Fully Charged is a broadcasting, digital and events business with the aim to become the world’s no.1 consumer channel for everything related to clean energy technologies & electric vehicles. The company's work has been met with more than 3 million monthly episode views globally on its YouTube channel with a record 4.6 million views in August 2019. Fully Charged is receiving ~£8,000 per month from YouTube advertising. It has successfully crowdfunded its first book, 'The Fully Charged guide to Electric Vehicles & Clean Energy'. Fully Charged LIVE has also won the ‘Pioneer Award’ at the British Renewable Energy Awards. With the investment, the company will hire additional staff/freelancers to drive audience, invest in audience growth through merchandising, hold more events, and establish a larger production office at Bristol & Bath Science Park to manage its increasing workflow.
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£558,734
planarTECH is an engineering company founded in 2014 as a provider of process equipment for the growth and characterisation of graphene and other emerging 2D materials. Its core product line is the planarGROW Chemical Vapor (CVD) system. The company has the ability to deliver scalable production systems that allow lower-cost production of graphene in comparison to other options currently available in the market. Moreover, from 2014 to 2019, the company’s cumulative revenues exceeded £5 million. The company's products have been installed and used by faculties and students at prestigious universities like Stanford University (USA), IIT- Bombay (India), Deakin University (Australia), and many others. From the investment, the company will utilise 45% as working capital, 30% in Capital Expenditures (CAPEX), 15% in R&D and 10% in hiring additional staff.
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£425,061
Thinking of You is a mobile app designed for the charity sector to attract critical but harder to reach younger demographic. It links messages to donations, launching a whole new way of supporting others and their charities. It is supported by The Charities Aid Foundation and has 70 charity partners already. Thinking of You aims at achieving a 1.5% market share by end Y3. With the proceeds, the company will develop the application and rapidly grow userbase and charities.
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£133,560
PopUp Painting (PUP) is an art company that aims to be the leader in organising experiential social painting events in the UK. The company endeavours to bring art out of the classroom and gallery into the places people meet on an everyday basis, thereby, unleashing creativity. PUP has hosted over 45,000 guests to date. Total revenues to date are £1.1 million. In the last financial year, the company generated revenues of £373,000. The COVID-19 pandemic in March led to PUP launching its online art sessions which was met with positive feedback. The company resumed hosting in-person COVID-secure events from July 2020 onwards. PUP is seeking £175,000 at a pre-money valuation of £1.3 million to launch its own Central London experiential events space and to expand its current services to reach a new product market.
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The Ticket Bank (TTB) is an online ticketing marketplace that provides event tickets to disadvantaged and marginalised individuals free of charge. The company is powered by 'Tickets for Good'. It works with event organisers, charities, and community organisations to distribute otherwise unused event tickets to beneficiaries, creating unique life experiences that provide wide-ranging benefits to the health and wellbeing of its target audience. The platform already supports over 500+ charity partners who can choose tickets from over 50 venues/entertainment partners. The company introduced the 'Virtual Ticket Bank' and 'The Giving Back campaign' in the COVID-19 pandemic wherein it is sourcing thousands of tickets for National Health Service (NHS) and frontline care workers to express its gratitude for their services. They can use these tickets when the lockdown is over. The company will use the investment to create the integrations and data gathering tools to rapidly grow its channels, as well as, create additional value for both its charity and venue clients.
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£145,246
Pawprint is a behavioural change platform that is on a mission to fight climate change. The platform allows people to measure, understand and reduce their carbon footprint, and fight ‘climate change’ by giving people bite-sized chunks to focus on. It aims to be the middleman, helping brands reach and understand their audience by offering these brands personalised challenges to help their reduce carbon footprint. The market for behavioural change platforms is slowly gaining solid traction with established brands such as Fitbit, Strava, and Calm. Pawprint aims to capitalise on this collective concern and deliver services that help mitigate those concerns.
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£352,440
Nikalyte is a specialist in nanoparticles research and development (R&D) as well as commercialisation in various application areas such as cell binding, cell separation, drug delivery, catalysis, nano-photonics, and electrochemistry. The company is developing a nanoparticle generator, which will enable researchers to produce nanoparticles of almost any metal or alloy on almost any substrate via a user-friendly interface. Nikalyte is offering free nanoparticle samples to researchers investigating antiviral materials, such as Copper and Silver, towards developing a vaccine for Covid-19. The company also offers a consultancy service that provides advice on nanoparticle applications and ultra-high vacuum systems. The company aims to use the investment to scale its business.
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People spend more on activities for their children than electricity or holidays. KalliKIds makes sure they spend wisely, picking classes, places to go and services they can trust: Trip Advisor or Go Compare for kids with up-front checking. Parents get to know the best choices and discounts and the activity providers get promoted. KalliKids has 670 providers, a renewal rate of >70% and providers signing up for a third year. The website has smashed its five year targets with 27k hits/month.
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£174,946
FloatWind manufactures mass-produced floating offshore wind turbines. It seeks to disrupt the £20 billion offshore wind energy market. The company argues that conventional offshore wind farms, installed at sea, use expensive and slow installation methods that are also dangerous to the marine environment. It further stresses that the high cost of installation is often borne by the consumer. FloatWind asserts that its business model is different. The company claims to build its products on land and then floats its ready-to-float turbines out to sea. The company points out that this reduces environmental damage, substantially reduces costs, and makes offshore wind energy cheaper. FloatWind was selected for a 6-month UK Innovate Edge business mentoring programme and appeared for SetSquared Business Mentoring Seminar in May 2021. The company has 3,000+ followers on LinkedIn. FloatWind states it will use the investment for product development, expanding its team, IP protection, promoting marketing and PR, and boosting its manufacturing capabilities.
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£311,497
Using the latest in technology to recycle a wider range of plastics with environmentally friendlier results. Recycling Technologies have created the RT7000, a machine that processes plastic waste and recycles it into Plaxx®. This new product can be used in wax products, as well as new plastic. Plastic products that are generally considered non-recyclable such as food trays and pouches, films and crisps packets can be processed by the company's machine.
Contributions in the funding round will be invested towards developing around 200 RT7000 machines per annum at the company's manufacturing site, with a 2027 target of 1300 RT7000s to be leased to other businesses. Recycling Technologies has predicted that that from 10m tonnes of plastic, 7m tonnes will be processed into Plaxx®. Furthermore, funds will be allocated to expand the team and Binn Ecopark site, as well as run a 24/7 trial on their new plant.
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£1,938,060
