Role Models (RM) is a global education provider that seeks to complement traditional academic education with programmes that promote social and emotional wellbeing and dynamic thinking through a focus on leadership, resilience, creativity and collaboration. RM's online and offline courses focus on 3-15-year-olds. RM has scored average parent reviews of at least 4.8/5 on Outschool and aims to become a contender in the estimated £75 billion private tuition market that is forecast to grow to £139 billion by 2026. The company asserts that it is delivering courses in Saudi Arabia and China. RM has enrolled clients across 37 countries, developed a partner programme with JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Rothschild, Citibank and more to deliver courses to their employees, and generated revenue worth £2.4 million to date. The company will use the investment for marketing, technology and curriculum development.
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£711,728
Helping SME home builders acquire finance for their projects in the UK. Rubicon Capital has assisted more than 40 project developers in receiving investments for their builds, which has exceeded £75m. In their second year, the company generated £500k in profits and has successfully paid dividends every year since launching in 2015. Two main sources of revenue are upfront fees for connecting borrowers with lenders and administration fees in the form of long-term consultancy and performance assistance.
Money raised from this crowdfunding round will be used to expand the Rubicon Capital team and grow their business to attract more home builders requiring financial assistance, in addition to increasing the number of sources offering finance.
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£128,510
SaigolEd is an 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/whenever they wish to access the relevant course. SaigolED also aims, once the company's app development is complete, to cover the full student curriculum so that its users have the tools to excel in their exams. 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 beachhead market.
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£230,724
Snaptrip is a marketplace for last minute, discounted UK cottage, lodge and apartment holidays.
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£1,477,852
Solar for Schools aims to reduce the amount of carbon emissions produced from schools by installing and maintaining solar panels. Currently schools produce 50 million tonnes of carbon emissions a year. Installing solar panels would drastically reduce this number and would also save schools money on their energy bills.
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£497,410
Sorbet is a proptech business which automates the processes of renting a house, aiming to streamline reporting, minimise the burden of administration and improve communication between agents, landlords, contractors and tenants.
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£239,341
Spearhead provide over 250 high quality, practical, training courses via their network of experienced trainers and their new online training platform. Spearhead have secured large corporate clients nationally, from various sectors.
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£140,660
Spiral is a leading classroom learning platform which encourages active learning and collaborative atmosphere for school, teachers and students.
The Social Learning Network (TSLN) is building a world-class education technology company, providing innovative well-researched collaborative apps to help teachers make the most of mobile learning that is being rolled out to students in schools around the world. TSLN’s founders have spent two years in field research, identifying the key issues faced by teachers and students as they adopt technology into their day-to-day practice. The outcome is Spiral - a suite of individual apps that mirror common learning activities used in schools all over the world; empowering teachers and providing unique real-time data to support assessment and school-wide monitoring. Spiral’s first two apps – Quickfire and Discuss - were launched in July 2015 with over 2,800 schools and 18,000 users registering in the first 4 months. This November, an average of over 57 new schools have signed up every day and registration figures are growing exponentially month-on-month. Spiral is used by primary age to university students, in all subjects, from over 100 countries across the world.
TSLN is seeking to raise £400,000 of investment (£85,000 already raised) in exchange for 22.2% equity (17.5% available to CrowdBnk investors), to match-fund its remaining £130,000 SMART grant from Innovate UK and proposed Horizon 2020 grant-funding to continue growing Spiral as a global mobile learning brand, with the intention of acquisition from a global education service provider by 2019.
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£91,653
A FCA-regulated property marketplace that aims to be the central hub for buyers, sellers, renters, landlords and agents to access property listings. The House Shop lists over 3 million properties on their platform and in January 2018 alone, they achieved over 800k site visits. The company offers users the ability to perform private and professional transactions through the website, whilst acquiring knowledge and insight on the property market.
Over the last 3 years, The House Shop has seen their customer traffic increase by 8 times and managed to achieve landlord acquisitions at a low cost. The company has also been featured in major publications and has partnered with large firms such as HM Land Registry, Experian and National Landlords Association.
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£273,580
Track is a property and money managing app designed for homeowners. It is backed pre-seed by Pi Labs which is Europe's leading proptech VC. The company is run by an experienced management team with a previous exit. Through products like TrackPro, Track Digital Deed, and Track Home Improvement Loan, the company provides a drastically improved experience of homeowner finances, from AI-powered home valuations and seamless expenses tracking, to intelligent goal planning. With the proceeds, Track will accelerate growth and traction in 2020.
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£167,619
