Groubook is a social bookings platform that allows a group of users to pre-book nights out on its platform, letting themselves avail of discounts and earn rewards. The company claims that its focus groups are millennials who go out twice a week and spend £6589 a year, and students who avail of discounts, coupons and rewards on expenses. The company stresses that it offers its partners a non-contract service with no upfront fees. The company further points out that it sold 178 tickets for a local Nottingham bar event during the COVID pandemic, earning its partners £890 in pre-booking revenue. Groubook has featured in press entities such as Real Business, BBC, Venue Insight, and Sage amongst others. It has also partnered with 330+ venues nationally, including Olivias, Las Iguanas, Bella Italia, Revolution, and Bedlam paintball, to name a few. The company states it will use 65% of the investment towards hiring personnel, 22.9% towards promoting marketing campaigns, 7% towards overseeing location expenses, and 5.1% towards managing administrative expenses.
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£81,660
FETCH states that is a fully developed in-venue food and drinks order and pay solution built by POS8. The app allows customers to view a menu, order food and drink and pay securely, in a matter of seconds from their smartphones. POS8 claims that Fetch's 'Intelligent Ordering System' sends orders to a venue staff’s devices according to who has the fewest orders waiting. FETCH has helped 109 venues go live and processed 26,000 transactions from 87,000 registered users earning a platform flowthrough of £265,000 in March 2021. It has partnered with multiple Point of Sale (PoS) and payment systems including, Zonal, Oracle, Stripe, Square, and Adyen, to create an end-to-end solution, easy for venues to adopt. FETCH aspires to take a healthy share of the £98 billion food and drinks market. It says it will use 60% of the investment towards sales and marketing, 20% towards operations and 20% towards product development.
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£2,011,196
The Noo aims to redefine the delivery space by facilitating the delivery of anything, anywhere, anytime from a single application. It is on a mission to create a new micro-logistics delivery platform with no infrastructure needed besides a smartphone. The company also aspires to create a space where the local high street can compete with today's delivery giants. The Noo is backed by serial tech entrepreneur, Ant Sharp. The company has collected substantial data and insight, after 1.5 years of R&D and testing, to cater to the needs of its target audience and produce an app capable of changing the way things get delivered. It has also gained over 440 'Confirmation Of Interests' (COI) from potential investors willing to back the product. The Noo will use the investment to cover marketing costs, app development and maintenance costs, and general business running costs.
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£47,828
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
Bidvine is an online service marketplace offering 300+ services across the UK. The platform helps customers find and hire professionals or services relating to home improvement, events & photography, health & wellness, and many more. The company's biggest accomplishment to date has been the introduction of BidMatch which allows professionals to bid automatically on requests that match their preferences, availability, and budget. Bidvine has 100,000 registered professionals. Its mission is to help 250,000 local businesses to grow by £1 billion in 2025. The company will use 47% of investments on market development, 33% in the introduction of additional tools for service professionals, 12% in other operational expenses (OPEX), and 8% for international expansion.
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£2,764,793
Cranes Drinks is the fastest growing cider company in the UK, producing a range of innovative fruit ciders. By utilising the fruit’s natural sweetness, its drinks contain 30% fewer calories compared to that of brand leaders. Cranes ciders come in 3 flavours: blueberry & apple, cranberry & lime, and raspberry & pomegranate. As per Cranes, 34% of cider drinkers haven't consumed cider drinks much because it’s too sweet or has too much sugar. This makes Cranes a top contender in a growing fruit cider market worth £1.3 billion. The company's entire range is available on Ocado, and it has received 3 national listings in prominent retail chains like Sainsbury’s, Asda, and Morrisons. The brand has won 3 awards for its spirit range including a Gold Award in the Liqueur Masters organised by The Spirits Business and two awards from the International Wine & Spirits Competition. It has also received substantial media coverage in publications like Made In Chelsea, Dragons Dens, The Daily Telegraph, The Evening Standard, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Bella amongst others. With the investment, the company aims to use 25% of it as working capital, 60% in marketing, and 15% in managing key finances.
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£246,046
Perspective Pictures is a creative, digital-first video production company based in North London. The company asserts that existing video production companies produce good TV advertisements and long-form pieces for brands but fail to find an engaged online audience. PP asserts that its team of employees with an average age of 25, and in-house production crew and creatives allow it to produce a variety of video ads from a short snappy, subtitled Facebook ad to a long-form 22 minute YouTube series drawing in the target audience. The company sold over £200,000 worth of video content in the first 60 days of 2020. It has featured in news publications like The Evening Standard, Forbes, BA BusinessLife, Moneyweek, and Shortlist. PP will use the investment to make £2 million worth of video content per year, invest in team training and education to ensure that it can offer the best service/product to its clients, and help manage cash flow and unexpected situations.
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£108,046
innerworks is a behavioural analysis technology company that aims to capture and verify the true nature of people to build happier and more productive workforces. innerworks crowdsources anonymous opinions about people over time. The company argues that this verification model leverages objective, credible data, making its profiles more unique. Its mission is to empower users with their behavioural data. The company is backed by Ex-Microsoft and Ex-Groupon managers as part of this crwodfunding round. It has been featured in TechRound and Startups Magazine. innerworks will use the investment to finance product development and initial client traction ahead of its Q3 2021 seed round.
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£231,386
The Cookaway is a Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) company that makes and sells recipe boxes to users to enable them to make delicious food from the comfort of their homes. Users receive all the ingredients, including premium oils, along with complete recipe cards made by the company's expert chefs. The Cookaway has garnered over 500 verified reviews on TrustPilot with an 'Excellent' rating and onboarded 10 chefs including 5 MasterChefs and a 2-Michelin starred chef. It has featured in publications such as The Independent, Forbes, The Week, and The Daily Mail. The company was the 'Chosen Food Partner' for The Lord Mayor's Big Curry Lunch 2021. The Cookaway will use 25% of the investment to hire talent, 20% to boost brand visibility via content generation, 15% to make its technology platform more intuitive, 15% to launch new chefs and cuisines, 5% to improve its sustainability credentials, 5% to develop its app with more features, 10% towards automation, and 5% to launch a membership program.
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£792,187
Family Secret (FS) is a company that specialises in making sauces that are low on fat, sugar, calories and contain no added preservatives. The company's seven cooking sauces are listed with retailers including Ocado, Coop Midcounties, Amazon, as well as, hosted on QVC. The company's pouches are recyclable, and it is the process to make them compostable/biodegradable. It aims to be a disruptor in the $605 billion snacks market. FS won the 'Best Pitch' in the West Midlands 2019 via Pitchfest at Venturefest, were finalists for The Midlands region of the Family Business Entrepreneur 2019 via Great British Entrepreneur Awards, and appeared with celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay in a recipe video. The company will use the investment to expand its range of cooking sauces, produce more recipe videos to attract customers, expand sales by making its website more intuitive, and bring out snack boxes.
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investment:
£147,070
