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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Unlocking Growth: Creating Tech Ecosystems to Stimulate Local Economies

This report dives deeper into the role that local authorities play in developing thriving tech ecosystems.

In this report, we look at:

The key components of an ecosystem
The Manchester and Edinburgh ecosystems
The role tech thriving tech ecosystems play in the economy.

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Upcoming Programmes

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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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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Get the latest support & insights from Eagle Labs

A key to Unlocking Growth: Edinburgh + Manchester

A key to Unlocking Growth: Edinburgh and Manchester come top of the table for best cities to start a business outside of London

A new report from Barclays reveals that Edinburgh, Manchester and Leeds top the list of local authorities for the highest number of high-growth businesses outside of London.

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How has Covid impacted diversity in UK startups?

Nancy Evbuomwan, Strategist and Business Agility Coach, on how Covid has both highlighted inequalities and presented opportunities for positive change.

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What SMEs need to know before furlough winds up on September 30

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (furlough) is coming to an end. Here’s what you need to know.