patients’ access to GP practices through an online booking system, and provides a platform for healthcare campaigns.

6. Patsnap

Total amount raised: £251m
Total equity rounds: 4
Established: 2007
Location: Southwark

Patsnap has created a web-based platform to help clients assess intellectual property patents, with access to patent expiry dates, licensing, renewal, and legal information for tech companies. The lawtech company’s platform is powered by artificial intelligence algorithms and natural language processing, to parse patents and IP, as well as extract and cross-match critical information. It can even analyse more complex documents, like clinical trials, chemical structures patents, and litigation records. Patsnap has over 10k customers in over 50 countries, including big names like Tesla, Dyson, and NASA. So far, the company has secured £251m in investment, across four funding rounds.

5. Quantexa

Total amount raised: £286m
Total equity rounds: 6
Established: 2016
Location: Lambeth

Quantexa is a cybersecurity firm that develops AI technology to secure organisations’ data and flag illegal activity. It works closely with industries that handle large datasets (such as banking, e-commerce, and the public sector), to create analytical models that uncover data risk, reveal opportunities, and enhance decision making. The company is backed by AlbionVC, Dawn Capital, HSBC Enterprise Fund, and Accenture, among others. In its latest funding round, Quantexa raised £104m in investment. This took the company’s total fundraisings to £286m. Quantexa has attended both the Microsoft ScaleUp accelerator and Tech Nation’s Future Fifty accelerator. It has also appeared on several high-growth lists, including The Telegraph’s Tech Hot 100, Fast Track’s Tech Track 100, InsurTech 100, and the 2021 edition of The Regtech 100.

4. Gousto

Total amount raised: £321m
Total equity rounds: 14
Established: 2012
Location: Shepherds Bush

Gousto is a meal kit delivery service that provides exact ingredients and portions to customers with instructions on how to prepare the dish. The food tech unicorn, backed by celebrity fitness coach, Joe Wicks, and Japanese investment giant SoftBank, is powered by AI, a technology used since its founding. They have received £321m in funding to date, through 14 rounds of funding. The most recent of these was in February 2023, which saw £50m invested to support them during times of economic uncertainty. Their post-money valuation was listed as £239m. They have been named on a number of high-growth lists, including the FT 1000, Fast Track Tech Track 100, and Top 100 – Britain’s Fastest Growing Businesses. They also attended the Future Fifty accelerator in 2017.

3. Cera

Total amount raised: £366m
Total equity rounds: 9
Established: 2015
Location: Islington

Cera provides homecare, telehealth consultations, and prescription services, which can be managed through a mobile app, which also allows users to book appointments with nurses on demand. To date, they have secured £366m through nine rounds of fundraising. In August 2022, they raised £81.3m to invest in increasing their capacity to help more patients, a project that was invested into by 8090 Partners, Evolve Healthcare Partners, Guinness Ventures, and Jane Street, amongst others. They have attended DigitalHealth.London Accelerator, PwC Scale Programmes, and Govstart.

2. Thought Machine

Total amount raised: £392m
Total equity rounds: 8
Established: 2011
Location: Islington

Thought Machine develops fintech software Vault, which enables banks and financial services providers to centrally manage a range of products. Its core banking platforms can be used to run day-to-day operations, improving the cost, speed, and adaptability of legacy systems. Thought Machine’s software is accessed through an API and has a large artificial intelligence component. The AI company has raised £398m in growth capital so far, across seven funding rounds, with the likes of Molten Ventures (previously Draper Esprit), IQ Capital, Playfair Capital, and British Patient Capital. Its most recent fundraising, secured in July 2020, saw the company valued at £221m pre-money. Alongside new investors ING Ventures, JP Morgan Chase Strategic Investments, and Standard Charter Investments, this latest raise also saw Thought Machine reach unicorn status.

1. Graphcore

Total amount raised: £528m
Total equity rounds: 9
Established: 2016
Location: City of Bristol

Graphcore operates in the semiconductor processing chip industry, developing and manufacturing chips made specifically to accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning tasks. Graphcore’s chips use Intelligence Process Unit (IPU) technology, housing 1,472 separate IPU-Cores, capable of executing 8,832 separate parallel computing threads. The Bristol-based AI startup has grown from strength to strength since 2016, with a total of nine funding rounds under its belt, which saw it reach unicorn status after just four years of trading. Graphcore has raised more than half a billion pounds in investment, and is partnered with large tech companies such as Microsoft and Dell Technologies. The company has offices in London, Cambridge, Oslo, Beijing, Seoul, and across the US.
Last Updated: 27 April 2026
# Company Region Stage Employees Total Raised
1 Converge West Midlands Growth 50-99 £40,976,954

Converge

Converge develops sensors and software that collates the information collected from these sensors, so that the data can be analysed in real-time. The sensors are able to monitor a multitude of metrics, dependent on the user's requirements.

https://www.converge.io/
Industries Application software Data aggregation Data provision and analysis Electronics hardware Energy management and reduction Property development and construction Sensors
2 XYZ Reality London Growth 250-499 £34,408,166

XYZ Reality

XYZ Reality develops augmented reality and virtual reality technology that enables its clients to view digital 3D models of their construction projects.

https://www.xyzreality.com/
Industries Application software Property development and construction
3 Foresight London Venture 25-49 £28,577,640

Foresight

Foresight develops management software for construction projects.

https://www.foresight.works/
Industries Application software Data provision and analysis Property development and construction
4 nPlan London Growth 50-99 £28,107,912

nPlan

nPlan develops machine learning software designed to enable its clients to predict the outcomes of construction projects and plan them accordingly.

https://www.nplan.io/
Industries Application software Data provision and analysis Property and land assets management
5 Qualis Flow London Growth 50-99 £14,436,478

Qualis Flow

Qualis Flow develops Internet of Things software designed to enable construction project managers to keep track of the social and environmental impact of their projects.

https://qualisflow.com/
Industries Application software Data management Property development and construction Risk and compliance
6 Aphex London Venture 25-49 £12,512,310

Aphex

Aphex develops project planning and monitoring software for the engineering and construction sectors.

https://www.aphex.co/
Industries Application software Assistants, secretaries and administrative support Civil engineering Data management Data provision and analysis Nuclear energy Property development and construction Renewable energy Trains and trams
7 Continuum Industries East of Scotland Venture 25-49 £12,437,010

Continuum Industries

Continuum Industries develops software that aims to help automation of infrastructure design projects.

https://www.continuum.industries/
Industries Application software Civil engineering Data provision and analysis
8 Automated Architecture South West Venture 10-24 £7,950,000

Automated Architecture

Automated Architecture develops automated small production factories that utilise AI and robotics to create a timber building system and licenses these to construction companies.

https://auar.io/
Industries Application software Architecture Building materials, tools and accessories Heavy equipment and machinery Manufacturing Product rental and hire Property development and construction Robots and automation
9 NavLive London Venture 10-24 £5,241,302

NavLive

NavLive develops AI LIDAR scanning technology for building site scanning.

https://www.navlive.ai/
Industries Application software Architecture Electronics hardware Manufacturing Photography and videography Property and environmental survey Property development and construction Technology consultancy and IT and telecommunications support
10 Vateris East Midlands Venture 10-24 £5,075,228

Vateris

Vateris develops technology that aims to reduce carbon emissions within the concrete manufacturing process.

https://vateris.co.uk/
Industries Aggregates Building materials, tools and accessories Environmental consultancy Materials technology Physical sciences research Property development and construction Provision of raw materials
11 Oculo London Venture 25-49 £5,053,030

Oculo

Oculo develops software which allows site managers to remotely view construction sites and comment on tasks or potential health and safety violations. It also allows the user to view a visual history of the site at every stage with dated photographic records so construction progress can be monitored.

https://www.oculo.ai/
Industries Application software Health and safety Property development and construction
12 C-Link London Exited 25-49 £4,816,747

C-Link

C-Link develops software for subcontractor procurement within the construction industry.

https://c-link.com/
Industries Application software Human resources Personnel supply and contract outsourcing Property development and construction
13 Low Carbon Materials North East Venture 10-24 £4,586,254

Low Carbon Materials

Low Carbon Materials develops technology that converts plastic waste into aggregate for industrial application.

https://www.lowcarbonmaterials.com/
Industries Aggregates Building materials, tools and accessories Plastics and rubber Provision of raw materials
14 Prolo London Seed 10-24 £4,161,564

Prolo

Prolo develops a tool for use within the construction industry that can automate procurement processes.

https://prolo.io/
Industries Application software Assistants, secretaries and administrative support Property and land assets investment Property development and construction
15 Build Concierge Yorkshire and The Humber Venture 10-24 £3,800,000

Build Concierge

Build Concierge develops a software platform which aims to help homeowners to source reputable tradespeople and efficiently manage their home improvement projects.

https://www.buildconcierge.com/
Industries Application software Assistants, secretaries and administrative support Property development and construction Tradespeople and trade services
16 Portfolio North West Seed 50-99 £3,457,772

Portfolio

Portfolio provides a platform for investment into property through a mobile app.

https://portfolio.co.uk/
Industries Application software Property and land assets investment
17 Martello South West Venture 10-24 £3,303,686

Martello

Martello develops software, which allows developers to collaborate with their team and assess the suitability of new development sites.

https://www.martello.app/
Industries Application software Property and environmental survey Property development and construction
18 BKwai South East Venture 10-24 £3,136,686

BKwai

BKwai develops software that uses AI to analyse and monitor construction projects from large-scale datasets.

https://www.bkwai.com/
Industries Application software Civil engineering Data provision and analysis Electronics hardware Property development and construction Satellite hardware Sensors
19 SymTerra North East Venture 5-9 £2,522,451

SymTerra

SymTerra develops an online platform and mobile app which aims to improve and manage communications between teams within the construction sector.

https://www.symterra.co.uk/
Industries Application software Data management Property development and construction Technology consultancy and IT and telecommunications support
20 Contilio London Venture 10-24 £2,341,808

Contilio

Contilio develops AI software designed to provide construction companies with real-time data & actionable insights on project process.

https://contilio.com/
Industries Application software Data provision and analysis Physical product design, testing and quality assurance Property development and construction Risk and compliance
21 Mykor South West Venture 10-24 £2,253,451

Mykor

Mykor develops and manufactures insulation using mycelium technology to convert waste industrial biomass into insulation for buildings.

https://www.mykor.co.uk/
Industries Biotechnology Building materials, tools and accessories Energy management and reduction Property development and construction Waste management and recycling
22 Operance London Exited 10-24 £1,825,000

Operance

Operance provides a range of digital modelling and consultancy services for property and development planning.

https://www.operance.app/
Industries Application software Architecture Management and strategy consultancy Property development and construction Risk and compliance
23 Kestrix East of England Venture 10-24 £1,815,466

Kestrix

Kestrix develops a platform for retrofit professionals, which allows users to monitor the energy performance of their buildings.

https://www.kestrix.io/
Industries Application software Energy management and reduction Property development and construction
24 Highway Data Systems West of Scotland Growth 10-24 £1,752,694

Highway Data Systems

Highway Data Systems develops technology for testing the quality of asphalt surfaces.

https://www.highwaydata.co.uk/
Industries Airports Application software Civil engineering Data management Data provision and analysis Health and safety Physical product design, testing and quality assurance Roads and bridges Robots and automation
25 SiteAssist London Venture 25-49 £1,724,935

SiteAssist

SiteAssist develops software for the construction industry that aims to improve its efficiency by digitising paperwork associated with construction jobs.

https://www.siteassist.co.uk/
Industries Application software Assistants, secretaries and administrative support Human resources Property development and construction

The future of contech in the UK

New contech company formations peaked in 2018 and 2019 with 13 and 14 new businesses respectively, before settling into a more measured 7 to 11 per year range. Investment trajectory, by contrast, has only accelerated. 2025 produced the biggest annual total the sector has ever seen at £57.1m, and 2026 has started more strongly still — £38.1m raised in the first quarter alone, already equivalent to 67% of 2025’s full-year total. Each of the last five years has set a new cumulative high, and 94% of all contech funding in the UK has landed since the start of 2020.

Digital site management is contech’s most heavily funded theme. Converge, XYZ Reality, Oculo, Contilio, BKwai, and SiteAssist all feature in the top 25, each building tools that bring software, sensors, or AI-driven analytics to what has historically been a paper-and-clipboard industry. The project planning and scheduling layer has produced some of the most-funded companies — Foresight, nPlan, and Aphex are using machine learning to forecast construction outcomes, track progress, and automate scheduling across complex multi-contractor builds.

A second distinct cluster centres on sustainable materials and decarbonisation. Vateris is reducing carbon emissions in concrete manufacturing, Low Carbon Materials converts plastic waste into construction aggregate, and Mykor produces mycelium-based insulation from industrial biomass. Alongside them, Kestrix and Qualis Flow are applying software to monitor energy performance and environmental impact — a response to the construction industry’s growing pressure to decarbonise. Finally, a third emerging theme is automation and robotics — Automated Architecture licenses robot-operated timber building factories to construction firms, and NavLive develops AI LIDAR scanning for building sites. Together these themes describe a sector still early in its commercial evolution but with clear investor momentum behind digital, sustainable, and automated approaches to building.

FAQ

The top 25 contech companies in the UK, ranked by total equity raised, are led by Converge, XYZ Reality, Foresight, nPlan, and Qualis Flow. Each has raised more than £14m in equity funding to date.

Companies are ranked by the total amount of equity they have raised across all announced and unannounced fundraisings tracked by Beauhurst.

The top 25 UK contech companies have collectively raised £236m — 91% of the £259m raised by all UK contech companies tracked by Beauhurst.

Contech refers to the use of technology to improve the design, construction, and management of the built environment. The field spans site-monitoring sensors, augmented reality and BIM tools, AI-driven project planning, sustainable building materials, construction robotics, and software for procurement, subcontracting, and site management.

London is home to the largest number of top 25 ConTech companies with 12, followed by the South West (3) and the North East (2). The top 25 spans 11 UK regions in total.

Yes. The number of active UK contech companies has grown 200% over the past decade, from 44 in the final quarter of 2015 to 132 today. Annual fundraising set a new record in 2025 at £57.1m, and 2026 has started even more strongly with £38.1m raised in the first quarter.

UK contech companies operate across a wide range of sub-fields including digital site management, project planning and scheduling software, augmented reality and BIM tools, AI-driven monitoring and analytics, sustainable building materials, construction robotics, and digital procurement and subcontracting platforms.

Yes. The ranking includes companies at all stages of evolution. Within the top 25, venture-stage companies are the largest group (16), followed by growth-stage (5), with two seed-stage companies and two exited businesses.

The underlying table is updated weekly using the latest data from the Beauhurst platform. Analysis and commentary were last refreshed on 24 April 2026.

All data in this article is sourced from the Beauhurst platform, which tracks equity fundraisings, company financials, and growth signals for UK and German companies.

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