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Vegan food business, The Brook funds 130% in their first three days of its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, with the funds raised going towards launching a new vegan home delivery service, enabling 1000's more people to enjoy nutritious and flavour-packed plant-based meals. Currently, despite a reported 3.5m people following a plant-based diet in the UK and 42% of the p...
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Netherlands based startup Meatable is revolutionising the  one cell at a time, with their 100% real, delicious, guilt-free meat.  It is fair to say that meat is a large part of the global diet. It’s also fair to say that a lot of meat eaters have thought about how much more they would enjoy meat if they knew that an animal had not died in order to give them that good taste. Some v...
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It's been a good week or so for East London startup snack-brand Emily Crisps, spearheaded by founder, CEO and female entrepreneur, Emily Wong, who having successfully raised over £1 million investment in equity crowdfunding, also picked up a prestigious Grocer New Product Award for 2018. The crowdfunding investment via Seedrs will be used to help to accelerate the growth of Emily ...
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Yumpingo - The startup that's using big data analytics and machine learning to empower business owners in the hospitality sector... As all business owners know, customer satisfaction is an absolute must - in every market sector. Gaining information on what a customer wants, their views on a product or service or the likelihood of them becoming a repeat or regular customer is vital. After all...
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MiAlgae - The lowdown on the innovative microalgal production company that's aiming to revolutionize the global livestock feed industry...via whiskey distillation. Fishmeal is traded by the millions of tonnes annually. It is a commodity valuable in its ubiquity. For the purposes of this article, the important product that uses fishmeal is livestock and aquaculture (fish) feed as a cheap source of...
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Wine Picker. The pocket sommelier - a social wine app to enjoy food and wine matching!  We’ve all been there. Sitting in a restaurant with friends or family when the time comes to choose the wine. Inevitably there will be some of us avoiding eye contact in the hopes of not being the one handed the wine list; there will be someone honest enough to admit they know nothing about wine; and...
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Bigmoose Coffee Co. - The Welsh coffee shop that's on a mission to help the homeless and vulnerable in Cardiff We have written previously about startups helping the homeless get into work, with the likes of Beam and TAP. With around 280,000 homeless people in the UK alone, homelessness is a big issue (no pun intended) that needs to be addressed, and more and more startups are appearing to do just...
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New Nutritional app Nutrifix takes your vital stats and health goals, to locate healthy meals nearby; tailored to your nutritional needs. Just launched Nutrifix claims to be the first and only nutrition app to provide detailed nutritional information of thousands of meals, from the nation's favourite high street chains such as EAT, Crussh and Leon, to the best independents in just a few taps of y...
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The lowdown on the UK startup, Butternut Box that's providing a fresh food delivery service, but for dogs! Dogs. Friendly, loyal, furry, a bit dim, loyal, and friendly. They are, or at least try to be, everyone’s best friend. However, when it comes to feeding them, we often take the ‘that’ll do’ route and get them food somewhere in the lower-middle price range. After all, ...
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Like many industries, the food sector has generally always relied very much on the middleman - typically the wholesalers who form the link between retailers and buyers. Whilst this traditional supply chain has served the industry well to date, a little innovation would surely be welcomed, especially when it benefits both restaurateurs and food producers alike. This in essence is at the very core ...
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