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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Marketplaces, Ai, and the state of Britain’s eCommerce sector Startup Coalition’s full report is available here.     In January, Frankie Johns started hosting live selling shows on Whatnot. Frankie runs a record shop in Henley-in-Arden, a market town between Stratford-upon-Avon and Birmingham. He’d been selling online for 24 years, but only through static listings. […]
22.10.2026
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A Budget to Back British Founders: Our 2026 Autumn Budget Submission Startup Coalition’s full Autumn Budget 2026 submission is available here. On 28 October, a new Chancellor delivers his first Budget. For Britain’s founders, it’s the moment we find out whether this country still wants to compete for them. Over the past year we’ve asked hundreds […]
22.09.2026
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British businesses spend 11 million hours a year proving they are who they say they are. Today, Startup Coalition is publishing a new report calling on the Government to fix that – we’re calling it BizPass. This summer we commissioned Stack Data Strategy to poll senior business leaders, and put the obvious question to them: […]
26.08.2026
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