Powdered food startup Huel just raised $26 million in its first funding round

• Huel, a startup which ships out powdered food, has raised £20 million ($26 million) in funding.
• At three years old, Huel’s revenue growth seems to have been exponential, with turnover set to more than triple on last year’s revenue.
• Huel’s product comprises dry, oat-coloured powder that the startup claims provides all the nutrition people need, and it’s made and consumed a little like a smoothie.

Buzzy powdered food startup Huel has raised £20 million ($26 million) in funding from growth equity investor Highland Europe. The money is Huel’s first external investment since it launched in 2015.
Huel sells “nutritionally complete” powder which customers mix with water, and which can replace meals. It also makes energy bars and granola.
“Huel has been profitable since day one and is on track to triple turnover this year,” cofounder Julian Hearn said in a statement. “In order to accelerate growth, expand our product portfolio and reach new markets, we decided to take external funding into the company.”
CEO James McMaster told Business Insider that people at Huel had been debating for a while whether or not to fundraise, after brand awareness grew and more and more people started approaching.”It felt like it was the right time to have a partner,” he said.

Huel was founded in the UK in 2012, and has started launching in new countries in a big way this year.
“We actually launched in the US last year and that’s going incredibly well for us,” McMaster said. “Europe growth has been big, but obviously when you’re a business without much access to funds and cash it’s much harder to take big risks on things. With some funding and some extra experience elsewhere allows us to go even faster,” he said.
Huel’s UK site exports globally, and McMaster said it Huel already sells to 80 countries. “So we know that it’s a global business already, albeit quite small in most of those markets.”
At three years old, Huel’s growth seems pretty exponential. McMaster said that after its first year Huel’s yearly turnover went from £1 million, to £5 million, to £14 million. He says Huel’s fourth year will see over £40 million in turnover.
Source: Business Insider
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