Licklist is a social marketplace for nightlife. It is the only website that allows users to keep up to date with the latest news, reviews and events across the UK. For nightclubs and bars, they provide innovative tools for the users to fill a venue both cost-effectively and efficiently. They have a directory of over 6,000 venues to the community on their platform and operate the UK's largest photography agency with over 1,200 photographers, covering over 2,000 events per month and uploading over 50,000 photos per week. Till now, they have more than 600,000 registered users and they are growing by 10k-15k new users per month with positive cash-flow. With the proceeds, they will build a sales team, spend more on marketing and technology.
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investment:
£140,727
Artfinder is the art world's first certified B corporation that is on a mission to create a world where art benefits everyone. Operating in the $55 billion+ wall décor and online art market, the company is backed by Wellington Partners, and private investors in the UK, US and Switzerland. It has 60,000 customers, 6,000 artists and a collection of 470,000 artworks. The company believes in establishing direct contact with artists to select or commission work and negotiate prices. Customers have rated the company highly with 4.8+ Trustpilot reviews. The company will use the investment to supercharge its growth, grow its team and improve its platform.
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Expired
investment:
£834,056
Clooper is a property management platform. The company argues that 86% of private landlords in the UK manage their properties themselves, with many finding it time-consuming and stressful. Clooper seeks to solve this problem with a property management platform that connects landlords, tenants, trade services, and homeowners to facilitate easy transactions between them. It aims to be a significant contender in the £11 billion property management platform. The company points out that Paul Rothwell of Empire, a large residential landlord in England, has pledged £200,000 of investment to the company. Clooper aims to make move-ins quicker, repairs faster, and payments easier in the wake of Covid-19 which is fuelling the adoption of online services in the UK. The company will use the investment to hire key recruits, operationalise mobile apps, boost marketing, and enhance sales and operations.
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Expired
investment:
£409,847
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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investment:
£148,736
Trippki is a live and operational hotel booking platform with more than 1.6m hotels around the world. The platform accepts payment in cryptocurrency for a growing crypto community who want to grow the ecosystem. The company caters to both the new traveller and the experienced traveller for offering a user-friendly hotel booking portal where users have access to hotels globally at competitive prices through Trippki.com. The company's standard booking platform is 'The Trippki Travel Club' where users become exclusive members to get access to discounts up to 60% off the public price. 45% of the proceeds will be used on towards the company's marketing and sales campaign to drive users to the hotel booking platform, 35% for team building and the rest of the 20% for the development of the platform.
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Expired
investment:
£40,220
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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Expired
investment:
£235,079
Ortharize is a business travel platform that enables companies to cut their travel bills by rewarding their employees for spending less on flights, hotels and trains. With a proven business model, the company is confident that their innovative incentives platform coupled with competitive customer pricing will lead to rapid growth. They are in talks with Expenses Software Company to rollout to 1000+ customers. Moreover, through its partnership with Travel & Transport, Ortharize also has access to global airline and hotel inventory with pre-negotiated discounts and commission from launch. The company is planning to exit within 5 years and expect this to be through a trade sale.
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investment:
£435,360
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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investment:
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Creative Hub is a fast-growing cloud software platform for creative people to store, share files, and collaborate on projects. The collaboration tools also allow users to chat in real-time, and add comments on images, allowing creative teams to work faster and deliver better results. Creative Hub enables users to order professional art & photographic prints, or physical 3D prints, which are produced at its print production facilities in London(UK) and Dusseldorf (Germany). The platform currently has 40,000 active users which are growing day by day. With the investment, the company will drive growth through marketing and launch its New York production facility.
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Expired
investment:
£286,992
YellowWood Adventures Limited is an adventure travel company that pioneers in small group adventures in destinations like Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Lebanon, Ladakh, and soon, Oman. The company believes in supporting local economies, discouraging littering and adopting sustainable tourism, and supporting charities while taking its clients on tours. The global adventure tourism industry is projected to reach $1,626.7 billion by 2026, and the company finds itself as a suitable contender in this category. YellowWood has been featured in publications such as The Telegraph, Times, CNN & NatGeo. The company will use the investment to expand its team and marketing budget, enhance its products catalogue, and structure its website to further communication with its clients to boost its business.
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Expired
investment:
£61,810
