BARCLAYS Eagle Lab Flight - a 12-week accelerator for seven start-up businesses - took place in the bank’s Brighton premises.

Each company received £25,000 investment at the start of the programme which culminated in a final pitch for all seven businesses.

They all bid for a potential £50,000 extra funding for their company.

They will hear later this week what extra funding they have acquired through their pitches.

The seven rising star creative businesses graduating from Eagle Lab Flight are:

- Vanuse, a mobile app that allows users to instantly order a van and driver to their location.

- Good Company Wealth, which has launched a solution to the UK savings gap by harnessing the power of crowd buying to unlock access to high income producing assets.

- Goodmoney, which has created new software to improve the way small independent and creative businesses are supported locally through the gift card and voucher market.

Railguard, which has designed a free and simple solution to help commuters to claim compensation when affected by delayed or cancelled trains.

- Ikigai Factory, which through its REVR mobile creation tool and publishing platform helps real estate agencies to build virtual house tours easily and quickly for improved sales and marketing.

- TeamPro, a free online platform allowing sports teams to organise matches and automatically show player availability.

- We Are Personal, which has revolutionised website modelling so that every visitor can have a completely different experience; personalising the site to their needs.

The Eagle Lab Flight accelerator, which started in March, consisted of workshops, masterclasses and a mentor programme aiming to unlock creativity for the seven businesses and provide business acumen.

It covered topics such as business planning, sustainability, leadership, culture, global impacts and markets and audiences and evaluation.

With a focus on creative thinking and cross collaboration, the companies learned how to scale-up and define their product.

Steven Roberts, MD of strategic transformation at Barclays, said: “We have been proud to partner with Creative England to provide investment and intensive development for high growth, early stage creative and digital companies with the vital help they need early on in their business lifecycle.

“We’ve worked closely with seven brilliant businesses and their entrepreneurial teams and we’re pleased they now provide a crucial boost to the creative sector.”