Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Stock Exchange Project Limited (CSEP) and JP Jenkins Limited are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to connect high-potential UK growth companies with regulated secondary market liquidity. Under the arrangement, CSEP will act as a partner to JP Jenkins’ FCA-regulated venue, bringing growth-stage companies from across the UK’s innovation ecosystems onto the platform.
JP Jenkins is one of the UK’s longest-established venues for liquidity in unlisted and unquoted securities. JP Jenkins operates a matched bargain facility and has recently been granted a PISCES operator licence — becoming the second platform to receive the licence from the FCA and the first to complete a live transaction under the framework. The platform connects over 40 UK-regulated brokers — including IG Group, Hargreaves Lansdown, AJ Bell, interactive investor, and Winterflood Securities — providing companies with transparent, cost-effective access to secondary market liquidity and a raised capital markets profile.
JP Jenkins will provide the regulatory and transactional infrastructure, connecting introduced companies to its established broker network. CSEP, headquartered at Hauxton House, Cambridge, and part of the o2h Group ecosystem, will lead market development opportunities.
The UK’s knowledge and innovation-led ecosystems — from Cambridge and Oxford to Edinburgh and the Golden Triangle — are producing world-class science and technology companies at pace. Yet significant breaks in the funding continuum, particularly at the point of scaling from series A onwards, continue to limit options for market liquidity. The research and direct experience behind CSEP show that successful innovation ecosystems thrive on the density and agglomeration of ideas, talent, infrastructure, connectivity, and capital — but access to liquid capital inside these ecosystems remains largely absent. This partnership addresses that gap, offering growth companies a clear pathway to a regulated liquidity venue, raising their capital markets profile and providing shareholders and prospective investors with a mechanism to buy and sell shares in a transparent, regulated environment.
Prashant Shah, CEO & Founder, Cambridge Stock Exchange Project, said:
We are delighted to partner with JP Jenkins as the first strategic partner for CSEP. We set up CSEP because we believe there was a gap in the market for growth-stage companies in the UK to access liquidity via the public markets. Our core purpose is that we think that these markets should be available inside high-density innovation ecosystems and not external to them. We are starting with secondary market liquidity and are currently exploring opportunities for primary funding. The UK is a leading innovator, and the aim of the CSEP is to help contribute to the best life-science, tech and green companies scaling and staying in the UK
Andrew Foster, Director, JP Jenkins, added:
JP Jenkins has always been committed to supporting growth companies with transparent, regulated access to secondary market liquidity. This partnership with CSEP gives us a direct connection to the UK’s most dynamic innovation ecosystems. CSEP’s deep relationships across the life science, technology, and green economy sectors will bring exciting, high-quality companies onto our platform, and we look forward to supporting them on their growth journey.
About Cambridge Stock Exchange Project (CSEP)
Cambridge Stock Exchange Project Limited is headquartered at Hauxton House, Cambridge, UK, and is part of the o2h Group ecosystem. CSEP addresses a critical gap between local private funding ecosystems and capital markets in the UK. Many of the UK’s most promising science and technology companies face limited options for market liquidity, with the best companies often acquired or relocated overseas before realising their full potential — resulting in significant economic loss of opportunity for the UK. The purpose of CSEP is to create a platform for accessing liquidity from the market inside high-density innovation ecosystems, such as Cambridge and expanding across the UK’s knowledge and innovation-intensive clusters. CSEP is launching with this first partnership for secondary liquidity and is currently exploring opportunities for raising capital from primary markets. Through strategic partnerships such as this collaboration with JP Jenkins, CSEP aims to bring larger liquidity options to Series A+ companies, enabling them to grow from within their home ecosystems while preserving their scientific innovation, leadership, and economic contribution to the UK.
For more information, visit: cambridgestockexchangeproject.com
About JP Jenkins
JP Jenkins is the UK’s largest liquidity venue for unlisted assets. The company provides an efficient platform for privately held and unlisted businesses who are seeking a liquidity solution for holders of their securities. Historically this activity has been undertaken on the JP Jenkins Matched Bargain Facility and is now complemented by the JP Jenkins Private Market for transactions under PISCES.
JP Jenkins was acquired by the innovative FinTech provider InfinitX in 2023, enabling the display of real-time access and pricing with any registered broker or financial institution, who can then connect, execute and settle with JP Jenkins over existing market infrastructures. In 2025, JP Jenkins received direct authorisation from the FCA and has also been granted a PISCES operator license.
For more information, visit: jpjenkins.com
Media Contacts
For CSEP: Prashant Shah | CEO | prashant@o2h.com
For JP Jenkins: Mike McCudden | CEO | mike@infinitx.co.uk
JP Jenkins is a company incorporated in England & Wales with registered number 08014724 and whose registered office is at 101 Wigmore Street, 5th Floor, London, England, W1U 1QU (JPJ). JPJ (FRN 1037394, PAN 25002) is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
