Crowd-funding goes mad for pizza

When Sardinian engineer Corrado Accardi wanted to turn his passion for pizza into a business venture, he came up with the idea of Pizza Rossa - a chain of premium quality Italian-style takeaway pizzerias in London.

We mentored Corrado, through our partnership with the London Business School, helping him to structure his company, understand crowd-funding and get help from the Enterprise Investment Scheme. Corrado’s funding campaign raised the £440,000 needed for the next stage of his business in just 17 days, breaking the European record for equity raised by a start up through crowd-funding.

The company has won a host of awards, including the London Business School’s annual business plan competition, CrowdCube’s ‘Best Start Up of the Year’ and the Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s Founders Award. Our innovation institute enables businesses and entrepreneurs like Corrado to recognise and grasp opportunities, allowing them to innovate and prosper.

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