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FundingHero

FundingHero Accelerator

Raise with Confidence. Scale with Strategy.

If you need to raise between £250k to £3m+ to scale then look no further. Our experts have raised hundreds of millions and scaled to exit multiple times, so know what it takes to get you into the 1% that are funding fit.

Next Cohort: September 2025

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Hear from Our Alumni

Scott Garrett Founder, VitaVoice (Cohort 3 - Jan 2025)

“FundingHero has enabled our laser focus on bringing in potentially different partners that we can work with, different investors that we should be looking at and it's given us a focused five-year plan and trajectory to follow.”

Francesca & Dominic Fox Co-Founders, Newavx (Cohort 4 - Jan 2025)

Jim’s knowledge is invaluable and it is great get to see all the other companies and seeing their progress that also helps you.

Paul Rivers Founder, Guidance Automation (Cohort 3 - Jan 2025)

“We can now look at moving into the fundraising stage, armed with a refined business plan. Through a more strategic, reduced funding ask, I am able to use the contacts made through this programme to begin pitching for investment and hopefully raise much quicker and sell less equity.”

LEARN, PREPARE, THEN RAISE FROM FUNDINGZERO TO FUNDINGHERO IN 12 WEEKS

The Midlands High-Growth Specialist Fundraising Accelerator
for companies that need to raise £250k+

Don’t Waste 12 Months Failing To Raise

Don’t waste your precious time going solo to raise by following your entrepreneurial instinct to back yourself and ‘just have a go’ or do it on the cheap and join a free programme that only gives the basics and fails to deliver. The stats don’t lie that 99% fail to find funding!

Master The Art of Fundraising For Angel or VC Investment

Join a cohort of fellow founders to take your businesses to the next level and gain the key skills you need to convince investors you are the right business to back

Master The Art of Fundraising For Angel or VC Investment

Join a cohort of fellow founders to take your businesses to the next level and gain the key skills you need to convince investors you are the right business to back

Learn from Funding Experts and Walk Away Raise Ready

You’ll leave the accelerator full of confidence after working with a range of top class experts who know what it takes to secure high growth investment round after round. 

The Secret to Getting Funded Faster

We’ve experienced the scars and successes of raising for high growth and what it really takes to navigate the scale up journey and create high multiple exits. 

The Secret to Getting Funded Faster

We’ve experienced the scars and successes of raising for high growth and what it really takes to navigate the scale up journey and create high multiple exits. 

Get Raise Ready In 12 Weeks

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Hear from our Investor Partners

Rupert Lyle Fund Principal, West Midlands Co-Investment Fund

FundingHero provides us with quality dealflow. Most founders aren’t investable when they first come to us. So we love working with FundingHero because they make our life easier by showing founders exactly what it means to become truly investor ready for venture capital.

Max Slinger Venture Capital Investor, Mercia Asset Management

I receive hundreds of pitch decks, but its easier for me to review when I know they’ve been through the FundingHero programme. I’m confident they’ll understand if venture capital is actually for them, how to present their materials and what to expect if we want to learn more.

Mike Stevenson Venture Capital Investor, Fuel Ventures

I’m a huge fan of FundingHero! High growth funding isn’t for the faint hearted and FundingHero really understands what is needed to secure it. I love the fact founders receive CFO level expertise from somebody that’s actually raised and scaled to exit multiple times, it makes my job quicker when I know founders understand what we need to see.

Vicky Mears Director UK Network - Midlands & North of England, British Business Bank

“The FundingHero accelerator has proven to be pivotal in helping innovative and investment-ready businesses reach their potential by providing all the tools, resources, and support that they need to thrive.”

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs)

Discover More About Our 12-Week Fundraising Readiness Accelerator

  • Founders Raising £250k to £3m+
  • Seed Stage Businesses
  • Founders with established product in market
  • Founders with evidence of strong initial traction
  • Founders looking to rapidly scale towards exit

12 Weeks, Every Friday

End your working week and join us each Friday and you’ll receive a day made up of workshops and expert funding partner sessions in the morning, alongside peer support and regular 1-2-1 sessions in the afternoon. 

Located at Birmingham City University’s dynamic innovation hub, STEAMhouse, right in the heart of Birmingham. Enjoy 12 weeks of access to their inspiring co-working space, designed to fuel creativity and collaboration.

Expert Audits: IP Audit, Legals Audit, (S)EIS Audit, R&D Tax Audit, Sales Engine Audit, Tech Roadmap Audit, Investor Comms Audit, Talent Acquisition Audit

Worth over £20K—designed to save you millions in costly mistakes.

Our guided process helps you protect your equity, master the secrets of raising millions across multiple funding rounds, and take strategic steps toward your dream exit. Avoid expensive missteps and gain the knowledge to navigate fundraising with confidence.

💰 Programme Cost: Contact us - [email protected]

Yes! After each workshop, you'll receive a personalized 1-2-1 session to tackle your biggest challenges. Whether it’s refining your fundraising scale-up plan, financial model, commercial strategy, valuation, or any other scale-up aspect, we’ll work with you to ensure you stay on track.

We use a flipped learning approach to get you funding fit! Before each session, you'll access short, focused online content and get support from our AI assistant. Then, in our interactive in-person workshops, we’ll dive deeper, applying your knowledge in real-world scenarios—preparing you for the fundraising marathon ahead.

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Don’t join the 99% that fail. Invest in yourself before investors do. Contact us to secure your spot now— we have only 8 slots available!

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Jack Molyneux

Traditional Shipwright and Master Mariner, Superyacht expert.

Passionate about changing the industry for the better. Our mission is to create the world’s first digital marketplace for superyacht ownership, charter and investment.

Dr. Sivaram Nishal Ramadas

Celmetrix offers a cutting-edge rapid battery tester that uses advanced sensors and edge analytics to provide real-time, multi-point inspection, ensuring every cell meets the highest quality standards. By detecting defects early in production, it reduces waste, cuts costs, and empowers manufacturers to produce safer, more reliable batteries efficiently.

Debra Glover

Iron & Velvet is a company that makes plastic-free cleaning products. Their products are water-soluble sachets that dissolve in water, making them kind to the environment. The company also sells a variety of other sustainable products, such as vegan and cruelty-free cleaning products. Iron & Velvet is committed to providing customers with high-quality, sustainable cleaning products that are good for the environment and good for the home.

Dr Henry James, Dr Matthew Tranter & Dr Volodymyr Chapman

Medscribe eliminates the burden of medical admin and gives clinicians their time back, saving the NHS millions in the process. By automating clinical documentation, Medscribe slashes hours of paperwork, freeing up healthcare professionals to focus on what matters most: patient care. Built by doctors for doctors, with unique safety features, we’re unlocking new levels of efficiency, accuracy, and job satisfaction across the healthcare system.

Eugene Patterson

Elevate Your Everyday with Revibed Drinks- superfood-infused beverages designed to fuel your body with essential nutrients while delivering great taste. Stocked in major retailers like Holland & Barrett, Co-op and Ocado. We’re making functional wellness more accessible, helping you stay energised, healthy and refreshed every day.

Francesca & Dominic Fox

Francesca and Dominic, co-founders, embody yin and yang management. Francesca has 10 years in healthcare commercialisation, while Dominic brings 20 years in professional sport and 10 years in marketing.

Imagine a world where revolutionary, personalised stem cell therapy is accessible to everyone at a cost lower than an NHS prescription. Our cutting-edge technology is making this vision a reality, providing life-changing non-pharmaceutical treatments, ensuring that advanced healthcare is within reach for all.

Umar Butt

With a vision of a world where learning to drive is accessible, straightforward, and free from unnecessary complications. The mission of ErmoL is to revolutionise the driving instruction industry through transparency, efficiency, and putting learners first.

Scott Garrett

VitaVoice is the UK’s first preventative vocal health supplement, trusted by West End stars and major soap actors. Formulated to prevent voice issues, not just mask them with cough sweets, it boosts vocal health, cognition, and performance. With over 5 million professional voice users in the UK, VitaVoice is capturing a massive, underserved market.

Henry Clark

TDI Greenway is a market leader in the design, manufacture and deployment of Very Light Rail (VLR)vehicles and lightweight mass transit solutions that are up to 80% cheaper than heavy rail alternatives and 3x quicker to deploy. VLR technology allows for battery-only propulsion systems and net-zero operation to support government decarbonisation targets, offering greener mass transport options the worlds communities.

Dr Matthew Bacon

TCC-CASEMIX, a health informatics platform, revolutionises healthcare by addressing critical inefficiencies in data capture and analysis during surgeries. Through partnerships with NHS Trusts, and a current client base that includes major Medical Device Manufacturers, the company has been validated in clinical environments and is now rapidly scaling.

Tim Telford

UK manufacturing is under siege. From the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, Devtank is disrupting the industry with our award-winning production test and smart monitoring solutions. We play a critical part of the manufacturing data revolution. As industry leading veterans, our solutions drive productivity, energy reduction, quality and environmental improvements.

Paul Rivers

UK manufacturing needs to become more competitive, profitable and efficient. AI and Automation can contribute. We have automation solutions and software that we provide to UK businesses to bring about productivity increases. Automation is usually a large CapEx, but we lend the solution that’s right for a clients business which gives then the quickest gain. For every hour of human labour that is saved with our solution, we charge half of the human “living wage” per hour, charged monthly. We effectively share the savings, instant ROI, no risk to customer, but all of the benefits.

Dr Mahdi Mohammad-pour

TriboDENS is a company that uses software and experimental techniques to address engineering challenges in tribology, dynamics, and energy solutions. The company offers solutions for noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) and tribology of mechanical systems. TriboDENS’s mission is to help companies improve the performance and efficiency of their mechanical systems.

Adriano Randi

R3V Tech is a spinout company from Loughborough University that focuses on creating new revenue streams for industry via circular economy approaches. Their main product is ‘Solketal’, a high-value, eco-friendly bio-derived chemical with diverse industrial through innovative process technology. They offer a cost-effective approach based at the process plants of individual biodiesel producers, using mild conditions at lower break-even volumes than traditional production methods.

Dan Lane

ValidateLabs presents a ground breaking B2B SAAS product for clinical laboratories. It’s AI technology automates the test validation process, reducing the time to complete validation from 3 weeks to 3 minutes!

The platform is currently in beta trials in over 10 clinical lab environments and saving labs huge amounts of time, money, and valuable resource to increase labs outputs and bringing more invaluable clinical tests to use rapidly quicker.

Neuro-Notion

Josh Budd

The world’s first life management and education platform scientifically designed for Adults with ADHD. After growing up and being expelled from school 15 times, due to Josh’s undiagnosed severe ADHD, he’s now building a platform which is desperately needed with the rapid rise of ADHD diagnoses and allows Adults with ADHD to regain control of their lives through positive habits, routines, mental health and everything else in between.a