Apera Asset Management is a mid-market private debt investor that provides financing solutions and asset management services to investors.
Kingsway Asset Finance is an independent asset finance and leasing companies, specialising in serving the SME market.
The goal of the Little Houses Group is to create a network of community-led spaces that improve people's lives through education, support, and recreation. Our clubs will be hubs for people to enjoy face-to-face interaction in a world that can be so focused on being online. The opportunity to see old friends and meet new ones, a haven for parents, a place where children can be children, and where everyone can be seen and heard.
Allica Bank is a fintech company that delivers digital banking services for small and medium-sized businesses. The company combines modern technology with local relationships in the community to provide banking for businesses in Britain. The company was founded by Jason Scott and is headquartered in London, England.
Allica Bank is a fintech company that delivers digital banking services for small and medium-sized businesses. The company combines modern technology with local relationships in the community to provide banking for businesses in Britain. The company was founded by Jason Scott and is headquartered in London, England.
Nuclera offers a protein prototyping system to accelerate drug discovery by making proteins readily available to researchers. Nuclera's eProtein DiscoveryTM system allows scientists to rapidly produce and test proteins for drug discovery.
Zedify is decarbonising the last mile in cities with cargo bikes: over 80% lower carbon and 13% more efficient than the next best alternative, we delight our customers with affordable deliveries that build loyalty to their brands.
24Haymarket is an investment network which included several highly-experienced private equity and venture capital investors, seasoned entrepreneurs, and senior operators. Investing up to £5 million in growth companies in the UK and Europe. They invested their own capital in direct alignment with entrepreneurs and actively support their growth agenda and join the board of the companies in which they invest. Since inception in 2011, 24Haymarket has invested in more than 50 high-growth businesses.
CAPSLOCK provides career-changing education around cutting-edge emerging technologies, such as cyber security. They make their educational programmes affordable and accessible to everyone, by using modern student finance arrangements and delivering world-class education entirely online. We make sure our admissions process concentrates on an individual’s future potential, not their past academic background. The programmes focus on employment outcomes. They prepare learner’s for the workplace, so they can apply new skills in a real, practical way and ultimately start their tech-based career. Included is a mentoring programmes and industry-specific certifications to increase the employability of our learners. They have enrolled over 700 learners and are helping to plug the UK’s cyber skills gap with this new generation of talent. Their graduates are being hired by the likes of Barclays, Dyson and the BBC, and are seeing an average salary increase of 65%. CAPSLOCK has won many awards including: 2021: DCMS UK’s Most Innovative Cyber SME 2021: TechUK Cyber Innovator of the Year 2022: NCSC’s Cyber Den Winner 2022: Learning Technologies Awards Best Online Distance Learning Programme 2023: Women in IT Awards Tech Start-up of the Year 2023: BVCA's Excellence in Impact award, The Portfolio Company - Social Impact category. Key facts: Company launched: February 2021 Location: 100% remote Learners enrolled to date: 700+ Average % hired within 6 months of graduation: 70% Learners who go into entry-level roles (20-35k): 61% Learners who go into mid-level roles (35-50k): 33% Learners who go into senior roles (50k+): 6% No. of companies who have hired CAPSLOCK learners: over 120 Average salary learner salary pre-CAPSLOCK: £22,300 Average learner salary post-CAPSLOCK: £34,400 Highest salary to date: £79,000 – Policy Adviser 2nd highest salary to date: £75,000 – Splunk solutions engineer,
Sofant is developing a low cost RF MEMS technology that solves power consumption and heat problems in high frequency phased array antenna systems.
Leucid Bio is a pioneering biotech company developing cell therapies for refractory cancers, especially solid tumors. Leucid was founded to translate 20 years of King's College London (King's) research in the CAR-T field and is led by a highly experienced management team with both scientific and commercial expertise. As part of Leucid's ongoing relationship with King's, it benefits from exclusive access to and resources from the deep scientific, clinical, and manufacturing expertise of Dr. Maher and his academic team of immuno-oncology experts.
Liberty Leasing is an asset finance company. They offer a personal and flexible approach to asset and vehicle finance to a spectrum of businesses, from new start-ups to organizations and individuals. Liberty Leasing provides a personalized and flexible approach to asset and vehicle financing to a wide range of UK-based businesses, from start-ups to well-established corporations and high-net-worth individuals. Liberty Leasing also offers regulated consumer hire and credit agreements, as well as refinance services to help business customers free up capital from existing assets.
MySense offers reassurance and peace of mind by giving users, their families and caregivers, the opportunity to get in front of a range of health problems to stay at home, safer and independently. Our Product collects data related to the activities of daily living through passive IoT sensors and our AI recognises changes to those patterns of daily living earlier and offers wellbeing insights to professionals, support staff, families and carers. This allows responders to plan ahead rather than react in crises. In a recent evaluation conducted by one of the NHS Foundation Trusts we work with we saw a reduction of 64% in unplanned admissions into hospital and a 58% reduction in GP appointments, We work with the NHS, Local Government, resellers and private care organisations.
Apera Asset Management is a mid-market private debt investor that provides financing solutions and asset management services to investors.
Deepbridge is a different kind of investment manager. They work closely with financial advisers and investors to design innovative products, ranging from investment in technology growth companies to asset-backed renewable energy projects. They also partner with innovative and committed management teams to help UK based companies realise their potential and become successful leading-edge businesses.
Algbra is a developer of a financial services application used to educate and engage communities. The company offers its full-stack proprietary technology internationally as a turnkey digital banking solution. Its application utilizes technology to provide services like accounts, debit cards, savings, rewards, foreign exchange, remittances, personal finance, and home purchase plans to help minority communities take control of their finances. Its UK B2C proposition was named the Best ESG Initiative in Payments at the Pay360 Awards. The award recognized Algbra’s impact solutions, such as carbon tracking and offsetting, financial wellbeing tools, and its donations platform.
World's No1 'search & book' platform for halal-conscious travelers. UK HQ-ed with 50 staff. Customers from 105 countries worldwide.
Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change. Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energy and truly green, sustainable companies.
Lightpoint Medical is an early-stage medical device company founded in 2012. The company is developing a breakthrough intraoperative imaging technology called Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging (CLI). CLI has the potential to detect cancer in real-time during surgery, and thereby reduce the likelihood of cancer recurrence and the need for reoperation.
B2Space offers technical expertise in the developing commercial space industry. They provide independent safety advice for the spaceport, launcher, range, explosive site analysis, and operations management. They also provide cybersecurity solutions. The company's goal is to democratize space access, support the development of new space technologies, and provide small and micro satellites with a dependable, adaptable, and affordable route to low Earth orbit.
C-Capture Ltd utilise their extensive knowledge of CO2 (carbon dioxide) based chemistry and engineering, to develop a bottom-up approach to designing solvent systems for the removal of CO2 from gas streams. CO2 is considered to be a ‘greenhouse gas’ and its release into the atmosphere is one of the leading contributors to global warming.
Orka Technology Group develops products designed specifically for hourly workers, solving challenges around high-turnover, high-volumes, and high-velocity employment within traditional industries, such as security, cleaning, and other service industries.
SyndicateRoom is fintech company made up of data-scientists, investment professionals, software developers and marketers with one mission: to be an early investor in every British startup success story. To do this – and make fund investors money – we don’t try to spot the next Big Thing. Instead, we apply a data-driven model to portfolio construction; a repeatable process designed to maximise returns and minimise risk for fund investors. As such, we build startup portfolios that don’t attempt to predict the future; they work to stack the odds in investors’ favour. Our fund, Access EIS, aims to build investors a diversified portfolio of 50+ companies by co‑investing exclusively with some of the UK’s best-performing angel investors.
Liberis provides business financial services. They deliver finance solutions directly to small businesses and provide a finance platform for partners to help business customers. They specialize in finance technology platforms and financial solutions.
Nebeus is on a mission to bridge the gap between traditional finance and cryptocurrencies, promoting financial inclusion and empowering everyone to manage their assets and grow their wealth worldwide. Designed for individuals, digital nomads, businesses, and platforms, Nebeus offers a secure financial ecosystem allowing customers to borrow, earn, send, and receive cash and crypto in a single, user-friendly platform. Nebeus was founded in 2014 in England and has transacted over £30 Million to date, operating primarily in the UK and Europe, with market expansion to Latin America. Secure, compliant, and designed for everyday use, Nebeus empowers users to put their digital assets to work, anytime, anywhere.
Assetz Capital is a marketplace lender that provides its services for SME finance, bridging, and property development sectors. Led by a professional team of highly experienced lending professionals with past experience lending at banks, working in insolvency practitioners and in accountancy. Finance is provided by the Assetz group investor base of more than 90,000 HNW individuals through a second-generation P2P lending platform. All loans are assessed individually and tangible security taken on all loans in a significant departure from the normally relatively unsecured nature of Peer to Peer lenders. Assetz Capital was established in 2013 and is based in Manchester, UK.
DMALINK is a bank-independent London based electronic execution venue for professional Foreign Exchange traders offering access to anonymous, proactively tailored and sustainable FX liquidity pools with particular focus on emerging markets. Counterparties transacting on DMALINK include Banks, Funds, Money Managers, HFT’s, CTA’s, and Proprietary Trading Firms from across the globe. An expansive understanding of the FX market and its dynamics provide distinct benefit to buy and sell side participants; directly influencing the quality of trade execution through consistent increase and consequent maintenance of optimal fill rates and price. The firm’s highly tailored offering combines innovative FX liquidity management expertise, deeply rooted industry knowledge, and a refreshingly creative boutique approach to sustainable Foreign Exchange trading services to benefit its global participants.
Mashroom is a prop-tech startup that provides end-to-end property letting services to landlords and tenants.
Red61 has grown out of a desire to build a different kind of ticketing solution supplier. Frustrated with the state of the ticketing market and the seemingly endless cycle of dissatisfied ticketing organisations moving to new suppliers, Red61 founders, Box Office Manager Tony Davey and software designer Peter McNaught got together to create a company whose guiding principle is to create long term collaborative relationships with its clients.
BrainWaveBank has developed a first-in-class wearable electroencephalography (EEG) device to conveniently and non-invasively measure the mechanisms that underpin neurological disorders and therapies. Our platform can securely gather, store and analyse data from many thousands of users, building neurocognitive profiles of individuals and populations or demographic groups. This easy-to-scale and distributable approach will help clinical professionals to transform our understanding of brain health and develop the next generation of treatments. BrainWaveBank was founded in January 2015 and has offices in Belfast , Northern Ireland and Dublin, Ireland.
Recruitment Smart is a B2B SAAS Deeptech HR platform. We automate the end-to-end talent supply chain process for organisations to effectively find, qualify and hire the best talent before their competitors. We also provide an AI solution that helps companies look for employees who can add value immediately
Manus Neurodynamica is a triage device to support early diagnostics in Parkinson's disease.
Big Atom provides recycling solutions for the entire waste tyre supply chain including local garages and tyre wholesalers. We collect, shred, and granulate tyres, transforming them into rubber granules to feed into the circular economy.
Beryl sell their micromobilty operating system to leading transport operators (Eg. London’s Santander Cycles) and operate their own bike, e-bike and e-scooter systems. Currently in 6 UK cities, with an exclusive contract for New York, they typically operate under exclusive, funded and long-term contracts. Beryl designed and built their micromobility system in-house (on-bike IoT, proprietary backend operating technology stack, on-street operations etc) which allows them to tailor their offering to a city's needs and become their fully-integrated, long-term, micromobility partner, as well as partnering with other technology operators to sell their technology and platform in markets they are not yet in. Beryl was founded in 2012 by Emily Brooke, with the purpose of building a better world by getting more people in cities on bikes. They have a range of consumer cycling products and were first known for their Laserlight safety innovation; a front bike light with a green laser projecting the symbol of a cyclist ahead of the bike. This was later adopted by all of the 12,000 Santander Cycles in London, after which Beryl went on to provide the London Bike Share Scheme with all on-bike technology and supporting asset tracking software. Beryl are the only micromobility company that is a certified BCorp.
Skylark is a leading-edge photonics company specializing in the development and production of CW single frequency DPSS lasers. Our proprietary BRaMMS Technology® platform delivers outstanding spectral performance with some of the highest output powers in the market. We are trusted by clients in research and industry worldwide.
Quantum Motion Technologies is building a universal quantum computer in Silicon, using CMOS compatible processes.
An intelligent AI-based web/app platform which enables students to search, compare & apply to the best-fit universities globally. It helps students to check what universities/ courses they are eligible & to make a data-driven unbiased decision. A seamless application process with an expert mentoring & at NO COST.
Assetz Capital is a marketplace lender that provides its services for SME finance, bridging, and property development sectors. Led by a professional team of highly experienced lending professionals with past experience lending at banks, working in insolvency practitioners and in accountancy. Finance is provided by the Assetz group investor base of more than 90,000 HNW individuals through a second-generation P2P lending platform. All loans are assessed individually and tangible security taken on all loans in a significant departure from the normally relatively unsecured nature of Peer to Peer lenders. Assetz Capital was established in 2013 and is based in Manchester, UK.
PCF Group plc provides hire purchase and finance lease services in the United Kingdom. It operates through two divisions, Consumer Finance and Business Finance.
Opteran reverse-engineers biological brains to create neuromorphic software for machines. Harnessing 600 million years of evolution, Opteran provides robust, low-cost autonomy on the edge. Without the need for AI, data centers, or training, the Opteran Mind provides general-purpose autonomy in the most challenging and dynamic conditions.
Secure Trust Bank PLC is a commercial bank based in Solihull, United Kingdom, and has been in operation since 1952. The bank offers a range of banking and financial products, focusing on three primary sectors: business finance, consumer finance, and mortgages. Its business finance segment includes asset finance, commercial finance, and real estate finance, providing loans for commercial assets, invoice financing, and funding for various real estate projects. The consumer finance division encompasses motor finance and retail finance, offering hire purchase agreements for vehicles and point-of-sale financing for retailers across multiple industries. Additionally, Secure Trust Bank provides residential mortgages through intermediaries, as well as a variety of deposit accounts. The bank emphasizes simplicity and transparency in its services and aims to build a strong presence in the UK banking sector.
Liberis provides business financial services. They deliver finance solutions directly to small businesses and provide a finance platform for partners to help business customers. They specialize in finance technology platforms and financial solutions.
Simply Asset Finance (Simply) is a forward-thinking and flexible asset finance business that provide UK SMEs with a better, faster, simpler service by employing the best people and using industry leading technology. Simply launched Simply Connect, an end-to-end digital journey that allows customers to use online tools to manage their funding, from application through to the final payment. Piece by piece, Simply has automated the process and removed the need for paperwork or manual input. This has been achieved by integrating various sources of data to make it easier to approve applications without asking the customer to collect everything for them. Simply offers a number of different services to customers from asset financing for small and growing businesses, tailored transactions for customers who require individually structured deals or work towards a specific timeline which requires fast decisions or helping businesses to release capital for reinvestment in new assets to grow.
Atom Bank is a mobile banking application that offers a range of personal and business banking products. Users can log in using face and voice recognition and receive support from a 24/7 customer service team. The application, available on iOS devices, was launched in March 2014 and its operations are based in Durham, the United Kingdom.
When Funding Circle was founded, they could see that businesses weren’t being given the finance to grow, while investors were making poor returns. They had a simple idea — let them support each other. By lending directly to businesses through Funding Circle, investors can now earn attractive returns to better provide for their future. Businesses get fast, easy access to funding to grow, create jobs, support local communities and drive the economy forward. They believe it’s better for everyone.
Kingsway Asset Finance is an independent asset finance and leasing companies, specialising in serving the SME market.
Shire Leasing is a privately owned funding firm created for B2B equipment leasing and asset finance. It works with traders, resellers, and manufacturers while handling over 2044 proposals as well as more than 540 deals each month. Its staff of over 140 members provides solutions for more than 60,000 UK small-and medium-enterprises (SMEs). The firm serves as a partner for various companies worldwide, including ADT, BT, and Toshiba. It offers a wide range of commercial facilities for development, funding, and protection for UK enterprises via its individual specialist divisions. Shire Leasing’s online application serves as a secure leasing proposal system for its network of approved suppliers.
Upper Street's unique online shopping experience allows women to design their very own pair of individual hand-made shoes. With hundreds of different style combinations in an extensive range of beautiful and exclusive materials, colours and embellishments from sizes 33 - 44, there's a pair of heels to suit every woman’s passion for shoes