Standfirst: A year after PISCES launched and weeks after Tokenising Startups first mapped the reconciliation between tokenised shares and Companies House, this is a practical stocktake of what a founder or SEIS investor can actually use today, as distinct from what is still a pilot, a plan, or an op

Over 230 founders, 17 roundtables, 11 cities, all four nations of the UK. Earlier this year Startup Coalition ran the kind of listening tour that policymakers usually only manage in an election year, sitting down with founders from Belfast to Cardiff and Aberdeen to Leeds to hear, unfiltered, what i

HexSeed Technology, a deeptech startup based in Banchory near Aberdeen, has raised more than £600,000 in early stage funding led by Carbon13, with participation from the Net Zero Technology Centre and Vento Ventures, backers confirmed this week. The round was written through Carbon13's SEIS Fund IX,

This is the question this publication keeps circling back to, because it is the one genuinely open piece left in an otherwise settled picture. If a UK seed investor holds SEIS qualifying shares represented as a token, what specific custody and nominee structure lets that token satisfy HMRC's conditi

For founders trying to read the mood of the market this year, the number to watch is not a valuation. It is how much dry powder the funds backing them are sitting on. Index Ventures has just given the clearest signal yet that the answer, at least at the top of the market, is a great deal more than a

A small pre-seed round announced this week is a useful reminder of how much of the UK's early stage capital still flows through SEIS wrappers, and how directly that scheme shapes which founders get their first cheque.

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.

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

Picture an angel who backed a Leeds founder's seed round eighteen months ago. The company is growing, a later investor has offered to buy some of the angel's shares, and the angel would like to take a little money off the table. There is a worry in the room. Those shares carry SEIS relief, and SEIS comes with a three year holding rule. Does selling now blow up the tax benefit? For a long time this question got waved away as too complicated, or treated as a genuine unknown