Resources

Funding, free tools and startup credits.

Three lists for founders: where to get money before you have revenue, what is genuinely free, and what the big startup credits actually cost you. Everything on them was checked by hand, and every page says when.

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 routesVerified July 2026Open

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 routesVerified August 2026Open

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 thingsVerified July 2026Open

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 programmesVerified July 2026Open

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