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
True Royalty Television is the first and only established TV channel serving the global millions of Royal super-fans, with 20,000 paying subscribers already on its platform. The British Royal Family is the 4th biggest brand in the world. With 350+ hours of top quality Royal content, refreshed monthly and with exclusive commissions, True Royalty curates relevant titles according to Royal news and the viewer's interest areas—British Royals, World Royals, and Royalty through history. There are 25 million people in the US alone who identify as both active Royal fans and who stream on-demand TV, up almost 300% from 8.6 million in 2018. The founders of the channel have assembled a diverse team of proven experts in TV production and distribution, digital marketing, PR, and brand partnerships from around the world. With the investment, the channel has identified partners for further growth opportunities including launching beyond the current US, Canada, Australia, NZ, UK & Ireland into India, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East demographics.
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investment:
£2,148,699
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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Expired
investment:
£498,020
paus is an on-demand streaming service. It offers specialist, hand-picked independent films to today's streamers who wish to avail a niche streaming service in 2020. The company aims to propel curated independent cinema into the $161 billion global streaming market by replacing conventional subscription and ad-based models with a peer-to-peer digital tipping model. paus is working with globally recognised film institutions to procure curated content. Over 1,900 people have signed up for early access to its iOS app. The company is currently rolling out a beta iOS version in the UK and US. It will use the investment to move into streaming theatre and web-series on its portal.
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investment:
£352,724
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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Expired
investment:
£70,900
Rightangled is a healthcare technology company backed by NHS England & regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). It began its journey as a platform that would enable the use of genetic information within the medical practice, in an accurate, streamlined, and affordable way. It gradually established itself as a healthcare provider for screening and diagnostic services. Its Heart DNA Test project, launched in 2017, is helping patients minimize their cardiac risks and enabling doctors to have a complete risk profile for their patients. The project was appreciated and received funding from NHS England. Its next project, Fitness DNA Test, tapped into the fitness and wellbeing markets. Recently, in the wake of the COVID-19 threat, the company has developed a home-based throat swab test to detect the viral infection, by testing viral load presented in its nucleic acid material within (RNA). For its efforts, Rightangled has been featured on CNN, Sky News, LBC radio, Sky News radio, and Newsweek. With the investment, the company aims to release a mobile application by the end of 2020, and develop an AI system to give instant tailored health, diet, and fitness advice to its users based on the data gathered from patient-doctor interactions and patient responses.
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Expired
investment:
£522,689
Black Ballad (BB) is a subscription media lifestyle platform that uses media, community and data to empower black women in Britain and beyond. The company asserts that since its inception in 2014, it has become a dominant force for Black women in Britain, with thousands of members paying upwards of £4.99 per month or £49 per year to access BB's combination of content, events and lifestyle perks. BB claims that it has been the recipient of over £125,000 in grants from organisations that include NESTA, Deutsche Bank and Kings College London. BB argues that it launched two successful surveys about Black Motherhood and Black Women in Britain producing over 400,000 data points from nearly 6,000 respondents. The company has also signed a content partnership with BBC to launch Steve McQueen's 'Small Axe' mini-series. It will use 35% of the investment on technology evolution, 23% towards content creation, 23% towards audience development and marketing, 13% for business development, and 6% for legal, accounting and miscellaneous expenses.
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Expired
investment:
£337,885
Alyve provides personalised subscription nutrition powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). It argues that 8.2 million UK vitamin users are looking for personalised nutrition in one capsule. Alyve asserts that its product can fulfil this demand. Users complete a 3-minute questionnaire where their responses are recorded by Alyve's intelligent algorithms. These then, based on the responses, help the user select one of Alyve's nutritional pills best matched to their goals and needs. Alyve then delivers the pills to the user's doorstep every 30 days. The company has recorded 4000+ questionnaires and completed 800+ orders in 25 countries since Q4 of 2020. It aims to become a contender in the $21 billion supplement market. The company will use the investment received to increase marketing efforts, transform Alyve into a household brand, introduce new product lines, increase staff, improve technology, and transform both digital and physical User Experiences (UX).
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Expired
investment:
£227,782
FLY LDN is a fitness brand that imparts sports and fitness instruction via its digital platform and its studios in central London and Fitzrovia. The company launched its video-on-demand and live-streaming fitness platform, FLY LDN Online (FLO), in September 2020. It asserts that within six months of launch, FLO scaled over 28,000 monthly views across 80+ countries with users having viewed over 2.5 million minutes of FLY LDN workouts. FLY LDN won the Men's Health 'Best Studio 2019' award and was commended at the 2018 and 2019 Tatler Gym Awards. The company has also received press coverage in publications like Women's Health, Forbes, Esquire, Elle, Vogue, GQ and Glamour. It has also partnered with brands such as DKNY and ASOS. FLY LDN aspires to become a contender in the global online fitness market that is expected to reach $59 billion by 2027. The company will use the investment to further develop additional functionality and TV apps for FLO and fund marketing campaigns to fuel growth.
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Expired
investment:
£340,928
