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Henry leads our Research & Consultancy team, and is an expert on equity finance and private company ecosystem.. He's worked on briefs for the likes of Barclays, SyndicateRoom, Innovate UK, Smith & Williamson and British Business Bank. He regularly gives presentations on market trends at events around the UK.
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16 July 2026 · Henry Whorwood
Untap Health and MD One on Biosecurity and Dual-Use Tech
An Interview with Untap Health and MD One I sat down with Dr Claire Trant, founder and CEO of Untap Health, and Will McManners, Managing

8 December 2025 · Henry Whorwood
2026 Predictions: Trends in UK Seed funding in 2025 and implications for the tech sector
2026 Predictions: Trends in UK Seed funding in 2025 and implications for the tech sector Table of contents Introduction In 2025, the UK’s startup ecosystem

22 August 2024 · Henry Whorwood
An Interview with Lab 1 and MD One Ventures
An Interview with Lab 1 and MD One Ventures To discuss cybersecurity, defence tech, and the wider UK investment landscape. Table of contents I recently

21 March 2024 · Henry Whorwood
The Sunday Times Hundred
The Sunday Times Hundred Turning a profit is hard. And for high-growth businesses, making a profit can be very hard. In an inflationary environment, it’s

6 October 2023 · Henry Whorwood
Defence Tech is Evolving
Defence Tech is Evolving Henry Whorwood, 06 october 2023 Earlier this year in April we published our first in-depth report on Defence Tech with MD

27 July 2023 · Henry Whorwood
A Milestone for Beauhurst and the UK
A Milestone for Beauhurst and the UK Henry Whorwood, 27 July 2023 Beauhurst has been tracking the UK’s economy since 2010. One of our areas of focus is the innovation economy; many of those companies use equity to finance their growth. That’s why we track every single equity investment into UK private companies. We track … A Milestone for Beauhurst and the UK

9 February 2022 · Henry Whorwood
The Latest Figures on the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS)
What is EIS? The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) is a government-backed tax relief scheme. It was designed to encourage investment into small, high-risk and often knowledge-intensive companies by individual private investors, by providing them with both income tax relief and capital gains tax (CGT) relief (in the form of deferral relief and disposal relief). These … The Latest Figures on the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS)

4 March 2021 · Henry Whorwood
What the 2021 Spring Budget Means for Startups & Scaleups
Despite the swathe of lockdown-combatting interventions announced or prolonged yesterday,

4 February 2021 · Henry Whorwood
Impending Changes to CGT: Take the Survey
Back in December, we reported on some of the proposed

17 December 2020 · Henry Whorwood
Proposed Changes to Capital Gains Tax: Industry Bites Back
Earlier this month, the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) published

9 December 2020 · Henry Whorwood
How Changes to CGT Threaten the Future of UK Startups
The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) recently published their first

31 October 2019 · Henry Whorwood
Parliament chooses a Brexit ‘trick’ for Halloween 2019
Halloween is here. And we’re still in the EU. Given Boris Johnson’s “do or die” pledge to leave the EU by today, it appears we all picked ‘trick’ rather than ‘treat’. And now we’ve got a general election to look forward to on the 12th December. Far from getting anything approaching certainty, the UK’s high-growth … Parliament chooses a Brexit ‘trick’ for Halloween 2019