by David Prior
A Manchester-based consumer insights business is looking to scale up after securing a £2.5million investment boost.
Vypr plans to strengthen its sales and marketing operations, invest in its team and expand into new sectors and markets after the investment from YFM Equity Partners (YFM) through its British Smaller Companies VCTs.
Founded in 2013 by Ben Davies, Vypr has built a cloud-based data validation platform that enables manufacturers and retailers to save time and costs on new product development by providing insight into what customers want to see on the shelves.
Based in Manchester, it has a 15-strong team and expanded its consumer panel into France and Germany in 2020.
critic and political rival was gunned down within sight of the kremlin. he was once seen as a success are to boris yeltson. okay. joining us now, the atlantic counsel s dan freed. ali went through the list. that did not include attempted killings. there s a long list of businessmen. obviously, none have been directory traced back to vladimir putin. you know, similar to mob bosses. you can t often get to the top. but why do so many russians critical of vladimir putin seem to end up dead. you could draw, loads of companies here don t do business, especially money managers, in russia because they simply don t trust their safety and the rule of law. i think the reason why is pretty clear. putin s system is a system based
about jared kushner s meeting with a russian banker. the white house says he conducted the meetings during his capacity. he maintain it was a part of their business road show t. meeting was arranged after he met with serg sergei kislyak in trump tower. president putin defended the talks. our ambassador met someone. that s what the ambassador must do. that s his work. he s getting paid for that. he must meet. he must discuss current affairs. he must make agreements. reporter: kushner s meeting with russian officials came as russia was feeling pressure from the u.s. sanctions imposed of russia s action in ukraine t. retired coordinator dan freed is now speaking out about its e his efforts to stop the trump administration from lifting russian sanctions earlier this year. he retired from the state department in february and says he contacted many ebs to codify
kislyak. they said one meeting was a courtesy visit, and they were discussing possible collaboration in syria. former state department official dan freed tells cnn he and former colleagues were worried when the trump administration post inauguration started working on a plan to potentially lift sanctions against russia that were imposed for taking over crimea and hacking the u.s. election which disturbed him enough to reach out to lawmakers to try to stop him. lifting sanctions is a free gift, struck me, strikes me now as a bad, bad idea. my colleagues were concerned about this and so was i. reporter: putin himself denied any secret agreements with the trump team. no, there were no agreements, they didn t even get near it, didn t even manage to start any kind of talks. that was michelle kosinski.
consideration to unilaterally rescind the conventions. he says he received several panicky calls from u.s. government officials who told them they had been directed to develop a sanctions lifting package and imploring him please my god, can t you stop this. it was apparently stopped in large part thanks to pushback from veterans at the state department. but there is a michael flynn connection here, too, as michael isikoff told chris hayes earlier tonight. february 13th, michael flynn resigns. he resigns because of the blowup about his secret meetings with kislyak and misrepresenting the fact that he was talking about easing sanctions. on this issue. on this very issue. so it became politically toxic. i talked to a senior white house official today about this, making clear there is still an ongoing policy review about sanctions. right. these options are still on table. the state department veteran named in that report, dan freed, also appeared on this network