Dadsnet is a community-focused digital agency that focuses on fathers. The company stresses that the majority of dads feel lonely in their role as dads and feel unprepared to be a dad. It further claims that dads feel undervalued and misrepresented in the media. Dadsnet strives to become a meaningful community of dads helping them become a little better at raising their kids each day. The company creates, produces and distributes exceptional video, influencer and podcast content through its online communities, earning satisfactory results for its clients. Dadsnet claims that it received a Facebook grant of $50,000 and unprecedented access to the latter's resources culminating in Dadsnet becoming one of Facebook's chosen strategic partners. It was the the 'Winner of Best Small Agency' at the UK Social Media Awards. The company states it will use 70% of the investment towards personnel hiring, 15% towards web development and User Experience (UX), 10% towards creating unique content, PR and marketing campaigns, and 5% for contingency events.
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£129,747
Kindred is a social enterprise platform working with 25,000 brands and helping over 25,000 charities online through conscious consumption. It has built a browser extension and mobile app that allows consumers to shop online, get discounts, earn cash back and donate a percentage of that cash back to a chosen charity all on one single portal. The company asserts that charities are experiencing a 48% drop in donations in the wake of COVID-19. Since Kindred's launch in March 2020, customers have bought products worth over £3.3 million. The company aims to be a major contender in the social enterprise category. Kindred has raised over £470,000 for charity in 6 months. It has also raised a seed funding of £2.1 million in 2019. The company will use the investment to scale its operations.
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£406,816
Swift Social is an easy-to-use social media promotional tool for creatives and SMEs. It helps everyone, no matter their experience or skill set to grow an engaged audience on social media. Since launching their beta they have gained over 800 users across 69 countries.
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£39,310
Clima Investments is a green technology company. It wants to shift the narrative in green investing towards the companies that can enable CO2 avoidance. The company's platform allows it to share its methodology and vision with all individuals that care about climate change. It endeavours to create an equity benchmark comprised of 152 listed companies that have taken significant steps to reduce Global carbon emissions. The company also aspires to be a contender in the $250 billion green investments market. It has signed a partnership with independent ETF specialist, HANetf, for the launch of its first Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF). It will use the investment received to pay for operating expenses of creating, marketing and managing its climate-based ETF, supervise operating expenses of the company and handle the cost to run the platform.
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£342,207
Loose Ends helps you spend more time with friends, and less time organising. Simply post what you plan to do, say where and when you’ll be doing it, and the app will reach out to friends who want to join you.
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£103,770
We created FlyFit with the aim to change the way people travel. Air travel can be stressful, lonely, and unhealthy. On top of this, with average layovers of 2+ hours, flight delays, and hours waiting in security, there is too much unproductive time in airports with limited healthy options to choose from.
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£500,060
Elite Training Experience (ETE) aims to become the de facto provider of warm weather triathlon training camps, not just to the UK's 140,000 triathletes but to the estimated 2,000,000 triathletes around the world.
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£139,470
Native Products are a modern grooming brand developed by barbers and they now have a range of 7 men's grooming products with a further 8 in the pipeline. They are stocked across the UK, Europe, Asia and America, with plans to launch new products and grow their sales through stockists and online.
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£32,400
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£964,550
&SISTERS is a femcare company offering products that are hypoallergenic, pH-neutral and free from chlorine, pesticides & perfumes. It has sold 225,000+ certified organic cotton period products, directly to 300+ customers. The company has many listed retailers including Feel Unique, Farmdrop and Triyoga and exports to many countries including Asia and Europe. In January 2020, &SISTERS is planning to launch a new paper-wrapped naked tampon®. With the proceeds, the company will expand the product range, expand the team, raise awareness and accelerate sales.
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£199,630
