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Founder and CEO Bernhard Niesner says that having the wrong culture created a “near-death experience” for busuu, but a concerted turnaround has put the mobile language-learning platform at the top of its class for the past few years.

Founder and CEO Chris Quickfall says near-bankruptcy was the ultimate “business boot camp”, helping e-Quality Learning to become a “good business, that does good” generating £6m in revenue.

Redington’s co-founders, Robert Gardner and Dawid Konotey-Ahulu have been deploying a fine blend of social, intellectual and financial capital to drive the consultant’s goal to help make 100m people financially secure.

After a “divorce-like” initial setback with early investors, Hiring Hub’s co-founder and CEO Simon Swan discovered that it’s possible for a scaling business to get back on track.

E-commerce recruitment agency Cranberry Panda’s founder and chief panda Jonathan Hall attributes his company’s rapid scale-up success to investing in the company’s vital human capital.

When Expedia needed to boost site traffic, the company turned to search engine optimisation (SEO) and content agency Re:signal and achieved instant results, thanks to the agency’s focus on investing in top talent.

Personalised content recommendations company ThinkAnalytics has more than 250m subscribers, and founder and CTO Peter Docherty credits lessons learned in the “hard early years” with its success today, including winning an Emmy.

VoxSmart revamped its ailing brand with a healthy injection of technology, smart market positioning and human capital, increasing the team tenfold to 35+ staff and generating a healthy £2m in turnover.

Founder and CEO Dan Johnson is scaling his real estate marketing business with intellectual and human capital, and despite the financial crisis denting his funding confidence he plans to raise more funds to expand into new markets.