Co-Space is a forward-thinking flexible office operator with a focus on affluent towns and cities outside Central London. Established in 2018, Co-Space has thrived even during the pandemic, boasting two successful sites in Reading (95% occupied) and Stevenage (93% occupied). Our approach involves transforming underutilized spaces into highly sought-after flexible offices, incorporating exceptional interior design and dedicated service. With a revenue run rate of £1.5 million and over 90% of it being contracted and recurring, Co-Space is a promising contender, bridging the gap between exceptional London design and regional competition.
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£50,000
Date Makers is a website designed to address the lack of date night inspiration. Their website helps couples discover great date ideas and book dates. There is no cost to list an experience on their website and they take 10 -15% commissions on confirmed date bookings. Datemakers have been testing the business model with local businesses and couples. The model has proved to be successful and they are now looking for funding to enable them to focus on the business fulltime and expand marketing throughout the UK
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£56,002
Ezylet are a one-stop-shop portal aimed at the untapped private rental market. Landlords, agents and tenants can all access a host of property services all in one place leading to better customer service and enhanced profits.
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£752,098
Offering access to VIP experiences by connecting club goers and club promoters together through invite-only. Figaroo has created a technological solution for club owners to promote luxurious and exclusive nights for those looking to spend extra money for access to memorable areas and locations.
Figaroo has already received 835 access requests and is in currently in discussion to expand their services to 20 cities, including Madrid and Milan. Their app can track a user's spending habits, how often they tend to go out and which clubs they frequently visit. This data can assist club promoters in ensuring they allocate funds at the right time and venues to attract their desired target audience.
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£160,120
Gateway Villa Rentals offers a sleek user-friendly experience by offering unrivalled customer service with benefits such as 'Villa Finder Service' and 'The Gateway Promise'. This platform is boasting over 400 high-end villas all over Asia. Gateway is striving to become a global leading platform for luxury villa rentals. This intuitive and stunning platform was awarded 'The Leicester Startup Fund' by Santander Universities. The company has partnered with Quintessentially Travel, a luxury concierge brand, which is the main supplier for villas in Asia. The investment funds will be allocated to 50% marketing costs, 20% operational costs, and 25% development costs.
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£82,285
Holiday Online is a holiday listings business that aims to capture the holiday listing market in the coastal and rural regions around the UK. Partnered with Airbnb and Booking.com, the company aims at helping holiday home owners in these regions to generate online bookings without any hassles. NorfolkHoliday.com, the company's first brand, was launched as an owner acquisition site to appeal to holiday home owners in the Norfolk region. With its proceeds, Holiday Online is planning to build a new brand known as 'SuffolkHoliday.' The company plans to scale up the number of property listings that they have around the UK and to launch into multiple areas helping holiday home owners to benefit from the £200M market in the UK.
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£105,052
Empowering landlords with the tools they need to efficiently manage the letting process of their properties. Honest Homes aims to cut out intermediaries and instead offers transparent systematic guides via their online platform to save UK landlords and tenants time and money. Their service provides users with abilities to create contracts, ensure compliance and perform monetary transactions for the collection and payment of deposits and rent.
Honest Homes' all-in-one solution aims to reduce average landlord admin costs from 12%, to 3%. Their service is designed to be fully automated and includes features such as reviews and ratings for both landlords and tenants. The company is aiming to host 1.8% of UK addresses by their fifth year, which represents around 60k listings and they are also planning to expand their services into Europe.
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£166,670
HouseStars is a comprehensive property maintenance application powered by AI, enabling convenient connections between property owners and various trade professionals, such as builders, plumbers, electricians, and gas engineers. With this app, property upkeep is simplified - you can choose a service provider based on their ratings, select a suitable date and time, engage in communication, leave reviews, and complete secure payments through an escrow system, all through your mobile device.
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£162,203
iHuman Fitness Ltd brings the gym into the 21st century. The company offers fitness classes that move away from conventional gyming methods – big room with lots of people and perspiration – instead downsizing it into compact, personal training sessions where people interact with instructors on a human level. Sessions are a maximum of five, meaning a low ratio of participants to instructors.
The company established its flagship gym in St. John’s Wood in May 2014. Since then it has grown to run 8 classes a day with 371 members. Along with its pop-up gym in Canary Wharf, which has attracted 100’s of people through its doors since opening in Summer 2015, the company is currently making sales of £7,560.
With £80,000 investment for 10% of the business, iHuman Fitness will open a second permanent location in Canary Wharf – to be called The Office – with its pop-up site proving that there is a market for its popular take on fitness in the area.
All going well, a third branch will open in Liverpool street by the end of 2016, and with all three sites bringing in business, by the end of 2018, the company expects to make total revenues of £1,876,700.
The idea for iHuman was born from a rather somber chain of events. Owner Mohamed El-Kadey was only young when he suffered the loss his father to a heart attack. At the age of 26 he realised his own health was taking a downward spiral and feared he might suffer the same health issues as his late dad. This prompted him to re-evaluate his health and fitness, taking on a variety of fitness challenges including the London 2010, Berlin 2011, and Paris 2013 marathons as well as taking a new approach to nutrition.
He decided he wanted to help people benefit from health and fitness – much in the same way he has in an attempt to prevent ill health for as many people as he could reach. This led to the opening of the first of his gym’s in 2014, offering small scale fitness classes that enable participants to actually learn about health and nutrition on a personal basis from instructors.
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£13,320
The LetPal solution for private landlords is a full suite of competitively priced on-line services, from which landlords can select and pay for only those they require.
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investment:
£70,000
