Rory Gibbs

Partner at Piper

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2023
Angel investor🌍 United Kingdom
7
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Board Member
Oct 2023
We are a mission driven wellness brand with an award-winning range of collagen, MCT oil and nootropic blends. We expertly blend impactful botanicals, intelligent nootropics, adaptogens and functional nutraceuticals. Our targeted supplements are designed for your whole body health and are efficacious, potent and easy to use. We are a community built brand and from day one we have embraced innovation and sustainability. Social and environmental responsibility is at the heart of everything we do. We are B Corp certified, donate to 1% for the Planet, certified Carbon Neutral and we are a founding member of the ESG Mark.
Board Member
Dec 2018
Winner of the 2024 Kings Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development. We make healthy eating easy. We supply incredible, mindfully sourced ingredients to empower people to live healthier lives, whilst using our expertise to educate and reduce our impact on the environment. We are MINDFUL. This is intrinsic to everything we do. From the healthy recipes we design, to the local, expert and caring suppliers we select and the way we treat each other, our customers and our environment. We are PERSONAL. We started Mindful Chef with our friends and families as customers and those are the kind of relationships we want to maintain however big we grow. Being real and true to ourselves and each other. We are UNAFRAID. We want to be the best – to challenge conventions, to think differently and be imaginative in how we solve problems. Brave enough to take on the big players and to do what’s right even when it’s difficult. **Officially the UKs number 1 recipe box according to independent review site Trustpilot** The first and only UK Recipe Box to launch a vegan range and 1 person offering.
Board Member
Sep 2018
Bloom & Wild is re-inventing the $60B global flower industry. Over a billion flower exchanges take place every year and industry satisfaction levels are low. Driven by our core belief that you can never care too much or be too thoughtful, we do things a little differently. From inventing letterbox flowers to founding The Thoughtful Marketing Movement. And we’ve seen impressive traction to date. We are Europe’s largest direct to consumer flower company. As the inventor of letterbox flowers, Bloom & Wild is powered by great ideas that are rooted in continuously improving the experience for our customers. On a mission to make sending and receiving flowers the joy it should be for both the sender and the recipient, we promise beautiful, brilliantly-designed letterbox surprises and make-a-statement bouquets. Our flowers are sent as the freshest buds, carefully packed and ready to bloom for arrangements that last. The result is almost 60k five star reviews and the status of the UK’s most-loved online florist. Since launching in 2013 we’ve raised £126m of venture capital and private equity funding from investors including General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Burda Principal Investments and MMC Ventures. We’ve been named one of the 5 fastest growing tech companies in Europe and are alumni of Tech Nation’s Future Fifty. We were also one of the Sunday Times Top 100 Small Companies to Work For 2020. We’ve got a brilliant ideas-led innovation culture. And we’re looking for people from all backgrounds to help drive our next exciting stage of growth. If you’re interested in joining us, please take a look at our open roles on our jobs tab. Bloom & Wild acquired bloomon in April 2021 and Bergamotte in July 2021, cementing our position as Europes leading online flower company. Together, we are active in 8 countries. We are home to a family of 3 strong brands, Bloom & Wild, bloomon and Bergamotte.
mid stageRetail
Board Member
Oct 2017
Frame was put on Earth to make sure keeping fit and healthy never feels like a chore. A place to MOVE, SWEAT and FUEL your Frame daily. We are known for our feel-good, energetic and fun-filled classes. You can sweat it out with a high-intensity fitness class; dance, shake and party like it's 1999; or get zen with a restorative workout for the mind. You can fill up on healthy snacks and smoothies at Frame's Fuel cafe or browse our pick of the best fitness clothing at the Frame shop (... we won't tell if you don't!) Frame is your one stop shop for all things health and fitness. When Pip Black and Joan Murphy set out to create Frame they wanted to create a more positive approach to health and fitness, more than just the regular gym session pounding the treadmill. All of the classes were developed on workouts and sequences that they loved themselves and had fun creating. The ‘drop in’ and pay-as-you-go Frame Card model means that anyone can rock up at a time that suits whatever your job, lifestyle or plans for the day. And the varied timetable over several studios means you can always find a class to suit your mood. The first Frame fitness studio opened in 2009 in Shoreditch and Framers screamed for more! So Queens Park studio followed in 2012 and Kings Cross in 2015. 2016 saw the opening of both Frame Victoria and Frame's very first stand alone Yoga studio in Kings Cross. 2018 is seeing the opening of two new sites in Hammersmith and Fitzrovia!
Board Member
Feb 2017
Pet Food UK Ltd is a Hertfordshire based dog and cat food manufacturer with products in over 30 countries worldwide. Since launching the Barking Heads and Meowing Heads ranges of Ultra-Premium dog and cat food in 2009, they have established a reputation for high quality pet food.
late stageFood Production
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2023
Board Member
Oct 2023
We are a mission driven wellness brand with an award-winning range of collagen, MCT oil and nootropic blends. We expertly blend impactful botanicals, intelligent nootropics, adaptogens and functional nutraceuticals. Our targeted supplements are designed for your whole body health and are efficacious, potent and easy to use. We are a community built brand and from day one we have embraced innovation and sustainability. Social and environmental responsibility is at the heart of everything we do. We are B Corp certified, donate to 1% for the Planet, certified Carbon Neutral and we are a founding member of the ESG Mark.
2021
Board Member
Mar 2021
Established in 2008, we are a multi award-winning business and recognised leaders of doggy day care in the UK. Our founder, Bruce Casalis, sits on the board of directors for the Pet Industry Federation and has acted as an advisor for the likes of DEFRA, Dogs Trust and RSPCA. We combine passionate expertise and 14 years of experience setting professional standards in dog day care and we’re always striving to learn more about dogs and to care for them better. We’re fluent in dog. We go beyond ‘woof’ to a deep understanding of what makes each tail wag. Our expertise means that we allow dogs to be dogs, and everything we do is dog-first. Dogs are our moral compass. With growing waiting lists we are looking to expand into new locations, across the South East and the rest of the UK. Key search areas for us are St Albans, Oxford, Iver, Epping, Brentwood, Windsor, Cambridge, Guildford, Wentworth and Beaconsfield. We are looking for about 4 acres of land, good road access, power and water and Ideally (but not essential) about 2,000 sqft of indoor space. If you think you can help please get in touch. 
2018
Board Member
Dec 2018
Winner of the 2024 Kings Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development. We make healthy eating easy. We supply incredible, mindfully sourced ingredients to empower people to live healthier lives, whilst using our expertise to educate and reduce our impact on the environment. We are MINDFUL. This is intrinsic to everything we do. From the healthy recipes we design, to the local, expert and caring suppliers we select and the way we treat each other, our customers and our environment. We are PERSONAL. We started Mindful Chef with our friends and families as customers and those are the kind of relationships we want to maintain however big we grow. Being real and true to ourselves and each other. We are UNAFRAID. We want to be the best – to challenge conventions, to think differently and be imaginative in how we solve problems. Brave enough to take on the big players and to do what’s right even when it’s difficult. **Officially the UKs number 1 recipe box according to independent review site Trustpilot** The first and only UK Recipe Box to launch a vegan range and 1 person offering.
Board Member
Sep 2018
Bloom & Wild is re-inventing the $60B global flower industry. Over a billion flower exchanges take place every year and industry satisfaction levels are low. Driven by our core belief that you can never care too much or be too thoughtful, we do things a little differently. From inventing letterbox flowers to founding The Thoughtful Marketing Movement. And we’ve seen impressive traction to date. We are Europe’s largest direct to consumer flower company. As the inventor of letterbox flowers, Bloom & Wild is powered by great ideas that are rooted in continuously improving the experience for our customers. On a mission to make sending and receiving flowers the joy it should be for both the sender and the recipient, we promise beautiful, brilliantly-designed letterbox surprises and make-a-statement bouquets. Our flowers are sent as the freshest buds, carefully packed and ready to bloom for arrangements that last. The result is almost 60k five star reviews and the status of the UK’s most-loved online florist. Since launching in 2013 we’ve raised £126m of venture capital and private equity funding from investors including General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Burda Principal Investments and MMC Ventures. We’ve been named one of the 5 fastest growing tech companies in Europe and are alumni of Tech Nation’s Future Fifty. We were also one of the Sunday Times Top 100 Small Companies to Work For 2020. We’ve got a brilliant ideas-led innovation culture. And we’re looking for people from all backgrounds to help drive our next exciting stage of growth. If you’re interested in joining us, please take a look at our open roles on our jobs tab. Bloom & Wild acquired bloomon in April 2021 and Bergamotte in July 2021, cementing our position as Europes leading online flower company. Together, we are active in 8 countries. We are home to a family of 3 strong brands, Bloom & Wild, bloomon and Bergamotte.
mid stageRetail
2017
Board Member
Oct 2017
Frame was put on Earth to make sure keeping fit and healthy never feels like a chore. A place to MOVE, SWEAT and FUEL your Frame daily. We are known for our feel-good, energetic and fun-filled classes. You can sweat it out with a high-intensity fitness class; dance, shake and party like it's 1999; or get zen with a restorative workout for the mind. You can fill up on healthy snacks and smoothies at Frame's Fuel cafe or browse our pick of the best fitness clothing at the Frame shop (... we won't tell if you don't!) Frame is your one stop shop for all things health and fitness. When Pip Black and Joan Murphy set out to create Frame they wanted to create a more positive approach to health and fitness, more than just the regular gym session pounding the treadmill. All of the classes were developed on workouts and sequences that they loved themselves and had fun creating. The ‘drop in’ and pay-as-you-go Frame Card model means that anyone can rock up at a time that suits whatever your job, lifestyle or plans for the day. And the varied timetable over several studios means you can always find a class to suit your mood. The first Frame fitness studio opened in 2009 in Shoreditch and Framers screamed for more! So Queens Park studio followed in 2012 and Kings Cross in 2015. 2016 saw the opening of both Frame Victoria and Frame's very first stand alone Yoga studio in Kings Cross. 2018 is seeing the opening of two new sites in Hammersmith and Fitzrovia!
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