Data & AI Expertise
Looking to harness data and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive smarter, stronger decision making and competitive advantage? We’re actively supporting our portfolio companies to build their data and AI capabilities. Find out how partnering with BGF could help you develop and execute an effective data and AI strategy in your business below.
Data & AI funding and support
We can provide significant investment to fund projects around data infrastructure, advanced analytics, automation and AI-enabled product development. Alongside funding, we also offer our portfolio a full programme of support, throughout the life cycle of our investments. Depending on the needs of your business, this might be access to data and AI specialists, or hands-on community workshops to upskill your leadership team and share insights with other scaling businesses.
Delivering your data and AI strategy
- Help identifying practical AI use cases across operations, sales and product
- Support developing data and AI roadmaps that align with your growth plans
- Introductions to analytics, automation and AI solutions providers
- Guidance for improving data quality, governance and reporting
- Ongoing support to embed data-driven decision making and AI-powered processes across the organisation
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Our expertise
We have over a decade’s experience in scaling growth businesses, as well as an extensive network of non-executive talent and operating specialists, covering every region of the UK and Ireland. Together with our community platform, Scale, this has enabled us to support hundreds of companies across:
We can provide significant investment for strategic acquisitions or buy and builds, including access to follow-on funding for new opportunities. We can also support with market mapping, deal sourcing and advisor introductions, and can help guide you through the transaction and integration process.
Find out moreWe can provide funding and support for international expansion plans, whether you’re launching in new territories for the first time, scaling your overseas teams and infrastructure, or pursuing cross-border acquisitions and partnerships.
Find out moreWe’ve helped hundreds of businesses to develop and deliver successful GTM strategies. We can support across the board, including funding new product launches, offering guidance on brand and pricing strategy, connecting you to potential customers in our portfolio, and helping to scale your sales team.
Find out moreWe can provide funding for key hires, board development, training and more. Alongside this, we offer extensive support, including help with searches, leadership coaching, and access to our growing community of ambitious business leaders and the largest network of board-level talent in the UK.
Find out moreThrough our in-house ESG team and network of external consultants, we support our portfolio to embed ESG into their growth plans effectively. This covers everything from materiality assessments and help setting emissions targets to B Corp guidance and introductions to EDI experts.
Find out moreLooking to modernise your company’s tech stack? Or strengthen your digital capabilities? We can provide both funding and ongoing, specialist support for product development and major digital transformation projects, helping to enable strong, secure growth for your business.
Find out moreWe can provide significant investment to fund projects around data infrastructure, advanced analytics, automation and AI-enabled product development. We also offer a full programme of support, including access to data and AI specialists and hands-on workshops, depending on the needs of your business.
Join our portfolio
We’ve already helped hundreds of ambitious businesses across the UK and Ireland to accelerate their growth. Yours could be next.