Create, innovate and grow with Barclays Eagle Labs

Welcome to Barclays Eagle Labs

The home of
UK startups

Our network of coworking spaces, mentors and learning tools, as well as our events and growth programmes for ambitious businesses, helps the UK’s startup community scale and succeed.

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Upcoming Programmes

Funding Readiness Programme

Helping you navigate the funding landscape

Let us help you demystify the funding options available and provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to fund your business growth.

The programme, in collaboration with Capital Enterprise, is now taking applications:

Starts: October 2021

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Barclays Black Founder Accelerator

Championing diversity in entrepreneurship

We've partnered with Foundervine to launch the Barclays Black Founder Accelerator, a programme specifically designed to champion diversity in innovation and entrepreneurship by offering 40 Black Founder-led pre-seed businesses the opportunity to participate in this 12-week virtual accelerator and help them grow.

The programme is now taking applications:

Starts: November 2021

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Unlocking Growth:
Your Introduction to Funding

Helping you to understand the funding landscape.

Understand the importance of getting the right type of funding at the right time
Look at the different methods of valuing your business
See what potential investors are looking for when you pitch for funding.

Find out more Unlocking Growth: Your Introduction to Funding

We're here to help the brightest and best

Startups

You’ve got the big idea; we’ve got the network to help you succeed. From idea to exit, we can help you build, learn and scale faster. We have everything to supercharge your progress, with like-minded entrepreneurs and experts to support you.

Investors

We’ve got some of the best and brightest tech startups on our books. Whether you’re a venture capitalist or an angel, we can connect you into a trusted network of high-quality founders and startups.

Corporates

Thinking more like a small startup can make a big difference to your business. Learn important lessons from the startup culture when it comes to dynamic thinking, hyper-collaboration and keeping it simple.

More than just workspaces

Eagle Labs are equipped with private office spaces, coworking desks and maker spaces and a dedicated team to help you scale your business. Members can access our full range of benefits including 1-2-1 business mentoring, learning content, events, help with funding and an online community to help grow your network.

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Explore what's coming up across our network

From fireside chats, practical workshops to networking, we have a full calendar of events, workshops and training across all our Labs.

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Get access to 1-2-1 mentoring and advice from industry experts

We’ve teamed up with local and national businesses, industry and academic experts to offer mentoring and coaching to help you scale new heights.

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