What if the year you finally stopped waiting for permission was the year everything changed?
2025 wasn’t just another year at Add Then Multiply and our Funding Focus initiative. It was the year we proved that systematic growth beats organic hope, that strategic acquisitions trump slow grinding, and that the right capital coupled with the right strategy can compress decades of growth into months.
But more importantly, it was the year hundreds of entrepreneurs stopped playing the game by rules designed to keep them small.
Let me cut straight to it, this year:
- We helped businesses unlock growth capital
- Facilitated and closed on strategic acquisitions
- Built financial infrastructure that investors actually trust
- Developed exit roadmaps that maximise valuations for successful exits.
We proved that the right structure and the right strategy can compress years of organic grinding into months of systematic scaling.
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This Years Milestones
We launched our Growth Readiness Assessment, which over 100+ businesses have now completed. The results confirmed what we already knew: the gap between £1M and £10M revenue isn’t about working harder but about financial infrastructure you can actually rely on.
Our clients stopped treating finance as a necessary evil and started using it as their primary growth engine. Together, we implemented:
- Management accounts that actually inform decisions
- Cash-flow forecasting that removes nasty surprises
- Financial modelling that makes acquisitions feasible, not frightening
And the market noticed.
And speaking of knowing your numbers, our team was shortlisted for Professional & Business Services Finance Team of the Year in the 2025 London & South East Finance Awards. Not because we’re chasing trophies, but because we consistently deliver the financial clarity that makes ambitious growth possible.
We didn’t take the award home, but the shortlisting reinforced what we’re building—and gave us even more motivation to raise the bar in 2026.
The award we did win this year…
How Funding Focus is Changing the Conversation
This year, I was not just nominated for Man of the Year 2025 at the Women’s Business Club Awards… I won it.
A triumph that belongs to every female entrepreneur I’ve spoken with, worked alongside, and been inspired by. Vindication for what I’ve spent seven years proving: the funding system isn’t just unfair: it’s costing us all billions in lost potential. A systemic bias problem that affects not just women and underrepresented founders but all of us.
Through Funding Focus, we’ve been working with female founders to prove that the right strategy, combined with the right financial presentation, can overcome even entrenched bias. We’ve helped secure funding that “wasn’t available,” opened doors that were “unfortunately closed,” and demonstrated that when you remove obstacles, female-led businesses scale just as aggressively as any others.
And here’s your exclusive peek: in 2026, we’re hosting another Funding Focus Conference.
Details coming soon but trust me, you’ll want to be there.
Best Christmas present you’ll give yourself this year? The knowledge to scale smarter.
While everyone else is winding down for the festive season, smart entrepreneurs are planning their breakthrough year, here’s what’s under your tree:
Gift #1: “Add Then Multiply“
The award-winning playbook that shows you how to scale from £1M to £10M+ through strategic acquisitions—not endless organic grind. Perfect for businesses with solid fundamentals but stuck on the growth treadmill.
Gift #2: “Funded Female Founders“
The insider’s guide to navigating the £8.7 trillion funding gap. Real strategies for accessing capital that actually works for underrepresented founders, no bootstrap-and-pray required.
Both books. Zero cost. Yours to keep.
The Pattern That Emerged
Looking back at 2025, one pattern became impossible to ignore: the businesses that scaled fastest weren’t the ones with the best products or the most charismatic founders.
They were the ones that stopped treating growth as something that happens to you and started treating it as something you systematically engineer.
They embraced acquisitions as a primary growth strategy, not a distant “maybe someday.” They built financial infrastructure before they desperately needed it. They invested in operational systems that made complexity manageable. They created cultures where execution happened without constant intervention.
They stopped playing small.
Our Giving Back
We continued our commitment to donate 1% of revenue to charitable causes linked to UN Sustainable Development Goals 4 (Quality Education) and 5 (Gender Equality). Through B1G1, our giving impacts this year included:
- 6,000+ days of education access for disadvantaged children
- 2,000 textbooks and learning materials distributed
- 1,950 days of access to improved schools
- 1,700 days of transportation removing barriers to education
- 1,000+ days of vocational, digital, and business skills training
- Microloans and financial support for women entrepreneurs
These causes matter to our team, and align with the our mission: creating opportunity where systemic barriers have blocked it.
What Next Year Holds for Us
We’re not slowing down.
Next year brings expanded acquisition support, deeper financial infrastructure development, and yes; that Funding Focus Conference that’s going to reset expectations about what’s possible when bias gets systematically challenged.
But more than that, 2026 is about proving that the FACE methodology works at scale. Thanks very much for your continuing support, and on behalf of the whole Add then Multiply team, we wish you a successful 2026!
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Because if 2025 didn’t deliver the breakthrough you wanted, 2026 won’t either. Unless you change the approach.
— David B Horne
