Success Stories
We interviewed a number of our ECF Fund Managers to ask them about their experiences of working with our team. Watch the video to hear more.
Doctify
Doctify is a healthtech platform built by medics for healthcare providers, doctors and patients.
Active Partners
Active Partners: A Funder’s experience of raising an Enterprise Capital Fund with British Business Bank
B-Secur
Northern Ireland-based B-Secur is pioneering next-generation biometrics, using the heart to secure health & wellness insights in the connected world.
FA Bio (formerly Fungi Alert)
FA Bio is developing sustainable farming solutions that can replace or enhance chemical inputs. Based at Rothamsted Research Centre in Harpenden, FA Bio is using a unique microbial sampling technology that selectively collects samples from fields and uses them to derive potential bio-products.
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.
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.
Organise
Organise is a 500,000-strong worker-driven online network of people who support each other at work by providing the tools, support and confidence people need to improve their work lives.
Photonic Solutions
Originally established in 1999, Edinburgh-based Photonic Solutions distributes, installs and provides technical support of high powered, complex laser systems to the UK scientific and industrial market. Delivered by a team of highly qualified scientists, Photonic Solutions provides testing, modification, user training and servicing of equipment to its customers.
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.
Codeplay
Since its founding in 2002, software developer and consultancy business Codeplay has established itself as one of the leading experts in heterogeneous systems – systems that use more than one type of processor or core.
Congenica
Congenica is a digital health company whose software is helping to revolutionise how diseases are characterised and diagnosed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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