Raising Seed? Work with the team investors pay attention to.

Raising Seed? Work with the team investors pay attention to.

Your route into Breakthrough’s Seed programme.

Built for founders with early traction who want clarity, focus, and targeted access to investors who back Seed-stage growth.

If access has been the missing piece, this fills that gap.

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Fit Check

Full Assessment

Report

Acceptance

Raising a Seed round is too often slower and harder than most founders expect.

Traction matters. It always has.

But traction without access does not always translate into momentum.

If you are not already in the right VC networks, even strong numbers can go unseen.

If you have been overlooked before, you will recognise this quickly.

The challenge is not the product. It is getting your story into the rooms where decisions are made.

Let us introduce you.

82% of VC-backed deals start with a warm introduction.

Your Investor-Grade Seed Report 

You start with a clear, investor-grade report — built from a simple two-step assessment:

  • Stage 1: Fit check
    Do you look like the companies investors are backing in your vertical?
    And if you don’t?
    That’s fine, it just means the story needs to be clearer and the evidence needs to hit a little harder. Different isn’t a problem. Unclear is.

    Stage 2: Deep dive
    We look at your early traction patterns, signs of repeatability, retention, CAC/LTV picture, funnel movement, revenue quality, and ICP clarity. The parts that show whether a Seed round feels credible.

    Your report shows you:
    • Where your early traction stands out
    • Where the evidence needs strengthening
    • What Seed investors expect in your category
    • How you compare with founders who closed Seed in the last 12 to 18 months

This becomes the starting point for the programme.

If accepted, you join the Breakthrough Seed programme:

Here's what we work on together:


Here's what we work on together:

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Strengthen Your Round

  • Refine your growth plan

  • Stress-test your metrics

  • Benchmark against funded peers in your vertical

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Build Your Investor-Ready Story

  • Clear narrative

  • Data that lands

  • Measurable milestones

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Connect You to the Right Investors

  • Curated warm introductions

  • 250+ VC partners

  • No wasted calls

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Access Your Vertical Growth Playbook

The traction patterns, conversion signals, retention checkpoints, and early paths to scale that investors look for.


Who it's for:

Raising £500,000 - £3M

Raising £500,000 - £3M

Traction shows repeatability

Traction shows repeatability

Clear momentum

Clear momentum

Underrepresented founders

Underrepresented founders

And if access has been harder to secure, especially if you have been overlooked in the past, this gives you a clearer route in.

✔️ No hidden hurdles and no guesswork.

✔️Just focused support and the investor conversations that help a Seed round move forward.

Zero cost | Innovate UK financed

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