Case Studies

Founded in 2014 by three former advertising executives – Dean Tempest, Ben Drummond and Tris Williams – Big Potato Games is a leading creator and distributor of party and family games.

Oxford Space Systems (OSS) is a leading UK space‑technology company that specialises in the design and manufacture of advanced deployable antennas and structures for satellites.

Velocity Pro Gear secured £900k via Danske Bank and the British Business Bank-backed Growth Guarantee Scheme to scale production, exports and its Connect app platform.

Founded in 2019 by Dr Saahil Mehta, a Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Plexāā is a UK medtech company pioneering a new approach to surgical preparation.

Originally founded in 2016 by Kevin Glynn and David Nolan, Butternut Box is a London based company that operates across the UK and Europe providing personalised, human quality fresh dog food via a subscription service.

Founded in 2017 by Slava Kremerman and Oren Cohen, Zen Educate is an online marketplace that connects schools to supply teachers and teaching assistants by advertising job opportunities in real-time.

WestBridge, a UK private equity firm focused on the lower-mid market, made a majority investment in Causeway Securities through its third Fund, WestBridge III in October 2024. The Bank has committed £34m to the fund through its Growth Equity mandate.

The Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF) was launched in 2015 to invest exclusively in pioneering research and drug development to tackle neurodegenerative diseases, incl. Alzheimer’s, one of the largest unmet medical needs with over 55m patients worldwide and nearly 10m new cases every year.

Founded in 2016 by Ian Flanagan, a former professional tennis player turned entrepreneur, Voly Group is a leading yacht and multi-asset financial management platform.

Fauna, a design-led lifestyle brand specialising in premium products for dogs and their owners, accessed a £50,000 loan funded by First Enterprise through the Community ENABLE Funding programme, supported by the Growth Guarantee Scheme to scale its operations and accelerate growth.

Tuscany and Taste, a brand dedicated to bringing authentic Tuscan truffle excellence to London, was funded with £84,000 in growth finance by Let’s Do Business Finance through Community ENABLE Funding, supported by the Growth Guarantee Scheme.

OrganOx is at the forefront of changing the way donor organs are preserved in the critical time between donation and transplantation. OrganOx accessed venture capital via the Enterprise Capital Funds (ECF) programme, which it used to fund the clinical studies to secure market approval for its product, a complex class III medical device.

Tom Parker Creamery secured a £750,000 equity Investment from the South West Investment Fund enabling them to relocate to a larger facility and increase production capacity

Autonomous Drone Operations for Critical Infrastructure Pioneering UK Tech Firm Attracted Major Investment

Getpotted.com, a garden-focused e-commerce business, has successfully secured £350,000 in funding from First Enterprise.

A Leeds-based company whose technology could replace dashboard controls in cars and transform the way we operate appliances raised a further £3m to help prepare for mass production.

Founded in 2017 by a team of AI researchers with a mission to empower everyone to make high quality video content – Synthesia now serves more than 55,000 companies worldwide.

PEAK:AIO, a Manchester-based software company building ultra-fast storage systems for AI workloads has received a £5 million funding round.