Vini Mini fights food allergies in children with new capital

1. Vini Mini fights food allergies with fresh money

Josiane Boersma and Laurie Lancey have raised €500,000 for Vini Mini, a startup that helps prevent food allergies in children. German seed fund APX and Rabobank have already joined, but business angels and Donor Impact Investment Fund are also participating in this round.

Vini Mini also received one hundred thousand euros from Antler a few months ago. It sells “starter kits” of peanuts, tree nuts and snacks that help children get used to such foods. With this money, the former Startup of the Week wants to expand distribution to new markets and hire sales and marketing staff.

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2. Manufy makes a fresh start with a new model

Sustainable fashion platform Manufy is off to a fresh start thanks to “seed investment by committed investors”. Under director Knott Knappen, Manovi made a pivot, then left in one press release I know: The focus was previously on connecting clothing brands with more sustainable producers, but from now on his company will also offer advice and services to make brands more sustainable, from sourcing to recycling, resale and sustainability reporting.

3. “Investor” Joanna Invests grows thanks to package deals

Claire Tang has it with Joanna invests, a platform for women who want to invest in female entrepreneurs, raised half a million euros in three months out of 5 million invested. The driving force behind the success is the “package deal” that allows investors to invest starting from 10k while their investment is spread across at least five startups with different teams. Joanna Invests now has well-known names such as We Are Eves, Quan, Peakabond, Ozarka and tex.tracer in its portfolio.

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4. The number of self-employed women has doubled in 10 years

The number of self-employed people without employees rose by 85% between 2014 and 2024, reaching just over 1.6 million. According to the chamber of commerce The number of self-employed women has increased much faster: by 101%, more than doubling. The share of men, 61 percent, is still larger than the share of women among self-employed workers. Among “real” SME entrepreneurs, 67% are men. The significant increase in the number of freelancers is partly due to the Corona period.

5. Blocker Savior received 600 million

Michel Witteveen reportedly received a much larger dowry from the Blokker family when it acquired the retail company of the same name than previously assumed. rtl g. He received €600 million, not €250 million, five years ago to make the retail chain healthy again with the Mirage Retail Group.

Most of this capital was family debts that were cancelled. However, Blokker has not been able to solve the leak yet. In order to continue the Mirage Retail Group, CEO Ynse Stapert and owner Witteveen are currently looking for new capital again. Blokker is in the shop window.

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6. Then this: “smooth” control of the dwarves, but under pressure

Demian Beenakker appears to have sold Dwarfs, the online store buyer, to Briton Olsam under a little more pressure than he pretended to MT/Sprout at the end of December. Dwarfs had a large outstanding loan with North Wall Capital and no longer met credit conditions in 2023, according to its latest annual report (pdf).

It explains how the problem was solved:''North Wall Capital has advised us of a way to make up for the breach, through a merger with another portfolio company Olsam Group Ltd.' And this is what happened. He gives Benaker's explanation a slightly different meaning: “The acquisition went very smoothly: all parties involved saw the benefit of this merger.”

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