Celestial Labs is a drone display company that combines advanced technology with organic performance. The company's proprietary 'Skytheatre' display is a dynamic, safe and green alternative to carbon-intensive fireworks and represents a new frontier for the live event industry. Composed of a creative collective of award-winning filmmakers, musicians, developers, entrepreneurs, and storytellers, the company is constantly pushing the boundaries of drone display innovation, where technology meets imagination. The Human Support division of Celestial is a not-for-profit initiative that aims to lift the spirits of those who witness Celestial's displays whilst imparting crucial information. The company aims to enlist the support and guidance of city leadership partners, industrial conglomerates, and seek grant funding.
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Stretch
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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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Expired
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£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
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£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
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£409,847
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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Expired
investment:
£1,602,196
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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Expired
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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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Expired
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
eFOLDi a business that uses inventive engineering to unlock mobility in the less abled. It is a portable, lightweight and versatile mobility vehicle which can be folded to a suitcase size or used as a chair. The eFOLDi has an international patent, a registered trademark, passed various safety tests and won British invention of the year 2016
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Expired
investment:
£939,650
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
