Growth Partnership
Are you looking for support to reach your next business growth milestone?
Plexal is providing startups, SMEs and scaleups with 1:1 tailored guidance to help companies unlock peak potential faster than any other support products on the market.
What to expect
Growth strategy
Business milestones
Customer acquisition
Product development
Fundraising
Culture change and team building
Brand awareness
New market entry
For more in-depth information on the Growth Partnership and pricing, click below.
Plexal is intent on creating a series of interventions with this Growth Partnership.
Focusing on startups, scaleups and SMEs in target sectors, regions and technology domains that will demonstrably drive growth through increased high value jobs, exports, equity investment, customer contracts and gross value add to the economy.
Plexal’s efforts to co-pilot our growth thinking has been genuinely game changing. They have helped us think through our product and proposition, and our customer acquisition strategy. They have been so generous with their time and clearly have an ability to both think strategically as well as roll their sleeves up and make tangible progress.
XRI
Plexal supported us one to one to secure a significant customer very early in our growth journey. They were relentless in their creativity and facilitation of the initial contract. This was fundamental in proving our product market fit and in shaping the company we have become today.
Telicent
Having 1:1 support from Plexal helped us qualify our go to market opportunity in a new sector, provided peer review on our proposition and enhanced the onboarding of a new colleague. All of this happened at a pivotal moment in our growth journey.
Daintta
Meet the Growth Partnership Team
Lisa Perkins,
CPO and Director of Growth Partnership
I work with companies that require senior-level direction, while supporting the team on the specifics of each engagement. Part of my role is to bring together the right expertise from across Plexal and ensure our Growth Partners are fully equipped to drive meaningful, sustained impact for every business we collaborate with.
As an accomplished FTSE 100 Director, I’ve led visionary, expert teams to deliver significant results in the technology and innovation industry, forging partnerships with multinational tech organisations and the UK Government. This includes the launch of BT Group’s Superfast Broadband and the transformation of BT’s R&I, driving an innovation portfolio ensuring over £500m a year in revenue.
Emma Marshall,
Senior Growth Partner
As a member of Growth Partnership’s leadership team, I act as an embedded growth lead for founders, drawing on experience from delivering national accelerator programmes, leading corporate partnerships with organisations and supporting startups and scaleups across highly regulated and complex markets.
I’ve supported startups and scaleups across fintech, cyber security, digital infrastructure, mobility, critical national infrastructure, retail, heritage and arts sectors. I work directly with leadership teams on the decisions that matter most – shaping growth strategy, securing commercial partnerships, building investor readiness and navigating procurement and regulation.
Mina Begum,
Growth Partner
I understand founders are juggling product, customers, teams, fundraising and day-to-day tasks, which makes it hard to step back and see what’s blocking growth. Often the challenge isn’t a lack of effort or ambition but minimal opportunity for fresh, external perspective that’s still grounded in commercial reality.
As a Growth Partner, I work alongside founders to bring clear, experienced, outside-in thinking to pressure-test your assumptions and ask the uncomfortable questions to help teams focus on the challenges that’ll move the needle. Whether it’s refining pricing, narrowing customer focus, designing a go-to-market approach or preparing for investment, the goal is always practical progress – not theory.
Giulia Sale,
Growth Partner
As a Growth Partner, I’ve seen first-hand how much difference a fractional external expert can make. Founders and leaders often get caught in the loop of firefighting, from operations to team management. Through Growth Partnership, I’ve helped incredible people and businesses step back, refocus and unlock meaningful growth.
We know that the UK is extremely competitive, which is why our support is necessary for the survival of SMEs and scaleups. I’m especially passionate about bringing more mission-led businesses into this journey, so we can improve quality of life across the UK, not just for business owners, but for their end users.
Alex Munday,
Growth Partner
As a Growth Partner at Plexal, I work with early stage and scaling companies to design and execute clear, commercially-grounded growth strategies. I support founders across market positioning, go-to-market design, pricing and investor readiness, helping to translate complex products into compelling, actionable commercial narratives.
My experience spans cyber security, digital health, emerging technologies and agricultural technology with a background in commercial strategy and sales. I previously worked as a founder, having built and launched my own business end-to-end, giving me first-hand insight into the realities of product development, customer acquisition and scaling. I’m particularly focused on helping technically strong teams develop strategies to unlock sustainable growth with clarity, confidence and momentum.
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