| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.04.2025 | Channel 4’s investment arm gives £3m backing to UK fintech Sprive | Channel 4 has entered the fintech realm after its investment arm participated in a funding round that topped £5.5m.
Channel 4 Ventures injected £3m into mortgage overpayment app Sprive, in a fundraiser led by venture capital firm Ascension.... |
| 19.03.2025 | The Rise of Equity Crowdfunding: Navigating New Waters in Startup Funding | In the bustling world of startups, funding is the lifeblood. Traditional routes like venture capital and angel investing are well-trodden paths. But a new avenue is emerging, vibrant and full of potential: equity crowdfunding. This method a... |
| 19.03.2025 | Exclusive: Channel 4 Ventures backs cocktail machine maker Bartesian | City AM can reveal that Channel 4 Ventures has partnered with Bartesian as the drinks firm looks to accelerate its expansion in the UK.
Bartesian, which produces cocktail-making machines, will benefit from the broadcaster’s advertising reac... |
| 16.09.2024 | Chargebee expands in Europe, opens new office in Dublin | US and Chennai-based software as a services (SaaS) firm Chargebee has opened a new office in Dublin, Ireland to boost revenue from Europe and as part of its global go-to-market strategy.
Over the next 18-24 months, Chargebee plans to grow i... |
| 25.09.2023 | UK's Mintago raises $4.75M for employee financial wellness platform | UK-based financial wellbeing startup Mintago has raised $4.75 million in a Series A funding round. The platform is a tool for employees to gain better financial health as it offers pension help, financial advice, savings options and an AI m... |
| 08.03.2023 | UK Women tech founders are taking a bigger share – 24 percent capital increase in 2022 compared to 2021 | Many studies support the fact that there are numerous gaps between men and women, particularly when it comes to ICT. Whether it is the number of girls who receive a STEM education or when it comes to funding of women founders of IT startups... |
| 23.08.2022 | What’s Next In Grocery Disruption After QCommerce? | History shows that dominant disruptors are born in recessions, but focus must be on delivering true consumer delight |
| 13.07.2022 | Data Snapshot: Europe needs more funding for food waste, circular economy startups | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research re... |
| 14.01.2022 | Sage : Green tips from our top 10 sustainable businesses to follow in 2022 | If you run a business, environmental issues seem so big that it could be easy to think that whatever you do when it comes to sustainability, it's going to be inconsequential.
But every little bit adds up.
Millions of businesses have a big p... |
| 25.08.2021 | Oddbox Receives £16M Investment from Burda | Oddbox, a UK-based provider of a sustainable food waste reduction platform, received a £16m primary and secondary investment from BurdaPrincipal Investments, the growth capital arm of media and tech company Hubert Burda Media.
BPI joins exi... |
| 25.08.2021 | Burda invests £16m in Mercia-backed sustainable food platform | Oddbox – the Mercia-backed platform using technology to fight food waste – has secured a £16m investment from BurdaPrincipal Investments (BPI), the growth capital arm of media and tech company Hubert Burda Media whose titles include BBCGood... |
| 06.07.2021 | Mercia Asset Management : announces record preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2021 | Mercia Asset Management PLC (AIM: MERC), the proactive, regionally focused specialist asset manager with c.£940million of assets under management ('AuM') is pleased to announce its preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2021.
Finan... |
| 10.05.2021 | Snapshot of our developing portfolio: The Northern VCTs | Oddbox – Eat Good. Do Good. Stay Odd. |
| 23.10.2020 | Scaling during a pandemic | The Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing repercussions were a shock to most of us, and with lockdown, ways of life and work were changed in what felt like an instant. Many companies, both large and small, had to quickly move to 100% remote, pr... |
| 17.10.2020 | TOP 10 FoodTech Startups of Europe | Founders: Greg Orlowski and William Shu |
| 15.09.2020 | Applications are now open for Tech Nation’s flagship growth programmes | Today we are delighted to open applications for our three flagship growth programmes: Rising Stars 3.0, Upscale 6.0 and Future Fifty 9.0.
The global pandemic has changed the world, and some aspects of our lives may never return to the way ... |
| 26.06.2020 | Startup of the Week: Oddbox | 0 shares
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Our Startup of the Week for this week is Oddbox! A fruit and veg delivery service with a sustainable edge.
More than one third of all food produced across the globe is wasted or lost. Whilst an often ... |
| 08.05.2020 | Coronavirus and the food chain: FoodBytes! by Rabobank’s six tips for innovation in the ‘new normal’ | COVID-19 is disrupting global food markets, from the shut-down in food service to declining levels of investment.
According to the first-quarter report from FoodBytes! by Rabobank, the long-term outlook is ‘uncertain’ due to the threat of ... |
| 03.05.2020 | Editorial: Eating and drinking in the time of corona | We are fortunate to be able to spend time supporting smaller challenger brands on their journeys. We often feel we learn as much from them as they do from us – they’re a vanguard for fresh ideas and unerring positivity even in these precari... |
| 23.04.2020 | The working from home stack: tools, tips and solutions for founders and remote teams | In today’s upside-down world, it’s difficult to recall a time when home working was seen as a glamorous perk reserved for employees at the world’s largest tech companies. It has become a necessity for many sectors practically overnight in t... |
| 17.04.2020 | How tech is easing the challenges of lockdown | The fight against Covid-19 continues, and with lockdown becoming the new normal across the world, the everyday way of life has been totally transformed within the space of a few weeks.
The challenges that are brought about by operating wit... |
| 19.03.2020 | Oddbox raises €3.2 million to feed Londoners with its sustainable fruit & veg box | UK startup Oddbox, who is behind one of Britain’s first sustainable fruit and vegetable box delivery service, is planning to expand nationwide after securing approximately €3.2 million from the Northern Venture Capital Trust (VCT) Funds whi... |
| 19.03.2020 | Oddbox Raises £3M in Funding | Oddbox, a London, UK-based sustainable fruit and veg delivery company, raised £3m in funding.
The investment was made by the Northern Venture Capital Trust (VCT) Funds which are managed by Mercia.
The company intends to use the funds for it... |
| 19.03.2020 | Sustainable food delivery firm Oddbox raises £3m | The London company behind the UK’s sustainable fruit and vegetable box delivery service is planning to expand nationwide after securing a £3m investment from the Northern Venture Capital Trust (VCT) Funds which are managed by Mercia.
Oddbox... |
| 19.03.2020 | London-based Oddbox raises €3.2M to go nationwide and fight food waste | Oddbox, London’s first wonky fruit, and veg box subscription scheme has raised €3.2 million from the Northern Venture Capital Trust (VCT) Funds, which are managed by Mercia. With this funding, the company is planning to expand its service a... |
| 30.01.2020 | 30 of the UK’s most exciting scaleups join the prestigious Upscale programme | After a nationwide call-out and an intensive and thorough judging process, we are delighted to announce the 30 companies joining Tech Nation’s flagship programme for mid-stage, fast-growing tech companies: Upscale 5.0.
“The UK has a fantas... |
| 30.01.2020 | 30 UK scaleups about to take off | The UK’s flagship programme for scaling tech companies, Tech Nation’s Upscale, has today announced the 30 companies joining its fifth annual programme. The prestigious peer-to-peer growth programme boasts tech alumni that have collectively ... |
| 01.11.2018 | Agrifood – The $8 Trillion Industry That’s Worth Your Salt | Cannabis-infused drinks. Burgers grown in laboratories. Entire meals in bottles. Consumers, retailers and farmers alike are hungry for the next generation of food, and investors are beginning to acquire the taste, too. Early-stage investmen... |
| 01.11.2018 | Agrifood — the $8 trillion industry that’s worth your salt | Esther Delignat-Lavaud Rodriguez Contributor
Esther Delignat-Lavaud Rodriguez is an investor at Oxford Capital, a seed and Series A investor in the U.K.
Cannabis-infused drinks. Burgers grown in laboratories. Entire meals in bottles. Consum... |
| 30.07.2018 | Agtech Dominates 20 Selected Startups for First Ever FoodBytes! London | Twenty food and agriculture startups have been selected from a total of over 150 applications to pitch at the first ever FoodBytes! London. FoodBytes! is the global pitch competition organized by food and agriculture bank Rabobank with the ... |
| - | 5 changes to watch for in shopping as major retailers innovate to go ‘green’ | While the coronavirus pandemic captured the world’s attention in 2020, the climate crisis was also massively destructive, with ramifications including an extended wildfire season in California and tens of thousands of deaths from air pollut... |
