Gendius is a company that aims to bring pharmaceuticals and health economics, through clinical research and evidence, to the mobile health market. Their latest innovation, Intellin, is an intelligent remote management diabetes platform, with over 140,000 downloads so far. The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the need for remote home monitoring of patients, and the company feels that its product is a suitable contender in this domain. Intellin has a reliable connection to over 150 medical devices and apps, and also consists of a two-way communication setup with a healthcare professional via a secure dashboard. Gendius is registered as an approved vendor with AstraZeneca in Saudi Arabia and looks to establish deeper relations with the National Health Service (UK) to create a demand for its product. The company will use the investment to scale its business globally, drive commercialisation, offer an opportunity to its stakeholders, and target venture capital.
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£386,829
Biohm is an eco-conscious bio-technology company that is revolutionising construction through nature-inspired innovation. The company has adopted methods such as circular construction system, biomimicry, and triagomy. Some of the company’s carbon-negative bio-based materials include building insulation made out of Mycelium (the root structure of mushrooms) and ORB (Organic Refuse Biocompound), a 100% natural sheet material made out of food and agricultural surplus. For its innovation, Biohm won the Waitrose and Partners Plan Plastic Prize: The Million Pound Challenge and a Power to Change grant worth £600,000 to build sustainable living premises. It has also been shortlisted as one of The United Nation’s ‘Young Champions of the Earth’. The company will use 38% of the investment to grow its team, 22% to scale Research and Development (R&D), 22% to protect its Intellectual Property (IP), and 18% for product accreditation.
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£790,700
WeVee is a platform that brings Electric Vehicles (EVs) into one place so that potential customers can browse across different models and makes, compare them, get relevant pricing, and configure a leasing plan, with the help of reliable EV experts. The company asserts that its pricing configurator pulls from some of the UK's top lenders such as Lex Autolease, LeasePlan, Arval UK, and ALD Automotive, using Application Programming Interface (API's) to show the best price for each lease configuration. WeVee argues that over 800 vehicles have been ordered on its portal to date. It has also earned £830,000 worth of revenue since launch and garnered 350+ 5-star Trustpilot reviews. WeVee will use the investment for technology development, marketing, contingency purposes, towards paying its tech, leadership, marketing, and operations teams, and upgrades to its IT hardware.
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£1,602,196
TV.FIT is a streaming service and app that allows its users to access 100 hours of health & wellbeing content from global fitness experts & celebrities. Its subscription service is accessible in 66 countries across 6 continents. The platform aims to cater to all aspects of fitness, from mental health support for those who have yet to start to improve their fitness to creating content for those who are already working on their fitness regime. Its programs are created by some of the world’s most well-known fitness figures including George St-Pierre, Caroline Pearce, Gemma Atkinson, and Pierre Pozzuto. The platform has a global multimedia reach of over 8 million followers via partners such as TruFusion and CoolEvents, with another 6 million+ prospective users in the pipeline. TV.FIT also disseminates NHS-recommended mental-health-focused content on its platform. With the funds received, the platform aims to invest 31% of it in marketing, 28% in international content development, 22% in capital reserves, 18% in content production, and 1% towards repayment of debt.
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£2,208,212
MysteryVibe creates doctor-recommended sexual health devices. The company combines research and engineering by onboarding leading doctors to design devices that address major sexual health issues such as erectile dysfunction, dryness and pain during intercourse. MysteryVibe has changed over 50,000 lives in 65 countries, witnessed $1 million worth of direct sales in 2020, and became the first sexual health startup to be featured on a BBC documentary. The company has received 20+ international awards including, the coveted Design Week Awards where its product, 'Crescendo', beat the Apple Watch. MysteryVibe has featured in media entities like Men's Health, Women's Health, The Daily Dot, and Forbes, to name a few. The company will use 25% of the investment to expand and scale its digital marketing campaign, 25% to launch two new products, 25% to expand its team, and 25% on building its inventory.
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£498,020
Docandu is an innovative digital health platform designed both for patients & doctors, making digital healthcare accessible from anywhere. Docandu aims to be a key tech health service provider, starting from Greece, improving the existing national and private health care services. The global digital health market is estimated to be worth $536 Billion by 2025. To date, they have developed two separate apps for doctors and patients. They have also received an angel investment of 100,000 Euros and sponsorship of $25,000 from Microsoft. The company has initiated early-stage relationships with a couple of Greek public and private health entities. With the proceeds, they will execute their go-to-market strategy and make global health ID a reality, by expanding its affiliate network of doctors, health providers and public health systems.
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£70,900
ePOS Hybrid has developed a fully connected ePOS platform dedicated to the hospitality food industry. The company is on a mission to empower hospitality businesses to harness technology to improve the business operations, customer experience and profitability. Till now, they have secured an enterprise customer with locations throughout the UK and, in just 8 months, scaled from 0 to 200 customers, processing more than 400k orders. With the proceeds, the company plans to accelerate growth by increasing its market awareness and boosting sales.
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£363,830
Over the past 8 years, Advatech Healthcare has created Hippo, a proven disabled and non-emergency patients transportation services (NEPTS) in the Essex area. Due to its dependability and efficiency, Hippo is now poised to become the UK's best national wheelchair accessible healthcare services on a wearable technology platform. According to the Office for Technology Statistics data, there are 13.37 million people disabled in the UK who lack dedicated non-emergency transportation. Hippo could save the National Health Service (NHS) up to 60% on transportation costs increasing faster hospital bed rotation and providing dedicated transportation for disabled and non-emergency patients with a medically trained staff. It also offers medical and technological necessities not offered by many leading operators. Currently, the company operates within the Essex area. By the end of 2020, the company aims to commence seven new contracts it has signed with the NHS. It also signed a deal with Cambridge Adult Social Care that is expected to close, within a 5-year term and generate over £200,000 per year.
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Plug-N-Go is a company that provides electric vehicle charging infrastructure with the aim of sustainably electrifying transport. The company has 24 charge points that are accessible to users via its app. It sources 100% renewable energy from its partners at Octopus Energy. Air pollution is contributing to 40,000 early deaths a year in the UK that Plug-N-Go is striving to change. The global electric vehicle charging stations market will reach USD 27.7 billion by 2027 from an estimated USD 2.5 billion in 2019. The company hopes to become a strong contender in this segment. Plug-N-Go is in discussions over multi-site agreements with the Co-operative Society and Eden district council and has received interest from Associated British Ports. Its goal is to install 3,800 EV charge points for the public in 5 years at sites where drivers are already parking. The company will use the investment to deliver EV charging stations to businesses across the UK.
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investment:
£176,008
Evaclite manufactures dynamic exit signs designed to make buildings safer and save lives. The company argues that its products are 77% more visible than conventional exit signs and reduces congestion at exits by 36%. The company received the 2018 FIREX - Fire Innovation of the Year Award. It also won the Safety and Health Excellence (SHE) Award in 2019 and 2020. Evaclite counts companies like Apple, CBRE, BBC, Melia, and MetroBank amongst its clients. The company has inquiries from over a dozen countries globally with a 12-month sales opportunity pipeline of over £1.5 million. It will use 60% of the investment to build its sales team, 28% to boost its inbound marketing campaign, 7% to develop additional intellectual property, and 5% towards overhead and general costs.
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£148,736
