London Startups List

Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in London.

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Emerging Students - digital media retail education publishing

Emerging Students

Monocle magazine meets global university community/Ivy League.
Emerging students is a national yet global university news and media company plotting the university graph across the country and abroad. A proprietor of collegiate culture and prudent living, Emerging Students blend a mixture of reportage on university culture ...

Flooved - education open source publishing university students

Flooved

Better than Textbooks

SocialGO - SaaS publishing communities private social networking

SocialGO

Create your own social networking website.

Now Native - mobile publishing content content discovery

Now Native

Mobile-first publisher tools
Now Native provide publishers with a suite of mobile engagement and monetisation solutions. Integrated with just one line of code publishers keep users on their site for longer and monetise them more effectively. Our clients include TalkSport.com and over 120 ...

n0tice - mobile publishing local microblogging

n0tice

mobile publishing platform
See and share what's happening near you. n0tice began as a Hack Day experiment at the Guardian looking at location data on mobile devices. It then took on the ambitions of citizen journalism, inviting people to collaborate on news, events or things to buy and ...

Contributoria - digital media publishing journalism crowdfunding

Contributoria

The independent journalism network
Contributoria is where journalism gets made. Our network of writers, supporters and partners collaborate on all aspects of the journalism process, including commissioning, editing and publication. Launched in January, 2014, Contributoria Ltd is a division of ...

Gamer Guides - publishing video games ebooks

Gamer Guides

Interactive digital strategy guides for gamers
Gamer Guides is a new interactive, digital video game guide publisher. The company products include the Gamer Guides iOS App and the Gamer Guides mobile-friendly website. Gamer Guides mission is to help gamers achieve the most from their games and to make it as ...

Anikibo - e-commerce publishing marketplaces

Anikibo

Marketplace for independent publishers of printed Magazines, Zines, Comics & Books.
Anikibo is a curated marketplace for independent publishers of printed magazines, zines, comics and soon books. Selling direct to the public cuts out distributor rates allowing publishers to retain a great % of the cover price. This is phase 1 of development of ...

Ghost - open source publishing nonprofits blogging platforms

Ghost

Just a blogging platform
Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even (gasp) fun to do. It's simple, ...

The Kernel - publishing

The Kernel

Europe's new quality technology magazine.
Europe's new quality online technology magazine. We publish long-form, high-quality content about the innovations changing our world.

Tech.eu - publishing blogging platforms technology Europe

Tech.eu

A digital publication dedicated to covering the European technology industry in depth
Tech.eu is a new digital publication dedicated to covering the European tech industry in depth, through data-based analysis, research, insights, opinion, investigative journalism and the delivery of relevant news with context. We believe there are certain regions ...

Intent HQ - digital media publishing big data personalization

Intent HQ

We turn social data in to revenue, right out of the box
We are a reasonably new startup based in London with offices in San Francisco. Having raised $20 million in funding and with successful beta projects with Pepsi, Tesco.com and the Red Hot Chili Peppers we are now rolling out our product in full. We've built an ...

Apsmart - social media publishing finance digital entertainment

Apsmart

Innovation via unique mobile solutions
Apsmart is a London-based mobile innovation company who work with startups and established brands that are looking to drive innovation via unique mobile solutions. Our core offering is consultancy, design and development services. Apsmart was acquired by Thomson ...

Reedsy - digital media publishing

Reedsy

Where authors meet the best publishing professionals
Reedsy is the publishing company where authors can keep their royalties and get the same level of quality they would get with a traditional publisher.

ReadWave - digital media publishing ebooks writers

ReadWave

Youtube for writers
ReadWave is the Youtube of stories. We believe that people use SoundCloud to share their sounds, YouTube to share their films, and Flickr to share their photos – yet there is no way for people to share the 30 million stories that they write each year. ReadWave ...

Urban Times - digital media publishing journalism writers

Urban Times

Social publishing platform.
Urban Times is the social publishing platform to read, share and write a better world. We started on a simple premise: news and media is too negative. We dedicated ourselves to building thousands of writers across the planet to cover issues that could improve ...

Blookist - social media publishing blogging platforms

Blookist

Bridging the gap between a blog and a book.
Blookist is a free publishing platform to bridge the gap between a blog and a book by combining the elements of both in a new publishing medium called a "blook". Blooks offer one of the easiest ways to start accepting payments for published content, a more logical ...

FolioShack - financial services publishing document management

FolioShack

Create beautiful, interactive and trackable documents for any device
FolioShack is an end-to-end platform to create documents for a digital world. Create - documents which work on desktop, tablet, mobile and PDF. Distribute - push those documents to your readers. Track - whether someone has read your document, gone past the front ...

Magnific - advertising publishing content content discovery

Magnific

A feed of great content, tailored to your tastes
You use Magnific by signing up and subscribing to areas of interest, which helps you discover more content based on your personal tastes.

24symbols - publishing ebooks subscription businesses

24symbols

A subscription service to read digital books on the Internet.
24symbols is a service to read digital books on the Internet based on a subscription model. It's like a Spotify for books. Book lovers? Just register, click and read. And subscribe for offline reading and access to the whole catalog. Publishers? Find an alternative ...

BlikBook - digital media education publishing

BlikBook

Academic engagement and content discovery platform for students and lecturers
BlikBook is an easy to use platform helping lecturers become more organised and manage out of lecture contact with students. We’re making it easier for lecturers to connect to their students and to each other to find answers and academic support. Integrate BlikBook ...

Enhanced Editions - publishing predictive analytics entertainment industry big data analytics

Enhanced Editions

A marketing optimisation platform for authors and other content creators
Seer uses ‘big data’ to help authors, musicians, and other content creators market their work Seer collects and analyses a huge range of public and proprietary data on sales, pricing, reviews, etc.. of thousands of works. It then automatically recommends the ...

Peekster - digital media publishing news journalism

Peekster

Peekster is Shazam for printed media
Peekster allows readers to have social and contextual interactions with printed content and represents a new content marketplace for publishers worldwide. This innovative approach can do all this directly from any printed newspaper or a magazine around the globe ...

Jellybooks - SaaS analytics publishing ebooks

Jellybooks

Google Analytics for ebooks
Jellybooks helps authors and publishers develop traction by identifying and reaching out to the most influential readers. We build intelligent tools that match books to readers, create buzz, and drive discovery so as to make any new book stand out among the 30 ...

Make Business Beautiful (stealth) - SaaS publishing presentations content

Make Business Beautiful (stealth)

Beyond the document: engaging communications from web & file content (medium meets prezi)
We're on a mission to make business beautiful. Instantly build engaging presentations: Package web & file content | Share anywhere | Track results For the vast majority of us who are neither technical nor design wizards, beautiful and engaging content is expensive, ...

Specle - publishing

Specle

Easy ad delivery for print & digital editions
At Specle, we are revolutionising the world of print and online ad production – and we are looking for great people to join us. Specle produces beautifully simple software solutions for print and tablet ad delivery. We manage, process and deliver thousands of ...

SO News - social media publishing news

SO News

Social News For Londoners
It is a London focused news site where users can submit links and ask questions. I created this because I have heard a number of people say that they don't have any access to good tech news related to London. That it would be great to strengthen the community ...

Eoslides - SaaS education publishing collaboration

Eoslides

Enabling you to present your ideas to the world on any platform you choose.
Eoslides are a different take on presentations. Platform agnostic, highly social and available on any device. We allow our customers to create, present and manage online presentations, take them offline or share across social networks. In addition we help create, ...

eDition Digital - publishing

eDition Digital

Multichannel Digital Publishing
eDition® is a professional multiplatform publishing system for fast and efficient creation and transfer of publications on the Internet and internet tablets (iPad and Android). eDition® preserves the original image of (printed) publication whist enabling numerous ...

Sonar Systems - games education publishing tutoring

Sonar Systems

All In One Entertainment Ecosystem
Sonar Systems is an idea. An idea about enriching peoples lives through entertainment, connections and education. Sonar Systems offers an all in one entertainment and education ecosystem. Allowing people to both play our games and learn how to make their own games, ...

Sharewall - social media publishing machine learning email marketing

Sharewall

Data collection and processing for publishers
Using social currency as data collector and email as monetization engine for publishers. All spiced up with our machine learning real time recommendation engine that regardless of scale engage users with relevant content across channels.

Thumbtags - sales and marketing publishing fashion social commerce

Thumbtags

Thumbtags makes online images shoppable
Thumbtags embeds products and media into online images, generating revenue for publishers. Simply sign up to Thumbtags and your images become monetisable. Currently working with over 100 retail partners including Net a Porter, Asos, John Lewis and House of ...

Glipho - social media publishing social media platforms blogging platforms

Glipho

Meet Social Blogging
Glipho is a social platform for long-text bloggers who have found it difficult to achieve their desired audience and engagement, or who have been disenchanted by the complexity and isolation of existing blogging platforms. Answering the needs of bloggers in the ...

RichTopia - digital media education publishing news

RichTopia

Learn more to earn more.
RichTopia.com is an eMagazine with an emphasis on business and financial success. Our aim is to make it easier for people to lead a richer lifestyle. We provide premium content in a simplified form at no cost to our readers. Our company slogan is "Learn more ...

1000 Cookbooks - social media food and beverages publishing cooking

1000 Cookbooks

Spotify for Food
1000 Cookbooks is building an unparalleled dataset structured information about food and the people who cook it, eat it, photograph it, and write about it - a social/semantic food graph. We have great ideas for mining that data, and combiningg it with access to ...

Blippar

Visual browsing the physical world
Blippar is the world's leading visual browser and a new consumer verb: 'to blipp'. Using sophisticated, proprietary image recognition and augmented reality technology, Blippar enables any static, physical image or object to be turned instantly interactive simply ...

figshare - life sciences publishing big data data mining

figshare

Get credit for all of your research.
figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner. figshare allows users to upload any file format to be made visualisable in the browser so that figures, datasets, media, papers, ...

Procurement Leaders - publishing big data social media platforms events

Procurement Leaders

Bloomberg for Procurement
Founded in 2004 and headquartered in London, Procurement Leaders is a global membership network serving major corporations and procurement, sourcing and supply chain executives. We provide independent procurement intelligence, professional development and peer ...

Gitoon - digital media publishing social media platforms content discovery

Gitoon

curAtive publishing platform
Gitoon is a publishing platform that empowers its audience to contribute creative works and decide what’s good enough to be published, creating a high-quality original content resource. Uploading on Gitoon doesn't equal publishing, and before any material goes ...

Synapz - education publishing college recruiting

Synapz

Synapz is an EdTech startup personalizing education for the world!
Synapz is an adaptive learning platform founded with the mission to personalize education and make it universally accessible. We help every individual student across any educational institution receive personalized learning based on his historical learning data, ...

DeepCrawl (Written Byte) - SaaS SEO publishing digital marketing

DeepCrawl (Written Byte)

Enterprise level site crawling technology
DeepCrawl is an enterprise scale web crawling technology. In simple terms, it acts like Google, goes through your site, tells you what is wrong (like the dreaded 404 pages), but also so much more. DeepCrawl can be used to test sites before they are launched or ...

Mobiloud - mobile SaaS publishing development platforms

Mobiloud

Native mobile apps made easy and affordable for small publishers and bloggers.
Mobiloud makes publishing content-based mobile apps easy and affordable. With Mobiloud, publishers, bloggers and small businesses with a WordPress site or blog can design and build beautiful native mobile apps for their content at a fraction of the cost a developer ...

Snoovies - digital media publishing video streaming film distribution

Snoovies

Netflix for short films
Snoovies is a curated film platform helping people discover quality short films. We have an iOS (https://itunes.apple.com/app/snoovies-short-movies/id949280143?ls=1&mt=8) and Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snoovies.snooviesdroid) app ...

Stonewash - mobile digital media publishing tablets

Stonewash

Mobile magazine apps
We've been creating apps for publishers since long before tablet devices were available. Our roots are in the magazine publishing industry and our approach has always been from the perspective of a media owner, rather than purely as a technology business. At present ...

Picfair - publishing photography marketplaces licensing

Picfair

Your images are valuable
Image licensing for everyone. Picfair is an open-to-all image market, controlled by the photographer - they keep their copyright, control their prices, and take what they ask for. Upload an image within three clicks of arriving on the site; license it within two. Picfair ...

WriteLaTeX - education publishing universities writers

WriteLaTeX

Collaborative Scientific Writing
We're building Google Docs for science. Most of the world's technical and medical innovations begin with a scientific paper, so the faster science moves, the faster the world moves. We make science and R&D faster, more open and more transparent by bringing the ...

LinkedFormat - publishing retail technology e books ebooks

LinkedFormat

Global Identifiers for Books
LinkedFormat (LF) books tags will allow the global book market to operate with a unified reference language. LF tags are assigned to individual titles and link multiple published formats (eBooks, Kindle, Nook Books, iBooks, ePub, PDF, country specific reprints ...

Hot Topics - digital media publishing

Hot Topics

Tech leaders' stories & opinions
Hot Topics is dedicated to delivering unique knowledge, experience, and insights from today’s tech leaders to inspire young entrepreneurs. The Hot Topics community includes many of today’s influencers in the technology industry along with some of the rising stars ...

Yourvine - advertising education publishing

Yourvine

Interactive Challenges

The Publishers - enterprise software publishing press

The Publishers

The world's leading blogs, publications and journalists
The Publishers is a platform for blogs, publications and journalists. Any high quality publisher can be on the platform showcasing their work, their experience and what they write most about. The Publishers is what LinkedIn is for business people, Behance is for ...

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