Insights for founders raising, scaling and exiting

Choose workshops, office hours or private clinics around your cohort’s next milestone. A practical guide for incubator and accelerator programme teams.

Measure founder progress through learning, applied work and milestones, with clear limits on impact claims.

Learn first, watch pitches, read a data room and term sheet, size a first cheque and pick a route into deals.

Compare 50% and 30% relief, limits, holding periods and loss relief, with a worked example of a failed investment.

A 5% success fee on a £600k seed round costs £30,000. UK fundraising adviser fees compared, the incentive problem, and the flat-fee alternative.

What investors actually ask for in a data room, what it costs, and a stage-by-stage document checklist for Seed and Series A.

Female founders get about 2% of UK venture capital. The evidence on why, what it cannot prove and how to fix it.

Choose workshops, office hours or private clinics around your cohort’s next milestone. A practical guide for incubator and accelerator programme teams.

Measure founder progress through learning, applied work and milestones, with clear limits on impact claims.

Learn first, watch pitches, read a data room and term sheet, size a first cheque and pick a route into deals.

Compare 50% and 30% relief, limits, holding periods and loss relief, with a worked example of a failed investment.

Compare ISA, pension, VCT, EIS and SEIS with 2026/27 relief rates, limits and risks.

Exit planning makes a company sellable before a buyer arrives. A UK founder guide to timing, founder dependence, valuation, exit routes and a 10-point checklist.

A senior operations leader working part-time. What they do, what they cost, when to hire one, and how they differ from interim and part-time COOs.