Whitmont Fellows
Small teams. Big companies.
A startup school for London, not yet open. While it is being built, we publish research on where the next companies will come from.
- Vertical AIAccelerating
- Agentic softwareAccelerating
- Energy and electrificationAccelerating
- ComputeAccelerating
- Defence, security and resilienceAccelerating
- Robotics and physical AIEmerging
- Hardware, rebornEmerging
- Health, preventive and personalEmerging
- The built environment and climate adaptationEmerging
- Biology as engineeringEmerging
Latest paper
The first paper is WP-2026-01. Subscribe and it finds you.
Research
Ten fields. Three horizons. One map.
The map above is the signature of the research. Where each field sits between now and ten years out is a judgement, what would move it is a signal, and every move is logged with the paper that caused it.
The School
Capital, craft and community. One building.
Capital
Backing at the start, before it is safe.
Craft
People who have done it, and a programme built around finishing.
Community
A room of teams doing the same hard thing at the same time.
A company is now three to five people and the right room.
The floor of staff has become a table. The interesting question is no longer how large a company can grow, but how much a few people can build.
- 01Leave your name
- 02The founder dinner
- 03The cohort
- 04The finishing fortnight
- 05The Number
One number, every year.
Whitmont will publish what the companies from the Room are worth, divided by the people who built them. Not jobs. Not valuation on its own.
Fields
| # | Field | Horizon | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Vertical AI | Arriving now | Accelerating |
| 02 | Agentic software | Arriving now | Accelerating |
| 03 | Robotics and physical AI | Forming | Emerging |
| 04 | Hardware, reborn | Forming | Emerging |
| 05 | Energy and electrification | Arriving now | Accelerating |
| 06 | Compute | Arriving now | Accelerating |
| 07 | Biology as engineering | Ten years out | Emerging |
| 08 | Health, preventive and personal | Forming | Emerging |
| 09 | Defence, security and resilience | Arriving now | Accelerating |
| 10 | The built environment and climate adaptation | Forming | Emerging |
Reality
Where things stand. Honestly.
Nothing here has opened. The Reality page lists what is true today, what is planned, and the log of every change to the facts.