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Butternut Box

Putting the food back into dog food

Butternut Box logo
201-500 employees
  • B2C
  • Food
  • Pets
  • Wellbeing
  • eCommerce
Shepherd's Bush, London, UK

Company mission

Butternut Box is on a mission to deliver health and happiness to dogs and their humans all over the world.

B Corporation
Top investors

45% female employees

52% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Nowadays, consumers are not only getting more fussy about what they eat, but also what their pets eat. Butternut Box caters to this trend for the 11 million pet dogs in the UK, with dishes cooked with fresh ingredients and portioned according to the dog's breed, weight, sex and exercise routine.

Butternut Box’s platform uses computer algorithms to work out the individual needs of each dog, bringing technological innovation to a market that has not seen much of it. With the UK dog food industry worth over £1.5 billion, there is a massive potential market for the company, before even considering international growth.

In order to expand its appeal, Butternut Box has been diversifying its products to include environmentally conscious food, treats and wellness products and services for dogs. Having already launched into a few European markets, the company has acquired Polish fresh dog food company PsiBufet to help extend its operations in Central and Eastern Europe, whilst 2023's substantial VC round will help it to build on its already impressive momentum.

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Benefits

  • Butternut Discount - Many of our squad have a special dog(s) in their lives; so we are delighted to offer a generous discount so that more dogs can enjoy Butternut and live healthier & happier lives
  • Career Progression - We're a fast-moving start up that likes to watch its people grow
  • Enhanced Parental Leave - Leave is available for expecting parents, regardless of their tenure, including for adopting parents
  • Holidays - We offer above statutory leave days in every location (excluding bank holidays) and an extra day for every year at Butternut
  • Pension
  • Donations and regular volunteering with our chosen charity partners

Company values

  • Dedicated and Determined: We work hard together to make things happen (tail wags are at a max)
  • Open and Honest: Dogs are our best friends and relationships are built on trust
  • Genuine Care: We want to leave dogs and humans smiling after every interaction
  • Strive for Better: We believe dogs deserve better

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Sep 2023

$354.3m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Aug 2021

$50.7m

SERIES D

Total funding: $456.6m

This company has top investors

Leadership

Kevin Glynn

(Co-founder)

Previously an Associate at Goldman Sachs.

David Nolan

(Co-founder)

Previously a Trader at Goldman Sachs.

People progressing

Joined as a Marketing Executive, before switching over to the Product teams. Hannah has been promoted a number of times and is now Head of Digital Product (Customer).

Marcus joined the squad in 2018 as a Sales Team Lead, after which he was promoted to Sales Manager before shifting over to our marketing teams as a Commercial Analyst. Now leading the space as the Commercial Lead.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Butternut Box

  • We know that we need to listen more, learn more, do more, change more. We all need to do better.
  • Examine - In order for us to know where we needed and wanted to get to, we needed to take stock and take account of where we were at. So, in May 2020, we launched Butternut’s first Diversity & Inclusion report. We now send a survey to all employees every 6 months covering 14 different topics.
  • Unlearn & relearn - Over the past year, we’ve worked with external training providers, such as The Other Box to not only learn from them but to understand how to actively unlearn from them too. The whole Squad attended different half-day workshops on allyship in the workplace, bias awareness, and one on inclusive language too, as well as attending talks led by some really inspiring voices from different lived experiences and backgrounds.
  • Ally Network - In September 2020, the Butternut Ally Network was founded. The Ally Network exists to support, champion and listen to every single voice within the company and as well as communities beyond Butternut too. The group is made up of 25 Squad members (including Kev & Dave) who meet monthly to challenge us all to strive for better when it comes to inclusion and educating ourselves on experiences outside of our own.
  • Recruitment - In the last year we've focussed on our hiring processes to make sure they are as inclusive and supportive of diverse candidates. We've increased and diversified our job boards to reach a wider pool of candidates. We’ve changed how we communicate with candidates to make sure that each person feels comfortable to discuss neurodiversity or other disabilities upfront. Each hiring manager receives in-depth training on interview bias now too.
  • Accessibility - We've turned on Accessibee on our website as well as introducing certain tools to our Squad like Loom and Grammarly. Being accessible encapsulates a load of criteria, including descriptions of images for screen readers, how navigable our website is without using a mouse, is it suited to people with colour blindness too!
  • We know we have a long way to go to drive the change we want to see but we really do mean the words we wrote. This is us listening more, learning more, doing more, changing more. And we’re only getting started

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