Freston Ventures is the London investment office of Carphone Warehouse co-founders Sir Charles Dunstone and Roger Taylor, based at 146 Freston Road in Notting Hill. It invests the founders’ own capital as growth equity into entrepreneurs and brands that are ready to scale, spanning food and hospitality, fashion and retail, property technology, transport and sustainability. Current and past holdings include Five Guys, ME+EM, Purplebricks, Strike, Chicken Shop and rewilding business Nattergal. The pair’s earlier ventures and investments include Carphone Warehouse, TalkTalk, Best Buy Mobile, Nutmeg, iZettle and Boxpark. It is not a fund and does not publish a fund size or ticket range.
Investment thesis
Freston Ventures is a growth equity investor based in Notting Hill, London, set up by founders to back other founders. It invests in businesses ready to scale and contributes operating expertise as well as capital, aiming to help them become widely recognised brands. Its holdings span food retail, fashion, real estate, mobility, dental services and environmental businesses.
Freston Ventures invests at Growth. Its focus is Consumer tech, Foodtech, and Proptech, across United Kingdom.