48 Software Companies in London to Know

These software companies are developing solutions for a wide range of use cases across advertising, fintech, logistics and more.

Written by Margo Steines
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UPDATED BY
Ashley Bowden | Nov 11, 2024

London serves as a center for business and tech innovation in the U.K., attracting software leaders interested in building their reputation in a major European market. From banking and social media apps to enterprise business solutions like accounting and logistics systems, companies in the software space engineer products for a broad variety of use cases. See how these software companies with a presence in London are driving progress across industries.

Top Software Companies in London to Know

  • Taboola
  • Square
  • Onfido
  • Codat
  • Prospective
  • Encord
  • Atarim

 

Top Software Companies in London

CSC operates within the financial services space. The company has an array of offerings, including business administration and compliance solutions, administration services for alternative asset managers, transactions for capital markets participants, corporate tax software and digital brand and fraud protection. The company operates several U.K. offices.

 

Contentsquare makes software for delivering quality digital experiences. Its platform includes analytics, performance monitoring and user feedback collection capabilities that serve teams ranging from marketing to product development. The company says its technology supports more than 1.3 million websites and apps across industries such as financial services, retail and hospitality.

 

Zeta Global is a marketing tech company offering solutions for optimizing customer engagement. For example, its customer data management capabilities bring together data from various sources to provide insights that power audience targeting and personalized messaging across channels.

 

AB Tasty, which has offices across a number of major international cities, including London, offers a digital experience optimization platform as a SaaS product. The platform is a space where clients can run experiments and test models on their existing and prospective digital assets to assess their effectiveness. Clients use the service to explore possibilities for websites, mobile apps and other digital assets, allowing them to access specific feedback metrics that bridge the gap between beta test and launch. 

 

PagerDuty makes technology to boost operational resilience for businesses across industries like healthcare and financial services. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud comes with features for efficiently managing incidents, integrating automations into important processes and providing stakeholders with real-time status updates.

 

Ascent is a regulatory compliance platform that uses AI to identify what regulations financial companies have to comply with. It provides information and tools to help companies reduce compliance risk, drive efficiency and reduce costs, including solutions for rule adoptions and amendments and new guidance and enforcement activity.


 

Nasuni provides its cloud computing software services to client companies to create data clouds. It builds and runs its file storage solutions in its cloud-native system UniFS to enable security, scalability and file access with automated backup and a centralized management. The company offers global collaboration services and has a London office near Paddington Station.  

 

Personio is a software company that serves the human resources space, with SaaS products including a comprehensive platform for HR management. Made for small-to-medium-sized businesses, the platform can act as an independent HR department, or augment the efficiency of a fully staffed HR office. 

 

Square builds software and hardware solutions to streamline business operations. Using the company’s point-of-sale system, businesses can accept a range of payment types, from card or contactless payments at a checkout counter to buy now, pay later installment plans. Square’s products also cover online ordering, marketing, loyalty programs, payroll and other important business functions.

 

 

Sendbird provides a conversation API that allows companies to build chat, notifications, voice, video and live-stream capabilities into their platforms. Its solution aims to decrease operational complexity and allow developers to work without focusing on features, edge cases, reliability or scale. Sendbird serves businesses including Hinge, Paytm and Rakuten.

 

Reorg makes software for market intelligence in financial and legal services. Its platform brings together disparate pieces of data and intel and runs it through an AI analysis process to generate insights that guide investment choices and business strategies. Reorg is used by legal and financial services professionals including traders, portfolio managers, investment bankers and capital market lawyers to help them gain a competitive advantage. 

 

Lansweeper provides a comprehensive IT platform that provides a company with full visibility to aspects of its network like software, computers and IoT devices. It continuously monitors for potential inventory assets and network threats. The company has expanded to multiple markets and its London office is located near Pimlico. 

 

GitLab is a comprehensive platform that works to empower remote work, open source, DevSecOps and iteration. The company’s solution has millions of users. GitLab helps them deliver software faster and more efficiently while strengthening their security and compliance.

 

VelocityEHS offers solutions that help businesses achieve their environmental, social and governance goals as well as their environmental, health and safety responsibilities. Its predictive technology products help organizations create efficient workflows, reduce costs and drive more sustainable outcomes. The company serves more than 19,000 customers across multiple industries.

 

Clear Street offers a proprietary cloud-based trading platform. Without using mainframe-based systems, it enables efficient access to execution options, securities lending and financing, and allows customers to complete U.S. options and equities transactions. The company hires for hybrid roles out of London. 

 

Bringg makes software tools businesses use to streamline last-mile delivery operations. Its solutions cover route optimization, real-time delivery tracking, returns management and other elements of efficient deliver experiences. Bringg’s technology supports more than 200 million deliveries each year.

 

Bullhorn makes HR software for recruiting and staffing. On its platform, talent acquisition professionals like recruiters, headhunters and hiring managers can access an applicant tracking system that automates recruiting processes like lead contacts and follow-ups, using predictive intelligence to direct resources efficiently. The company’s London office is currently seeking new hires. 

 

Remitly is a fintech company making secure, affordable money transfer services available to users in more than 170 countries and territories. The company says its transfer process is designed to be quick and simple, and Remitly refunds fees for customers whose transfers aren’t delivered on time. Transfer recipients can get their money via cash pickup, bank deposit, mobile wallet, home delivery or debit card deposit.

 

Klaviyo builds software solutions to support effective marketing campaigns. Its platform helps brands efficiently build optimized customer experiences through automated workflows and targeted, personalized customer messaging. Klaviyo also offers more than 350 pre-built integrations so that its technology can collect and act on data from the rest of an organization’s tech stack.

 

Auror works to combat ORC, or Organized Retail Crime groups by connecting retailers with the organizations and timely information they need. Its partnership with law enforcement agencies allows it to handle the groups that resell billions of dollars in stolen merchandise every year. The company has teams throughout the United Kingdom and an office in London.

 

Navan offers software solutions that businesses use to efficiently create and manage travel programs. Its platform has features for booking flights, hotels and other travel accommodations, as well as setting spending policies so companies can mitigate potential out-of-policy spending. Navan’s technology is also designed to link to corporate cards and enable quick reimbursements for out-of-pocket expenses in 25 different currencies.

 

Snyk provides software and development teams with a portfolio of security tools. It offers users access to intelligence and products they need to accurately and efficiently implement their code corrections. Snyk has over 2,500 customers globally and the company has an office in the Somers Town area. 

 

iManage makes a knowledge work platform, where companies can establish and maintain best practices for dealing with documents, client information and other knowledge assets while working collaboratively. The platform features tools for email management, legal privacy compliance and workflow management, as well as security protocols for managing access and permissions, which is in fields like law where document confidentiality is paramount. 

 

Prospective is a logistics tech company that serves the demand-responsive transit, delivery and bus and coach industries. Using artificial intelligence, its software syncs fleet vehicle operations to improve efficiency, punctuality and resource use. On the customer side, the platform offers a portal where users can track their vehicle or delivery’s arrival.

 

Warner Bros. Discovery is well known for being one of the world’s largest entertainment and media companies. It is the owner and operator of channels that include CNN and HBO. The company holds a variety of television, movie and video game production companies and distributes its array of media to more than 200 countries around the world.

 

Codat makes APIs for business operations like lending and accounting. Its solutions allow companies to connect their fintech and banking services to the software used by their customers for a streamlined, connected interface on all ends. Clients use Codat’s Sync products to offer integrations for banking, digital lending, spend management, point-of-sale and international transactions.

 

Encord makes software for the development, testing and use of predictive and generative AI. Its data engine streamlines processes for debugging AI models and creates training programs to continually hone their abilities. Serving a wide range of industries, one of Encord’s notable use cases is an AI-powered data labeling system for medical and scientific images.

 

Taboola is a software company focused on native advertising solutions. It offers a platform infused with artificial intelligence capabilities to power content recommendations through digital properties like editorial websites and mobile apps. Taboola’s technology helps advertisers promote their content through placements with publishers, while enabling digital properties to boost engagement and monetization.

 

BigCommerce enables users to create e-commerce sites for their businesses. Its dashboard helps client companies’ integrate their physical and digital storefronts. The company offers its employees access to coworking spaces around Liverpool Street. 

 

Atarim makes B2B visual collaboration software for design projects. Designers can draft work and then share it with clients and collaborators, who can annotate it directly to offer feedback and critique without unnecessary email communications. Thousands of teams, ranging from enterprise clients like Uber and Starbucks, to small businesses rely on the software to streamline what can otherwise be a clunky and time-consuming process.

 

CreatorIQ makes digital tools for the influencer marketing economy. It’s used by every major name in the creator space, like Instagram, TikTok, X and Twitch, to bring data and strategy into each stage of creator marketing. Its software portfolio includes discovery tools that allow clients to search for, assess and compare specific creators, activation tools for onboarding creators and launching campaigns, optimization tools for measuring ROI, and performance and conversion tools for generating revenue from affiliate marketing.

 

Origami Risk provides software solutions for risk and insurance management. Its cloud-based platform, designed to be configurable and scalable, helps organizations manage various aspects of risk, insurance policies, claims, safety and compliance. Origami Risk serves sectors including government, healthcare, construction, insurance, manufacturing and more.

 

Cockroach created CockroachDB, a cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for demanding enterprise applications. The company aims to help businesses of any size scale quickly, survive challenges and achieve success in any environment.

 

AlertMedia provides an emergency communications solution that helps organizations respond to critical events faster. Its solution fully integrates threat intelligence and employee safety monitoring capabilities. The company’s solution leverages a two-way multichannel messaging system to keep teams safe, informed and connected.

 

Trustpilot makes customer experience software for user and customer reviews. B2C clients use it to collect product and service data through reviews, which are aggregated on a dedicated page through the TrustPilot website and can then be accessed for analysis and tracking. Reviews are screened for authenticity and generated in real time by a community of reviewers. One of the company’s global offices is in London. 

 

Commercetools specializes in software solutions that support business-to-consumer, business-to-business and direct-to consumer business models. The company’s composable commerce platform allows its customers to build custom, optimized digital shopping experiences. Headquartered in Germany, commercetools has operations in multiple global locations, including an office in London.

 

OnFido makes digital identity verification software with applications for fraud prevention, compliance, onboarding and customer acquisition contexts. Used by clients for legal age verification, driver registration and “know your customer” compliance, the software includes automation workflows and AI-powered identity search capacity.

 

Duda makes software for professional web designers, who use it to support design services they perform for small business clients. Built for simplicity and scale and used by a range of web design pros from freelance designers to design agencies, its signature platform is built around user-friendly features like drag and drop design, embedded SEO and e-commerce tools. Duda’s London office serves its U.K. team and clients. 

 

Zone & Company is a software company that makes NetSuite native tools that automate back-office processes for large companies. Its billing software, ZoneBilling, handles advanced revenue management and billing as one process that works concurrently within the NetSuite ecosystem. Client companies can perform simple billing as well as more complex contracts like subscriptions, service fees and price tiers. The company’s U.K. office is in London. 

 

DraftKings, a mobile app developer focusing on responsible gaming and corporate social responsibility, creates real-money games and betting experiences designed to excite its users. Its platform works to fuel the competitive spirit of sports fans and offers products spanning areas like daily fantasy, regulated gaming and digital media. DraftKings’ solutions include a digital lottery app, a sports betting platform and more.

 

HiBob offers a cloud-based HR platform that equipps organizations with tools for managing internal processes like payroll, scheduling and performance analyses. Its offerings include a comprehensive review program that provides a holistic assessment of performance, salary and bonuses. It works to help companies fuel engagement across all roles.

 

Clari’s revenue management software seeks to solve a problem common to all businesses, from small to enterprise: how to predict how much money will be coming in in the future. These revenue insights, which can influence decisions like when to scale, when to invest in growth technology and when to implement austerity measures, are delivered via the Clari platform, which looks at business systems data from sales, marketing and other revenue-critical operations to glean information about the flow of money.

 

Sonar equips developers with tools to build software that meets clean code standards, meaning code that is easy to read, maintain, understand and change through structure and consistency while remaining secure. Sonar offers a suite of open-source solutions that provide millions of developers with coding support.

 

Fulcrum GT’s solutions help professional services businesses such as law firms modernize their digital operations. The company offers tools for handling important back-office responsibilities ranging from new business intake and revenue management to accessing data insights that can inform strategic business decisions.

 

Samsara’s platform enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness IoT data to develop insights and improve their operations. The company serves customers across construction, transportation and warehousing, field services, manufacturing, retail, logistics and the public sector. Samsara’s London office is its European headquarters and houses over 200 employees.

 


Qualtrics says it makes software for experience management, with products aimed specifically at B2C companies that need to optimize experiences for both employees and customers. Qualtrics surveys anonymously gather data that client companies use to directly influence operational choices around the products and services it provides, as well as the ways it gets them into customers’ hands. 

 

Deputy offers a workforce management solution that helps streamline scheduling, timesheets, tasking and communication for businesses with shift-based workers. Since its founding in 2008, Deputy has rostered more than 500 million shifts on its platform in over 100 countries and across 245 different industries.

 

Snap offers Snapchat, its mobile media app that allows users to share photos, videos and messages. Its users can engage with their contacts with creative lenses and filters for their visual media. The company has integrated a chatbot powered by ChatGPT, My AI, which provides real-time conversations with personalized suggestions. 

 

Rose Velazquez, Ana Gore and Margo Steines contributed reporting to this story.

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