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Upscale is the network for the UK’s most ambitious post-Series A founders. Built for the moment between Series A and Series B, it helps growth-stage tech companies – and their C-suite – tackle the challenges that come with scaling, and connects them with the investors, expertise and peers who’ve already navigated the path to Series B. Since launching, Upscale has supported more than 300 companies, whose alumni have collectively raised over $9.6 billion.

Discover the UK’s 50 tech companies to watch in The Tech Nation Future Fifty 2026, including CuspAI, Fuse Energy, and more! This year’s Tech Nation Future Fifty have raised £3.4b collectively, employ over six thousand people in the UK, and have been carefully hand-picked as the UK’s 50 most exciting scaleups. As the nation’s most prestigious late-stage growth programme, the Future Fifty uses the strength of its network to support tech companies with their international expansion efforts.

Our latest Founders Pulse finds a clear opportunity for the new Government: founders are open to its growth agenda, but want the capital, clarity and delivery to make it work. The new UK Government has put economic growth at the heart of its agenda.

Tech Nation and HubSpot for Startups have partnered this summer to create The Founder AI Prompt Pack – giving you the tools to find your own blind spots. Every founder has a decision they’re circling instead of making. A number they’ve stopped looking at too closely. A hire they already know isn’t working. This pack hands you seven AI prompts built to make an LLM argue with you properly: pressure-testing the exact spots that founders can’t see, because they’re standing too close to them.

What we heard at Tech Nation’s Climate Policy and Innovation Forum about the policy, funding and regulatory barriers preventing UK climate companies from scaling. One climate tech company can build a plant to recycle nylon in about three months. Getting the permit to run it takes twelve, eight of them spent with the paperwork sitting untouched on a desk. That gap between what founders can build and what the system lets them do is the real story of UK climate tech.

Our latest Founders Pulse reveals strong optimism about AI’s potential, but some frustration with the pace of Government action. AI is probably the biggest economic opportunity the UK has seen in a generation. But are we moving fast enough to grab it? In our latest Founders Pulse, we asked that question to nearly 400 UK entrepreneurs, spanning early stage through to growth and unicorn companies. The optimism is real.

Toby Strangewood, Founder of Miroma Founders Network, explores why the performance versus brand debate is holding high-growth businesses back, and reveals how CMOs can build the confidence, structure and strategic balance needed to unlock real scale. For high growth businesses, especially those navigating Series B and beyond, marketing decisions are no longer just about perceived channel efficiency.

Our inaugural list of the UK’s most promising early-stage tech companies, spotlighting the founders, regions and ideas shaping the next generation of breakout success. Which early-stage companies will define the next chapter of UK tech? The Tech Nation Breakout 50, published in partnership with Cooper Parry, is our 2026 spotlight on the founders building at the front edge of the UK’s startup ecosystem.

As the startup funding market shifts in this new AI era, Socheat Chhay, Managing Director of Sopra Steria Ventures, reveals what separates fundable AI startups from the noise. The numbers are hard to ignore. In the last couple months, OpenAI raised $122b at a $852b valuation, Anthropic raised a $30b Series G, and France’s Mistral AI has built a $14b AI empire. Q1 2026 set a record with $300b invested across about 6,000 startups globally, and AI captured 80% of that total.