Plerith works with high growth start-ups and scaling companies to plan for and deliver growth. The company asserts that it helps companies promote their business to potential funders, through its network of angel and venture capital investors depending on the stage and sector of the said business. Plerith is partnering with Newable and Bristol Private Equity Club to deliver the fund in the South West London (SWL) area and identify and invest in the most exciting high growth companies in the region. Plerith argues that its deep knowledge of fundraising, sales, strategy, finance and technology would help SWL businesses flourish. Plerith aims to provide investors access to the highest quality local companies in the SWL region.
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Stretch
investment:
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Zenos Cars are a designer, manufacturer and retailer of sports cars. Zenos cars are designed to be thrilling, lightweight, high performance and affordable. Zenos have a management team with plenty of experience having previously worked at Caterham and Lotus Cars.
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Expired
investment:
£169,200
A digital solution helping individuals get ahead by learning new life skills that hiring businesses are looking for. QDOOZ is helping those that are looking to build character qualities and skills that employers are seeking to bring into their business. The company will provide their services via an app, which will consist of videos, infographics and articles to assist members in improving themselves and succeeding in the interview process.
QDOOZ is aiming to partner with multiple Chartered Professional Membership organisations across the UK. This will potentially result in an initial audience of 1.5m users when launching the product. Furthermore, QDOOZ is also seeking to bring their services to 1.5m university students by arranging discussions with UCAS Media. Their monetisation strategy involves a monthly or annual premium membership that will offer additional content with no advertisements. A freemium membership will also be offered and QDOOZ will generate revenue via advertisements.
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Expired
investment:
£575,225
A communication app for teachers to inform parents on their child's performance and share classroom-learning progress. ParentHub has partnered with education technology giant RM Education to provide a service and insight for parents for free. In 20 months, more than 350 schools are clients and 65% have opted for premium paid add-ons. Over 50,000 parents use ParentHub and activity has increased by 1,436% compared to last year, equating to more than 1m messages sent per month.
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Expired
investment:
£107,460
Perfectly Spoken offers English learning courses online for free in response to the global demand for learning the English language. The user base of this company has grown exponentially to 125,000+ users in less than a year and forecasted to grow at the rate of 30,000+ new users in a month. Perfectly Spoken has grown to 65,000 active followers on social media and is likely to attract book subscriptions from companies and higher education institutions. The additional revenue streams on the consideration include advertising and sponsorship, licensing of content, potential joint ventures, white labeling and develop parallel language services starting with Spanish.
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Expired
investment:
£60,750
Racingbreaks.com is a digital racing and experiential platform enabling users to plan and book every aspect of their racing experience, whether that’s a ticket to a local racecourse or a unique 'Round the World Trip' to the Melbourne Cup. The company intends to offer users a single point of distribution for the fragmented racing sector, allowing customers to book everything in one place. Racingbreaks.com has earned £4.38 million worth of sales in 2019 witnessing a 300% growth in sales between 2017 to 2019. It claims that over 50,000 customers have booked with Racingbreaks.com, with the company having signed key partnerships with over 50 racecourses. The company claims that renowned horse racing jockey Frankie Dettori has invested in the company and is the face of the brand. Racingbreaks.com will use the investment to re-develop its website and platform, create a new racing app, develop new ticketing Application Programming Interfaces with more racecourses, and expand its platform globally.
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Expired
investment:
£375,530
Driving instructors struggle to acquire new pupils regularly themselves so they pay substantial amounts to franchises such as RED and AA for regular pupils. These franchises are expensive and inefficient but instructors have little choice. Our disruptive proposition offers all the benefits of a franchise in addition to new core features exclusive to Lessons Per Hour such as having a choice of pupils, exact travel distance and guaranteed payment from pupils before initial driving lessons.
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Expired
investment:
£7,448
An artificially intelligent web-based app for stock market investors to potentially increase their returns. Butterwire's platform aims to solve three common challenges more than 1 million UK investors face: finding high-return opportunities, minimising risk and being aware of sudden market fluctuations.
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Expired
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Kinderly have created an award-winning development app to support childcare professionals record and share a child's progress, helping parents be more engaged in their development. The software links to the Government's Early Years Foundations Stage framework enabling childcarers to digitally capture a child's learning journey.
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Expired
investment:
£431,229
Peerport Limited (trading as MultiISA) is targeting the multi-million-pound market and claims to offer a holistic approach to Individual Savings Account (ISA) management. The company asserts that traditional ISA managers don’t give users enough flexibility with their investment choices. Current ISA rules restrict investors to only one ISA of each type per tax year. This impedes the investors’ ability to build a diversified IFISA portfolio. Peerport argues that its portal offers investors the freedom to operate multiple accounts like Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA), Cash ISA, and Stocks & Shares ISA under a single ISA management platform. The company will use the investment to finalise the build-out of its end to end platform, fund its office space, manage marketing costs, oversee staffing costs, pay regulatory fees and supervise working capital.
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Expired
investment:
£6,033
