Making sure Britain’s startups can hire the very best – from both home and abroad.
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
Finance → £
Ensuring the UK has the right incentives for founders starting up, and a robust VC market for scaling up.
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.
News + Events
View allOur new report, published in partnership with Mozilla, argues that open source AI has moved from a backwater of hobbyist tinkering to geostrategically critical infrastructure — and that European governments urgently need to catch up. The report sets out seven policy reforms to unlock the UK’s open source AI ecosystem. These policy recommendations, include: adopting […]
17.04.2026
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“At Startup Coalition, we view the availability of financial advice through generative AI tools as the single biggest aid in increasing financial inclusion since the advent of online banking first put everyday financial services directly into people’s hands.” A quote from our AI Vision for Fintech, published today as our response to the Mills Review […]
24.02.2026
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We’ve spent months crunching data, surveying founders, and speaking to founders. Today, Startup Coalition is publishing its inaugural AI Index – the first comprehensive profile of the UK’s top 1,000 AI startups and scaleups by raise. The headline numbers are substantial. These 1,000 firms have collectively raised £20.2 billion, command valuations exceeding £45 billion, and […]
08.01.2026
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