GFirst LEP

Name

GFirst LEP

Website

https://gfirstlep.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

GFirst LEP is a Local Enterprise Partnership based in Gloucester, United Kingdom. The organization is listed as founded in 1994 with 11-50 employees, though its public web presence is currently inactive.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Economic Development Services

NAICS

Public Finance Activities (92113)

akta.pro primary industry

Results-Based Financing (RBF) & Performance-Based Grants (BPADAOAF)

Keywords

• Local enterprise partnership
• Economic development
• Regional growth strategy
• Business partnership coordination
• Public-private partnership

Headquarters

HQ city

Gloucester

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Core offering

GFirst LEP is described as a Local Enterprise Partnership, historically a UK body that coordinated local economic growth between local authorities and the private sector. No active products or services are evidenced in the input; the company's website (gfirstlep.com) is currently parked by GoDaddy.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• British Chambers of Commerce: National business-led organisation that, alongside LEPs, has historically represented UK business interests in local growth and skills agendas. It is a comparable business-membership voice engaging local authorities and central government on economic-development policy.
• CBI (Confederation of British Industry): UK business confederation that, like GFirst LEP, sits at the interface of local business communities and government economic policy. It is a comparable business-led advocacy and partnership body, though operating at national rather than sub-regional level.
• Local Government Association: National body representing English local authorities, many of which previously co-funded and co-governed LEPs. It is a comparator because it coordinates the same local-authority stakeholders that constituted GFirst LEP's public-sector partners.
• Greater Manchester Combined Authority: Large combined authority that absorbed the Greater Manchester LEP and now runs local growth funds, skills programmes, and economic strategy. Comparable as a peer successor body performing the LEP-style economic-coordination role at greater scale.

Direct peers

• Federation of Small Businesses: UK membership organisation that, like GFirst LEP, engages local businesses, local authorities, and growth-fund programmes at sub-regional level. It is a direct peer in the sense that both bodies operate as business-membership intermediaries supporting SMEs and engaging with regional economic policy.
• New Anglia LEP: A now-wound-down Local Enterprise Partnership covering Norfolk and Suffolk that performed an almost identical role to GFirst LEP in a different region. It is a direct peer in terms of organisational model, mandate, and likely end-state transition.

Regional players

• West of England Combined Authority: A combined authority that absorbed the former West of England LEP and now administers devolved growth, skills, and transport funds across its region. Comparable because it represents the post-LEP institutional model that has displaced bodies like GFirst LEP.
• Gloucestershire County Council Economic Development Team: The local-authority successor that has absorbed many GFirst LEP functions in Gloucestershire. It is the most direct functional comparator because it now occupies the local economic-development, skills, and growth-fund coordination role that GFirst was set up to perform.

Market position

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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