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Top Developer tools companies in London

IDEs, runtimes, frameworks, and platforms built primarily for engineers. Filtered to companies headquartered in London.

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    Retired· London, England, United Kingdom

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    • 19k employees
  2. 2
    PedidosYa· Cordon, Palermo, Parque Rodo, Montevideo, Uruguay

    We’re the delivery market leader in Latin America. Our platform connects over 77.000 restaurants, supermarkets, pharmacies and stores with millions of users. Nowadays we operate in more than 500 cities in Latinamerica. And we are now over 3.400 employees. PedidosYa is available for iOS, Android and Windows Phone operating systems and downloads are now over 20 million.

    • Series unknown
    • 15.3k employees
    • Founded 2009
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    Pharma Solutions Hub· London, England, United Kingdom

    Pharma Solutions Hub partners with pharmaceutical and biotech startups to accelerate product development, secure sensitive data, and modernise R&D operations. We deliver custom software, AI pipelines, cloud engineering, and cybersecurity built for regulated environments. Our team combines software engineering, data science, and compliance expertise to create reproducible, auditable systems that speed discovery, protect IP, and keep clinical data safe. Follow this page for practical guides, technical playbooks, case studies, and security checklists that help founders, CTOs, and technical teams move faster and safer.

    • 15k employees
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    Deliveroo· London, England, United Kingdom

    Deliveroo is an award-winning delivery service founded in 2013 by William Shu and Greg Orlowski. Deliveroo works with approximately 176,000 best-loved restaurants and grocery partners, as well as around 150,000 riders to provide the best food delivery experience in the world. Deliveroo is headquartered in London, with offices around the globe. Deliveroo operates across 9 markets, including Belgium, France, Italy, Ireland, Qatar, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and the United Kingdom.

    • Post-IPO equity
    • 11.5k employees
    • Founded 2013
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    Game Developer· London, England, United Kingdom

    The game developer is a global community of people who are passionate about making games. It includes people of all skill levels, from beginners to experienced professionals. The community is a great resource for game developers to learn, share ideas, and get help from others.

    • 8.5k employees
    • Founded 2015

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London has long been a hub for Developer tools, and the list above ranks the largest Developer tools companies headquartered there by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 2,227 matching companies in Refolk’s index, this is a good map of where the Developer tools talent in London lives - useful whether you’re recruiting, partnering, or sizing a market.

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Refolk pulled Developer tools companies headquartered in London from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, ranked them by current employee count, and kept those with at least 10 employees. The list refreshes monthly.

Last refreshed: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 03:09:43 GMT

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