MedicSpot is a healthcare company that is aiming to revolutionise healthcare delivery by combining the advantages of online and offline care. The company provides patients at designated hospitals with diagnostic tools like a stethoscope, oximeter, blood pressure monitor and thermometer which, in turn, is connected to the MedicSpot network. Onboard General Physicians (GPs) engage in live sessions with patients, guide them on how to use the tools, and perform a variety of diagnoses like listening to a patient’s heart and lungs, looking down their throat and into their ears, taking their blood pressure and oxygen readings, and measuring their body temperature. The company is also expanding into another subsidiary, Arc Health, which it claims will perform the aforementioned tasks with more efficiency and accuracy. The company will use the investment to increase the number of Medicspot clinics to 1,000, gain further NHS market share, launch a corporate business model and allow international pilots to take place.
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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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Carocell Bio is an early-stage Research and Design (R&D) company aiming to develop nanoparticle-based, novel peptide anti-inflammatories to treat atopic dermatitis/eczema (AD) and other serious inflammatory diseases. It argues that millions of people continue to be affected by debilitating skin ailments, which in turn, escalates the development of new pharmaceutical drugs. The company asserts that the anti-inflammatory therapeutics market will reach US$122.6 billion by 2025 from US$95.9 billion in 2019. The company aims to be a major contender in this market. Carocell Bio has also been awarded an Innovate UK grant of £390,874. The company is seeking £1 million in equity investment over the next 12 months to show that their compounds work in human tissue biopsies of several inflammatory diseases.
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GymBuddy is an online platform that enables consumers to find, book, and attend a gym location, services, or products offered and operated by fitness studios, gyms, trainers, venues, or other third parties. Users can easily, through filtered searches on the app, view descriptions, and contact information of specialists within the fitness industry such as personal trainers, nutritionists, and physiotherapists. The UK fitness industry alone is currently worth over £5 billion. Based on recent statistics, the average gym membership in the UK costs members £40 a month, which often ties them into lengthy contracts. The GymBuddy app will enter the Health & Fitness club sector as a multi-gym membership feature that gives users access to gyms and various fitness plans, without the need for bricks-and-mortar locations under its brand. The company is seeking an investment of £400,000 to expand its brand identity and bring more users to its ecosystem to generate profits.
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AgPlus has created a diagnostic platform for detecting human diseases and delivering laboratory instrument results instantly, whilst keeping in mind the business requirements and unmet requirements. The company works in collaboration with leading diagnostics companies to improve and share products quickly and globally. It aims is to become known as a leader in Point of Care diagnosis.
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A car-sharing platform for drivers to receive an extra income by allowing the local community to drive their cars instead of leaving it idle and unused. Hiyacar has a acquired an exclusive insurance product with AXA and already has more than 2,000 cars enrolled, with the majority located in London and surrounding urban areas with the intention of expanding further in the future.
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Tethered Drones Systems Limited (TDS) builds and develops autonomous tethered drones for use in surveillance and communications scenarios. Its product, Tethered UAV, exhibits a flight duration of 24 hours or more with secure communication via a tether. The platform can carry a range of payloads to meet client needs. The company asserts that the product has multiple uses for broadcasters such as telecasting outdoor sporting events. The UAV's blue light services, including search and rescue, holds prominence in high-risk maintenance inspections for oil and gas platforms and wind farms – both on and offshore. The company will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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Ablatus Therapeutics is a MedTech company developing a one-of-a-kind tissue ablation platform known as Bimodal Electric Tissue Ablation (BETA). This technology has been designed to overcome the limitations of existing products by offering ablation solutions in oncology (tumours) as well as non-oncology targets. With the proceeds, the company will finish the final elements of engineering of the generator and probe. It will also deliver formal safety test data that is a prerequisite for subsequent clinical trials.
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Adande Aircell®Limited (AAL) is an airflow management system designed to fit into the current cabinet designs to minimise and reduce energy usage, improve temperature stability, and stop cold air falling out. It significantly improves the efficiency and performance of the refrigerator. The Aircell® technology is protected by a bunch of series of patents filed internationally and in the UK. With the proceeds, the company will manufacture and sell the whole unit and create a secondary stream to ensure that the company can demonstrate the technology through trade shows and in-store demonstrations.
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Alvant is a British advanced materials technology group that specialises in the design, development, testing and manufacture of Aluminium Metal Matrix Composite materials and components (AMCs). These components are demanded the engineering applications across a wide range of industry sectors. Till now, they have invested £10 million for the development, prototyping & testing AMC materials with several projects secured with distinguished clients such as Ford & Safran. Alvant has seen new advances in current customer projects and applications. Space - Tesla, Design for Demise(D4D), Bauer Hockey are some examples. With the proceeds, the company will accelerate commercialisation and growth at the rate its customers are presently demanding.
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