Growth Business: The essential guide to raising private equity

30th May 2018

Growth Business presents a guide for scale-up businesses on how to access growth capital. The article includes contributions from a variety of businesses that have successfully raised funding from private equity – including Innovate Services, a fast-growing specialist catering company that provides healthy, nutritious school meals. The Bridges Sustainable Growth Funds invested in Innovate earlier […]

Growth Business presents a guide for scale-up businesses on how to access growth capital.

The article includes contributions from a variety of businesses that have successfully raised funding from private equity – including Innovate Services, a fast-growing specialist catering company that provides healthy, nutritious school meals. The Bridges Sustainable Growth Funds invested in Innovate earlier this year to support its next phase of growth. Here, Innovate chairman Geoff Peppiatt talks about his experience of raising external capital, and explains why values alignment was critical to Innovate’s decision to partner with Bridges.

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