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
Whitehall Finance (WF) is a Business-to-Business (B2B) financial technology platform that provides working capital to UK-based Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The company offers revolving credit facility that is withdrawable in currencies like GBP, USD or EURO or a combination of the above under a single facility agreement. It also permits buying companies to offer their suppliers an early payment for a discount, as well as, enables users to access Forex services and creditworthiness data of companies. WF has extended around £16 million in finance through 1,600+ transactions over its platform in the past one year. The company will use 30% of the investment to expand its sales, 20% to increase its marketing budget, 30% to increase operational capacity to service volume business, and 20% to develop key partner relationships.
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£160,027
Bippit is a wellbeing platform that provides employees with financial consultancy from a professional with zero cost to the employees themselves. The company asserts that COVID-19 has made financial consultancy services difficult to access for employees. Bippit aims to resolve this situation. It is available in mobile and desktop formats and integrates with an employees’ entire financial life through 'Open Banking'. Bippit argues that this helps staff members receive all the tools they need to learn, plan, and take action concerning their finances. It also helps companies save time and money, ensures that employees receive an impartial support system, and allows financial experts to get an extra revenue stream. The company will launch an Initial Public Offering (IPO) likely within 5 years if it moves beyond strategic acquisition.
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£73,000
Clim8 is a financial technology company that aims to move billions of pounds of investment into sectors such as clean energy, clean technology, sustainable food, smart mobility, and recycling. It is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The company quotes United Nations data arguing that the world needs to invest $2.4 trillion every year into clean energy, from now until 2035, to meet climate change targets. Clim8 aims to capitalise on this objective through its app. The company has raised £1.9 million in seed funding across two rounds, in December 2019 and April 2020, respectively. It also overachieved its first Crowdcube campaign by over 300%. The company will use the investment to continue onboarding its waiting list of over 10,000 and grow its business across different verticals.
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£2,348,974
RheEnergise is an energy company that plans to transform pumped hydro technology and boost its capacity with its patented High-Density Hydro (HDH) technology. The company asserts that, by installing HDH on smaller hills and combining it with its HD Fluid R-19, businesses could produce 2.5 times the energy compared to low-density pumped-hydro. RheEnergise aims to install multiple HDH projects to meet the UK's growing energy needs. The company has agreements with entities like SSE, WelshPower, GreenCat Renewables and REG-Power. It is currently using its funding grants of ~£270,000 over the next nine months to build a defendable "Moat" of IP (Patents, Design and copyrights, know-how, and trade secrets) across six critical integrated sub-systems. The company will use the investment received to hire key personnel, progress patents, and accelerate its activities.
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£850,000
Charm is a peer-to-peer impact investment platform that allows a user to use his/her investments to drive positive change in the world while earning a financial return. Morgan Stanley estimates that 85% of people are interested in sustainable investing. Charm enables individuals to fund projects led by high-impact entrepreneurs selling clean energy solutions in developing economies. Users can view their investments on the company's transparent, personalised impact investment dashboard, as well as, earn social, environmental and financial bottom line returns for their contributions. The company secured a £496,000 grant funding to develop its platform, refine its offering & provide growth capital. It is in the process of becoming an appointed representative of a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) authorised entity post this funding round. It will use the investment to expand its team, develop its platform, and raise brand awareness.
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£273,720
Fairer Finance (FF) is a consultancy launched in 2014, on a mission to become the UK's most trusted provider of consumer financial services ratings. FF makes money through four key channels namely, licensing access to its data and insights, selling endorsements to those who do well in its ratings, sponsored research that helps improve the financial services market, and helping firms do better for their customers. FF earned £170,000 worth of revenues in its latest quarter, had its ratings published on thetimes.co.uk, which got 35 million views/week and onboarded noted entity, Lloyds Bank, that uses FF's data insights. The company aims to expand into more banking and insurance sectors and grow its consumer presence, helping it to strike deals with comparison sites and sign up more companies for its Insight services. The company will use the investment to expand its campaigning work and create a fairer market for consumers.
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£291,899
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
Emission Solutions (EMSOL) empowers organisations to take everyday steps to reduce emissions through their real-time emission monitoring and analytics system. EMSOL's open framework platform is built with networks of sensors like air and noise pollution, vehicle tracking, and working with any asset tags and emission sensors which enables EMSOL to perform real-time measurements with location tags and calibrated sensors. Data from these platforms are easily shared on dashboards, through notifications and gives detailed real-time data on urban noise, air quality, and vehicle pollution. To date, EMSOL won Rushlight Environmental Analysis Award, achieve yearly income targets, rated 5th place in the national PowerUp Index and 4th in the London and South East region. Moreover, EMSOL also won a fully funded project sponsored by DFT to deploy EMSOL technology into the rail sector. The company will use the funds to expand its customer base and increase the number of deployment sites.
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£316,884
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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