Let’s Fix the UK Startup ecoSystem
A founder-led conversation on how to make the UK a better place to build.
Over the past few months of 2025, one thing has become clear — the UK startup ecosystem is frustrated.
Founders, investors, and operators all feel the same: it’s too hard to build here, too slow to grow, and too easy to leave.
We can keep complaining — or we can do something about it.
That’s why we’re bringing together people who understand what’s really happening on the ground:
founders, investors, lawyers, accountants, educators, and anyone shaping innovation in the UK.
Together, we’ll map out where the system is failing and how to fix it — from education and immigration to funding and founder incentives.
The goal isn’t to create another lobbying group or round of empty promises.
It’s to produce a practical, founder-written document — The Startup Blueprint for Growth — that we can share publicly and with policymakers.
timeline
We’ll run this as a slow, thoughtful process over the next few months:
Monthly themed sessions (online & offline) - Q4 2025/ Q1 2026
Small working groups for each topic
Open community feedback
Final whitepaper publication in Q2 2026
join uS
If you’ve ever felt the system makes it harder than it should be — join us.
Bring your experience, your ideas, your frustrations, your data.
Let’s turn all that noise into something real.
What we’ll discuss
Making entrepreneurship and AI literacy aspirational from school level
Expanding access to university innovation and deep tech infrastructure
Encouraging more people to try entrepreneurship through better incentives and support
Reforming SEIS and improving the quality of early-stage funding
Unlocking access to capital beyond Series A so founders don’t have to move abroad
Making it easier for venture funds to raise capital and exploring pension fund allocation toward venture
Improving talent access and visa flexibility
Creating fairer tax and incentive systems for both founders and investors
Strengthening the scale-up and exit environment
Driving corporate–startup collaboration and early adoption of startup products
Changing the national mindset toward risk and entrepreneurship
Fixing the support system around founders — replacing service sellers with real builders and doers
Reducing bureaucracy and simplifying regulations that block early innovation
Who should join
Founders who’ve experienced the gaps first-hand
Investors who want smarter, long-term capital flow
Advisors, lawyers, accountants, corporates, universities and policy thinkers
Anyone who believes the UK can do better
Outcome
All findings will be published in an open whitepaper and shared publicly and with policymakers:
The Startup Blueprint for Growth: How to Fix the UK Startup System
You’ll be listed as a contributor (if you wish) and credited for shaping real recommendations for government and the ecosystem.
✅ If you want to be part of this
If this resonates and you want to help shape it — add your name below.
We don’t need more noise.
We need people who are ready to turn frustration into something concrete.