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Growth-focused Century Tech’s founder and CEO Priya Lakhani is using ethical, technology and human capital to raise student education standards in the UK.

Digital Shadows’ willingness to raise capital has helped it secure more than £32m of equity over four years, driving its ambition to make the internet safer.

Founder and managing director Grant Reed says PHMG’s journey has been about slow, steady initial growth before “pushing the button to go big”, securing the company’s position as a world leader in audio branding.

Firefly’s co-founders Simon Hay and Joe Mathewson created the education technology solution out of their “own frustrations” about offline studying while doing their GCSEs, and continue to achieve full marks for international scale-up success.

Venturing into online content where many entrepreneurs fear to tread, Culture Trip’s founder and CEO Kris Naudts has adopted the Silicon Valley user-growth model of scaling, winning considerable investor backing.

London’s fastest growing childcare company Koru Kids counts the founder of Gumtree as a pre-seed investor and has scaled rapidly to provide over 15,000 hours of childcare every month.

As one of the UK’s leading healthy snack companies, Graze has used a data-driven strategy to successfully expand into the US, boosting its revenue to more than £70m.

A group of successful serial entrepreneurs had the well-earned credibility to attract maximum EIS investment for their garden centre business, but raising funds outside the EIS market can be challenging for some growth companies.

Bloom & Wild’s technology focus has helped the company flourish to become a UK “top-rated” flower delivery service, but developing a world-class tech platform can be a thorny process.