'It was hard work and very stressful,' Saha admits. However, she is also one of the lucky ones.
Access to finance remains difficult for all sorts of companies, whether they are looking for rich individuals to take equity stakes, debt or venture capital. Although bank finance is easier to get hold of than it was a year ago, the costs remain stubbornly high.
The latest quarterly research by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) found more than three-quarters of companies had seen the cost of their existing finance increase by up to 5 percentage points above the Bank of England's base rate.
Two-thirds of those in the FSB survey decided not to seek credit at the moment, which could suggest they are fearful of the cost.