The Growth Stage

07/07/2021

We are delighted to announce our latest partnership with Capdesk alongside our 15 existing global Professional Advisors - offering preferred rates to all our Private Companies to digitise their cap tables and shareholder registers. In turn, we will offer Capdesk's companies the opportunity to raise growth stage funding with our 120+ global institutional investors, efficiently and discreetly behind our membership firewall.

14/09/2020

The Growth Stage is delighted to offer PitchBook’s leading private equity data, alongside our 13 global Advisors. PitchBook will provide a summary for all companies sitting behind our membership firewall. This includes highlights of essential insights and data institutional investors need to make intelligent decisions, like deal history, investors, and key executives.

10/09/2020

We are delighted that Apex have joined The Growth Stage as one of our 14 Advisers, offering a ground breaking, private markets specific, ESG Ratings, Benchmarking, Reporting and Advisory service for all our companies behind our membership firewall.
A unique, end-to-end solution: rigorous methodology; accurate data capture; intuitive, time-efficient software; benchmarking against sectors, international standards, UN Sustainable Development Goals.
ESG is becoming more important, with new EU Regulations for investors in March 2021.

17/02/2020

Some of our fintech thoughts published in Sifted today - with Banking-as-a-Service businesses attracting the strongest investor attention

With a series of fintech mega-rounds on the horizon, investors and industry experts weigh in on the upcoming raises — and the dangers they reveal about the market for challenger banks.

14/02/2020

The Growth Stage (TGS) is delighted to welcome BEITEN BURKHARDT as an adviser to the private companies on its funding exchange.

BEITEN BURKHARDT is one of the leading law firms in Germany with a focused range of services and more than 300 lawyers working in 9 locations. Simon Stewart, CEO of TGS, said: “We are delighted with this partnership. Since our launch we have prioritised Germany as one of our most important hubs, to work with its world class entrepreneurs, and help them grow by connecting them to our global institutional investors.”

Jörg Prüßmeier, Head of TGS Deutschland added, "BEITEN BURKHARDT has all the skill sets to work with all our investors, companies and other advisors. We currently have >20 companies in 6 different countries looking to raise >$1bn”

Dr. Gesine von der Groeben, a Partner in BEITEN BURKHARDT's Frankfurt office, Dr. Mario Weichel & Christian Kalusa, Partners in Munich, agreed "TGS offers an unprecedented global financing exchange, not only for German companies, but for all growth companies seeking to raise >$10m from institutional investors in a Series A to Z financing round. We look forward to assisting these companies in raising this growth capital and achieving their financing goals."

29/10/2019

🚀 We’re celebrating one year since we launched TheGrowthStage.com..Like most entrepreneurs, we’ve felt every bump, but we’ve made some pretty stunning global progress. Thanks to everyone who has supported us:
✔️Our Team now based in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇸🇪🇩🇪🇪🇸
✔️Our Institutional Investors managing >$6 trillion in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇭🇰🇦🇺
✔️Our growth stage Companies in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇸🇪🇩🇪🇦🇺🇳🇿looking to raise >$1bn in the next 12 months on our exchange.
🎉 Delighted to announce that New York based Meru Capital invested in TGS last month, with its Founder/CEO Guru Ramakrishnan (ex CEO of Old Lane & Head of Global Equity Trading at Morgan Stanley) joining our board.
✔️ Our Professional Advisors EY Travers Smith Acuris Risk Intelligence Gallagher Merrill DatasiteOne The&Partnership Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati WorldFirst WeWork

26/02/2019

Supportive Forbes article today highlighting how The Growth Stage connects scale-ups with institutional investors, our progress since October's launch and our global summit series, kicking off in Manchester this afternoon: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorclawson/2019/02/26/bridging-the-divide-can-a-new-platform-connect-institutional-investors-with-scaleups/

Institutions are increasingly keen to invest in growth-stage, private companies, but there is a problem. Businesses seeking capital find it hard to get on the radar screens of institutions. For their part, institutions find it hard to filter investment prospects. Can a platform provide a solution?

26/02/2019

Forbes article today highlighting how The Growth Stage connects scale-ups with institutional investors, our progress since October's launch and our global summit series, kicking off in Manchester this afternoon:

Institutions are increasingly keen to invest in growth-stage, private companies, but there is a problem. Businesses seeking capital find it hard to get on the radar screens of institutions. For their part, institutions find it hard to filter investment prospects. Can a platform provide a solution?

25/02/2019

Our team spent the day meeting the people and companies supporting start-ups from the University of Cambridge - the world's #1 ranked re. capital raised by their spin outs 2013-17 (>$2.2bn). Clearly impressive stats.

25/02/2019

Founders and Directors of the North West of England - our inaugural Funding Summit takes place Tue 26th Feb at 5.30pm in Manchester, alongside our partners and hosted by WeWork. We'll have panels discussing key business issues, including navigating Series A to Z funding, followed by networking drinks. RSVP invitation:

Summit: Funding Your Future Growth - Tuesday, February 26, 2019