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Investor: Personal
Dec 2021
Mental Fitness: The capacity to engage with life’s emotional and cognitive challenges proactively, enthusiastically, and with strength. Not as signs of weakness but as opportunities for growth.
We’re building the tools to help health systems move forward. We’re empowering individuals with better health to face life’s challenges. And we’re building mental healthcare that is more personal, preventative, and powerful.
Investor: Personal
Dec 2018
School Space is a community-based social enterprise, established in Oxfordshire. We specialise in providing a service to schools by working with them to hire out their facilities for private or corporate events.
School Space work with the school throughout the entire letting process. We market, take bookings, prepare venues, welcome guests, clear up afterwards and secure our venues! Schools use our services as it requires no investment, only much-needed incremental lettings income and a much-needed ability to open the school's doors to the local community.
From Halls for family events to Media Suites for a business presentation, School Space can offer competitive rates and a range of additional extras comparable with any venue.
Check out our website and all that we're doing to connect schools with businesses: www.school-space.org. We love enquiries, even if it's only a tweet or a hello!
www.twitter.com/school-space.org
Investor: Personal
Aug 2014
Wonderbly is the world’s leading personalised publishing company. We make wonderful, unique books for wonderful customers all over the world.
Our mission is to make people feel extraordinarily special, and bring them closer to the people they love, through the power of personalised stories. So far we’ve shipped over 10 million books to over 150 countries. We’ve done this in just eight years, and we’re just getting started.
Getting personalised books to all those millions of customers requires a multidisciplinary team. Our people have experience across editorial design, research, production, software engineering, marketing, ecommerce, data analysis, print-on-demand manufacturing, shipping… the list goes on.
This means that Wonderbly is a very collaborative and creative place to work, with opportunities for growth and development across a broad range of skills.
We’re based mainly in London, where we have a bright and light studio for working together. But like many digital first companies, we have a hybrid operating model with many colleagues working much of the time remotely.
Our values
Wonderbly’s values were born from the three enduring qualities at the heart of ‘Lost My Name’ - our original and best-selling children’s book. These values are Courage, Curiosity and Kindness. And although they naturally have a child-friendly ring to them, these are deeply human values that we believe everyone should live by.
COURAGE - means taking calculated risks and trying things that no one else would. Its setting audacious goals, seeing them through, and being willing to be wrong.
CURIOSITY - means investing in learning, never losing sight of ‘WHY’. Curiosity allows us to ask silly questions, explore our blind spots, and dip into other disciplines for inspiration.
KINDNESS - is the Wonderbly heart: it’s no coincidence that deep friendships form here. Kindness means making space for one another, inclusivity as standard, and clear, direct communication.
Investor: Personal
Jul 2014
Hubbub.co.uk brings the best independent shops, small producers and local markets together in one simple delivery. We make it easy for people to enjoy the best food in their neighbourhood, and help small shops challenge the dominance of the supermarkets.
We work with many of London's best butchers, bakers and craft beer makers including E5 Bakehouse, H.G. Walter, Jonathan Norris Fishmonger, Kernel Brewery, La Fromagerie, Moxons Fish, plus traders at Portobello and Borough markets. At Hubbub HQ, our award-winning team –from coders to cooks - deploys custom-built technology, plenty of elbow grease and charm, and the occasional superpower to give people a better way to shop.
Investor: Personal
Jun 2014
We believe in making special occasions that little bit more special.
Our journey started with the personalised Marshmallow, aka The Edible Selfie which launched in December 2014.
Since then we have launched an exploding card range! The original exploding card, the Boomf Bomb, bursts free from the envelope in a confetti shower and leaves you with a personalised photo cube.
Other products include the oh-so-cute Wild Card Collection, the flying Flutter Card and mouth watering Personalised Chocolate.
We are a customer lead business who puts our customers at the heart of everything we do. For example, we have disrupted digital marketing best practices by placing our users (and their hysterical videos) at the center of all our campaigns.
We aim to spread smiles and put the joy back into sending a card.
Send more than a card. Boomf.
Investor: Personal
Apr 2014
Driftrock is a marketing technology business based in London that helps brands grow their lead generation initiatives, at scale.
Driftrock's technology helps brands capture, manage, track and convert leads to unlock their ability to build the ultimate lead generation machine. Businesses like BMW, The University of Birmingham and BT trust us to close the loop on their digital activity and prove the ROI of their online marketing strategies.
We are proud to be badged marketing partners of Google, Meta and LinkedIn. We also work closely with Twitter, Snap, Pinterest & other marketing platforms. In addition to our software, we provide social media management, consultancy and migration services.
Drop us a note to see how we can help your business unlock your true online potential: www.driftrock.com
Investor: Advent
Apr 2010
Farfetch is a leading global marketplace for the luxury fashion industry. The Farfetch Marketplace connects customers in over 190 countries and territories with items from more than 50 countries and over 1,400 of the world’s best brands, boutiques, and department stores, delivering a truly unique shopping experience and access to the most extensive selection of luxury on a global marketplace.
Learn more about us:
www.aboutfarfetch.com
Investor: Personal
Mar 2006
Mint creates new companies and transforms existing ones.
We’ve spent over 10 years building products and experiences with large, complex organisations. During that time we’ve also built 64 of our own startups. As a result we have a unique combination of technology, design and business expertise that can represent the difference between a product’s success and failure.
Get in touch: london@mintdigital.com or ny@mintdigital.com
Board Member: Forward
Aug 2000
Uswitch is one of the UKs leading comparison and switching services. We help compare prices on gas and electricity, home phone, broadband, digital television, mobile phones and personal finance products including mortgages, credit cards, current accounts and insurance. Our aim is to help customers take advantage of the best prices and services on offer from suppliers so they can get the deal thats right for them.
We are part of RVU - a group of online brands that work to empower people to make confident decisions. For more information, please visit: https://www.rvu.co.uk/ or the RVU LinkedIn page.
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2021
Investor: Personal
Dec 2021
Mental Fitness: The capacity to engage with life’s emotional and cognitive challenges proactively, enthusiastically, and with strength. Not as signs of weakness but as opportunities for growth.
We’re building the tools to help health systems move forward. We’re empowering individuals with better health to face life’s challenges. And we’re building mental healthcare that is more personal, preventative, and powerful.
2018
Investor: Personal
Dec 2018
School Space is a community-based social enterprise, established in Oxfordshire. We specialise in providing a service to schools by working with them to hire out their facilities for private or corporate events.
School Space work with the school throughout the entire letting process. We market, take bookings, prepare venues, welcome guests, clear up afterwards and secure our venues! Schools use our services as it requires no investment, only much-needed incremental lettings income and a much-needed ability to open the school's doors to the local community.
From Halls for family events to Media Suites for a business presentation, School Space can offer competitive rates and a range of additional extras comparable with any venue.
Check out our website and all that we're doing to connect schools with businesses: www.school-space.org. We love enquiries, even if it's only a tweet or a hello!
www.twitter.com/school-space.org
2014
Investor: Personal
Aug 2014
Wonderbly is the world’s leading personalised publishing company. We make wonderful, unique books for wonderful customers all over the world.
Our mission is to make people feel extraordinarily special, and bring them closer to the people they love, through the power of personalised stories. So far we’ve shipped over 10 million books to over 150 countries. We’ve done this in just eight years, and we’re just getting started.
Getting personalised books to all those millions of customers requires a multidisciplinary team. Our people have experience across editorial design, research, production, software engineering, marketing, ecommerce, data analysis, print-on-demand manufacturing, shipping… the list goes on.
This means that Wonderbly is a very collaborative and creative place to work, with opportunities for growth and development across a broad range of skills.
We’re based mainly in London, where we have a bright and light studio for working together. But like many digital first companies, we have a hybrid operating model with many colleagues working much of the time remotely.
Our values
Wonderbly’s values were born from the three enduring qualities at the heart of ‘Lost My Name’ - our original and best-selling children’s book. These values are Courage, Curiosity and Kindness. And although they naturally have a child-friendly ring to them, these are deeply human values that we believe everyone should live by.
COURAGE - means taking calculated risks and trying things that no one else would. Its setting audacious goals, seeing them through, and being willing to be wrong.
CURIOSITY - means investing in learning, never losing sight of ‘WHY’. Curiosity allows us to ask silly questions, explore our blind spots, and dip into other disciplines for inspiration.
KINDNESS - is the Wonderbly heart: it’s no coincidence that deep friendships form here. Kindness means making space for one another, inclusivity as standard, and clear, direct communication.
Investor: Personal
Jul 2014
Hubbub.co.uk brings the best independent shops, small producers and local markets together in one simple delivery. We make it easy for people to enjoy the best food in their neighbourhood, and help small shops challenge the dominance of the supermarkets.
We work with many of London's best butchers, bakers and craft beer makers including E5 Bakehouse, H.G. Walter, Jonathan Norris Fishmonger, Kernel Brewery, La Fromagerie, Moxons Fish, plus traders at Portobello and Borough markets. At Hubbub HQ, our award-winning team –from coders to cooks - deploys custom-built technology, plenty of elbow grease and charm, and the occasional superpower to give people a better way to shop.
Investor: Personal
Jun 2014
We believe in making special occasions that little bit more special.
Our journey started with the personalised Marshmallow, aka The Edible Selfie which launched in December 2014.
Since then we have launched an exploding card range! The original exploding card, the Boomf Bomb, bursts free from the envelope in a confetti shower and leaves you with a personalised photo cube.
Other products include the oh-so-cute Wild Card Collection, the flying Flutter Card and mouth watering Personalised Chocolate.
We are a customer lead business who puts our customers at the heart of everything we do. For example, we have disrupted digital marketing best practices by placing our users (and their hysterical videos) at the center of all our campaigns.
We aim to spread smiles and put the joy back into sending a card.
Send more than a card. Boomf.
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