Bloom & Wild receives £75m investment

Bloom & Wild to become Europe’s most loved flower gifting brand with £75m investment We are excited to announce an investment of £75m into Bloom & Wild, led by some of the world’s top investors in consumer brands, including US investor General Catalyst (Airbnb, Warby Parker and Deliveroo) and Index Ventures, who has backed the

Our £7m investment into multi-award winning villa brand, The Thinking Traveller

We are excited to have invested £7m into The Thinking Traveller, the world’s most thoughtful villa brand, backing founders and joint-CEOs Huw and Rossella Beaugié and their team in the next stage of growth. They will be joined as Executive Chairman by Ian Simkins, former CEO of Audley Travel, who helped to grow it into

Mindful Chef finds new home with Nestle after 5x growth

We are delighted to announce that Mindful Chef has been bought by Nestlé. In a wonderful two-year journey since we invested £6m in December 2018, sales have increased fivefold to £50m. It’s astonishing how something so special has been built in such a short period of time – school friends Giles Humphries, Myles Hopper and Robert

Our £11.5m investment into smart bike brand Wattbike

We are delighted to announce our £11.5m investment into Wattbike, the world’s first smart indoor bike brand, joining the impressive team, led by CEO Rich Baker, on their mission to make Wattbike a global brand legend. Alongside us, the team will also be joined by non-executive chairman Gordon Baird, former chairman of sports footwear brand