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The UK’s home for tokenised equity. Independent news, insight and resources for founders raising capital, investors deploying it, and the firms supporting both — as the regulation, infrastructure and opportunity converge.
Haatch Sells Out Another £4.5m SEIS Fund. The Bigger Question Is What Happens to All That Capital Next.
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.
Shawn Jhanji
15 hours ago4 min read
The British Business Bank Just Bet £90m on First Time Fund Managers. The Real Question Is Who Gets to Be a Gatekeeper.
Picture a founder in Bradford with a working product, early revenue and a plan to grow. She has never raised institutional money before, knows no one who has, and has no warm route into a London fund. For years, the honest answer to whether she gets funded has been decided long before she opens her
Shawn Jhanji
Jul 16 min read
UK Startup Funding Faces a £550 Million Shortfall as VCT Tax Relief Falls to 20 Per Cent
From 6 April 2026, the income tax relief available to investors in Venture Capital Trusts dropped from 30 per cent to 20 per cent. The change was announced in the 2025 Autumn Budget and took effect in the new tax year. Two months on, the implications are still being absorbed by the startup ecosystem
Shawn Jhanji
Jun 24 min read
Why Five Data Points About Founder Funding Should Shape How This Sector Thinks About Capital Access.
Category: FOUNDER ACCESS & CAPITAL REFORM
Shawn Jhanji
May 274 min read
Europe Has Just Committed €5 Billion to Back Its Best Tech Scaleups. Here Is What Founders Need to Know.
The European Commission announced on 18 May 2026 that it had selected Swedish investment firm EQT to manage the new Scaleup Europe Fund, a vehicle with a target size of €5 billion designed to back the continent's most promising technology companies at the growth stage. The fund will invest across th
Shawn Jhanji
May 204 min read
UK Startups Raised £6 Billion in Three Months. Female Founders Are Still Getting 2p of Every Pound.
18 May 2026 | Category: FOUNDER ACCESS & CAPITAL REFORM
Shawn Jhanji
May 187 min read
A Confidential Network for VC Accountability Has Started Recruiting in Britain. What Does It Signals for Founders?
The venture capital industry runs on reputation. Relationships are currency. Warm introductions open doors that cold calls cannot. And dissent about how the system works can be career-limiting in an industry small enough for word to travel fast.
Shawn Jhanji
May 154 min read
As Tokenisation Reaches Private Equity and Venture Capital: What Has Actually Changed?
Private equity and venture capital have been theoretical use cases for tokenisation for several years. In 2026 they are starting to become real ones, but rarely in the ways the early narratives predicted.
Shawn Jhanji
May 155 min read
London Takes a Tokenised Venture Fund Live: Lingfeng, LSEG and Archax
A Hong Kong venture capital firm chose London to launch its tokenised Digital Venture Fund. The infrastructure that made it possible is now operational, and accessible to other managers.
Shawn Jhanji
May 144 min read
British Business Bank Extends Lifted Ventures Partnership to Widen the Pipeline of Female Angel Investors Across the UK
Only around 14% of UK angel investors are women. That figure has not shifted meaningfully in years, and it matters because the composition of the investor base directly shapes who gets funded. Female angel investors are significantly more likely to deploy capital into female-founded businesses. If t
Shawn Jhanji
May 133 min read
The £500m Turning Point: British Business Bank Is Rewiring the Infrastructure of Founder Access to Capital
Two pence from every pound. That is the share of UK venture capital that reaches all-female founding teams, according to data from the British Business Bank's own research.
In a year when UK equity investment fell 2.5% to £10.8 billion and deal numbers dropped 15.1% to 2,048, the concentration of capital in a narrow slice of the founder population is not a minor inefficiency. It is a structural constraint on how much economic potential the UK's startup ecosystem is capabl
Shawn Jhanji
May 16 min read
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