Portfolio Companies

The Cass Entrepreneurship Fund already provides valuable support to a number of entrepreneurs.

Contego Fraud Solutions provides an automated web service to enable businesses to cost effectively asses the holistic risk of online transactions and to verify the identity of their customers. The business is backed by the Cass Entrepreneurship Fund and a number of angel investors. Adrian Black, CEO of Contego is a past participant on the NVC Programme.

Cloud Business is a fast-growing cloud consultancy led by James Butler, CEO. The company provides cloud migration, advice and deployment for high profile clients such as Vodafone, ASOS, and Clifford Chance. Cloud Business is also one of a handful of companies to be awarded Microsoft Cloud Accelerate Partner status; and was No 1 Microsoft Partner in the UK for number of clients live on Online Services 2009-2010.  

Alva provides reputation analysis and reputational risk analysis to large organisations. The company received investment from the Cass Entrepreneurship Fund and three business angels in 2010. The business is led by two Cass MBA alumni Alberto Lopez-Valenzuela and Richard Fleming.

BuildaBrand brings professional branding to the mass market by instantly delivering accurate brand identity solutions, customisable templates, hosting and fulfilment. The team is led by Justin Champney, CEO and Dave Shanley, CTO and is back by both the Cass Entrepreneurship Fund and two leading European venture funds.

Waxwired, headed by Executive MBA alumnus, Leon Crutchley, has been incubated at Cass since early 2010. The new application developed by the company - Flypost - combines time, events and geo-location functionality. The business is backed by the Cass Entrepreneurship Fund and a number of high profile technology angels.

Accutrainee, a service provider to the legal industry, was started in 2010 by Susan Cooper in response to significant changes emerging in the legal profession.Accutrainee are currently incubated at the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Susan is both a Cass Alumna and a past participant on the New Venture Creation Programme.