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.

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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Frontier Space

Frontier Space, a trailblazer in commercial microgravity research and in-space bio-manufacturing, secured a £75,000 loan facility from Sprk Capital to improve cashflow while delivering on a high-profile UK Space Agency project. The funding, backed by the British Business Bank, allowed the business to maintain momentum on its ground-breaking autonomous laboratory platform, culminating in the successful launch of its SpaceLab Mark 1 demonstrator aboard SpaceX’s Bandwagon-3 mission.

Growth Guarantee Scheme

Reacton Fire Suppression and Fireward

Reacton Fire Suppression Ltd and Fireward Ltd, leaders in advanced fire suppression technology, secured a £3m funding package from Arbuthnot Commercial Asset Based Lending to accelerate their strategic growth.

FinTech

Fiji Homes and Properties Ltd

CrowdProperty backs SME businesses to build much-needed homes throughout Britain, with the majority of projects outside of London and the South East. Fiji Homes and Properties Ltd is a husband and wife development team, Dr Mayowa Oluwatosin and Dr Nkiru Oluwatosin, who have completed 15 previous projects, several of which have been supported by CrowdProperty.

Future Fund

Bockatech

As a young company, Bockatech needed cash to develop its technology and grow its business but worried that COVID-19 would hamper its ability to raise finance through private investors.

Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS)

Anglian Country Inns

Having failed to secure vital working capital before the COVID-19 pandemic, the subsequent closure of hospitality businesses as a result of the outbreak hit Anglian Country Inns’ finances even harder.

ENABLE Guarantees

FW Properties

Based in Norwich, small housebuilder FW Properties specialise in developing distinctive contemporary properties across Norfolk and Suffolk.

Enterprise Capital Funds

Grapeshot

Started in Cambridge, Grapeshot is a brand safety platform that helps marketers, publishers and media organisations target customers more accurately in any language and in real time, globally.

Exonate Limited

Exonate Limited raised £1m in Angel Investment to develop life-changing eye drops