Barclays Eagle Labs

15/06/2026

Don't miss this week's events 👇

💷From product to proof: making your tech investor ready
Tuesday 16 June, 13:00 - 14:00

🩺Resilience and growth action planning for the health and social work industry
Wednesday 17 June, 12:00 - 13:00

Find out more and register now
https://labs.uk.barclays/events/

12/06/2026

⚠️Last chance to apply for the Female Founder Accelerator

If you're a female founder leading a tech business that's ready to grow, this one's for you 🙋‍♀️

Over nine weeks of masterclasses, you’ll learn about marketing strategies, sales and negotiation, financial management and building a team.

Plus, you’ll get access to one-to-one mentoring, accountability groups, in-person community networking and the ability to connect with a community of like-minded female founders.

Don't miss out, apply now 👇

Supporting 100 female founders who are beyond idea stage and poised for growth. Focusing on marketing strategies, sales, negotiation, financial management and building a team.

10/06/2026

Why should you join the Sales Growth Programme?

In partnership with Form, this new programme runs for six weeks and covers:
💷Commercial diagnostic - designed to pinpoint where your sales are stalling and where your biggest opportunities lie

💻Online workshops– three modules covering identifying decision makers, refining your outreach and how to deal with blockers and objections

☎️One-to-one calls - designed to help you troubleshoot live sales challenges, sense-check strategy and embed the learnings in your business

🥳The programme then ends with exclusive access to our in-person Sales Growth summit - an event bringing together all the Sales Growth Programme alumni.

Don’t miss out, apply now 👇

This programme could help you if you have a product or service in market and are focusing on building consistent, scalable revenue.

09/06/2026

📢Calling HealthTech founders focused on women’s health

We’ve just launched a brand-new accelerator designed to support founders at a critical stage of growth.

Built with Nexus, this programme supports HealthTech SMEs focused on women’s health, bringing together 30 founders for nine months of targeted, hands-on support.

From expert-led insights and tailored diagnostics to one-to-one mentoring, investor connections and a strong peer community, it’s designed to help businesses scale with confidence.

📍 Based at the Barclays Innovation Hub in London
👇 Applications are now open

A nine month accelerator for founders of scaling healthtech businesses. Supported by Barclays Eagle Labs.

01/06/2026

We're spoiling you this month with seven upcoming events 🥳

This month's events:
🚆Resilience and growth action planning for the transport and logistics industry
🚫The high-performance pause
🤝From product to proof: making your tech investor ready
🩺Resilience and growth action planning for the health and social work industry
📝Engage your curiosity through free writing
💻Resilience and growth action planning for the retail and e-commerce industry
💷Lean analytics: cutting data costs with Gemini and BigQuery

Find out more and register today
https://labs.uk.barclays/events/

Our programme of events and workshops for ambitious businesses

28/05/2026

Are you a female founder ready to scale your tech business? 🚀

The Female Founder Accelerator, delivered by AccelerateHER, is designed to support 100 female founders beyond idea stage who are ready for growth.

Over nine weeks, you’ll get hands-on support across:
✨ Marketing strategies
✨ Sales and negotiation
✨ Financial management
✨ Building and scaling a team

Plus, you’ll gain access to:
🤝 One-to-one mentoring
👥 Accountability groups
🌐 In-person networking
💡 A powerful community of like-minded female founders

Don't miss out, applications close 12 June 👇
https://labs.uk.barclays/what-we-offer/our-programmes/female-founder-accelerator/

27/05/2026

The Barclays Eagle Labs Scaleup Programme is back 🚀

This year, we're opening just 25 places for the next cohort.

Built for ambitious UK tech businesses ready to take their next step, the programme combines the strength of the Eagle Labs network with the expertise of our delivery partner Plexal, alongside the wider scaleup consortium - Cooper Parry, Emerald Technology, EY, Google Cloud and Wilson Sonsini.

Over three months, founders will gain practical support across the areas that matter most when scaling:
🤝 Leadership and management
📝 Product, sales and marketing
💷 Finance and fundraising

Apply now if you're a UK-based tech business with:
• £2M+ raised or generating
• 10+ employees
• Ambitions for rapid growth

Apply now 👇
https://labs.uk.barclays/what-we-offer/our-programmes/scaleup/

22/05/2026

📢Final call: applications for the Aquis IPO Academy close soon.

If you’re an ambitious UK business thinking about public markets as a route to fund your next stage of growth, this is for you.

Built for founders and leadership teams who want to stay in control, fuel their next phase of growth, and build a clear, credible pathway to the public markets, the Aquis IPO Academy is:
🙋‍♀️Open to ambitious UK businesses with a strong focus on tech-enabled and female-founded companies
📈For businesses with £1m+ in revenue (or recent funds raised) and 10+ employees

Starts 16 September and runs for six months, combining expert insight, practical preparation, and direct access to investors and advisers.

You’ll take part through a mix of in-person and online sessions, including events, workshops, mentorship and specialist guidance.

Apply now 👇
https://info.aquisstockexchange.eu/ipo-academy

14/05/2026

🎤The zero-to-MVP sprint with Gemini

📆Thursday 21 May, 13:00 - 14:00

In the second of our Scaling with Google Cloud series, Marco Acunzo, Startups Customer Engineer at Google, shows you how to use Gemini to bypass traditional development bottlenecks and move from a "napkin sketch" to a functional, investor-ready MVP.

Stop burning your runway and start shipping

12/05/2026

Last month, the UK Government announced a £500m Sovereign AI Fund to back the next generation of UK AI companies
Momentum is building, now, what comes next? 🤔

🚀On 18 May, we launch AI:100. A data-led view of some of the high-growth AI companies shaping the UK’s future.

Alongside this, we’re launching the Scaleup Consortium, bringing together founders, investors and industry to support companies as they scale 🤝

Two launches. One shared ambition 💡
Backing the companies already building what comes next and strengthening the UK’s scaleup ecosystem for the long term.

More to come 👀