GCV Spinouts
We identify opportunities where technology, changing markets or regulation can create significant value, then validate the opportunity, develop the proposition, assemble the team and build the company from the ground up.
Media kit · September 2026
We create, launch and scale technology-enabled businesses.
Media resources for GCV Labs, including our company story, venture-building model, portfolio case studies, approved descriptions and media contact.
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- Companies built, co-founded and developed
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- Stages from idea to scale
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- Ways we build ventures
Our story
We do not just invest in companies. We help build them.
GCV Labs identifies opportunities and works with founders, teams and established businesses to create, launch and scale technology-enabled ventures. We bring the operating capability needed to turn an opportunity into a company: strategy, talent, product, technology, brand, go-to-market, capital and growth.
We work through three pathways: building our own ideas as GCV spinouts, building alongside founders and domain experts, and building new ventures with established businesses.
Build and fund are complementary but distinct. GCV Labs creates and develops companies. GCV Invest provides a private investor network through which suitable investors can access carefully selected opportunities, including ventures originating from the GCV Labs ecosystem where appropriate.
The ecosystem
IdeasFoundersVenture buildingCompaniesCapitalGrowth
What we do
Three ways to build.
Founder Partnerships
We partner with exceptional founders and domain experts who have insight, ambition and the potential to build category-defining businesses, bringing the venture building infrastructure around them.
Corporate Venture Building
We work with established businesses to identify, create and launch new products, services and ventures - from opportunity identification and validation through to product development, launch and scale.
The process
Seven stages from idea to scale.
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Ideate
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Evaluate
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Create
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Incubate
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Launch
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Accelerate
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Scale
Portfolio evidence
Companies built, co-founded and developed by GCV Labs.
Intelligence Fusion
Co-founded · Exited
Co-founded with Michael McCabe and built through the full GCV Labs venture build process - from idea and proof of concept to launch and scale. Funded first by the GCV Invest network, then institutional investors as the business proved product-market fit and its revenue model. Acquired by Sigma7 and now operating as S7 One.
Read the case studyn-gage.io
Co-founded · Growth phase
An attractions management platform with a powerful, highly customisable visitor-facing app, co-founded with Bryan Hoare. Now in its growth phase, with clients including Longleat Safari Park, Knowsley Safari Park and Jimmy's Farm.
Read the case studyBusiness Finance Market
Co-founded · Growth phase
A GCV Labs portfolio company with two brands: Finance Nation, the FCA-authorised commercial finance brokerage, and Xova, the commercial broker SaaS platform - piloted and used by Finance Nation, and built to be licensed to other commercial brokers, initially in the UK and then globally.
Read the case studyValius Global
Co-founded · Growth phase
Valius is a modern digital marketplace connecting business owners with serious, verified buyers. The platform showcases over 1,000 UK businesses across a wide range of sectors. Smart matching helps buyers discover opportunities. End-to-end tools and support streamline the journey from discovery through to completion.
Read the case studyQuva
Spinout · Growth phase
A GCV Labs brand spun out into a separate brand operating as a division of Growth Capital Ventures Limited. Founded by Craig Peterson and Norman Peterson, Quva is a highly customisable, highly configurable SaaS platform for the alternative investment market - powering GCV Invest and licensed to other private investor networks, venture capital firms, private equity firms and property investment firms.
Read the case studyApproved descriptions
Company boilerplate.
These descriptions can be used in media coverage, event listings and contributor biographies.
Short description
GCV Labs is a UK venture builder that creates, launches and scales technology-enabled businesses. It brings strategy, talent, product, technology, brand, go-to-market, capital and growth expertise around each venture.
Long description
GCV Labs is the venture-building arm of Growth Capital Ventures. It identifies opportunities and works with founders, domain experts and established businesses to create, launch and scale technology-enabled ventures. Its multidisciplinary team applies strategy, talent, product, technology, brand, go-to-market, capital and growth expertise through a seven-stage process from idea to scale.
GCV Labs builds through three pathways: creating its own spinouts, co-founding businesses with founders and domain experts, and building new ventures with established companies. GCV Invest sits alongside GCV Labs as a separate investment capability, providing a private investor network through which suitable investors can access carefully selected opportunities, including ventures originating from the GCV Labs ecosystem where appropriate.
Supporting stories
Background reading for your piece.
We don't just invest in companies. We help build them.
The venture builder difference and why operating capability matters.
Read the articleFrom build to exit
What a venture builder contributes that capital alone cannot, using Intelligence Fusion as the evidence.
Read the articleWhy we built Quva
How an internal platform became a separate technology brand and licensing model.
Read the articleMedia contact
Craig Peterson
Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, GCV Labs