Analysis

January 17, 2022

The UK's most active accelerators, ranked

We analysed the portfolios of the UK's 9 most active accelerators to find out who's backing the most winners


Isabel Woodford

5 min read

Entrepreneur First co-founders, Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford

The UK is today home to nearly 200 startup accelerators, drawing on the model pioneered in California by Y Combinator — an early backer of Airbnb, Dropbox and Reddit.

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The distribution of UK accelerators Source: Beauhurst
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