UK Startup Explorer

What it does

The UK Startup Explorer lets you virtually ‘travel’ around the UK, using data to showcase its smaller startup ecosystems. Click around to learn about investment, talent, quality of life and more in each region!

Welcome to the UK Startup Explorer, Sifted’s interactive map that lets you virtually ‘travel’ around the UK’s startup ecosystems.

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  FoundersAround2025 · foundersaround.com · ▲445

  Well, when I moved to another country (UK) I felt super lost. Who were the founders living here? What do they do? I ended up going to a Google coworking space over there and met some cool people. Now, I'm back in my home country, after 8 years abroad, and again, I don't know who are the founders living close to me that I could potentially meet. That's why I decided to build FoundersAround.com A simple map where founders can pin themselves. Meet other founders living nearby. Check in when travelling and meet founders over there.

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  PreSeed Now Startup Tracker2024 · preseednow.com · ▲124

  Find and identify high-potential pre-seed startups in the UK

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  Startups List2014 · startups-list.com · ▲253

  Collections of the best startups in different places

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  Smart Founder Intros2021 · ▲162

  Smart introductions to relevant entrepreneurs

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  StartupsBR – A map of Brazilian startupsJun 2026 · startupsbr.com · ▲54

  I couldn't find a simple way to explore the Brazilian startup ecosystem geographically, as I can in other places like the Bay Area or London, so I built one. The map currently includes hundreds of startups from Sao Paulo and their job opportunities. The most interesting thing I've learned so far is how clustered startup activity is in a handful of areas. I'd love to hear your thoughts. The EN version: https://www.startupsbr.com/sao-paulo

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  Seattle Startup Map2011 · zaccohn.com · ▲35

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  SimCity, but with Permits▲904

  A free city-building game in your browser. You are the mayor. You know what the city needs. Now get it past the zoning board, the neighbors, the appeals court and the next election.

  Life & fun · 1d ago · permit.petercai.com

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  I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years▲778

  Life & fun · 13d ago · tanzaniaeducationproject.org

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  Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app▲728

  Turn a phone, tablet or TV into a sign. Type a message and it fills the screen: welcome signs, timers, Wi-Fi passwords and more. No app, no account, free.

  Life & fun · 14d ago · bigwords.page

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  Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard▲573

  Play a free virtual guitar online with your keyboard or by touch. Slow songs down and see every chord, string and strum. Acoustic, classic, electric and bass.

  Life & fun · 8d ago · guitoro.com

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  See *almost* any carriers phone settings▲432

  Carrier settings from iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy firmware, decoded and compared: APNs, VoLTE, 5G and Wi-Fi Calling per carrier, and what each build changed.

  Life & fun · 12d ago · carrierexplode.com

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  The whole Solar System and every tracked satellite, live in the browser▲407

  Life & fun · 22d ago · space.bl2.net

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  Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web▲1,216

  Hey all My name is Sindre, and I am the CTO of Scrimba (YC S20). For the last 7 years, I have written all my web apps in a full-stack programming language called Imba. It compiles to JavaScript and its main goal is to make web developers more productive. I just launched a major overhaul of Imba, so I wanted to share it here on HN, in case anyone are interested in learning more about it. It is very opinionated, so some of you might not like it, but I would love to hear anyones feedback regardless. Constructive criticism appreciated! The backstory: Imba initially started in 2012 as an effort…

  Life & fun · 2021

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  We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos▲1,180

  Hello HN, Over the last year we've been building ente[1], a privacy-friendly, easy-to-use alternative to Google Photos. We've so far built Android[2][3], iOS[4], web[5] apps that encrypt your files and back them up in the background. You can access these across your devices, and share them with other ente users, end-to-end encrypted. You can also use our electron app[6] to maintain a local copy of your backed up files. We've built a fault-tolerant data replication layer that replicates your data to two different storage providers in the EU. We will be providing additional replicas as an…

  Life & fun · 2021

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  SigmaOS▲1,026

  The browser that makes YOU fast

  Work · 2021 · sigmaos.com

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  Codex by OpenAI▲954

  OpenAI's smartest and most intuitive to use model yet

  AI · 2021 · openai.com

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  Bootstrappers▲788

  Publication dedicated to bootstrapping founders

  Growth · 2021 · bootstrappers.com

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  Poet.so▲767

  Capture and share Twitter posts as beautiful images

  Growth · 2021 · poet.so