Fully Charged is a broadcasting, digital and events business with the aim to become the world’s no.1 consumer channel for everything related to clean energy technologies & electric vehicles. The company's work has been met with more than 3 million monthly episode views globally on its YouTube channel with a record 4.6 million views in August 2019. Fully Charged is receiving ~£8,000 per month from YouTube advertising. It has successfully crowdfunded its first book, 'The Fully Charged guide to Electric Vehicles & Clean Energy'. Fully Charged LIVE has also won the ‘Pioneer Award’ at the British Renewable Energy Awards. With the investment, the company will hire additional staff/freelancers to drive audience, invest in audience growth through merchandising, hold more events, and establish a larger production office at Bristol & Bath Science Park to manage its increasing workflow.
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£558,734
Yodomo is a platform for creative experiences offering 100+ high-quality courses, live experiences from creative artists, and kits of materials. Backed by more than 200 investors and live experience partners including The Sunday Times, Yodomo has built a marketplace creating new revenue streams for artists via numerous courses. These include bookbinding, drawing, sewing, botany, and weaving. Its corporate clients include Innocent, Fora, and Ticketmaster. Moreover, Yodomo was nominated for Seedrs ‘Seedling of the Year’ award in 2019. With the proceeds, the company will focus on customer and revenue growth.
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£100,778
Sophia Technologies is an Education Technology (EdTech) company that has launched an on-demand mobile application for hiring private tutors. All tutors on the portal are scrutinised by Sophia's education team as per industry standards to ensure quality teaching. Sophia allows clients to book sessions via its app and avail online classes at any location the client finds convenient. The company is working towards getting accreditation with the U.K. Department of Education (DOE). It has also received press coverage from organisations such as Telegraph, iNews, TechRound, OpenGov, and Just Entrepreneurs. In April 2020, the company launched SophiaX, a learning feature where parents can book classes focusing on extra-curricular activities for their kids. The company will use the investment raised to focus on technological development, and support customer acquisition & retention.
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£571,581
SaigolEd is a subscription-based Education Technology (EdTech) company that aims to make quality teaching available to millions of 7-18-year-olds across the UK at an affordable price. It is developing an app to combine immersive videos with charismatic teachers from leading schools, rich visual effects, leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) and tests to inspire learning. The company points out that its teaching courses will be available to students wherever or whenever they wish to access them. SaigolEd also intends to cover the full student curriculum to enable its users to excel in their exams once the company's app development is complete. The company argues that there is no dominant UK EdTech player in a multi-billion pound market. It aspires to fulfil that gap. SaigolEd will use the investment to build a prototype that would be overseen by its team including a star teacher from a top UK school, initiate rigorous user group testing, and target General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSEs) as its core market.
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£271,975
Dynamo is an app that enables users to schedule and share luxury events with new and interesting people from the local community, making them available independently and on-demand. The company has developed the iOS application and launched a pilot in Mykonos, Greece. It has also received interest from providers in 20 cities globally. The Dynamo team consists of highly-experienced professionals from Hotels.com and best consulting firm. The company has re-branded as Dynamo and is ready to launch in London.
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£172,600
PopUp Painting (PUP) is an art company that aims to be the leader in organising experiential social painting events in the UK. The company endeavours to bring art out of the classroom and gallery into the places people meet on an everyday basis, thereby, unleashing creativity. PUP has hosted over 45,000 guests to date. Total revenues to date are £1.1 million. In the last financial year, the company generated revenues of £373,000. The COVID-19 pandemic in March led to PUP launching its online art sessions which was met with positive feedback. The company resumed hosting in-person COVID-secure events from July 2020 onwards. PUP is seeking £175,000 at a pre-money valuation of £1.3 million to launch its own Central London experiential events space and to expand its current services to reach a new product market.
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Family Tickets is an award-winning ticketing service that provides easy-to-access, caring assistance to families to plan, book and experience amazing days. It is developed uniquely based on parent feedback and suggestions. The company has won the Outstanding Customer Service Award at the Society of Box Office Managers (SOBOM) awards ceremony, 2018. It boasts of a customer satisfaction score of 95.2%, and it has a community of 400,000 families. The company will use the funds for marketing, customer acquisition, and website development.
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£65,009
Pawprint is a behavioural change platform that is on a mission to fight climate change. The platform allows people to measure, understand and reduce their carbon footprint, and fight ‘climate change’ by giving people bite-sized chunks to focus on. It aims to be the middleman, helping brands reach and understand their audience by offering these brands personalised challenges to help their reduce carbon footprint. The market for behavioural change platforms is slowly gaining solid traction with established brands such as Fitbit, Strava, and Calm. Pawprint aims to capitalise on this collective concern and deliver services that help mitigate those concerns.
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investment:
£352,440
Exchange Train (ET) is an online comparison website where property solicitors have 24 hours to bid for the home-movers custom in real-time. ET argues that there are over 19,000 property solicitors in the UK each providing a different quality of service, price, and turnaround time. ET aims to overhaul this process. Its portal locates the top solicitors for the customer’s specific transaction, based not only on price but what's most important to the customer. ET has had over 10,000 visitors, generated over 650 quotes, and signed up 22 solicitors on its portal, to date. The company has also featured in TodaysConveyancer, The Property Industry Eye, and The Negotiator Magazine. It will use 30% of the investment towards accelerating website development, 36% towards boosting Public Relations (PR), 18% towards enhancing Google Ads and social media, and 16% towards growing business operations.
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investment:
£123,900
nu:move Group is an award-winning Hybrid nationwide online estate agency. The company offers its customers a simple, online process to sell and let their property. The business is built on an ethos of modern innovation and traditional values by blending online and high street estate agency services seamlessly. The company offers a full set of estate agency services and affordable sales packages. nu:move Group has marketed more than 10,000 properties globally that are worth £3Bn and has received a 5 Star Trust Pilot Rating. The company has won The Negotiator 'Hybrid Estate Agent of the Year Award 2019.' 40% of the investment will be used for brand awareness, 30% for technology, 20% for franchise network training and expansion, and 105 for staffing at nu:move HQ.
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investment:
£153,342
