The document summarizes advantages of investing and working in the UK startup ecosystem, including a vibrant VC community that invested over $800M in 2016, London being a major tech hub with over 70K software developers, and a supportive tax regime and business environment that ranks in the top 10 globally for ease of doing business. It also provides tips for newcomers on setting up accounts and living arrangements, building a network, hiring teams, finding office space, and meeting investors.

1. Invest in the UK
Carlos Eduardo Espinal
Partner at @Seedcamp

2. Who is Seedcamp?

3. How did I get here?

4. How things have changed
(2006-2017)

5. Investing in the UK

6. A Vibrant Startup Ecosystem
• 12 of the top 22 most prominent VC Investors across Europe
according to Business Insider, have London offices
• Tech firms attracted over $800m in venture capital funding
in the final half of 2016 alone. Source: London & Partners
• London is home to 70K+ professional software developers
> NYC or any other European City. Source: Stack Overflow
• The Entrepreneurs Visa for founders raising 50K or more
(from qualified organizations)

7. A Supportive Tax Regime
• The UK is a low taxation economy with corporation tax at
20%, the lowest in the G20, and set to be reduced to 17%
by 2020.
• The UK also offers tax incentives for R&D and the most
flexible labour regulations in Europe.
• The UK through initiatives like SEIS/EIS and Investors/
Entrepreneur's relief, provide further tax incentives for both
entrepreneurs and investors

8. An Easy Place for Business
• The UK ranks consistently in the top 10 in the world for ease
of doing businesses.
• London is Europe’s leading city for patent registrations in a
range of industries including healthcare, informatics,
wireless technology, video games, communications,
multimedia and software. - Source: fDi Intelligence from The
Financial Times Ltd based on US Patents and Trademarks
Office. 2015

9. Working in the UK

10. The first things to set up in the UK
Accounts (personal & business)
• Monese.com https://www.monese.com/
• Transferwise https://transferwise.com/gb/borderless
• Revolut https://business.revolut.com
Short Term Living - The Collective.co.uk

11. Building a Network & Meeting
People
• Campus London + Ozone Coffee + Shoreditch Grind
• Silicon Drinkabout events
• Don’t Pitch Me Bro events
• meetup.com events

12. Building a Team
• StackOverflow Jobs
• Workinstartups.com
• Silicon Milk Roundabout
• Hiring/Firing - more flexible than rest of EU.

13. Finding Office Space
• HubbleHQ.com
• Runway East
• WeWork
• TechHub
• Central Working

14. Meeting investors
• Focus on introductions from your network
• Techcrunch Disrupt, NOAH Conference
• EU Wide events - NextWeb, Pioneers, Slush, etc
• Runway East / WeWork / Campus Events

15. Thank you
@cee
Carlos Eduardo Espinal