For UK founders weighing how to reward long serving staff without forcing a sale or an IPO, Moneybox has just supplied a fresh data point, and a useful one, because it is the first British fintech to put real numbers behind the answer.

Haatch Ventures has closed its fourteenth Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme fund after hitting its £4.5 million hard cap, the pre-seed B2B SaaS investor told backers on 11 July, two days after flagging that only £500,000 of headroom remained in a raise it runs partly through Crowdcube.

Picture two founders, both running businesses that make money and make a difference. One has built a climate hardware company and can issue shares like any other startup. The other runs a care provider structured as a Community Interest Company, with an asset lock and a dividend cap baked into its c

A plain English guide for founders and investors. Part of our intelligence series on equity tokenisation in the UK.

A founder in Britain in 2026 can do almost everything right and still end up in someone else's market. She can spin tech out of a UK university, raise a seed round from UK angels, hire her first team in Leeds or Bristol or Oxford, and prove that the thing works. She can scale the business to unprecedented heights - well almost - and then! At the precise moment the company is ready to grow into something durable, she will find that the money to do that is not here. It is

Picture a founder outside the story everyone is telling. She is not building a large language model. She is building a climate hardware business in Sheffield, or a healthtech tool in Cardiff, with early revenue and a plan to grow. This week the British Business Bank published the numbers that descri

Equity crowdfunding made a simple promise: ordinary people could back a young company early, alongside the founders, and share in what it became. Monzo is the poster child. One early round filled in 96 seconds. In December 2018 the bank raised about £20m from roughly 36,000 people. Buying in was effortless, a few taps in an app. Getting out is the part nobody designed for. Most crowd investors do not sit directly on a company's share register. They invest through a nomi

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 dental technology company has put its shares on Solana through a Regulation S offering, and the UK adviser on the deal hints at where private capital formation is heading.

The money lands at the scaling stage, where British companies have long struggled to find patient equity at home.

London Tech Week in review. Instead, in line with the current mood in Number 10, much of the headline address was given over to a lecture and a warning. Tech firms were told they had three months to prevent children accessing, creating and sharing harmful material or face new legislation, with the Prime Minister telling the room that the pace of change cannot be an excuse for harm and that nobody is getting a free pass. Protecting children online is an entirely legitimate pr

A research note published this week by Binance Research puts a number on something the tokenisation sector has been circling for two years. It argues that crypto exchanges could route around US$2 trillion of new capital and close to 300 million new investors into global equity markets by 2031, with

For the second time in three years, London has claimed the top position in Europe's technology ecosystem rankings. Dealroom's Global Tech Ecosystem Index 2026 has placed London ahead of Paris and every other European hub, ranking the UK capital fourth globally behind the Bay Area, New York and Bosto

The tokenised equity sector has reached a milestone that illustrates just how quickly institutional appetite for on-chain financial instruments has matured. Ondo Global Markets, the tokenised stock and ETF platform operated by Ondo Finance, has surpassed $1.5 billion in total value locked, less than

In a courtroom in London, a judge has determined that a startup founder's claims against five of his former investors carry a real prospect of success. It is a procedural ruling, not a final verdict. But for founders who have faced pressure from their backers, the Cognism case is already one of the

The numbers are in for Q1 2026, and the headline story is straightforward: UK equity investment is holding steady at roughly £6 billion per quarter, the UK remains Europe's dominant destination for venture capital, and the market is, on the surface, healthy.

One of the most persistent criticisms of tokenised equity has always been the governance gap: you hold the token, but someone else holds the shareholder rights. On 28 April 2026, that changed. Ondo Finance and Broadridge Financial Solutions announced a partnership that enables holders of over 250 tokenised stocks and ETFs on Ondo's Global Markets platform to participate in proxy voting — and access regulatory filings — for the first time. It is the first time governance ri

A NASDAQ-listed company has made a direct bet on the RWA tokenisation infrastructure sector. Republic Power Group Limited (NASDAQ: RPGL) announced on April 27, 2026 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 10% strategic equity interest in NVC Partners Limited, alongside a technology services and platform enablement arrangement with NVTH Limited and its affiliate NVTHK Limited.

The world of digital assets has seen rapid growth over the past decade, attracting a wide range of investors from retail traders to large institutions. Yet, this growth has not come without challenges. One of the most significant factors shaping investor behaviour in this space is regulatory change. As governments and regulatory bodies around the world adjust their stance on digital assets, investor adoption patterns shift accordingly. Understanding how regulatory changes inf

Monument Bank, a Bank of England-regulated institution serving the UK’s mass-affluent market, has announced plans to tokenise up to £250 million in retail customer deposits on Cardano’s privacy-focused Midnight network, making it the first UK-regulated bank to bring retail deposits onto a public blockchain.