Tees Business Issue 28 | Page 110

FUNDING
WORDS : SARAH WALKER

How award-winning agency can help your business “ get funded ”

Fun with funding – Nudl ’ s CEO Shak Asghar and relationship manager Alex Shennib . Picture by Tom Banks .

USE YOUR

NUDL !

A n award-winning funding support organisation is positioning itself to be part of wider conversations about what companies need , after helping to attract more than £ 20m to Tees businesses , creating up to 1,000 jobs and counting .

Nudl , an innovative , vibrant young company which claims to “ put the fun into funding ”, has been operating only since March , but in less than nine months Nudl CEO Shak Asghar says the company has “ learned a lot ” about the types of support businesses need - beyond simple funding .
After a double success in the inaugural Best New Tees Business Awards – for Best New Business and
Best New Services Business – Shak shared some of the company ’ s successes to date and explained the company has not only had a real impact on people ’ s businesses through direct funding , but also indirectly in the supply chain .
“ There ’ s so much good work going on in the Tees Valley and our activity helps businesses on their growth journey or helps them explore what their growth plans are ,” Shak says .
“ Even though our client might come to us and say , ‘ I need to buy X ’, it has a knock-on impact in the supply chain when they get the funding to make the purchase , as they ’ ll more than likely go to local businesses for the products and services they are
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