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Founder and CEO Charlie Bradshaw started his product design and manufacturing business Matrix APA at 19, but over 20 years later he’s come a long way on his human and emotional capital journey, placing team values and cultural fit at the heart of his success.

With minimum external investment, online betting exchange Smarkets disrupted the industry by building its own proprietary platform to become one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies.

Selling contact lenses online might have little to do with a Japanese arcade game, but CEO Michael Kraftman credits the company’s success to its acquisitive “Pac-Man” strategy.

An impressive 55.9% annual average revenue growth rate between 2012 and 2015 helped confirm Longitude’s place on the FT1000 fastest-growing businesses in Europe list. But it has done so entirely from cashflow, rather than relying on external financial support.

ToucanBox is among the UK’s fastest-growing education technology businesses thanks to early backing from the co-founders of Innocent Drinks and equity investment from BGF.

Offering a fresh and flexible approach to SME finance with invoice factoring, GapCap’s scale-up journey is fuelled by a combination of private debt supply, technology and data.

Verb Brands’ founder and managing director Chris Donnelly resisted raising capital early on, instead preferring to be cashflow-funded and learning how to run his luxury digital agency along the way.

Creating a culture of excellence, innovation and fun is paramount for influencer marketing specialist The Goat Agency, helping the company to scale its headcount from four to 85 in just two years.

Having raised more than $100m of investment capital over the last 15 years, Kromek’s long-term scale-up journey relies on ample patient capital to fund its life-saving and safety-enhancing radiation detection technologies.