Alert Technology Limited is set to transform health and safety best practice for asbestos management by introducing ALERT - a new generation of real-time asbestos monitoring. With the large potential market, Alert will give market priority to the sectors who have demonstrated the greatest need. ALERT is the only solution to the global problem that impacts 30+ industry sectors. Till now, they have successfully launched the ALERT PRO 1000-the first model in the range and won an industry award in the asbestos category. With the investment, they will strengthen their team by recruiting a new Sales Director, Technical Sales Support, Technicians and Service Engineers to boost the in-house team, expand distribution, drive sales, scale-up assembly and service customers.
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investment:
£10,000
Seers Group LTD is a Data protection and Cybersecurity leader in the UK. It's a one-stop-shop for all industries related to the new data privacy laws and cybersecurity. In fact, it considers itself the UK's number one GDPR and cybersecurity expert. Seers Group is partnering with several businesses, accountancy firms, membership bodies, and has access to 300k businesses, which include even the early stage business. Furthermore, its user base is growing by 300% MoM. Seers' aim is to build a Business Development and Support staff to end partnership deals and give expert advice wherever needed.
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Expired
investment:
£255,001
3DUserNet is an online portal for viewing and collaborating on 3D data projects. Its SaaS platform enables team members in engineering and construction companies to store, view, navigate and collaborate online, through any modern browser or device, without the need for installed software. The company has been working with sectors such as surveying, policing, civil engineering, security, road safety, and defence. Since its inception, it has added multiple measurement tools including clip boxes, line of sight, checkpoint tool, and slope tool on its platform. The company is seeking an investment of up to £400,000, at a pre-money valuation of £1.6 million under which it is offering investors making up the first £200,000 a discounted share price of £3.4733. Investors joining in for the remaining £200,000 thereafter will purchase a share for £4.6622. The funds raised will be used for further platform development, sales and marketing, and working capital.
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Publisher Discovery, using AI & Machine Learning technologies, provides recommendations to Advertisers of highly relevant Publishers in the affiliate marketing sector. The company has built a uniquely curated database of over 2 million publishers and 330,000 advertisers, which are then analysed, compared, and matched to make recommendations in ranked lists, matching the best publishers with each advertiser. The affiliate publishing market is worth 16 billion dollars per year but is still largely dominated by human-based agencies and is uniquely suited for automation. Publisher Discovery aims to capitalise on this aspect and establish itself as the market leader. The company has signed up over 50 publishers and is negotiating contracts with two large distribution partners. It is currently raising £1 million investment with £675,000 committed so far, to grow sales and operations and reach over £2m Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in the following 12 months.
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Expired
investment:
£800,000
Balkerne is a tech start-up providing software as a service to the property and insurance sector. They have developed SmartResilience, a real-time loss prevention software platform, which helps insurers and the insured understand the value at risk. Insurers spend £1.3bn a year on commercial property claims and £2.3 on domestic property claims, work on squeezed margins and struggle to differentiate with the competition. Balkerne provides customers with pre-emptive, bespoke information and actionable advice, allowing insurers to minimise claims, uninsured losses and improve the customer experience. Moreover, they helped businesses reduce their long term property risk through proactive mitigation and make insurance affordable. Their SmartResilience platform has been developed with the technical ability to integrate with both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Cloud. The company is registered on the AWS Partner Network and with Microsoft for Startups. Modular functionality is core to the platform, with the ability to seamlessly scale to meet customer requirements.
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Expired
investment:
£150,000
EMERGEiQ is a cloud-based platform targeted towards Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and large corporate organisations. The company plans on having an extensive suite of algorithms that simplifies Data Science (DS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at low cost, across all sectors. EMERGEiQ asserts that its analytics can help businesses improve operational productivity, cut costs, and eventually generate more revenue. It has worked with companies across a variety of sectors such as finance, medicine, stock market, and insurance. The company will use will 30% of the investment for R&D, 25% to purchase software and hardware to improve platform capabilities, 25% to market its new product line, 10% as working capital, and 10% as miscellaneous expenses.
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Expired
investment:
£150,000
Patria Watch Co is a 127-year old luxury Swiss watch brand originally founded in Bienne, Switzerland in 1982. The brand has been revived by Patria Ltd as a UK company and is ready to take on the emerging market for wristwatches. Patria has already produced its first line of watches with its first edition coming out in April, 2020. The brand has been featured in Forbes and has a partnership with luxury lifestyle publication 'WatchAnish.' The funds raised will be used in marketing and development of online magazines to showcase their range of luxury watches.
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Expired
investment:
£7,207
JiveBird allows users to create and send a greetings package that consists of a personal voice message, music, eCard, a photo or selfie, and a gift to their loved ones or acquaintances. The company asserts that its package can be sent at the last minute or in advance. Jivebird claims that for the millions of people who send greetings and gifts every year, its portal provides a personal, cheaper, and convenient way to send greetings. Jivebird argues that it has no direct competitors. Its exit strategy is to sell the company when it achieves the growth metrics in the business plan, projected to be within five years of consumer launch.
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Expired
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GemTrax.IO's GemTrax Mobile App provides buyers and sellers of precious stones a comprehensive set of logical, physical, and administrative protocols. Powered by blockchain technology, the app ensures informational integrity while providing an immutable and easily audited record of the material's journey from mine to sellers. GemTrax's strategy for capturing market share and increasing user base includes targeting specific upstream gemstone supply chain stakeholders in key CAHRA markets such as Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania. With the proceeds, the company will purchase rough diamonds in the DRC, issue certificates of origin, sell the diamonds, and complete development of the mobile app.
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Expired
investment:
£773
Academy of Robotics is a company that specialises in combining artificial intelligence to create task simplifying machines. Its proprietary invention, Kar-Go, is one of the world’s first AI-controlled autonomous vehicles that aims to remove the need for human intervention in last-mile deliveries reducing labour costs by as much as 90%. Last-mile delivery is a £78 billion business, and e-commerce customers increasingly expect cheap and fast deliveries. This is where Kar-go aims to establish itself as the market leader. The company utilises 'Platform-as-a-service' business model where last-mile autonomous delivery is sold as a service that consists of sale or rental of vehicles & infrastructure, operators and maintenance services, and other verticals. For its innovation, Academy of Robotics has been cited by British business magnate Richard Branson & Virgin as one of the companies to make a serious impact in the autonomous car space. It has also been featured on TV and in over 200 publications including The BBC, Wired, Mail Online, Guardian amongst others. The company will use the investment to finance the building of 10 vehicles which will be used to facilitate on-road-trial.
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