Music Technology UK (MTUK), the trade association for the UK’s Music Tech sector, recently relaunched FemTUK, its community supporting female founders and aspiring founders in Music Tech. It’s now appointed Sarah Jones, who has previously worked at Songkick and the BBC, as FemTUK’s Chair. Her appointment arrives alongside some MTUK research data that FemTUK will be aiming to change: just 12.4% of UK music tech companies are female-led, compares to 16.3% across the broader tech sector and 18% for the UK economy overall. Within MTUK’s own membership the figure is slightly higher, at 14.6%.
The gap widens further when it comes to funding – between 2020 and 2025, only 38.1% of female-led Music Tech companies received equity funding. Over that period, female-led companies accounted for 18.6% of equity deals, and captured just 5.39% of total equity investment by value. FemTUK aims to boost all of these numbers by supporting female-identifying founders and future founders via peer support, shared experience and creating visible role models.
Jones said: “FemTUK isn’t about creating another networking group. It’s about building the UK’s leading community for women who want to start and scale Music Tech businesses, and giving them the confidence, practical knowledge and connections to turn ideas into companies. There is huge untapped entrepreneurial talent in our sector, and I’m excited to work with the community to help unlock it.”
