The infrastructure layer for UK private company capital markets.
The way private companies raise capital, create shareholder liquidity, and access investors is being rebuilt. Tokenisation Group is building the infrastructure that makes that possible, spanning primary issuance, secondary trading, and the full private company lifecycle.
The UK private company capital market is large, structurally broken, and at an inflection point.
The businesses that stand out are the ones built on infrastructure, not chance.
There are over five million private companies in the UK. The overwhelming majority have no reliable route to raise growth capital beyond a narrow network. No structured mechanism for shareholders to achieve liquidity short of a full exit. No access to EU capital. No price discovery between funding rounds. No path to the public markets that doesn't cost £5m and two years of management time.
That is not a fringe condition. It is how private company ownership works, or fails to work, by default.
The London Stock Exchange recorded just 17 IPOs over £4m in 2024, down to 9 in 2025 (not including those listed on AIM), the lowest since records began. Pension funds are deploying an additional £10bn into UK private markets as a direct result of government reform. The FCA has created PISCES, the first regulated framework for private company secondary share trading. The British Business Bank has deployed £100m of fresh capital specifically targeting early-stage businesses outside London.
Capital that was sitting passively is now actively looking for better routes to the businesses it was meant to reach.
The technology is not the interesting part. What it makes possible is.
Building the infrastructure, not just explaining it.
Tokenisation Group operates across the complete spectrum of UK private company capital markets: from seed raise to pre-IPO, from primary issuance to PISCES-aligned secondary trading, from the UK to EU capital pools. It works through three connected ventures and a wider practice of strategic partnerships and selective investment.
TokenisingStartups.com
The UK's editorial and intelligence platform for equity tokenisation. Regulatory analysis, founder guides, market intelligence, and a curated directory for the sector. The audience that understands the shift before it becomes mainstream.
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Building toward a UK-regulated model for tokenised equity issuance and PISCES-aligned secondary trading, for private companies from seed stage to pre-IPO. Dual-register model. SEIS and EIS preserved by design. EU investor access from day one via MiFID authorisation. FCA Digital Securities Sandbox participant.
TYSU is not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. The description above reflects intended future state.
Get in touch →Further ventures in the group are in development. Each one will be added to this directory as it launches.
New businesses
Launch new tokenisation and RWA ventures from scratch, backed by shared expertise and infrastructure.
Strategic partnerships
Build relationships with leading companies already operating across the tokenisation and RWA space.
Selective investment
Back businesses and teams building the infrastructure and platforms this sector needs next.
One ecosystem
Link the businesses in the group to each other, and to the wider market, as the sector matures.
Our test for every business we build or back: does it make capital markets work better for more companies, more investors, or more assets? If so, it belongs.
Two people. One pattern: building infrastructure that the market needs and doesn't yet have.
A builder with an engineer's instinct for systems and a founder's instinct for markets. Trained as a Royal Navy avionics engineer. Has driven £35m in B2B sales and built distribution for ventures in publishing and media. Has worked directly with hundreds of founders and seen the same barrier repeat across every sector: capital excluded by access and network, not by the quality of the business. Tokenisation Group is built to fix that: not as a financial product, but as infrastructure.
25 years leading PE and VC-backed technology and fintech businesses through growth, transformation, and exit, including a £24m trade sale, nine acquisitions, and full P&L responsibility across £90m+ revenue portfolios. Career spans Jaguar Land Rover, Mastercard, GE Capital, and major financial institutions. Former Royal Navy helicopter pilot. At Tokenisation Group, he chairs the board, leads strategy and governance, and owns the group's external partner and investor relationships.
Whether you're a founder, a partner, or an investor, there's a conversation here.
Tokenisation Group is actively building its platform partner relationships, its PISCES secondary trading arrangements, and its founder pipeline. It is also open to investment conversations from professional and sophisticated investors who want to be part of building UK private markets infrastructure from the ground up.
Issuing or trading equity
If you are a private company considering tokenised equity issuance or secondary liquidity, talk to TYSU directly.
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If you are a platform provider, corporate finance firm, PISCES operator, or wealth manager interested in a commercial partnership, get in touch.
Email the group →Seed round
If you are a professional or sophisticated investor interested in the Tokenisation Group seed round, get in touch with the subject line ‘Investor enquiry’.
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