Hampshire Accountants buys Bounce Funding for £4.75M in accounting-finance play
What's the deal? Hampshire AccountantsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has acquired UK business finance specialist Bounce FundingDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → for £4.75 million, folding it into a professional-services group with ambitions across the UK, Australia and Asia. The transaction was announced on August 25, 2026.
What each side brings: Bounce Funding, founded by British entrepreneur Matt Travis, helps UK SMEs access funding through a network of lenders and finance providers. Hampshire Accountants adds accountancy, tax and advisory services, aiming to build a more connected model.
What's the endgame? The strategy rests on a simple idea: accountants often spot a client's funding need before the business owner starts looking. The combined group wants to pair that insight with Bounce Funding's finance capabilities, offering working capital, business loans, asset finance, invoice finance and commercial property finance.
Why now? Travis has worked in business funding for more than a decade and built Bounce Funding around accountant partnerships as a growing distribution channel. The deal lets him scale that model within a wider group.
Travis said accounting and business finance "should be much more closely connected." He added: "If you can combine that knowledge with access to the right capital at the right time, you have the opportunity to become a genuine growth partner rather than simply another service provider."
Expanding abroad: The UK remains the main focus, but Hampshire Accountants is developing Australian operations, targeting a presence across Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth with accounting, tax and virtual CFO services. Singapore is expected to serve as a base for the group's longer-term Asian strategy, with the accounts-to-finance model potentially extending overseas.
The signal: The deal reflects a push to merge accountancy with business lending, positioning advisers as growth partners rather than single-service providers — a model the group now plans to test across three continents.
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