Leyland had already made its first venture into car-making with the purchase of Standard-Triumph in Coventry, makers of a well-known, if not especially profitable range of cars including the Triumph sports cars.
Then in 1990, it got into radio by backing the launch of Kiss FM, and the same year made its first venture into France.
Most of the funding comes from O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (making its first healthtech investment), Collaborative Fund, and one of my recent favorites First Round Capital, which is backing big shakeups of heavily regulated industries like student loans via Upstart, and venture capital via FundersClub.
The newly formed Centralway Ventures, which will be headquartered in London's Somerset House, is making its first investment in YC- and Google Ventures-backed Buttercoin: a Bitcoin startup that is looking to disrupt the international remittances market by leveraging the decentralised digital cryptocurrency to shrink cross-border transaction costs.
Additionally, its venture capital arm, Intel Capital, has long been active here, making its first investment in 1999.
And Project Greenlight, LivePlanet's filmmaking venture with Miramax -- which began with a screenwriting contest held on the Web -- has begun making its first movie in Chicago.
Making its first appearance in "HALO Reach".
Since 2014, when AccelFoods made its first investments, several new venture firms have cropped up to back "CPG" or consumer packaged goods companies and food-related technologies.
Germany and Palo Alto-based m-commerce platform Shopgate has made its first acquisition: The Creathor Ventures and Northcap-backed company has acquired Magento developlatformorp for an undiShopgatefee.
On-demand grocery delivery service Instacart has made its first acquisition since raising hundreds of millions in venture funding for its growing business.
