Is Fliptop Still in Business? (2026 Update)
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Look for Fliptop on AmazonFull story →Phillip and Lakshmy Pengelly, who run care homes rather than career businesses, pitched Fliptop, a fold-out table that clips over a standard armchair, wanting £10,000 for 25 percent of the firm, and Sara Davies agreed to fund it.
The business is still supplying the care sector it was designed for.
Built By People Who Had The Problem
The Pengellys were not designing for a hypothetical customer; they needed a surface residents could eat or work at without hauling a separate table across a room, and the product came from direct daily experience running care homes.
Davies funded the £10,000 ask for 25 percent, a fairly small sum, in keeping with a straightforward manufacturing operation after working capital rather than a big lump-sum bet.
Staying Small On Purpose
Rather than chase general furniture retail, the company has kept to care homes, still turning up at trade events such as the Care Show in Birmingham. That narrow focus caps how large the business can grow, but it also keeps it away from bigger furniture chains entirely.
A trade product bought in bulk by operators who reorder for new sites does not depend on a viral moment, it just has to keep doing its one job reliably.
Ordering One
The table ships direct from the company's own site, with bulk discounts for care homes ordering several at once, and no sign it sells through Amazon or general retailers.
The care-home table pitch made it, and it is still solving the one specific problem it was designed around.