How The Pitch winner Oddbox scaled to 2,500 subscribers and raised £500,000
The Pitch 2018 winner Oddbox aims to reduce food waste by delivering wonky veg boxes to consumers. Our judges were impressed with the speed the purpose-led business scaled to 2,500 subscribers, its mission and potential. We spoke to co-founder Emilie Vanpoperinghe about the challenges of growth, raising £529,000 investment and winning The Pitch 2018. Why did you launch […]
Meet The Pitch 2018 finalists
After watching hundreds of pitches from this year’s boot camps, the wait is over. Meet our 16 finalists for The Pitch 2018 and read their elevator pitches below. These startups will pitch at our grand final in London in October. The event is judged by award-winning entrepreneurs like Perkbox founder Chieu Cao, Creative England CFO […]
Five startup mentalities that will help you through your first six months
Starting a new business is an intense mix of excitement and nerves. Entrepreneurs need to work on their own behaviour to have the best chance of success. This is about personal development. This advice is based on talking to hundreds of entrepreneurs about the challenges they faced and my own experience of launching a business. […]
Empower your employees, they’ll move mountains with you
Empower your staff. If you really, honestly want your business to go places, give your employees the means to take you there and they’ll do just that. When moving to our new, 500-person office it brought up all sorts of fun topics such as: “How the hell are we going to do this?!” The answer, […]
Scaling a kitchen table spice startup to 200 stockists
Spice Kitchen is a family run artisan spice and tea company that specialises in sourcing the freshest raw ingredients from around the world. All its spice mixes are packaged in authentic Indian spice tins, known as Masala Dabbas. Co-founder Sanjay Aggarwal is an entrant in The Pitch 2018. We spoke to him about running a […]
The wasted code pandemic: How to plan development projects
“Gold! Gold from the American River!” This was the call that started the San Francisco gold rush of 1848. By 1950, the population of this relatively small frontier town had risen from 14,000 to nearly 200,000. Only a handful of these fortune seekers would ever make any real money from the mining of gold. By all […]
The Small Robot Company’s developing tech that’s going to revolutionise farming
Launched just a year ago, technology startup The Small Robot Company is already sowing the seeds of change in the farming industry. Founded by experienced entrepreneur and user-centred design expert Ben Scott-Robinson and fourth-generation farmer Sam Watson Jones, the company is preparing to launch a series of precision engineered, smart robots that they hope will revolutionise food production as […]
The Pitch 2018 judging panel announcement
We’re really excited to announce our complete judging lineup for The Pitch 2018 with little over a month to go until applications close. Some of the UK’s most prominent entrepreneurs will be judging the pitches at the final in October. Like Anne Boden who’s reshaping the finance industry with her disruptive offering Starling Bank and just […]
Video series: Introduction to crowdfunding
By loading the video, you agree to YouTube’s privacy policy.Learn more Load video Always unblock YouTube PHA+PGlmcmFtZSBzcmM9Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnlvdXR1YmUtbm9jb29raWUuY29tL2VtYmVkL0w4X0IzOEwybERvIiB3aWR0aD0iNTYwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjMxNSIgZnJhbWVib3JkZXI9IjAiIGFsbG93ZnVsbHNjcmVlbj0iYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuIj48c3BhbiBkYXRhLW1jZS10eXBlPSJib29rbWFyayIgc3R5bGU9ImRpc3BsYXk6IGlubGluZS1ibG9jazsgd2lkdGg6IDBweDsgb3ZlcmZsb3c6IGhpZGRlbjsgbGluZS1oZWlnaHQ6IDA7IiBjbGFzcz0ibWNlX1NFTFJFU19zdGFydCI+77u/PC9zcGFuPjwvaWZyYW1lPg== Interested in crowdfunding? Crowdcube COO Matt Cooper has helped hundreds of businesses raise funding. We spoke to him about what it takes to have a successful crowdfunding round, including creating a marketing plan and filming a great video. […]
How we navigated our way through two seed rounds
I launched Rejuvenation Water in early 2016, using my savings and a Virgin Start Up Loan. Raising funding has been a continuous process over our first two years – we’ve raised £400,000 in equity funding and just launched our third seed round. For me, the third funding round is the most integral and I’ll explain […]
