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Irish entrepreneur Deirdre McGettrick has launched a Series A funding round ahead of planned expansion of her London-based shopping portal ufurnish.com targeting more than £5m (€5.5m).
The Sligo-born former City of London investment banker launched the business, which does for furniture shoppers what platforms like Daft.ie do for house buyers, two years ago with her husband Ray Wright.
An early-stage £1.8m investment closed at the start of this year was backed by a group of well-heeled Angel Investors including Dalata founder Pat McCann and UK-based investors Michael Holland and Craig Wilson, who sold their Financial Express investment data business in 2018 as well Anthony Bond, a hedge fund commodities trader nicknamed ‘Chocfinger’ after once buying up a huge share of the world’s cocoa supply in a move reminiscent of Bond villain Goldfinger’s bid to control global gold supplies.