Seghu
Launching October 2026Incorporate the right way to grow your social impact.
Helps social impact founders pick the right legal structure, matched to the funding they need, in a single tool.
Everything entrepreneurship
We build digital platform ecosystems to help founders start right, stay standing and grow, because too many good businesses fail for reasons that we believe are fixable.
Spark to scale: resources, tools, funding, connected community and opportunity, all in one place.
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Supported by leading organisations throughout the UK economy:
The challenge
Britain's ambition is going to waste
26.7 million UK adults want to start a business within three years, but the country converts only 2% of that ambition into new enterprise each year. Of those who do start, most don't survive: support is fragmented, access to capital is unequal, and it falls hardest on the founders with the most to give. Until now.
60%
of new UK businesses fail within their first three years, most for avoidable reasons: cash, skills, market fit, isolation.
2%
of the UK's 26.7 million aspiring entrepreneurs actually start a business each year: the gap hibretOne exists to close.
£90bn
lost every year in revenue, tax receipts, jobs and potential from early-stage business failure alone.
Three innovative platforms. One mission.
Each digital infrastructure initiative solves a different failure point in a for-profit, or social impact founder's journey. All three launch over the next 18 months.
1001Trades
Close to MVP · Q3 2027Everything entrepreneurship, all in one place.
A freemium platform bringing the resources, tools, networks, opportunities and funding a founder needs into one trusted place.
ScaleupKickstarter
In user testing · Q1 2027An AI-powered business diagnostic in as little as 60 seconds.
For founders who have hit the wall with growth: a free Snapshot for instant clarity, with deeper paid levels.
How we build.
Everything we do is underpinned by the latest technology, novel business models and brilliant ecosystem collaborators.
Latest technology
AI-assisted where it genuinely helps a founder decide faster, not where it looks impressive.
Novel business models
Freemium by default, so cost is never the reason someone doesn't start. Designed so around nine in ten users never pay.
Brilliant collaborators
Legal, academic and funding partners embedded in the build, not consulted afterwards.
hibretOne is a Community Interest Company: 100% of any profit surplus reinvested in founders for scholarships, bursaries, grants and supply chain opportunities.
Seghu launches at Birmingham Tech Week 2026
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As well as the highly acclaimed Show Me The Money funding workshop, we're launching Seghu, the UK's first legal-document-as-a-service platform for the social impact economy, hosted at the NatWest Accelerator, Birmingham. Plus a mini-investment marketplace connecting founders with funding, legal and business advisors.
Limited places
Part of Birmingham Tech Week 2026
Show Me The Money workshop and the Seghu launch
Doors open in
- Date
- Wednesday 21 October 2026
- Time
- 09:30 to 13:00
- Venue
- NatWest Accelerator hub, 2 St Philips Place, Birmingham B3 2RB
- Cost
- Free, registration required
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