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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Buying British Innovation: Public Procurement’s Crossroads Moment: a new report into Britain’s opportunity to drive economic growth and better public services through buying from UK startups and the barriers stopping us from achieving this. Increasingly, we’ve been hearing from founders about the need to fix public procurement. Of course, part of this is about backing […]
18.08.2026
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Startup Coalition has published Missed Opportunity: The Untapped Potential of Working Class Founders, the fourth and final report in its Funding the Underfunded campaign. Drawing on new data from Social Mobility Ventures (SMV) covering more than 4,000 UK founders from stealth to Series C and beyond, cross-referenced with investment data, the report finds that class […]
27.05.2026
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Our 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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