All PostsLast updated on October 30, 2025
With our UK Exit 50, we reveal the most successful UK tech startup exits in 2025 and give you the inside scoop on the winning exit strategies.
The UK Exit 50, brought to you by Founders Forum Group, Tech Nation & HSBC Innovation Banking, showcases the companies and entrepreneurs who have successfully navigated the journey from scale-up to business exit in the past 24 months.
From our UK Exit report, you’ll…
- Discover the UK’s top 50 startup exits and IPOs of the past 24 months.
- Uncover key startup exit market trends, exit strategies, timing decisions, and wealth planning considerations.
- Read interviews with successfully exited founders such as Chris Morton (Lyst), Lord Michael Spencer (ICAP / NEX Group), Nick Jenkins (Moonpig), Poppy Gustafsson (Darktrace), Will Shu (Deliveroo), and more!
- Discover our Essential Exit Guide with practical guidance for business owners across the UK approaching their own exit journey.
The UK creates world-class tech companies but struggles to provide the exit opportunities to fuel their next phases of growth. The UK Exit 50 exists to change this narrative.
In the past two decades, we’ve witnessed many of the UK’s most successful exit stories firsthand. Demis Hassabis pitched DeepMind at Founders Forum Global just months before selling to Google for £400m. Taavet Hinrikus did the same with Wise before listing on the London Stock Exchange at a valuation of $11b.
When companies exit successfully, investors make returns, founders often become investors themselves, employees become entrepreneurs, and wealth flows back into the ecosystem. It’s only by supporting our best companies to scale that we can drive the wider growth of UK tech.
Our goal with the UK Exit 50 is to celebrate our successes and catalyse the next generation of global tech champions. The 50 companies in our list have a combined value of more than $33b, have raised more than $6b between them, and have transformed industries from fintech and enterprise software to biotech and AI.
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