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.
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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 allWe have launched a report into the top 50 startup constituencies in the UK – find out where made the list here. This list is based on the number of active startups in each constituency – thank you again to Beauhurst for their data. Key findings included: Eight of the top ten constituencies are […]
12.06.2023
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Today we have launched our latest paper on competition policy – which you can read here. When Coadec was founded in 2010, it was to support a growing ecosystem of businesses and innovators popping up around a small roundabout in Shoreditch, East London. Since that time, the tech startup community – not just in a […]
05.06.2023
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Coadec has launched its latest report on the Open Banking ecosystem in the UK. The report offers new analysis on the size of the UK Open Banking ecosystem, finding that the ecosystem is worth more than £4.1 billion in the UK, with Open Banking firms raising over £886 million in 2022 alone. Regulation has propelled […]
03.04.2023
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