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.
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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 allMore than 120 climate innovators have signed Startup Coalition’s open letter to the Chancellor calling for the renewal of the £1bn Net Zero Innovation Portfolio, the Government’s flagship programme in technology to accelerate net zero that could be slashed at next week’s Spring Statement. Introduced in 2020 ahead of COP26, the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio […]
04.04.2025
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Startup Coalition and the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) have called on the Government to accelerate plans to give individuals more control over their data whilst unlocking £27bn in economic growth in a new report. The “Smart Data” revolution will arrive with the passage of the Data (Use and Access) Bill (the “Data Bill”), which will […]
12.02.2025
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A new report published by the ClimateTech Policy Coalition, of which Startup Coalition is part, has today called for the Labour Government to put innovation at the heart of its climate agenda. The Coalition brings together academia, investors and startup founders to build a policy agenda that accelerates the use of technology to mitigate climate […]
20.12.2024
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