Kocktail creates cocktails designed by award-winning mixologists. The company has sent out over 4,000 orders since its launch, generated £120,000 in revenue, and garnered over 100 five-star reviews from its customers. Kocktail asserts that its curator, Neil, was the senior bartender at the Savoy Hotel’s Beaufort Bar. The company presents all of its drinks with stunning garnishes and gives customers the low-down on what they’re drinking via its 'Story Behind the Serve Cards'. Kocktail has featured in the Stylist, Esquire, Delicious, Telegraph, and Metro. It has also featured on the BBC’s 'Saturday Kitchen Live'. The company aims to venture into onboarding retailers like Amazon and Ocado through a multi-national spirits distributor. It will use 57.2% of the investment for marketing, 18.3% for paying staff salaries, 16% for procuring raw materials, and 8.5% for capital investment.
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£166,994
Kokoon is a digital platform that offers personalised, clinically approved, intelligent audio content and coaching for better sleep and relaxation. The company has also introduced a set of ergonomic headphones that work seamlessly with the Kokoon app and encourages and protects relaxation and sleep. The company has also been featured in esteemed platforms such as BBC, HuffPost, and The Guardian. Since its inception 4 years ago, Kokoon has received over £4.5m in online sales, scaled manufacturing to 6000 units per month, won an Innovate UK Government Grant and has 5 international patents in its portforlio. Going forward, Kokoon aims to become a world-leading technology brand, positively changing the lives of millions.
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£1,654,936
LABFRESH produces menswear that is more durable using fabrics that repel stains and body odour, and are wrinkle repellent.
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£1,302,758
Licklist is currently one of the UK's largest directories for nightlife and music festivals. Using Licklist, 18-30 year olds can plan their perfect night out, allowing them to discover events, offers and venues. For nightclubs and bars, Licklist provide them with tools that help them get more people into their venue.
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£103,288
Walljam is a sports technology business that is digitising ball sports through its advanced, smart panel technology. The company's latest offering, 'Metrix', is the first football-themed social entertainment venue launched in partnership with UEFA Champions League. Walljam intends Metrix to be the turning point in the company's image from a purely fan engagement platform to a social entertainment and live events operator. Metrix's inaugural venue will open in Autumn 2020 at Westfield London (White City), Europe’s largest shopping mall. Under the UEFA Global Licensing Partnership, nine more venues are expected to open across Europe within the next five years. The company is seeking to raise funds of £3.5 million at a pre-money valuation of £3.6 million. It will use the investment to launch the first Metrix venue and manage working capital.
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£577,132
Netflix, Inc. is an American media service provider and production company founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California. It has 100 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 125 million hours of TV programmes and films per day. In 2017, the company's project 'The White Helmets' won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). For the fiscal year 2019, the company's annual net income was $1.9 billion, up 54.1% Year-over-Year (YOY). The company has won a list of accolades such as the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Film Awards, Grammy Awards, and Daytime Emmy Awards, to name a few. It will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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£844,200
Nix & Kix creates and sells a range of drinks low in calories, completely natural and without any added sugar. It asserts that its products are stocked across 3,000+ shops, restaurants, bars and offices. It also claims that its products are housed across 7,500 distribution points such as Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsbury's, Nando's, BP, Morrisons, and Holland & Barrett, to name a few. Nix & Kix has sold over 5 million of its cans to date. It has also secured a listing with Matthew Clark, the biggest distributor of restaurants, pubs and bars in the UK. The company has applied for a B-Corp accreditation. Nix & Kix has also won numerous awards and has been called 'Addictively tasty' by the press (Time Out 2019). It will use the investment to expand into the convenience channel, grow its e-commerce platform, boost brand awareness, and scale operations.
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£830,760
Oxford Nanoimaging (ONI) is an offshoot company, born from the biological physics lab at Oxford University, that specialises in super-resolution microscopy. Its innovation, Nanoimager, is a super-resolution fluorescence and portable microscope that is capable of real-time 3D localization analysis and rendering. It has multiple applications in a variety of fields such as viral particle imaging, quantitative cellular imaging, epigenetic mapping, and many more. ONI states that the Nanoimager can align and analyse samples, and then upload the results onto a computer for deeper graphical and data examination. ONI is also supporting the global effort into research and diagnostics to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and finds the Nanoimager uniquely suited to this task. The company plans to use the investment to grow its business and ensure more institutions and researchers adopt its technology.
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Ozoneplay has created a mobile game competition platform for players to play against their friends in competitions, tournaments or play 1 to 1 match ups and win real cash prizes. All games are based on skills as opposed to usual gambling apps which are based on chance.
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£150,812
Pale Green Dot (PGD) is a company that provides a ‘closed-loop food system’ in the UK, targeting the £60 billion+ hospitality market. It says it collects food waste from commercial kitchens, turns it into bio-fertiliser and energy, and uses this energy to grow next seasons produce to deliver fresh produce to commercial kitchens and homes. The company claims that 5% of consumers want carbon labelling on menus. PGD aims to capture this sentiment and become a contender in the £60 billion sustainable food spend category. It claims that its commercial sales grew 740% since January 2021. The company has secured one of the UK’s largest 'Contract Caterers', with the potential to be worth £5 million a year. PGD points out that it has onboarded two multi-site independent chains, namely Granger & Co and Caravan to deliver sustainable produce. PGD will use the investment to grow its production on company-owned farms, grow purchasing opportunities with partner farms, and invest in people, training, and systems to improve sales, marketing, and operations.
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£502,167
