19-Year-Old Newcastle Student Henrietta Newble Raises £40k for Animal Health Start-Up
AnFiTest provides rapid diagnostics for vets to help prevent major nutrition-based diseases in animals, and is now raising a further £80,000.
- AnFiTest has raised £40,000 in early-stage funding.
- Founder Henrietta Newble is a mechanical engineering student at Newcastle University.
- She is now raising a further £80,000.
Newcastle University student Henrietta Newble has launched an animal health technology start-up that has raised £40,000 in early-stage funding.
Her company, AnFiTest, provides rapid diagnostics for vets and aims to prevent major nutrition-based diseases in animals.
Raising again
Newble, a 19-year-old mechanical engineering student originally from Cambridge, is now raising a further £80,000.
University support
She credits Newcastle University’s START UP team with giving her the confidence and structure to turn an idea into a real company, including help building networks, accessing labs and securing funding.
The service supports student and graduate entrepreneurs, complementing the university’s research-led spinouts.
