New business briefings.
The companies whose world just changed, and why that makes them worth a call. Funding rounds, acquisitions, new B Corps and the sectors growing fastest, researched by Honch for sales and marketing teams looking for new clients.
The Manchester 250
250 of the most exciting companies in and around Manchester, picked for fast growth, fresh funding, awards and headline moves in 2025 and 2026. This brief picks out the 20 with the clearest reason to buy right now and says how to approach each one.
The Birmingham 250
250 of the most exciting companies in and around Birmingham, picked for fast growth, fresh funding, awards and headline moves. This brief picks out the 20 with the clearest reason to buy right now and says how to approach each one.
Space is now a defence and data business.
The UK has a new £7.8bn space strategy, a defence plan that would rather buy satellite services than own them, and still no rocket launched to orbit from British soil. The companies worth calling are the ones turning that money into satellites, factories and data products. This brief covers 169 companies and profiles the 15 we would call first.
Quantum has moved from the lab to the purchase order.
In March the government committed up to £2bn to quantum, including £1bn to buy large-scale quantum computers. In the same months UK companies raised their biggest rounds yet. The sector is small, but its leaders are building factories, opening US offices and hiring. This brief covers 56 companies and profiles the 11 that are spending.
Who is buying, and what they need next.
Honch logged 86 acquisitions involving UK companies in September. An acquisition is one of the clearest buying signals there is: the buyer has to integrate people, systems and customers, and the business it bought gets a new owner with new plans. This brief picks out the 15 where that work is biggest and says how to approach each.
New B Corps with something to sell.
24 companies on Honch's list certified as B Corps in late summer 2026. Most are small: a restaurant, a farm, a three-person installer. This brief picks out the eight with the size, the growth and the buying power to be worth a sales call, and says how to approach each one.
Fresh money, and who is about to spend it.
142 UK companies on Honch logged a funding event in September. Most of the cash went to a handful of very large deals. This brief looks past the cheque size for the companies growing fastest, and says what each one is likely to buy next.
Someone has to build the AI boom.
The companies training and serving models get the headlines. The companies selling them power, buildings, cooling, silicon and software get the invoices. This brief covers the ones worth calling, and how to sell into each.