Alex Depledge

Entrepreneurship Advisor, HM Treasury · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alex Depledge MBE is a British tech entrepreneur who co-founded Hassle.com and the architectural tech platform Resi. She serves as the UK Treasury's Entrepreneurship Advisor to the Chancellor, advising the government on economic policy for startups and scale-ups.

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The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Depledge: UK Pension Allocation to Domestic Equities Fell From 60% to 6%

“60% of pensioners' money used to be in, in UK equities and riskier funds. It's now six percent.”

Alex Depledge Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 10:00 UK Budget 2025: Stripe + Startup Coalition

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Depledge: Top-Quartile UK VCs Match US Returns at 23%

“VC firms, top quartile VC firms in the UK return 23%, right? It's exactly the same as the US.”

Alex Depledge Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 10:28 UK Budget 2025: Stripe + Startup Coalition

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Insight

Depledge: UK Has a Capital Allocation Problem, Not a Capital Shortage

“The big, Myth of the UK right now is that we have a capital problem. We do not have a capital problem. We have a capital allocation problem. Our money is in our houses and it's overseas.”

Alex Depledge Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 9:48 UK Budget 2025: Stripe + Startup Coalition

Assertion Contradicted

Depledge: Top-Quartile UK VCs Match US Returns at 23%

“VC firms, top quartile VC firms in the UK return 23%, right? It's exactly the same as the US.”

Alex Depledge Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 10:28 UK Budget 2025: Stripe + Startup Coalition

Opinion

Depledge: UK healthtech moves to US due to NHS procurement friction

“Most of the reason that our health tech companies leave and go to the US is not because they can't raise the money. It's because the NHS makes them jump through about a billion different hoops to get onto their, like, framework, and it's just much easier to go…”

Alex Depledge Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 19:14 UK Budget 2025: Stripe + Startup Coalition

Assertion Supported

Depledge: UK Pension Allocation to Domestic Equities Fell From 60% to 6%

“60% of pensioners' money used to be in, in UK equities and riskier funds. It's now six percent.”

Alex Depledge Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 10:00 UK Budget 2025: Stripe + Startup Coalition

Assertion Supported

Depledge: UK Has 44,000 Scale-Ups Generating Over £1 Trillion Output

“There's 44,000 scale-ups in the UK, they're generating over a trillion pounds worth of economic output, they're scaling faster than anyone else, they're creating good jobs”

Alex Depledge Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 6:36 UK Budget 2025: Stripe + Startup Coalition

Assertion Supported

Depledge: British Business Bank committed to explore IP-backed lending

“The BBB have made a commitment to look at IP lending, which I'm, I think as founders of businesses that build IP, that's quite good because we're usually asset light.”

Alex Depledge Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 17:22 UK Budget 2025: Stripe + Startup Coalition

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
UK Budget 2025: Stripe + Startup Coalition	Nov 28, 2025	8m

Alex Depledge

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