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Investing in you

Getting started - Lucy *

Started small - sold a start-up and wanted to invest a larger sum.

Lucy still has to stop and pinch herself. The Bay of Plenty entrepreneur has recently returned to New Zealand and is settling back in after several years overseas. And she’s arrived with money in her pocket.

A niche food start-up, in which Lucy worked her fingers to the bone for five years, sold a majority holding to a global food company in 2018 – a huge windfall for shareholder Lucy, who says it’s “overwhelming.”

“I would never in my wildest

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