Ocado have announced that they will be working with retail legend Sir Stuart Rose and chef Tom Kerridge to launch ‘Britain’s Next Top Supplier’, a nationwide search to find the next big thing in food and drink.
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Camden Town Brewery seeks £1.5m million investment
The rapidly growing brewery set up by Jasper Cuppaidge aims to fuel further growth and international expansion plans and create hundreds of new jobs for Londoners with a new brewery in the capital
Skillpages sold to Bark.com for undisclosed sum
Skillpages, an online marketplace for local skills founded back in 2010 and backed by Michael Smurfit, has been acquired by Bark.com, which focuses on attacking the same problem from the other way round: i.e. pushing skill-seekers’ requests to providers, rather than providing a skills listing platform.
Laundrapp expands into five UK cities
Laundrapp, the recently launched on-demand laundry & dry cleaning app, is cleaning up across Britain as it prepares for rapid expansion into five cities including Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Manchester.
Captive Media closes £617,000 angel funding round
London-based washroom advertising start-up Captive Media has closed a £617,000 investment round backed by London Business Angels and London Co-Investment Fund partnership.
Alternative lender Fleximize announces £4M in loans lent to SMEs in past year
Fleximize, the SME alternative finance company, has announced that it has now lent £4 million to SMEs since its launch in January 2014.
Taylor St Baristas Secures £1.8m Mini-Bond on Crowdcube
The London-based, speciality coffee house chain, Taylor St Baristas is the latest company to raise money from the crowd using a Crowdcube Mini-Bond. The Coffee Bond beat its £1.5m target, topping out at £1,864,000 and attracting 504 investors from Taylor St’s own customers as well as Crowdcube’s registered members.
Yahoo set to spin off its stake in Alibaba
Marissa Mayer, chief executive of internet giant Yahoo, has announced that the Internet company would spin off its 15 percent stake in Alibaba, China’s leading e-commerce company, into a separate company, avoiding any taxes on the transaction.
VC deals in European start-ups down but UK remains favourite destination
Dow Jones report highlights positives and negatives for VC funding with UK “most favoured destination” for equity finance in last quarter of 2014
Andreessen Horowitz backs London start-up TransferWise with $58m
Fast-growing financial technology start-up rolls out global expansion plans
Business Growth Fund gets in the Zone with £6M investment
An award winning London-based digital marketing agency is preparing for significant expansion thanks to a £6m investment of equity finance from BGF (Business Growth Fund).
UK’s largest online estate agency eMoov completes on £1.5M funding deal
UK’s largest fixed cost online estate agency eMoov.co.uk has received a significant by closing a £1.5m funding round led by London venture capital firm Episode 1.
Money Dashboard raises further £2.5m in funding led by Calculus Capital
Money Dashboard, the personal finance platform, has announced that it raised a further £2.5 million between August and November last year, bringing the total funding raised by the company to £5.2million ($8.3m) in 12 months.
Automotive component supplier VTL Group secures new funding from BGF
VTL Group, a manufacturer of precision engineered components for the automotive industry, has received a further £1.5m investment from growth capital provider BGF, alongside loan funding from HSBC.
eBay prepares Paypal spin-off with job cuts & giving Carl Icahn board role
eBay has announced that it is cutting 2,400 jobs as it prepares to spin-off its payments business Paypal, and has given activist investor Carl Icahn’s firm a seat on its board.
