Startup Coalition

The Startup Coalition is back with our second edition of the Startup Coalition Tech Hub! We’re thrilled to announce that the Startup Coalition is gearing up for an exciting season at this year’s Party conferences in Liverpool, Birmingham AND Brighton - we’re dedicated to making tech front and centre in the policy conversations that matter. 

🚨 Party Conference Season is Here! 🚨 Startup Coalition is turning up the heat for our second ✨Startup Coalition Tech Hub✨ at this year’s party conferences! 🔴 Labour Party Conference we’re just minutes away from the action, hosting thought-provoking panels, private roundtables, and unforgettable parties. Whether you're passionate about tech policy in general or want to get in the detail with AI, ClimateTech or Fintech, our Tech Hub is *the* place to be. But that’s not all—we’re bringing the excitement to ALL three major conferences:  🔵 Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham  🟠 Liberal Democrats Conference in Brighton Expect deep dives into the hottest tech topics, incredible networking opportunities, and of course, some of the best parties around. 🔗 Check out our event lineup and sign up here: sc-techhub.co.uk

Thank you to 10 Downing Street, Varun Chandra Department for Science, Innovation and Technology & our friend Matt Clifford for partnering with Startup Coalition to host an amazing roundtable about how to make the UK the best place to safely scale an AI company. It was a great discussion, with every single founder there having concrete and practicable suggestions for what they want on policy - some very specific, some very broad, but all on point.

Party Conference season is soon! Don't miss out on participating in the Startup Coalition Tech Hub in Liverpool or Birmingham!

Introducing our new team members... 💪 💪 💪 Jordan Sullivan - our new Head of Economic Policy joining us from HM Treasury to lead on investment policy, access to finance, ecosystem growth and lots more. Abigail Morris - coming in as a Senior Adviser bringing her wealth of expertise from Government including DSIT where she was Director of Comms and from the private sector including leading UK policy at Deliveroo. Cameron Scott - joining as a Policy Fellow leading on Govtech and fixing procurement in addition to his day job at Cur8.

In the next few weeks we're kicking off a piece of work on how tech can accelerate the decarbonisation of the built environment. This is our Built Different campaign. Emissions from the built environment make up around 17% of the UK's annual footprint (sometimes more depending on where you look) but we know that there are founders up and down the country taking on this challenge. With policy support and up to date regs, they could be scaling their impact way quicker. We want to hear from startups and scaleups: 🏗 In construction - reducing the impact of the production of materials for buildings or developing new, cleaner ways to build stuff 🏠 In retrofit and insulation - increasing the efficiency of buildings 📱 Developing apps and services to empower households - whether its plugging into smart metres, supporting with intelligent heating or something else The Labour Government will be kicking off its Warm Homes Plan shortly and we want to ensure technology and innovation can be a key part in its success. Get in touch to get involved.

Jeff Lynn, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Seedrs, and Co-Founder and Chair of the Startup Coalition spoke to UKTN about the future of the UK tech scene and highlighted our Startup Manifesto! "The message to a future Government is: don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater." ✏ Not too late to sign our open letter - startupmanifesto.co.uk https://lnkd.in/e58ZNieA

👏 Give it up for all the amazing founders supporting the Startup Manifesto 👏 Want to show your support feel free to shout about it and use the graphic below