Aquis Stock Exchange partners with Barclays Eagle Labs to link ambitious SMEs with public markets
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September 9, 2025
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Aquis Stock Exchange, the challenger market designed specifically for growth enterprises, is delighted to announce a new partnership with Barclays Eagle Labs: one of the UK’s largest incubator networks for start- and scale-up businesses.
Both Barclays and Aquis believe that increased utilisation of public markets could create positive economic outcomes for ambitious small- and medium-sized enterprises, and hope that this partnership will both raise awareness of public markets as a funding option for this audience and create valuable links between the startup community and public market ecosystem.
As part of the partnership initiative, Barclays and Aquis will be creating opportunities for Eagle Lab participants and delivery partners to engage with Aquis Stock Exchange, including via mentor support; co-creating learning modules for early-stage founders and provision of educational content for the full breadth of the start up to scale up continuum, focusing particularly on the early stages of public market readiness; co-authoring thought leadership to guide public policy; and joint initiatives to raise awareness of both the funding needs of early-stage businesses and the potential for public markets as a source of scale-up capital.
David Stevens, CEO of Aquis Exchange, said:
“Aquis Stock Exchange is a market designed specifically to make public markets accessible for growth companies, enabling these companies to engage a source of capital from an early stage as they scale. We are delighted to be partnering with Barclays Eagle Labs to assist their community of 13,000 businesses in understanding and accessing public markets as part of their growth journey.”
“Aquis Stock Exchange is a market designed specifically to make public markets accessible for growth companies, enabling these companies to engage a source of capital from an early stage as they scale. We are delighted to be partnering with Barclays Eagle Labs to assist their community of 13,000 businesses in understanding and accessing public markets as part of their growth journey.”
Abdul Qureshi, Managing Director of Eagle Labs, Growth and Specialist Propositions at Barclays, said:
“We are committed to fostering innovation and supporting businesses in their journey to success, and know that the public market ecosystem is key to this. As Aquis Stock Exchange is designed specifically for growth enterprises, we believe the this partnership will help increase the access of our founders, start-ups and scale-ups to an important part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.”
“We are committed to fostering innovation and supporting businesses in their journey to success, and know that the public market ecosystem is key to this. As Aquis Stock Exchange is designed specifically for growth enterprises, we believe the this partnership will help increase the access of our founders, start-ups and scale-ups to an important part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.”
