As both entrepreneurs and expert investors in the consumer space, Piper continue to be fascinated by the stories behind growing successful branded businesses This video, on the common challenges that entrepreneurs can expect to come across, is the second in a series of in-depth interviews with some of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs and managers about

Piper has sold its stake in fast growing café-bar chain Loungers to Lion Capital in a transaction valuing the business at £137m. Piper invested £16m in Loungers in April 2012 when the business comprised 20 Lounges and three Cosy Club sites across the UK. Over the past four years, the company has more than quadrupled

As a Millennial on the fringes of digital nativism, arrogantly I never thought that I would feel the alienation of technological progress like my parents must have felt with iPods and Facebook (although to my abhorrence they’ve recently jumped on the bandwagon). I am happy to say that our work experience student Archie fervently disavowed

PROPERCORN, the UK’s fastest growing popcorn brand, has secured financial backing from Piper and JamJar, the investment vehicle for the three innocent founders. The £7m investment – the first major injection of funds in PROPERCORN’s five years of business – is intended to support the brand’s UK and international growth ambitions. PROPERCORN was founded in

As a brand geek, I’ve been trying to find the positives in the current political maelstrom. With the masses turned into media butterflies, filling our minds with saucy speculation and secretive revelations, our newspaper moguls can finish the month smiling as newspaper sales spiked by 20%. It’s great to see the newly-found compulsion to read,

Piper’s 3rd SeedMeet focuses on fashion and accessories On 20th April, Piper brought together a dynamic group of entrepreneurs for its latest SeedMeet, this time focusing on the fashion and accessories market. Piper’s SeedMeets are designed to help smaller growing brands in various consumer sectors better understand the challenges of getting investment, as well as

A massive congratulations to two Piper colleagues, Dan Stern and Leon Hughes, who brilliantly finished the London Marathon after months of hard work (one did significantly better than the other but no need to mention names). They also managed to raise £6k for Barnados and NSPCC. This is them in the pub afterwards enjoying a

Bored, fickle, spoilt and impatient – not character traits I would willingly acknowledge to be mine. But when it comes to lunchtime foibles, I would nod reluctantly and add gluttony to my list of sins. Like one-third of those Piper surveyed recently in a number of high density working lunchtime hotspots in London and Manchester,