Investment Opportunities – Sustainability & Environment

Our ‘Celebrating Earth Day’ pitch event last week featured 3 early-stage, growing businesses that all have sustainability and environment core to their purpose.

We are delighted to provide a summary of each business and investment opportunity below, with contact details for more information or to arrange a call with the founders.

Fanfare is a multi-award winning, sustainable fashion and denim label, incorporating recyclability, circularity and up cycling, transforming the way people buy, wear and discard clothing.

• Founder: Esther Knight
• Sector: Sustainable Consumer Brand
• Stage: Seed/Early-Growth
• Raise: £100k EIS eligible
• Launched the UK’s first jean repair and redesign service in Liberty in October 2023.
• Advanced discussions with a number of major UK retailers.
• Growing high profile media attention and awareness across fashion, tech and international news publications and is the only UK brand using post-consumer waste at a high percentage.

Contact for more information: greg@pa-capitalpartners.com

Gusto Snacks is a B2B healthy snacking brand, changing consumers’ health and the environment for the better, using farm-reject, wonky fruits to create its innovative snacks.

• Founders: Giuseppe Baidoo/Claudio Owusu
• Sector: B2B Snacking Brand
• Stage: Early Growth
• Raise: £300k EIS eligible
• A revenue generating, award-winning brand with sustainability as its core value.
• Launched in Selfridges, WHSmith and a growing number of other major stockists and partners.
• Plans to expand in the UK EU and globally to be the most ethical and sustainable snack brand.

Contact for more information: sharon@pa-capitalpartners.com

The Pack is an innovative, nutritionally complete, planet friendly, vegan dog food that prioritises your dog’s health and happiness; on a mission to build a healthier generation of dogs and take a bite out of the climate crisis.

• Founder: Damien Clarkson
• Sector: B2B/D2C Dog Food Brand
• Stage: Early Growth
• Raise: £300k EIS eligible
• Very strong growth in the last 6 months and about to launch into all Planet Organic stores.
• Europe’s first plant-based dog food to become B Corp Certified and will be launching in the EU, with D2C fulfilment across Europe.
• Well positioned to expand rapidly with a potentially huge global market.

Contact for more information: greg@pa-capitalpartners.com

• PACP May Online Reverse Pitch Event
• Thursday 23rd May 2024 at 2pm to 3pm (GMT)
• “International Opportunties”

For May, we’re hosting an international themed online event, focussing on the investment landscape across the Middle East and Africa.

Featuring insights into what investors are looking for in founders and how businesses can grow and thrive on an international stage.

Both investors and founders will benefit from attending this event, with opportunities for questions with experts experienced in founding businesses and also investing and exiting in the UK, Middle East and Africa.

Click here to register for the event.

PACP Client Portfolio Update

Chefs For Foodies is encouraging healthy and convenient cooking from scratch through its marketplace and platform that combines professional chefs and their uniquely designed food boxes with an E-Pantry full of artisan produce, along with the leading brands in cooking equipment and essentials.

The marketplace model, range of products and in particular brand partnerships, such as with the leading Italian coffee brand Illy, very cleverly allows a lot of cross customer marketing and data collaboration, which in turn builds revenues with a much reduced CPA.

Revenues this year are heading towards £700,000 and the business is raising £1.2m EIS eligible, with £310k committed to date.

• Founder: James Hill
• Sector: D2C Marketplace
• Raise: £1.2m EIS eligible
• Contact for more information: greg@pa-capitalpartners.com