Your gateway to scaling in the UK—connect, expand, and accelerate your global growth with the UK Expansion Programme.
The GIA London UK Expansion Programme, delivered by Tech Nation and supported by Enterprise Singapore, is a funded initiative designed to empower high-growth Singapore-based tech companies with the essential tools, connections, and community needed to scale into the UK market.
Tech Nation is the leading growth platform and industry body for startups and their teams across the UK.
Supercharged by Founders Forum Group, Tech Nation amplifies the UK founder voice and empowers them to scale through practical knowledge, powerful connections, and peer-to-peer communities.
🚀 UK Expansion Foundations Programme
An action-oriented expansion programme for companies ready to enter the UK market. Foundations offers hands-on preparation, curated customer and partner meetings, and in-market exposure during London Tech Week to accelerate your UK traction.
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A Message From
The British High Commissioner to Singapore
Key Dates
Foundation Programme
- Application Deadline: 3rd April 2026
- Programme Start Date: 13th April 2026
- In Mission Week (London Tech Week): 8th June-12th June 2026
- Programme End Date: 19th June 2026
Hear from our alumni…
TalentHero found the GIA UK Discovery Programme incredibly valuable as we plan our land-and-expand strategy into the UK market. The insights were practical, market-specific, and immediately actionable. The access to high-calibre mentors with real UK operating experience was genuinely game-changing. It gave us clarity, confidence, and momentum at exactly the right stage of our growth.
- James Miles
The UK market felt like a black box to us before this trip. The Tech Nation team did a fantastic job of demystifying the ecosystem. No fluff, just practical insights on talent, tax, and go-to-market strategies.It helped us validate our product-market fit and understand the cultural nuances.Whether you decide to expand or not, this programme gives you the clarity to make that decision based on data, not just gut feeling. What’s more are the quality of the people we met through the program. Being able to ask frank questions to founders who have already successfully landed in the UK was incredibly helpful. We left the programme not just with knowledge, but with a genuine support network.
- Joma Li
Programme Organisers
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