Business Growth Fund

Business Growth Fund is an influential investor in small and mid-sized businesses. It was set up in 2011 to offer growing companies and ambitious entrepreneurs patient capital and strategic support. With 14 offices, they are close and relevant to the businesses they invest in. They have grown to a team of 150+ and a network that’s made up of one of the largest pools of board-level executives. Collectively, the companies in their portfolio employ close to 50,000 people. They want to see more entrepreneurs using their capital not only to scale-up their own business but also, collectively, to drive economic activity and with it increase employment, exports, and growth.

Dennis Atkinson

Investor

Simon Blackaby

Investor

Mark Bryant

Head of Manufacturing

Nick Holder

Investor

Harry Jones

Investor

Mark Nunny

Investor

Paul Oldham

Regional Director South & member of Executive Committee

James Skade

Investor

Mark Sykes

Investor

Stephen Welton

Founder,CEO

Past deals in Ireland

Dublin Meat Company

Venture Round in 2022
Dublin Meat Company provides Ready Meals and Quality Meat delivered same-day to Homes and Offices.

Revive Active

Private Equity Round in 2022
Revive Active health supplement is the only brand that unlocks your abundant natural energy to maximize the lifestyle you want because it’s a supplement that does not compromise on amount or quality but is abundant with fantastic ingredients. Revive Active Health Supplement is a high quality blend of 26 ingredients delivered in one convenient sachet. The unique blend of vitamins and minerals combine to provide a multitude of health benefits including natural sustained energy without the use of sugar and caffeine. The revolutionary product also brings two key Nobel prize-winning ingredients together for the first time. The combined inclusion of Coenzyme Q10 and L-Arginine further improves Revive Active’s ability to enhance energy and vitality and support a healthy immune system in regular consumers all for as little as a cup of coffee per day. Unlike traditional fish oil supplements, Revive Krill Oil is an extremely bioavailable source of EPA and DHA. Key to the enhanced absorption is the unique structure of the omega-3s. Fish oil omega-3s are found in a triglyceride form, which repel water impairing absorption in the digestive tract. Krill oil is found in a phospholipid form which attracts water promoting fast and efficient absorption. This helps deliver the essential omega-3s to the places you need it most.

Tigers Childcare

Venture Round in 2021
Tigers Childcare is provides high quality early education and care for children age 4 months to 13 years.

Ambisense

Venture Round in 2021
Since 2014 Ambisense has been driving innovation within the environmental space. Our technology platform optimizes the delivery of environmental risk assessment on some of the world’s largest infrastructure projects across industrial, O&G and waste verticals. Ambilytics encompasses both IoT and ML solutions, combining information from remotely deployed field devices with contextual data sources such as weather, satellite, geophysical and operational data to build machine learning models. These models identify the relationships, patterns, and drivers hidden within the data and allow our customers to forecast and predict the behaviour of targeted environmental pollutants.

Vasorum

Venture Round in 2021
Vasorum Ltd. develops medical devices for interventional cardiology and radiology markets. It offers Celt ACD, an arterial puncture closure device that affects the closure of a puncture site after percutaneous catheter-based vascular procedures, such as angiography, angioplasty, and placement of a stent. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

edgescan

Private Equity Round in 2020
Edgescan provides vulnerability management security as a service (SaaS) solution that provides on demand vulnerability assessment, metrics, and intelligence. Its security solution detects, prioritizes, monitors, and fix security weaknesses for internet-facing systems, such as web applications, websites, mobile apps, servers, firewalls, VPN’s or VoIP services for enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) clients. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

TEAM Accessories

Private Equity Round in 2019
Team Accessories Limited provides maintenance, repair, and overhaul services to aviation engines and airframes. The company offers services to a range of national and international commercial airlines, government, and military aircraft. It offers maintenance and repair to a range of equipment, including main fuel accessory, fuel flow accessory, reservoir refill stands, main hydraulic and EDP test stands, Skydrol hydraulic test stands, oil fuel test stands, and ultrasonic cleaning systems. Team Accessories Limited was incorporated in 1994 and is based in Ballyboughal, Ireland.

Uform

Venture Round in 2019
Uform Ltd manufactures and distributes kitchen doors and accessories under Kitchen Stori brand. It offers true handleless, in-frame, shaker, slab, raised panel, and J-pull doors; door handles; and lighting products. The company serves retailers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Uform Ltd was formerly known as Oakwood Door Designs Limited and changed its name to Uform Ltd in June 2003. Uform Ltd was founded in 1993 and is based in Toomebridge, United Kingdom.

Brindley Healthcare

Venture Round in 2019
Brindley Healthcare is one of the leading providers of residential care in Ireland and was founded in 2000 by Ms. Amanda Torrens. Amanda has overall responsibility for the day to day operations and the future strategy for growth and continuous improvement. We currently operate 6 HIQA registered residential care homes in Donegal, Galway, Mayo and Kildare.

Unique Digital Cinema

Private Equity Round in 2018
Unique Digital Cinema is an innovative software and content delivery services empower digital cinema customers in 53 countries around the world.

Braidwater

Venture Round in 2018
Braidwater offers a fresh approach to building new homes in Northern Ireland; an approach based on understanding what homebuyers really want in a new home and a commitment to delivering exceptional quality, value and a personal service that is second to none.

Renegade Spirits Ireland

Venture Round in 2017
Renegade Spirits Ireland is developing a major whiskey project on Ireland’s south-eastern coast.

Solid Solutions

Venture Round in 2016
Solid Solutions is the UK and Ireland’s reseller of SOLIDWORKS, the 3D computer aided design (CAD) package that is owned by Dassault Systems and used by more than five million people worldwide.

Braidwater

Venture Round in 2015
Braidwater offers a fresh approach to building new homes in Northern Ireland; an approach based on understanding what homebuyers really want in a new home and a commitment to delivering exceptional quality, value and a personal service that is second to none.

ACS Clothing

Venture Round in 2015
ACS is a provider of mens hirewear to leading retailers in the UK and Ireland. Wtih an extensive range of both formalwear and highlandwear we provide outfits for over 500,000 wearers each year from our range of over a million garments which are available to hire. Founded in 1997 the company has grown each year and is now proud to supply some of the largest menswear retailers in the UK.

ACS Clothing

Venture Round in 2014
ACS is a provider of mens hirewear to leading retailers in the UK and Ireland. Wtih an extensive range of both formalwear and highlandwear we provide outfits for over 500,000 wearers each year from our range of over a million garments which are available to hire. Founded in 1997 the company has grown each year and is now proud to supply some of the largest menswear retailers in the UK.