Regulated
Can sell early
- Risk level
- Highest
- Risk-return
- Medium
- Start from
- €24
Funding closed on 16 Oct 2026. The page stays up for reference; similar open projects are below.
Ample
United Kingdom
A food-tech social business turning surplus farm produce into food products for the UK public sector.
Key figures
- Valuation
- GBP 3,600,000
- Stake offered
- 6.39
- Funding ends
- 16 Oct 2026
- Start from
- €24
- Target
- GBP 244,722
What you own, how it can pay off, and when
What do I own?
6.39 of the company
Check the documents for how the shares are held and what rights they give.
Capital at risk. Most startups fail; estimates are the platform's own claims. Shares are hard to sell before an exit.
Would AI invest?
AI 59 MediumOur AI gives this project 59 out of 100: Medium. How the AI score works
Information, not personal investment advice. The AI score rates the documents the platform publishes, can be wrong, and does not predict returns.
AI review
AIAmple — Crowdfunding Investor Memo
Ample turns fruit and vegetables that farms cannot sell — usually because of size or shape — into low-cost soups, sauces and stews for schools, hospitals and their caterers.
Sector: Food & Beverage / B2B food production · Stage: Seed (SEIS/EIS) · HQ: Redditch, United Kingdom · Raise: £244,722 (£218,230 committed from 43 investors at review)
Snapshot
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1 · Is the price fair? 💶 |
Insufficient comparables to assess — the company set the price at a £3.6M company value before this round. We found no valued funding rounds or recorded sales of comparable UK surplus-food producers to measure that against, so this is honestly unscored — see the valuation detail and the questions section. |
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2 · Can they reach an exit stage? ⭐ |
AI SCORE 59 / 100 — Average — the strongest evidenced building block is the team’s publicly confirmed surplus-food track record and the confirmed Oakland International partnership; the biggest gap is that the revenue evidence is a chart without figures, dates or a named company, and two of the deck’s key people left the board before the campaign went live. |
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3 · If they do, what could it pay? 🎯 |
Target 8x–12x over 5 years — the company’s own plan (a £40M company value in year 5, set at 5 × its forecast profit). If reached, illustratively 8x–12x before fees and future dilution. Method: at the disclosed terms (6.39% of the company for £244,722, implying a ≈£3.83M value after the round), an 8x–12x outcome requires the company to be worth roughly £31M–£46M at sale; we found no recorded sales of comparable companies to benchmark that against — the requirement sits inside the company’s own £40M forecast. These figures do not include dilution from future fundraising rounds, which would reduce actual returns — see the dilution section. |
How to read the score
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85–100 · Excellent |
All key preconditions for reaching an exit stage are evidenced and strong — rare at this stage |
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70–84 · Good |
Preconditions largely in place, with specific gaps — named in the questions section |
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50–69 · Average |
Meaningful preconditions missing or weakly evidenced |
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30–49 · Weak |
Several core preconditions absent, or the evidence points against them |
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1–29 · Critical |
Fundamental preconditions are not visible in the evidence |
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What we could check. We verified the company’s registration and filing history at Companies House, founder Leon Aarts’ large-scale surplus-food kitchen record, the Oakland International partnership, partner Juniper Ventures’ school-meals profile, and the July 2025 government food strategy against public sources — 13 of 26 checkable claims fully confirmed, 9 partially. The revenue chart, the status of each named customer, the ownership table and the Oakland financing terms rest on the company’s own materials — see the questions section. |
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Three answers, one honest note. The fairness line says whether the entry price is supported by sector benchmarks we could find — here, none usable were found, so it is unscored rather than guessed. The AI Score is our read on whether the building blocks for reaching a company sale or similar event are visible in the disclosed evidence — it audits readiness, not the probability of success, and even companies with every building block in place fail more often than they succeed, which is why crowdfunding only works as a small part of a diversified portfolio. The returns range is an illustration built from the company’s own disclosed plan, not a forecast. Where something was not in the pack we reviewed, it did not lower any score — it appears in the questions list instead, so you can ask the company directly before investing. The listing was reviewed and approved by Republic Europe, a licensed crowdfunding platform, before going live. Nothing in this memo is a recommendation.
At a glance
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✅ Three reasons to look closer |
⚠️ Three reasons for caution |
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Deal terms. No terms were identified in the reviewed documents that would prevent a crowdfund investor from sharing in the upside. The detailed share terms (the Articles of Association filed in November 2025) were not in the pack we reviewed, so the class rights should be confirmed — see the questions section. Full mechanics are at the end of this memo. |
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ℹ️ Information, not investment advice. Capital at risk — you could lose the full amount invested. Full notes are at the end of this memo. |
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🏢 What the company does
Ample (legal name Ample Innovation Ltd, Redditch) buys fruit and vegetables that UK farms cannot sell — produce rejected only for size, shape or colour — and turns it into soups, sauces and stews for the public secto…
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