Lean Lunch is an online food delivery company which delivers good, nutritious, sustainably-packaged food to offices by cargo bike. It aims to improve the wellbeing of people and the planet by providing healthy food delivered in compostable packaging. The company has produced 40,000 meals since its launch in 2017. Lean Lunch is working with leading organisations such as Burberry, Asda, and Sky. The company has produced 10,530 meals in the first quarter of 2019 and aims to double it in the second quarter. Its mission is to grow the business to become the de-facto provider of nutritious, sustainable food for workplaces in every city they run in.
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£78,500
Coffee is no longer considered as simply “a drink”, it is a lifestyle. Doppio Coffee Warehouses was established with the vision of bringing the coffee culture in the UK to the next level. Doppio Coffee’s value proposition is to take coffee beyond just storage and distribution, and into education and exploration. Doppio have built a unique business with clear differentiators in taking a novel approach to coffee. They have an exceptionally strong management team and they are operational and profitable, with forecast sales in FY2015 being £1.2 million.
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investment:
£150,000
Fresh and delicious authentic Italian gelato filling a gap in China’s £6bn ice cream market.
http://www.vai-milano.com/
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£333,394
Good Sixty is an online platform where you can find and buy the best independent food from artisans, retailers and producers. Their vision is to enable people to buy great local food from independent retailers. Good Sixty are looking to expand into London, Bath and Cardiff in 2018.
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£188,650
Hop is a Vietnamese fresh food concept showcasing a passion for Vietnam’s rich and vivid culture, food, and street atmosphere. It has 5 multi-format sites across London ranging from 700sqft “mini-HOPs” to a 3,000sqft “HOP Café”. HOP has completed sales of c.£3.8m in 2018 and is serving an average of 12k customers every week. The company has an agreement with Vita Mojo to launch digital screen ordering technology. HOP is raising funds to grow the brand across the UK.
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investment:
£1,457,110
An independent restaurant business offering investment opportunities for the first time since successfully launching 3 restaurants as of 2013 without any prior funding. A Rule Of Tum Group is the owner of The Burger Shop Hereford & Worcester and The Bookshop Restaurant. The former provides high-quality food in a relaxing environment, whilst the latter produces dishes made from grass-fed steak and uses organic vegetables.
The business hosts a food festival annually, which oversees more than 8000 visitors. In the year ending March 2018, A Rule Of Tum Group achieved £1.6m in annual turnover and are now crowdfunding to fully purchase their Hereford site. Furthermore, the business is planning to open a butcher's shop in 2020, as well as another restaurant located in Worcester.
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£485,730
A protein energy brand that offers its products in round balls as an easy-to-eat pre and post workout snack. Boostball's multi-award winning products are made from raw ingredients that have been cold-pressed and only contain natural sugars from fruits and plants.
Boostball sells almost 50,000 units per month across 13 countries and have their own production facility, which creates products for other companies too. Boostball has partnered with Virgin Atlantic and Wimbledon to market their range and their customers also include Google, WHSmith and Graze.
Funds are being raised to launch their next product range, Boostbutter, which is nut butter in squeezable pouches of various sizes. The business is also seeking to grow their market share by entering other territories such as the USA.
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investment:
£251,300
Mr Lee’s Pure Foods is an innovative food/tech company creating award-winning premium healthy noodles-in-a-cup and will be launching its new instant Congee Asian rice porridge. All products are certified low sugar, gluten-free, low on calories, Vegan options and 100% recyclable and compostable packaging. The global instant noodle market is expected to reach $57.5 billion by 2024 which the brand aims to capitalise on and establish itself in as the market leader. Mr Lee's has won 50+ global awards and nominations including Grocer Gold Exporter of the Year, Great British Entrepreneur winner, and The Sunday Times Maserati 100 winner. Noted publisher Penguin Random House has published Mr Lee’s 100 Noodle Recipe cookbook which has been met with critical acclaim worldwide. With the investment, the company will invest 25% of it in marketing initiatives and entering into the US market, 10% in product development, 20% in working capital for food production during scale-up, 5% in upgrading its Hot Noodle Kiosk and vending machine facilities, and 40% in global group operating and personnel costs runway for commercial functions and scale-up activities within Australia, the UK, and the USA.
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£1,835,892
Itasca Wines is a Hampshire-based vineyard and winery that produces fine English wines. The company is raising funds for its contract winemaking facility, to fulfil the growing demand from vineyards. There are over 760 vineyards in the UK currently, 111 have their own winery and only a handful of these provide contract winemaking services to other vineyards. Itasca Wines aims to become a major winemaker and create award-winning wines at Penn Croft. The company planted its first vineyard of 16,000 vines in May 2019 and has featured in Vineyard Magazine in February and May 2019.
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investment:
£1,147,003
Noveltea is a premium alcoholic tea brand launched in Fenwick in April 2017. The company's products are vegan, gluten-free and low in sugar, and manufactured in minimalistic & up-cyclable lifestyle packaging. Thanks to its low-Alcohol by volume (ABV) portfolio, the brand has sold 350,000 bottles since its launch in 2017. The company experienced more than £100,000 worth of sales in April 2020 despite COVID-19 due to smart e-commerce channel utilisation. In 2020, the size of the global alcoholic drinks market is $1.587 trillion and is forecasted to grow by 3.5% (CAGR) over the next three years. The brand aims to become a major contender in this segment and grow its business. The company use the investment to focus on its core markets in the UK, Germany, and China, and enter the USA by 2020.
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Expired
investment:
£558,845
