Nelson's Distillery & School (NDAS) makes and sells craft gin from its 290-litre state-of-the-art establishment. It also educates interested folks from its 28 seat Gin school in the art of making quality craft gin. Former Chef and founder, Neil Harrison, set out to create the best craft Gin and to educate others in the process. The company has produced and sold over 100,000 bottles since its founding in 2019. It aspires to become a contender in the global gin market valued at $15 billion. NDAS asserts that it is one of a few craft gin companies to win the coveted 3-star Great British Taste award, plus 6 other awards over 2 years. The company has also signed four contracts with the Hilton & Clayton hotels, three in the UK and one in Asia. NDAS will use the investment to expand its business and establish Nelson’s Gin school in all major cities.
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Imagen is a company that has developed an automated, sophisticated algorithmic technique, PredictRx, to find the right treatment for any cancer type. Imagen collects the cancer samples from a patient, grows it in its specialised growth medium, and then subjects the medium to an automated fluorescence microscopy screening to measure drug responses on live tumour cells. The company's AI-powered biobank of over 150,000 drug responses then gives the best possible cancer treatment options, allowing the company to expand in the pharmaceutical sector by satisfying its unmet demand for patient-derived cancer models. Imgen requires investment to scale its infrastructure to create the world's leading 'Biobank' of clinically relevant patient-derived cancer models whilst building the most comprehensive big data set available in cancer research.
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£1,036,436
Propetly is an online platform that acts as a connecting hub between investment providers and global investors in the field of real estate. It enables potential property investors to find, evaluate and calculate their investment project within minutes. With the help of AI-enabled architecture, Propetly can verify transactions on its portal, suggest finance options and ensure complete diligence of the transaction as per industry benchmarks. Given the relative lack of professional and up-to-date property investors in the UK, Propetly aims to become the one-stop-shop for all real estate deals. Its offering has led to Propetly being counted amongst leading PropTech brands in the UK. With the funds received, Propetly will invest in paid advertising and PR, upgrade its AI systems to enable more options are available to customers across wide demographics and human resources.
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£235,079
Span Health is a digital care platform that aims to help people avoid lifestyle-induced diseases, symptoms, medication, and complications. The company has helped more than 10,000 people to live a better and longer life. Span Health's easy-to-use mobile application allows patients to chat with clinicians, order blood tests at home, book video consultations, and see results in the application itself. Moreover, in 2019, the company agreed on a National Health Service (NHS) pilot test for 100 patients in collaboration with the National Institute of Health Research in North West London. Span Health will use the investment to provide employees with blood tests to screen for health risk factors and recover from detected illness safely and sustainably, improve its platform data insights, prediction and machine learning to better structure the clinician's processes, and further reduce its operational costs.
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£134,892
Square Mile Farms (SMF) is a company that installs innovative and productive vertical farms in a workplace to engage employees and help businesses create a culture of healthy, low-impact living. Its 'Office Farming' model creates green spaces for engagement and collaboration. In 2019, it was invited to build a vertical farm in Paddington Central by British Land, one of UK’s largest landowners. The setup now acts as a hub for the company's office farm installations and a base from which it can conduct Research and Development (R&D). SMF's customers include Grosvenor Group Limited and Vodafone. Moreover, the company has been covered by media platforms such as BBC One and BBC Radio. It will use 45% of the investment for sales and business development, 15% for design and technology up-gradation, 15% for raising its profile and increasing brand awareness, and 25% for operations.
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£504,118
Advanced Blast & Ballistic Systems (ABBS) is a company that has developed globally patented systems to counteract the forces an armoured vehicle sustains when a mine or Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explodes under it. As per reports, mines and IEDs accounted for over 80% of UK and US army casualties in Iraq & Afghanistan. ABBS believes that its products can keep occupants inside a vehicle completely safe from the aforementioned explosive devices. The armoured vehicle protection market has a value of about $20 billion wherein ABBS aims to be a major contender. The company has received £2 million-plus revenues till date from Research and Development (R&D) grants in the UK, as well as, sold its products to the US Army and Israel with profits worth £145,000 in 2018 and £560,000 in 2019 respectively. It will use the investment to bring its products to more markets globally.
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£445,814
Pharmseal is a software company that aims to disrupt clinical trial management. The company claims that companies typically use multiple applications for managing clinical trials from one or more vendors. This increases cost and complexity. Pharmaseal asserts that its cloud Business-2-Business (B2B) platform, Engility, simplifies control by providing a single management portal. The platform allows information to be centralised and accessed from a single platform. Pharmaseal claims that Engility will allow companies to save cost and time and enable them to bring life-saving drugs to market faster. The company will utilise 31% of the investment for commercialisation and marketing, 49% for product development, 13% for IT infrastructure, and 7% for administrative/legal/miscellaneous activities.
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£532,311
The Landsite is the UK's first online property portal that connects various entities within the property industry such as developers, legal services, insurance advisors and architects, to one another, simplifying the process of finding and buying a property. By registering with The Landsite, a business/professional can list their business as operating in a specific region of the country and appear against all property searches that take place in that same region. The user then needs to put in their postcode or address and can then access properties within that region, as well as, seek available professional guidance to zero in upon a potential purchase. The platform also has an insights page that aims to become a recruitment, training and educational hub for the property industry. The company will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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Antaco is a company that deals in waste management by converting it into neutral solid biofuel using their patented technology. The global water sector is estimated to present a £15 billion opportunity. To date, the company has raised £5.8 million, including an £857,000 grant from the UK government and has also signed a contract with its first customer (Swiss Public Utility). With the proceeds, the company will build up their in-house capacity, increase enhancement of existing plant and hire subcontractors to install and commission plant.
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£570,840
Jeeni is an online entertainment service that aims to harness the growing reach of streamed music. It has close to 350 million subscribers and a growth rate of 39% Year-on-Year (YoY) providing billion-dollar revenues for digital disruptors. The Jeeni prototype was launched in April 2019. The company asserts that it offers artists an ethical revenue share. Five revenue streams are operating in parallel on the Jeeeni platform, namely, subscription-based memberships, online masterclasses, bespoke hardware sales, pay-to-view streamed events, and branded merchandise sales. The company's long term goal is to surpass its target paid subscriber numbers, achieve high subscriber growth and exit by acquisition. The investment raised will be used to further scale the company's capacity globally and build its mass artist showcases.
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