The Graveyard: UK startup and investor shutdowns
UK startups and investors that have closed, gone into administration or quietly gone dormant, verified against Companies House and primary sources by the EntrepreneurPlus editorial team. 28 startups and 13 investors so far. Every entry says how it ended, what it had raised, who backed it and what happened next.
All entries, most recent first
Hokodo
B2B buy-now-pay-later and trade credit for merchants; orderly wind-down, solvent liquidation May 2026
- Solvent liquidation (MVL)
- Fintech
- Startup
Zapp Electric Vehicles
Premium i300 electric scooter maker; UK operating company into creditors' voluntary liquidation, Apr 2026
- Creditors' voluntary liquidation
- Mobility
- Startup
VibePay
Open-banking account-to-account payments app; creditors' voluntary liquidation after a failed sale to Banked, Feb 2026
- Creditors' voluntary liquidation
- Fintech
- Startup
Trojan Energy
Flat-and-flush on-street EV charging, Aberdeen; pre-pack to a Connected Kerb subsidiary after a failed raise, Feb 2026
- Pre-pack sale from administration
- Climate & Energy
- Startup
Bramble Energy
Printed-circuit-board hydrogen fuel cells, Crawley; administration Nov 2025 after a funding round failed
- Administration
- Climate & Energy
- Startup
Oxbridge Home Learning
Online GCSE, A-level and vocational courses; administration Oct 2025 after no buyer was found
- Administration
- Edtech
- Startup
Streetbees
AI consumer-research platform; administration Aug 2025 after investment and sale talks failed, 26 jobs lost
- Administration
- AI & Data
- Startup
Vertical Future
Vertical-farming hardware and software; administration Aug 2025 after a £60M raise fell short, CVL Jan 2026
- Administration
- Food & Agritech
- Startup
Ziglu
Crypto and e-money app; FCA restrictions then special administration, Jul 2025
- Administration
- Crypto & Web3
- Startup
Builder.ai
'AI' app-building unicorn; insolvency May 2025 after revenue restatement, UK arm wound up by court
- Compulsory liquidation
- AI & Data
- Startup
Wakelet
Content-curation platform; sold out of administration to founder-linked Reviven, Apr 2025
- Pre-pack sale from administration
- Edtech
- Startup
Jones Food Company
Ocado-backed vertical farmer; administration Apr 2025, 61 redundancies, sites marketed
- Administration
- Food & Agritech
- Startup
Tract
AI planning-permission software; closed Mar 2025, capital returned, solvent liquidation
- Solvent liquidation (MVL)
- Proptech
- Startup
Tred
Green debit card tracking carbon footprint; announced wind-down Jan 2025 blaming APP fraud rules, CVL Feb 2025
- Creditors' voluntary liquidation
- Fintech
- Startup
Aeristech
High-speed electric compressors for hydrogen fuel cells, Leamington Spa; administration Feb 2025
- Administration
- Climate & Energy
- Startup
allplants
Vegan ready-meal delivery; administration Nov 2024, 65 jobs lost, brand sold to Deliciously Ella's founders
- Administration
- Food & Agritech
- Startup
Ignite (North East accelerator)
Newcastle's Ignite accelerator (ex-Ignite100, 2011); final publicly funded programme closed 30 September 2024
- Programme ended
- Accelerator
- Investor
hyperTunnel
Robot-built tunnelling tech, Basingstoke; administration Jul 2024 when a £12M loan fell due
- Administration
- Deeptech
- Startup
Seedrs
UK equity-crowdfunding pioneer bought by Republic and retired as a brand in July 2024
- Merged / absorbed
- Venture capital
- Investor
DeadHappy
Provocative digital life-insurance agency; administration Jun 2024 after its underwriter withdrew
- Administration
- Insurtech
- Startup
Laybuy
UK arm of NZ buy-now-pay-later Laybuy; administration Jun 2024, now in creditors' voluntary liquidation
- Administration
- Fintech
- Startup
Paysme
Small-business financial 'super app'; wound down Jan 2024, creditors' liquidation Jun 2024, dissolved Nov 2025
- Creditors' voluntary liquidation
- Fintech
- Startup
Tevva
Tilbury-built 7.5-tonne electric trucks; administration Jun 2024 after a failed merger and no new funding
- Administration
- Mobility
- Startup
Bink
Payment-linked loyalty app backed by Barclays and Lloyds; creditors' voluntary liquidation, May 2024
- Creditors' voluntary liquidation
- Fintech
- Startup
Cazoo
Online used-car retailer once worth $8bn; Teneo administration, brand sold to Motors.co.uk, May 2024
- Administration
- E-commerce & Retail
- Startup
Capita Scaling Partner
Capita's corporate venture arm discontinued in 2024 after the parent's losses
- Fund closed / stopped investing
- Corporate VC
- Investor
Lunaz
Beckham-backed EV conversion group, Silverstone; FRP administration after ZEV deadline slip, Mar 2024
- Administration
- Mobility
- Startup
Orka Technology Group
Shift-work hiring and earned-wage app, Manchester; administration after funding dried up, Mar 2024
- Administration
- HR & Future of Work
- Startup
Matchesfashion
Luxury fashion e-tailer; Frasers put it into administration weeks after buying it, IP later bought back, Mar 2024
- Administration
- E-commerce & Retail
- Startup
Forward Partners
AIM-listed early-stage VC absorbed into Molten Ventures in an all-share deal, Mar 2024
- Merged / absorbed
- Venture capital
- Investor
Arrival
Electric van maker; UK arms into EY administration after a failed SPAC and sale process, Feb 2024
- Administration
- Mobility
- Startup
Twig
'Bank of things' resale fintech; creditors' voluntary liquidation Jan 2024 owing £15.4M after a failed Series B
- Creditors' voluntary liquidation
- Fintech
- Startup
OMERS Ventures (Europe)
Canadian pension's $332M European VC unit shut its London office in Sept 2023
- Orderly wind-down
- Corporate VC
- Investor
Tech Nation
Government-funded scale-up body; closed 31 March 2023 after losing its DCMS grant to Barclays Eagle Labs, brand sold to Founders Forum
- Merged / absorbed
- Accelerator
- Investor
Oxford Angels Network
University-linked Oxford angel network (ex-ISIS Angels) dissolved in Feb 2023
- Struck off / dissolved
- Angel network
- Investor
Google for Startups Campus London
Google's Old Street start-up hub (2012); shut for good in June 2021 after a year of pandemic closure
- Programme ended
- Incubator
- Investor
Pitch@Palace
Prince Andrew's pitching platform; UK CIC struck off June 2021 after the Epstein fallout, global arm dissolved February 2026
- Struck off / dissolved
- Accelerator
- Investor
Collider
London adtech/martech accelerator (2012); management company compulsorily struck off April 2021, no new investments since
- Struck off / dissolved
- Accelerator
- Investor
Entrepreneurial Spark
Free 'hatchery' accelerator network; taken in-house by NatWest in 2018, original Glasgow company struck off March 2021
- Merged / absorbed
- Accelerator
- Investor
Future Fund
Covid-era government convertible-loan scheme; closed to new applications 31 January 2021 after £1.14bn to 1,190 companies
- Programme ended
- Government & grants
- Investor
Accelerated Digital Ventures (ADV)
L&G-backed early-stage investor lost its founders in 2020 and was folded into Legal & General
- Fund closed / stopped investing
- Venture capital
- Investor
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