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Britain’s capital markets are at the crossroads. The country’s startups have raised $ 8 billion in the first six months of the year, said Dealroom and HSBC Innovation Banking – more than France and Germany.
It was also found that the UK became the main place of Europe for venture capital 30 in a row, saying that 30% of all capital raised on the continent had so far.
But there is a downside.
Dealogic data indicate that fundraising from London IPO in the first half of 2025 fell to its The lowest level since data It was first collected in 1995. In the first six months of the year, only five companies in the London market debuted, collecting £ 160 million.
The gloomy numbers follow a number of loud strikes for the London Stock Exchange. This includes a money transfer firm Wise‘s decision Last month to move its main place to the US to the US and reports that British pharmaceutical Astrazeneca can follow the example.
Peter Spetert, a general partner in Creandum, one of the most successful HSK in Europe, said he sees some impetus on the IPO market, but called for a much greater cooperation between different stakeholders.
“I think the main thing is the dialogue between technological leaders who soon go to the IPO, and the next generation will do it in a few years and the regulator,” he said on Thursday, “Squawk Box Europe”.
“I think we need to contribute to this discussion even more on it, because what we need in the UK and Europe is to do it as attractive to companies to IPO here.”
Risk risk
The British Industry Confederation called for a new story around LSE companies and publicly listed companies, saying that “bold actions” are required to revive the UK state capital.
The CEO of the London Stock Exchange, Julia Hogget, said CNBC that the “Language Language” was created in the UK over the last 30 years, “not the language that stems from investments.”
She urged the government to think with investment thinking, saying that “we were so defending people from the lack that we did not put them inverted, and as a nation, we did not talk about the possibilities.”
This is a risk approach, which is evidenced by Edward Knight, President of VC Antler, saying CNBC that the appetite for the risk that exists in some corners of the world is definitely not exist “in the UK.
He called on the country to study from the past, saying: “We had the opportunity to welcome the cry in our hands when the SEC under Gery Heler reject it, but we passed this opportunity. We released it … Let’s not do the same on the II.”
The agenda of the reform
In his CBI report, he called for a policy that would improve liquidity and competitiveness while strengthening IPO Pipeline. Julia Hogget’s London Stock Exchange has welcomed her reform agenda in recent years, saying CNBC: “We really made our market matches.”
Meanwhile, Nigel Morris, the head of the Fintech VC QED Investors Platform, said CNBC via e -mail that the UK government is working to solve the problems of Britain’s business leaders. This includes “the current tax scheme, which some say that punishes the staff of growth companies, or a limited ability to obtain capital to scale Fintechs”.
So where does it leave the worldview of the London IPO?
Hogget says the lists are growing. “It’s a bit like an iceberg under the surface … But this pipeline is built very quickly, and from all over the world, because I think the reforms we saw in the UK actually allowed the UK to become a really convincing proposal.”
Norwegian program giant Visma chose London for his IPO next year, according to News, first reported in The Financial timesBut the pipeline that goes beyond seems to be quiet.
“I think that the founders of these enterprises should long, it is difficult to think about where they believe that their interests will best serve publicly,” said Knight Antler.
“And there are a lot of complications and dynamics to be a public company, and therefore they must discuss them with their tips, survive it with their investments, find out where these interests are best served.”
