Resources

Funding, free tools and startup credits.

Four lists for founders: where to get money before you have revenue in the UK and in the US, what is genuinely free, and what the big startup credits actually cost you. Every line on them was checked by hand against the organisation's own page, and links through to it.

Ways to get funded: 58
Free things: 43
Credit programmes: 14

You need money

Funding in the UK, before you have revenue

Funds that write the first cheque, angel networks, SEIS and EIS, equity crowdfunding, accelerators, and grants and loans that cost you no equity at all. Filter by how early you are and by what each one costs you.

31 routesOpen

You need money

Funding in the US, before you have revenue

The same standard applied to the US market, which needed a separate list rather than a section: SEIS has no American equivalent, Reg CF and SBIR are US statute, and Antler's US programme publishes different terms from its UK one. Every figure came off the organisation's own page, and each entry links to it.

27 routesOpen

You have not raised

Free stuff for founders

Free coworking, grants, mentoring, banking and legal documents across the UK and US. No affiliate links, no gated PDF, and a graveyard of the programmes that quietly died so you stop looking for them.

43 thingsOpen

You have raised

Startup credits and their gates

AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Cloudflare, OpenAI and the rest. Worth six figures combined and almost all of it gated, so every line states what you have to be before you can claim it.

14 programmesOpen

Looking for the writing rather than the lists? The notes cover raising money, pitch decks and building a company.