An early assessment by SQW found six British Business Bank regional funds made 951 investments and drew £233 million of private money by September 2025. The evidence shows who gets first institutional money, and little yet on what follows.

Founders, staff and early investors in UK startups now have more ways to sell shares before an exit. This guide compares private sales, company buybacks, tender offers, crowdfunding secondary markets, PISCES and tokenised shares.

A 2026 RBC and Campden Wealth survey found that 47 per cent of attempted fund exits stalled. This Open Question asks what that means for family offices as patient capital, and for UK founders raising from them.

The prudential rules set a minimum. The firm's own risk assessment may set a higher figure. The funding plan has to keep both in place from authorisation onwards. These are three separate questions, and a founder needs an answer to each.

The British Business Bank has committed £10 million to Fuel Ventures through its Regional Angels Programme, to widen early stage investment and further funding for portfolio companies.

British Business Bank research published on 29 September 2026 finds UK venture capital funds returning as much as US funds overall, and more among recent funds. The catch is that much of the recent gain has not yet been paid out in cash.

A growing gap is opening up between two very different things that both get called a tokenised stock, and 2026 is the year regulators started drawing the line publicly rather than leaving it to the small print.

The milestone combines public and private money. The fund's own capital accounts for 44 million pounds of it, which tells a founder more about what is still available than the headline does.

The round is one of the largest into a UK life sciences company this year, and the capital setting its price came from the United States.

Since 19 January 2026, UK private companies can raise £5m or more from a broad group of investors without a prospectus, through an FCA-authorised public offer platform. How the route works, what the platform must check, and the open question on tokenised shares.

While public software stocks have taken a beating and social feeds have spent six weeks declaring a SaaSpocalypse, one UK seed investor's own portfolio numbers tell a calmer story about what is actually happening inside early stage software companies.

For UK founders keeping half an eye on whether domestic deal flow is holding up amid a wider debate about Britain's shortage of growth capital, the latest weekly snapshot from Tech.eu offers a genuinely encouraging data point, even if it comes with the usual caveats about lumpy, week to week numbers

For years the frustration voiced by British founders and the people who build alongside them has been the same. You can grow a company worth billions in London and still find that nobody who helped create that value can realise any of it, short of selling to an overseas buyer or waiting out an IPO t

A freedom of information request that nobody should have needed to file found that 81 per cent of the assessors for Innovate UK's Women in Innovation programme were male. Not a percentage from an anonymous third-party study. The publicly funded body specifically designed to support female founders w

The tokenisation conference season has produced a steady stream of platform announcements, partnerships and market positioning updates in 2026. But the week of Consensus Miami has delivered a concentrated burst of news from one of Europe's most active tokenisation infrastructure providers.