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We’re for the tech and life sciences teams rewriting reality. Whether they’re securing data with light to manufacturing with mushrooms or reinventing energy, we proudly provide specialised support when ordinary banking just isn’t enough.
Meet some of our extraordinary clients
How Fuse Energy flipped the switch
It turns out energy didn’t need fixing, it needed rebuilding. Founders Charles Orr and Alan Chang set out to disrupt the entire sector with a smarter, direct-to-home energy model.
Segura prove the scariest things in the water aren’t visible
Drawing on experience across global water challenges and diagnostic healthcare, José Monge Castro developed a world-changing portable testing device that delivers results in minutes instead of weeks.
Raft Energy: A battery powered by love
By focusing on biology rather than traditional engineering, Benjamin Pluke developed technology that helps biogas operators improve performance and unlock more value from waste streams.
Trogenix: Fighting cancer the ancient Greek way
For Professor Steve Pollard and Dr Ken Macnamara, the goal was always a treatment that cures cancer and provides long-term protection against recurrence. After decades studying cancer, they’ve designed a treatment that gives patients their lives back.
Low Carbon Materials: Kicking asphalt
With 8% of global CO₂ emissions coming from concrete1, Dr Natasha Boulding is on a mission to turn every road, building and pothole repair into a carbon sink.
Epoch Biodesign
UK biotech Epoch Biodesign uses AI-designed enzymes to break down complex plastic and textile into their original building blocks without using extreme heat; instead, biology does the heavy lifting.
Mission Zero: On a mission to remove carbon
Mission Zero is working to remove carbon directly from the atmosphere for conversion into products like aviation e-fuel and building materials.
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We support the most innovative, equity-backed businesses and their investors across all business stages, within the technology, life sciences and healthcare sectors. Our experienced and dedicated team give clients what they need to leave their limits behind and become extraordinary.
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| 4 in 10 UK Unicorns bank with HSBC Innovation Banking. *based on the sectors in which we operate. Please see website for full details. |
Number represents UK VC-backed companies with a market valuation greater than $1 billion in November 2025 that are serviceable by HSBC Innovation Bank Limited. Please see our website for full details about HSBC Innovation Bank Limited’s serviceable market. |
| HSBC Innovation Banking banks over 40% of Series A companies in the UK. *based on the sectors in which we operate. Please see website for full details. |
Proprietary HINV market share calculation: This analysis focuses on identifying UK HQ’d companies that have secured Venture Capital funding >£4 million within the past two years. The data is recalculated monthly on a rolling basis. Encompassing HINV Technology and Life Sciences sectors. |
| HSBC Innovation Banking UK banks 58% of the top 60 largest VC investments in each sector. | The 10 largest Venture Capital deals in each HINV sector raised by UK HQ'd companies this year up to October 2025. Internal HINV sector classifications: Life Sciences, DeepTech, FinTech, Enterprise, Climate and Consumer. Each deal has been verified to confirm UK headquarters, acquisition status since the deal date, and that the deal involves equity financing. |
| HSBC Innovation Banking UK lends to 43% of UK PE Managers. | SFS target universe of PE managers has been identified using Pitchbook, third-party data providers and SFS market intelligence. SFS client of HINV is defined as having a debt relationship with an entity (fund) of the investor, excluding those with banking-only relationships (accounted for in the SFB market share calculation). |
| 71% of VC and PE Funds bank with HSBC Innovation Banking UK. | SFB banking share calculation based on total universe of SFB clients + SFB prospects. |
| HSBC Innovation Banking UK has a 98% client satisfaction score for onboarding. | For UK audiences only. |
| HSBC Innovation Banking UK banks 34/100 of the ST100 companies. | ST 100 list. |
| We bank 53% of early- stage UK climate tech innovators. | Proprietary HSBC Innovation Banking analysis, and that the sector classifications used are HSBC Innovation Banking’s proprietary sector classifications. |
| We bank 47% of enterprise software companies in the UK. | Proprietary HSBC Innovation Banking analysis, and that the sector classifications used are HSBC Innovation Banking’s proprietary sector classifications. |
| We bank 63% of biotech companies across life stages in the UK. | Proprietary HSBC Innovation Banking analysis, and that the sector classifications used are HSBC Innovation Banking’s proprietary sector classifications. |
| We bank 58% of healthtech companies across life stages in the UK. | Proprietary HSBC Innovation Banking analysis, and that the sector classifications used are HSBC Innovation Banking’s proprietary sector classifications. |
| We bank 50% of V&G deep tech companies across in the UK. | Proprietary HSBC Innovation Banking analysis, and that the sector classifications used are HSBC Innovation Banking’s proprietary sector classifications. |