Jonathan Earl

TCL Group is one of the fastest growing landscape services, estate management and play space service providers in the UK. Bringing life to outdoor space

BGF is the UK and Irelands most active growth investor, backing ambitious businesses with minority investment to help them scale on their own terms. Since 2011, we have invested more than £5bn in 650+ businesses across every region and sector. Today, with more than £3.5bn in assets under management, we continue to support a range of growing companies across early-stage and growth-stage. Through our 15 offices across the UK and Ireland, were close to the businesses we back, combining local insight with national scale to build trusted partnerships with entrepreneurs and management teams. Beyond investment, our portfolio companies benefit from the expertise of our 200+ strong team, as well as dedicated value creation support spanning talent, operational expertise and our Scale community – including a network of more than 8000+ experienced business leaders, sector specialists and board-level non-executives. Learn more: BGF UK: https://www.bgf.co.uk BGF Ireland: https://www.bgfireland.ie/

TCL Group is one of the fastest growing landscape services, estate management and play space service providers in the UK. Bringing life to outdoor space

Palmer Hargreaves is a marketing agency specialising in working with B2B clients operating in complex marketing environments. Often on a global scale, with complicated brand structures, technical products, and multiple distribution layers. We love the challenge of solving complex marketing problems - creatively and measurably. Born in 1984, weve grown to over 200 staff across our three offices in the UK, Germany and China. We specialise in working with clients in automotive, mobility, agriculture, industrial and telecommunications sectors with a clear commitment to creating campaigns that get results and provide the maximum return on our clients’ investment. As a full service agency our offer encompasses strategy, brand development, marketing communications strategy, creative, digital, PR & content and campaign execution including analytics.

BGF is the UK and Irelands most active growth investor, backing ambitious businesses with minority investment to help them scale on their own terms. Since 2011, we have invested more than £5bn in 650+ businesses across every region and sector. Today, with more than £3.5bn in assets under management, we continue to support a range of growing companies across early-stage and growth-stage. Through our 15 offices across the UK and Ireland, were close to the businesses we back, combining local insight with national scale to build trusted partnerships with entrepreneurs and management teams. Beyond investment, our portfolio companies benefit from the expertise of our 200+ strong team, as well as dedicated value creation support spanning talent, operational expertise and our Scale community – including a network of more than 8000+ experienced business leaders, sector specialists and board-level non-executives. Learn more: BGF UK: https://www.bgf.co.uk BGF Ireland: https://www.bgfireland.ie/

The team behind Catapult Ventures are among the most experienced venture capital investors in the UK. Our experience spans a range of sectors from healthcare and pharmaceuticals to luxury consumer brands, manufacturing and software, as well as all stages: from start-ups and pre-revenue IP developers to company floatation and billions of pounds in revenue. We have a passion for business and enjoy supporting ambitious entrepreneurs and management teams who share this enthusiasm. Catapult Ventures is all about value creation through long term relationships - both with our portfolio companies and those who have invested in the funds we manage. Each member of the executive team has some director portfolio responsibility, meaning they are active board members who play a key role in investee company strategy, hiring of senior personnel and sometimes even the finding and meeting of customers. Our executives are also heavily involved in financial strategy which can include leveraging banking relationships and the introduction of new investors for additional funding rounds. At Catapult Ventures, portfolio responsibility is assigned to the executive that can add the most value. Simple. Catapult Ventures is an independent Fund Manager. Its owners have operated a number of discrete venture capital funds on behalf of a range of public and private sector investors totalling c. £130m.