The Best Places for Start-Ups in the UK

The Best Places for Start-Ups in the UK
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The UK’s start up scene continues to flourish, with 216,000 new businesses set up in the UK in 2018 – a 6.45 percent increase from the year before.

Whilst many start-ups are accustomed to less than glamourous offices, many will start on the side desks of existing companies, garages, basements, bedrooms, kitchen tables and more. But the introduction of new work spaces such as WeWork, Spaces and HubbleHQ have provided a hot desking opportunity for budding entrepreneurs and start up business. We recently featured WeWork as one of the top 10 most valuable startups in the UK. We run through some of the most popular places for start-ups in the UK.

Shoreditch

London’s Shoreditch is very much the start-up and tech capital of the UK, with its very own iconic silicon roundabout. The E1 postcode is home to many shared work spaces and high profile companies including Deliveroo, Proper Finance, Transferwise and Amazon’s new 5,000 people office – which has no doubt instilled a lot of confidence into the area.