Top Grant-funded companies in London
Companies whose latest disclosed funding is grant or non-dilutive support. Filtered to companies headquartered in London.
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Ranked by current headcount across Grant-funded companies headquartered in London. Refreshed daily.
- 1PwC· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 296.7k employees
- Founded 1998
- 2Shell· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 193.9k employees
- Founded 1907
- 3Unilever· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 137.4k employees
- 4BAE Systems· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 44.8k employees
- Founded 1999
- 5BBC· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 42.3k employees
- 6Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 32.5k employees
- Founded 1948
- 7Rolls-Royce· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 31.2k employees
- Founded 1906
- 8Intertek· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 30.6k employees
- Founded 1996
- 9HM Revenue & Customs· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 26.1k employees
- Founded 2005
- 10UCL· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 24.3k employees
- 11King's College London· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 20.5k employees
- 12Imperial College London· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 17.8k employees
- Founded 1907
- 13National Grid· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 17.2k employees
- Founded 1935
- 14Howden· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 13.7k employees
- Founded 1994
- 15INEOS· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 12.1k employees
- Founded 1998
- 16Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 11.4k employees
- Founded 1993
- 17The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 9.5k employees
- 18BBC News· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 9.2k employees
- Founded 1922
- 19GKN Automotive· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 9.1k employees
- Founded 1995
- 20Queen Mary University of London· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 8.7k employees
- 21Johnson Matthey· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 8.6k employees
- 22Barnardo's· Ilford, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 5.8k employees
- 23University of Westminster· London, England, United Kingdom
- Grant
- 4.9k employees
- 24EBRD· London, England, United Kingdom
- non equity assistance
- 4.7k employees
- Founded 1991
- 25Fanshawe College· London, Ontario, Canada
- Grant
- 4.5k employees
- Founded 1967
Find engineers at Grant-funded companies in London
Grant-funded companies in London are some of the fastest-moving employers in the market. The list above ranks the largest Grant-funded-stage companies headquartered in London by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 792 matching companies in our index, the density of senior engineers, designers, and founders is unusually high.
At Grant-funded, teams tend to be small, ambitious, and on the hunt for senior talent. The companies on this list are good signals for where the Londontalent market is heating up — and for which engineers and founders are about to become tomorrow’s operators.
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