LOCAL AREA SUMARY:

Enterprise M3

Total number of scaleups

No. by employee growth

No. by turnover growth

No. by employee and turnover growth

Total employees

Total turnover

Top 5 Visible Scaleups by Employee Growth

Antler Homes
Antler Homes designs and builds housing developments.

Bapco Closures
Bapco Closures develops a range of packing closure systems for various industries, including the food, household goods, and pharmaceutical sectors.

Darton Commodities
Darton Commodities supplies, sources and trades cobalt and other metals, as well as providing market research and consultancy services for clients.

The Royalton Group
The Royalton Group operates a property investment and development company, specialising in high end residential and student accommodation construction projects.

8AM Global
8AM Global provides asset management services.

Top 5 Visible Scaleups by Turnover Growth

TeamSport
TeamSport operates and manages indoor go kart race tracks.

Lending Metrics
Lending Metrics offers financial software services for businesses, providing an online banking platform.

Natural Baby Shower
Natural Baby Shower sells a wide range of baby, toddler and mother related items from a variety of brands, both online and in-store.

Person Centred Software
Person Centred Software develops a range of software for care providers.

Envisage Dental
Envisage Dental provides dental care via a group of individual private clinics.

Local LEP ScaleUp Programmes

Enterprise M3 offers a range of support to the region’s scaleups, identifying scaling potential across its wider business support offer and signposting on to key growth programmes. Eligible scaleups can access dedicated one-to-one expert support through a panel of experienced entrepreneurs spanning across sustainability, bid writing, digital marketing, property, manufacturing and engineering. In-house Growth Champions provide up to four hours preliminary coaching to ensure participants maximise the time they have with specialist support. Additionally, the LEP’s peer support programmes are specifically focused on female founders and tech business leaders. Clean energy opportunities can be accessed through a new Build Your Purpose, Build Your Business programme and targetted support for scaleups offering low carbon goods or services is available through Low Carbon Across the South and East (LoCASE) providing workshops and grants and through the Greentech South network helping them turn innovative, low carbon ideas into commercialised products and services. The LEP refers to other regional and national programmes including Innovate UK EDGE, the Apprenticeship Hub, Finance South East, DIT and Royal Holloway University.

Scaleup Views

The key barriers to growth are UK Markets & International Markets, Debt & Equity Finance / Access to the talent you can hire and . They are looking for support through Funding/support for innovation and R&D and want easier access to Local professional services, Local universities / business schools, Banks and other financial suppliers and Innovate UK.

Top barriers to growth

  1. UK Markets & International Markets
  2. Debt & Equity Finance / Access to the talent you can hire

want TO SEE more of:

  • Funding/support for innovation and R&D
  • Local professional services
  • Local universities / business schools
  • Banks and other financial suppliers

EM3 is continuing to forge ahead with cluster development as a key priority. Evolving plans for EM3 include a renewed focus on sustainability and the net zero agenda and a new collaboration with the Chambers of Commerce to provide export support.