{"id":93401,"date":"2025-04-14T03:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T03:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/uk-founders-grow-frustrated-over-dearth-of-funding-the-problem-is-getting-worse\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T03:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T03:36:10","slug":"uk-founders-grow-frustrated-over-dearth-of-funding-the-problem-is-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/uk-founders-grow-frustrated-over-dearth-of-funding-the-problem-is-getting-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"UK founders grow frustrated over dearth of funding: &#8216;the problem is getting worse&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Dealroom data <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/10466229-1e25-4e1d-aa03-52b329f84753\">cited by the Financial Times<\/a>, British start-ups raised just \u00a316.2 billion last year, far less than the more than \u00a365 billion raised by their counterparts in Silicon Valley during the same period. In fact, the U.S. appears to be pulling further ahead each year. In 2024, 57% of global venture capital funding went to U.S. startups \u2014 the first time that share has exceeded 50% in over a decade, per Dealroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This widening gap is part of a years-long trend that U.K. founders have taken note of, the FT reports, and it\u2019s prompting many to consider relocating abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRecognizing that most venture funding comes from the U.S., we set up as a Delaware corporation, the preferred and familiar structure for American investors,\u201d said Mati Staniszewski, co-founder of the London-based AI company ElevenLabs, in an interview with the FT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barney Hussey-Yeo, founder and CEO of the AI start-up Cleo, told the FT that he already spends four months a year in San Francisco and is seriously considering a permanent move. \u201cYou get to a certain size where there is no capital in the U.K. And the problem is getting worse,\u201d he said. \u201cHonestly, the U.K. is kinda f***d if it doesn\u2019t address [the problem].\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/13\/uk-founders-grow-frustrated-over-dearth-of-funding-the-problem-is-getting-worse\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Dealroom data cited by the Financial Times, British start-ups raised just \u00a316.2 billion last year, far less than the more than \u00a365 billion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}