We are delighted to announce our £11.5m investment into Wattbike, the world’s first smart indoor bike brand, joining the impressive team, led by CEO Rich Baker, on their mission to make Wattbike a global brand legend. Alongside us, the team will also be joined by non-executive chairman Gordon Baird, former chairman of sports footwear brand
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We are proud to announce a minority investment in Mous, the fast growing direct-to-consumer tech accessories brand that has designed some of the most innovative phone accessories in the world. With two highly skilled product development teams – one in the UK, the other in China – Mous has developed an innovative ecosystem of products
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Piper have invested £6m into Mindful Chef, the UK’s favourite healthy recipe box brand. Mindful Chef was set up by childhood school friends Rob Grieg-Gran, Giles Humphries and Myles Hopper with a mission to make healthy eating easy. Since its launch in 2015 it has experienced rapid growth – including a 178% rise in sales
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Piper has invested £11m into Bloom & Wild, the online flower gifting brand that is disrupting Europe’s £14bn fresh cut flower market. Founded in 2013 by Aron Gelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild has transformed the online flower gifting market, pioneering the concept of ‘letterbox flowers’. Its offering allows customers the ability to gift
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Neom was founded in 2005 by friends Nicola Elliott and Oliver Mennell. After spending seven hectic years as an editor at Glamour magazine, Nicola noticed her own wellbeing, and that of her close friends, was affected by the stress and demands of modern life. She quit journalism to train as an aromatherapist and nutritionist before
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Frame was founded by Pip Black and Joan Murphy in 2009. Unable to find a gym or fitness studio that gave them the flexibility, variety and fun they wanted, they set out to create it themselves. Frame’s central ethos is that getting fit shouldn’t be a chore – it should be fun, sociable and valued
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Piper, the UK’s leading specialist investor in consumer brands and recognised expert in the hospitality sector, has made a significant minority investment in Flat Iron, the much loved steak restaurant group. The first Flat Iron was founded by Charlie Carroll in 2012 as a pop up above a London pub and proved such a success
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Piper has increased its presence in the natural pet food sector by investing £5m into Pet Food UK, the company behind the Barking Heads, Meowing Heads and AATU brands. Pet Food UK was founded in 2009 by Paul Hunter, Dave O’Regan and Jim Moloney. They met and worked together in the pet food industry at