Book My Garage has been launched to help the independent garage market in winning the online race by giving them all the tools to keep their business profitable, win new customers and to keep their diary full.
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£668,189
Riders can enjoy indoor cycling within a boutique fitness studio. In the past 6 years, Boom Cycle have opened five sites are now seeking funds to expand their portfolio. To date, Boom Cycle has acquired over £4.1m from private investors and in 2017 spent £2.1m on developing two flagship studios. The company has experienced attendance growth of 47% YoY, as well as a 77% increase in revenue YoY.
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£805,260
Offering people the opportunity to experience boating through a boat charter marketplace via a mobile app. Borrow A Boat allows customers to book a peer-to-peer or commercial boat near them from anywhere in the world. Boats and watercrafts listed on the platform range from stand-up paddleboards to superyachts.
Borrow A Boat lists over 16,000 boats on their marketplace, including boats from private owners. The service is available in 60 countries, with the option of renting the same day.
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£1,496,600
An oral hygiene service giving people stunning smiles and a healthy mouth with eco-friendly products. Brushbox uses a subscription model to deliver oral care goods directly to a customer's home on a regular basis. Since launching in January 2018, Brushbox has sold more than 3,000 boxes and will be offering their services via Ocado in January 2019.
The company is partnered with Denplan, Dentaid and Ronald McDonald House Trust. Through these collaborations, Brushbox has donated over 5,000 toothbrushes via their 'Buy 1, Give 1' initiative. Funds raised will be allocated towards expanding the range of products and working directly with dentists through a partnership programme.
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£738,670
Byrd is a coaching platform that works around everyday life to keep people running. It asserts that its unique EQAI-coach uses 1 billion variables to coach people to their goal, whether that’s simply to remain healthy or to hit a specific event. The company estimates that 200 million people were running globally in 2018. It seeks to target this group and become a contender in a fitness market that is estimated to be worth $2.4 billion. The company has created and tested two beta versions of its Android and iOS apps. It points out that it has conducted surveys involving hundreds of runners clocking in 20,000 km of running and incorporated that data into its portal. Byrd argues that its app has been built on Google Cloud infrastructure and is ready to horizontally scale. It will use 40% of the investment in product evolution, 20% in acquisition, 23% towards marketing, and 17% towards enriching customer experience.
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£266,836
Capital Physio is one of the UK’s fastest growing providers of retail physiotherapy. Since inception in 2012, the group has opened 17 clinics as part of a highly scalable and growth driven business model.
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£6,210
Europe's largest marketplace for classic cars. In 2018, Car & Classic achieved revenues of £1.3m, with the value of vehicles sold exceeding £480m and their website is visited by 2.2m users every month. 60% of revenue is derived from data contracts, whilst the other 40% is generated via advertisements.
Data contracts are held by Cazana, the owner of Car & Classic, which is a B2B platform that values every vehicle by performing machine learning algorithms. The company claims that hundreds of businesses utilise this data. The Financial Ombudsman has declared that this data is recommended to be used for vehicle valuations during insurance claim cases.
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£1,541,590
Carbaya are an easy way to buy and sell a used car. They are an online peer to peer marketplace that puts convenience, value and trust back into the used car industry, offering buyers and sellers better value for their car and money. The marketplace will serve all used cars less than 6 year old and with less than 60,000 miles and once a sale is made they will drop the car off, washed and with a full tank of petrol to the buyer.
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£351,273
Carnot is developing revolutionary fuel-agnostic engines with an uncooled design and technical ceramics, achieving game-changing efficiencies of up to 70% to rapidly decarbonize heavy duty transport, off-grid power, and other challenging sectors, thus accelerating the transition to Net Zero and significantly reducing emissions.
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£502,088
Carnot is developing hydrogen engines with key components manufactured from ceramics able to withstand fuel combustion temperatures, eliminating the need for cooling systems and doubling the efficiencies of modern engines. The company argues that modern engines waste on average one-third of fuel energy to cool systems that stop metallic components from melting. Carnot claims that its engines eliminate this waste doubling efficiency, halve fuel costs and CO2 and achieve net-zero operation by operating on biofuels and hydrogen benefiting the long haul transport, marine and primary off-grid power markets. Carnot has raised over £600,000 including a pre-seed round in 2020 for £357,000 at a pre-money valuation of £2 million, a £300,000 Innovate UK grant and another £300,000 Eureka Eurostar’s grant. Carnot has a 5-year, 3-phase exit strategy and will begin licensing its IP at the end of 2023 at which point it will begin generating revenue. It will eventually look for acquisition from one of its manufacturing partners in 2025 after demonstrating industry acceptance of its technology.
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£262,500
