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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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Growth Guarantee Scheme

Câr-y-Môr

Câr-y-Môr is the first community-owned regenerative ocean farm in Wales. With a diverse membership of over 300 individuals from various backgrounds, Câr-y-Môr has become a shining example of community-driven sustainability and innovation.

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Patient Capital Funds

Xampla

Xampla has developed an entirely new generation of materials, made from plants, that replaces plastics.

Patient Capital Funds

Ori Biotech

Ori Biotech’s mission is to eliminate barriers to patient access of cell and gene therapies (CGTs) through the use of innovation and by rethinking how those therapies are manufactured.

Patient Capital Funds

Quantexa

Quantexa is a data and analytics specialist which has developed a software platform for organisations to help them make meaningful, evidence-based decision using data and machine learning.

Patient Capital Funds

Thought Machine

Thought Machine is providing the next generation of core banking platforms using software it has built natively for cloud infrastructure to help banks move away from a reliance on outdated IT infrastructure.

Patient Capital Funds

Alchemab Therapeutics

Alchemab Therapeutics is a healthcare company that is harnessing the power of naturally protective antibodies to develop novel products for patients with hard-to-treat diseases.

Future Fund

Big Atom

What do you do when nearly three-quarters of your customers close overnight? How do you maintain operations in those conditions?

Future Fund

Ambion Heating

What do you do when you’re in the middle of a funding round and a pandemic hits?

Midlands Engine Investment Fund

Industrial Phycology (I-Phyc)

A Birmingham company responsible for developing a new eco-friendly wastewater treatment system that could reduce pollution in rivers and seas has raised £700,000 to help it launch its technology to the market.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

G20 Water Technologies

Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity firms, has led a £1.035m investment in Manchester-headquartered water treatment technology business, G2O Water Technologies Limited.

Enterprise Capital Funds

Active Partners

Active Partners: A Funder’s experience of raising an Enterprise Capital Fund with British Business Bank

Enterprise Capital Funds

Carwow

Carwow had grown from a team of two to five employees with some angel funding, but they knew that they needed institutional backing to improve the service and grow the business into a nationally recognised brand.

Enterprise Capital Funds

Heck Foods

Heck Foods is a family-run premium sausage maker, which was founded by Yorkshire farmers Andrew and Debbie Keeble in 2012. Heck’s brands are sold throughout the UK in Tesco, ASDA, Morrisons, Booths and Waitrose, and via its own website.