UK Growth Ventures are grouped into three broad categories: Technology, Financial Services and Media.
Agilisys is the UK's most innovative IT and business process service provider, transforming the way that clients deliver services to their customers through the use of strategic, affordable, shared service platforms. Working for both the public and private sector, the company has earned a strong reputation and holds domain expertise within local government, travel and tourism, retail financial services and healthcare.
Agilisys was created through the combination of Netdecisions (private sector professional services) and Agilisys (public sector outsourcing). Agilisys now provides professional services, IT managed services, Contact Centre services and Business Process Outsourcing services. The company has grown to 1300 people with an order book in excess of £400m, as well as having an impressive list of private and public sector clients across financial services, local government and travel & tourism.
Blenheim Chalcot founder, Charles Mindenhall, is CEO of Agilisys, and Manoj Badale is a non-executive director.
eviivo's objective is to help e-commerce enable the SME sector of the tourism industry. eviivo Ltd is a leading developer and licensor of software for small to medium-sized hotels, B&Bs and guesthouses. The company has produced a suite of products collectively called the eviivo tourism OBX (Open Booking Exchange) that have been designed to provide all participants within the tourism industry the tools necessary to distribute tourism provider’s products via internet distribution channels to end customers in real time.
BMS Finance, set up in 2003, specialises in arranging debt funding for companies through outsourcing contracts, leasing and other asset backed structures. Whilst the initial focus concentrated on IT companies, more recently we have expanded our offerings to a variety of sectors.
TDX Group was started in early 2004 to provide debt management solutions that leverage data to optimise the strategy at a customer level. Founded by an experienced team from leading creditors including Capital One and GE and backed by active investors, the business has focused on creating creditor-centric solutions that align with increasingly analytical creditor organisations.
Since inception, the business has grown rapidly and increased the range of solutions provided to provide improved portfolio returns.
CorporatePay's leading prepaid card programmes enable their clients to transform how they manage payments with their employees, suppliers, customers and citizens. They combine an extensive knowledge of the payment industry with domain expertise, to ensure solutions are customised to resolve specific payment issues. At the same time, prepaid card programmes provide new opportunities to generate revenue.
Emerging Media is a media property development business with a focus on developing 'advertiser funded' multi-media properties for the Indian sub-continent. In particular, the business is building a market leading reputation in the genre of 'talent hunts'. Through the recently acquired Investors in Cricket Ltd, Emerging Media has developed two mass market cricket properties:
'Cricket Star', a TV cricket talent hunt who's ratings exceeded all other reality based TV programmes and became the first major reality show to be aired on Doordarshan - the national terrestrial channel.
The International Twenty 20 Club Championships - launched in 2005 and has quickly become the 'Champions League of Cricket.'
Founded by a City technology equity analyst, StrategyEye (formerly known as MarketClusters) provides customized market intelligence solutions for major corporate, investment banking and venture capital clients. StrategyEye was launched in April 2006 and is a real-time intelligence platform for senior executives in digital media, which has recently expanded to cover the fast-growth CleanTech industry.