In 2021 we closed a £5m seed round just six months after starting Yonder and FOMO investments were rife — when we secured £62.5m in Series A funding earlier this year, those same investments had been replaced by a lot more scrutiny on profitability, unit economics and forecasts, and our milestones and progress were stringently put under a microscope.
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