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A recent report from Beauhurst highlights a quiet but meaningful shift taking place inside the UK’s early-stage investment ecosystem: the rapid growth of women angel investors.

At first glance, this might look like a diversity story.
But look a little deeper and it becomes something far more significant — a signal about how capital, innovation, and leadership are evolving across the UK economy.

UK Private Equity in 2025: Not a Slowdown — A Selection Event

Periods of market adjustment are often described in terms of decline:
fewer deals, slower momentum, weaker sentiment.

But the UK equity market in 2025 tells a more interesting story.

Deal volumes fell again — yet capital deployment held firm and average deal sizes increased.
In other words, activity didn’t disappear. It became more selective.

CFO turnover is often viewed as a sign of instability. In reality, it is increasingly a deliberate board-level decision.

Across listed, private equity-backed and growth businesses, boards are reassessing finance leadership more frequently — not because performance is failing, but because the demands of the CFO role are changing.

The next wave of AI isn’t just software automating spreadsheets or dashboards. It’s humanoid robots stepping into factories, warehouses, healthcare and logistics, taking on repetitive, physical and often hard-to-fill roles.