Al Edgar-Flynn.

FMCG | Challenger Brand Builder + Seed Investor. Ex ⚡️Lucozade🍹SoCo 🧃Ribena 🧀Sheese. NED | Strategic Advisor | Fractional Marketing.

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
VC🌍 United Kingdom
11
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5
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Portfolio

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2026
Pollen Projects designs disruptive brands & makes delicious non-alc liquids. Created by Seedlip Founder Ben Branson & ex Seedlip COO Emma Wykes, the studio is an independent brand & business development company, shaping the future of drinking. Pollen Projects draws on Ben & the founding team’s extensive drinks industry knowledge & global network to create a positive & deep impact in the global premium non-alcoholic category. The first product born from the Pollen Projects Studio is SEASN, the salt & pepper for drinks. SEASN is a pair of delicious and intense cocktail bitters transforming mixers & cocktails and modernising a 200 year old monopolised category. SEASN Light brightens your soda, margaritas and martinis. SEASN Dark, to enrich your ginger ale, highballs and old fashioneds. Vegan - 0.0% - Preservative Free Great Taste ⭐️ & ⭐️⭐️ Our second project is Sylva: Nestled in The Colne Valley on the Suffolk border, sits Sylva’s pioneering distillery and maturation lab, where limited release aged non-alcoholic spirits are made from British grain and wood. Maker Ben Branson has invented a world first distillation and maturation process to make unique liquids to sip slowly from foraged and locally sourced cereal varietals and over 200 tree species.
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2024
Agua De Madre is an award winning business producing an organic naturally sparkling low-alcohol kefir water, packed full of live cultures. We are the leading UK brand operating both in the low-alc as well as the health & wellness space, with big ambitions. The Madre has only just begun!
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2023
Kurk is a delicious alternative to pharma for managing many forms of inflammation. After 4 years of R&D, Kurk was created - expertly distilled by our team of in-house scientists and doctors at our lab in Twickenham. Curcumin from Turmeric has enjoyed rapid growth in scientific and medical studies across the world for a range of health issues. The problem has always been how to get it into the bloodstream. We have finally cracked the code - naturally.
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2023
Environmental sustainability is at the forefront of every decision we make at Ethical Bedding. From our raw materials and packaging to our manufacturing methods and processes. our goal is to challenge the perception of how businesses can - and should - operate. Not limited to our products and service, but importantly our ability to influence consumer spending through education, and thus creating a societal mindset shift.
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2023
Do you know what’s in your tampons? We do. We’re the period care brand setting the record straight on menstrual health. From first periods, contraception & fertility to menopause and beyond, there’s no topic that’s off limits. Period. Claire & Lucy, the Mother-Daughter duo behind &SISTERS were shocked to find out how few rules there are on the plastics, pesticides, fertilisers, fragrances and bleaching agents and how your body can be contaminated and poisoned by chemicals produced by these big companies. On a mission to rid the world of plastic & chemical-ridden mainstream ‘feminine hygiene’, we’re the UK’s largest plastic-free period care selection, and the highest-ranking B Corp certified period care brand worldwide.
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2023
Nix & Kix, a female-founded drinks brand, burst onto the scene in 2017 with a bold mission: to redefine healthy refreshment and disrupt the mundane. All our drinks contain NO added sugar, sweeteners or artificial additives. Just real fruit, full flavour and an added cayenne zing! #BringTheZing
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2023
We are Exhale Healthy Coffee. Were here to inspire an active, outdoors and healthy lifestyle... and we happen to have found the perfect way to fuel it. Were leading a revolution in healthy coffee by sourcing and roasting the highest-quality beans to maximise their health benefits as much as their taste, all in the most uncompromisingly sustainable way.
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2022
WE PROVIDE YOU WITH THE TOOLS YOU NEED TO THRIVE Whether it is your kitchen staples or your daily supplements, we provide you options that are always free from refined sugars, grains, gluten & inflammatory seed or vegetable oils. We also say no to chemical preservatives, bulkers or E numbers as we believe that Optimal Health starts with eating real food.
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2022
The Cheeky Panda wants you to know Bamboo is Awesome!! Bamboo is the worlds fastest growing plant and a big solution to a world with stretched resources. We have been a certified B Corp since 2019 and our products are 100% FSC certified and cruelty free. We also invest back into protecting the rain forests and are carbon neutral. The Cheeky Panda produces a range of products from various sizes of traditional toilet paper, facial tissues, kitchen towel, wipes and nappies. The products are available in over 25 countries and available online, through distributors and traditional retailers.
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2026
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2026
Pollen Projects designs disruptive brands & makes delicious non-alc liquids. Created by Seedlip Founder Ben Branson & ex Seedlip COO Emma Wykes, the studio is an independent brand & business development company, shaping the future of drinking. Pollen Projects draws on Ben & the founding team’s extensive drinks industry knowledge & global network to create a positive & deep impact in the global premium non-alcoholic category. The first product born from the Pollen Projects Studio is SEASN, the salt & pepper for drinks. SEASN is a pair of delicious and intense cocktail bitters transforming mixers & cocktails and modernising a 200 year old monopolised category. SEASN Light brightens your soda, margaritas and martinis. SEASN Dark, to enrich your ginger ale, highballs and old fashioneds. Vegan - 0.0% - Preservative Free Great Taste ⭐️ & ⭐️⭐️ Our second project is Sylva: Nestled in The Colne Valley on the Suffolk border, sits Sylva’s pioneering distillery and maturation lab, where limited release aged non-alcoholic spirits are made from British grain and wood. Maker Ben Branson has invented a world first distillation and maturation process to make unique liquids to sip slowly from foraged and locally sourced cereal varietals and over 200 tree species.
2024
Investor
2024
Agua De Madre is an award winning business producing an organic naturally sparkling low-alcohol kefir water, packed full of live cultures. We are the leading UK brand operating both in the low-alc as well as the health & wellness space, with big ambitions. The Madre has only just begun!
2023
Investor
Jul 2023
We’re not your average period care brand. For over 20 years, we’ve been calling out the plastic-packed, irritant-filled nonsense in the industry and proving there’s a better way. Back in 2002, we pioneered the world’s first medical-grade silicone menstrual cup, setting a new gold standard: no petroleum plastics, no hidden ingredients, no compromises. Just period care that’s actually good for your vagina. But we didn’t stop at cups - our range now includes petroleum plastic-free pads, tampons, and liners. Today, we’re stocked in major retailers like Boots, Ocado, and Sainsbury’s and trusted by millions of Mooncuppers worldwide.
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2023
Kurk is a delicious alternative to pharma for managing many forms of inflammation. After 4 years of R&D, Kurk was created - expertly distilled by our team of in-house scientists and doctors at our lab in Twickenham. Curcumin from Turmeric has enjoyed rapid growth in scientific and medical studies across the world for a range of health issues. The problem has always been how to get it into the bloodstream. We have finally cracked the code - naturally.
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