{"id":362,"date":"2018-10-22T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T09:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2018-10-23T13:33:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T13:33:01","slug":"allianz-backed-fund-switches-on-to-energy-start-up-hometree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/allianz-backed-fund-switches-on-to-energy-start-up-hometree\/","title":{"rendered":"Allianz-backed fund switches on to energy start-up Hometree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British technology start-up was seed funded by DN Capital, Local Globe and Literacy Capital in 2017 and is now joined by a new venture capital fund backed by one of Europe\u2019s largest insurers.<\/p>\n<p>Covered by Sky News, you can view the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/allianz-backed-fund-switches-onto-energy-start-up-hometree-11508234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full article here<\/a>, with an excerpt below.<\/p>\n<p>The $8.5m (\u00a36.5m) fundraising, which will be announced on Wednesday, will be used to aid Hometree&#8217;s expansion throughout the UK and enable it to begin offering a wider range of domestic services.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said that the business was on course to record year-on-year revenue growth in 2018 of more than 400%.<\/p>\n<p>The company has unashamedly sought to ape Purplebricks&#8217; strategy, recruiting James Kydd, a former executive from the online estate agent, to act as an adviser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British technology start-up was seed funded by DN Capital, Local Globe and Literacy Capital in 2017 and is now joined by a new venture capital fund backed by one of Europe\u2019s largest insurers. Covered by Sky News, you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portfolio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}