Dishoom has never felt like a chain. It has felt like an institution that happened to grow. That is why its first outside investment lands differently. L Catterton has bought an undisclosed stake at a reported valuation of around £300m, with Dishoom eyeing a first US opening in 2026.
In the Issa brothers’ world, the petrol station is a retail platform. Fuel brings traffic; coffee and food-to-go bring margin. Their forecourt playbook scaled fast. The harder test is whether it still works when folded into a supermarket estate like Asda.
What distinguishes Fyxer is not velocity but discipline, a narrow product scope, a human-in-the-loop model, and an operating cadence shaped by years inside the workflows it now automates.
From a London podcast studio, Harry Stebbings has built a venture career on something VCs usually outsource: attention. The result is 20VC, a firm whose edge is less a secret sauce and more a system for turning conversation into conviction, and conviction into capital.