Resources

Things worth knowing about, checked by hand.

Three directories for founders. Every entry on every page was opened and checked against the source, each one carries the date it was last verified, and anything that turned out not to hold up is named rather than quietly dropped.

12 fundsVerified July 2026
Who actually writes the first cheque in the UK?
UK and European funds that back founders before there is a product, a customer or a penny of revenue. Grouped by how early they will go, from programmes that fund you before the company exists to the SEIS route.
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43 thingsVerified July 2026
Free stuff for founders
Free coworking, grants, mentoring, banking and legal documents across the UK and US, aimed at founders who have not raised. No affiliate links, no gated PDF, and a graveyard of the programmes that quietly died.
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14 programmesVerified July 2026
Startup credits, and the gates on them
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.
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Looking for the writing rather than the lists? The notes cover raising money, pitch decks and building a company.

Things worth knowing about, checked by hand.

Who actually writes the first cheque in the UK?

Free stuff for founders

Startup credits, and the gates on them