Every smart entrepreneur needs to realize that trying to treat every customer the same, with limited resources, may mean that you are treating them all poorly, or at least limiting your own growth.
Hoxton Farms Raises £2.7M to Make Meat Alternatives Indistinguishable by Using Animal Fat Made in a Lab
Meat analogues are meat-like substances usually made from plants. These substitutes are growing in popularity thanks to brands like Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat. However, for meat enthusiasts, these substitutes often lack the feel, look, and taste of the real thing. Hoxton Farms is looking to produce real animal fat without harming animals for use in meat alternatives by extracting fat cells. Using cultivated fats has the potential to relieve pressure on the environment caused by factory farms including helping with antibiotic resistance and climate change. The company uses machine learning and mathematical modeling to build its cultured fats with plans to build a scalable prototype within the next 18 months. London TechWatch caught up with Cofounder Ed Steele to learn more about the work to make meat alternatives viable at scale, the company’s future plans, and recent round of funding from investors that include Founders Fund, BACKED VC, Presight Capital, CPT Capital, Sustainable Food Ventures, and others.
The London TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 23/2/2021
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for London startups for 23/2/2021 featuring funding details for StorageOS, LaundryHeap, and much more.
Ember Raises £1.6M to Empower Small Businesses with Automated Accounting and Tax Solutions
Small business owners are often the jacks and jills of all trades, especially when teams are small and operations are lean. But for many businesses, the time spent handling administrative functions could be better spent building the business. Ember is an accounting and tax platform that streamlines these functions with automation, freeing up valuable time. The platform uses machine learn and has integrated open banking so that businesses can manage all aspects of taxes and accounting from a single platform. Users are able to view the business’s finances in real-time, get support from qualified experts, and optimize, pay, and file taxes with HMRC, which recently made it possible to file digitally. London TechWatch caught up with Cofounder and CEO Aaron Shaw to learn more about the company’s progress since we covered their pre-seed round in late 2019, fundraising during the pandemic, the company’s latest funding round from investors that include Anthemis, Spring Ventures, and Innovation Nest, and much, much more…
The London TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 22/2/2021
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for London startups for 22/2/2021 featuring funding details for Gophr, Vivacity Labs, and much more.
Founders Guide to the Secondary Stock Sale
Secondary stock sales have become an increasingly popular mechanism for rewarding the founders who achieved significant growth in their business but what are they? Here’s what you need to know.
#Londontech Week in Review: 14/2/21-20/2/21
With so much going on in the thriving London Tech ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space. We keep you abreast of the things that you may have missed in London Tech News for the week ending 20/2 including the London startup fundings, exits, and events featuring news for Grip, Carv, and much, much more.
The European Tech Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report 22/2/21
The European Tech Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes on a trip across various ecosystems in Europe, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable European Tech startup fundings for the week ending 20/2/21 featuring funding details for Grip, Inxpect, and seven other European fundings that you absolutely need to know about.
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 2/22/21
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 2/20/21 featuring funding details for eFuse, Census, Standard Cognition, and nineteen other rounds that you must know about.
The London TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 19/2/2021
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for London startups for 19/2/2021 featuring funding details for Inflow and much more.