The voice of UK tech startups

We do policy how the startup ecosystem does business: punchy, honest, and focused on outcomes.

Our work isn’t high-level waffle – it’s real, detailed solutions to the problems startups face when they want to set up and grow.

But what matters most is that we get the job done. We don’t care who gets the credit – we just want better policy for the people and companies building the UK’s economic future.

Our Work

Access to Talent

Making sure Britain’s startups can hire the very best – from both home and abroad.

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Access to Talent
Access to Finance → £

Ensuring the UK has the right incentives for founders starting up, and a robust VC market for scaling up.

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Access to Finance
Regulation (≈)

Fighting for regulation that allows startup founders to innovate – whether that’s in the cross-cutting issues impacting all tech businesses or the ones to disrupt established industries.

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Technology Regulation

News + Events

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Today we’ve published Keeping Options Open: The Case for EMI Reform, a new report revealing that the UK’s Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) scheme — once a global leader in startup equity incentives — is now falling behind, putting employees and growing companies at risk. 82% of employers surveyed agreed EMI was a powerful tool for […]
22.10.2025
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With the Budget fast approaching, Startup Coalition has launched a new report calling for steps to put wealth-building at the heart of the Government’s growth strategy, powered by UK Fintechs.   New data released today is stark: Only 50% of UK adults currently invest in anything. Meanwhile, rising inflation has eroded over £400 billion in […]
21.10.2025
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Today we have published a new paper detailing how startups – and by extension the UK’s innovation economy – can maximise the opportunity of the National Data Library. We know that data is one of the three legs of the AI stool alongside compute and talent. Without it the whole thing falls over. The UK, […]
24.07.2025
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