Companies · manufacture of prepared meals and dishes
London · South Africa · manufacture of prepared meals and dishes · founded 1706 · https://www.crosseandblackwell.co.uk/
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South African company, based in London. Sector: manufacture of prepared meals and dishes.
As reported in public records reported — not modeled.
Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.
No round amounts on record to chart.
No staged rounds to sequence.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size. Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No rounds recorded. | |||||
Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.
Officers and directors named in public records reported, grouped by stated role. Each links to their operator profile and other companies they're tied to.
Officers, directors and promoters named in this company's public recordsreported — the people who run it (not its investors). "Also runs" counts come from name-matching across all records, so verify before acting.
| Person | Role | Also runs | Tied since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Francis Blackwell | Founder | — | — |
Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Sue Mbaya & Associates (South Africa) South African company. | — | — | — | 72% |
| Southern Cross Beach House South African company. | — | — | — | 72% |
| African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership South African company, based in Johannesburg. | Agtech / Foodtech | — | — | 71% |
| Bakers South African company, based in Johannesburg. | — | — | — | 71% |
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