List of Venture Capital firms in London

Below is a list of venture capital firms operating in Europe. These are companies that mainly focus on IT, media and consumer Internet; some also cover healthcare.

Note that the companies in the list below only includes some of the most active and largest venture capital firms, as there are hundreds and possibly thousands of venture capital firms in the UK alone, the majority focusing on very small investments.

Index Ventures (www.indexventures.com) - Well established VC fund based in London, Geneva and Silicon Valley, investing in Life Sciences and Information Technology. Famous for investments in Skype, Lovefilm, Betfair and MySQL.

Fidelity Growth Equity Partners (www.fidelitygrowthpartners.eu) - London-based venture capital arm of asset manager Fidelity

Accel (www.accel.com) - global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage. Invested in Facebook, Macromedia, Walmart.com. The firm is based in Palo Alto, California with major offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London, and Shanghai

Advent Ventures (www.adventventures.com) - Advent Venture Partners is one of Europe's most successful growth and venture capital investors in market-leading tech and life sciences businesses. Based in London, it invested in video website Dailymotion

Scottish Equity Partners (www.sep.co.uk) - London and Glasgow based, it is one of Europe's leading growth equity and venture capital firms investing in sectors such as IT, energy and healthcare

DN Capital (www.dncapital.com) - London based, focused on digital media and software.

Wellington Partners (www.wellington-partners.com) - Based on London, Zurich, Munich and Silicon Valley, the firm invests in Digital Media, Cleantech, Electronics and healthcare

Eden Ventures (www.edenventures.co.uk) - London and Bath based, seed investors in technology and IT businesses

Dawn Capital (www.dawncapital.co.uk) - early stage technology and IT businesses investor. Invested in advertising.com and Virgin Media.

MMC Ventures (www.mmcventures.com) - MMC are a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high growth, UK companies

Atomico (www.atomico.com) - Atomico is a London-headquartered venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Niklas Zennström, a co-founder of Skype, and invests in innovative technology companies.

Spark Ventures (www.sparkventures.com) - SPARK Ventures is a European early stage venture capital company making investments in early stage European (mainly UK) TMT and healthcare businesses

Arts Alliance (www.artsalliance.co.uk) - invests in high growth companies in Europe with a particular focus on technology-enabled services. Key areas of interest include media & entertainment, mobile services, retail & logistics, marketing services, outsourcing and energy

Amadeus Capital Partners (www.amadeuscapital.com) - Based in Cambridge and London, they invest across the technology spectrum in industries that include communications and networking hardware and software, media, e-commerce, computer hardware and software, plus the medtech and cleantech sectors

Frog Capital (www.frogcapital.com) - Frog Capital is a London-based investment management business specialising in early and growth stage venture capital and private equity investments