Success Stories

Learn how other UK businesses have used external finance to reach their ambition

Here’s just some of the tens of thousands of smaller businesses funded through our partners, with the support of British Business Bank’s programmes.

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Enterprise Capital Funds

NQ64

NQ64 are a chain of unique bars across the country offering a range of specialist beers and cocktails which can be enjoyed by customers while playing a range of retro arcade games and consoles.

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Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Investment Fund

Clinical Design Technologies

Clinical Design Technologies is using £750,000 of CIOSIF equity investment to promote its groundbreaking Urine Testing System technology.

Start Up Loans

HMW Personal Training

HelenMarie provides personal training and pilates through her company HMW Personal Training, which she started in October 2014.

Start Up Loans

YorTours

Nick Smith’s passion for what his local area has to offer and his love of working with people, inspired him to start YorTours.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

LiveLead

A Humber business which has developed an online lead generation system to help SMEs access new business opportunities  secured a £250,000 investment from NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.

Start Up Loans

Keel Over Marketing

Thomas Coppen, a Bristol-based entrepreneur, borrowed £5,000 to get his company ‘Keel Over Ltd’ off the ground.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

ebb3 Limited

Maven Capital Partners has led a £900,000 investment in supercomputing technology specialist, ebb3 Limited.

Midlands Engine Investment Fund

Selazar

Nottingham 29 January 2020: Foresight Group LLP (“Foresight”), a leading independent private equity and infrastructure investment manager, is pleased to announce a £500,000 growth capital investment into Selazar Limited (“Selazar” or “the Company”), a logistics management software business, set to open a new base in Leicestershire.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

YProtech

Corporate finance house Acceleris Capital  completed a £400,000 round of fundraising for YProtech Ltd, consisting of £250,000 equity finance and further £150,000 of debt, provided by NPIF – FW Capital Debt Finance, a product fund managed by FW Capital and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.

Midlands Engine Investment Fund

HALO X-ray technologies

HALO X-ray Technologies (HALO), a company which owns patented next generation X-ray technology, has secured investment from venture capital firm Midven and the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF).

Start Up Loans

Pencil & Fork

David Sanchez is the founder and owner of Pencil & Fork, a business which provides an innovative approach to learning using food. Pencil & Fork was set up in 2013 and is situated in Worcester Park in Sutton, South London.

Start Up Loans

Yuyo

Yuyo is planning to change the way the UK enjoys hot drinks. Founders Rosie and Charles were inspired by their experiences of drinking yerba mate, a South American herbal infusion, while travelling the continent together.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

Cobra Sports

A Sheffield company which manufactures high-performance vehicle exhausts expanded across the Pennines with the support of a six-figure loan from NPIF- Mercia Debt Finance, which is managed by Mercia Fund Managers and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.

Midlands Engine Investment Fund

Kare Plus

Nursing and Healthcare recruitment specialist will use the business loan to expand care sites across the West and East Midlands.

Start Up Loans

Zeal Creative

Zeal Creative used funding from a British Business Bank programme. Read more about how the funding helped them.

Start Up Loans

Cocoa Amore

Learn how Cocoa Amore used funding from a British Business Bank programme. Read more about how the funding helped them.

Start Up Loans

Enlighten-Ac

Learn how Enlighten-Ac used funding from a British Business Bank programme. Read more about how the funding helped them.

Start Up Loans

Miles & Mia

Learn how Miles & Mia used funding from a British Business Bank programme. Read more about how the funding helped them.

Start Up Loans

Hamish Dobbie Silversmithing

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