4 Days. 2 Stages. 100+ Meetings: Our Web Summit 2025 Takeaways

Between back-to-back panels, dinner with Dojo AI, and launching our whitepaper "Blind the Gap," we've had intense days in Lisbon tackling the UK's £22bn SME funding gap.

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Here are our 4 biggest takeaways.

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1. Conversation Breeds Clarity

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Our CEO Katherine Chan spoke twice — on the Fintech stage for "Inclusion at the Core" and the eCommerce stage alongside Niall Mac an tSionnaigh (CEO of SumUp) and Fernando Cabral ( Managing Partner & Chief Venture Officer of Djassi Africa).

The theme? Real financial inclusion for small businesses transcends technology. It requires smarter infrastructure and financial literacy tools that help founders scale with confidence.

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2. SME Community Building Is the Solution

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Our partnership dinner with Dojo AI brought together UK fintech leaders and small business owners for honest conversations about real funding challenges.

When we create space for dialogue between service provideres and founders, the path to closing the SME confidence gap becomes clearer.

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3. Diverse Perspectives Drive Better SME Solutions

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From Lagos to New York to Brussels, Web Summit gathered founders, VCs, and policymakers all seeking better tools to scale their businesses.

The UK isn't alone in facing an SME confidence divide. Founders everywhere grapple with complex lending systems not built with them in mind. The best solutions come from the widest range of voices.

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4. SME Founders Need Clarity and Control, Not Just Capital

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The £22bn UK SME funding gap exists because finance feels unintelligible. 82% of SME Founders in the UK agree that founders need loan terms in simple language.

At Juice, we're embedding financial education into lending, making every term plain English, and reshaping the SME finance ecosystem with transparency at its core.

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Thanks to everyone who joined our panels and dinner. Special thanks to Dojo AI.

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