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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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Enterprise Capital Funds

NQ64

NQ64 are a chain of unique bars across the country offering a range of specialist beers and cocktails which can be enjoyed by customers while playing a range of retro arcade games and consoles.

Debt Funds

GTS Flexible Materials

GTS specialises in specialist adhesives and flexible materials, one use of which is in electric vehicle battery modules.

Investment Programme

3-SIXTY

3-SIXTY designs, produces and installs high quality graphics for retail and event spaces, using innovative ultraviolet/LED and dye sublimating technology. With help from Compass Business Finance, 3-SIXTY was able to boost its evolution with a range of new machinery.

Regional Angels

Elasmogen

Part of a cluster of biotech companies in Aberdeen, Elasmogen uses its bespoke technology platform to isolate innovative drugs for treating cancers and auto-immune diseases.

Regional Angels

Nova Pangaea Technologies

Nova Pangaea’s technology converts wood and crop residues into sustainable biocarbons, biopolymers, biochemicals and advanced biofuels, offering new sources of income for agricultural enterprises.

Enterprise Capital Funds

Urban Legend

Urban Legend is the first brand from Believe in Science, a start-up applying cutting-edge science to the reformulation of indulgent bakery products, starting with the humble doughnut.

Start Up Loans

Tribal Milk

Rahma Ahmed Ali and Nura Nur secured a loan of £10,000 in July 2021 through delivery partner Financing Sharia Enterprise to start alternative dairy brand Tribal Milk.

Start Up Loans

Pop Pressed

Kayleigh Cooper took out a £15,000 Start Up Loan in December 2020 to launch POP Pressed – an organic and plant-based cold-pressed juice brand.

Start Up Loans

Tide Climbing Centre

After Sophie and her partner Sam secured loans of £20,000 each through delivery partner SWIG, they put all they had into creating a space that Cornwall would love.

Start Up Loans

This Charming Naan

Max Paley took out a loan of £15,000 in 2021 to launch This Charming Naan, a Smiths-inspired Indian Street Food business in Manchester.

Midlands Engine Investment Fund

Exuvi8

Two Lincoln entrepreneurs have secured their sustainable data centre design and deploy business, safeguarding three jobs, following a £130,000 investment.

Midlands Engine Investment Fund

Off Grid Energy

Warwickshire-based manufacturer of energy storage solutions, Off Grid Energy, has secured a £1.25m investment to scale-up its operations, further developing its product offering while creating new jobs in the area.

Midlands Engine Investment Fund

Green Life Buildings

Corby-based Green Life Buildings Ltd has received a £600k funding package from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) East & South East Midlands Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

Tribosonics

A Sheffield company whose smart sensing technology helps industry to reduce costs raised £1.1m from NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.

Enterprise Capital Funds

Congenica

Congenica is a digital health company whose software is helping to revolutionise how diseases are characterised and diagnosed.

Enterprise Capital Funds

Tractable

Having experienced two years of huge growth and with a current valuation of $1 billion, artificial intelligence company Tractable is the UK’s 100th unicorn business and the world’s first AI unicorn for financial services.

Enterprise Capital Funds

PrimaryBid

PrimaryBid is a technology platform that allows individual investors to connect with public companies that are looking to raise capital. Its mission is to make capital markets fairer, more inclusive and more transparent, a commitment and ambition that its investors share too.

Enterprise Capital Funds

Cazana

With a mission to power the global automotive industry, Cazana has built a digital platform that gives vehicle dealers and manufacturers, banks and lenders the data and insights they need to better understand the assets they work with.