It is an intensive, practical programme for companies that are going places and are serious about getting there. The White Horse Capital team were instrumental in helping us understand and present the achievements, strengths and opportunities of our business in the most effective way possible, and ultimately made the difference in securing our lead VC investor for our successful Series A raise” Raised £2.5m from Calculus Capital.

The ScaleUp Accelerator has proven to be invaluable to our business. From the offset, the content and direction given by the team has saved us significant time in preparation for our next step of growth. 10 out of 10!

We entered the programme with an exciting product and good traction with clients. However, we were keen to better understand the investor landscape and to be able to frame our investment proposition clearly. The Accelerator helped build our investment readiness in a very short timeframe. Our knowledge and skills grew through the classroom training and the feedback on our assignments. The invaluable guidance from our mentor (who is now an investor in our business) helped us both with client engagement and investor readiness. Along the way, we have built a great network with other startups facing similar opportunities and challenges and look forward to the continuing support of The Accelerator Network over the coming years.

Joining the Accelerator has been one of the best decisions we’ve made all year. The last 12-weeks have been pretty full on, but with the support of the programme we’ve now got a credible business plan that makes us investor ready and will allow us to take the business to the next level.

The programme was clearly focused on getting Neotas investor ready, led to introductions to institutional funders, and ultimately aided our successful funding round in late 2018. We would strongly recommend the programme. We worked with Ian and team during our fundraising, they gave us some great direction, we found that their coaching and their honest (sometimes very honest!) feedback really helped us shape our pitch”. Raised $1.5M from Symvan Capital and Force Over Mass.

Fifty participated in The Accelerator Network programme, and were advised by White Horse Capital. Ian put us through the mill several times, which meant that we were ready for anything that the VC community could ask us. Ultimately this meant we were in better shape to close our round” Raised £3.5m from Guinness Asset Management.

Ian and Duncan from WHC were very supportive as part of the program to wisely advise me on the journey of raising the Advizzo Series A. The WHC team has a strong background on such fund raises and it was a pleasure to successfully work with them.” Raised £2.65m from Earthworm Capital.

Just to say a big thank you for your support to date. We have now wrapped up the investment round. We couldn’t have got here without that initial structure, business plan kicking, and investor network from the Accelerator. The process works!” Raised £2m from Mercia and Nauta Capital.

Ian and team were central to Colateral successfully completing our Series A Raise in March 2019 but more than this, they were instrumental in helping us as a business to shape up for the future. We believe that the process we went through moved our business on 12 months in a 3 month period and we quite simply wouldn’t have raised our funding without them.” Raised £1.45m from FSE Group & others.