Growth Pathway: Advisory Scheme
Updated 22 October 2025
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1. Advisory Scheme
Raising growth capital is one of the toughest challenges for scale-ups. Larger rounds bring a smaller pool of investors, deeper scrutiny, and more complex diligence - all while leadership teams remain focused on delivering growth.
The UK Space Agency’s Growth Pathway Advisory Scheme has been established to support ambitious UK space businesses demonstrate investor readiness and unlock the capital required to catalyse their next phase of global growth.
2. How it Works
2.1 Free Diagnostic
Eligible businesses start with a no-cost, no-obligation investor readiness diagnostic under NDA. The process involves reflection on your fundraising materials and preparation, benchmarks the company against six major investor readiness barriers, highlights where investors are most likely to challenge, and provides a view on priority gaps.
2.2 Specialist Advisory Services
Eligible businesses can then choose to access a menu of subsidised advisory support, spanning financial, strategy, commercial, risk and legal needs. The Growth Pathway Advisory Scheme is delivered by leading advisors and industry experts, including PwC, DLA Piper, alongside experienced space founders and other fundraising specialists. Support is focused, practical, and aligned to investor expectations.
Delivered by leading sector specialists, this support applies an investor’s lens to challenge assumptions, stress-test growth stories, and turn potential red flags into proof points.
2.3 Investor Engagement Opportunities
Participants gain visibility through curated pitch events, founder spotlights, and roundtables with investors and industry leaders.
3. Who it’s for
This scheme is designed for space scale-ups beyond their earliest stages - businesses raising between Series A and D - that are targeting a significant capital raise in the next 18 months.
4. Why it Matters
The UK space sector already contributes £16.4 billion annually to the economy and supports more than 45,000 jobs. But too often, growth is held back by limited access to capital – this scheme helps change that. By equipping scale-ups with the credibility, evidence, and insight investors demand, the Growth Pathway strengthens the sector’s ability to attract capital, accelerate innovation and further compete on the global stage.