Results Business Finance Market Research for growth companies

We interviewed a sample of 100 high-growth companies and ask them for their business financing, the consequences of their funding decisions and how finance law have played a role.

A random sample of companies in which the only common factor was that its turnover has increased by 20% or more compared to the previous year was selected - ". High growth companies" we designate as

We started asking if they had been able to raise all the finances they need. Only 41% of respondents were able to obtain adequate financing.

In our sample, we found that 12% were users of factoring and invoice discounting and they all confirmed that they had sufficient funds from. This ratio of growth companies is much higher than the average of the observed distribution among business in general, previously estimated at less than 1%.

We have identified another segment segment called "maximum growth." These are the companies that said they were unable to grow faster than they were already growing. 52% of this segment said they used the funding bill to finance your business, which is very high compared to the normal average distribution of less than 1%.

There was a 59% of respondents in the survey said they had not been able to raise sufficient funding. It was said that, on average, were 43% below the funding they needed.

We asked these companies to finance the restrictions of this type of financing they had used. The results are:

48% ready
32% found
20% of family money
We went to ask about the effects of these restrictions on their activities and were the consequences agree with them, we raised enough funding for not having:

43% have refused business
Now 24% owed money
Became 15% loss
9% had to get rid of staff
5% had poor cash flow
4% does not increase as expected
We then asked for 59% financing constraints if they had considered the invoice financing as an option. 84% of this segment is not considered an option and what are the main reasons they gave for not found are:

34% do not believe that the finance bill was an option
24% had not heard of invoice finance
27% said it was not available
12% said they had heard it was expensive
So to summarize, our study has identified that there are significant funding constraints between businesses high growth. There are alternatives available that seem to meet their growing needs of business financing, but faster exhibit a lack of awareness and understanding of these alternatives.