Startup Index Report for 2024


As featured in The Times, our friends at Beauhurst and NatWest have released the New Startup Index Report for 2024, examining data from Companies House and their own sources in order to understand new business registrations across the company. It makes for very interesting reading.

We were delighted to have prior sight of the report and a chance to comment ahead of publication.

You can read the new Beauhurst and NatWest report here.

The CFE has looked at this topic each of the last nine years. In our 2023 report, we examined the Post-Covid impact that could be seen throughout the startups registered in 2022. At that time, we saw some 790,000 new businesses contrasting with the 900,000 or so seen in this report on the following year’s data. The large jump in Northern Ireland’s new starts contrasts with a sluggish year in 2022, that actually saw a decline.

We are delighted to have had a chance to work with Beauhurst on this report and hope it may be the first of many collaborations where we can add analysis and insight to their data, which is undoubtedly the best in the UK. In particular, the ever-recurring issues around potential fraud and the geographic spread of new businesses are worthy of further investigation. 2022 saw Northern Ireland’s new count actually fall, for example, so the rebound this year is really good to see.

Startup Index Report for 2024


As featured in The Times, our friends at Beauhurst and NatWest have released the New Startup Index Report for 2024, examining data from Companies House and their own sources in order to understand new business registrations across the company. It makes for very interesting reading.

We were delighted to have prior sight of the report and a chance to comment ahead of publication.

You can read the new Beauhurst and NatWest report here.

The CFE has looked at this topic each of the last nine years. In our 2023 report, we examined the Post-Covid impact that could be seen throughout the startups registered in 2022. At that time, we saw some 790,000 new businesses contrasting with the 900,000 or so seen in this report on the following year’s data. The large jump in Northern Ireland’s new starts contrasts with a sluggish year in 2022, that actually saw a decline.

We are delighted to have had a chance to work with Beauhurst on this report and hope it may be the first of many collaborations where we can add analysis and insight to their data, which is undoubtedly the best in the UK. In particular, the ever-recurring issues around potential fraud and the geographic spread of new businesses are worthy of further investigation. 2022 saw Northern Ireland’s new count actually fall, for example, so the rebound this year is really good to see.