Informed Funding’s Finance Seminars are aimed squarely at business owners. Our seminars focus on a critical underlying challenge faced by leaders of growing businesses in the UK.  

 

At these seminars we do something different. Our seminars involve ‘live’ case studies, informal panel discussions, Q&As and networking.

 

As part of our seminar series, Informed Funding facilitates limited 1:1 workshops where attendees can apply to receive independent assessments of their business plan and strategy – these are always very popular.

 

We build in time for attendees to really question speakers to help ensure each attendee gains a tangible learning that will impact their business.

 

Would you like to Register for this Seminar? Please . 

 

 

Cost: The event is free to Registered Business Members of Informed Funding. £75 (including VAT) to others. Tickets are limited.

 

Customers of the have free premium access to Informed Funding including free membership and preferential access to our seminars.

 

Looking to Grow your Business - How ready is your business for growth finance?
 

Starting up a business can be straight forward, and the same applies to raising small amounts of finance. The bigger challenge comes when the business is established, but still has a great growth opportunity. Taking a business from “small” to “medium” can be complex, challenging and risky – but the upside can be huge. Raising finance for this phase of growth can also be very challenging.

 

This is a highly practical seminar that also gives attendees the chance to test out their own “business case” for raising growth finance. This will be done during the main group sessions, but also through one to one workshops (requiring separate bookings), where the strengths and weaknesses of your business strategy will be reviewed by experts.

 

There will be a briefing on the different forms of finance that are available directly from those who supply the funds - specialists from Crowd Equity, Venture Capital and Private Equity. They will all set out what is expected from you.

 

As with all our seminars, we will have live case studies with businesses that have successful raised capital recently. It’s your chance to ask questions!

 

We’ll be joined by Charlie Johnstone, Partner at UK Growth Investor  

 

ECI has invested in more than 250 companies helping to build many successful businesses, including Café Rouge, Chubb, Racal Acoustics, Bloomsbury Publishing, Laterooms, National Computing Centre, National Express and CarTrawler. 

 

Charlie specialises in investing in growth businesses valued between £10m and £150m headquartered in the UK.

 

We'll be joined by Darren Mulvihill an Equity Specialist from . Crowdcube is one of the UK's leading investment crowdfunding platforms; Over 250 businesses have raised nearly £100,000,000 through its platform. Darren's focus is on businesses looking for growth finance in the £250k - £3 million range 

 

We’ll also be joined by Keith Miller, Senior Loan Manager from the . Keith has a wealth of knowledge and know-how in assisting businesses that wish to become finance ready and has over seven years’ experience making lending decisions. Keith’s focus will be on borrowing transactions up to £95,000 without having to provide personal assets as security. 

 

Looking to Grow Your Business will be chaired by Matthew Katz. Matthew is a Partner at and heads up its Corporate Finance team. He is experienced in advising owner-managed businesses on a range of corporate finance activities including acquisitions, disposals, management buyouts and fundraising from banks, private equity houses and high net worth individuals.

 

Case Study

 

As a case study, Keith will bring along Jo Gumb, Managing Director of an award-winning marketing and events agency. White Label recently borrowed £40,000 through GLE’s support. 

 

1:1 Workshops

 

will be delivering 1:1 workshops to give you an individualised assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of your business strategy.

 

The workshops will be run by Indy Agnihotri and John FitzGerald who will use ABP’s SPA® (Strategic Performance Assessment) which highlights precisely where improvement opportunities lie within a business.

 

John FitzGerald has worked in Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance and Corporate Affairs and thrives when coaching people and teams to unleash their full potential and think outside the box. After 20 years in leadership positions all over the world in the Pharmaceutical and Tobacco industries, John joined ABP to help companies who believe they can grow. 

 

Indy Agnihotri is an experienced Chartered Accountant and Corporate Finance professional and has worked for a number of top consultancy firms in . He now uses the skills he has gained as an experienced Business Coach, Chartered Accountant and Trainer, specialising in providing coaching, accounting and business advice to business owners.