Unilever Ventures functions as the venture capital and private equity arm of Unilever, focusing on startups operating within the personal care and digital sectors.
Ian is a partner at Cambridge Innovation Capital and previously worked at Unilever Ventures. He also serves as a non-executive director across several technology companies.
The Series C financing was led by Leaps by Bayer and Hitachi Ventures to support international expansion and platform development.
"This is a pivotal moment in Huma’s development. We have exceptional partners and strategic investors who will support us in our mission to help people worldwide live longer and fuller lives. We’re already demonstrating how ‘hospital at home’ can transform healthcare, and how decentralized clinical trials can advance research in ways that weren’t imaginable even one year ago. Now we want to accelerate the pace of change and continue to innovate for better care and research worldwide."
The financing round was led by Redline Capital with participation from Genesys, AlbionVC, and Unilever Ventures.
"COVID-19 has seen many businesses face massive disruption, but GigCX has been a saving grace in business continuity while also opening up new possibilities for flexible working. This new partnership is at the heart of empowering anyone, anywhere on the planet to provide customer service for brands they love, and that is something we are truly proud of."
AlbionVC led the Series A extension round to support infrastructure expansion and product development.
"Historically businesses had to spend thousands of hours a year manually buying and distributing digital rewards. WeGift helps companies intelligently automate this process to power new customer acquisition and retention campaigns. We give them instant access to a huge choice of rewards and payouts, an ever-growing network of more than 700 brand partners, across 30 markets and 20 currencies. We are disrupting a broken market on a global scale, and this investment, together with our partnerships with Albion VC, Unilever Ventures, SAP.iO Fund and Stride.vc, is an instrumental step forward in achieving our vision."
Unilever Ventures led the £1.9m Series A round, which will fund UK expansion and European launch preparations.
"This has been a key growth round for us in preparation of larger Series B in 2020, so we are delighted to have returned to Seedrs, welcome back our existing supporters, and pick up some new ones along the way."
The investment round was led by AlbionVC, with participation from Downing Ventures and Unilever Ventures.
"There is an opportunity for brands to transform their customer service by leveraging the power of the crowd. Creating a customer community which engages and rewards customers for helping other customers is the future – it is better, faster and cheaper. However, executing this at scale needs a rare combination of tech savvy and deep domain expertise – which Team Limitless have in spades from the previous business they built. We are proud to support Roger and Megan achieve their exciting vision."
