MarketOrders is an award-winning B2B place that allows retail jewellers to purchase diamond and gold jewellery easily and directly from foreign suppliers. The company gives assured product quality and access to global designs to retailers. MarketOrders with the help of a variety of designs available online, has developed a UK customer base and three international suppliers on board. The company has won 10 awards including Hounslow Business Awards for Best New Business 2018. Additionally, it has been featured in Financial Times, The Sunday Times & Telegraph and many more. The funds raised will be used to grow the team, develop the technology platform and scale across the UK.
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£448,420
Based in Henley-on-Thames, Marloe Watch Company is a designer and producer of wristwatches. The company has sold over 4,700 watches globally. MWC has witnessed profit in each year of trading (£340k revenue, £45k net profit in FY March 2018/19). It has also received over 100 pieces of positive press coverage. The company was also featured in one of BBC's articles. The company is planning to use the funds for scaling the business model and for becoming the first-ever customer-owned watch company.
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£594,510
Mash Paddle Brewery (MPB) aims to join South London’s brewery scene wherein its members brew their customised beer. MPB wants to provide members, for a monthly fee, with access to a professional kit, guidance, ingredients and a community who share the same passion to create unique brews that a regular consumer can’t buy off the shelf. MPB claims that the UK home-brew market is estimated at over 2 million people. It intends to capture this market and grow its business. The company won the City LaunchLab CitySpark “People’s Choice” and Santander Scholarship, planned a collaboration with a leading London cheesemaker to create a ‘beer & cheese’ experience, and raised £10,900 on Crowdfunder. MPB has also featured in CAMRA’s BEER magazine and Beer52’s FERMENT. The company will use the investment for its first, fully-kitted site identified on Bermondsey Beer Mile, and build a taproom serving fresh beer brewed on-site.
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£88,950
Meander is a premium outdoor clothing brand hailing from Scotland, and crafts a premium, eco-friendly and versatile collection that effortlessly transitions from urban street to mountain lanscapes. Having achieve impressive gross sales exceeding £1m so far, and with flagship stores situated in Edinburgh, Stockbridge and Covent Garden, Meander is now seeking additional capital to fuel their expansion across the UK and internationally.
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£179,585
Luxury handbags as worn by The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Bosworth and Sienna Miller amongst many other high profile individuals. meli melo produce chic and understated leather handbags that have unique shapes and handle functions serving as USPs for the firm. The company has multi-sale channels including online, in-store and to wholesalers. Revenues have grown exponentially over the last 5 years, from £400k to £3.55m in 2017/18.
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£211,060
A grocery retailer and kitchen combination, for customers to purchase essential food whilst drinking a coffee. Melrose and Morgan currently operate in two locations; Hampstead and Primrose Hill. They are now seeking funds to expand their business further in London, with the aim of opening two stores in 2019 and totalling 10 stores by 2022. The company has been trading for almost 15 years and has their products listed in other retailers, including Selfridges, Ocado and independent shops.
Melrose and Morgan own more than 50 SKUs and source their produce from small businesses in the UK. The company has recently restructured, which has resulted in refurbishing their two existing stores, upgrading their website and investing toward research and development of new products and fine food.
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£115,600
Mous, an award-winning brand, has sold over 4 million accessories to 1.8 million customers, generating £24 million in annual sales as of March 2023. They aspire to become a household name in the £180 billion ($228 billion) global tech accessory market. With an in-house team of product experts, they create high-performance tech accessories and use impactful content, including extreme product demos, to promote their brand and products, resulting in millions of online views and followers. This fundraising round will help expand their product lines, particularly in backpacks and phone cases, including super-thin, recycled, and artist collaboration designs. They've also secured investment from BrewDog's founder and CEO through Crowdcube's 'The Next Unicorn' initiative.
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£1,614,153
My Friends Room allows travellers to rent accommodation from friends and friends of friends. Many vacation rentals can seem unsafe and impersonal. However renting from a friend or someone that has been recommended from a friend prevents this feeling of unsafety.
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£97,870
Nanusens is the manufacturer of small sensor chips that are mainly used in smartphones and earbuds. Its integrated circuits with built-in nano-sensors are reliable, better performing and have a lower cost. Nanusens' patent-pending technology uses an already existing standard manufacturing process known as CMOS, and do not have any mechanical moving parts inside, thereby creating more valuable space within the devices that can be used for other components. This company's first target is the mobile phone industry, which approximately sees 1.5 billion smartphones sold per year, then it has added another growing target market, earbuds. The earbuds are sold mainly by the same companies but require even smaller chips than currently available which Nanusens believe that it can do much better than its competitors along with providing for other future requirements.
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£557,290
Creating grand design homes in a factory that are high-tech, spacious and environmentally friendly. nHouse's modernised construction process means that less time can be spent building a home which has resulted in an increased production output and therefore greater efficiency. A nHouse modular home can be constructed within 12 to 16 weeks and they have already received more than 500 sales enquiries. The company has also attained BOPAS accreditation from the Council of Mortgage Lenders to reassure home insurers and mortgage providers.
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£307,170
