Top 50 Wine and Spirits Startup Investors in Europe (June 2026)

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• UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
• Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
• La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!

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• AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
• OnCare — Home care software | care management system
• SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.

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• Yoto — The screen-free audio platform. Play music, stories and more with our audio player that children control with physical cards. Welcome to Audiotime®
• Flash Pack — We unite like-minded people in their 30s & 40s on group adventures where 98% travel solo. Book your next trip with Flash Pack today.
• SURI (Sustainable Rituals) — A world-class clean that doesn’t cost our planet. SURI is the new, sustainable electric toothbrush. Delivering an effective clean with innovative plant-based materials.

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• Y42 — Y42's Turnkey Data Orchestration Platform gives you a unified space to build, monitor and maintain a robust flow of data to power your business
• LabGenius — Finding the next generation of drugs with machine learning, synthetic biology and laboratory automation
• Bossa Studios — Co-creating players most memorable stories

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• ICTYOS — Ictyos is a startup that creates marine leathers using a circular and sustainable economy logic. It recycles fish skins from the culinary and catering industries.
• Upciti — Upciti provider of precise, localized and real-time data for smart cities and smart retailers. we produce and make available data at the service of man to make cities smarter and more pleasant to live for all on a daily basis.
• Maltivor — Maltivor is a manufacturing firm that produces food ingredients, including flour, pasta, and energy bars based on beer-spent grains.

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• Pongo — Pongo has created for you the first intelligent marketing assistant that communicates with your customers and increases your Google referencing, without you having to lift a finger
• Orosound — Superior headsets for work. Advanced quality signed by Orosound -the French expert in active noise control, audio intelligence, and durability.
• Remotebase — Get thoroughly vetted software developers from all over the world with expertise in AI, ML, back-end, front-end and more. Risk-free trial available!

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• Cosmico — We are the platform connecting digital talents with the most ambitious companies, using remote work.We have over 8,000 members and our talents have accelerated dozens of projects alongside big names like Accenture Song, Tangity, Frog, Fjord, Sketchin, EY but also aggressive start-ups like Scalapay, Gimme5, Flowe, Unguess.If you are a digitalprofessional: we offer you a community in which to grow your talent through experiences, networks and cosmic projects.If you are a company: we offer you access to a community of designers, developers and marketers from which to select the talents to accelerate your digital transformation projects. Whether you are a manager or a digital professional, Cosmico is here to help you find your space
• A-Cube — A-Cube is a software company that provides digital solutions to exchange documents with government agencies.
• Incapto Coffee — Incapto Coffee offers the sale of the automatic coffee machine and a subscription system for coffee beans.

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• Laagam — Laagam is a apparel & fashion website.
• Shalion — Shalion enables ambitious brands to navigate their journey to digital shelf excellence with a unique, unified digital shelf & retail media insights solution.
• Tutrocito — Tutrocito is an online store that sells decorative supplies and custom-made furniture.

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• AccessPay — AccessPay develops and offers cloud-based payment and cash management solutions. The company’s cloud-based service provides ease of integration with any ERP, TMS, or other back-end systems. It also enables the straight-through processing of domestic and international payments via BACS, FPS, CHAPS, and SWIFT. By connecting an organization’s backoffice systems with its banks and providing a consolidated view of all banking relationships, AccessPay gives corporate enterprises real-time visibility of all cash balances and offers a detailed analysis, which helps financial professionals maximize the use of working capital. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
• Arctic Shores — Unearth meaningful, job-relevant insights through our candidate assessments. A new type of behaviour based assessment that's powered by neuroscience.
• Flywheel.io — Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT.

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• WatchHouse — Cosy, unique coffee spots & eateries in London. We make great coffee and exceptional food within beautifully bespoke environments tailored around our local community. It is as simple as that. | Never worry about running out of coffee supplies again. The Modern Coffee experience from the comfort of your own home.
• Pentire Drinks — Made from unique plants native to the Cornish coastline, Pentire is a new botanical non-alcoholic spirit drink. A gin style drink that harnesses the power, beauty and immense flavour of plants, without the after effects. Buy online now.
• Mytos — The Infrastructure for Cell Manufacturing

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• BioMimetx — BioMimetx is a biotech startup focused on the development of green antifouling solutions to prevent marine biofouling. The company discovers and owns environmental bacteria that secrete molecules, which are used as natural antimicrobials and algaecides. BioMimetx is based in Cantanhede, Portugal.
• Movvo — The Movvo platform delivers smart business intelligence solutions for owners and operators of retail and commercial real estate that turns data into improved retail performance and better value engineering decisions. The platform combines consumer behaviour wireless sensor technology and digests other public and private datasets, enhancing theunderstanding of the data by applying machine learning to provide fast and easy interpretation of this data delivering insights and rapid scenario-planning. Whether it is measuring ROI or reporting KPI's, the Movvo platform has these bases covered. Where it comes into its own is via the application of machine learning Want to easily prepare a leasing pack that maximises the rental value, what to create additional incremental value from asset investment decisions, want to know the impact of changing the tenant from apparel retailer to food & beverage? The Movvo platform can deliver prescriptive intelligence and more.
• Exogenus Therapeutics — Exogenus Therapeutics is engineering cell biology for innovative therapeutic solutions.Exo-T is a biotechnology company dedicated to the pre-clinical and clinical development of innovative cellular-based therapies applied to regenerative medicine, specifically for the skin lesions treatment. The company is presently developing its first product,Exo-Wound, for the treatment of chronic wounds.The project that led to the creation of the company (Nanoinspire) participated in COHiTEC 2014 program and is the result of the research developed in collaboration with Crioestaminal SA, Biocant, and Centre for Neurosciences and Cellular Biology of Coimbra University.

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• Glitch Ads — Launch AI Powered Google Ad Campaigns in Minutes. Think of us like an agency in a box. Built for speed. Priced for scaling companies. Powered by AI.
• SeeMeHired — SeeMeHired is a cloud-based platform to automate much of the recruitment process, including engaging, selecting, and hiring job candidates.
• Mountain Technologies — Mountain Technologies is an innovative Northern Ireland-based startup that transforms mountain resort operational management.

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• Solarfix — Solarfix NI Ltd is a leading One-Stop Solar Specialist. Commerical, Domestic, New Build, Self Build, Agricultural and Off-Grid Solar PV solutions. Tesla Powerwall, PureDrive, StorEdge, SolarEdge, Zappi, Eddi, Myenergi, Duracell, Repairs & Upgrades, Solar Panel installation in Northern Ireland.
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• Drinksology Kirker Greer — Drinksology Kirker Greer produces trusted spirit brands across an eclectic range of spirit categories. Drinksology creates, produces, distributes, and manages a global portfolio of premium wine brands. Drinksology Kirker Greer is a food and drinks company.

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• Peerby Classic — Borrow and rent goods from others nearby - affordable, convenient and green. Tools, bikes, party equipment, electronics and more. Try it now.
• Zobi — Zobi’s not just Artificial Intelligence, it’s Home Intelligence. Our smart, brand-agnostic solutions take a holistic view of homes - people, devices, networks, habits. They build an anonymous profile for each home, then use that intel to spot unusual behaviour and stop cybercriminals.
• Finverity — Finverity provides technology, working capital and expertise to give banks, NBFIs, financiers and companies a strategic advantage in supply chain finance

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• Evolution Aqua — Evolution Aqua is a designer, manufacturer and supplier of a wide range of water filtration products and associated equipment, primarily focused on the aquatics industry for both indoor and outdoor fish care.
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• Snipple Animation Studios — Snipple are specialists in animated television and sports entertainment. We are one of the largest animation partners to Disney and Warner Brothers. We develop original IP and we have unique partnerships with sports teams, growing the fans of the future.

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• Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
• Fearne & Rosie — Hello! Berry nice to meet you. Our mum says it's really important that we eat the berry best food. So we squish together natural ingredients to make tasty, fruity jams, honeys and spreads. MORE FRUIT, LESS SUGAR Just for you! Love, Fearne and Rosie x
• Future Château — Future Château is a wine company that offers finished flavor and aroma.

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• Fyma — Urban vision factory - turning cameras into sensors using AI-sight
• SwiftConnect — Our office dispersion software offers a hybrid work solution that allows you to provide and manage access across all buildings to connect the right people at the right time with the access and permissioning at the core.
• AudioStack — Aflorithmic is a London-based technology company established in February 2019 by three co-founders. We're an API-first developer focused platform to enable brands and developers to simply create beautiful audio. This allows users to: - Create podcast-like audio as easy as typing. - Increase engagement & conversion - Save time and moneyas no voice actors or studio are needed.The current team consists of highly skilled specialists in machine learning, software development, voice synthesizing, AI, audio engineering and product development. Team members have previously worked for Amazon, SAP, IBM, the European Space Agency, Cambridge University as well as public institutions like the NHS.Our background combines technology, marketing and public health. We use technology to support individuals and make a positive impact while creating value for brands, companies and all of our stakeholders.Aflorithmic follows ambitious growth plans and has won the support of various private and public stakeholders as well as organisations like the UK governments public research body InnovateUK or the advanced digital technology innovation centre Digital Catapult.

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• Zefir — Zefir aims to expand the realm of possibilities for millions of European homeowners. We make home-selling simpler, faster and more certain by buying the property directly from you. Selling a home is now just a few clicks away.
• Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
• Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.

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• AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
• WineFi — Invest in collections of fine wine and spirits at low cost. Expertly-curated, diversified and managed for you from sourcing to sale. Only with Winefi.
• Phagos — Phagos uses AI and phages to create personalized bacterial treatments in 2 months. Our sustainable antibiotic alternative targets specific bacteria without resistance, serving chicken, cattle, swine, and shrimp farms worldwide.

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• Cecil — From nature-based offset projects to biodiversity inventories, we simplify natural asset management for project developers, intermediaries, asset managers and investors.
• Elion — Make better healthcare technology decisions. Elion helps digital health builders discover, evaluate, and select the software and services to power their businesses
• Hello Patient — Healthcare AI that gets your team off the phone & in front of patients

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• Wollit — Cheapest credit builder in the UK! Build your credit score with all 3 UK credit reference agencies and unlock your hidden Credit Profile. Get started in 2 minutes.
• Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
• Rodeo — Discover your ideal career path, get matched to the right jobs, and get coached through every application.

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• ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
• Rubedo Life Sciences — Rubedo Life Sciences is the Premier Longevity Company. Rubedo discovers and develops medicines to keep you biologically young.
• Restorative Neurotechnologies — Siamo un'azienda di dispositivi medicali certificati per la riabilitazione cognitiva ed il trattamento di disturbi cognitivi post ictus.

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• Near-Life — The simplest, fastest platform for learning teams to create high quality interactive video and VR simulations
• Novatus Advisory — Novatus Advisory - Successfully guiding enterprises through the ever-changing Risk and Regulation Landscape
• Chorus Intelligence — Trusted suppliers of digital investigation software that enables our customers to confidently turn data into intelligence and evidence.

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• Arquella — AIDA Assist is an advanced, wireless nurse call system with seamless call to mobile technology, built for the care service that strives for improvement
• Added Health — Added Health is a platform for lifestyle and health coaching.
• Sniffers Pet Care — Sniffers Pet Care distributes a wide range of products to around 700 pet care stores.

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• Elaitra — Elaitra’s breast cancer platform includes a Generative LLM for voice-based patient engagement, and a unique AI reading tool that helps doctors read 3D X-Rays. Operating in USA & UK. FDA 510(k) and UK regulator approved.
• Sages — Biodegradeable, non-polluting, low-impact and vibrant dyes extracted from food waste.
• WeFindFlats — Live and work anywhere, without housing worries.

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• AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
• UVIONIX — Uvionix deploys Autonomous Flying Robots (AFRs) to monitor and report live data, ensuring a comprehensive view of operations, workflow efficiency, and near 100% inventory level accuracy. The system creates live digital twins of warehouse spaces, meticulously tracking each material movement. Delivering precise, unbiased data, and being immune to human error, the platform drastically enhances material planning, reduces stock losses, and lowers labor costs.
• OfficeRnD — OfficeRnD helps flex space operators and hybrid teams manage the workplace of the future. Book your demo or start a free 14-day trial.

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• cheMastery — Echo handles repetitive tasks with accuracy and precision, allowing your chemists to tackle high-value challenges.
• Circuit Mind — Circuit Mind enables electronics engineering companies, teams, and engineers to design reliable electronic systems faster and without errors.
• INTERSTELLAR LAB — autonomous modules for crop cultivation on Earth and life-support in Space

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• The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.

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• Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

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• The Original Experience — In our unique beer exhibition, you can experience the story of beer from its history to the present, visit the taproom school, or enjoy dinner with a beer sommelier.

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• Evidenced — Evidenced is your interviewing copilot, guiding your team to the most accurate hiring decision with fewer interviews.
• Blue Skies Space — Blue Skies Space provides access to space science data from low-cost space missions.
• Onya Therapeutics — Onya Therapeutics is a biotechnology research company.

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• WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.

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• Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
• Orbital — We bridge the gap between traditional and crypto financial solutions, providing a regulated, secure and frictionless experience for global businesses.

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• Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

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• WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.

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• Holyrood Distillery — Holyrood Distillery is an award winning Gin & Whiskey Distillery located in the heart of Edinburgh offer a memorable experience with Spirits.

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• Kinsetsu — Organisations are continually challenged to find better ways to manage processes. Traditional approaches are being pushed to their limits.
• CV6 Therapeutics — CV6 Therapeutics is a drug development company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel therapies for the treatment of human diseases.
• GenoMe Diagnostics — GenoME Diagnostics - We are developing a blood test for an earlier and more accurate diagnosis of ovarian cancer.GenoME Diagnostics .

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• CROSSIP — Great tasting non-alcoholic spirits with a kick. Made from natural botanical ingredients, no added sugar. 0% alcohol drinks perfected by TV's Carl Anthony Brown.
• Easology — New easy to use tablets - Samsung Galaxy easology. Easology makes your tablet easy with large text, big buttons, clear menus + more.
• Cellexcel — Cellexcel is a biomaterials research company that develops technology for enhancement of water resistance of biomaterials.

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• Kipli — Re-think sleep, naturally. Kipli is a luxury natural mattress company operating exclusively online. Our 100% natural latex mattress and its unique conception give you a great comfort and perfect natural nights. Kipli mattresses are handcrafted in Italy to create the best natural mattress possible. And because of our low overhead, we are able tooffer high-quality luxury natural mattresses for about twice less expensive than you'd pay anywhere else.
• Feed. — Feed. is a French foodtech that designs nutritionally perfect meals, in formats suitable for active people. It is developed by a team of dieticians-nutritionists, agri-food engineers and chefs, the recipes contain natural ingredients that provide 100% of the necessary contributions of a balanced meal.
• Les Miraculeux — Les Miraculeux is specializing in food supplements in the form of vitamin-enriched fruit gummies.

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• The Original Experience — In our unique beer exhibition, you can experience the story of beer from its history to the present, visit the taproom school, or enjoy dinner with a beer sommelier.

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• Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
• BIOTherma-Pad — BIOTherma-Pad is a completely biological cooling pad made of seaweed rather than the typical chemicals; it may cool little children's injuries or offer warmth if needed.
• Taste Religion — Taste Religion offers plant-based products that are devoid of toxic ingredients and allow to quickly create restaurant-quality cuisine.

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• The Original Experience — In our unique beer exhibition, you can experience the story of beer from its history to the present, visit the taproom school, or enjoy dinner with a beer sommelier.

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• WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.

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• Co-op — The Co-operative Group is the UK’s largest mutual business, owned by over seven million consumer members. The Group operates 4,800 retail trading outlets, employs more than 100,000 people and has an annual turnover of more than £13bn. Whether it's a drop of milk for your morning cuppa, a little friendly advice because your back'splaying up again, or a helping hand onto the property ladder, we're here for you. With over 5,000 high street branches we're only ever just down the road, at the end of a phone or a click away. So whatever it is, however big or small, we're happy to help.We don't answer to shareholders, we answer to you. Unlike most businesses, we're owned by our members - all 7.2 million of them. We're not a plc, so we can fight for the good of our members and customers. Anyone can join The Co-operative, you can become a member online now or just pick up a leaflet in store. As a member, you'll not only have a say in the way we are run, but also get a share in our profits, as a big thank you for shopping with us.Originally formed in Rochdale in 1844 to offer real value to the community, 168 years on and our founding principles still stand. The world may have changed somewhat in those years but the need for a more ethical business, a more honest one and a more customer focussed one clearly hasn't. We're here for you in good and bad times. We're here for you for life.
• Amey — Amey provides full life-cycle engineering, operations, and decarbonization solutions for transportation infrastructure and complex facilities.
• Karbon Homes — We build, manage and look after homes for people across the North. And then we go further, we give them the strong foundations they need to crack on with life.

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• WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.

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• Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

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• CROSSIP — Great tasting non-alcoholic spirits with a kick. Made from natural botanical ingredients, no added sugar. 0% alcohol drinks perfected by TV's Carl Anthony Brown.
• Cellexcel — Cellexcel is a biomaterials research company that develops technology for enhancement of water resistance of biomaterials.
• One Planet Pizza — One Planet Pizza is a vegan food company, dedicated to creating good food. It distributes a range of frozen pizzas and redi-meals through local retail outlets and via home delivery in Norwich, Cambridge, and Ipswich. One Planet's pizza currently come in 4 Italian style pizza's and can be found in most of the major high streetsupermarkets.One Planet Pizza is owned by a group of vegan and veggie business people, including Mike Hill (co-owner of River Green Café), Jan Wise (owner of The Beggie Red Lion Pub) and Tanya Chapman (owner of Luvegan Cakes in Leicester). The company is also supported and backed by a number of vegan bloggers and activists.

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• The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.

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• Lodestar — Lodestar is a pre-launch American Whisky created by relatives and members of the entertainment business.
• UME Plum Liqueur — UME is The Purple Potion for a New Era. UME Plum Liqueur is a delightfully tart, mildly sweet plum liqueur with a show-stopping royal purple hue at 17% ABV.
• Jackson McCrea Whiskey — We asked women what they like and the resuly is Jackson McCrea - a great tasting premium whiskey made by women for women - enjoyed by everyone.

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• WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.