With headquarters in Cambridge and seven regional offices in the UK, YTKO brings more than 30 years’ combined private and public sector expertise in supporting new entrepreneurs, established businesses and corporates. Through its range of services, spanning start-up, growth, women and finance, it provides proactive and responsive support for start-ups, SMEs and larger companies seeking expansion.

Its mission is to support the creation and enable the growth of more than 6,000 companies, who together will contribute more than £1 billion per annum to the British economy by 2020. Over half this work is being delivered on a not-for-profit basis.

YTKO business model is simple: it aims to facilitate growth in our clients’ businesses by increasing their revenues and market share. It does this by delivering high quality services and measurable results, in turn, contributing to economic prosperity by creating wealth and jobs.

It has strong experience in accessing funding, promoting women’s enterprise, enterprise education, and innovation and collaboration networks. All services are focused on growing innovative, sustainable, competitive businesses. It has worked in a range of sectors, from science, engineering and technology, to knowledge-intensive services and creative industries, and our consultancy arm has particular strengths in bioscience, healthcare and medical devices, digital and media, electronics, ICT, high value manufacturing and engineering, nanotechnology and environment.

A growing base of independent regional UK offices ensures that YTKO retains real, local roots while maintaining its global reach. Offices and affiliates in Europe and the USA enable us to deliver a multi-lingual, multi-cultural approach for international assignments.

It is the only organisation to have been awarded the prestigious Prowess Flagship Award for all our services in all locations, and has also won the BIS Enterprising Britain Award for Promoting Enterprise and a Grand Jury Prize winner of the European Enterprise Promotion Awards. Find out more about our achievements.

It understands the need for flexibility in the delivery of  services – after all, it is an SME too.It is also as happy to work on small projects or “troubleshooting” assignments as it is to carry out larger, longer-term consultancy contracts.