Grow Global 2025
Calling export-focused, aspirational scaleups across the West Midlands. Benefit from fully funded access to a UK market-leading scale-up and export programme.
Building on the success of last year’s Grow Global cohort, we are now enrolling ambitious companies in the 2025 Grow Global West Midlands cohort.
This fully funded, 12-month export initiative is designed to help ambitious tech businesses expand into international markets and scale with confidence.
The collaboration sees London & Partners’ Grow Global programme extended beyond the capital, with tech companies from the West Midlands offered exclusive access.
This enhanced Grow Global offering, delivered by London & Partners, WMGC, TechWM, and the WMCA, is a unique opportunity for innovative, internationally ambitious SMEs from the West Midlands to grow and scale their businesses through export.
Grow Global is a world-leading programme with a proven track record of success, having helped over 1,300 scaleups, including household names such as Monzo, Brompton Bicycles, Mr & Mrs Smith and Bloom & Wild in reaching their global expansion goals.
Interested in joining the 2025 cohort and seeing your business scale up in the UK?
Expanding internationally, from the UK’s fastest-growing tech cluster
As the UK’s leading regional destination for international investment – and our status as the UK’s fastest-growing tech cluster – companies in the West Midlands can innovate, scale and commercialise exciting new products and services at pace.
Grow Global has been designed with exporting in mind, and it allows companies to take their innovations and expand globally, tapping into new markets for further growth opportunities.
It follows on from the success of previous cohorts, which saw West Midlands companies METCLOUD, Energym, Lumien and Complygate chosen to receive a package of fully funded export support.
Build on the foundations established in the West Midlands to take your business to the next level.
A springboard to success
Successful applicants on the programme will benefit from:
- Expert advice and guidance: Each applicant will be allocated a dedicated trade manager who will support in setting out business priorities and a bespoke 12-month plan that identifies barriers to internationalisation, tailored to your growth objectives.
- Events: Access exclusive events, roundtables and social occasions tailored to your business goals, enabling networking opportunities with top corporates and like-minded sector businesses.
- Development workshops: Join workshops led by industry experts that will cover international fundraising, marketing & branding, strategy, operations, business development and much more.
- International business development: Grow your business internationally with high-profile, targeted international trade missions led by business experts to make valuable contacts and evaluate global markets first-hand.
- Partnership opportunities: Participants will grow their support networks alongside like-minded businesses, gaining valuable connections and collaboration opportunities with corporates and investors operating across the UK and around the world.
Who is Eligible for Grow Global 2025?
The programme is open to companies who meet the following criteria:
- Your business must be a West Midlands-based, UK-registered company operating in one of the following sectors:
- Business, Professional and Financial Services
- Creative and Digital Technologies
- Life Sciences
- Low Carbon
- Your business must have at least 10 FTE
- Your business must have a UK headquarters with a primary trading address based within the West Midlands – including Greater Birmingham and Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire, or the Black Country.
- Ready to begin or scale exporting to international markets
- The current annual turnover of your business needs to be greater than £1m and less than £40m. Alternatively, you may have secured £1m of external equity investment.
- Be able to clearly demonstrate 20% YoY growth with active projects (domestically or internationally)
Register your interest for the Grow Global and scale your business internationally
International support
Are you an international company looking to invest in the West Midlands? Even if you are not eligible for Grow Global, our sector experts are still ready to help you expand into the UK market.
